A proven oil and gas professional with over a decade of experience as a geoscientist and engineer. Shibu started his career in the Fort Worth Basin working the unconventional Barnett Shale play. For the last half of his career he was a global technical consultant for Halliburton’s Consulting service line, advising IOC’s and NOC’s worldwide for evaluation of their unconventional shale plays in the USA, West Texas, Japan, The Netherlands, France, and Australia. Of these years, he spent two years in Kuwait co-managing an exploration team, with significant success.
Shibu holds a BS in Petroleum Geosystems Engineering & Hydrogeology from The University of Texas – Austin, an MS in Subsurface Geosciences from Rice University, and an MBA from INSEAD.