www.bodecott.com

Updated April 17th, 2008.











Telephone mobile/cellular (UK) 07 798 914 341

Please email us as follows:
send your email to: info at bodecott dot com


David Bodecott Consulting
Established 1981

An independent consultancy in International Oil & Gas Exploration and Evaluation, specialising in Petroleum Geology and Exploration Geophysics, especially seismic interpretation.

On August 1st, 2007 we celebrated 26 years successful consulting for clients world-wide, and 33 years in the oil business.

Principal Partner: David Bodecott: 55 years young.




Recent Activities: April, 2008 update.

On a personal note, please check out this site, http://www.blencathra.net if you love the Lake District mountains - the nation's back yard, the nation's breathing space.

ROCKHOPPER EXPLORATION

Dave Bodecott has recently taken additional responsibilities with Rockhopper with appointment as Exploration Director and board member. The workload will vary depending on activity. Other consulting activities will take up the remaining available time.

We form an integral part of the Rockhopper team. A strong position has been built in the shallow water, petroliferous North Falkland Basin and activity continues with recently completed 2D seismic, 3D seismic and a successful CSEM survey. The 3D seismic is currently being interpreted.

Details are available on the Rockhopper website.


FAROE PETROLEUM

During 2006, we were heavily involved with support for Faroe Petroleum in their operated licences and UK 24th Round evaluations and applications. This resulted in successful 24th Round awards announced recently. We continue to support their NW Europe activities.



PROJECT WORK

Projects continue on an independent basis, free from agencies, normally direct to clients on an "on demand", individual project basis.

We retain accommodation/office space in Aberdeen, and within two hours drive of our main base we have access to six international airports.

Kingdom software and workstations are available at main base and in Aberdeen. Draughting services are always available through an associate company.

Sites with common interests:

http://www.blencathra.net
http://www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk
http://www.reachexploration.co.uk
http://www.faroe-petroleum.com
http://www.desireplc.co.uk
http://www.seismicmicro.com
http://www.falklands-oil.com
http://www.bgs.ac.uk
http://www.blackwatch.co.uk
http://www.pesgb.org.uk
http://www.aapg.org.uk
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk
http://www.ammoniteresources.com

OUR ORIGINS
Background experience has been exceptionally varied. This contributes to an enlightened approach to seismic interpretation where the full integration of all geological information is genuinely put into perspective.

1. Full Honours Geology degree, with Petroleum Geology specialisation at M.Sc. level.
2. Early well site experience from age 21 in the Scottish North Sea, West Africa, Netherlands, Norway and Ireland.
3. Extensive experience of well sitting on exploration wells, directional development wells and deep water wells: jackups, floaters and jacket wells.
4. Caught and described numerous cores, witnessed numerous logging jobs.
5. Conducted log analysis on many wells. Sat gas and oil discoveries, light oil, heavy oil, condensate, wet gas, dry gas, fresh formation waters, saline waters, porous sands, tight shaly sands, fractured sands, carbonate reservoirs, highly organic source rock sequences.
6. Witnessed well tests, fraccing, production tests, production logging.
7. Sat the Gulf 49/9-2 discovery well in the Celtic Sea (ca. 10,000 BOPD from three zones).
8. Sat the Gulf 35/8-1 gas discovery offshore Bergen, Norway. This well blew out and almost became a disaster, saved by the wind that blew the gas cloud away from the rig. 5 cm. of condensate left floating on the deck.
9. Extensive regional geological evaluations mostly with Gulf Oil over South East Asia, Southern North Sea, West Africa, North Africa via stratigraphic, sedimentological, structural, facies and source rock modelling using all well and seismic data.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE has involved application of the following skills:
1. Seismic Interpretation: Within the basic physical parameters and criteria that govern reflection seismology, this is an art - where geological vision and understanding dictate the quality of the interpretation derived. This has comprised 90% of all the 25 years consulting experience, both 2D and 3D.
2. Many structurally complex and poor data areas have been successfully mapped and prepared as attractive farm out packages, drilling prospects or acreage evaluations.
3. Many asset evaluations, technical audits and deal reviews have been completed. Try making a good deal without a believable map! It doesn't matter how commercially astute the deal maker is, if all the work is based on erroneous or poor quality mapping - it happens all the time - that's why oil companies do make bad deals. Of course luck is also involved. We all need it.


CURRICULUM VITAE: David Bodecott.

Referees available on request.

Nationality: British.
Birthplace: Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK.
Date of Birth: September 2nd 1952.
Age: 55.
Status: Married with grown up children.



EDUCATION

1963-1970: Cockermouth Grammar School, Cumberland, UK.
A levels: Geology, Geography, Biology (A,B,B).

1970-1973: University of Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, UK.
B.Sc. (Hons), Geology, Class 2 (II).

1973-1974: Imperial College of Science & Technology, London.
M.Sc. Petroleum Geology.




PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

33 years of full-time oil industry service.

(1973: Institute of Geological Sciences: Summer vacation employment on a Gravity, Induced Potential and Magnetometer field party in Cornwall, Southwest England, UK).

