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David Bamford is a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc and has various roles with Parkmead Group plc, PARAS Ltd and New Eyes Exploration Ltd, and runs his own consultancy.

He writes regular articles for OilVoice and ROGTEC and is a co-founder of Finding Petroleum.

He retired from BP in 2003, after a 23 year career spent initially in research & technology, then the geophysics function, business unit leadership, and finally BP's global exploration programme.

Article Archive

Give me a break!
The UKCS North Sea has a fantastic future, provided it gets help, in some special cases fiscal help from the UK government, in every case help just from good old-fashioned cost reduction.
14 Jul 2012

Sayonara, big events; guten Morgen, small is beautiful!
.....to return to a theme....haven't big, expensive to attend (or even small, expensive to attend) events had their day?
01 Jul 2012

So long Copenhagen!
To everybody who has just returned from the EAGE in Copenhagen, I hope you enjoyed yourselves, especially considering how much it cost you and your company:
10 Jun 2012

EC proposals for the regulation of offshore safety and environmental protection
David Bamford: Facing the challenges of the safety of offshore oil & gas activities with EU regulation
29 May 2012

Explorers - be good or be lucky!
What separates "Winners " and "Losers" in the exploration business?
10 Apr 2012

Proper Reservoir Monitoring!
OILEDGE Our March 21st Forum covered a range of exciting new innovations, from 'broadband' 3D offshore to the introduction of ideas from medical imaging into interpretation. However, the clearest theme to emerge was that PRM - Permanent Reservoir Monitoring - is absolutely key to understanding the dynamics of oil and gas reservoirs.
25 Mar 2012

All at sea - the UK's oil & gas strategy!
OILEDGE The US locomotive gets under way! The US National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI) was formed to help realize CO2-EOR's full potential as a national energy security, economic and environmental strategy.
17 Mar 2012

No more towed streamer 4D?
OILEDGE A new 'disruptive' innovation - the New Geophysics!
06 Mar 2012

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