Who We Are
Highly qualified and motivated professionals
Our mission is to support companies to maximise opportunities across North Africa through accessing regional knowledge, data, experience and local collaboration.
Delivering Results...
Experience
Jonathan Redfern
30+ years industry and academic experience: Fina Exploration UK. Fina Minh Hai (Vietnam), Fina Libya BV, Petrofina, Amerada Hess. Professor of Petroleum Geoscience, University of Manchester, Sedimentology, Basin Analysis, Regional Geology. Extensive research and fieldwork experience across North Africa (Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Senegal). 5 field seasons in Libya, in the Murzuk and Gargaf area. Led regional field courses for Woodside, Occidental. Training courses held in Libya with Hot Engineering. Wide experience of North Africa Regional geology, stratigraphy, basin analysis and modelling, clastic sedimentology. Over 60+ publications. Director of NARG Consulting Ltd.
Richard Dixon
30+ years industry experience: Robertson Research (North Wales & Aberdeen),BP Exploration. Sedimentologist / Stratigrapher with extensive experience in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia (including the Pelagian Basin), Libya (Onshore (Ghadames, Sirt & Cyrenaica)) & Offshore (Sirt / Benghazi Basins) & Egypt (Onshore (Western Desert) & Offshore (Nile Delta Deepwater) including field work on the Palaeozoic & Mesozoic sequences in Algeria (Ahnet Basin), Tunisia, Libya (Jebel Akhdar) & Egypt (Cairo / Giza Area & Gulf of Suez). Affiliated with the University of Manchester from 2010 to Present. Visiting Professor status from 2013.
Luc Bulot
30+ years industry experience: Luc G. Bulot is a Senior Research Fellow (CNRS), formerly at Aix-Marseille University, and now at LCO/Ifremer, Brest (France) and a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester since 2017. His publications (over 100) include papers on Jurassic and Cretaceous ammonite taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleoecology, as well as many contributions on high resolution integrated stratigraphy. Since 1995, he acted as chairperson and/or regional coordinator for Lower Cretaceous Working Groups of the International Subcommission of Cretaceous Stratigraphy (IUGS). He also acted as a consultant in South America (Lagoven, PetroEcuador) and the Middle East (MEC Consortium of IFP/NIOC).
His current research interest covers the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous of the Middle East, Northern Africa and South America. He also co-leads with Daniel Aslanian, a LCO/Ifremer project on Ammonite palaeobiogeography vs. plate kinematics. Working with NARG he has been developing type sections for the Central Atlantic based on the superb outcrops of the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Morocco, co supervising 4PhDs, MScs and Postdoctoral research.