mihai Butuc22 Oct 2016 12:24
Mihai Butuc
Manager New Ventures
Mihai is a veteran Geoscientist with 27 years of experience leading exploration, appraisal, development, and production projects in Europe, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Americas. Prior to joining i3, Mihai spent a decade at Dana Petroleum and Ithaca Energy identifying high-return acquisition targets with significant upside and quick payback. Until 2006 he was a Principal Consultant at Halliburton, working for Total S.A. in Paris and for the Asset Performance Group in Aberdeen. Before 1996, Mihai enjoyed numerous roles in his homeland of Romania, working as the Chief of Integrated Studies Service at Petrom, and as a geologist at Prospectiuni SA and IPEG Banat. Mihai specializes in the interpretation and integration of data and discipline, is a generator of new and successful ideas, and is a confirmed oil finder even in highly explored basins.