Dr. Martin Leipzig -
Petroleum geologist and engineer
Martin Leipzig is an international consultant, scientific editor and author living in Farmington, New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of North Dakota after a forty-year tenure in the global Oil Patch. He holds a BS in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside (1980) and an MS in petroleum geology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1982).
Martin began in Houston with Conoco in 1982 and held on until the great oil blight of the late 80’s. From that point, he became an independent consultant and has worked for numerous oil companies ranging from the largest in world (Lukoil, CNOOC) to some of the smallest in Houston during the 90’s. He was a Sr. Geologist exploring some of the world’s largest gas fields (Qatar-North Field; Russia–Urengoy; Uzbekistan-Gazli), and utilized his skill sets for companies in South America (Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela); Central Asia ( Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Mongolia); plus Dagestan, Chechnya, and Kalmykia, Canada and the United States.
While serving as Exploration Manager for several foreign oil and gas companies in Oman, he led successful drilling and production campaigns for CHOPS in the country’s interior, to deep gas on the country’s periphery. Specifically, he was the sole discoverer of economic quantities of helium sourced from Neoproterozoic aged rocks in the Sultanate. He has been active in the drilling and discovery of helium in Eastern Siberia, the Sichuan Province of China, Oman, Australia and Namibia for over 30 years. Martin is CEO and owner of the geological-geophysical-geomechanical consulting firm Brontosaurus Oil & Gas, which has previously operated in the Illinois, Anadarko, Green River, Big Horn and Permian Basins.