COMPANIES AND PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN PRODUCING THE REPORTS
PETROLEUM GEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS LTD & PGA CONSULTANTS PTY LTD
PGA are geological consultants with offices in Manchester, England and Perth, Western Australia. The UK company was founded in 1979 by Dr. John Scott.
The PGA UK office has managed the production of all the Middle East reports, principally under the supervision of Grenville Lunn. He joined PGA in 1980 having obtained a BSc degree in geology and geophysics from the University of Leicester and became manager of the PGA Reading office in 1987. In addition to supervising the projects he has been responsible for the geological interpretation of the biomarker analyses, structural summaries and sequence stratigraphic interpretations and well correlations. He is also responsible for the design and management of the digital data base.
Dr. John Scott holds a PhD in geology from the University of Reading and is Managing Director of PGA. Dr. Scott began this series of projects by organising the first geochemistry report. He is responsible for the overall technical direction of the reports, has written the sections on exploration implications and contributed to the regional petroleum geological interpretations. He has also overseen the interpretation of the geochemical data. Dr. Scott began his career with the IPC in Abu Dhabi in 1971. He moved to Buttes Oil & Gas in 1977, becoming Exploration Manager of their Tunisian venture. In 1979 he founded PGA. From 1987 to 1991 he was Professor of Petroleum Geology at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. In 1991 he returned to full-time consulting and established PGA's second office in Australia, PGA Consultants Pty Ltd.
In addition to the multi-client studies, PGA has undertaken consulting projects in the Middle East on SE Turkey, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, the U.A.E., Yemen and Egypt.
QUANTOCK GEOLOGICAL SERVICES
Quantock Geological Services was the trade name of Mick Storey. He died on 20 October 2002 in his 60th year. Mick was a consultant production geologist based in Taunton, England. He contributed to all the reports described in this brochure. His primarily responsible was for the regional stratigraphic framework, tectonic and structural summaries, and the organisation and interpretation of show, test and production data presented in the reports. He also supervised the lithological logging for the first geochemistry report. The group of geologists who have produced these reports will find it impossible to fill the gap that Mick leaves. He was our friend as well as our partner. His monument as a Middle East Geologist remains in the reports.
SAKER GEOLOGICAL SERVICES
Saker Geological Services is the trade name of Dr. Augustus Wilson, who is a sedimentary petrologist and regional geologist based in Houston. Dr. Wilson has a PhD in geology from the University of North Carolina, and served as a postdoctoral fellow in computer applications at the Kansas Geological Survey. Later he was an exploration geologist in the Rocky mountains for Amerada Hess, and then worked for eight years for Aramco before resigning to become an independent consultant in 1982. A portion of this time with Aramco was spent in the regional geology group including working on the Aramco Arabian Basin source rock project (Ayres et al., 1982, AAPG) and later setting up and supervising a petrographic analysis group. Dr. Wilson undertook the petrographic logging for the majority of the wells in the petroleum geology reports and made the regional synthesis of the petrographic logs and other data.
UNIVERSITY OF READING
The University of Reading provided access to the collection of well and outcrop samples upon which these reports are based. This collection, which we term the Middle East Archive, is largely composed of material collected by the Iraq Petroleum Company and includes samples from wells and outcrops in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Farasan Islands, Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus. The University recently sold this entire collection to a major oil company. In addition to access to samples the university has also provided certain analytical services to the projects including SEM and XRD analyses under the direction of Dr. Andrew Parker. The late Professor Bruce Sellwood produced the petrographic logs for several of the study wells.
PETRA-CHEM LIMITED
Petra-Chem Limited undertook the geochemical analyses and interpretation for the report "Petroleum Geology and Geochemistry of the Middle East" under the direction of Trevor Doran and Dr. Sally Doran, who were both geochemists with British Petroleum and Palaeochem Limited, prior to forming Petra-Chem Limited.
Petra-Chem Limited have completed multi-client and single-client studies on the UK and world-wide, including, in the Middle East area, Jordan and Turkey.
