Alexander V. Sokolov
Cand. Sci. (Geology and Mineralogy)
Director for Geological Exploration Petrogeco JSC
Research interests: oil and gas exploration geology, reserves calculation, etc. (Main articles, presentations, lectures)
E-mail: sokolov@petrogeco.ru
Higher education: Kalinin Polytechnic Institute; specialty: mining engineer-geologist
- Logging data interpreter at Urengoyneftegazgeologiya (1984-1989);
- Head of the Department for Reserves Calculation at Megionneftegazgeologia (1990-1992);
- Head of the Oil Exploration Department at the Siberian Oil Corporation (1993-1994);
- Deputy Director of the State Institute of Geology and Development of Fossil Fuels (1997-1998);
- Director of the Oil Company Chumpassneftedobycha Heritage Oil and Gas Co. (2005-2006);
- Head of Oil Exploration Unit at Sibir Energy plc (2007-2009), Director of Exploration at Zoltav Resources Inc. (2013-2015).
- Author of 25 scientific publications, inventions and more than 150 research projects
- Expert of the State Commission on Mineral Reserves of the Russian Federation (GKZ RF)
- Member of the Society of Subsoil Use Experts of the Russian Federation
- Lecturer at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
- Discoverer of oil fields in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra (Russian Federation): Koltogorskoe, (2009); Zapadno- Koltogorskoe (2014); Yuzhno-Trekhozernoe (2014)