“Oil Has Been Good to Me”
Ian Forrest was a founder member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. Raised in one of the poorer parts of Glasgow…
Portraits
The Oil Industry Volunteer
Csilla Tunde Fabian and Niamh Mary Monaghan are committee members of the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society The goal of the Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society (AFES), the local branch of the Society…
Mapping Out a Career
For almost 50 years, Derek Fairhead, founder and President of Getech, has studied the earth’s gravity and magnetic data. Now, close to retirement from the rapidly expanding AIM-listed company he…
Hard Work and Innovation
What led you to found DownUnder GeoSolutions? I had always wanted to start my own business. Whilst working in Houston (for BHP Billiton) I had witnessed companies, similar to what…
The Exploration Country Manager
Mfon Udofia, Shell’s Exploration Manager for Algeria, gives us a few insights into the role and the skills and experience it requires. “This is a really exciting job, and one…
An Extraordinary, Unknown Career
Surviving the Great Alaska Earthquake was a historical achievement for American geologist Ruth A.M. Schmidt. Other feats were revealed only after her death. Friends and colleagues have no trouble finding…
Psychology of Exploration
Setting out to explore for hydrocarbons, Noble Energy’s Susan Cunningham found herself on a journey of self-exploration, which led to a host of discoveries beyond her wildest imagination. She has…
New Doctoral Training Initiative
An innovative collaboration between universities, research institutions, government funding bodies and the E&P industry promises to change the face of doctoral petroleum geoscience training in the UK. Keith Gerdes, Chair…
The Chief Geophysicist
My undergraduate degree, at the University of Connecticut, was in geology, but I took a geophysics course in the final year and really enjoyed it, so I decided to do…
Applying Innovations in Geophysics to the Hydrocarbon Industry
Regular GEO ExPro contributor Martin Landrø is Professor of Applied Geophysics at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim,…
What’s the Point of Conferences?
More and more conferences on every facet of the petroleum industry seem to be appearing. What purpose do they serve, and what makes them effective? We talk to Ben Sayah,…
Ben Asante: Riding the Wave
Benjamin Asante, until recently a senior geoscientist at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, has ridden the wave of Ghana’s national development. Although his story is full of significant and unusual…