Joe Staffurth

Joe is a geologist with over 30 years in the Oil and Gas Industry: after 5 years with Exxon as exploration and development geologist; he moved to Petrofina in 1986 and held various management roles including Exploration Manager in the UK and Director of Exploration in Italy. He set up his own business, JSI Services, in 2000 providing a summary and analysis of international exploration deals covering all parts of the world except North America. Since 2000 he has provided a technical review of over 4000 farm outs in 132 different countries and analysis of the farm out market trends. JSI Services was acquired by Westwood Global Energy in 2019.