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Robert McQuillin | |
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| Born | 28 May 1935 |
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| Spouse | Angela McQuillin |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | British Geological Survey, Britoil |
| Thesis | The radioactivity of the rocks of the Scilly Isles. (1961) |
Robert McQuillin BSC MSC FGS FRSE, (born 28 May 1935 in Brampton Cumbria) is a scientist and author.
From 1957 until 1985 McQuillin worked for the British Geological Survey (BGS), formerly know as the Institute of Geological Sciences. In 1966 he was selected to set up a Marine Geophysics Unit in the Institute of Geological Sciences (which incorporated the former Geological Survey of Great Britain). This group was created to conduct a regional geophysical survey of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf and was subsequently responsible for the discovery and evaluation of the majority of the United Kingdom's oil and gas reserves. In 1973 McQuillin was appointed Head of the Marine Geophysics Unit, a post which he held for ten years until 1983 when he was appointed Deputy Director of the BGS. In 1985 he left BGS to join Britoil as their Chief Scientist and was kept on by BP when they bought Britoil in 1988. In 1991, having left BP, McQuillin formed Hydrocarbons Management International where he remained Chairman and Managing Director until he retired in 2010. As an author, he has been collected by libraries.[1]
Societies
- 1986 Elected Fellow or the Royal Society of Edinburgh[2]
- Fellow of the Geological Society of London (past Vice-President).
- Fellow of the Geological Society of Edinburgh (past Vice-President).
- Member: EAEG, SEG, EAPG, Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and The Institute of Directors.
Academic Appointments
- 1975-88 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Geology Glasgow University.
- 1988-91 Visiting Professor, Department of Geology, Glasgow University.
- 1979-83 Visiting Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
- 1982-84 UK Technical Advisor: Committee for the Co-ordination of Offshore Prospecting in the South Pacific UNESCO.
- 1987-88 Member of DEn/OSO Ad Hoc Committee on Exploration Technology.
Published Works
- An Introduction To Seismic Interpretation[3]
- Explaining the North Sea's lunar floor [4][5]
- Footwall uplift in the Inner Moray Firth basin, offshore Scotland[6]
References
- ^ "McQuillin, Robert". worldcat.org. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
- ^ "Professor Robert McQuillin FRSE". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
- ^ http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/5268324
- ^ McQuillin, Robert; Fann, Nigel (1979). "Explaining the North Sea's lunar floor". New Scientist. Reed Business Information.
- ^ McQuillin, Robert; Fann, Nigel (12 July 1979). "Explaining the North Sea's lunar floor". New Scientist. Reed Business Information.
- ^ Barr, D; McQuillin, R; Donato, J.A (1985). "Footwall uplift in the Inner Moray Firth basin, offshore Scotland". Journal of Structural Geology. Elsevier.