MERLIN ENERGY RESOURCES - Key Persons

Benjamin Adillah

Job Titles:
  • Senior Reservoir Engineer
A Reservoir Engineer with over 10 years of experience of offshore and onshore fields, covering exploration, prospect maturation, development and brown fields' operations.

Bill Wilks

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director / Principal Geophysicist
Bill has over 33 years of broad global experience in exploration and appraisal, with the majority spent with operating oil companies.

Eleanor Oldham

Job Titles:
  • Senior Geophysicist / Rock Physicist / New Ventures Manager
A Geophysicist with over 10 years of experience, having a thorough background in a range of geophysical techniques and a specialism in rock physics.

Fiona Lawrance

Job Titles:
  • Business Administration Manager
Fiona has worked in the oil industry for over 30 years and has a BSc in Geology. One of the founders of Merlin, Fiona carries out the key roles of Company Secretary, Bookkeeper, Office Administration and HR. Fiona advises on data loading issues, drawing on her many years of experience as a technical assistant. Fiona also ensures we operate best practice HSE procedures. Previous Employment: Clyde Petroleum | Hunt United Corp. | Neste Exploration Ltd.

Helen Bone

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Geologist / Director / Geoscience Division Manager

Jay Lydon-Johnston

Job Titles:
  • Data Assistant
A grounding in technical roles ranging from training individuals in the charitable sector in the use of databases, to general computer advice for home clients. An avid fan of the sciences, holding a BSc in Environmental Resource Management.

Louisa Jones

Job Titles:
  • Data Assistant
A Marketing graduate with over 25 years' experience of data management and database marketing. Database administration - Creation and manipulation of large data files - Data quality assessment and enhancement - Process creation, documentation, and improvement - GIS.

Philip Copestake

Job Titles:
  • Principal Geologist / Stratigrapher
A petroleum geoscientist / stratigrapher with over 40 years of global oil and gas industry experience, with operating companies and in the service sector, in both technical and management capacities. Petroleum geoscience - Applied sequence stratigraphy -Biostratigraphy - Active researcher with significant publication record.

Sandy Smith

Job Titles:
  • Datawise Division Manager