Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay who is also known as Dr. Muki, is currently the President of Global Geoenergy Research Ltd. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and an Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University. He has twenty-nine (29) years of research experience in petroleum exploration including the application of petroleum systems analysis (petroleum geochemistry/organic petrology) in basin evaluation and risk appraisal of both conventional (especially for deepwater exploration) and unconventional (Shale Gas and CBM) petroleum prospects. He has edited four books for the American Chemical Society and Elsevier Science Publications and published 65 articles and chapters in various journals and books. He has presented more than 300 oral and poster presentations at professional scientific society meetings and conducted many short courses for oil companies and professional organizations in Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, US and Venezuela. He has a Ph.D in Coal Sciences and completed two years of Post-Doctoral Research (as a Humboldt Fellow in RWTH Aachen, Germany) in Petroleum Geochemistry. He is an Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin and a Member of the AGI (related to the Member Society Council.)