Mr. Jerry Gilbert
Associate

• Experience Summary

Jerry graduated from the University of Dublin with a first class honors Moderatorship in Mathematics in 1964 and joined the British Petroleum Co.'s Research Center as a reservoir engineer. After experience as a petroleum engineer in Libya, the US, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi he spent most of the 1970s in Khuzestan, Iran seconded to 'Oil Service Company of Iran', a consortium of international oil companies, initially as a lead reservoir engineer and later as Planning Manager. Subsequently, based in Aberdeen, Jerry was appointed Manager Petroleum Engineering - NW Europe and was responsible for all of BP Exploration's petroleum and reservoir engineering activities in the UK (North Sea and onshore) before transferring in 1986 to BP Alaska Exploration in San Francisco as Vice President (Production). In this post he was responsible for BP's interests in the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk fields and for providing engineering input to a major investment study of the US oil industry. After a period in Dorset, England as Deputy Director for the development of Europe's largest onshore field, at Wytch Farm in southern England, he became BP's Chief Petroleum Engineer in 1989. London-based, he had responsibility for the petroleum engineering function in BP's operations worldwide, consisting of over 700 professional engineers, and for managing an R. and D. operation with a $40 million annual spend. Jerry moved to the US in 1995 and was based in Anchorage and Houston with BP (Alaska) Exploration Inc. and worked for the President on special projects as a Senior Advisor and as Waste Investigation Manager. These projects included equity renegotiations for the huge Prudhoe Bay field and managing the company's response to a major criminal environmental investigation, a $60 million project that culminated in a precedent setting settlement with the US government. He retired from BP at the end of 2000. He was actively involved throughout his career with industry groups such as SPE (in which, among other posts, he was Chairman of the London Section and for six years a member of the Reservoir Engineering Committee), Institute of Petroleum and Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Chairman of the Petroleum Section). He served on Industry Advisory Boards at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Imperial College London and Heriot-Watt University and as an external examiner for M.Eng. candidates at Heriot Watt University and at Robert Gordons University, Aberdeen.