Peter Nederlof
Peter Nederlof (1950) has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the
University of Amsterdam and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in
Stanford University in California. Peter joined Shell's Industrial
Chemicals Research Group in Amsterdam in 1979 and moved 'upstream'
to the Geochemistry Department in E&P in 1982. After 7 years in
Research, Peter worked 16 years as a geochemical advisor in Canada,
Oman and the United States, where he served as geochemical advisor
with Shell Deepwater Development Inc. in New Orleans. In 2005,
Peter returned to Shell International in the Netherlands and worked
as Shell's principal technical expert for geochemistry, providing
leadership and direction to a global skill pool of about 40
geochemists. He was responsible for Geochemistry Technology and
provided technical advice to Shell E&P companies in the Middle
East and North Africa. Peter is a highly motivated lecturer and has
provided training courses for Shell and for the European
Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE). His
EAGE-sponsored Student Lecture Tours have been well received in
over 15 countries.
From 1991 to 1998, Peter served on the Board of the European
Association of Organic Geochemists (EAOG); he was also a member of
the first editorial board of GeoArabia when it was launched in
1995. Peter and co-authors have received best paper awards from
both the AAPG and the SPWLA for their work on the Athel Formation
in Oman.