Short Presentation

 

Dr Fivos Spathopoulos worked as an Exploration Geologist for 13 years in Hess Ltd in London, as well as for three more years in Aceca Ltd and Newfield Petroleum. He has worked in North Sea exploration and in International ventures. He is an expert on West Africa, South Atlantic basins, NW African continental margin, Caspian Sea and Eastern Mediterranean. He worked for 4 years on exploration in the South and Middle Caspian Sea, studying in particular the reservoir distribution of the Pliocene sands. In his last 3 years at Hess Ltd, he worked as a Basin Analyst in the Global New Ventures Team, where his responsibility was to determine the petroleum systems of all the basins in the world and look for new petroleum plays. As part of this work, he carried out analysis of almost all petroleum source rocks in the world. He compiled a large study of the source rocks of the world, including a method to predict source rock deposition and quality in every basin and at every geological interval. He is also an expert in maturity modelling, using the PetroMod software, as well as in organic geochemistry, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology and formation pressure analysis.

Fivos is very experienced in regional studies, analysing all the elements of the petroleum system and the sedimentology of the basins. A large part of his Global New Ventures responsibilities was to attend farm out presentations and datarooms, as well as dealing with government bodies on petroleum issues. Since December 2007, Fivos is involved in (a) shale-gas/shale-oil exploration in European countries and, (b) in teaching petroleum systems analysis at Imperial College London, as a Visiting Lecturer in Petroleum Geology. Since May 2010, Fivos is a member of the United Nations committee for the Classification of mineral and fossil fuel resources in Geneva.

 

 

 

Publications & Conference Presentations

 

Spathopoulos F. & Jones E.J.W. (1993).  Seismic evidence for anomalous crustal structure beneath Mesozoic fracture zones in the Gambia Basin, eastern equatorial Atlantic. Tectonophysics, Vol. 225, p. 205-217.

Jones E.J.W., Cande S.C., Spathopoulos F. (1995).  Evolution of a major oceanographic pathway: the equatorial Atlantic. In: Scrutton R.A., Stoker M.S., Shimmield G.B. & Tudhope A.W. (eds): The tectonics, sedimentation and palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic region. Geological Society Special Publication no 90, p. 199-213.

Spathopoulos F. (1996).  An insight on salt tectonics in the Angola Basin, South Atlantic. In: Alsop G.I., Blundell D.J., Davison I. (eds): Salt Tectonics. Geological Society Special Publication no 100, p. 153-174.

Spathopoulos F., Jones E.J.W., Bigg G.R., Inoue M., & Handoh I. (1998). Seismic investigations of petroleum source rocks in the eastern equatorial Atlantic. In: “The Global Ocean”, Proceedings of Oceanology International ‘98, Volume 2, Spearhead Publications Ltd, p. 367-382.

Spathopoulos F., Doubleday P.A. & Hallsworth C. (2000). Structural and depositional controls on the distribution of the Upper Jurassic shallow marine sandstones in the Fife and Angus fields area, Quadrants 31 & 39, UK Central North Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 17, p. 1053-1082.

Spathopoulos F., Morton A.C., Allen M.B. (2002). Provenance and distribution of Productive Series sandstones in the Lower Kura Basin and the Baku Archipelago, Azerbaijan. "Petroleum Geology of the Caspian Basins" conference, Geological Society, London, April 10-11 2002.

Morton A., Allen M., Simmons M., Spathopoulos F., Still J., Hinds D.,  Ismail-Zadeh A., Kroonenberg S. (2003).Provenance patterns in a neotectonic basin: Pliocene and Quaternary sediment supply to the South Caspian. Basin Research, vol. 15, p. 321-337.

Jones, E.J.W., Bigg, G.R., Handoh, I.C., and Spathopoulos, F. (2007). Distribution of deep-sea black shales of Cretaceous age in the eastern Equatorial Atlantic from seismic profiling. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 248, p. 233-246.

Spathopoulos F. (2004). Improved Formation Pressure Prediction to Aid Well Engineering and Exploration Seal Failure Risk. London Petrophysical Society monthly meeting, 19/7/2004.

Spathopoulos F. (2012). Examining How Reserve Estimations Are Calculated - Evaluation using the SPE/PRMS & UNFC Classification Systems. UK Shale Gas Conference, London, Sept 2012.

Court R., Sephton M.A., Baki A.O. & Spathopoulos F. (2011). New (surfactant) solutions for old problems – “green” solvents for production waters. “The Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays”, Geological Society of London, London, Oct 2011.

Spathopoulos F. (2012). Estimating and classifying unconventional shale-extracted petroleum volumes in new basins. Reserves Summit, London, Oct 2012.

Spathopoulos F. & Gallagher K. (2012). Proposed revision of the Petroleum System concepts and the Petroleum System Events Chart. AAPG Hedberg Conference on “Petroleum Systems: Modelling the Past, Planning the Future”, October 1-5, 2012, Nice, France.

Spathopoulos F. (2011). Evaluation of shale-extracted unconventional oil & gas quantities and their place in the SPE/PRMS and UNFC classification schemes. Unconventional Gas conference, Warsaw, March 2012.

Spathopoulos F. & Sephton M.A.  (2011). Geological and geochemical techniques to define the best rocks for unconventional gas exploration in Europe. “The Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays”, Geological Society of London, London, Oct 2011.