Francis Inniss
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USA
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Profile
US Resident
Petroleum Geologist and proven Oil-finder with over twenty-five years G&G
experience gained from working for both local and international Petroleum
Companies. Involved in all phases in Oil & Gas Exploration from Basin
Evaluation and Play Generation to the identification and drilling of
Exploration and Development Prospects in Onshore, Shallow water and
Deepwater Provinces, and Reserves Estimation over more than two decades.
Strengths Include:
. Petroleum Geologist with over 25 years experience. Experience in
supporting Exploration teams and drilling operations. Proven ability
to generate drilling locations on operated exploration and development
assets.
. Sound knowledge of Geology, Geophysics, Business Finance and Project
Management with a focus on Upstream Oil and Gas activities.
. Sound Technical Experience in Geological Interpretation, Petroleum
Systems Analysis and Prospect Generation.
. Experience in assessing and quantifying hydrocarbon reserves for
Greenfield and Brownfield developments, and determining remaining
field potential.
. Excellent oral and written communication skills with extensive Project
Management background.
. Good Organizational, planning and multi-tasking skills.
. Ability to work in a team environment dealing with people from various
disciplines to achieve objectives.
. A track record of generating successful exploration and development
drilling opportunities
. Strong integration skills (seismic, log data, production data,
outcrop data).
. Experience interpreting 3D seismic data in poor-data / structurally
complex areas. Ability to generate geologic maps (structure /
reservoir).
. Possess formation evaluation skills for clastic and carbonate
reservoirs.
. Proven experience with reserve assessments for several fields both
onshore and offshore Trinidad.
. Ability to work within tight time-frames
. Strong background in Wellsite Operations.
. Keen commercial awareness.
. Experienced with operated and non-operated activity.
. Ability to conduct quick fit-for-purpose analyses of new business
opportunities.
. Working experience in both small company and large multi-national
operating company environments.
. Able to work effectively in the less procedural and less rigid
environment of a mid-sized companies without the in-house support
services of a larger organization.
. Confident team player who can efficiently multi-task
Education
2004 --- Henley Management College, England
. MBA Project Management.
1987 --- University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
. BSc. (Hons.) Geology
Achievements:
. Exploration Manager for Caribbean and South America for Hardman
Resources and later Tullow Oil (After the acquisition of Hardman
Resources by Tullow Oil). My responsibilities included performing
reviews of both domestic and international farm-in and Joint Venture
opportunities, conducting open acreage reviews. Member of the New
Ventures and Business Development Team where the mandate was to
provide Competitor Intelligence and attract new Oil and Gas Upstream
Exploration and Development opportunities for both Hardman and Tullow.
Conducted Basin Analysis Evaluations such as for the Eastern
Venezuelan Basin, the Offshore French Guyana Basin, Suriname,
Mauritania for Hardman Resources, The Barbados Basin, Brazil Offshore,
Offshore Argentina, Jamaica Basin, Cuba and Colombia for Tullow Oil.
. Identified and evaluated several New Venture Exploration opportunities
for Tullow and Centrica.
. Attended several data room evaluations
. Prepared Strategic Planning Reports Business Plans. Implemented
project plans and schedules in a timely manner.
. Provided Leadership and Mentoring Geologists, Geophysicists &
Reservoir Engineers while working as Exploration Manager at Trinmar.
. Worked extensively on the Eastern Venezuelan Basin
Tectonostratigraphic. Projects worked on covered key areas such as
Tectonostratigraphic evolution, and palaegeographic reconstruction.
. Worked as a Wellsite Consultant Geologist for Exxon.
. Developed a depositional framework for the Cretaceous in Trinidad.
. Developed, prepared, managed and executed work-plans and budgets.
. Interpreted well and seismic data for several oilfields.
. Developed and recommended well locations and evaluation programs
. Prepared recommendations and documentation in support of drilling and
evaluation programs.
. Mapped several leads on the French Guyane dataset.
. Evaluated the hydrocarbon potential and prospectivity of the Trinidad
Deepwater Areas.
Employment history
Oct 2012-Present Lead Geologist
Centrica Energy Trinidad Limited
Albion Street
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Jan 2009-Oct 2012 Consultant Geologist,
Centrica Energy Trinidad Limited
Albion Street
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Sep 2007---Jan 2009 Exploration Manager & Director- Caribbean Region
Tullow Oil Trinidad Limited
9 O'Connor Street, Woodbrook
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Aug 2005---Jul 2007 Exploration Manager -Caribbean Region
Hardman Resources Limited
23 Taylor Street
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Jun 2004---Aug 2005 Manager - Geological Operations
BHPBilliton Trinidad Limited
Invaders Bay Towers,
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Jun 2003---Jun 04, Consultant Geologist.
