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Reading, England, United Kingdom

Providing geoscience expertise to Carbon Capture and Storage projects for clients• Opportunity screening• Storage capacity evaluation• Containment risk evaluation• Commercial competitiveness assessment

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for ensuring new-venture opportunities are valued accurately and support bid levels;• Improved decision quality through monitoring and coaching leaders and staff;• Revised Exploration Function process and controls to an intent-based and decision-focused system;• Instigated, designed and delivered a new corporate system to compare and rank disparate opportunities and enable focus on those most likely to develop into value-adding projects.

London, United Kingdom

• As member of PNB leadership team, designed, recruited and established a new Exploration department after corporate merger.• Led team screening global basins and identifying material, value-adding exploration opportunities, successfully rebuilding opportunity funnel from essentially empty state and resulting in successful licence acquisitions and M&A deals, with total headline size ~$500 million

• Member of BG Exploration Leadership Team, advising on strategic direction, opportunity selection and investment decisions;• Responsible for Exploration capital rationing and prospective resource inventory processes, advising EVP on portfolio optimisation;• Developed the 2015 and 2016 BG Exploration strategies and response to new oil price environment, including consolidation with the corporate level strategy, and communication to stakeholders;• Drove a new focus on value in Exploration, optimising the portfolio and redirecting the New Ventures efforts;• Introduced new Exploration targets to ensure alignment with long term strategic goals;• Managed Exploration and Appraisal approval authority process, advising on appropriate structures and authority levels during revisions to corporate operating model.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Responsible for identifying and delivering new opportunities that could contribute to BG’s strategic growth agenda;• Led BG’s evaluation and successful application for blocks in Uruguay and Myanmar licence rounds, designing optimal bids with headline values over $500 million;• Managed BG’s entry into the Uruguay upstream, including contract negotiations & signature, securing budget & resources, and operational planning, resulting in BG being able to safely commence operations days after PSC signature;• Led and performed geological, engineering and commercial evaluations at block and regional levels, making recommendations on BG’s global new ventures programme;• Managed budgets of up to $160mm and led dispersed, multi-disciplinary teams of circa 25.

Cairo, Egypt

• Seconded into Rashpetco Joint Operating Company as Exploration Co-ordinator;• Led exploration team to achieve BG objectives in complex and difficult JV environment;• Designed and delivered exploration work programme for WDDM and Rosetta development leases;• Delivered inventory of new development targets via innovative seismic interpretation technique, resulting in a number of new pools being proven and developed;• Liaised with partners to ensure relevant approval processes were met;• Mentored national staff.

Singapore

• Led team of consultants and company experts to deliver a detailed prospectivity and economic analysis of Browse and Bonaparte Basins in Australia in support of Asia Pacific LNG strategy;• Technical lead in analysis of Australian licence round opportunity, leading to bid submission;• Lead technical role in evaluations of exploration licence round, farm-ins, discovered resource and M&A opportunities for Asia Pacific LNG asset;• Supervised design and installation of office technical computing system.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Lead technical role in operated exploration ventures in North Sea, Caspian and West Africa;• Developed new play in mature Danish North Sea from concept through to drilling in 1 year;• Identified prospectivity in mature and virgin acreage, with four prospects drilled;• Evaluated several business opportunities, one of which resulted in a farm-in;• Instigated, designed and managed company geoscience training and development programme;• Member of company risk committee.

Reading, United Kingdom

• TCM representative for operated and non-operated blocks;• Designed and delivered sub-surface work programmes in operated exploration blocks and monitored and verified operators G&G work in non-operated blocks;• Discovered significant new gas field beneath existing platform using advanced seismic techniques;• Provided geophysical input for field reservoir models.

Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

• Geophysicist for fast-track field appraisal and certification campaign, with 6 wells drilled in 1 year; • Planned and supervised 2D seismic survey in shallow and restricted waters: Fit for purpose solution and on-board supervision allowed technical requirements to be met at minimal cost;• Installed and managed office technical computing system.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Seismic interpretation and play fairway mapping in East Irish Sea; • Technical and financial supervision of seismic processing projects; • Performed various specialist geophysical work, including pre-stack depth migration processing, quantitative attribute analysis, inversion, AVO and stochastic depth conversion studies;

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics And Seismology

Bachelor’S Degree, Natural Sciences, 2:1

Msc, Renewable Energy Engineering, Distinction