John Duhault is a “hunter finder mentor” geoscientist with 39 years of Canadian and international exploration experience, including more than 50,000 hours of interpretation experience in conventional and unconventional resource plays. He is currently the principal consultant for Starbird Enterprises, where he is considered a 3G specialist (geophysics, geology, geomechanics) and also specializes in exploration and exploitation play development, mentoring and teaching, reservoir characterization, microseismic, and induced seismicity interpretation. He has presented papers and taught courses on the business value of integrated geophysical applications in Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Europe. He received the best written paper award from the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) for his Cardium microseismic paper (2012).
Duhault has worked for, consulted to, and found oil and gas for integrated senior oil and gas companies, intermediate producers, and numerous junior independents. He founded and led two private junior oil and gas companies (2003 and 2008). In the past, Duhault has been a reservoir characterization paper reviewer for SEG meetings, chair of the CSEG’s Value of Integrated Geophysics Committee and has presented papers at CSEG, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, SEG, and European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers meetings.
Outside of the geophysical world, Duhault has been on the following boards; director and chairman of the Prairie Action Foundation (5 years), Focus: Reducing the Cycle of Family Abuse in Western Canada (5 years), and director and president: Scenic Sands Community Association (6 years).
Duhault holds a BS in geological engineering from the University of Manitoba (1979). He is currently past president of the CSEG and serves on the SEG Council as a CSEG representative.