The Rock Opera project was sponsored by Malcolm Rider of Rider-French Ltd hydrocarbon consultancy and Arts and Business Scotland.
Rider-French Ltd has presented courses to the industry for over 20 years, establishing a deserved reputation. They are keen for a new generation to become interested in geology and by sponsoring our project they are making geology accessible to young people.
Malcolm Rider joined the hydrocarbon industry during the heady, early days of North Sea exploration. His early career was with Total, at first in the UK and then in France, where his job as an internal company consultant took him around the world. After a little more than 10 years he left Total to establish Rider-French Consulting Ltd. based in Cambridge, England. The company, with a small number of dedicated employees, enjoyed success in geophysical and geological consulting and in specialist log interpretation. It was during this period that the first edition of the very successful, ‘Geological Interpretation of Well Logs’ was written.
The log interpretation book led naturally to requests for training courses. These gained in importance when BP established a geological logs course as part of their company induction training programme. On the basis of this success, Rider-French began offering high quality courses in a range of subjects, both in-house and publicly.
Malcolm Rider now shares his time between personal consulting, presenting logging courses and working with PhD students at Edinburgh University, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. A second, updated edition of the Geological Interpretation of Well Logs was published in 1996 with many new chapters covering, for example modern image logs, and logs in sequence stratigraphy. The book has become very popular and is now a standard text for graduates in many universities but at the same time is much used by the industry in many countries.
The log interpretation book led naturally to requests for training courses. These gained in importance when BP established a geological logs course as part of their company induction training programme. On the basis of this success, Rider-French began offering high quality courses in a range of subjects, both in-house and publicly.
Malcolm Rider now shares his time between personal consulting, presenting logging courses and working with PhD students at Edinburgh University, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. A second, updated edition of the Geological Interpretation of Well Logs was published in 1996 with many new chapters covering, for example modern image logs, and logs in sequence stratigraphy. The book has become very popular and is now a standard text for graduates in many universities but at the same time is much used by the industry in many countries.
Malcolm also wrote Hutton's Arse, an "illustrated account of 3 billion years of extraordinary geology in Scotland's Northern Highlands". The book is available online and at all major book stores.
Contact details for Rider-French are:
Rider-French,
P.O. Box 1,
Rogart,
Sutherland,
IV28 3XL,
Scotland
+44(0) 7786 216 229
rider.french@gmail.com
The New Arts Sponsorship grants – funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by Arts & Business – aim to build private sector sponsorship of the arts. The grants provide match funding for new arts sponsors, doubling their sponsorship benefits.
The key principles of the grants are:
· Eligible business sponsorships of arts activity can apply for £1 for £1 match funding, based on a minimum sponsorship of £1,000 (cash or in kind) up to a maximum of £30,000.
· To be eligible, the business must be sponsoring the arts in Scotland for the first time, or must not have sponsored the arts in Scotland since 1 April 2007.
· The business does not need to be based in Scotland, and sponsorships by clearly differentiated business units within a company will be considered, provided the sponsorship meets the criteria.
ABOUT ARTS & BUSINESS:
· Arts & Business (A&B) is the national charity dedicated to encouraging new and sustainable arts and business relationships.
· Arts & Business (A&B) helps strengthen communities by developing creative and effective partnerships between business and the arts.
· Arts & Business work with over 350 business members and over 800 arts organisations across the UK.
· Each year A&B turns six million pounds of UK government money into over 100 million pounds worth of support for the Arts.
For more information please contact Katriona Holmes at Arts & Business Scotland, Tel: 0131 556 3353, Email: Katriona.Holmes@ArtsandBusiness.org.uk.
