David Bamford
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 opportunities in the Middle East and the Levant
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Exploring internationally for unconventional oil and gas
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Exploiting deep water fields
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Russia & the FSU
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
FPSOs - the 'go to' development technology for Deep Water discoveries
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Finding big oil fields in East Africa
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The next generation of exploration technologies
Thursday, March 7, 2013
North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean - an exploration "Spring"?
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Finding Opportunities in Southern Africa
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Beyond Macondo
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
New technologies for mature fields
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Advances in Exploration Technology
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Exploration in the post-Macondo world!
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Emerging Deep Water Areas
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Unconventional Gas - the "Shale Gale!"
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Advances In Geophysics & Sub-surface Description
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Improving use of collaborative technologies for oil and gas
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Middle East, especially Iraq
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The Middle East, especially Iraq
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Exploration Hotspots: Sub-salt, Onshore Rifts and the Arctic
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tough Problems in Geophysics
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Digital OilField
Wednesday, April 22, 2009