Curtis Cohen

Curtis Cohen graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (Baccalaureate) in 1971 and received geology degrees from Lawrence College (BA, 1975) and Columbia University (MA, 1979). For fifteen years he worked in ExxonMobil affiliates, including the Europe-Africa Division of Esso Exploration Inc. in the UK and US, Esso Nigeria, Esso Norway, Esso REP France, Esso Australia and Exxon Co. International and lived a decade abroad. After returning to the US, Mr. Cohen was recruited by Pogo Producing Co. (Pogo) in 1995 and spent the next dozen years leading exploration offshore Thailand, the North Sea and New Zealand, resulting in the drilling of nearly 500 exploration and development wells.

When Pogo was acquired in 2007, Curtis joined Terralliance Technologies Exploration (TTI), a private start-up funded by Goldman Sachs and Kleiner Perkins, as the New Ventures Manager. TTI rebranded as Neos GeoSolutions and Mr. Cohen became Exploration Manager for the company's affiliate Energy Operations Argentina in Buenos Aires. In 2012 he joined as Managing Director Brittania-U Nigeria Ltd and later he was elected a Director of Alberta Oilsands and Discoverpoint Energy.

Mr. Cohen participated in the discovery of 600 MBO in Nigeria OPL 222/223 for Esso Nigeria, 500 MBOE in Thailand B8/32 for Pogo Thailand and 100 MBOE in Longtom & East Kingfish field for Esso Australia.

He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), The Geological Society of America (GSA) and The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Curtis is also a biographee named in Who's Who In Frontiers Of Science & Technology and has published more than a dozen professional articles in Bulletins of the Geological Society of America and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Tectonophysics, among other publications.

Curtis can be reached by phone at +1-713-907-1844 and by email at [email protected]