Philip Ball

Philip Ball has 20 years’ experience within international energy exploration and development within the Oil and Gas, Geothermal and Natural Hydrogen Industries.

Houston, Texas, United States of America

Research Expertise

Geothermal
Hydrogen
Tectonics
Rifted Margins
Geodynamics
Geology
Stratigraphy
Economic Geology
Oceanography
Geophysics
Geochemistry and Petrology
Earth-Surface Processes
Space and Planetary Science
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Mechanical Engineering
Fuel Technology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Paleontology
Pharmacology (medical)

About

Philip has 20+ years experience within the international energy exploration and development, spanning the Oil and Gas, Geothermal, and Natural Hydrogen Industries.  Philip is presently Owner/Director of Geothermal Energy Advisors, LLC (GEA) a consultation group specializing in geothermal exploration and development. He is also an Investor/Partner in Natural Hydrogen Ventures, (NHV), an international, investment fund looking to invest in the emerging natural hydrogen industry. In a voluntary capacity, Philip holds the position of Honorary Senior Researcher at Keele University in the UK. Philip is an advisor for Project InnerSpace, Phase-1, “geothermal resource characterization”, and a Board Member for the EARTHSAFE project Earth’s Critical Resources for Clean Energy and a Sustainable Future, at the University of Twente.  Philip is also a member of the advisory board for the New York Energy Capital Assembly, in collaboration with the Energy Council. In the last 15 years Philip has authored >100 abstracts and \~25 peer reviewed articles. As of today, Philip’s work has been cited \~935 times, his research metrics are: h-index, 15; i10-index 14.  October 2023 Philip was recently (2023) co-awarded, as a member of a research team, the Alejandro Ángel Escobar Award (the Colombian National Prize of Research in Natural Sciences).

