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Northwich, Uk

United Kingdom

A strategic thinking consultant geologist with over 20 years of industrial and academic experience on an array of basins worldwide. With a special focus on Middle Eastern and North Sea carbonates he has worked extensively for consultancies and operators across Europe and the Middle East. Primary areas of expertise are as a carbonate sedimentologist and sequence stratigrapher, and operations geologist, with a focus on extended reach drilling, depth uncertainty, and data management. Extensive experience training and developing geoscientists at all levels and developing competency frameworks. Active member of the EAGE for many years having acted as co-chair and technical committee member for numerous workshops.

Technical Centre Geoscience, Abu Dhabi

Geology Specialist mandated to provide technical support, due diligence, identified emerging challenges, trialled and implemented new technology, develop standard operating procedures, provided mentoring and training. Strategic thinker, with focus on integration of disciplines, provided practical solutions to problem solving.Key ResponsibilitiesProvided expert advice to asset teams on sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, operations geology. Support and problem solving for well-planning, geosteering, logging and coring program development, drilling and operational challenges.Review and provides support to asset teams in delivering projects to shareholders when requesting approval for business gates/milestones.Performs due diligence on studies undertaken by asset teams and third party companies.Identified, trialled and implemented strategic new technology to solve emerging challenges. Promoted knowledge sharing between teams through use of forums, workshops, and technology focus groups.Provided support and guidance to graduate recruitment program, career advancement, recruitment and training.Occupied a front-line, visible and high profile position. Regular contact with senior management, shareholder’s technical specialists and service companies.Key Achievements/ProjectsDevelop sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic schemes for some of the world’s largest carbonate reservoirs.Chair of panel for career advancement, G&G focal point of task forces: competency library; standard operating procedures.Worked with vendor to develop novel use of correlation software to provide accurate and cost effective method for effective well placement.Worked with vendor to use advanced mudlogging to characterise and develop solutions to solve losses.Designed and delivered training courses.Actively involved with EAGE, regularly participating in workshops as co-chair or member of technical committees.

Abu Dhabi

Project management of multidisciplinary team focused on developing fields and reservoir from undeveloped stage to hand over for Asset field development.Reviewing regional geological reports/data and advising on future core programs and sedimentological studies.Company wide G&G focal point for functional design and implementation of Drilling RTOC (Real Time Operations Centre) and Asset based CWE (Collaborative Work Environment)G&G Focal Point for redefinition of ADCO’s data governance and well drilling business process, including appropriate software appraisalAdvising and working along side operational team to optimise well planning and appropriate service contractors, balancing ADCO, ADNOC, Al-Hosn and other joint venture partners interests.Representative member of Departmental Team that interacts directly with Shareholders.Involved in ADCO personnel development including sitting on Interview Panels, Coaching/Mentoring/Assessing ADNOC Emarati University Graduate Program, member of Panel for Career ProgressionActively involved in presentation of ADCO’s technical and technological achievements at ADIPEC 2013Member of Technical Committee for EAGE Geomechanics workshop, Dubai 2014

Qatar

OutlineConsultant Wellsite Geologist Offshore and onshore experience, geosteering single lateral and multilateral, extended reach horizontal reservoirs (well lengths from 10,000-31,000ft, horizontal displacements up to 25,000ft); carbonate and clastic reservoirs in the Middle East and North Sea; HP/HT vertical exploration wells; coil tubing, underbalanced drilling; slim hole drilling; H2S gas environments.Key ResponsibilitiesExperienced ‘at wellsite’ decision making using LWD (including azimuthal/non-azimuthal gamma, resistivity and density data sets), integration of wellsite biostratigraphical data. Mudlogging supervision and quality control; evaluation of drill cuttings, cores; hydrocarbon show evaluation; identification of coring and casing points; pore pressure evaluation using LWD, Dxc and hole behaviour.Logging/Measurement While Drilling: Supervision and quality control of operations; interpretation of data; experience working with equipment from multiple vendors; standard logging suites; directional density and resistivity for geosteering, image logs, formation pressure evaluation.Experienced wireline witness and quality control of standard logging suites and VSP. Knowledge of mud systems including water based, numerous oil based and nitrogen systems.Coring: Experienced witness and quality control of coring procedures; core description in conventional, HPTP and H2S environments.Well Planning: geological hazard identification; managing uncertainties when planning and drilling; contractor auditing; tender preparation; lessons learned, peer reviews.Training and mentoring in wellsite operations and geosteering.Key Achievements/ProjectsSuccessful well placement of reservoir sections for over 50 wells that have provided significant production and water injection support for Maersk OG, Maersk Oil Qatar, Oxy Petroleum Qatar.Trained numerous junior Maersk geoscientist in wellsite geology, geosteering and wellsite HSE.

Qatar

Denmark

OutlineReservoir evaluation and sequence stratigraphic studies on both carbonate and clastic successions. Extensive petrological experience on carbonate and clastic reservoirs from the North Sea and Tethyan regions.Key Achievements/ProjectsDeveloped cathodluminescence and fluid inclusion laboratory and procedures.Planned and undertook fieldwork for exploration and reservoir potential of Tertiary Clastics in N.E. India.Completed reservoir evaluation of Lower Cretaceous Oman, Mesozoic and Tertiary successions, Libya.Described core and characterised reservoir potential of North Sea Chalk U.K. Sector.

OutlineWellsite biosteering/geosteering of extended reach, horizontal production wells in carbonate reservoirs. Single and multiwell studies, reservoir quality, carbonate petrological studies, reservoir mapping, drainage network analysis, seal mapping and competency.Key Achievements/ProjectsCore and field description Tethyan (Middle East) carbonates, carbonate-evaporates, carbonate-siliciclastics; North Sea carbonates. Petrological, sedimentological, biostratigraphical studies on Middle East, North Sea and Gulf of Mexico carbonates and clastics. Managed projects and budgets for office and wellsite based projects. Prepared risk assessment and HSE documents.Extensive report writing on biostratigraphy, sedimentology, diagenesis, sequence stratigraphy.

Researcher studying the influence of environmental factors on corals and coral reef ecology and evolution.

Teaching Undergraduate Geology and Environmental Geology in the laboratory and on fieldwork.

Research Assistant in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Portsmouth

Phd, Geology

Thesis: Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy: Palaeoecology, Palaeoenvironmental Analysis and Their Application to Sequence.

Bsc, Geology