CV

Personalia

Born: 1955, Residence of Randaberg, Norway

Education

PhD from Institute of Geosciences, University of Oslo, September 2006 with title “Petroleum Trapped on Macro and Micro Scale. Implications for Migration Histories and Petroleum Budgets”. Cand real (MSc) from the University of Bergen, May 1983. Institute for Quaternary Geology

Employer/period/responsibilities

January 2016 – Present:

• Research regarding shale gas (UNIS)
• Facies variations of the U. Jurassic, Hekkingen Fm (UiS, UNIS, Moscow State University). Pre-Jurassic derived oils in the North Sea (UiS)
• Petroleum system of the Caribbean (UiS in cooperation with the university of Houston).Lecturing GEO 690 “Petroleum System Evaluation” (UiS) • Supervising MSC and PhD students.

Consulting (OPGIS):

Performing various petroleum system analyses for the industry

Phillips Petroleum (now ConocoPhillips - CoP)/Geoscientist 1997-2014

Petroleum system analyst.

2014 (February) – September 2015: Petroleum System Analyst with the Norwegian and UK continental shelfs as “playgrounds”

October 2011 – February 2014: Worked in the CoP geochemistry - basin modeling specialist team in Houston. During this period I mainly worked the Browse Basin (Western Austalia), the Caspian Sea, various fields on the UK Shelf, and with unconventional exploration in US.

2006 – September 2011: Petroleum System Analyst for ConocoPhillips 80% and Associate Professor II at the Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo 20% (with emphasis on the Embla Field.

2003-2006: Ph.D study at Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo. The study demonstrated that much information, which may change/refine existing exploration models are “hidden” in existing geochemical databases.

March 1999 – summer 2003: Team leader for a Support Group consisting of 15 specialists covering various aspects of exploration.

August 1997 - March 1999: Leading a petroleum evaluation study in an AMI (area of mutual interest) with Statoil (now Equinor) and Enterprise Oil (now part of Shell). This resulted in a completely new charge model for the Siri Palaeocene sandy fairway (Denmark)

Elf (now Total)/Explorationist 1992-1997

Petroleum evaluation, research projects and studies on reservoir geochemistry, consequences of uplift, seal capacities and surface geochemistry.

NPD/Geologist 1985-1992

Seismic interpretation, mapping, prospect evaluation, concession round work, geochemistry, basin modelling, administration and research projects.

University of Bergen/scholarship 1983-1985

Research in connection with establishing a stratigraphy based on fatty acids.