1974-1975: Arco Oil Producing Inc
163-169, Brompton Road, London SW3 1PZ

One year as Geologist, working well site in the Northern North Sea, and regional geology in the UK & Dutch sectors of the Southern North Sea.

1975-1981: Gulf Oil Corporation

Six years with Gulf, worldwide :

1. Geologist, resident in Kinshasa and Libreville, working well site and regional geology in producing concessions offshore Zaire & Gabon. Temporarily
resident in Gran Canaria, Spain.

2. Senior Geologist resident in Houston, Texas working regional geology, basin analysis, acreage acquisition & relinquishment, log analysis, sedimentology, petrography & seismic interpretation for Indonesia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Cameroons & Cabinda.

3. Senior Geologist in London working on Tunisia, Algeria, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany & Norway. Temporarily resident in Bergen, Norway.







1981-Present: INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

Completed some well site work during the 1980's, but almost all consulting work has involved seismic interpretation and production of seismic two way time maps, both on a prospect and a regional scale. Many structurally complex and poor data areas have been worked.

Client list

Past five years: Ammonite Resources, Blackwatch PSL, Crude Oil & Gas Ltd, Dana Petroleum, Desire Petroleum, Faroe Petroleum, Hemingway Management, Premier Oil plc, Reach Exploration, Rockhopper Exploration.

Full historic client list:

Ammonite Resources, Amoco, British Borneo Petroleum syndicate, Charterhouse Petroleum, Chevron, Crude Oil & Gas Ltd, Dana Petroleum, Daran Petroleum Consultants, Desire Petroleum, EAI, Faroe Petroleum, GCA, Gaelic Resources, Greenwich Resources, Gulf Oil (Ireland), Hemingway Management, IPC, Kerr McGee, Locheil Exploration, Marine & Mercantile Securities (MMS Petroleum, Balkan Explorers Bulgaria), Martin-Moffatt Ltd, Neste Exploration, Oliver Prospecting & Mining, Premier Oil plc, Reach Exploration, Robertson-Blackwatch, Rockhopper Exploration, Samedan Inc., Sands Petroleum, Seagull Energy, Sepa Resources, Sovereign Oil & Gas Ltd, Sovereign Oil & Gas (Neth) Ltd, Texas Eastern, Ultramar, Union Texas Petroleum, Van Dyke Energy, Western Mining Corporation, Ritoil Associates, Petroleum Economist.

Project areas

Abu Dhabi, Algeria, Angola, Australia NW shelf, Barbados, Bulgarian Black Sea, Cabinda, Côte d'Ivoire, Dubai, Egypt, Falkland shelf, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana deep water, Guinea Bissau, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya deep water, Mauritania deep water, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Spain, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, UKCS-Celtic Sea, Central Graben, Moray firth, Morecambe Bay, Viking Graben, West Shetlands, USA West Texas.

Presented 1994-1999, biannually, a three-hour lecture entitled "Oil & Gas, nature, reserves and exploration" on behalf of Petroleum Economist, as part of their course "Understanding the fundamentals of the oil industry".

No agency work is undertaken, but there is participation in multidisciplinary evaluations on behalf of reputable consultancies when a team approach is required.





FOREIGN TRAVEL

In addition to foreign residence stated above, significant working visits have been made to Algeria, Dubai, Indonesia, Sene-Gambia, Thailand, Tunisia, USA and elsewhere.




PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

AAPG, Geol Soc Lond., IP, PESGB.


LANGUAGES

French: Competent to travel alone and converse in the Francophone environment, though not with fluency.

German: Basic.




COURSES AND TRAINING

1974-1977:
Operationally related courses e.g. Schlumberger logging, dipmeter & production logging, Heli-evac. course, Corelab core analysis.

1977-1980:
Structural Geology - O&G Consultants, Houston.
Carbonate Reservoirs - O&G Consultants, Houston.
Applied Geophysics - University of Houston.
Geochemistry - AAPG, Keystone, Colorado.
Turbidite field course - Gulf Oil, Alpes Maritimes & Apennines, France and Italy.
Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe 5-yearly Conferences.
Various field trips: Gabon, France, US Gulf Coast.

1981-Present:
A continuing variety of conferences and professional meetings e.g. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe (most recent Oct. '97),

Palaeozoic Gas Conference (Geol. Soc. Lond.), Inversion Tectonics, Risk Analysis (Newendorp), AAPG convention, North Africa Conference

(Geol. Soc. Lond.), Caspian Sea Conference (Geol. Soc. Lond.), Petex, Falkland and Southern Africa Conference (Geol. Soc. Lond.), AAPG

International conference, Barcelona, 2003.

Sierra Geophysics: 2di workstation training course (1990).
Intergraph/2di on-the-job training 1990-1994.
Landmark: Seisworks 2d on-the-job training (1996-99).
Landmark: Seisworks 3d on-the-job training (1998).
Schlumberger-GeoQuest on-the-job training (2000-2001).
Kingdom Suite (SMT) on-the-job training, 2001-2004.
Petrosys on-the-job training, 2003.

French and German language courses.

Various field trips: UK, Portugal, USA, Italy.