Monthly Luncheon
11:00am - Doors Open for Networking
12:00 - 1:00pm - Luncheon
We look forward to seeing you!
Lunch Sponsorships available, please call the club office at
(281) 435-9647 for information.
GARY H. ISAKSEN
ExxonMobil
Gary is the External Science and Technology Manager for Upstream Geoscience and the Sound and Marine Life Manager at ExxonMobil Exploration Company.
Isaksen holds a master’s in petroleum geochemistry and a doctorate in petroleum geology from the University of Bergen, Norway. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Duke University’s Nicholas School of Geology and the Environment.
Since joining Exxon in 1985, the major themes of his technical work have been integration of petroleum geology and geochemistry, play-element risking and applications of geochemistry to oil field development and production worldwide.
From 1993 to 1995, he worked frontier and established plays within United Kingdom and Norwegian offshore acreage, and subsequently worked regionaland prospect-scale assessments within Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
Following the merger of Exxon and Mobil in late 1999, he served as Research Supervisor for Petroleum Geochemistry, and thereafter as Manager for the Source, Maturation and Migration Technical Skill Area. As Knowledge Capitalization Manager, he established new ways to rapidly convert Corporate and external knowledge to value-added action and implemented improvements to organizational processes. In his current role he manages ExxonMobil’s program to mitigate the impact of exploration and production operations sound on marine life. He also coordinates numerous research programs with academic institutions worldwide.
Isaksen is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society for Exploration Geophysicists, the Geological Society of America, the Project Management Institute, The European Association of Aquatic Mammals, The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and a scientific committee member of the European Association of Petroleum Geochemists. He has published over 35 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals and was editor of the AAPG book on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Region.
