Meriem became CEO of Badley Ashton in November 2012. She is responsible for overseeing the Company's strategic business growth worldwide. Her role is focused on developing Badley Ashton's value to the industry. In her technical work, Meriem specialises in process-based sedimentology, structural geology and borehole imaging. She is in charge of the technical assurance of the Company’s borehole image and structural studies, which includes staff development.
Boris oversees the operational business activities and is responsible for implementing the company strategy, in addition to providing technical consultancy, training and quality control. Boris has particular expertise in process-based sedimentological and BHI evaluations of Mesozoic and Cenozoic paralic systems. He also specialises in sedimentological appraisals of Mesozoic carbonate ramp systems in the ME and has experience in 3-D reservoir modelling.
Adrian manages the business activities for the Western Hemisphere including America, Europe and Australia and develops these in coordination with our Houston office. Adrian has a wide range of sedimentological experience and currently works as an active member of the Deepwater Team, with a particular focus on Gulf of Mexico reservoirs.
As Commercial Manager, Gerry is responsible for managing procurement and contract documents, coordinating marketing and allocating HR and equipment to meet operational needs. He is also responsible for facilities management and EHS standards, ensuring that regulations are met and methods are improved.
Gerry's remit also extends to overseeing project management methodology, and archival delivery systems designed to retain and apply corporate knowledge.
With long experience in all aspects of finance, Zoe is responsible for all aspects of financial accounting, management and planning across the Badley Ashton group. As Finance Manager, she also oversees Human Resources and works closely with the Geological Management Team.
As Chief Draughtsman, Dave oversees all day-to-day draughting work carried out by the Company's in-house team of technical illustrators and designers, Badley Ashton Geographics.
With long experience in technical illustration and reprographics, he is also responsible for maintaining and improving the technical standards within the team.
The Carbonates Team studies carbonate sediments from all over the world, including the entire Middle East and North Africa regions, and parts of Europe. The Team provides sedimentological and petrographical characterisation, sequence stratigraphic interpretations and diagenesis as well as reservoir quality evaluations for various exploration and production carbonate reservoirs, ranging from single well exploration projects to regional development studies. Specialisms include shallow water carbonate settings, including more proximal evaporitic deposits. The sedimentology of these systems is typically complex and reservoir architectures are commonly very heterogeneous. The carbonate reservoirs studied by Badley Ashton to date are relatively deep and old, where intense alteration is common. Therefore, they present challenges that require extensive experience in diagenetic analysis and geochemical techniques.
The Deepwater Team provides multidisciplinary consultancy on exploration, appraisal and production projects of turbiditic reservoirs around the globe. Although the team built its expertise working on deepwater reservoirs of the North Sea, currently a vast majority of the projects are on the deepwater systems of the Gulf of Mexico. Other areas included in the their portfolio are the Far East and West Africa. The Team’s main duty is to ensure a continued improvement of the quality of our understanding of turbiditic systems and our deliverables, by encouraging scientific discussion and collaboration with the other Teams and externally with academia and industry scientists. The Team, which comprises multi-national geologists with wide and varied experience, is based in Houston.
The Paralic/Shallow Marine Team is a multidisciplinary team of reservoir geologists specialising in the description and evaluation of nearshore to shallow marine clastic sediments at the pore, core and reservoir scale. Oil and gas reservoirs in such coastal deposits are frequently characterised by lateral and vertical variations in depositional facies associated with sea level changes. The work of the team focuses on the understanding of paralic reservoirs worldwide, through accurate description of ichnofacies and sedimentary structures, use of present-day and outcrop analogues and integration of core-scale and pore-scale information. Team members have worked upon a diverse range of plays worldwide, with a long-standing special focus on the Middle East, North Africa, Alaska, the Caspian Sea, the North Sea and Australia.
The Fluvial Aeolian Team specialises in the analysis of wind and river-deposited clastic sediments. They work with sediments deposited during a very wide range of time periods, from the Precambrian to the Pliocene. Their particular geographical areas of expertise are Algeria, Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, Namibia, the North Sea, Oman and Siberia. The Team comprises specialist sedimentologists, petrographers and borehole image interpreters, who together endeavour to improve our understanding of the hydrocarbon-bearing fluvial and aeolian systems worldwide and to provide fully integrated analyses to our clients.
The Unconventional Reservoirs Team consists of a team of experienced geologists, with varied expertise and skills. They work together on mainly R&D projects, in order to offer support and advice to exploration teams worldwide on the best ways to exploit their unconventional reservoirs. In this growing sector, to date, the Team's experience extends to onshore USA shale plays, North Sea shale formations and tight and shale reservoirs in the Middle East.