I have 30+ years experience in petroleum industry consulting, primarily as a palynologist (working on Triassic to Neogene sections of diverse regions) and, in latter years, as a nannopalaeontologist. My main area of expertise is West Africa and I have worked throughout the West African margin, including dual discipline palynological and nannofossil wellsite work offshore Equatorial Guinea and palynology wellsite offshore Ghana.Having spent three years based in Jakarta, Indonesia I am also experienced in the Triassic to Cenozoic palynology of the Far East / Australasia, and have provided wellsite palynology services on more than 40 wells in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Within the North Sea I have conducted many wellsite palynology assignments in the Central Graben area (assisting casing picks and monitoring Palaeogene reservoir stratigraphy) and have significant experience in Cretaceous palynology of the Norwegian sector. I have also experience in nannopalaeontology within the North Sea, having conducted wellsite biosteering of >30 horizontal development wells in various chalk fields within the Danish, Dutch and UK sectors. In addition, I have worked on samples from diverse overseas regions (Middle East, North Africa, South America, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.).Specialties: Cretaceous and Tertiary high-resolution palynology and correlation throughout the Atlantic margin of Africa and parts of South America. Palynology of the Tertiary and Cretaceous of the North Sea Region. Cretaceous palynology and correlation of the Norwegian Atlantic margin. Wellsite palynology of onshore and offshore West Papua, Indonesia and the Papuan Basin, Papua New Guinea. Experienced wellsite biostratigrapher
Listed skills include Stratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy, Offshore Drilling, Geology, and 15 others.