David Alsop
With nearly four decades of global experience across the petroleum industry, David brings expertise and practical insight from 40 years of experience in the industry. He has worked across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the capacity of a production geologist, explorationist, sedimentologist, and technical coach. He has worked in Shell, Woodside, and academic institutions. During this time he has already trained over 500 professionals and students through workshops, field trips, and bespoke technical courses.
David offers targeted, integrated training for geoscientists, reservoir engineers, seismologists, and petrophysicists, from graduate level through to senior professionals. Whether your goal is to deepen your team’s technical skills or align multidisciplinary understanding, my courses are designed to drive real-world application and field development success.
David’s expertise includes in-depth project experience in reservoir characterisation of shallow marine, deltaic, deep marine, fluvial, and glacial reservoir as well as clastic diagenesis.
Each course combines core, seismic facies, and log interpretation with field and analogue data, tailored to your industry context. The course focuses on delivering technically robust yet accessible content, encouraging collaboration across disciplines and fostering long-term knowledge retention.
Courses are highly applied and interactive, grounded in business impact and technical assurance. David has also led over 25 field trips and delivered many internal Shell training courses and core workshops. He has lectured at the University Technology Brunei and run industry workshops globally.
Whether you're building foundational understanding or addressing advanced subsurface challenges, David can bring a practical, field-tested perspective. Courses are available in-person across Australia and internationally upon request, or online for global teams.
Trainer in courses:
Clastic reservoir characterisation
Virtual Field Trips and Virtual Core Workshops
Clastic Reservoirs and Diagenesis
Shallow Marine and fluvial course
Glacial Geology
