Hugh W. Peace
Senior Staff Geologist, Vice President
Hugh W. Peace has more than 35 years of experience in the petroleum industry. He joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 1996 after working at Oryx Energy Company for 7 years.
Peace has presented papers at local and regional society meetings. He was president of the Dallas Geological Society from 2005 to 2006, and is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Dallas and Houston geological societies. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts. Peace received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from the University of Oklahoma, and was the chairman of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Geology and Geophysics Alumni Advisory Council in 2003. He is a licensed geologist in Texas and an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist. He was elected as a Vice President of D&M in 1999.
Geographical Experience
- Algeria
- Angola
- Austria
- Brazil
- China
- Congo
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Gabon
- Ghana
- India
- Iraq
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Geocellular modeling
- Reserves and resources estimation
- Clastic and carbonate reservoir evaluation
- Subsurface data integration
Major Projects
Since joining D&M, Peace has worked on projects worldwide with a focus on Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He worked within an integrated team to estimate reserves and contingent resources for a large, multi-field offshore gas development in east Africa.
He constructed geocellular models for several complex carbonate reservoirs offshore Brazil that were used as the geological basis for a reservoir simulation study.
Peace also worked within an integrated team on a corporate defense project that required the analysis and integration of a large volume of data in a very short time.
