Hugh W. Peace
Senior Staff Geologist, Vice President
Hugh W. Peace 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 Evaluation Engineers. 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 was elected a Vice President at D&M in 1999.
Geographical Experience
- Algeria
- Angola
- Brazil
- Congo
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Tanzania
- Tunisia
- United Kingdom
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Geocellular modeling
- Reserves estimation
- Clastic and carbonate reservoir evaluation
Major Projects
- Estimated original hydrocarbon in-place quantities for several fields offshore and onshore Romania.
- Worked within an integrated team to estimate the reserves and contingent resources for a large gas development in east Africa.
- Constructed a geocellular model for several complex carbonate reservoirs offshore Brazil that were used as the geological basis for a reservoir simulation study.
- 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 period.
- Prepared an independent OOIP estimate of a multi-field development project in Ghana that was used by a non-operating partner as additional support for their decision to approve field sanction.
- Estimated the potential OOIP and OGIP additions that would be attributable to a forward development drilling program for several fields offshore Mozambique and Nigeria.
