Biography

Jan Forney has explored in many of the most prolific basins of the world, a key player with an excellent track record of identifying new growth potential in these basins. Over 22 years, her experience spans more than 15 countries and includes key roles in the deepwater plays of the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa at Amoco and Texaco and working the stable shelf petroleum systems of the Middle East.  At Amoco, highlights include acquiring acreage on Mad Dog and along the Mississippi Fan Foldbelt,  helping to acquire deepwater acreage in Angola (Block 18), and a number of successful exploration wells in the Gulf of Mexico and the Emirates. Along with a love for exploration, she also is a strong technical geophysicist who brings a variety of tools to bear.   She holds a masters degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a bachelors from Smith College.

Hector San-Martin is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist and Texas State Licensed Professional Geoscientist with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry. He received a Master of Sciences in Geology from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, U.K. and Bachelor of Sciences in Geological Engineering from Universidad Central del Ecuador in Quito.  He began his career as a geologist in exploration and development projects working for Texaco and subsequently for Tenneco and British Gas. In 1996, he switched to the services side of the oil and gas industry, working for Halliburton in diverse projects across the Americas.  He is currently a Senior Geoscientist with the Geosciences and Engineering Group (Core Laboratories) in Houston. He is interested in the integration of well, seismic and engineering data to projects ranging from prospects generation to reservoir management and in particular, the reactivation of mature fields. He is a member of AAPG, HGS, GSH, GCSSEPM, SPE, and SIPES (Affiliate).

Pauly Enwere is a Reservoir Engineer and a Petrophysicist with over 10 years experience in core-log data integration, reservoir characterization, special core study, NMR core spectrometry and its application to calibrate logging tools. He was the Senior Petrophysicist for Core Laboratories PLC from 1998 to 2004 and performed the petrophysical analysis of the Shushufindi and Libertador projects for Petroecuador.  Dr. Enwere earned a Ph.D in Petroleum Engineering from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (University of London), United Kingdom in 1991