45 years of international oil & gas experience.
Curtis Cohen brings more than four decades of international exploration leadership to Colossal Energy. His career spans the world’s largest operators successful independents, with a consistent record of discovering and developing world-scale resources in Africa, Asia, Australia and the North Sea.
As Chairman, he sets the technical and governance standard for the Company’s frontier programme in the Comoros Basin, pairing supermajor discipline with the agility of an independent operator.
ExxonMobil Senior Exploration Geoscientist in Esso Exploration Inc. affiliates — Nigeria, Spain, Turkey, Somalia; Esso Australia, Esso Norway, Esso REP France; and Strategic Planning, Upstream, Exxon Company Int’l, NJ.
Discovered >1 billion barrels in the Usan, Ukot and Owowo fields in deepwater Nigeria blocks OPL 222/223. Managed 3 billion bbl fields at Esso Australia — Kingfish, Turrum and Sunfish.
Pogo Producing Co (NYSE-FCX) Chief Geophysicist — Thailand and North Sea — discovering 500 million STB, ca. 500 wells on 36 platforms tied back to an FPSO and an FSO; 100,000 bbls/day oil-equivalent production and 200 million barrels oil-equivalent cumulative production.
Exploration Manager, Argentina — Terralliance; ExxonMobil Vaca Muerta private sale.
Brittania-U Nigeria, Managing Director, Lagos, Nigeria.
Alberta Oilsands, Board of Directors (TSXV-AOS).
Sahara Group, COO Upstream, Lagos, Nigeria.
Western Energy East Africa Ltd., COO, Comoros.
CEO, Tytan African Resources.
Faculty Fellow, Columbia University — Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory.