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  Technical Lunch Febuary 2010
Robert Hunsdale
StatoilHydro GET GME TSG,
Controls on Salt movement in the South-Central Walker Ridge area, Gulf of Mexico
Feb 16th at Pellazzio
Feb 17th at Petroleum Club of Houston
 
Over the past 15 years a number of models for the thin skinned evolution of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) have been put forward describing the relationship of the present day Sigsbee Allochthon to the precursor Louann autochthonous salt basins. These models involve a number of intermediate stage allochthonous sheets that developed from the late Mesozoic through the Palaeogene and Neogene.
  
 
Born in Northern Ireland Rob was educated at Regent House Grammar School before studying geology at Queens University Belfast 1982-86 where he received a B.Sc. Hons degree. In 1986 he moved to the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa where he studied for a M.Sc before joining Consolidated Goldfields and working in minerals exploration for the next 6 years. In 1993 he returned to academia and in 1996 graduated from Southampton Oceanography Centre with a Ph.D in Structural Geology. In 1996 he joined Alastair Beach Associates in Glasgow and worked as a structural geologist before joining Phillips Petroleum Company Norway in 1998 where he worked as both an explorationist and structural geologists serving the Norwegian and UK offices. In 2002 Rob joined Statoil AS in Stavanger as a structural specialist in their Technology division. He joined their Global Exploration group in 2005 and moved to Houston where he worked as part of a Joint Venture team at ExxonMobil. Earlier this year Rob moved back to the Global Exploration Technology division where he has take up the position as Lead Advisor Salt Tectonics. He is currently based in Houston.
 

 

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