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Paul Curtis has over 13 years of experience as a petroleum geologist and geomodeller. He has worked for operators of various sizes on a wide range of projects from frontier exploration to brownfield redevelopment. His experience includes appraisal and development work in locations such as the UK, Denmark, Congo, and Greenland. He has a proven track record of building comprehensive geomodels and providing recommendations that have led to successful wells and license awards.
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Paul Curtis has over 13 years of experience as a petroleum geologist and geomodeller. He has worked for operators of various sizes on a wide range of projects from frontier exploration to brownfield redevelopment. His experience includes appraisal and development work in locations such as the UK, Denmark, Congo, and Greenland. He has a proven track record of building comprehensive geomodels and providing recommendations that have led to successful wells and license awards.
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Senior Geologist
Contact Detail:
Apartment 26 15
Profile
Victoria Street Senior Petroleum Geologist / Geomodeller with over 13 years of industry
Liverpool L2 5QS experience from frontier prospect creation to brown field redevelopment.
+44 (0) 7966 369 170 Expert geomodeller. Worked for different types of operator: small independent
[email protected] to major. Reliable and committed team player with vast experience of working
closely with geophysicists, reservoir & petroleum engineers and drillers

Previous Experience:
Work Experience
Appraisal
May 2016 – Date Paul Curtis
London / Liverpool Consultant
Providing geological support to a small consortium securing Iranian
exploration licences with a view to making deals with larger companies.
Exploration Production
Please note: Dec 2014 to Feb 2016 was spent on a world trip.

July 2011 – Oct 2014 PA Resources


Development London Senior Geologist
Lead Development Geologist – Broder Tuck Discovery, Denmark.
Areas worked: Led a full appraisal of the discovery and ensured a compelling case for
implementing major changes to the reservoir correlation. This also
involved managing and co-ordinating large Chemostrat, Biostrat &
Congo Sedimentology studies. Built a complete Petrel geomodel and
recommended three development scenarios.
Greenland
Appraisal Geologist – Turquoise Discovery, Congo.
Re-assessed the deep water channel sequences. I produced a new
understanding of juxtapositions across the main fault that satisfied all data
Denmark &gave a complete fill and spill explanation for each accumulation.
Lead Development Geologist – Fiddich Discovery, UK.
Completed all the geological work to ensure the winning of this licence
UK (awarded with a record number of points). Fully appraised the discovery
&built Petrel geomodel. Culminated in a complete development plan.
Lead Appraisal Geologist – Ekland Prospect, UK.
Identified & completed a full assessment of this complex, pinch-out
prospect. Mean reserves ~ 750 bcf and 75 mmbc.
IT Skills: Exploration Geoscientist – Block 8, Greenland.
Our team assessed the whole of Block 8 (11,000 km 2). Included seismic
Advanced: interpretation in a frontier acreage. Led to the identification & ranking of
Petrel around 50 leads & prospects identified.
All Window applications

Basic: Feb 2008 – May 2011 Enquest Ltd


Seisworks Aberdeen Senior Geologist
Kingdom
Irap RMS
Lead Production Geologist – Thistle Field, UK.
Gocad
Led a complete reinterpretation and built a fully integrated reservoir
Petro Image Xplorer (Petrel) geomodel. Identified several new drilling options and implemented
Petroview a 4 well drilling campaign. The first 2 wells drilled (in 21 years) improved
production from ~4,500 bopd to ~13,000 bopd.
Nov 2005 – Feb 2008 CNR International
Aberdeen Geologist
Language Skills:
Basic French (OCR Level 2) Production Geologist - Murchison Field, UK.
Basic Spanish Reassessed the field and led a detailed post-mortem report on 76 wells.
Created multiple new opportunities, provided targets and assisted the
Communication Skills: drilling. Completed 2 successful producers, 1 injector & a near field
exploration well. Led a produced water re-injection study. This included
Led or assisted in several successful managing and collaborating 4 outside contractors.
farm out/in. Presented at industry Exploration Geologist - Northern North Sea, UK.
convention presentations. Assisted and implemented recommendations on 4 external datarooms.
Reviewed and updated CNR’s Northern North Sea portfolio in order to
I have a proven record of convincing
make drill or drop decisions.
the need to change geological
concept where necessary.

I have always worked as part of


Mar 2002 – Nov 2005 Total E&P UK plc
teams with international personnel. Aberdeen Geologist
Various roles have included close
communication between London, Near Field Exploration Geologist – Elgin Franklin HPHT area.
Aberdeen, Paris, Oslo, Copenhagen, Constructed and enhanced a regional scale 3D geomodel built in RMS for
Houston, Nuuk, Alberta and exploration in the HPHT area.
Stockholm via telephone, email, Regional Facies Modelling – Elgin Franklin, UK.
video conferencing and personal Created a detailed 3D facies model using gOsed (pre-industrialised
meeting. software in testing). Produced a detailed sequence stratigraphic
interpretation across both fields.
My report writing skills are concise
and professional - I’ve written or co- New Ventures Geologist – Central Graben, UK.
written over 30 reports including Assessment of prospects, discoveries & farm-in opportunities including
regional handbooks, prospect / data rooms. Recommendations ensured 2 successful farm-ins, 2 positive
discovery assessments, field geology relinquishments, and approval for one exploration well.
studies, dataroom reports, field Exploration Geologist - Central Graben (HPHT), UK.
2
development reports and Assisted on the PGS Megasurvey project over 32 blocks, 5460 km of 3D
relinquishment notes. seismic and 236 wells. A complete project, close collaboration with
geophysicists on well post-mortems, sequence stratigraphy, regional X-
sections, paleoenvironments, reservoir analyses, seal, trap and migration
Interests and Hobbies: potentials. Produced 87 potential targets. Total actively implemented 8
farm-ins following the results of this project.
Health is very important to me; I
regularly attend the gym and enjoy
distance running (completed 7
Sept 2001 – Mar 2002 Talisman Energy
marathons). I love hiking along the Aberdeen (6-month contract) Geologist
coast or in the hills.
Regional overview of the Witch Ground and Buchan areas
Football is my favourite sport. I
regularly play 5-a-side and 11-a-side,
representing various amateur clubs
Education
in the past.
2000 - 2001 1997 - 2000
I also enjoy music, history and art. I
am a self-taught guitarist and bass
University of Aberdeen University of Liverpool
guitarist. I performed live many MSc
times and recorded several tracks BSc (Hons) First Class
with various bands. I am an Petroleum Geoscience Geology and Physical
accomplished painter and have sold Geography
work in several galleries. Dissertation: “The Geology of
Thesis: “3D Interpretation of Tertiary Camaret Sûr Mer (Brittany,
Inversion Structures & Implications of France)”
Uplift to Seismic Velocity analysis in
the Foinaven–Schiehallion Sub-basin.”
Completed at Enterprise Oil.

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