Tony Doré was born in Derby, England.
He obtained his PhD from University College London and joined the petroleum industry in 1977. He has held senior technical and leadership positions with Statoil for 20 years, including VP Exploration Americas (2002-2008) and VP North America (2008-2011), and is currently based in London.
He has worked petroleum provinces all over the world, with emphasis on NW Europe, the Arctic and the Americas. His achievements include major oil and gas discoveries in Norway, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico and Canada.
Tony has published on stratigraphy, NE Atlantic - Arctic evolution, basement reactivation, basin modeling, passive margin structure, hyperextension, exhumed petroleum systems and exploration risk analysis. He has edited books on basin modeling, resource quantification and passive margins.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Petroleum Geoscience between 2006 and 2009, and chairman of the Geological Society Petroleum Group 2001-2003; chaired the 2003 Petroleum Geology of NW Europe conference and edited the subsequent proceedings (2005).
Tony serves on the advisory boards of several universities and currently holds an Honorary Professorship at Durham University.
His awards include the Petroleum Group Medal (2006), Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 for services to geology, the AAPG Special Award, (2011), and the William Smith Medal of the Geological Society (2015).