Finding Oil & Gas in Mexico
What are the opportunities for exploration and production in Mexico?
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Thursday, September 17, 2015, London, The Geological Society
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Mexico is an exciting country in world exploration and production at the moment, following Mexico making changes to its law last year allowing private investment in its oil fields, ending a 76 year monopoly given to PEMEX and allowing IOCs - Majors, Independents, Start-ups - to become involved.
If you click on this link to Sierra Oil & Gas, you will see the range of opportunities nicely illustrated.
These opportunities are what we would like to hear about: please contact me if you/your company would like to make a presentation. And Richard Mcintyre if you are interested in the sponsorship/exhibiting opportunities we offer.
David Bamford
Agenda
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9:30
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David Bamford - Director - Finding Petroleum
Welcome & Introduction
David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
Since 2004, he has been a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc, being recruited for this position especially for his exploration knowledge. He serves on the Nominations and Remuneration Committees, and was chairman of the latter, and Senior Independent Director, for 3 years prior to his retire from the board at the end of April 2014.
He was on the board of Premier Oil from May 2014 to May 2016.
He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999), and finally Head of Exploration until 2003.
He has served on the boards of Paras Ltd, a small exploration and IS/IT consulting company in which he held 22% equity, until its sale to RPS Energy in 2008 and Welltec a/s, a Danish well engineering company, as the nominee of the private equity investor Riverside.
From 2012 to 201 he was on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director.
He was a founder of Richmond Energy Partners, a small oil & gas research house, and several media companies that focus on the oil & gas sector, and has served as an advisor to Alliance Bernstein, Opus Executive, the Parkmead Group plc, and Kimmeridge Energy LLP. Since retiring from BP, he has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies.
Finding Petroleum
Finding Petroleum was established to help the oil and gas industry network, and stay up to date on the latest technological developments. It does this via hosting regular events and with an online social network of nearly 10,000 members.
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9:40
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Read Taylor - Group CEO - Bear Energy LLC
Mexico opens - Round 1
Talk Description.
Mexico auctioned two of 14 blocks in the pivotal Round One oil and gas tender on 15th July.
Both the shallow water exploration and production contracts were awarded to the same consortium made up of Mexico's Sierra Oil & Gas, U.S. firm Talos Energy and Britain's Premier Oil.
Read B. Taylor, is now the CEO and President of Bear Energy LLC. Bear is a Private Equity backed company focused on offshore producing assets in Brasil.
Read is also Global Exploration Strategy-Advisor to Executive Management Board at Wintershall Dea
Previously Read was Upstream Executive Director and Board Member of Sierra Oil and Gas Mexico. Sierra created a preeminent position in the high potential offshore Sureste Basin having over 2.3MM acres. Sierra in 2017, drilled its first exploration well with the successful, multiple award winning Giant Zama Field discovery with over 1.7 bn bls OOIP. Sierra recently was sold to L1 Wintershall DEA. Zama was the Discovery of Year 2017. The Sale was the Deal of the Year 2018.
Previously Read was Senior EVP and Board Member of a Private Brazilian Energy, Mining and Renewables Group. Prior to that he served as General Manager of Devon Energy Brazil Ltd. Mr.Taylor has worked for energy industry notables UNOCAL and Anadarko in various international field locations in technical and commercial management positions. His background includes Business development, M&A, geophysics-geology, operations and development, gas marketing, and legal negotiations. He has successful experience in over 26 countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Brazil, Egypt, Central and East Africa.
Mr. Taylor is Chairman and founder of RICE International Relief a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medicines and water purification to those in need around the world. RICE has been involved in global relief projects in Thailand,Myanmar,Kenya, Israel, Haiti, Philippines etc. RICE provides support to medical clinics and homeless shelters in USA including a facility in Corona Ca. with several partnering organizations.
Mr. Taylor has a B.Sc. in International Business from Pepperdine University, a B.Sc. in Geophysics and M.Sc. (Masters) degree in Geology from University of Southern California, USC. Mr. Taylor also hold a Diploma from Harvard Business School in Executive Management 2011.
Bear Energy LLC
Bear is a Private Equity backed company focused on offshore producing assets in Brasil.
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10:15
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David Sagi - Structural Geologist - Getech
The Opening History of the Gulf of Mexico - Testing Plate Models in a Global Context
Talk Description.
