Evaluation & Advice
In my time at RPS, they held the contract to be the technical advisors to the Equatorial Guinean Ministry. In that capacity I would make technical evaluations of the geophysical work conducted by all licence operators on behalf of the government.
Over that same period I:
- presented to the Cuban national oil company (CUPET) on the exploration potential of selected blocks
- assisted the Suriname national oil company (Staatsolie) in writing work scopes for potential licence bidders
- performed data room evaluations on behalf of clients for licences in the Falklands (Desire), offshore Brazil (Statoil), offshore Gabon (CNOOC), offshore Egypt (BG), Algeria (EON)
- provided geophysics training to EG government staff
- performed QC/oversight of inversion projects on behalf of Nigerian and Iranian operators
At Glencore we farmed into and out of licences in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Morocco and Chad. We assessed other opportunities in Mexico, Peru, Madagascar, Gabon, Nigeria, Namibia and Brazil. My role also required me to provide subsurface advice to the structured finance team on large-scale asset divestments in Nigeria, Ghana, Brunei and Azerbaijan as they formulated bids.
As Subsurface Team Leader from 2019 I was responsible for mentorship, project management, software provision and budgeting.
In 2014/15 I led the technical team at Glencore in its evaluation of the first Mexican licensing round in co-ordination with Sierra and Talos.
From 2016 to 2021 I partnered with an embedded colleague within RussNeft to maximise the economic efficiency of their annual drilling programmes in Western Siberia, necessitating frequent high-level meetings in Moscow.
