Peter Evans Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Operations Geologist (Staff/Full Time/On-Site). Planning and execution of North Sea development wells. Monitoring geological operations. Supporting subsurface and drilling/wells teams. Preparing Well Design Summaries, Geological Programmes, Pore Pressure Predictions, Data Acquisition Documents. Coordinating petrophysical data acquisition (LWD/wireline). Supporting well teams - good safe operations, whilst optimally acquiring geological/petrophysical datasets. Operations geological planning and execution of development wells for semi-sub, jack-up and platform drilling rigs in Central North Sea. Assessment of oil/gas/condensate well opportunities - borderline HTHP and narrow margin drilling. Support for workover-production operations (reservoir/overburden/cap rock fracture pressures - in depleted/overpressured reservoirs). Temperature prediction. Well design for near field exploration-appraisal opportunities. Geomechanics, wellbore stability, offset well review/mud weight selection. Well design. Cost benefit analysis - logging/time/cost/value of information. Geomechanical calculations/assessment in support of scale-squeeze, P&A/decommissioning and workover/pump operations (sand frac in depleted reservoirs). Geothermal gradient assessment, Anti-collision and donor well suitability assessments. Regional geopressure and temperature prediction - impact on decommissioning and new well design. Tilted oil water contact assessment. Borehole imaging and fracture assessment. As of 1 Nov 2023 - Repsol Resources UK Ltd (North Sea Asset of Repsol, 100% Repsol)

England, United Kingdom

Operations Geology - operational support for well engineering and subsurface teams. Planning, execution, data acquisition, cost-performance analysis and contracting for mud logging, wireline and LWD. Analysis of performance, look-back and review. Geopressure prediction and real-time assessment. Preparation of well design summaries, geological programmes. Working closely with well engineers to successfully and safely drill development, appraisal and exploration wells - on time and on budget . Exploration and Development advice - drilling and oil/gas prospect evaluation and risk assessment.Decommissioning - of wells, and developing databases. Assessment of exploration opportunities in Namibia/Africa. Undertook training in: solar (Technical University of Delft), hydrogen, wind, carbon capture (CCUS) and climate change (University of Edinburgh).

London, United Kingdom

Head of sub-function. Operations Geologist for non-operated wells (7 offshore and onshore rigs). Coordinating resourcing of operations geologists, wellsite geologists and operations petrophysics/wireline/LWD witness across group operations, including 168 exploration wells (95 successes), 109 appraisal wells and 546 development wells, of which 114 deepwater wells (51 operated). Responsible for team with petrophysical operations cost savings totalling $192 mln and operations geology saving $50 mln (2013-2020). Leading team of 3-12 people. Responsible for Geopressure Pore Pressure Predictions and process, along with real time pore pressure and geomechanical assessment for wells. Developed-assimilated high structured wells database - thousands of wells, with ~1200 competent-training-development directories and 70 field trip-videos. Provision of advice-guidance on operated wells and custodian of Geopressured Standard and Guidelines. Member of Group Crisis Management team (operations-planning) for 10 years. Operations period 2019-2020 - successful operated drilled exploration wells in Guyana (Jethro, Joe), Surinam (Araku) and Namibia (Cormorant) and non operated contributions to Peru (Marina) and Guyana (Carapa, Repsol operated). Supported well engineering in safe execution of drilling/completing wells whilst collecting high quality geological-petrophysical datasets. Provided operations geological resource/team and support for Kenya oil discoveries 2013-2018 - total E&A 50 wells. Adviser to Exploration Director and Managers on drilling results/petrophysical assessment and data collection risks/opportunities. Coordination of successful water drilling programme. Kenya in semi-desert area.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Responsible for coordinating operational capability for exploration drilling in sub-Saharan Africa with focus areas of Tanzania, Uganda, Gabon and Madagascar. Including preparation of Geological Programmes, Well Test Programmes and Proposals. Tracking of well budgets and raising of AFE for well campaigns. Operation technical rep for TCMs/OCM. Monitoring and reporting on operations geology-well results.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Responsible for setting up exploration and appraisal-development operational capability for Uganda operated assets, including leading Uganda oil export joint studies project-feasibility. Coordinated drilling programmes, schedules, operational updates on drilling, well proposals and campaign budget proposals and drilling-evaluation execution for 60 well programme over 3 years (mainly operated wells, also non operated, 4 rig campaign). Part of team that discovered 1 billion bbls recoverable oil in 3 year period .-through safe geological operations.

