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United Kingdom

Harwell Campus, England, United Kingdom

Principal Geoscientist in the Geosphere Characterisation team.

London, United Kingdom

Geoscience Advisor in the RPS Energy team, providing consultancy and expertise to a wide range of clients in the Energy Industry. Technical Lead for Carbon Emissions Reporting. • Evaluation of oil and gas projects across a variety of basins, including recent experience of Europe, North Africa, West Africa, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the Caspian, South America and the SW African Atlantic Margin. • Preparation and evaluation of Competent Persons Reports (CPR).

London, United Kingdom

Exploration Manager for Sound Energy’s onshore operations in Italy (Apennine Energy) and onshore Exploration portfolio in Morocco, with responsibility to define and execute a challenging work programme, and the co-ordination of a variety of small teams and contractors to deliver drilling programmes. Responsible for New Ventures activity in North Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Responsible for supporting delivery and decision making across the business, acting as technical advisor to the Exploration and Development GMs. • Specific focus on Exploration project delivery, including safe well operations, new ventures identification, new country entry and prospect maturation. • Defined the ‘way we do geological work’ across both Exploration and Developments. Included setting standards/guidelines, promoting functional excellence, setting strategic direction for BG… Show more Responsible for supporting delivery and decision making across the business, acting as technical advisor to the Exploration and Development GMs. • Specific focus on Exploration project delivery, including safe well operations, new ventures identification, new country entry and prospect maturation. • Defined the ‘way we do geological work’ across both Exploration and Developments. Included setting standards/guidelines, promoting functional excellence, setting strategic direction for BG geologists, managing geology applications toolkit. • Managed resources across the Group. Responsible for c.180 geologists, including workforce planning and deployment, learning and development, succession planning etc. • Shared best practice, through management of Geological expert teams and knowledge sharing initiatives. • Managed external partners to deliver geological studies, training, technologies and consultancy. Show less

Reading, United Kingdom

Responsible for the recruitment and development of graduates and management of the geology graduate program. Owned and maintained geology workflows across the group, represented the geology function in technology steering meetings, championed knowledge sharing across the group, managed links with academia and ensured functional excellence throughout the geology community.

Reading, United Kingdom

Asset geologist in a small, highly experienced exploration team, working three operated blocks in the South China Sea. Drilled two exploration wells, made one discovery in a deep water clastic canyon play.

Mumbai Area, India

Team leader of diverse new ventures and exploration asset teams. Responsibilities included full cycle G&G evaluations from basin to reservoir scale, including delivering a work program in a shallow water exploration block in the Krishna Godavari basin, resulting in multiple discoveries in slope channel plays.

Cairo, Egypt

Led an exploration team, responsible for generating, and evaluating leads and prospects in a variety of plays. Executed a drilling program to test 5 new challenging plays, (including 2 HPHT), in the offshore Nile Delta making three discoveries. Lead geologist for 8 operated exploration wells. Experienced in seismic interpretation and the uses of DHIs in risk mitigation.

Reading, United Kingdom

Spain (Ebro basin, Valencia Trough), Israel, Palestine, Mediterranean Basins

Reading, United Kingdom

Bolivia, Russia (Timan-Pechora basin), North Sea.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Gatwick, North Sea, Med Offshore

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Geology