Glen Penfield

Glen Penfield

GM Exploration

Glen Penfield has spent 45 years in hydrocarbon and mineral exploration and discovery, with commercial successes on four continents. About a third of his career was with E&P companies such as PEMEX, Conoco Phillips, and South Atlantic Petroleum, where he served as General Manager of exploration. Two-thirds of his career has been with service companies: Western Atlas International, Carson Aerogravity, Fusion Petroleum Technologies, and his own consultancy, Chicxulub Geosciences.

During previous oil industry downturns, he performed ground truthing for the first Japanese JERS-1 radar satellite, was a French Spot-1 satellite co-investigator, published with Alcoa on satellite bauxite exploration, and located gold placers in Mexico. He traveled to China in 1985 to help set up the Chinese geophysical company BGP with an acquisition system purchased from WAI.

For the World Bank-funded National Petroleum Assessment in Kenya, he identified the South Lokichar Basin, 20 years prior to Tullow’s exploration success there, as the most likely basin to have quality reservoir rocks. He is a ‘High Honors’ Graduate of Oberlin College in Geology.

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