01 September, 2012

Historical Highlights - Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett, vice president of operations for Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd., is an AAPG member and a Fellow of the Geological Society. He has spent 12 of his 35 years in the petroleum industry working in the United States and the Middle East. Before joining Gulf Keystone he was with Core Laboratories and Western Geophysical, and latterly with Baker Hughes and Randall & Dewey, where he assumed a number of roles ranging from international exploration and operations management to property and prospect evaluation. He joined Gulf Keystone in 2004 as managing director of the UK entity and operations manager for Algeria. He currently leads all the company’s exploration and drilling operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Garrett was previously interviewed on this subject for a March 2010 EXPLORER article.