1. An Early Career in oil & gas
Estelle Patrick

2. Agenda
Introduction
My career
Hints & Tips

3. Oil and Gas Future?

4. Oil and Gas Disciplines
Exploration geology
Development geology
Unconventionals
Biostratigraphy
Geochemistry
Geophysics
Sedimentology
Structural
Finance
Marketing
So if you were interested which discipline do you want to go into? Do you pursue a job, M.Sci, M.Sc, PhD?
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5. Oil and Gas Companies Multi-nationals Independents Service companies
Do you stay in a geoscience discipline? Do you pursue a job, M.Sci, M.Sc Ph.D?

6. 2004-
2008
2008-
2011
2011-
2012
2012-Present

7. University of Birmingham
Carbon Capture and Storage
Estelle Patrick
University of Birmingham
Did all the usual things – field trips but all for me my career all started with an interesting dissertation topic…

8. University of Birmingham
Distribution of strain in the subsurface, using data from the Wessex Basin
Estelle Patrick
University of Birmingham
Also invloved in LAPSOC and worked in the Lapworth Museum curating various artefacts in there.

9. Neftex Petroleum Consultants
2008
2009
2010
2011
Unconventionals
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Conferences:
AAPG –San Antonio
ICGH – Vancouver
Africa Conference
Regional Teams:
North America Arctic
North Africa
Black Sea, Greater Caspian
Former Soviet Union
Joined in 2008; research skills and learnt about different software packages, wireline interpretation, sequence stratigprahy, field trip – French Alps,

10. Neftex Petroleum Consultants
Unconventionals,

11. Neftex Petroleum Consultants
Regional Team, gathered data, interpreted publically available wireline data, use ARC Gis to produce map – able to incorporate unconventionals into existing products

12. Imperial College, London
Identification and Quantification of High-permeability Streaks In the Simian Gas Field, WDDM Concession, offshore Nile Delta
Estelle Patrick
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
State depth of core and that it is only a fraction/sample of the total depth of the canyon

14. BG Group – IGDP 2012 China USA Ops E.Africa
Who is BG? Large independent primarily gas company.

15. Other activities GeolSoc/PESGB/AAPG BG Energy challenge STEM ECPN
Over the years and present

16. Do something you are interested in
Follow what interests you and what catches your eye/imagination
Conferences
Societies
Network

17. Utilise all available resources
Careers fairs; talks
Societies – companies who sponsor will advertise
Recruitment consultants
Send out letters
Newspaper adverts
Take note of deadlines
Social networks

18. Know your geology Know your rocks and how to describe them
Practise descriptive skills
Know your dissertation/research
Be aware of the geology around you

19. PESGB www. pesgb. org. uk AAPG http://europe. aapg
PESGB AAPG Geological Society STEM