Philip Farfan, Msc, DIC, FGS,
He graduated with a degree in Geology (BSc) from Edinburgh
University and completed a postgraduate degree in Petroleum
Geology (MSc.) at Imperial College London. He began his career in
Trinidad with AMOCO as an operations and development Geologist but
also worked with the exploration group in Houston where he
generated prospects and evaluated the exploration potential of the
Tertiary Limestones of the Central Range with the objective of resolving their stratigraphic relationships
and evaluating their reservoir potential in onshore and offshore Trinidad as part of a licencing round
evaluation of northeast offshore Trinidad and later was assigned to a team to access the potential of
deep onshore south Trindad. After about nine years in Trinidad he was relocated to Houston and then
London with the same Company where he became a full-time exploration geologist. In 1998, just before
the merger with BP, he began a new career with Anadarko who posted him between the UK, Algeria and
the USA where he was exposed to New Business Development, Exploration and a 1.5 billion dollar
billion barrel onshore delineation and development project in the middle of the Sahara Desert. He
worked on exploration and development opportunities in a variety of petroleum systems, including the
North, West and East African Basins, Iraq and Qatar in the Middle east, the Siberian Basins of Russia,
the Caspian Basin in Kazakhsan, the eastern Venezuelan Basin, the Black Sea and many other European
Basins. He retired in 2010 and returned to Trinidad where he recently formed AGES (Applied Geological
and Engineering Services), to provide Geological support services that may include Studies in petroleum
and ground water exploration, outcrop mapping and field trips (locally and internationally).
Co-Author of the following: 1) Geology of the Cassia Field, Trinidad, WI; OTC Houston 1990. 2) An outline
of the Geology of the Samaan Field, Trinidad WI; proceedings of the 1st GSTT Conference, Trinidad. 3)
Biostratigraphy, deposition environments and diagenesis of the Tamana Formation Trinidad: a tectonic
marker; Sedimentology,
4) The environments of deposition of the Main Buntsandstein Formation;
presented at the AAPG, the Hague 1993; 5) The environments of deposition of the Main Buntsandstein
Formation, P & Q Blocks, Offshore, the Netherlands; Geology of Oil and Gas under the Netherlands, 1996
Kluwer Academic Publishers. 6) Oil and Gas Resources of the North African Triassic/Ghadames Petroleum
Province HGS, Jan. 2008 7) Workshop on Understanding Reserves, Energy Conference of T&T2012.