Speaker

Before joining the Institute of Energy for South-East Europe (IENE) as a research fellow in September 2023, Kostis Oikonomopoulos spent over six years at HEREMA SA, in Greece, where he served as the primary seismic interpreter and petroleum geoscientist, specialising in prospectivity analyses and regional understanding. In this capacity, he also coordinated two important oil and gas Lease Agreements ("West of Crete" and "Southwest of Crete"), offering technical subsurface expertise on licensing matters, stewardship and monitoring of licence work programmes and activities. Also, he assisted in compiling and reviewing contracts regarding seismic acquisition and processing projects and at the same time supervised and managed HEREMA’s data repositoty as well as its digitization and restructuring.

Prior to his tenure at HEREMA SA, Kostis worked as a business development geoscientist in the UK, for Spectrum Geo Ltd (now TGS) from 2012. In this role, he managed, initiated, and evaluated seismic acquisition and processing projects while liaising and engaging in negotiations with government authorities and National Oil Companies in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and sub-Saharan Africa. Kostis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of Athens and pursued further education with two Master's degrees—one in hydrocarbons management from the University of Aberdeen and another in petroleum geoscience from the Royal Holloway, University of London. His career began in 2007 as a petroleum geologist with Hellenic Petroleum SA (HelleniQ), where he was involved in hydrocarbon exploration work (geological and geophysical) in Egypt.