Rawdon Seager is a reservoir engineer with over 50 years of experience in the international oil and gas arena and has carried out numerous field studies, reserves assessments, and asset evaluations. He has also given expert testimony during arbitration hearings.

Throughout his career, Rawdon has been deeply involved with the proper evaluation and reporting of oil and gas reserves and resources, a subject on which he now provides clients with advice and training. Rawdon has spoken at various industry events as well as presenting in-house and public courses to clients on matters relating to reserves estimation, classification and reporting as well as the impact of carbon pricing on the estimation of reserves.

His current focus is on the assessment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects and on the application of the SRMS to storable quantities.

He is currently based in Houston, Gaffney, Cline & Associates’ western hemisphere headquarters, where he is Chief Reservoir Engineer as well as Global Director of Quality Assurance.

Rawdon began his career in 1972 as a Petroleum Engineer with Shell International in Malaysia, Brunei, the Netherlands and Australia. In 1980 he joined Roy M. Huffington, Inc. in Indonesia where he became Petroleum Engineering Manager, before joining GCA in 1985 with whom he has held senior positions in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Argentina, Venezuela and the USA.

He has a BSc (Honors) in Physics from Bristol University, England and an MSc (Distinction) in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering from Imperial College, London. Rawdon is a member of the SPE (past Chairman of the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee), SPEE (past member of the Board of Directors and current Chair of the Reserves Definitions Committee), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the UK Energy Institute. He is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer in the UK and is registered as a European Engineer with FEANI.