OT SIG Meeting – January (Online)

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Topic: ‘Energy Density’

Speaker: Pete Webb, Independent Consultant

Join us for the lively discussion to follow Pete’s talk.

A brief summary of the speaker’s talk is that there is more to going green than meets the eye. Too many people assume that wind and solar can replace all the oil and gas we consume, no other issues involved other than build more turbines and solar panels. The speaker hopes his talk demonstrates that the truth is otherwise.

Pete Webb, Independent Consultant

Pete Webb started in geology at the age of 4, when he collected his first fossils in his back garden in Worthing, at the foot of the South Downs.  He graduated from London University in 1967 with a BSc in Geology, and then spent 4 years in Kenya doing a PhD on the rift valley volcanics.

After a spell in academia in Nigeria, he joined the oil industry in 1974, working as a Wellsite Geologist in the North Sea.   Since then, he has worked in Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and Australasia.  He still works part time as a Consultant Geologist, and is a U3A Geology Tutor, a STEM Ambassador to schools and delivers public lectures on various geoscience topics.

In his spare time, Pete enjoys allotment gardening, environment conservation activities and is the village cemetery and Parish Church groundsman.