Resume

Proven Oil & Gas Field Discoverer
Esso Australia Gippsland Basin fields: East Kingfish, Longtom; Exxon Exploration, Nigeria (OPL 222/223) fields: Usan, Usan W, Ukot, Ina, Awaka, Omo; Pogo Producing Company, Thailand (Block B8/32) fields: Tantawan, Benchamas, Maliwan, Kung/Chaba, Jarmjuree.

Proven Prospect Generator
World-class prospects generated at Usan, Usan W, Ukot, Ina, Awaka, Omo (Exxon Exploration); Amundsen, Tunfisk & Hval (Esso Norway);  E. Kingfish progrades & Longtom (Esso Australia); Betica 14-1 & 7-1 (Esso Exploration, Spain); Meregh-1 (Esso Exploration, Somalia); Tantawan, Benchamas North, Benchamas, Maliwan, Kung/Chaba, Jarmjuree (Pogo Producing, B8/32 Thailand); Toro, Koru & Punga (Pogo Producing, New Zealand PEPs 38488-9)

Worldwide Oil & Gas Exploration
Acquisition, processing & interpretation of  2D/3D seismic,  gravity, magnetic & geochem data in Australia (Gippsland), New Zealand (Taranaki), China (Beibu & Pearl River), North Sea (UK, Norwegian & Danish sectors), France (Paris, Jura, Aquitaine, Rhone basins), Spain (Betica), Portugal (Algarve), W & E Mediterranean, Turkey (Thrace, SE Overthrust belt), Somalia, US Gulf Coast (fed LA/TX),  Argentina (Jujuy), Brazil (Reconcavo), Venezuela (Paria Gulf), Colombia (Magdalena), Vietnam 124, 105/110-121

Major Oil & Gas Field Development
Kingfish, Marlin, Turrum & Sunfish fields (Esso Australia); Tantawan, Benchamas, Maliwan,  Kung/Chaba & Jarmjuree fields (Thaipo, Thailand)

Prospects Panned then Drilled Dry by Management
Orange Roughy (Esso Australia); Block 13/98 (Pogo Denmark)

Opportunities Recommended but Panned by Management
China (Beibu, Pearl River), Thailand (offshore Gulf)

Undrilled Prospect Inventory
France, Argentina, New Zealand

Corporate Strategic Planning
Exxon Company, International, NJ, Corporate Strategic Planning Department: Forecast Annual Worldwide New Discoveries; Developed metrics for Quarterly Affiliate Stewardship & Annual Company Plan & Budget; Recommended to Exxon Board to enter FSU

Integrate All Methods
Gravity, magnetics, well-log, 2D/3D seismic, sequence stratigraphy, seismic interval velocity, AVO, the key role of wedges & Vint in depth conversion and prospecting

Publications
A dozen articles on regional structure, plate tectonics, geochronology and hydrocarbon exploration potential published between 1979-2006 in Bulletins of the American Association Petroleum Geologists and Geological Society of America and Tectonophysics

Pesonal
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, M.A., Geology, 1979; Lawrence College, B.A., Geology, 1975, The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Bac., 1971. Born January 11, 1954, Chicago USA.  Married, four adult children. Languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian & Hebrew.

 


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