About us

David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham. From 2004 to 2014, he has served as a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc. He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999) and finally Head of Exploration until 2003. He has also been on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director. Over the last several years he has written extensively on the oil & gas sector and founded/taken equity interest in several media companies (Finding Petroleum, Digital Energy Journal, Carbon Capture Journal, Tanker Operator Magazine – all now owned by Future Energy Publishing Ltd and also Geoexpro) that focus on the sector. He pays special attention to technology innovation and knowledge transfer and has founded Next Bigger, Better Ltd for identifying and funding technology innovations by young people. He is an adviser to Siccar Point Energy & Blackstone, on the Advisory Board for Kimmeridge Energy LLC (focused on shale oil/gas plays in the USA) and most recently, he has joined the board of Terrabotics Ltd, a UK-based satellite remote sensing company.