Terry Beardall

Terry Beardall, the founder and Managing Director of Beardall, Parry & Associates sadly passed away on the 18th August 2002 after a short but extremely courageous fight against brain cancer. Terry was one of the UK's most respected reservoir engineers.

Terry obtained an honours degree in Oil Technology from Imperial College in 1973 and joined Conoco in the UK. After assignments in Lincolnshire and London, Terry was posted to Dubai and worked for three years as the reservoir engineer in the South-West Fateh field. After his return to the UK in 1980, Terry undertook a spell in Aberdeen before becoming Chief Reservoir Engineer for Conoco UK in London, managing a team of reservoir engineers with responsibility for all of their onshore and offshore UK assets.

In 1987 Terry left Conoco to become a consultant and Director with the leading UK consultancy Energy Resource Consultants (ERC). Terry stayed with ERC for over eight years during which time he was project manager for a wide variety of consultancy assignments including multi-disciplinary reservoir studies, reservoir simulation studies, reserves reporting and asset valuations.

During his time with ERC, he worked on over 100 different reservoirs worldwide including the North Sea, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Libya, Egypt, Arabian Gulf and Ukraine.

In 1995 Terry established his own consultancy company, T.J. Beardall & Associates Ltd that became Beardall, Parry & Associates Ltd (BP&A) in 1997 after a merger with David Parry. Terry remained in BP&A for the remainder of his professional career as Managing Director. During this period he worked on oil and gas projects in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Norway, Bangladesh, India, Germany, Mozambique and the UK and became known as the expert on the Anglia and Banff fields on the UKCS.

Terry was always very active in a number of other ways in the industry, being Chairman of the European SPE Reserves Committee and sitting on the full SPE Reserves Committee for a number of years. His hard work and dedication helped pave the way to the universal set of SPE reserve definitions currently employed by the oil industry. Terry was also a technical editor for the SPE and a number of industry journals and was external examiner for Imperial College for a number of years.

Terry is sadly missed by his wife Maudie, daughters Vicky and Katie, his parents and the rest of his family. They have been touched by the strength and breadth of support and sympathy from his friends, colleagues and associates in the oil and gas industry who all remember a good man, a good engineer and a good friend.