PROSPEX: It’s All About Deals & Networking
Mike Bowman, Head of Geoscience for BP until 2010, and now Professor of Development and Production Geology at Manchester University, is President-Elect of the UK-based PESGB (Petroleum Society of Great…
Portraits
Negotiating the Oil Industry
Chris Moyes, who has over 40 years experience in the energy sector, is President of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), an independent professional membership association supporting international energy…
Charting a New Course in Seismic Imaging
With his training in electrical engineering as a foundation, Eldad Weiss, Chief Executive Officer of Paradigm, has taken a methodical, logical approach to growing his business from a niche provider…
Meeting Operational Challenges
Jim Thompson wandered into the oil industry after ‘meeting a guy in a bar’. That chance meeting has led to a rewarding career in the seismic business, progressing from doodle-bugging…
Understanding Our Energy Future
Dr. Scott Tinker travels the world extensively, speaking on his favorite subjects; global energy, the environment, the economy and education. Now, he is making a feature length documentary on global…
Significant Conference
Every two years the Petroleum Society of Great Britain organises PETEX, a major conference and exhibition in London concentrating on developments in North-West Europe. Dr. Jon Gluyas has nearly 30…
Working at the Interface Between Academia and Industry
“If anyone had suggested that as a geophysically-minded geologist I would end up working in close collaboration with the Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, I would have thought they…
Ken Glennie – A Petroleum Pioneer
Ken Glennie, Honorary Professor of Geology at Aberdeen University and renowned author of three books, several co-edited publications and over 50 single-author and co-authored papers, has led the sort of…
A Change of Viewpoint
Christian Höcker spent over twenty years with European super giant Shell, where he witnessed many changes, before moving to a completely different working environment in small start-up company JOA Oil…
Marine CSEM – what’s the future like?
Offshore Electromagnetic surveying, CSEM, was commercialized in 2002 as a new exploration technology for finding hydrocarbons. Following some seven years of trial and failure, we have asked one of the…
An Unusual Route to success
A move from Drilling Fluids Engineering to Human Resources allowed Jatinder Peters to rise to one of the highest levels in ONGC – and gave her the opportunity to encourage…
On AAPG, Oil, and Geoscience
Although geologists working in the industry have access to tremendous subsurface data, relatively few of the data become public domain, says Dr. John Lorenz, President of the American Association of…