Curriculum Vitae John Brooks

Curriculum Vitae

John R.V. Brooks, CBE, B.Sc., D.Sc., FGS, C.Geol., M.Inst.Pet.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Nationality: BRITISH

Address: Cobleigh, Brookwood, Surrey, GU24 0EL, UK

Telephone: +44 (0)1483 473285

Fax: +44 (0)1483 473005

Mobile: +44 (0)7796 694285

E-mail jrvbrooks@supanet.com

CAREER RESUME:

My career has spanned 38 years in the Oil and Gas Industry working both as a petroleum geologist within the industry, and as a regulator for the United Kingdom Government.

Own Company Brookwood Petroleum Advisors Limited.

2001 - to date Director - Brookwood Petroleum Advisors Ltd.
Having retired from the DTI in December 2000, I formed my own company, Brookwood Petroleum Advisors Ltd. in January 2001 to provide geological and licensing advice to host governments wishing to launch acreage offers.

Senior Visiting Research Fellow - Southampton Oceanographic Centre
Involved with Law of the Sea matters, and marketing SOC capability in this area. Led delegation to AAPG annual convention and mounted a display Booth. Currently involved in obtaining business for the Centre.

Non-Executive Chairman - Atlantic Oil & Gas plc

United Kingdom Civil Service Department of Energy/Department of Trade & Industry.

1973 – 2000 Director of Exploration & Licensing - Oil & Gas Directorate, Department of Trade & Industry
Responsibilities in Oil & Gas Directorate

Oil and gas licensing policy and regulation of licenses, and licensees, for exploration and production onshore United Kingdom and offshore on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS).

The position also involved:

Possession of a sound and detailed knowledge of the petroleum geology of the United

Kingdom Continental Shelf and land, exploration seismic and drilling techniques,

development and production technology, and the oil and gas business environment.

A thorough familiarity with the workings of government and the regulations relating to

petroleum licensing, and relationships with adjacent states in term of co-operation and trans-boundary

issues, such as shared field developments and infrastructure and the treaties

governing such practices.

Advising Ministers on a wide range of Licensing and technical issues.

Negotiation of work programmes during licensing rounds, since 1980 (7 th - 18 th ), the section

of blocks (acreage) for inclusion in rounds and for auction, and the recommendation of awards

to Ministers.

Presentation of ‘yet-to-find’ reserves.

Management of Contracts, e.g. British Geological Survey.

Determination of Fields under Petroleum Revenue Tax regulations.

Technical input to negotiations, led by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), involving

the delimitation of boundary lines with France, Eire, Denmark (Faeroes) and Iceland.

Advice to the Isle of Man Government on petroleum licensing rounds

Advice to the FCO on the exploration of the continental shelf around the Falkland Island, and

on a putative joint development area between Argentina and the Islands.

Advice to the FCO on the territorial extension to the UKCS under Article 76 of the United

Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), designing work programmes to

substantiate the UK case and obtaining resources to carry out the work; over some 20 years.

Advice to the Governments of Brazil and Venezuela, in association with Trade Partners UK,

then Offshore Supplies Office, and recently, since leaving the Service, to the Governments of

Indonesia and Cambodia, Lebanon and Sao Tome & Principe.

Marketing of UK Oil & Gas opportunities at key exhibitions and conferences.

Presentations were made world- wide.

Writing papers on the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf..

Career prior to DTI: 10 years as a petroleum geologist in the oil and gas industry.

1969 – 1973 Senior Geologist Gas Council Exploration Ltd.

1966 – 1969 Geologist Amoco UK Petroleum Ltd.

1963 – 1966 Geophysicist Robert H. Ray Ltd.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

2001 Senior Visiting Research Fellow University of Southampton – Southampton Oceanographic Centre

1999 D.Sc. (Honorary) Kingston University

1963 B.Sc. Special Honours (Mineralogy & Petrology) University of London

KEY TRAINING:

Secondment to BP in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Wytch Farm, and Alaska.
Exposure to all aspects of BP’s then current business, including management of change and financial management.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Fellow Geological Society (On Council twice) (FGS)
Chartered Geologist (C.Geol)

Member American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Member Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN)

Member Institute of Petroleum (Currently on Council) (M.Inst.Pet.)

Member Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain
(Chairman of PETEX 2002)

AWARDS:

1996 Petroleum Group Medal - Geological Society

1997 Distinguished Service Award - AAPG

1998 Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) - Her Majesty’s Government

APPOINTMENTS CURRENTLY HELD:

Senior Visiting Research Fellow Southampton Oceanographic Centre

Chairman PETEX 2002 (PESGB)

Member British National Committee: World Petroleum Congress (IP)

Director Atlantic Oil & Gas

Member of the Advisory Board Consort Resources Limited

COMMISSIONS

2001

3-day course on licensing to the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority (CNPA), in Phnom Penh

3-day course on licensing and negotiation to MIGAS Indonesia, Department of Mineral Resources, Thailand, and CNPA, in Jakarta

Both of these courses were on behalf of Trade Partners UK

Work on extended continental shelves at Southampton for coastal states.

2002

Advice on licensing and licensing strategy to the Government of Lebanon . Major Report submitted, March

Advice to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome & Principe (DRSTP) on Production Sharing Contracts in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) managed jointly by the Governments of Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome & Principe. Advice to the DRSTP on the exploration of their exclusive economic zone, which lies adjacent to the Joint Development Zone. 7 days of discussions in Sao Tome, August.

PUBLICATIONS

Brooks, J. R.V., S.J. Stoker, &T. D. J. Cameron, 2002, Hydrocarbon exploration opportunities in the twenty-first century in the United Kingdom, in Marlan W. Downey, Jack C. Threet and William A. Morgan, eds., Petroleum provinces of the twenty –first century: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 74, pp.167-199.

Glennie, K. W., Brooks, J., & J. R. V. Brooks, 1987, Hydrocarbon exploration and geology of North West Europe, in Petroleum Geology of North West Europe, Eds. J. Brooks and K. Glennie, London, Graham & Trotman, pp. 1-10.

Brooks, J. R. V., 1986, Future Potential for Hydrocarbon Exploration on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 40, pp. 677-698.

Brooks, J. R. V., 1983, Geological Information from Hydrocarbon Exploration on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf, in Petroleum Geochemistry and Exploration of Europe, The Geological Society, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, pp. 343-356.

Brooks, J. R. V., 1980, A Review of the current status of U.K. Exploration and estimation of undiscovered reserves potential on the U. K. Continental Shelf, UN CCOP.

Brooks, J. R. V., 1978, Exploration status of the Mesozoic in the U.K. Northern North Sea, in NPF – Mesozoic Northern North Sea Symposium, Oslo, Norsk Petroleumsforening (NPF) , pp2-1 – 2-28.

Brooks, J. R. V., & Pamela Thomas, 1977, A classified bibliography of North West European Continental Shelf Geology, Scott. J. Geol., 1 pp. 1-10.

Brooks, J. R. V., & J. A. Chesher, 1975, Review of the Offshore Jurassic of the United Kingdom Northern North Sea, in NPF- Jurassic of the North Sea, Stavanger, Norsk Petroleumsforening (NPF).

Brooks, J. R. V., & Pamela Thomas, 1974, A selected bibliography of North Sea Geology (up to 1974), Proc. Geol. Ass. 85, pp. 103-111.

Whitten, D. G. A. with J. R. V. Brooks, 1972, Dictionary of Geology, London, Penguin Books.