Biographical Sketch

John Dribus is the Global Geosciences Advisor for Schlumberger Oil Field Services. He is a Reservoir Geologist with over 39 years’ experience, and has worked all aspects of petroleum exploration, exploitation, and production geology. He worked for five years as a uranium field geologist, and 20 years for Mobil Oil Corporation as a petroleum geologist, including 14 years working the deep water Gulf of Mexico and subsalt province. He worked the past 14 years for Schlumberger as Northern Gulf of Mexico Operations Manager, and as Global Geologic Advisor working deep water basins in the Gulf of Mexico, Greenland, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, Ghana (Jubilee), Gabon, Angola, and Brazil, with emphasis on sub-salt and pre-salt exploration.

His expertise is in exploration geoscience, petroleum systems analysis, global deep water turbidite analogs and regional geology, exploring in salt basins, and geological risk analysis. He is the former Chairman of the Advisory Board of the American Petroleum Institute (API) Delta Chapter, serves on the Imperial Barrel Award Committee of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). He is a member of the AAPG (30 years), New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS), Houston Geological Society (HGS), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE). In 2013, he was recognized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers with the Eastern North America Region Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award. In 2014, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the American Petroleum Institute (API) Delta Section.