Karen Moore
Senior leader with 38 years of experience in strategic & technical leadership in Production, Reservoir and Well Management.
My Services
Helping customers to maximise efficiency & productivity of reservoir, wells, plant & system.
Production Management
- Health Assessment
- Improvement Plans
- Management Systems Implementation
- Defining Potential & Max Sustainable Capacity
- Producing The Limits
- Managing Loss
- Accurate Forecasting
Threat/Opportunity Management
- Identify Improvements
- Effective Well, Reservoir, PSO, Facility Reviews
- Scorpion Plots
- Cost Efficiencies
- Best in Basin Benchmarks
Production Optimisation
- Process Design & Implementation
- Dynamic Limit Diagrams
- Integrated Production System Modelling
- Impact Studies
- Proactive Technical Monitoring
- Digital Workflows /AI
Well Performance
- Problem Identification
- Completions - Option Framing
- Late Life Well Intervention Strategy
- Restoring Closed-in Strings
- Well Optimisation
- Improving Well Reliability
- Reducing Failures
Production Management
- Health Assessment
- Improvement Plans
- Management Systems Implementation
- Defining Potential & Max Sustainable Capacity
- Producing The Limits
- Managing Loss
- Accurate Forecasting
Threat/Opportunity Management
- Identify Improvements
- Effective Well, Reservoir, PSO, Facility Reviews
- Scorpion Plots
- Cost Efficiencies
- Best in Basin Benchmarks
Production Optimisation
- Process Design & Implementation
- Dynamic Limit Diagrams
- Integrated Production System Modelling
- Impact Studies
- Proactive Technical Monitoring
- Digital Workflows /AI
Well Performance
- Problem Identification
- Completions - Option Framing
- Late Life Well Intervention Strategy
- Restoring Closed-in Strings
- Well Optimisation
- Improving Well Reliability
- Reducing Failures
Well Reliability
- Well Integrity Assessment & Management Philosophy
- Reducing Well Failures
- Prolonging Well life
- Problem Solving : Root Cause Analysis Facilitation
- Preventative Maintenance
- Predictive Maintenance (AI)
About Me
- Excels in identifying and seeding ideas which improve the production efficiency and business value of Upstream oil and gas assets and LNG plants
- Strength in delivery of improvement plans to increase production and maximise asset value.
- Demonstrable track-record in delivering sustainable, game changing results.
- Deep expertise in production performance optimisation.
- A reputation for turning complexity into clarity, enabling improvements with pace, and driving sustainable outcomes that impact the bottom line profitability.
Excels in identifying and seeding ideas which improve the production efficiency and business value of Upstream oil and gas assets and LNG plants
Strength in delivery of improvement plans to increase production and maximise asset value.
Demonstrable track-record in delivering sustainable, game changing results.
Deep expertise in production performance optimisation
Career Roles
- Global Process Lead Production Optimisation – Shell
- Head of Production & Chief Production Technologist – BG Group
- Production Advisor to CEO – Hess Corporation
- Asset Manager Europe & Chief Petroleum Engineer – Tullow Oil
Education
- First Class Honors Petroleum Engineering, Strathclyde University
- In Progress, MSc Energy Systems, Oxford University (Part-time)
Proven Delivery
- Implementation of Global Improvement Plan to reach Benchmarked TQ Performance in Production Optimisation, resulting in significant incremental cashflow
- Managed multi-disciplined team across 3 countries to deliver >70 mmb incremental proven reserve base, significantly arresting production decline
- Delivery of Global Project across 4 diverse assets to reduce well failures, resulting in significant cost saving from production loss reduction & lower capital requirements to replace equipment
- Delivery of company wide Wells P&A Strategy, designed to follow big rules that would deliver significantly lower cost, safer and higher quality abandonments
- Developed and Implemented a process for identifying and prioritising production opportunities and threats across 12 assets/countries improving funnel health two fold
Testimonials
Karen demonstrates deep expertise in Production Management process and the optimisation of oil and gas production. She can quickly and easily turn data and insight into impactful actions that positively impact the bottom line of the business performance
Jon HarrisChief Executive Officer at Gulf Keystone Petroleum
Karen has great tenacity and is very hard working – she has independently identified several areas for improvement for us, often doing the seed work to understand and demonstrate on her own, before then engaging others to test and build on her idea
Alison JonesFormer International Upstream Oil and Gas Executive, Currently Managing Partner Val Vestris
Karen was a key member of the corporate engineering team at Tullow plc delivering in areas such as our RBL redetermination process, annual reserves report updates and ensuring visibility and management of our overall group production KPI’s. Strong team player, deep reservoir and petroleum engineering experience and ability to ensure efficient delivery and communication of outcomes.
Paul McDadeChief Executive Office, Afentra plc, ex Tullow plc CE
Karen has been instrumental in leveraging our global well interventions portfolio to provide insights and drive improvement focus on volumes and cost to unlock additional potential
Karen ThijsVP Global Well Interventions, Shell