Arthur E. Berman
BA, MS (Geology)
Director, Labyrinth Consulting Services
Arthur E. Berman is a petroleum geologist with thirty-four years of oil and gas
industry experience. He has done expert witness and research work on several oil
and gas trial and utility commission hearings.
He worked 20 years for Amoco (now BP) and fourteen years as a consulting geologist.
He gives keynote addresses for energy conferences, boards of directors and professional
societies. He has been interviewed about oil and gas topics on CBS, CNBC, CNN, Platt’s
Energy Week, BNN, Bloomberg, Platt’s, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal,
Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
He is a managing editor and frequent contributor of
theoildrum.com, and an associate editor of the AAPG (American Association
of Petroleum Geologists) Bulletin. He is a Director of the Association for the Study
of Peak Oil, and has served on the boards of directors of The Houston Geological
Society and The Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists. He has published
more than 70 articles on petroleum geology.