About Edinburgh Geoscience Advisors

Edinburgh Geoscience Advisors is a partnership between Richard Cooper and Lucy MacGregor.

Richard Cooper

Richard has over forty years of experience in the upstream oilfield services industry. He joined Digicon (later merged with Veritas, and then CGG) in 1979 and held a variety of positions in data processing, research, marketing and management in UK, Singapore, Australia and the US.

Richard moved to CogniSeis Development (CSD) in 1993 and spent two years as Managing Director of the EAME division before returning to Houston as CSD President and COO. Richard led the sale of CSD to Paradigm (now Emerson) in 1997.

Richard founded Rock Solid Images (RSI) in Houston in 1998 and led RSI as CEO and director until the sale of OHM plc in 2007. Richard subsequently became CEO of the OHM Group in 2009, and led the restructuring of OHM, completed in 2010. Richard continued to serve as CEO and a director of Rock Solid Images until his retirement in August 2016. Richard is a graduate from the University of Liverpool with an honours degree in geophysics.

Richard is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of SEG, EAGE, SEAPEX and the Institute of Directors.

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Lucy MacGregor

Lucy MacGregor is a leading researcher in multi-physics analysis with particular expertise in the integration of electromagnetic methods into reservoir characterisation workflows. She served as SEG Honorary Lecturer in Europe in 2011, and will serve as the SEG Distinguished lecturer in the first half of 2021.

Lucy has a PhD from the University of Cambridge for research in the field of marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) methods and over 25 years’ experience in marine EM surveying and its application to the detection and characterisation of fluids in the earth. Following her PhD, Lucy was a Green Scholar at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California working on marine CSEM methods, before returning to Cambridge as a Leverhulme Trust research fellow at Downing College.

In 2000 she moved to the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton as a NERC research fellow to continue her work, and took part in the first survey targeting CSEM at hydrocarbon reservoirs. In 2002, Lucy co-founded OHM and joined the company as CTO. She remained with the company, through its merger with Rock Solid Images, until December 2018, leading the company’s technical group which specialised in rock physics driven quantitative reservoir characterisation and multi-physics analysis. Lucy co-founded Edinburgh Geoscience Advisors in 2019.

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