There are four main types of plate kinematic models that have been postulated to explain the opening history of the Gulf of Mexico:
1. rotational-translational movement, with a pole of rotation in the south-eastern Gulf of Mexico (e.g. Pindell and Kennan, 2009)
2. rotational translational movement, with a pole of rotation southwest of Mexico (e.g. Hall et al., 1982)
3. Gulf of Mexico opening contemporaneous with and as part of the Central Atlantic (e.g. Klitgord and Schouten, 1986)
4. models that suggest more complex relations with Caribbean subduction and ocean spreading (e.g. Dutch, 2009).
These models require different driving forces and modes of opening for the Gulf of Mexico, and lead to different types of margin formation across the various segments of the Gulf of Mexico.
These differences affect the history, geometry and volume of accommodation space for source rocks, seals and reservoirs, with associated impacts on ocean circulation, source to sink relations and depositional systems. Subsequent deformation phases, such as the Laramide Orogeny across Mexico, can also be represented in each plate model’s global context. Such events have a great influence on fault reactivation and, consequently, on fluid migration and trap formation.
In this talk we present a refined tectonic plate model that details the tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico and highlights the impact of existing models on the development of petroleum systems. Our model is based on the interpretation of gravity and magnetic data offshore, Landsat and SRTM onshore, and public-domain data; these data were used to create a 1:1,000,000 scale structural map and also provided the foundation for building a detailed understanding of the area’s crustal types and crustal architecture. These form the foundations for a regional plate model which is constrained further by placing it into the context of a global plate model to understand the consequences on the greater global plate circuit.
With acknowledgement to Getech’s Peter Webb, Nicola Henshaw, Benjamin Franklin (now at ENI UK Ltd), Samuel Cheyney.
David holds an MSc degree in Geophysics from ELTE, University of Budapest, and a PhD in Structural Geology from Durham University. During his PhD, he studied the 3D architecture of fault zones and how different geometries impact fluid flow.
Since joining Getech in 2012, David has been working on Regional Reports and Commissions in both the South and Equatorial Atlantic, North Africa, Gulf of Mexico area and, currently, Myanmar. His main focus is the interpretation of potential fields (gravity and magnetic) data, complemented with other types of remote sensing data (e.g. SRTM and Landsat).
Getech
For over 25 years, we've been using our data and geoscience expertise to help the oil and mining industries locate the earth's natural resources. Whatever your requirements, our multidisciplinary team of geoscientists can help you make enlightened business decisions.
At Getech, we offer a range of services dedicated to helping you understand the geological risks and opportunities associated with locating natural resources - whether you're working on a global or regional scale.
Our eco-system offers a holistic view of how our core services interact, with Globe at the centre.
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10:50
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Coffee & Tea; Exhibits
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11:15
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Helen Smyth - Geological Consultant - Landmark Exploration Insights
Enhancing Exploration Concepts: A Mexico Case Study
Following a PhD and Postdoc on Indonesian geology with the SE Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway (2001-2006), Helen joined CASP (formerly Cambridge Arctic Shelf Project). At her time at CASP (2007-2013) Helen worked in a variety of Arctic projects, and successfully led research programmes in the Canadian Arctic and Barents Shelf.
Helen joined Neftex in 2014 as part of a team working on an array of short-to-medium term regional-scale geology projects. During 2015 she has worked as a geoscientist on the Gulf of Mexico, with a focus on the Mexican Burgos and Sabinas basins.
Helen’s research interests include sediment provenance, sedimentation in volcanic settings and the regional geology of Indonesia and the Canadian Arctic. Helen is treasurer of the Petroleum Group Committee of the Geological Society of London and has served on the committee since 2010.
Helen has a BSc in Geology from Queens University of Belfast (2001).
Landmark Exploration Insights
Landmark Exploration Insights (formerly Neftex), is a product family within Landmark, a business line of Halliburton. We specialise in the collation, integrations and interpretation of large geoscience dataset and the delivery of these as subsurface models. We are recognised as industry leaders in the provision of web-based sequence stratigraphic products and their global application. Our integrated global geological database - the Neftex Earth Model delivers data, knowledge and insight to help our clients better understand geological risk in their exploration and investment activities.
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11:50
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Karyna Rodriguez - - Searcher Seismic
Pre-salt play focused exploration strategy in the deep offshore Mexico Campeche-Yucatan basin integrating seismic RTM modeling and oil seep studies from satellite imagery
Petroleum geoscientist with 25 years of multidisciplinary experience in global offshore and onshore exploration inclined projects. She worked in companies like BG and PEMEX gaining diverse experience from regional play and prospect generation and evaluation, to working closely with high level management on their portfolio strategies.
