Tony obtained his PhD from University College London and joined the petroleum industry in 1977. He held senior technical and leadership positions with Equinor (formerly Statoil) for 20 years, including VP Exploration Americas, VP North America, and Senior Advisor to Exploration Management (until 2019).
Having retired from Equinor, he now holds the position of Global Chief Scientist with the Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah.
He has worked petroleum provinces all over the world, with emphasis on NW Europe, the Arctic and the Americas. His achievements include major oil and gas discoveries in Norway, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico and Canada.
Tony has published on stratigraphy, NE Atlantic – Arctic evolution, basement reactivation, basin modeling, passive margin structure, hyperextension, exhumed petroleum systems and exploration risk analysis. He has edited books on basin modeling, resource quantification and passive margins.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Petroleum Geoscience between 2006 and 2009, and chairman of the Geological Society Petroleum Group 2001-2003; chaired the 2003 Petroleum Geology of NW Europe conference and edited the subsequent proceedings (2005).
Tony serves on the advisory boards of several universities and currently holds an Honorary Professorship at Durham University.
Regional & Basin Experience
NW Europe
The Arctic
The Americas
petroleum geology
regional geology particularly of passive margins
hyperextended margins
basement reactivation
cratonic basins
petroleum systems of exhumed basins
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Marine Geology of the N.E. Celtic Sea, 1977 (University College London)
B.Sc. Honours in Geology, 1970 (University College London)
OBE, BSc, PhD, DSc, FGS
Memberships
Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Member of Geological Society Club
Member of the Geologists” Association
Member of the Geological Society of Glasgow
Member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB)
Member of the Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF)
Member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
William Smith Medal, 2015
Best Presentation Proze, Petex, 2014
Special Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), 2011
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2010
Geological Society Petroleum Group medal, 2007
Bristol Channel Approaches. J.Geol.Soc.Lond, v.132, pp 453-459
lithostratigraphic nomenclature for the Norwegian North Sea. Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Bulletin 3. Stavanger, 53 pp.
VOLLSET, J., 1984. Revised Triassic and Jurassic lithostratigraphic nomenclature for the Norwegian North Sea, Northern Area. In: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Bulletin No.3 Stavanger, see above, pp 17-33.
STRASS, I.F., 1984. Revised Triassic and Jurassic lithostratigraphic nomenclature for the Norwegian North Sea,Southern Area. In: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Bulletin No.3 Stavanger, see above pp 33-53.
sequences referred to the Kimmeridge Clay Formation -relevance to the Norwegian Sector. In: Thomas, B.M. et al., (eds). Petroleum Geochemistry in Exploration of the Norwegian Shelf. Graham and Trotman, London pp 27-38.
Bear Island. Geological Curator Vol 4, No.3 pp 169-171.
Norwegian exploration provinces. In Spencer A.M. et al., eds, Habitat of Hydrocarbons on the Norwegian Shelf. Graham and Trotman, London pp 21-38.
domains in the evolution of the North Sea, North East Atlantic Margin and Barents Shelf. In Brooks, J. and Glennie, K. eds. Petroleum Geology of NW Europe. Graham and Trotman, London pp 1131-1148.
between Europe and the Arctic Sea. Abst. 28th Int. Geol. Congress (Washington D.C., 1989) v. 1 p. 408.
Seaways between Europe and the Arctic. In: J.E.T. Channell, E.L.Winterer and L.F.Jansa, eds. Palaeogeography and Palaeoceanography of Tethys. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 87, 441-492.
Review. Basin Modelling: Advances and Applications, Stavanger, Norway, 13-15 March 1991. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 8, 493-494.
Seaway: late Permian to Cretaceous. In: Parnell, J. (Ed.) Basins on the Atlantic Seaboard: Petroleum Geology, Sedimentology and Basin Evolution. Geological Society Special Publication 62, 421-446.
northern North Sea. In: Jensen, L.N. & Riis, F. (Eds.) Post-Cretaceous Uplift and Sedimentation along the Western Fennoscandian Shield. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift Special Issue. 72, 259-265.
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Applications. Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication No.3. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 49 papers, 680 pp.
– fact or fantasy? In: Dore, A.G. et al., (Eds.) Basin Modelling: Advances and Applications. Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication 3. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 85-106.
potential. Arctic, 48, 3, 207-221
HENNINGSEN, T. and JENSEN, L.N. 1995. The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Mid-Norwegian shelf in an Atlantic Margin context, and its implications for prospectivity. Abstract. A.A.P.G. Bulletin 79, 8.
