PESGB London Group meeting on 14 November, 2006 will have for its London Evening Lecture: 'Egypt: Western Desert' by Tom Maher of Apache.

Thomas Mayer has been Apache region vice president and general manager, Apache Egypt from January 2013. Tom joined Apache in 1986 in Tulsa as a senior staff geologist and subsequently held the positions of geoscience manager and exploration and development manager. He transferred to Cairo in 2002 as geological manager and became exploration manager in 2005.

Most recently, Tom served as region vice president and managing director, Apache Energy Ltd. Prior to joining Apache, he worked in various exploration and development geology assignments with Cotton Petroleum and Texaco in the Mid-continent, Rockies and China.

Thomas Maher holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Massachusetts, a master’s in Geology from Miami University (Ohio), and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. He is an American Association of Petroleum Geologists Certified Petroleum Geologist.

Andrea Collins, a director of The Geo People, is looking forward attending the lecture and to meeting fellow PESGB members there.