Searcher Seismic
Searcher provides high quality exploration data and leading edge tech to the global exploration industries.
Our data library includes seismic, potential fields, multi-beam, coring and well data derived from geophysical and geological projects that we operate world wide.
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12:25
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Chris Corona - Director of Latin America - TGS
Gigante: the first step to Getting a Comprehensive View of the Gulf of Mexico
TGS
TGS is the world's largest geoscience data company, known for its asset-light, multi-client business model and global data library. Our primary business is to provide geoscience data to energy companies worldwide. We offer extensive global libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, multibeam and coring data, digital well logs and production data. Additionally, the company offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions.
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13:00
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Close: Lunch & Exhibits
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Sponsors of this event
SpectrumSpectrum is established as a key player in the seismic services market. The company focuses on delivering high-quality Multi-Client seismic data and holds the world's largest 2D offshore library.
Spectrum is among the seismic industry's fastest growing companies. The Spectrum group provides innovative Multi-Client seismic surveys and high quality Seismic Imaging services to the global oil and gas industry from offices in the USA, Norway, UK, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore.
TGSTGS is the world's largest geoscience data company, known for its asset-light, multi-client business model and global data library. Our primary business is to provide geoscience data to energy companies worldwide. We offer extensive global libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, multibeam and coring data, digital well logs and production data. Additionally, the company offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions.
GetechFor over 25 years, we've been using our data and geoscience expertise to help the oil and mining industries locate the earth's natural resources. Whatever your requirements, our multidisciplinary team of geoscientists can help you make enlightened business decisions.
At Getech, we offer a range of services dedicated to helping you understand the geological risks and opportunities associated with locating natural resources - whether you're working on a global or regional scale.
Our eco-system offers a holistic view of how our core services interact, with Globe at the centre.
Landmark Exploration InsightsLandmark Exploration Insights (formerly Neftex), is a product family within Landmark, a business line of Halliburton. We specialise in the collation, integrations and interpretation of large geoscience dataset and the delivery of these as subsurface models. We are recognised as industry leaders in the provision of web-based sequence stratigraphic products and their global application. Our integrated global geological database - the Neftex Earth Model delivers data, knowledge and insight to help our clients better understand geological risk in their exploration and investment activities.
SpectrumSpectrum is established as a key player in the seismic services market. The company focuses on delivering high-quality Multi-Client seismic data and holds the world's largest 2D offshore library.
Spectrum is among the seismic industry's fastest growing companies. The Spectrum group provides innovative Multi-Client seismic surveys and high quality Seismic Imaging services to the global oil and gas industry from offices in the USA, Norway, UK, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore.
EPIEPI is an independent, highly experienced and skilled seismic QC/QA consultancy to the Energy Industry with a variety of specialist skills for land, marine and TZ Quality Control. As an international consultancy we work globally providing clients with outstanding 'seismic QC solutions'. Our experience includes: * Arctic exploration * 4D Reservoir monitoring * Carbon capture & storage * Frontier exploration * OBC/ OBC technologies * Wireless & node technology * Unconventional resources.
We offer a fully bespoke service and cover all aspects of project design, parameter and source optimisation, crew mentoring, start-ups, technical assurance, HSSE QC support and seismic data processing.
EPIEPI is an independent, highly experienced and skilled seismic QC/QA consultancy to the Energy Industry with a variety of specialist skills for land, marine and TZ Quality Control. As an international consultancy we work globally providing clients with outstanding 'seismic QC solutions'. Our experience includes: * Arctic exploration * 4D Reservoir monitoring * Carbon capture & storage * Frontier exploration * OBC/ OBC technologies * Wireless & node technology * Unconventional resources.
We offer a fully bespoke service and cover all aspects of project design, parameter and source optimisation, crew mentoring, start-ups, technical assurance, HSSE QC support and seismic data processing.
Landmark Exploration InsightsLandmark Exploration Insights (formerly Neftex), is a product family within Landmark, a business line of Halliburton. We specialise in the collation, integrations and interpretation of large geoscience dataset and the delivery of these as subsurface models. We are recognised as industry leaders in the provision of web-based sequence stratigraphic products and their global application. Our integrated global geological database - the Neftex Earth Model delivers data, knowledge and insight to help our clients better understand geological risk in their exploration and investment activities.
