James T. Davis
Staff Engineer, Vice President
James T. Davis is a petroleum engineer who joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2006. He has over 25 years of experience in the industry.
Davis received a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in 1999. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. He was elected a Vice President at D&M in 2009 and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.
Geographical Experience
- Angola (offshore)
- Germany
- Egypt
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Libya
- Mauritania (offshore)
- Mozambique (offshore)
- Nigeria
- Norway (offshore)
- Oman
- Republic of the Congo
- Romania
- Russia (onshore and offshore)
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal (offshore)
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Reserves evaluation
- Competent Person’s Reports
- Oil and gas property evaluations
- Gas deliverability modeling
- Waterflood projects
- LNG projects
Major Projects
Davis has carried out reserves estimation and economic evaluations for oil and gas fields in offshore Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, including Germany, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Davis has experience in gas deliverability modeling used in the evaluation of producing gas fields in Western Siberia. He also performs production and economic analyses using PHDWin performance software and D&M’s proprietary SYPHER software.
He has produced Competent Person’s Reports for assets located in various regions of Europe, Africa, and Russia and has performed numerous reserves estimations for SEC and PRMS reporting requirements for private, public, and state-owned companies.
His reservoir engineering experience includes conducting reserves estimations, analyzing historical production performance trends, production forecasting, material-balance estimates, gas deliverability studies, and waterflood studies. Davis has gained expertise in estimating reserves in over 20 countries spanning 3 continents, including analyzing waterflood performance, black oil reservoir modeling, and the estimation of liquefied natural gas.
