Bernard Duval » Combining professionals and researchers (full interview)

Uploaded by Mini Geology | December 15, 2011

Inspired by outcrops in Marocco; field trips; stratigraphic traps (Paris basin) and hydrodynamic configurations (Caspian Sea), team creativity better than individual creativity; Venezuela: going downdip fr;m productive areas; convince management to drill, management has to support the team; end product of science should be useful to industry; the downside of a restricted agenda; brain factor is the cheapest element in exploration; mistakes in the business is related to wrong interpretation of the geology; exploration in unconventionals; suggestions to young geologists; mature Vs frontier areas; role of professional societies; teaching and consulting; moral commitment to do something for young generation; about the wife; combination of professionals and researchers activates innovation; merits: chose the right people, hard work, curiosity.