Mr.
Nicklin was born and educated in Great Britain where
he graduated from the University of Wales in 1971
with a B.Sc. Honors Degree in Geology. After graduation
he worked in various oil exploration camps in West
Texas, the Canadian Arctic, Western and Southern
Africa, and North West Australia. He worked in Norway
for several years, and also in the Middle East, much
of this work involving long spells in active onshore
and offshore oil and gas exploration operations in
a variety of roles including mudlogger, roughneck,
derrickman, part-time diver, and wellsite geologist.
In 1981, Mr. Nicklin and his American
wife, Patricia Young, settled on the US West Coast where
Mr. Nicklin
took up a position as Senior Geologist with Arco. His
career at Arco advanced steadily through a number of
assignments of increasing scope and responsibility,
culminating in an eight-year assignment as the Corporation’s
Chief Geologist. In his various roles at Arco, Mr.
Nicklin played a significant part in the development
of a number of commercial arrangements and business
dealings for ARCO, the successful discovery and development
of a number of oil and gas fields, and the development
of a highly effective and successful geological staff.
His duties required that he visit many countries, including
China in 1983, where he worked for a year as one of
the first Western geologists to enter the country,
and to Indonesia, where he lived with his young family
for three years. He subsequently spent five years living
in Dallas Texas, until his return to California in
1997.
Mr. Nicklin is the proud father
of three children, two boys and a girl, who are all
in various stages
of their education. His election to leave ARCO was
a family decision, based primarily on a desire for
the family to be settled during the children’s
educational years.
Since leaving Arco, Mr. Nicklin has focused his efforts
and experience on new business development, primarily
in the oil and gas exploration industry. His initial
effort was the founding and running of petroleum development
associates LLC, which has proven to be a successful
venture with assets acquired in the UK North Sea, Indonesia
and Spain. Although Mr. Nicklin resigned his positions
with the company in August of 2003, the company has
successfully concluded a merger arrangement with Kyrgoil,
and now trades on the Toronto Venture Exchange under
the name Serica Energy, under the leadership of the
team assembled and developed by Mr. Nicklin.
Mr. Nicklin’s ambitions
and energy are now focused in two areas: one in continuing
to provide consulting
services, primarily to the oil and gas industry, and
another in attempts to give back to the community some
of the knowledge and experience he has been fortunate
to accumulate over the years of his career.
Throughout his career Mr. Nicklin has maintained an
energetic interest in a broad range of pursuits. He
has at various times been a qualified snow ski instructor,
a US Coast Guard licensed small boat operator, and
a PADI qualified rescue diver. In addition to his main
occupation, he and his wife have jointly run a number
of small business ventures, including DAPA Trading
Services, Lands End Yacht Charters, and most recently,
the PhotoGeo Studio and Gallery. In 2003 he was a featured
photographic artist at the Laguna Festival of the Arts
and has also been juried in advance to the 2004 Festival.
