MICHAEL FRANKOVITCH PrSciNat
Honours BSc Geology, Brock University, 1979
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
October 2007 to Present : Principal Geologist, Fix Term Contract, PetroSA Cape Town South Africa
 Principal Geologist in Technical Department, E&P Operations and New Ventures; Well operations
in PetroSA’s offshore fields of South Africa; reassessment of primary fields, assess additional prospects
from onshore and offshore Africa including Namibia, Tanzania Angola, Gabon, Mozambique
 Static Modeling: Updating geological models to fit new data; working with the Petrel modelers and
geophysicists
 Project Manager, Tanzania: BRM Opportunity
 Project Manager, Mozambique: Zambezi Delta Land Sale
 Other Business Development Advisories: Namibia, Angola, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal
 March 2006 to August 2007: Senior Consulting Geologist, ARC Resources Ltd, PetroCanada,
Calgary, Alberta
 Provide geological support in a “comprehensive team environment” to better optimize field production
and grow reserves of proven and producing fields; ie work-overs, re-completions and abandonments in
mature fields; Southern Alberta shallow gas
 Maintain a growth factor through step outs and outpost drilling.
 Reconnaissance mapping to assess new exploration targets in open Crown areas of NEBC
February 2003 to January 2006: Senior Staff Geologist, Exploration, Sirte Oil Company, Marsa al
Brega, Libya
 Initiate stratigraphic interpretation of several structural features to improve production in existing
fields and explore for fairways in the Cretaceous and Tertiary carbonates and clastics
 Prepare alternative geological interpretation and provide consistent well information (tops and
isopachs) for several 3D seismic programs.
 Laid out parameters for a successful 3D program over a previously unmapped carbonate detrital
zone
 Prepare reservoir and production data for the annual NOC management committee
October 1979 to February 2003:
Held a variety of positions ever increasing seniority from Staff Geologist at Dome Petroleum (October
1979) to Senior Geologist Dominion Energy, (January 2003) including a successful stint as Senior
Consulting Geologist from December 1994 to February 2000. Experience includes:
 Reservoir Geologist including Petrophysics, Hydrodynamics, Dome Petroleum, 1979 to 1984.
 Senior Exploration Geologist, conventional and nonconventional drilling; ie slant hole and
horizontal, A & D evaluations, project management, 2D and 3D seismic Czar Resources 1984 to 1994
 Senior Consulting Geologist to several E & P companies, Junior to Senior, 1994 to 2003; Path
finding and creating core area initiatives, Initiate production growth strategies, Evaluate and Create
new opportunities

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Through this varied experience I had the opportunity to map most of the stratigraphic packages of the
WCSB including Devonian platforms, reefs and pinnacles, Mississippian Carbonate and Karst features,
Triassic and Jurassic sands, carbonates and subcrops and Cretaceous channels and shorelines from the
Laramide structures of NE British Columbia to the shallow gas of Southern Alberta.
My career has been one of steady progress and great satisfaction. Enroute to my current status I gained
invaluable experience in:
 Structural and Stratigraphic mapping of the Overthrust, Deformed and Foreland Belts
 Stratigraphic elements of off-shore depositional systems
 Genesis and geometry of carbonate and clastic reservoirs
 Diagenetic effects of burial, and tensional fracturing during subsequent tectonic activity
 Prograding and accreting shorelines and incised valleys in sequence stratigraphic events
 Fluvial processes in source, transport and entrapment of oil and gas.
 Turbidite sedimentation
 Deviated and Horizontal drilling programs and off-shore field operations
 Water Flood Operations – Oil Field gas and water reinjection
 Hydrodynamic and Drill-stem test interpretation
 Economics and risk assessment and project management
 Computer applications in the workplace
Technical Strengths and Accredited Training
 Reservoir Geology, Petrophysics and Hydrodynamics
 Veteran Mapper and Stratigrapher, assimilating all available data into prospects:
 Extensive exposure to 2-D Seismic interpretation of structural and stratigraphic features:
 Technology-friendly, familiar with several PC Windows-based applications; Accumap being the preferred
GIS application, several training sessions with Petrel and Kingdom
 Surfer 12 is the chosen mapping program for the ease of presenting 3D maps
 Well-developed sense of Risk Assessment:
 Accomplished presenter at all levels
MIKE FRANKOVITCH: Contact Information
Residence: 46 Mariner Drive, Woodbridge Island, Cape Town, South Africa, 7441
Phone: Residence: +27(0)21.551.2181
Cellular: +27(0)73.349.5940
Office: +27(0)21.929.3677
Email: michael.frankovitch@petrosa.co.za
Registered Member of SACNASP; Professional Geologist since 2009
(South African Counsel for Natural Science Professions)