UK Trade & InvestmentUK Trade & Investment (UKTI) works with UK based businesses to ensure their success in international markets through exports. We encourage and support overseas companies to look at the UK as the best place to set up or expand their business.
UKTI is a non-ministerial department.
GetechFor over 25 years, we've been using our data and geoscience expertise to help the oil and mining industries locate the earth's natural resources. Whatever your requirements, our multidisciplinary team of geoscientists can help you make enlightened business decisions.
At Getech, we offer a range of services dedicated to helping you understand the geological risks and opportunities associated with locating natural resources - whether you're working on a global or regional scale.
Our eco-system offers a holistic view of how our core services interact, with Globe at the centre.
TGSTGS is the world's largest geoscience data company, known for its asset-light, multi-client business model and global data library. Our primary business is to provide geoscience data to energy companies worldwide. We offer extensive global libraries that include seismic data, magnetic and gravity data, multibeam and coring data, digital well logs and production data. Additionally, the company offers advanced processing and imaging services, interpretation products and data integration solutions.
EMGSEMGS is a Norwegian, leading market share Geophysical company focused on the acquisition, processing, inversion and interpretation of 3D marine controlled source electro-magnetic (CSEM) data. To date that they have acquired over 850 commercial surveys worldwide and have over 110,000 km sq of 3D multi-client data covering many of the world's petroleum basins. The company has developed methods and tools to enable clients to integrate CSEM data into existing seismic and other geophysical datasets. When applied systematically across a CSEM sensitive portfolio. The new information provided by CSEM has the effect of polarizing existing evaluations, making CSEM a valuable tool in exploration venture evaluation. EMGS work in frontier regions and mature basins, from the Arctic to southeast Asia, and from offices across the world.
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Senior Geoscientist
United States
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Carlos Bellorin
Principal Analyst
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Josh King
Analyst
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Key Account Manager, Oil and Gas Division
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Adrian Heafford
Senior Geologist
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Robert Snashall
Consultant
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Geophysicist
ARKeX Limited
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Karen Sherry
Sales and Marketing Manager
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Robert Stevens
Richmond Energy Partners
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Consultant
Atlaslocal
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Exploration Geologist
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Assistant Editor
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Barnett Waddingham LLP
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Business Manager - Research
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Robert Waterhouse
Director
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BG Group
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Bob Lambert
Founder
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Martin Lester
Operations Director
RPS Energy
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Geophysicist
BG Group
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CEO
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David Sendra
Associate Consultant
BlackRockQI
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Sarah Tavella
Kallanish
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John Simmons
Principal Advisor
RPS Energy
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Christian Richards
Sales Manager
Bridgeporth
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Kevin Lawes
Seismic Design & Processing Consultant
KL Geophysics Ltd
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Martin Smith
Business Development Manager - Operations
RPS Energy
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Bryn Austin
Director & Geological/Geophysical Consultant
Brynterpretation Ltd
United Kingdom
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Richard Handley
Account Manager
Landmark Software
United Kingdom
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Juan Botillo Perez
Exploration Technical Manager
Sasol
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Will Jeffery
Senior Offshore Interpreter
CGG
United Kingdom
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Rolmys Espinoza
Senior RE
LR Senergy
United Kingdom
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Jerome Foreman
Principle Geoscientist
Sasol Petroleum
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Mustafa Elsherif
Senior Client Advice Manager
CGG
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Alan Wilson
Geologist
LR Senergy
United Kingdom
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David Webber
Seismic Operations Supervisor
Sceptre Oil & Gas
United Kingdom
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Jo Firth
Senior geophysicist
CGG
United Kingdom
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Alberto Adriasola
Lead Structural Geologist
LR-Senergy
United Kingdom
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Sean Goodman
Geoscientist
Seequent
United Kingdom
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Chris Gumm
Business Development
CGX
United Kingdom
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Amrit Brar
Marketing and Sales Manager
Lynx Information Systems
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colin clarke
team lead subsurface
senergy
United Kingdom
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Roger Doery
Consultant
Consultant
United Kingdom
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Charles Speh
Managing Director
Milestone Exploration Limited
United Kingdom
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Read Taylor
EPV
Sierra Oil & Gas
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Dan Kunkle
Director
Count Geophysics
United Kingdom
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Richard McIntyre don't use
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Philip Leijten
Director
Soka Solutions
United Kingdom
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James Rosenshine
Industry Executive, Oil & Gas
Dassault Systemes
United Kingdom
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David Weeks
Geoscientist
Neftex
United Kingdom