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Publications

Palaeocene–Recent plate boundaries in the NE Atlantic and the formation of the Jan Mayen microcontinent
Journal of the Geological Society
2009
The Norway Basin revisited: From continental breakup to spreading ridge extinction
Marine and Petroleum Geology
2012
Rifted Margins: State of the Art and Future Challenges
Frontiers in Earth Science
2019
Insights from the Jan Mayen system in the Norwegian-Greenland sea-I. Mapping of a microcontinent
Geophysical Journal International
2012
The spatial and temporal evolution of strain during the separation of Australia and Antarctica
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2013
Deformable plate tectonic models of the southern North Atlantic
Journal of Geodynamics
2019
Insights from the Jan Mayen system in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea-II. Architecture of a microcontinent
Geophysical Journal International
2012
Reconstruction of the East Africa and Antarctica continental margins
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2016
A Review of Geothermal Technologies and Their Role in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the USA
Journal of Energy Resources Technology
2020
Geothermal energy as a means to decarbonize the energy mix of megacities
Communications Earth & Environment
2022
Palynology of the Cenomanian to lowermost Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Chalk of the Trunch Borehole (Norfolk, UK) and a new dinoflagellate cyst bioevent stratigraphy for NW Europe
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
2020
Oblique continental rifting and long transform fault formation based on 3D thermomechanical numerical modeling
Tectonophysics
2018
Macro Energy Trends and the Future of Geothermal Within the Low-Carbon Energy Portfolio
Journal of Energy Resources Technology
2020
Controls on the Thermomechanical Evolution of Hyperextended Lithosphere at Magma‐Poor Rifted Margins: The Example of Espirito Santo and the Kwanza Basins
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2019
Integration of gravity, magnetic, and seismic data for subsalt modeling in the Northern Red Sea
Interpretation
2021
Red Sea rifting in central Egypt: constraints from the offshore Quseir province
Journal of the Geological Society
2023
The tectono-sedimentary evolution of a hyper-extended rift basin: the example of the Arzacq–Mauléon rift system (Western Pyrenees, SW France)
International Journal of Earth Sciences
2014
Natural hydrogen: the new frontier
Geoscientist
2022
The kinematic evolution of the Demerara plateau and Guyana-Suriname margins
Unknown Venue
2020
Timing of Extensional Faulting Along the Magma-Poor Central and Northern Red Sea Rift Margin—Transition from Regional Extension to Necking Along a Hyperextended Rifted Margin
Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea
2018
Lithospheric Mantle Evolution during Continental Break-Up: The West Iberia Non-Volcanic Passive Margin
Journal of Petrology
2005
Superhot rock energy
Autumn 2023
2023
A prograding margin during global sea‐level maxima: an example from Mahajanga Basin, northwest Madagascar
Basin Research
2017
Seismic surveys in the Northern Red Sea: asymmetric crustal structure
Tectonophysics
1991
Formation of SDRs-Ocean transition at magma-rich rifted margins: Significance of a mantle seismic reflector at the western Demerara margin
Tectonophysics
2022
Drilling Time Statistical Analysis and Benchmarking for Drilled Wells of Zubair Field
Petroleum & Petrochemical Engineering Journal
2022
Rift to drift evolution and crustal structure of the Central Atlantic: the Sidi Ifni-Nova Scotia conjugate margins
Unknown Venue
2022
Silica-rich septarian concretions in biogenic silica-poor sediments: A marker of hydrothermal activity at fossil hyper-extended rifted margins (Err nappe, Switzerland)
Sedimentary Geology
2018
Cretaceous-Tertiary geodynamics: a North Atlantic exercise
Geophysical Journal International
2001
Geometry and kinematics of the Middle to Late Miocene salt tectonics, central Egyptian Red Sea margin
Journal of Structural Geology
2023
The EGS‐AGU‐EUG joint assembly, April 2003
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
2003
Natural Hydrogen: The race to discovery and concept demonstration
Spring 2024
2024
Imaging Pleistocene volcanic edifices along the Egyptian Red Sea margin: Insights from reflection seismics and 3D constrained inversion of gravity and magnetic data
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
2024
Refining Estimates of Antarctic Geothermal Heat Flow Using Seismological Constraints on Crustal Composition and Lithospheric Thermal Structure
Unknown Venue
2023
Superhot rock for sustainable power generation
Autumn 2023
2023
Deep geothermal energy potential at Weisweiler, Germany: Exploring subsurface mid-Palaeozoic carbonate reservoir rocks
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften
2021
1st Atlantic flood mapping conference
Unknown Venue
2023
The Makkah–Madinah Transform Zone: a relic rift-to-rift continental transform formed during early Arabia–Nubia plate separation
Geoscience Letters
2022
Asymmetrical lithospheric necking of Red Sea rift 
Unknown Venue
2022
Architecture of the Demerara-Suriname-Guyana Segmented Rifted Margins: Insights for the Jurassic Kinematics
SSRN Electronic Journal
2021
Heat Transfer Performance of Heat Pipe with Hydrophilic Inner Wall
2020 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference (iSPEC)
2020
Can Geothermal Energy Play a Competitive Role for Companies Pursuing a Low-Carbon Energy Strategy in the Usa Today?
Unknown Venue
2021
Mesozoic-Cenozoic deformation in the Canadian Cordillera: The record of a “Continental Bulldozer”?
Tectonophysics
2019
Dynamical Instability Produces Transform Faults at Mid-Ocean Ridges
Science
2010
Inverted Magma-rich Versus Magma-poor Rifted Margins: Implications for Early Orogenic Systems
Tektonika
2023
Evolution with Extended Heredity
Extended Heredity
2018
How do detachment faults form at ultraslow mid-ocean ridges in a thick axial lithosphere?
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2020
Multi-isotopic Techniques to Trace Water-Rock Interaction in Petroleum Systems – A Case Study from the Northern Red Sea Basin, Saudi Arabia
Second EAGE Workshop on Geochemistry in Petroleum Operations and Production
2018
Rift-related magmatism on magma-poor margins: Structural and potential-field analyses of the Mesozoic Notre Dame Bay intrusions, Newfoundland, Canada and their link to North Atlantic Opening
Tectonophysics
2018
Hydrothermal Fluid-Rock Experiments and Geochemical Modeling of Illite Forming Processes in a Paleozoic Sandstone, Middle East
82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition
2021
Analysis of conjugate strike-slip faults and its control effect on deposition in Western Bohai Sea
SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018
2018
Influence of Mobile Salt on the Distribution and Preservation of Fulmar Reservoir Sands in the UK Central North Sea
2016 AAPG/SEG International Conference and Exhibition
2016
Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates - Insights from Multi-scale, Multi-scenario Modelling
Proceedings
2017
Upper-plate magma-poor rifted margins: Stratigraphic architecture and structural evolution
Marine and Petroleum Geology
2016
Normal Fault Growth Analysis of Australia's Southern Margin: Evidence From 3-D Seismic Reflection Data in the Ceduna Sub-Basin, Great Australian Bight and Deep-Water Otway Basin
International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia 13-16 September 2015
2015
Tectonotype of volcanic passive margins in the Norwegian-Greenland region
Geotectonics
2008
5. Subduction, Plate Tectonics, and the New Global Tectonics, 1967– 1969
Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes
2019
North Atlantic and Barents Sea frontier exploration
55th EAEG Meeting
1993
AGU Fall Meeting mentors for students sought
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
2005
Antarctica and global paleogeography: from Rodinia, rhrough Gondwanaland and Pangea, to the birth of the Southern Ocean and the opening of gateways
Open-File Report
2007
Upper-mantle seismic structure in a region of incipient continental breakup: northern Ethiopian rift
Geophysical Journal International
2005

Education

London School of Business and Finance

MBA, Business / June, 2020

London

Royal Holloway University of London

Ph.D., Geology / February, 2005

Egham

Royal Holloway University of London

M.Sc., Geoscience / September, 2000

Egham

Keele University

B.Sc., Geology and History / June, 1998

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Experience

Keele University

Honorary Senior Researcher / October, 2017 — Present

Honorary Researcher

CATF

Chief of Geothermal Innovation / February, 2022 — March, 2024

Advocacy and Research into Superhot rock geothermal

NHV

Chief Scientist / January, 2023 — Present

The Worlds first Natural Hydrogen Investment Fund

Geothermal Energy Advisors

Director / July, 2020 — Present

Geothermal Consulting

Total Energies

Senior Exploration Geologist / June, 2018 — February, 2022

New Ventures Exploration

Aramco

Geological Advisor / May, 2016 — May, 2018

Red Sea Specialist Exploration

ConocoPhillips

Senior Geologist / November, 2012 — November, 2015

New Ventures Exploration

Equinor

Senior Geologist / September, 2005 — October, 2012

Exploration Geologist,, Research and R&D

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