Dr. David A. Wood received his Ph.D. in Geochemistry from Imperial College London in 1977 and held post-doctoral fellowships at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and the University of Birmingham (UK) studying ocean floor geochemistry, participating in deep-water drilling. Currently, he is the Principal Consultant of DWA Energy Limited, UK, specializing in the integration of technical, economic, fiscal, risk, and strategic information to aid asset and portfolio evaluations and project planning decisions. He has more than 35 years of international oil and gas experience spanning project operations, technical evaluations, research, contract negotiations, and senior corporate management. In the 1980s and 1990s, he held senior technical and corporate positions with Phillips Petroleum, Amoco, Lundin Oil, and Canadian independents. Since 1998, he has worked as a consultant providing evaluation, expert witness support, and training to companies and government agencies around the world. Dr. David A. Wood also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering from 2013 to 2016, and is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Advances in Geoenergy Research.