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Anoop Pandey
Spectrum
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Brian Donnelly
Consultant Geophysicist
Donnelly
United Kingdom
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David Bamford
Director
New Eyes Exploration Ltd
UK
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Hannah Kearns
Geoscientist
Spectrum
United Kingdom
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Faye Glover
Data Analyst
Drillinginfo
United Kingdom
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Shah Jahan Khandokar
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright
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Kieran King
Spectrum Geo
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Darren Jones
Data Analyst/Cartographer
DrillingInfo
United Kingdom
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Claire Wilby
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright
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Ian Setterfield
VP Sales
Spectrum Geo
United Kingdom
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Chad Barnes
Upstream Analyst
Energy Industries Council
United Kingdom
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Santiago Ross
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright
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Howard Nicholls
Geophysical Advisor
Spectrum Geo
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Dario Chisari
Explorationist - Mexican GoM
Eni
United Kingdom
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Patricia Prato
Norton Rose Fulbright
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Stacey Quarles
Strategic Fit
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Martin Riddle
Technical Manager
Envoi
United Kingdom
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Tom Lindley
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright
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Daniel Barnes
Consultant
StrategicFit
United Kingdom
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Terry O'Donnell
Business Development Manager
EPI Group
United Kingdom
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Elsa Weatherley-Godard
Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
United Kingdom
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Cian O' Reilly
TGS
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Greg Daniel
Marine Operations Manager
EPI Limited
United Kingdom
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Nick Prowse
Partner
Norton Rose LLP
United Kingdom
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Chris Corona
Director of Latin America
TGS
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Avinga Pallangyo
Events Coordinator
Finding Petroleum
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Jodie Cocker
Remote Sensing Geologist
NPA Satellite Mapping
United Kingdom
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Damian Dowling
Business Development Manager, Imaging
TGS
United Kingdom
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Karl Jeffery
Editor
Finding Petroleum / Digital Energy Journal
United Kingdom
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Helen Turnell
Principal Consultant
NR Global Consulting Ltd
United Kingdom
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Roberta Masotti
Senior Geophysicist
TGS
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Esther Dowling
Consultant
Fulcrum Diligence LTd
United Kingdom
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tony renton
Founder
Oil and Gas London
United Kingdom
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Jan Gromotka
Advanced Processing Geophysicist
TGS
United Kingdom
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Terry Quinn
Head of Marketing - EAME
Geokinetics Processing Inc.
United Kingdom
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Vitaliy Yurchenko
VP Sales and Marketing
ORG Geophysical
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Karyna Rodriguez
Director of Geoscience
TGS
United Kingdom
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Jim House
Director
GeoSeis Ltd
United Kingdom
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Robert Parker
Consultant
Parker
United Kingdom
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Steve Bottomley
Director
Upstream Consultants Limited
United Kingdom
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Stephen Shorey
General Manager
Geotrace
United Kingdom
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Alex Birch-Hawkins
Geophysicist
Perenco
United Kingdom
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Alec Robinson
President & CEO
Valient Energy
United Kingdom
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David Sagi
Structural Geologist
Getech
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Andrew Foulds
Director
Petrafiz Ltd
United Kingdom
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Alastair Bee
Westwood Global Energy
United Kingdom
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Chris Boot
Business Development
Getech
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Independent Consultant
PetroMall Ltd
United Kingdom
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Alwyn Vear
Geoscience and Exploration Manager
Woodside Energy UK
United Kingdom
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Tori Springer
Guest
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Iain Brown
PGS
United Kingdom
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Clive Abel
Process Consultant
WorleyParsons
United Kingdom
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Halliburton
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Economics Advisor / Senior Geologist
Premier Oil
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Associated Director
WSS Energy Consulting
United Kingdom
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Halliburton
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Global Portfolio & NV Manager
Premier Oil
United Kingdom
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Seeking New Opportunities
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United Kingdom
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Halliburton
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Richard Dolman
Lead Geophysicist - New Ventures
Premier Oil
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Jake Berryman
Senior Geophysicist
WyeDean Exploration Consultants
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Andrei Belopolsky
Exploration Manager New Ventures
Hess
United Kingdom
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ARUNA MANNIE
Senior Exloration Geoscientist
Premier Oil
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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Tim Gibbons
Managing Director
Hoolock Consulting
United Kingdom
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