Robert E. Johnston
Assistant Division Manager, Vice President
Robert E. Johnston joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2010 as a wellbore- to regional-scale integration specialist. Prior to joining D&M, Johnston held roles at ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton and worked for an industry-recognized consulting firm. He has over 25 years of experience in the industry.
Johnston graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology from California State University in Chico, California in 1995. He completed a master’s degree in geology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1997. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and a registered Certified Petroleum Geologist.
Geographical Experience
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kurdistan
- Kuwait
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Republic of Georgia
- Romania
- Russia
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Basin YTF and prospective resources estimation and risk analysis
- Regional- to wellbore-scale data integration
- Basin-scale play-based exploration analysis and prospect generation
- Unconventional hydrocarbon play analysis and resources estimation
- Structural analysis
- 2–D and 3–D seismic interpretation
- Well to seismic ties
- Seismic attribute generation and analysis
- Subsurface mapping and reservoir characterization
- Hydrocarbon system basin modeling
Major Projects
Johnston’s background includes experience recommending workovers and near-field wildcats to frontier basin new ventures exploration projects, generating complete hydrocarbon system models that incorporate all elements from plate tectonic paleogeography, potential source and reservoir deposition, trap, source maturity, migration timing, and trap preservation. Given the increasing importance of unconventional reservoirs, Johnston has incorporated unconventional play analysis, geochemistry, and basin modeling analysis into his work. His graduate work emphasized structural geology, and he was recognized as a subject matter expert in the fields of structural analysis and seismic interpretation at ExxonMobil.