North and West of Britain and Ireland. Abstract. A.A.P.G. Bulletin 79, 8, 1247.
the Norwegian Continental Shelf. In Hanslien, S. (ed.) Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Norway. Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication 4, Elsevier, Amsterdam. 333-368.
erosion on hydrocarbon exploration: offshore Norway and some other uplifted basins. Global and Planetary Change, 12, 415-436.
prediction of hydrocarbon resources. Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) Special Publication 6, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
full-cycle probabilistic modelling of prospects: a prototype system developed for the Norwegian Shelf. In: Dore, A.G. and Sinding Larsen, R. Quantification and prediction of hydrocarbon resources. Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF), Elsevier, Amsterdam. 153-165.
water hydrocarbon exploration from the Vøring Basin, offshore Norway, and West Africa, with focus on Nigeria. Abstr. 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing. 835.
the NE Atlantic Margin: nature, origin and potential significance for hydrocarbon exploration. Petroleum Geoscience, 2, 299-311.
passive margin with implications for the NE Atlantic: Early Cretaceous to break-up. Journal of the Geological Society, 154, 545-550.
basement structure and reactivation along the NE Atlantic margin. Journal of the Geological Society, 154, 85-92.
events for hydrocarbon prospectivity. Petroleum Geoscience, 3, 117-131.
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JENSEN, L.N. 1999. Principal tectonic events in the evolution of the northwest European Atlantic margin. In: Fleet, A.J. and Boldy, S.A.R. (eds.) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 5th Conference. Geological Society, London. 41-61.
LUNDIN, E. and DORÉ, A.G. 1999. Image enhancement and structural discusiion of regional gravity and magnetic data covering the Norwegian Sea and adjacent mainland. Tectonophysics, 306, 183-197.
prediction of the hydrocarbon system on the NW European Atlantic margin. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 69-70, 615-618.
the southern North Atlantic region and its relationship to basin development in the south Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. In: Shannon, P.M., Haughton, P.D.W. & Corcoran, D.V. (Eds.)The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland”s Offshore Basins. Geological Society Special Publication 188, 237-263.
settings – some insights from Atlantic Margin and borderland basins. In: Koestler, A.G. & Hunsdale, R. (Eds.) Hydrocarbon Seal Quantification. NPF (Norwegian Petroleum Society) Special Publication 11, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 89-107.
the “passive” margins bordering the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 19, 79-93.
tectonics of two passive margins: the Northeast Atlantic Margin and the Australian North West Shelf. In: Keep, M. and Moss, S.J. (Eds.) The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA), 89-117.
and basement: crossing the onshore-offshore divide. In Hurst, A. (Ed.) Onshore-offshore relationships on the Nordic Atlantic margin. Abstracts and Proceedings of the Norwegian Geological Society, 2, 47-50.
(Eds.) 2002. Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Geological Society Special Publication 196. Geological Society, London, 494 pp.
In: Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Turner, J.P. & White, N.J. (Eds.) Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Geological Society Special Publication 196, 1-12.
hydrocarbon system in exhumed basins, and application to the NW European margin. In: Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Turner, J.P. & White, N.J. (Eds.) 2002. Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Geological Society Special Publication 196, 401-429.
hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs in exhumed basin settings: evidence from Atlantic margin and borderland basins. In: Doré, A.G., Cartwright, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Turner, J.P. & White, N.J. (Eds.) 2002. Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Geological Society Special Publication 196, 457-483.
Europe and Global Perspectives – Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference. Geological Society, London. 2 vols, 1660 pp.
of the Iceland mantle plume model and the Atlantic-Arctic linkage. In: Doré, A.G. & Vining, B.A. (Eds.) Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives – Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference. Geological Society, London. 739-754.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge: observational evidence, mechanisms and implications for Atlantic volcanic margins. In: Foulger, G.R., Natland, J.H., Presnall, D.C. & Anderson, D.L. (Eds.) Plates, plumes and paradigms. Geological Society of America Special Paper 388, 627-652.
estimation of magnitude and timing of exhumation in offshore basins. Earth Science Reviews, 72, 129-168
exploration of the northeast Atlantic margin. In Post, P. et al, (Eds) GCSSEPM conference volume, extended abstract.
RITCHIE, J.D. (Eds.) 2008. The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 306.
mechanisms for the genesis of Cenozoic domal structures on the NE Atlantic margin: pros, cons and some new ideas. In: Johnson, H., Doré, A.G., Gatliff, R.W., Holdsworth, R., Lundin, E.R. & Ritchie, J.D. (Eds.) 2008. The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 306, 1-26.
STOKER, M.S., THOMSON, K., TURNER, J.P., UNDERHILL, J.R. & WILLIAMS, G.A. 2008. Cenozoic exhumation of the southern British Isles. Geology, v. 36, no. 5, 371-374.
the geological storage of carbon dioxide: overview. In: VINING, B.A. & PICKERING, S. C. (eds) Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers – Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference, 1061-1063. Geological Society, London.
passive margin exploration – a global perspective. In: VINING, B.A. & PICKERING, S. C. (eds) Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers- Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference. 823-830. Geological Society, London.
weakening: a new paradigm for rifted margin compressional deformation. Geology v.39, no. 4, 347-350.
inversion and collapse in the Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic northern Vøring Basin, offshore Norway. Petroleum Geoscience, November 2013, v. 19, p. 329-341,*
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exploration results on the Atlantic margins of U.K, Faroes & Ireland: what have we learnt? In: Bowman, M. & Levell, B. (eds) Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference. Geological Society, London.
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