As of Feb. 1, Derek Nottingham, who has been serving as petroleum economist for the Alaska Department of Revenue, took office as the new director of Alaska’s Division of Oil and Gas.
An experienced reservoir engineer, Nottingham received a bachelor’s and master’s degree focused in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University.
Prior to working for DOR, he was employed by BP for 11-plus years, most recently from February 2015 to April 2020 as reservoir development area team lead for BP at Prudhoe Bay. Nottingham led the Gathering Center 2 reservoir development team from 2018 to 2020 and the Flow Station 2 reservoir development team from 2015 to 2018.
He was responsible for leading geoscientists, reservoir engineers and petroleum engineers in continued flood management, drilling programs and workover programs in those areas of the Prudhoe Bay field.
From March 2013 to January 2015 Nottingham was reservoir management team lead, heading a group of reservoir engineers and geoscientists responsible for progressing development plans for the Prudhoe Bay Ivishak waterflood and the Sag River reservoirs in Prudhoe Bay.
From January 2009 to March 2013 he worked for BP as a reservoir engineer where he was responsible for flood management, production forecasting, and development planning for the Sag River reservoir (2010-2013) and the Eileen West End Ivishak reservoir (2008-2010).
Before that Nottingham worked for Chevron for a little over six years, most recently as a reservoir engineer for the company’s Cook Inlet assets, and prior to that as an asset development engineer in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf.
Nottingham replaced Tom Stokes who retired from the division in January.
- KAY CASHMAN
