Brookwood Petroleum Advisors' aim is to offer 'best practice' advice to host governments on their
options and strategies for licensing acreage for oil and gas exploration and
production.
John retired from the Oil & Gas Directorate of the Department of Trade &
Industry in the United Kingdom, at the end of 2000, where he was Director,
Exploration & Licensing.
John joined the Civil Service in 1973 after spending ten years as a
petroleum geologist in the oil industry. During 27 years at the DTI, John was
involved in rounds of licensing from the 5th to the 19th
and in negotiations with oil companies on work programmes and ongoing work in
the licenses.
He also took an interest in play concepts and in the future hydrocarbon
potential of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf and in maximising the United
Kingdom’s claim to territory beyond 200 nautical miles, as provided for under
Article 76 of the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Convention.
Since leaving the DTI John has worked for Trade Partners UK
in advising the governments of Cambodia and Indonesia, and with other
colleagues advising the governments of Lebanon and Sao Tome and Principe.
John was PETEX 2002 Chairman; he is a member of the Council of the
Institute of Petroleum, a member of the UK National Committee of the World
Petroleum Council, and is a member of the Advisory Council of Consort
Resources Limited.
He is a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton/Southampton
Oceanographic Centre.