VP3 GeoServices | Directors

Peter has a National Diploma in Technology (NHDT), specializing in Geophysics. He is a Professional Member of :- the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Namibian Geological Society, the International Association of Hydrogeologists, and is a registered Professional member of the Project Management Association of South Africa.

Peter has over 30 years of experience in ground and airborne geophysical exploration for mineral resources and groundwater development projects in all regions of Africa as well as Canada & the USA, Brazil, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Rim regions. In addition, he has managed groundwater development programmes and developed implementation strategies in Guyana, South America as part of a DfID / UK funded programme.

Peter has over 16 years of experience in managing the effective implementation of government and NGO funded groundwater development programmes to facilitate water supply and sanitation improvements in remote rural areas. He has hands-on experience in applying effective methods to secure meaningful community participation in private sector funded projects in remote rural and peri-urban areas of South Africa with significant groups of low income customers.

Peter’s early work experience was with airborne and ground geophysical surveys for an international geophysical contracting company. He was also involved in the production of interpretative reports as well as R&D into airborne geophysical equipment, while based in Ottawa, Canada.

His R&D activities were related to the design and construction of microprocessor based aircraft magnetic compensation devices for high-sensitivity magnetic surveys using optically pumped caesium vapour and proton precession magnetometers, the in-house development of geophysical data acquisition systems using state of the art LSI technology and on Pulse Transient Electromagnetics for airborne applications based on the Barringer INPUT concept.

In 1992 Peter relocated to Namibia as the Principal Consulting Geophysicist to an International Consulting firm and was involved extensively in groundwater exploration, drilling and project management of large scale programmes both for Government and the Private sector.

Peter moved to South Africa in 1997 as an Associate Director of a Consulting Engineering firm responsible for the Earth Sciences Division. He was involved in the National RDP Programme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, managing groundwater projects with total budgets exceeding US$25 million and developed a database system around a GIS-based platform to help district municipalities manage, monitor and sustain their groundwater based water supply and sanitation projects.