Summary
I am the Shell Professor of Petroleum Geology, a position that I have held since 1993 (from 1993-2002 this was the Enterprise Oil Chair). I am also Head of the Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering Section and Director of the M.Sc. Petroleum Geoscience course. My current research interests are in clastic depositional systems and their application to the description and modelling of hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs. I have been involved in various aspects of petroleum industry, initially during 15 years with Shell, including research, exploration and production geology and petroleum engineering. I deliver a range of geoscience courses, including Development Geology, Applied Sedimentology and Reservoir Characterisation and Modelling. I am a co-author of the textbooks Sedimentary Environments and Facies (Ed. by H.G. Reading) and Petroleum Geology of the North Sea: Basic Concepts and Recent Advances (Ed. by K.W. Glennie). I received a BSc in Geology from the University of Liverpool and went on to receive a DPhil in Sedimentology from the University of Oxford.
Recent Measures of Esteem
- 1993-2011 Chair of Petroleum Geology (Enterprise 1993-2002; Shell 2002-2011)
- 2007 Organising committee SPE Europec
- 2002-4 Geology Custodian (Chief Geologist) for PETRONAS, Malaysia
- 2001-3 PI on industrially-funded FORCE consortium with over £1 million funding
Publications
Journals
Yusoff HHM, Johnson HD, Lonergan L, et al., 2024, Seismic stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene incised valleys and adjacent environments, eastern Central Luconia Province, offshore north-west Borneo, Sedimentology, Vol:71, ISSN:0037-0746, Pages:319-354
Ali MY, John CM, Johnson HD, 2023, DIAGENESIS OF THE CENTRAL LUCONIA CARBONATE PLATFORMS: THE ROLES OF EARLY DOLOMITIZATION AND LATE HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS IN ENHANCING DEEP RESERVOIR PROPERTIES, Sepm Special Publications, Vol:114, ISSN:1060-071X, Pages:268-296
Nugraha HD, Jackson CA-L, Johnson HD, et al., 2022, Extreme erosion by submarine slides, Geology, Vol:50, ISSN:0091-7613, Pages:1130-1134
Collins DS, Avdis A, Wells MR, et al., 2021, Prediction of shoreline–shelf depositional process regime guided by palaeotidal modelling, Earth-science Reviews, Vol:223, ISSN:0012-8252
Steventon MJ, Jackson CA-L, Johnson HD, et al., 2021, Evolution of a sand-rich submarine channel-lobe system, and the impact of mass-transport and transitional-flow deposits on reservoir heterogeneity: Magnus Field, Northern North Sea, Petroleum Geoscience, Vol:27, ISSN:1354-0793