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Chris is a Managing Director at Moyes & Co., Inc., in Dallas, Texas, providing global energy consulting on a wide range of financial and economic issues, including business and strategic planning, decision analysis, valuations, funding support, transaction management, and arbitration and expert witness testimony.
Chris's industry career started with BP in 1975 as a Geologist in Aberdeen, working exploration, development and equity determination projects in the UK North Sea. He later moved to London and then Tunis, to carry out geological analysis, prospect generation and risk assessment for projects throughout N. W. Europe and in Tunisia.
He joined Tricentrol in London in 1980, working on geological evaluations and economic analyses of a wide variety of international opportunities. He was also responsible for the geology and economics for Tricentrol's offshore acreage in New Zealand (the Moki-1 discovery) and the Peoples' Republic of China. In 1986 he joined a small group evaluating M & A opportunities worldwide. During this time, he re-wrote Tricentrol's main frame planning programs to provide ten year consolidated cash flow, income and balance sheet forecasts, to handle a wide variety of worldwide fiscal regimes.
Chris joined ARCO in 1988, initially as Planning Manager for ARCO British in London. He subsequently held a variety of positions with ARCO's international organization in Plano, Texas, with responsibilities for global exploration evaluation, upstream financial and strategic planning, and economic analysis. As an Exploration Planning Advisor his primary responsibility was to build a Monte Carlo global exploration business model, to evaluate probability ranges of outcomes from different exploration programs, in terms of value added, income and cash flow forecasts.
He also managed exploration programs in West Africa and Northeast Africa. His final jobs with ARCO were Bohai Bay Asset Manager for ARCO China and then Manager, China Asset Development Team. Chris led the team that successfully negotiated ARCO's participation in the development of QHD32-6, then China's second largest offshore oil field. His group also provided technical and commercial support to all of ARCO China's upstream ventures. Chris moved to his present position with Moyes & Co., Inc. in 2000 following BP's acquisition of ARCO.
From 1993-1996 Chris was Director of Exploration Evaluation for ARCO International Oil and Gas Company Limited (AIOGC), the foreign exploration and production subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield (ARCO). His responsibilities included (1) defining consistent techniques and procedures for estimating chance factors and reserves estimates for worldwide exploration opportunities, and (2) conducting courses and workshops on exploration evaluation techniques for geoscience, engineering and evaluation professionals in AIOGC offices in the USA, UK, and Indonesia. He was an invited participant at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Hedberg conference on this topic in 1993, invited to present a paper at the AAPG national meeting session in Denver in 1994 informally subtitled "the best of Hedberg".
Since 1993, Chris has taught courses on Exploration Economics, Reserves Estimation, Uncertainty and Decision Analysis to several hundred professionals. He has published original work on economic yardsticks for evaluating exploration opportunities, and has pending publications on exploration performance prediction, and quantifying reserves' uncertainty. He has also worked on extending these techniques into the financial arena, particularly in the areas of cost estimation and exploration financial performance. His experience in economic analysis includes many of the world's fiscal regimes, and extends beyond traditional oil and gas developments to include coal bed methane, power plants and LNG projects. He is also a trained moderator for a facilitated decision analysis process designed to deliver high quality business decisions.
Chris read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. He received his BA (Hons) in 1975 and MA (Cantab) in 1979. Chris is a Fellow of the Geological Society [of London] and a member of AIPN, SPE and AAPG.
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