Dr. Lothar Friberg is an independent consultant geoscientist with over 20 years of experience in exploration and subsurface assessments. Lothar’s wide-ranging international geological expertise reaches from basin-wide analysis to individual prospect generation in a variety of structural and sedimentary settings including salt basins. During his career, he worked for an IOC (Chevron) on its global portfolio, a large NOC (CNOOC) on the Americas and for a consultant (Robertson Research International) on multi-client studies and proprietary reports.

Lothar is a subject matter expert in petroleum system analysis with extensive basin modeling (PetroMod and Trinity) and geochemistry experience. In this capacity, he was a leading contributor in developing exploration concepts which resulted in 3 new country entries for Chevron (Iraq, Liberia, Sierra Leone).