Responsible for asset management, development drilling and production of 80 mmscfgd gas field offshore UK Southern North Sea. Including re-development planning, well proposals, workover, maintenance, production, budgets, resourcing, opex and capex for fields and license area.Risk assessment, planning and operations of development drilling through Zechstein overpressure/squeezing salts and dolomite - into depleted gas reservoirs. Casing/tubing collapse and kick risk mitigation.

London, United Kingdom (And Singapore, Brunei Etc)

EP Business Adviser for Shell operations in Brunei – producing 205,000 bbls oil/day onshore and 30 million m3/day gas to Brunei LNG. Board director of Brunei Shell Petroleum. Board adviser to BLNG. Board Director of Shell Overseas Services Ltd and Shell Malaysia E&P Bhd. Governance and shareholder representation for Shell interests in Brunei (BSP and Shell Deepwater Borneo). Worked on EPA re-organisation and support for Global Staffing Resourcing workstream up to September 2003. Led Activity Reviews of operating units (8 teams) in Asia Pacific region and coordinated analysis for business improvement / rationalisation and regionalisation. Won two special award bonuses for analysis/study work in final year.

Muscat Governorate, Oman

Qarn Alam PDO: Responsible for managing assets, financial and people resources of oil province in PDO (500 km by 250 km). Oil production of 150,000 bbl oil/day (grew from 88000 bbl/day early 1999), 500 oil company staff, 5000 contractors, 8 oil drilling rigs, 4 workover hoists. Capex $220 mill/yr, Opex $75 mill/yr, 40 oil fields, 1300 mill bbls reserves, 7 billion bbls STOIIP. Near field exploration capital managed $25 mill (5 wells in 2001, 5 discoveries) incl. Mukhaizna Steam Project ($250 mill). Manager of upstream gas operations for government - 12,000 m3/day condensate, 30 mill m3/day gas (total production 340,000 bbl oil eq.). Operate main crude export line in central region (500,000 bbls).

Muscat Governorate, Oman

Bahja/Rima PDO: Responsible for managing assets, financial and people resources of area in PDO. Production 132,000 bbl oil/day, 250 staff, Capex $80 mill, Opex $40 mill, 35 oil fields, 500 mill bbls reserves, 3 billion bbls STOIP. Includes two interior camp locations and new Mukhaizna heavy oil project (15,000 bbl/day). Re-structuring of Rima field to close camp and centralize at Nimr.

London, United Kingdom

Middle East/S Asia & francophone Africa region, regional advice to Managing Director. Government meetings with ministers and representation. Liaison cross-business issues (organised/ facilitated India, Pakistan and Iran workshops). Senior Adviser Europe two Managing Directors. Group Crisis Liaison Officer Team Leader. Business Principles global process focal point. European Corporate Re-Structuring (UK/NL/Germany/France). Organizer European Country Chairman Conferences, Coordinated Regional Portfolio Study for Board, focal point ID for Group Strategy, Budgets. Member of Sustainable Development Panel.

The Hague, Netherlands

Negotiation of PSCs, developed opportunity portfolio, screening and identification process, cost engineering, project design engineering, integrated commercial evaluation of large oil & gas infra-structure projects, including fiscal optimisation of pipeline projects. Projects: Kazakhstan (Kashagan, Temir and Tengiz), Turkmenistan Gas Pipeline, Cote de Ivoire PSC CI-101, Niger/Chad pipeline, Bangladesh entry, India EP/Gas, China Gas (Lunar/Solar), Trinidad offshore, Turkey, Pakistan. Acquisition & Divestment Task Force. Coordinated Mature Asset Exploitation and Expansion, and Eco-Shell Task Force Teams.

