Oil and Gas

Background
Bob Boyce completed his dissertation in 1974 at The University of Texas at Austin and began work for BP Alaska as an exploration geologist. He now has 43 years of experience in the petroleum industry and a proven track record that demonstrates a high impact across the entire upstream value chain, from exploration through production and commercial. He has experience across numerous basins, in the US and in the UK. After 29 years with BP working in San Francisco, Aberdeen, Denver, and Houston he took early retirement and in 2003 formed his own consulting business. He has utilized his experience and technical ability working on projects as an independent contractor for Unocal, Chevron, Swift Energy, and Maersk during the last 14 years. In addition to his technical consulting, he began working with Nautilus in 2004 to help design and teach the Foundation class – N087: “Play Fairway Analysis and Exploration Prospecting”, which he continues to co-instruct with Andy Pulham.

During his career, Bob has worked with numerous regional teams creating play fairway maps and evaluating plays in both mature and frontier basins. He has worked to generate leads and prospects for lease sales and has worked on teams that brought those prospects to the drilling stage. Over the last three decades he spent most of his time working the deep water Gulf of Mexico including the subsalt play. The highlight of his time at BP was being an integral part of the team that drilled the discovery well for the Thunder Horse Field in 1999. His interests in addition to exploration prospecting include play fairway analysis, petroleum systems analysis, and attempting to unravel the geological history of the Gulf of Mexico.

Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University of Texas, - Geology
MSc Indiana University - Geology
BSc Wittenberg  University - Geology

Courses Taught
N087: Play Fairway Analysis and Exploration Prospecting

Background
Dr. Andy Pulham has more than 35 years of industrial and academic experience. Since early 2005 Andy has been constructing his own consulting and training company and alliances. He has consulted in South America, USA, Europe and Africa.

After graduating, Andy spent 12 years with BP Exploration as a Petroleum Sedimentologist and for BP worked in NW Europe, North America and South America. Highlights in Andy’s industrial career have been regional studies in the Jurassic of the North Sea and the Cenozoic of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and the appraisal of the Cusiana Field in Colombia. From 1995-2001 Andy was Principal Investigator for Reservoir Geology at the Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. While in Colorado, Andy conducted research into the production characteristics of marginal marine siliciclastic oil and gas reservoirs and alluvial architecture in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. Subsurface projects were drawn from the Americas, Europe and Papua New Guinea. In 2001 Andy gained an appointment as the Canada Research Chair in Petroleum Geosciences in the Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland and taught undergraduate and graduate petroleum geology and sedimentology and advised graduate students in subsurface reservoir, seismic stratigraphy and outcrop sedimentology projects. Andy left academia in 2003 and joined Nautilus USA as VP of Geoscience and acted as the senior technical liaison and technical manager for the Geoscience Training Alliance in North America.

Andy’s primary interests are clastic sedimentology and stratigraphy. Andy’s portfolio of geoscience training classes now number eleven schools and include deepwater clastics, marginal marine and deltas, play fairway analysis and exploration prospecting and petroleum systems.

Affiliations and Accreditation
PhD University College of Wales, Swansea - Geology
BSc University of Liverpool, England - Physical Geography and Geology
AAPG - Member
SEPM - Member
IAS - Member
RMAG - Member

Courses Taught
N087: Play Fairway Analysis & Exploration Prospecting
N009: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy & Reservoir Geology of Deepwater Clastic Systems (County Clare, Ireland)
N011: High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Reservoir Applications (Utah, USA)
N042: Reservoir Sedimentology & Stratigraphy of Coastal and Shelfal Successions: Deltas, Shorelines and Origins of Isolated Sandstones (NW Colorado, USA)
N115: High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Application to Deltaic Systems and Reservoirs  (County Clare Ireland)
N570: Deepwater Clastic Systems - Processes, Products, Architectural Elements and Strategies for E&P