John Birch

John Birch

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Position: Director, Company Secretary

Qualification: B. Sc. Geology

Email: john@swiftdale.co.uk

Blog: www.johnbirchphotography.com

About Me

John graduated with a B.Sc. Geology degree from Queen Mary College in 1978 and then experienced his first foray in the petroleum industry as a traineee wireline engineer for Schlumberger in the Middle East.

In 1979 he joined Exploration Logging and was based in Singapore, working in many locations around the Far East, and also Pakistan and Australia. In 1983 John was recruited for MWD/LWD training at Exlog’s HQ in Sacramento, California, and went on to run MWD tools in Northern California and the Gulf of Mexico, before joining EXLOG’s Downhole Reseach & Development division.  Initially responsible for field testing of new and experimental downhole MWD tools, John became involved with downhole software design and development, particularly tool diagnostics, downhole communications, and log plotting software. In 1983 John was recruited for MWD/LWD training at Exlog’s HQ in Sacramento, California, and went on to run MWD tools in Northern California and the Gulf of Mexico, before joining EXLOG’s Downhole Reseach & Development division.

In 1985 John returned to the field as a consultant Wellsite Geologist where he was soon partnered with James Hollands, both who went on to form Swiftdale at the beginning of 1987.

John lives near Rotherham, with his wife Jane and children Harry and Sophie Rose. John provides much of the technical backup, programming and database skills for Swiftdale. When not on a rig or at a computer he enjoys watching his football team Rotherham United, landscape and wildlife photography, listening to Jazz and Blues and playing guitar.

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