About Us

Building on extensive international experience in the oil industry, both with service companies and operators, our team has built an innovative oil company

Our Team

Michael Dursley - Director

Michael has more than 30 years working in the drilling and production sectors of the energy industry. A founding member of an integrated well construction company created to participate in performance well construction and field developments. Founder and owner of a land drilling company constructing wells for the oil, gas and gas storage, and geothermal industries.

Heikki Jutila - Subsurface and Evaluation

Heikki is a Petroleum Reservoir Engineer with extensive experience in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. He has 35 years’ experience in all aspects of petroleum engineering from the well-site to managing complex integrated subsurface studies. He has developed innovative workflows for value quantification.

Rory Somerset - Drilling Engineering

Rory is a Petroleum Engineer specialising in drilling and completion fluids. He has 23 years’ global oil industry experience. Rory has an extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience of HTHP, ERD, gas storage, CTD, deep water, MPD and Well P&A. He is a wellbore fluids expert with an in-depth understanding of drilling fluid/ rock interactions for drilling optimisation and broad understanding of well design, project management and cost control.

Neil Cardy - Performance and Optimisation

Neil is an Optimisation and Application Engineer with over 30 years' experience in the Oil and Gas industry. His experience includes field operations, operational planning, support, and management. Neil’s specialisation is drilling optimisation, drilling dynamics and development of slim-hole well designs, in particular the min-x™ slim-hole drilling process.

Andrew (Andy) Melvin - Corporate Development Advisor

Andy is a geoscientist with over 40 years of oil industry experience. He is an Oil Scout and has been involved in the London based Oil Scout groups, being an officer and founder member in most. These cover North West Europe, Eastern Europe & FSU, Mediterranean. Middle East and Africa, London Asia Group and Latin America Group. In addition he has been a founder of both a global consultancy advising all aspects of asset divestment and acquisition, and an oil and gas company based in the UK.

Paul J. Munin - Corporate Finance

Paul is a 30+ year financial professional and has achieved success in Banking, Capital Markets, Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Commodities, Risk and Compliance, and International financial markets. He has earned a BBA in Finance, as well as his MBA. In addition to being an experienced business professional, entrepreneur and holding senior positions over the course of his career, Paul has attracted new business partners, created efficient operational structures, established corporate financial discipline and enhanced executive direction in order to create high performing organisations. Paul has been on a secondment with the Financial Services Authority in 2009 and was recognised in the Austin Business Journal in 2003, 2005 & 2007.

Conduct and Ethics

Acting with integrity, or doing the right thing, is one of the driving forces behind Cogent’s success. From the very beginning, Cogent has been committed to conducting its business in an ethical manner - doing the right thing by our employees, our business partners, our suppliers, and our communities.

Our Business Code of Conduct and Ethics can be downloaded here.

Projects & Services

Projects

Cogent Petroleum is focussed on identifying existing fields where we can make a substantial improvement in production and potential reserves through our experience in field development, well design and construction and production management.

Central Europe

“Central Europe is one of the oldest roots of the modern oil and gas industry. Our vision is to become the leading producer of indigenous natural gas in Central Europe within five years”

Michael Dursley, Director - Cogent Petroleum

We are currently working on deals in both the Czech Republic and Hungary where we can make meaningful improvements to existing production and so maximise the fields potential.

We have had an article published in GEO ExPro magazine on the hydrocarbon prospects in Central Europe.

United Kingdom

As part of our continued search for opportunities we keep a close eye on developments in the conventional onshore oil and gas business in the UK, and we will be publishing a monthly update, see here for the latest update.

Services