Experience

Selected experience

Projects from more than 20 years in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia: new gas developments, mature fields, well operations, partner interests, CCS and new ventures.

The wind-powered N05-A gas platform in the North Sea, with an offshore wind farm on the horizon — Photo: ONE-Dyas · About the GEMS project

New gas developments

Bringing a cross-border gas development to production

Where: Dutch and German North Sea
Asset: GEMS, N05-A platform
Phase: Discovery to production

Matured the GEMS gas developments from discovery through investment decision and execution. The N05-A platform runs on wind power and came on-stream at the start of 2025, drilled by a converted, wind-powered rig. The work combined subsurface and development studies, permitting under Dutch and German mining, environmental and shipping rules, and alignment of joint-venture partners.

Aramis CCS overview: CO₂ captured by industry is transported via a collection hub and an offshore pipeline to platforms that inject it into depleted gas fields under the North Sea — Image: Aramis · About the Aramis project

Energy transition

Building a stake in offshore CO₂ storage

Where: Dutch North Sea
Project: Aramis CCS
Role: Steering committee

Managed a partner interest in the Aramis CCS project and its Shell-operated offshore CO₂ stores, and helped shape and roll out a company CCS strategy.

Project governance

A maturation process that works across a whole portfolio

Scope: Operated and non-operated
Covers: Oil, gas, CCS, hydrogen

Set up and owns a company-wide project maturation process, and helps project managers apply it. Provides independent assurance on subsurface, development and project management before key decisions.

Partner interests

Getting value from non-operated assets

Where: Dutch North Sea
Assets: JDA, WGT pipeline, F3FB
Operators: NAM, Wintershall Dea, Eni

Represented a partner’s interests in fields and pipeline infrastructure operated by others: evaluating proposals, challenging plans and keeping the commercial and technical case in view.

Mature fields

Extending the life of mature North Sea oil fields

Where: Danish North Sea
Fields: Dan, Kraka, Regnar, Gorm, Skjold, Rolf
Scale: 7 fields, ~75,000 stb/d

Led integrated well and reservoir management teams for the Dan and Gorm hubs: infill and extended-reach wells, workovers, waterflood management and 4D seismic, turning performance data into production optimisation projects.

Field development planning

Shaping the next phase of a giant offshore field

Where: Offshore Qatar
Field: Al Shaheen
Phase: Select and Pre-FEED

Led the development team that framed and compared concepts for the next phase of the Al Shaheen field, integrating forecasts, scenarios and conceptual design into a recommended way forward.

New ventures

Building an investment case from decades-old field data

Where: South East Asia
Asset: Condensate-gas field
Partner: B-PES

Worked with B-PES on a condensate-gas field opportunity. The joint team analysed historical data reaching back to the 1930s and, despite very limited information, put together an investment proposal with preliminary economics, used in negotiations with the licence holder and in talks with potential investors.

Tenders

Screening fields for a development-plan tender

Where: Middle East
Fields: Underdeveloped oil fields
Partner: WellPerform

Screened opportunities with WellPerform for a tender to deliver field development plans for underdeveloped oil fields. Key deliverables were the field selection and the technical project management section of the tender document.

Opportunity maturation

Starting up an oil storage tank cleaning project

Where: Middle East
Phase: Initiate
Partners: WellPerform, Oreco

Ran the initiate stage of an opportunity for an oil storage tank cleaning project, together with WellPerform and Oreco.

Production operations

Hands-on production engineering and well services

Where: Germany, Netherlands, Libya
Assets: Gas and heavy oil fields, gas storage
Scope: Well interventions, optimisation, integrity

Production engineering and well services in day-to-day operations, onshore and offshore: very mature, low-pressure (sour) gas fields, shallow heavy oil fields and the largest gas storage in Western Europe. Planned and supervised wireline and coiled-tubing interventions, optimised production from field data, and covered flow assurance, well integrity, services tendering and HSE.

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