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Mick Borwell
Mick Borwell is Oil & Gas UK's Environmental Issues Director. Mick has responsibility for liaison with government departments and guides industry towards an understanding of the environmental risks of exploration and production activities.
Prior to being appointed in this role at Oil & Gas UK, Mick worked as Assistant Director, Environment, for eight years. He entered the upstream oil and gas industry in 1989 in a consultancy position with BP and then worked at Occidental and Elf, where he had responsibility for environment, occupational health and the management of exploration in environmentally sensitive areas.
Mick graduated as a marine biologist from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and spent three years in benthic biology research before becoming a consultant with the Institute of Offshore Engineering, working mainly on seabed surveys.
