Mr. Gil Mull
retired
Alaska Geological Survey
Gil Mull is a retired senior petroleum geologist who has worked for the oil industry, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys and the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas. He has over 40 years of field experience in oil and gas exploration, specializing in the geology of Northern Alaska, including the North Slope, the Brooks Range, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Gil was a member of the Richfield Oil (later Atlantic Richfield Co.) and Humble Oil (later Exxon) team that discovered the Prudhoe Bay oil field and was one of the well site geologists on its 1968 discovery well.
Gil grew up downwind from an oil refinery in west Texas and later in oil shale country in western Colorado, and to this day thinks that the smell of crude oil and H2S isn’t all that bad. He graduated with an MS in geology from the University of Colorado in 1960 and went to work with Richfield Oil Corporation in the Paradox Basin in Utah. He was transferred to Alaska by Richfield in 1961 and spent the rest of his professional career working in a number of areas in Alaska, with most of his time on the North Slope and in the Brooks Range. In 1967 he joined Humble Oil (Exxon), and was with Exxon until 1974 when he moved to the US Geological Survey, where he served in the Branch of Oil and Gas Resources, Branch of Alaskan Geology, and Office of National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. In 1981, he joined the State of Alaska and worked in the Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys and Division of Oil and Gas. He retired from the State of Alaska in 2003 and is now a geological consultant specializing in the geology of northern Alaska. He has published extensively on the geology of the Brooks Range and North Slope and continues to work on geological maps in northern Alaska for both the USGS and Alaska Geological Survey.
