Mike Simmons is Halliburton’s Technology Fellow for Geoscience & Energy Transition. He has enjoyed a 40-year career associated with the energy industry, working for a supermajor, universities, and consultancies. He is well known for his expertise in Middle East geology and has published extensively on stratigraphy around the world and its applications to subsurface characterisation (e.g. “Arabian Plate Sequence Stratigraphy”). His current focus is accelerating exploration workflows whilst ensuring geological plausibility.