András Németh Passes
In Memory
András Németh, a geologist and research expert for Hungarian energy company MOL, tragically passed away on Sept. 12 at the age of 46.
He was a key member and supporter of the AAPG in Europe. He was an active and vocal supporter of the AAPG Foundation and three Hungarian student chapters of AAPG, and was highly involved with the Europe Region Imperial Barrel Award competition. He co-chaired the Visiting Geoscience Program from 2011-2017. He was a member of the AAPG House of Delegates since 2018, and he co-chaired the Europe Region Conference in May of this year.
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András Németh, a geologist and research expert for Hungarian energy company MOL, tragically passed away on Sept. 12 at the age of 46.
He was a key member and supporter of the AAPG in Europe. He was an active and vocal supporter of the AAPG Foundation and three Hungarian student chapters of AAPG, and was highly involved with the Europe Region Imperial Barrel Award competition. He co-chaired the Visiting Geoscience Program from 2011-2017. He was a member of the AAPG House of Delegates since 2018, and he co-chaired the Europe Region Conference in May of this year.
Due to his kind, approachable nature and wonderful ability to establish friendships he was very widely and affectionately known among his colleagues throughout MOL, as well as among AAPG members in the Europe Region and beyond.
Németh joined MOL in 1999 as a geologist freshly graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He was immediately involved in the petroleum exploration of the Zala basin, first as an interpreter and later as a project manager. He played a decisive role in the 2011 discovery of the Tófej, Rádiház and Gutorfölde natural gas fields; these successes laid the foundation for MOL’s subsequent shallow gas research program.
He used his excellent organizational and relationship-building skills as a project manager in international collaborations such as the assessment of the unconventional hydrocarbon potential of the Zala–Mura–Dráva basins with INA in 2009, the evaluation of the unconventional research opportunities of the Petišovci-Globoki field in Slovenia with Geomega in 2012, and analysis of cooperation opportunities in the Inke block in South Zala with RAG in 2013. In recent years, his work was “indispensable,” according to colleagues, in the 2016-19 Pannonian Basin study investigating the research potential of the entire Pannonian basin, as well as the MOL-INA cross-border exploration study of 2020-21.
In June, he was awarded the prize for “best presentation” at the prestigious international Petroconf conference organized by MOL.
He is survived by his wife and three children.