About Petrologica

People

Our team of skilled professionals come from a range of backgrounds. Our industry experts provide vast combined knowledge of the energy market and associated industries in a variety of related sectors.  In addition, we also have a team of academic professionals whose expertise in mathematics, software systems and economics provide in-depth analysis, scenarios and market simulation tools.  We benefit from a multi-cultural team which provides us with language skills including Mandarin, Arabic, French and German amongst others.


Fay Chen

Fay Chen (Director)

Fay pioneered forecasting and oilfield online trading systems in the 1990s. She joined the oil and gas industry in 1994 with Petrodata, heading Petrodata research and IT groups. She developed multi-clients offshore drilling rig and deep-water rig market analysis and forecast models, North Sea supply vessels and support vessels forecast models. She was responsible for the development of Petrodata’s online information service and oilfield and rig time trading systems. She was also involved in due diligence work for merger and acquisitions and involved in the negotiation of the alliance between Petrodata and Schlumberger’s digital IndigoPool for information sharing in the later 1990s. Fay now manages forecasting, market and price simulations tool development, oilfield database and oil supply modelling, and the production of market analysis, reports and bespoke studies for clients.

 

Advisory panel

We have a panel of experts who we are able to call upon on an advisory basis when the occasion arises.  Each member of the advisory panel has over 40 years experience of working in the oil and gas industry, financial sectors and alongside government agencies.

Chris Skrebowski

Chris is a well-known commentator on the oil industry and an expert on global oil supply. He is the founding Director of Peak Oil Consulting and consulting editor for Petroleum Review, the magazine of the UK Energy Institute.
 

Dick Winchester

Dick has over 20 years of energy related technology start-ups, business strategy, market studies and is a member of various committees including  the Scottish Government's Energy Advisory Board.
 

Nigel Towler, Chartered FCSI, FloD FCMI FRSA

Nigel has maintained his links with the City of London with a career that began in 1974 on the dealing floor of the London Stock Exchange, of which he went on to become an individual member.  He later became a Director of Barclays de Zoete Wedd, going on to work as a consultant for the U.S. Department of State and various international governments and organisations including the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 

 

Our People

 

Larissa Kersten

Larissa majored consecutively in Economics and Law. She has been working on our demand model, offshore drilling rig model, short and long-term price models since 2009.

Helen Pan

Helen is our System Developer, responsible for online database systems, simulators and the iPad application development. 

Alexander Wilk

Alexander is responsible for refineries, LNG market analysis and research.

Karina Reigstad

Oil and gas field project updates and oil supply analysis.

Fawaz Martini

Fawaz is responsible for OPEC gulf countries oil market analysis.

Bassam Kazmouz

Bassam is responsible for companies’ financial and competitive analysis.