Percy Evans

Percy Evans (2 December 1892 – 14 December 1974) was a British geologist who worked extensively on the oil fields of India, and later became Chief Geologist of the Burmah Oil Company. He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1947.

Education and career Evans studied geology at Trinity College, Cambridge, and joined the Burmah Oil Company in 1915 as a geologist. He spent much of his time working on the geology and structure of the oilfields of Assam, and training geologists in the Burmah Oil company. In 1938, he was appointed Chief Geologist, a position he held until retirement in 1955. He continued as an adviser in retirement. as do Oil India.

Awards Evans’ work was rewarded with a number of accolades. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Mining, Metallurgical and Geological Institute of India, and elected Honorary Fellow in 1964.

In 1947, he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in recognition of his work on the oilfields of Burma and Assam, and on the geological interpretation of gravitational surveys. He was elected Honorary Member of the Geologists Association in 1968.

The Percy Evans Road in Duliajan, where the field headquarters of Oil India is located, is named in his honor.

Family Evans married Kathleen Newman in Kolkata cathedral in 1927, but she died shortly after, of tuberculosis. During retirement, both worked on a project on the geology of Hertfordshire, which was later developed into a book by John Catt.

Evans died on 14 December 1974. His wife Enid died, aged 98, in October 2009.