PHILIPSBURG--University of St. Martin (USM) will host Georgia Huggins, a geoscientist with more than fourteen years’ experience in the petroleum and hydrocarbon industry, on April 6. Her career has been a success on many levels and allows her to explain this lucrative industry to those who may wish to follow in her wake.
The lecture, entitled “Careers in the Geosciences,” is sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The presentation will be held in Room 208 on campus from 5:00 to 8:00pm. The lecture will provide basic information on the hydrocarbon industry and how geology and geophysics are used to solve problems in finding and extracting hydrocarbons.
Huggins said, “We will look at the operations of a typical (fictional) oil company and move a hydrocarbon accumulation from basin access and exploration to production while examining the role of geoscientists in each part of the oil and gas business. This talk will de-mystify the industry and may cause one to consider a career in oil and gas.”
Huggins holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and a Master’s degree in Petroleum Geosciences from University of Texas at Austin.
Her career began as a mudlogger in the Guapo and Cat’s Hill Fields in Southern Trinidad. She then worked at British Petroleum Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) as an Operations Geologist for the Mahogany Field and as an Exploration Geologist working within the Columbus Basin and other basins around the Trinidad area.
Her most recent assignment was Development Geologist in charge of the Mango, Amherstia and Parang fields where she successfully led a multidisciplinary team to success in the latest infield drilling programme which contributed 446 million standard cubic feet per day reserve adds. She is an avid field geologist, gardener and traveller.
