Tony Doré - Petroleum Geologist and Exploration Project Manager

Tony was born in Derby, England.

He obtained his PhD from University College London and joined the petroleum industry in 1977. He held senior technical and leadership positions with Equinor (formerly Statoil) for 20 years, including VP Exploration Americas (2002-2008), VP North America (2008-2011) and Senior Advisor to Exploration Management (2012-2019). Retired from Equinor, he now holds the position of Global Chief Scientist with the Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah.

He has worked petroleum provinces all over the world, with emphasis on NW Europe, the Arctic and the Americas. His achievements include major oil and gas discoveries in Norway, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico and Canada.

Tony has published on stratigraphy, NE Atlantic-Arctic evolution, basement reactivation, basin modelling, passive margins, hyperextension, exhumed petroleum systems and exploration risk analysis. He has edited books on basin modelling, resource quantification and passive margins. Current interests include tectonic evolution of the Arctic and Gulf of Mexico, transform margins, cratonic basins, and the role of geoscience in the Energy Transition.

He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Petroleum Geoscience between 2006 and 2009, and chairman of the Geological Society Petroleum Group 2001-2003; chaired the 2003 Petroleum Geology of NW Europe conference and edited the subsequent proceedings (2005). He is an Executive Editor of the “diamond open access” structural geology journal Tektonika, launched in 2022.

Tony currently holds an Honorary Professorship at Durham University and is chair of the Durham Earth Sciences Department Advisory Board.

His awards include the Petroleum Group Medal (2006), Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 for services to geology, the AAPG Special Award, (2011), the William Smith Medal of the Geological Society (2015), Doctor of Science honoris causa Durham University (2016) and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Petroleum Group of the Geological Society, 2017

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