Keith Minton is an experienced production geoscientist / petroleum engineer and team lead with specific strengths in reservoir modelling, reservoir management and field development planning. His experience has seen him work in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia with both geoscience and team/project lead and department accountabilities.
Specialties: Field development planning, uncertainty assesment and management, reservoir characterisation and modeling, operational geology, carbonate reservoirs, fractured reservoirs, deepwater development.
GM Integration @ Supporting efficient project delivery in the front end for the global Operated and New Business / Exploration portfolios of the Shell Projects & Technology organization. The team is formed of two parts - Shell's Principal Technical Experts for IRM (Integrated Reservoir Modelling) and the Development Planning team who support decision based project planning across the portfolio. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Head of Petroleum Engineering @ Responsibility for subsurface aspects of all Shell Gabon operated and non-operated fields. Managed a team of 60-70 Petroleum Engineers and Production Chemists. Responsible for New Oil Delivery, Development Studies, WRFM opportunities and field appraisal activities. From October 2012 to August 2015 (2 years 11 months) BDO & SK307 Front End Project Delivery Lead @ Responsible for all pre-FID development projects in the BDO and SK307 PSC's: integrated gas development of 7 fields and 6 brownfield, offshore EOR developments. From October 2011 to September 2012 (1 year) Hydrocarbon Maturation Studies Lead & Malampaya Business Opportunity Manager @ Studies lead for new opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region including exploration and NBD support. Malampaya Business Opportunity Manager (BOM) for future development phases (Camago development, Malampaya Infill, Depletion Compression). Also BOM for Tukau Timur gas development offshore Sarawak. From March 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 7 months) Production Geology Team Lead and Sarawak Business Opportunity Manager @ • Accountable for the delivery of 4 major, offshore gas field developments from a technical, business and commercial perspective.
• Leader of a team of 15 production geologists responsible for the field development planning of 8 major projects (including carbonates, shallow and deep water Clastics, water-floods & exploration support).
• Responsible for ensuring the technical quality and robustness of all production geology activities and help set the business strategy and direction as part of the Leadership team. From January 2009 to March 2010 (1 year 3 months) Sarawak Asset Geoscience Lead @ • Lead a team of 20 geoscientists responsible for the appraisal, development and reservoir management of 29 Gas Fields (shallow water fields producing ~700,000boe/day; mainly carbonate build ups; 15 producing and 14 in various stages of development).
• Ensured the technical quality and robustness of all geoscience activities and helped set the business strategy and direction as part of the leadership team. From January 2007 to January 2009 (2 years 1 month) Sub-Surface Team Lead, Malikai Venture @ • Lead a team of 11 petroleum engineers responsible for the appraisal and maturation of the deepwater Malikai Field (light oil in turbidite sands with complex faulting and reservoir body geometries).
• Delivered the appraisal strategy and plan and a suite of reservoir models to support the decision on feasibility, commerciality and preferred development concept. From July 2005 to January 2007 (1 year 7 months) Development Planning Team Lead, Nimr Asset @ • Lead a team of 19 petroleum engineers responsible for all development aspects of the Nimr Cluster Fields (heavy oil in Aeolian and complex fluvio-glacial deposits, producing ~125,000bbls/day under intense aquifer drive).
• Responsible for hydrocarbon maturation strategy, multiple Field Development Plans, and reservoir management strategy. From September 2004 to July 2005 (11 months) Senior Production Geologist @ Various roles including production geologist for the giant Lekhwair field (waterflooded carbonate), appraisal geologist for the Dhulaima Field, production seismologist / geologist for the Natih fractured carbonate field, Near Field Exploration seismologist for the Shuaiba, Geologist and field coordinator for the Nimr fields (heavy oil in aeolian and glacial clastics). From February 1997 to August 2004 (7 years 7 months) Production Geologist @ From August 1991 to February 1997 (5 years 7 months)
BSc, Geology @ University of Leicester From 1988 to 1991 Keith Minton is skilled in: Field Development, Reservoir Management, Petroleum Engineering, Plannning, Geology, Petroleum, Offshore Drilling, Fracture, Earth Science, Reservoir Modeling, Gas, Petroleum Geology, Mineral Exploration, Geophysics, Carbonates, Characterization, Upstream