2007-Present	JMJ Petroleum Pte Ltd (Singapore)	Founder and Managing Director
2006-Present	JMJ Petroleum Limited (UK)	Founder and Managing Director
	Tectonics, Structure & Petroleum Systems

John has extensive knowledge of tectonics, basin dynamics and petroleum systems of numerous groups of genetically-related basins worldwide:

Indochina	South China Sea	North Africa
East Africa	Circum-South Atlantic	Sub-Andean Foreland
Sub-Andean Foreland	Southern Caribbean	Gulf of Mexico
Circum-North American Arctic	Central Paratethys

 

John has worked on numerous regional and global studies designed to create exploration databases of play fairways and petroleum systems. Of these, he has taken a particular research interest in evaluating and developing regional tectonic evolutionary models for South America, Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean, South Atlantic and SE Asia, publishing several papers on this subject, which emphasise the importance of tectonics on petroleum system development, and the use of GIS as an important exploration tool. John was also the project manager for a GIS-based digital product that was designed to create a fully consistent, attributed structural and geological digital coverage for the entire globe, with the principal aim of defining all the world’s sedimentary basins.

John has also undertaken extensive field work involving detailed structural/prospect mapping in a variety of tectonic environments (extensional, strike-slip and contractional), including both brittle and ductile regimes (e.g., Yemen, Pakistan).

Employment History

2004-2006	GETECH (UK)	Founder and Manager of the 'Petroleum Systems Evaluation Group'
1996-2004	Robertson Research (UK)	Structural Petroleum Geologist and Project Manager

James P. Armstrong

2007-Present	JMJ Petroleum Group (UK & Singapore)	Chief Geochemical Specialist
	Applied Petroleum Geochemistry

 

Jim has over 25 years of professional experience, working extensively on basins in SE Asia, and in many different geological settings around the world. Jim has extensive knowledge of the source rock systems in the following regions:

Indochina	South China Sea	West Indonesia
East Indonesia	North Africa	Central Africa
East Africa	Middle East	Circum-South Atlantic
Circum-Arctic	NW Europe

 

He is the author/co-author of several published specialist technical papers, over 500 individual well reports, and numerous large-scale regional appraisals.

Jim has developed and run numerous training courses and workshops in Europe and the Far East, including subjects such as petroleum exploration and basin analysis, prospect evaluation, geochemical methods/applications and environment/pollution studies. He is currently an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK, where he teaches the petroleum geochemistry component of their MSc course and runs a series of field courses for industry clients and academic bodies. He is also affiliated with the University of Derby.

Employment History

2005-2006	GETECH (UK)	Senior Geochemist
1991-2006	James Armstrong & Associates (UK)	Geochemical / Geological Consultant
1985-1990	The Geochem Group (UK)	Senior Geochemist
1985	Robertson Research (UK)	Geochemist
1982-1985	Robertson Research (Singapore)	Geochemist
1980-1981	Exploration Logging (Canada)	Wellsite Geochemist

Vaughan C. Stone

2007-Present	JMJ Petroleum Group (UK & Singapore)	Chief Geophysicist
	Potential Field Analysis

With over 30 years of professional experience, Vaughan has specialised in the field of potential field geophysics, principally on structural interpretation studies to help analyse prospects and understand the development and disposition of potential oil-bearing structures. He has managed numerous overseas data acquisition surveys, and is an expert in the interpretation of gravity and magnetic data.

Vaughan has undertaken studies in most regions of the world, from the regional-scale, down to prospect level, covering an exhaustive list of sedimentary basins. More recently, Vaughan has worked on the following areas:

Offshore Eastern Vietnam	Offshore Southern Vietnam	Gulf of Thailand
Onshore Thailand	Natuna Sea	Sunda Shelf
East Java Sea	Malacca Straits	Bangladesh
West Siberian Basin	West Central Africa	Sea of Okhotsk
Caspian Sea	South Atlantic Margins	Gulf of Mexico

Employment History

2001-2006	GETECH (UK)	Senior Geophysicist and Interpreter
1994-2001	Independent Consultant (UK)	Geophysical Consultant
1987-1994	ARK Geophysics (UK)	Senior Geophysicist and Interpreter
1975-1987	Hunting Geology & Geophysics (UK)	Project Acquisition/QC Manager
1973-1975	Geophysical Services International (UK)	Seismic Interpreter

Ruth J. Hoult

2007 - Present	JMJ Petroleum Group (UK & Singapore)	Senior Exploration Geologist
	Seismic Interpretation & Prospect Analysis

 

Ruth’s expertise include prospect generation from 2D/3D seismic and well data, licence round bidding, 2D and 3D seismic interpretation and burial history modelling, and she has extensive experience on exploration opportunity screening of many basins throughout the world, as Project Manager and Lead Geologist:

 

Offshore India	Offshore Southern Vietnam	NW Shelf Australia
East Africa	Zagros of Iran & Iraq	Mesopotamian Basin
Arabian Shelf	Atlas Fold & Thrust Belt	Assam
Offshore Brazil	Offshore Argentina	Falkland Islands

Currently, Ruth is working on the petroleum systems of southern Vietnam, which has involved in-depth play mapping and prospect analysis using seismic, well and field data.

Employment History

2006-2007	GETECH (UK)	Senior Petroleum Geologist
2001-2006	BGS/DTI (UK)	Senior Hydrocarbon Geologist
1995-2001	Robertson Research (UK)	Staff Petroleum Geologist
1992-1995	Amoco E&P (UK)	Exploration Geologist
1990-1991	Neste Exploration (UK)	Exploration Geologist

David G. Wright

2006 - Present	JMJ Petroleum Group (Singapore)	GIS and Database Manager
	GIS & Database Management

 

Dave’s expertise lie in GIS (Geographic Information System) and data management. Over a relatively short period of time, Dave has gained considerable experience and knowledge in collating and compiling geological datasets. Through our in-house GIS database system – I-MAP – Dave is largely concerned with overseeing the capture of all public domain sourced data, and their integration with our own interpretational elements and data (e.g., gravity and magnetics) and/or exclusive, proprietary datasets, such as seismic and well, in a focused and efficient manner.

Previously, he was responsible for the daily use and maintenance of a GIS-based global exploration database of play fairways and petroleum systems, and the implementation of a global exploration well and fields database.

More recently, Dave has been creating and populating both proprietary and multi-client (non-exclusive) GIS-based exploration databases for selected basins/regions throughout SE Asia:

East Java Sea	Gulf of Thailand	Onshore Thailand
Offshore Eastern Vietnam	Offshore Southern Vietnam	Natuna Sea
Bangladesh	Algeria	Libya

Dave is also responsible for running our GIS technical training courses, which have been designed for the exploration geologist using real examples from across the SE Asian region or elsewhere.

Employment History

2005-2006	GETECH (UK)	Data Coordinator & GIS Specialist
2002-2005	Robertson Research (UK)	Tellus – Well and Fields Database