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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 and Gas.
His career as an explorer started in the wilderness when twelve years old only. More than four decades as a geologist has made him into a true, global adventurer.
Professor Ken Glennie has spent a lifetime at the forefront of the oil industry. His achievements range from producing some of the first maps of turbidites in the field, to being contributor and editor of the seminal work on the North Sea. He talks to GeoExpro about his exciting, productive and very full career.
Recognized as an expert in Gulf of Mexico deep-water seismic stratigraphy, Dr. Paul Weimer is now bringing geology to young students "in the way they learn--through animation."
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 other women to emulate her.
After using cutting edge geologic concepts to find a major oil field in southwest Wyoming, Dr. Robert Weimer has spent the last 51 years at Colorado School of Mines educating others in the use of applied science.
Bob Peebler, President and CEO of ION, helped turn the company around knowing "there will be bumps in the road."
By assembling an experienced staff and coordinating affiliates, in just four years, Marcio Mello has built a service company that has no boundaries. Along with his Vice-President, Nilo Azambuja, they are ready to tackle some of the industry's toughest problems in the search for new oil and gas deposits.
The resources in the North Sea created the possibilities. People and their knowledge created the technology. Anders Farestveit created Geco. For posterity, he will be the only world champion in seismic acquisition.
From humble beginnings in Inner Mongolia to President of the Exploration Company of SINOPEC, Dr. Yongsheng Ma uses his geological expertise and achievements to build a winning team of geoscientists and find huge oil and gas fields.
From time to time, which indeed is not very often, the award committee for the Geophysicists Prize gives an honorary award to geoscientists who have made an extraordinary contribution to Norwegian Geoscience. The award was this year given to the chief editor of the magazines GEO and GEO ExPro
Mohamed Al Harthy, one of the first generation of Omani petroleum geologists and a pivotal member of the rapidly growing Geological Society of Oman, has an infectious enthusiasm and passion for geology, retained as he has risen through the ranks of Petroleum Development Oman.
In September, 2006, Dr. Mark Myers was appointed the Director of the United States
Geological Survey. Will oil prices approaching 100 dollars per barrel and his strong background
in petroleum geology mean a new direction for the Survey?
Facing the Arctic frontiers requires a special skill. Oleg Suprunenko has spent most of his
life exploring the high-latitude Russian shelf and Arctic Ocean.
Renowned palaeontologist and writer Dr. Richard Fortey is the President of the Geological Society in its bicentennial year. Author of five ‘popular' books about geology, as well as numerous scientific papers.
With her “dare to be different” philosophy and pioneering spirit, Robbie Gries was the
first woman to graduate in geology from Colorado State University and the first woman
to become AAPG President.
"We never inspired to create a dominate PC-based software and never dreamed it would get this big." Dr. Thomas A. Smith founded a company that has a profound influence on the way the oil and gas industry uses geophysical, geological, and reservoir data.
After an impressive career in research institutes in the USA, Canada and France, Dr. John Ludden has now taken on the challenging role of Executive Director of the British Geological Survey. We talk to him about his career and his hopes and plans for the institution.
By his own admission, prominent geophysicist Dr.M. Turhan Taner, known throughout the industry for his expertise in seismic attributes and seismic velocity computation, entered the field of geophysics by mistake, albeit a lucky one.
Iman Hill has risen through the ranks from petroleum engineer to senior management roles with Shell and BG. She talks to GeoExpro about the skills needed to thrive in the modern oil industry, the paucity of women in high-ranking jobs – and about the pleasures and pitfalls of juggling a successful career with the demands of a young family.
"Our ability to accumulate and add value to data underpins our business," says Dr. Richard Fowler, Managing Director of Fugro Robertson, the North Wales based data and information company. He tells GeoExpro about recent developments in one of the oldest service companies in the UK oil industry.
Hank Hamilton is doing a job he loves, helping steadily grow the successful seismic company, TGS-NOPEC. And he still has time for the occasional outing as bass player with the TGS rock and roll band!
Only some eight years after the idea stroke on a flight out of Houston, two innovative physicists can claim that seabed logging has been fully accepted by the conservative oil industry.
He is known throughout the oil industry as an exceptional petroleum geologist and to his many university and professional students as an outstanding and inspirational teacher. Few people are as well qualified as Professor Richard Selley to comment on the interplay between the academic world and the oil industry and the dependence they have on each other.
He is the doyen of petroleum geologists. For newcomers, it suffices to say that his name is associated with many of the North Seas major play concept discoveries totalling several billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Previous developments within the seismic industry have been crucial to the exploration and exploitation success in the North Sea and elsewhere, largely because of tremendous improvements in spatial sampling. Further developments in seismic, according to one of the mentors within the seismic industry, are likely to have a profound impact on mapping the reservoir and how it is produced.
At this years AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Halfdan Carstens, GEO ExPro Editor in Chief, received the AAPG Journalism Award for his work with the Norwegian magazine GEO.
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