Mark Bouman
Mark Bouman studied Geology at Utrecht University (stratigraphy
as major, with sedimentology and geochemistry as minors) and
graduated in 1981. Directly thereafter he joined Shell where he was
subsequently shipped to exotic places like Lima (Peru), London (UK)
and Cairo (Egypt).
He started off in Peru, in exploration, where he worked as
stratigrapher and wellsite geologist during the Camisea drilling
campaign. After London (working on mostly Southern North Sea
fields) and Egypt (Head of Lab and involved in e.g. the Obaiyed
discovery), he returned to Holland where he had the pleasure of
teaching Exploration Geology in Shells Training Centre in
Noordwijkerhout. He then moved to Production Geology and worked as
Team Leader for a number of mainly African fields (Egypt, Algeria,
Cameroon, Nigeria). In this capacity he led a team of PG's, SI's,
RE's, PT's and WE's with the main task of producing FDP's. After
that he moved back to 'Training', where he, with appropriate
passion, taught the secrets of Production Geology to Shell's new
recruits.
After his retirement in February 2013 he started his own
consultancy (Halimeda) and is, as such still involved in geological
consulting and training for several oil and service companies.