Paul CURTIS

Senior Geologist Contact Detail:

Apartment 26 15 Victoria Street

Liverpool L2 5QS

+44 (0) 7966 369 170 Ptcurtis55@gmail.com

Profile Senior Petroleum Geologist / Geomodeller with over 13 years of industry experience from frontier prospect creation to brown field redevelopment. Expert geomodeller. Worked for different types of operator: small independent to major. Reliable and committed team player with vast experience of working closely with geophysicists, reservoir & petroleum engineers and drillers

Work Experience May 2016 – Date

London / Liverpool Paul Curtis Consultant

Providing geological support to a small consortium securing Iranian exploration licences with a view to making deals with larger companies.

Please note: Dec 2014 to Feb 2016 was spent on a world trip.

July 2011 – Oct 2014

London PA Resources

Senior Geologist

Lead Development Geologist – Broder Tuck Discovery, Denmark.

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 & Sedimentology studies. Built a complete Petrel geomodel and recommended three development scenarios.

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 & 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 (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.

Exploration Geoscientist – Block 8, Greenland.

Our team assessed the whole of Block 8 (11,000 km2). Included seismic interpretation in a frontier acreage. Led to the identification & ranking of around 50 leads & prospects identified.

Feb 2008 – May 2011

Aberdeen Enquest Ltd

Senior Geologist

Lead Production Geologist – Thistle Field, UK.

Led a complete reinterpretation and built a fully integrated reservoir (Petrel) geomodel. Identified several new drilling options and implemented a 4 well drilling campaign. The first 2 wells drilled (in 21 years) improved production from ~4,500 bopd to ~13,000 bopd.

Previous Experience:

Areas worked:

IT Skills:

Advanced: Petrel All Window applications Basic: Seisworks Kingdom Irap RMS Gocad Petro Image Xplorer Petroview

Production

Development

Exploration

Appraisal

UK

Denmark

Greenland

Congo

Language Skills: Basic French (OCR Level 2) Basic Spanish

Communication Skills: Led or assisted in several successful farm out/in. Presented at industry convention presentations.

I have a proven record of convincing the need to change geological concept where necessary.

I have always worked as part of teams with international personnel.

Various roles have included close communication between London, Aberdeen, Paris, Oslo, Copenhagen, Houston, Nuuk, Alberta and Stockholm via telephone, email, video conferencing and personal meeting.

My report writing skills are concise and professional - I’ve written or co-written over 30 reports including regional handbooks, prospect / discovery assessments, field geology studies, dataroom reports, field development reports and relinquishment notes.

Interests and Hobbies: Health is very important to me; I regularly attend the gym and enjoy distance running (completed 7 marathons). I love hiking along the coast or in the hills.

Football is my favourite sport. I regularly play 5-a-side and 11-a-side, representing various amateur clubs in the past.

I also enjoy music, history and art. I am a self-taught guitarist and bass guitarist. I performed live many times and recorded several tracks with various bands. I am an accomplished painter and have sold work in several galleries.

Nov 2005 – Feb 2008

Aberdeen CNR International

Geologist

Production Geologist - Murchison Field, UK.

Reassessed the field and led a detailed post-mortem report on 76 wells. Created multiple new opportunities, provided targets and assisted the drilling. Completed 2 successful producers, 1 injector & a near field exploration well. Led a produced water re-injection study. This included managing and collaborating 4 outside contractors.

Exploration Geologist - Northern North Sea, UK.

Assisted and implemented recommendations on 4 external datarooms. Reviewed and updated CNR’s Northern North Sea portfolio in order to make drill or drop decisions.

Mar 2002 – Nov 2005

Aberdeen Total E&P UK plc

Geologist

Near Field Exploration Geologist – Elgin Franklin HPHT area.

Constructed and enhanced a regional scale 3D geomodel built in RMS for exploration in the HPHT area.

Regional Facies Modelling – Elgin Franklin, UK.

Created a detailed 3D facies model using gOsed (pre-industrialised software in testing). Produced a detailed sequence stratigraphic interpretation across both fields.

New Ventures Geologist – Central Graben, UK.

Assessment of prospects, discoveries & farm-in opportunities including data rooms. Recommendations ensured 2 successful farm-ins, 2 positive relinquishments, and approval for one exploration well.

Exploration Geologist - Central Graben (HPHT), UK.

Assisted on the PGS Megasurvey project over 32 blocks, 5460 km2 of 3D 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 potentials. Produced 87 potential targets. Total actively implemented 8 farm-ins following the results of this project.

Sept 2001 – Mar 2002

Aberdeen Talisman Energy

(6-month contract) Geologist Regional overview of the Witch Ground and Buchan areas

Education 2000 - 2001 1997 - 2000 University of Aberdeen University of Liverpool

MSc Petroleum Geoscience

BSc (Hons) First Class Geology and Physical Geography

Thesis: “3D Interpretation of Tertiary Inversion Structures & Implications of Uplift to Seismic Velocity analysis in the Foinaven–Schiehallion Sub-basin.” Completed at Enterprise Oil.

Dissertation: “The Geology of Camaret Sûr Mer (Brittany, France)”