Michael Christopher Daly
Michael Christopher Daly | |
|---|---|
 Michael Daly in Zambia in 2013. | |
| Born | 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Geologist |
| Years active | 1976 - present |
| Employer | British Petroleum |
| Known for | Petroleum exploration & tectonics |
Michael Christopher Daly (Mike), (born 1953), is a British geologist, oil and gas executive and academic. BP’s global exploration chief for eight years, he retired in 2014 and became a visiting professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford where he works on continental tectonics and resources.
Career
Daly joined the Geological Survey of Zambia in 1976, mapping the remote Muchinga Mountains of northeast Zambia and publishing on the Precambrian Irumide Belt, Rift Valley formation and the evolution of the Congo basin. He began his business career with BP in 1986 and after a period of strategy work and time in Venezuela, the North Sea and London, he became President of BP’s activities in the Middle East. In 2006 Daly became BP’s global exploration chief, achieving a series of giant oil and gas discoveries and BP’s return to Iraq[1] and the Rumaila oil field.
During BP’s recovery from the Deepwater Horizon incident Daly served on BP's Group Executive Team.[2] He retired in 2014 after 28 years with the company.
In 2013 Daly was appointed Visiting Professor[3] in Earth Sciences at The University of Oxford. He is also a non-executive director with Tullow Oil,[4] and CGG,[5] and a partner at Macro Advisory Partners.[6] He is a recipient of the Geological Society of London’s Petroleum Medal.
Personal life
Born in Yorkshire, Daly is the son of Irish rugby player John Daly. He is an amateur yachtsman, outdoorsman and traveller. He is a graduate of University College of Wales (BSc) and Leeds University (PhD), in African tectonics. Daly is an alumnus of Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development. His wife Penelope is grand-daughter of Stewart Gore-Browne.
Publications
- Daly, M.C. 1986. Crustal shear zones and thrust belts: Their geometry and continuity in Central Africa. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 317.
- Daly, M. C. et al. 1989. Rift basin evolution in Africa: the influence of steep reactivated shear zones. Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Pub. 44.
- Daly, M.C. et al. 1992. Tectonic Evolution of the Cuvette Centrale, Zaire. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 149.
- Daly, M.C. et al. 1996. Remaining Resource of the UKCS North Sea. In K. Glennie & A. Hurst (eds), 1995: NW Europe’s Hydrocarbon Industry. Geol. Soc. Lond.
- Daly, M.C., 2007. Evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Irumide Belt of Zambia. Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Pub. 272.
- Mckenzie, D, Daly, M.C. & Priestley, K. 2015. The Lithospheric structure of Pangea. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G36819/1
- Daly, M. C. et al. 2014. Brasiliano crustal structure and the tectonic setting of the Parnaíba basin of NE Brazil. doi: 10.1002/2014TC003632
References
- ^ "Putting his hand up in Iraq" Financial Times 3 July 2009 (subscription required)
- ^ British Petroleum Annual Report 2012, p 109
- ^ "Visiting Professorships: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences" Oxford University Gazette 14 March 2013 No. 5019, Vol. 143
- ^ "Tullow Oil appoints Mike Daly as non-executive Director" Tullow Oil 02 June 2014
- ^ "CGG’s Board of Directors Announces the Cooptation of Michael Daly as Member of the Board of Directors" CGG 07 October 2015
- ^ "Partners", Macro Advisory Partners