David Bamford

David Bamford, Petromall Ltd On the occasion of ROGTEC’s 10th anniversary, I would like to step back and reflect on Exploration since the magazine’s dawn, and over the immediate future. It is very clear that the Majors failed to discover adequate new reserves last year – a good summary can …

  Henry Edmundson, R9 Energy Consultants David Bamford, Petromall Ltd  The continued search for oil and gas relies in equal measure on good management and superior petro-technical expertise. The key, though, is ensuring that the two worlds mesh smoothly and create a working environment that motivates both parties to succeed. …

David Bamford, Petromall This oil & gas industry of ours goes through cycles, tied by elastic to the price of oil and gas. On the back of the decade long rise in oil prices and the corresponding boom in exploration and production activity, costs have escalated – exponentiated some would …

David Bamford It can be argued that over the last 20 years or so, offshore explorers have become ‘lazy’, relying on regional 3D seismic to bring them success. This will not be possible when explorers turn to looking for unconventional resources onshore; the innovative use of technology will be the …

David Bamford, Finding Petroleum It is fashionable to identify deepwater – especially in the South Atlantic, unconventionals – especially in North America, and the Arctic – offshore Alaska, Russia, perhaps Greenland – as the ‘hot spots’ in the current global exploration scene. Onshore exploration remains unfashionable or it least so …

David Bamford, Finding Petroleum ‘Disruptive’ Technologies I was struck by reading a commentary on Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple to the effect that he invented new things – the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad – before any of us realised we needed them. This seems to me to be …

David Bamford, bamford_windward@hotmail.com Not a week seems to go by nowadays without an international ‘deal’ for the exploration for unconventional resources being announced in the ‘trade press’. So, for example, Exxon and Rosneft are about to start exploring the Bazhenov shale in Russia, Ukraine and Shell have just announced a …

David Bamford What do we see when we Examine the Global Exploration Picture? Perhaps more than any other sector of the oil and gas business, exploration encourages rumour and anecdotes, with much important information being traded by ‘networking’. For example, sitting at lunch at a recent Finding Petroleum event, I …