(Clients included: Trinmar Limited, Petrotrin, Primera Oil and Gas Limited,
Talisman Trinidad Limited, National Quarries Company Limited, Trinidad
Exploration and Production, Mora Ven Holdings Limited).
May 2001---Jun 2003 V P - Exploration and New Business Ventures
Trinidad Exploration and Development Co. Ltd
Mar 2000---May 2001 Exploration Manager
Trinmar Limited
Point Fortin
Oct 1996---March 2000 Senior Geoscientist (Lead Prospect Geologist).
Trinmar Ltd
Point Fortin
Jan 1996---Oct.1996 Geologist III - Area Geologist responsible for the
Eastern Fields (Reservoir Management Group).
Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
Pointe-a-Pierre.
Feb. 1994---Jan 1996 Geologist II (Reservoir Management Group).
Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
Pointe-a-Pierre.
Jan 1993--- Feb 1994 Geologist. (Exploration Group).
(Seconded to Exxon Exploration Company)
Houston, Texas 77060
USA.
Sep 1991 - Jan 1993, Geologist I, (Development and Operations).
Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
Pointe-a-Pierre
Dec. 1988--- Sep 1991 Senior Logging Geologist/Data Engineer
Baker Hughes Inteq.
Sweet Briar Road,
Port-of Spain.
Dec. 1987---Dec 1988 Logging Geologist II
Baker Hughes Inteq.
Sweet Briar Road,
Port-of Spain.
June 1987---Dec 1987 Logging Geologist I
Baker Hughes Inteq.
Sweet Briar Road,
Port-of Spain.
Courses/Seminars/Workshops
BHI Formation Evaluation techniques.
Pore Pressure Prediction and Evaluation.
Log Interpretation Principles and Techniques.
An Introduction to Drilling Fluids and their Properties.
Mudlogging: Principles and Interpretations.
Oilfield Spanish.
Petrotrin Report Writing Skills.
Excel, Word for Windows,
Stratworks (Landmark).
Seisworks/Advanced Seisworks (Landmark).
Geoquest.
Geomechanics/Rock Mechanics.
PETCOM (Landmark Software for Petrophysical Analysis).
Structural Styles In Petroleum Exploration.
Applied Subsurface Mapping Techniques
Risk Analysis using @RISK
Fractured Reservoirs.
SHELL Quantitative Structural Geology
EXXON Advanced Structural Analysis.
In-house Seminars and Workshops on Fault Seal Analysis.
In-house workstation training using GEOSEC. 3.0 software to
create, restore and balance cross-sections.
In-house seminars on the Sequence Stratigraphic framework
of Miocene to Cretaceous Horizons onshore Trinidad.
Workshops and Seminars on Structural Geology and Tectonics
as it applies to Trinidad and the South Eastern Caribbean
Plate Boundary Zone.
OGCI Seismic Interpretation for Geologists.
Advanced 3D Seismic Interpretation Workshop
Reservoir Geochemistry and Petroleum Geology.
Multidisciplinary Teams- How and why they make you money.
Exploration and Development of Sandstone Reservoirs.
Low Resistivity - Low Contrast Pays, OGCI.
Quantitative Interpretation of Structural Geometries.
Seismic Recognition and Characterization of Reservoirs.
Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration.
Identification of By-passed Oil and Gas Opportunities.
New Oil From Old Fields.
3D Seismic Interpretation Workshop
( Using Geographix Software)
Advanced 3 D Seismic Interpretation
AAPG Tectonics and Sedimentation of Turbidites in California.
IHRDC Reservoir Management for Geoscientists and Reservoir Engineers 1996.
TEXACO Introduction to Fault-related Folding, (Texaco EPTD.
1997).
3D Visualization Using Geoprobe versions 1.2 and 2.0
TRINMAR Project Management.
ZYCOR, Z MAP PLUS For Interpreters, Charisma, Voxelgeo.
Volumetrics For Z MAP PLUS users.
Stratworks/ Advanced Stratworks/ Advanced Seisworks
POSTSTACK/PAL/ RAVE/)
Stratimagic
Advanced Seismic Interpretation (Conducted by Alistair
Brown).
The Kingdom Suite.
TED SMT (Kingdom)
BHPBilliton Petrel
Centrica Petrel Introduction, Advanced Petrel
References
Available upon request