New Orleans, Louisiana Usa

Started as Geological Engineer - then Team Leader, Asset Team - Integrated exploration/ engineering/ operations development team (3 new offshore Gulf of Mexico gas developments). Developed business model/scorecards. Lead project design and implementation team (from gas reservoir to on-shore gas plant) – total 10 new wells, 3 new platforms, 7 producing fields. First ever shallow-gas horizontal wells in Shell Group (3 wells at 500m depth).

Assen (Onshore, Offshore Rigs)

Production Geologist / Seismologist Well planning / development planning/ 3D seismic/ geology / L15/L5/F3-FB projects, Reservoir Geologist (offshore fields). Core focal point, reservoir modelling. Total 3 years working onshore/offshore, drilling and workover on rigs.

Assen And Offshore, The Netherlands

Wellsite drilling engineering and wellsite petroleum engineering for exploration, appraisal and development drilling plus workover activities including well completion and complex P&A. Worked on 10 rigs and ca. 35 wells over 3 year period.

P100 Training for 4 months at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. Including drilling engineering, production engineering and petroleum engineering

Hanover Square, London W1

Reservoir geological studies of oil fields offshore Norway, supervised by Dr John H Martin. Training in Reservoir Engineering by Dr Larry Dake. 3D sedimentological modelled of Rotliegend Southern North Sea reservoirs - petroleum engineering and modelling.

North Sea, France, Saudi Arabia, Onshore Uk

Mud logging engineer - monitoring drilling. pits, samples, gas, drilling parameters, preparation of mud logs - offshore North Sea (BP - SE Forties, Shell - Ganet Field), onshore UK (BP - Notts/Lincs), onshore France (Paris Basin - Sun Oil) and onshore Saudi Arabia (Saudi Aramco - Haradh Gas Field).

London Sw7

Palaeontology Department - Identification and curation of Ordovician Echinodermata - worldwide samples. Supervisor Dr Andrew Smith.

Penzance, Cornwall

Curation of local "hard rock" geological samples, minerals, gems and mining samples, along with books and art material donated to Penlee House.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Sedimentological Modelling Of Rotliegend Southern North Sea Gas Reservoirs, Finished Within 3 Years (A Departmental 20 Year Record)

3D sedimentological modelling of aeolian-sabkha desert reservoir rocks using petrophysical log correlation and core-log calibration..

Msc - Master Of Science - Petroleum Geology (Diploma Of Imperial College, Dic), Petroleum Geology, Distinction (Winner Of Britiol Prize And Institute Of Petroleum Prize)

Activities and Societies: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Basin Modelling, Petrophysics (Dr Ala), Sedimentology (Dr Selley)

Bsc (Hons), Geology, 2 / 1

Specialised in - Sedimentology under Prof Trevor Elliott (clastic) and Prof Bathurst (carbonate). Basin Modelling, Mineralogy, Geochemistry.

Work Experience - Intern, Palaeontological Curation Of Ordovician Echinoderms, Work Experience-Intern-Working Under Dr Andrew B Smith-Global Expert Echinoderms

Sorted, identified, and labelled species of palaeontological samples from Ordovician period - mainly Echinoderms (e.g. ancient sea urchins).

A Levels, Geology/Earth Science, General, A Levels Grades A A B

Taught by well known local geologists and physical geographers: Mr Pooley, Mr Quixsley and Mr Coneybeare. Forever grateful in giving me.

Education record

Work Experience - Intern, Curation Of Geological Samples And Artefacts, Work Experience - Intern

Assessing, sorting and curating samples donated to the Penlee Museum in Penzance. Included minerals from mining operations in West Cornwall.