Henry S. Pettingill is a Petroleum Geologist and Exploration Manager with 39 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He is currently an industry consultant and Chairman of the Rose and Associates DHI Interpretation and Risking Consortium, which has 37 member companies in North America, Europe and Asia. He held various positions with Noble Energy Inc. where he finished his career as Chief Geoscientist. Prior to that, he served as Director of Exploration Technology and as Director of Business Innovation. His responsibilities included overseeing the Global Exploration Portfolio, Risk Analysis, Portfolio Management and Geoscience Technology and recruiting. Prior to joining Noble, he held various technical and managerial positions within Repsol and Shell. His assignments have focused on Deepwater Exploration and Appraisal, International Exploration/New Ventures, Exploration Risk Analysis, and Portfolio Management. He has authored over 100 technical papers and conference presentations on those topics, and taught classroom and field courses in Deep Water Clastics, Exploration Risk Analysis, and Creativity and Innovation for E&P Organizations. Henry had key roles in early Shell deepwater discoveries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Northwest Borneo, as well as major Noble discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, Israel/Cyprus, and West Africa. In 2017, he was recognized by AAPG as one of the industry’s “100 Explorationists Who Made a Difference”.

Mr. Pettingill holds a BA degree from the University of Rochester and an MSc degree from Virginia Tech (USA), and completed the Executive Management Program at INSEAD Euroforum (Spain). He is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist, Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists Licensed Geologist, and an active member of AAPG, SEG, and SPE. He is a Trustee Associate of the SEG and AAPG Foundations