Yannis Bassias

Yannis Bassias has 25 years in the international oil and gas exploration and services business. Since 2012 he has been advising several companies in EEZs of the Indian Ocean, Equatorial America and west Africa on geological and legal aspects of frontier hydrocarbon basins.

From 1997 to 2012, as president of Georex group, he demerged the exploration assets from the service activities and established technical subsidiaries in France, United Kingdom, Tunisia and the Republic of Congo. He has managed database projects on CIS reservoirs, data mergers for Total, PetroFina and Elf, seismic data transcription for Snpc and Esso. Between 1996 and 2000 he directed evaluation teams for the development of oil and gas interests in Texas and Colombia and in 2007 initiated for Poros onshore exploration portfolios with assets in the Paris basin and Tunisia.

Before joining the petroleum industry had an academic career at the Free University of Berlin and was associate professor in the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, with main research focus the Precambrian of Morocco and sedimentary basins and ridges of the Indian Ocean, geologist, PhD in tectonics and stratigraphy, he is author of more than 30 publications in international scientific or industry journals.