Our Team

  • Dr. Olaf Schönicke – Geoscience Expert

    Olaf is the founder of BlackRock Resources Ltd. and has 28 years of hands-on oil and gas industry experience obtained in E&P and Oilfield Services Companies world-wide, mostly in Asia and the Middle East. Due to his wide-ranging work experience, Olaf has a unique understanding of the various types and scales of static and dynamic subsurface data and the ability to integrate these into full-field models both for exploration and production purposes.

  • Dr. Jörg Mattner – Petroleum Geoscience Expert

    Jörg is an internationally acknowledged expert on the geology of the Arabian Plate with 30 years of petroleum geoscience experience completing 200+ exploration and reservoir projects in some 30 countries. Besides teaching classroom and field courses on reservoir flow heterogeneities, Jörg consults to exploration and production ventures of international and national oil and gas companies world-wide.

  • Graham Baker – Geophysicist

    Graham is a Geophysicist with 38 years’ experience of oil and gas exploration and development projects. He is a specialist in 3D seismic interpretation techniques having completed multiple projects in the UK, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Graham is also experienced in mentoring and supervisory roles working with nationals and expatriate geoscientists to develop optimum technical workflows.

  • Nick Last – Well Testing / Reservoir Engineer

    Nick is an expert in the analysis of dynamic well and reservoir data with over 30 years of industry experience. He has delivered significant consulting projects for numerous operators with most of these projects involving the integration of well test and/ or production log data into the full-field model. Nick has taught many classes on Well Test and Production Log Interpretation.

  • Peter Barrett – Image Log Technical Specialist

    Peter has over 25 years’ experience of processing image logs. He has been involved in developing software and has written papers on image log quality control. He has repaired image logs which have been written off as useless and firmly believes you have never seen it all. He is a nerd with most flavors of windows, which he claims he needs for legacy data recovery but that is probably just an excuse.