Jan de Jager
Jan de Jager has a PhD in Geology from the University of
Utrecht. He joined Shell in 1979 as exploration geologist, and
worked in several locations around the world (Netherlands, Gabon,
USA, Australia, Argentina, Malaysia) in technical and management
positions. During the last ten years of his career he was
responsible for the quality assurance of Shell's exploration
prospects in many parts of the world and for upograding and
replenishing Shell's global exploration portfolio. During this
period has also developed extensive expertise in prospect Risk and
Volume assessments, for which he developed and ran a succesful
internal training programmes.
Following his retirement from Shell in 2010, Jan de Jager took
on a position as part time professor at the University of Amsterdam
and he is also working as consultant exploration advisor for
various E&P companies.