Dawn Houliston joined ERCE in 2017. Prior to this, Dawn worked at BP for 9 years, developing significant experience in exploration, appraisal and development projects.  She has offshore operational experience including open and cased hole wireline log witnessing, LWD witnessing and core witnessing. During her time at BP, she garnered an extensive experience of planning data acquisition programmes and providing QC and real-time interpretations of petrophysical data.

Dawn has experience in clastic, carbonate and unconventional reservoirs, including fractured reservoirs, developed from her time at ERCE and BP.  Dawn has experience in rock physics fluid substitution, thin-bed petrophysics, shaly sand petrophysics, low resistivity pay, fractured carbonates as well as challenging mixed lithology reservoirs.

Dawn has an MSci in Geology from Imperial College London, and an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience from Aberdeen University. Dawn is a Chartered Geologist with the Geological Society of London, and is a member of SPWLA and PESGB. Dawn was the first female president of the London Petrophysical Society and remains on the committee as Past President.