Robert E. Johnston
Staff Geologist, 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 production, exploration, and new ventures roles at ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton and worked for an industry-recognized consulting firm.
Johnston graduated with a bachelors’ 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 the Geological Society of America.
Geographical Experience
- Algeria
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Brazil
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Ethiopia
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kurdistan
- Kuwait
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Structural and seismic interpretation
- 2–D and 3–D seismic survey interpretation
- Regional and prospect specific resources assessment
- Data integration from regional scale to wellbore scale
Major Projects
Johnston has completed hundreds of evaluations, including reserves certifications, resources determinations, asset acquisitions and divestitures, farm-in opportunities, and economic appraisals. The various domestic and international evaluations have been in virtually every type of stratigraphic and structural setting covering conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon systems, including shale gas and shale oil, coal seam gas, “basin centered” tight gas, heavy oil, HPHT environments, and fracture-dominated reservoirs.
