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EXPERIENCE
2003- Present: Fusion Petroleum Technologies, The Woodlands, TX, USA. Different positions including Vice-President of Seismic Analysis.
Responsible for the management and implementation of service projects in petrophysics, seismic attributes, direct detection of hydrocarbons, inversion, geopressure and shallow hazards analysis.
2001–2003 PDVSA Exploration, PDVSA, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela* Member of the Reservoir Evaluation Team in a Gas Exploration Project. Developer of a methodology for extracting net sand from seismic attributes.
* Supervisor of a Full 3-D pre-stack depth migration project in a complex area (first experience for PDVSA).
* Team leader of a group with the purpose of organizing talks, workshops and events related to geosciences. This project represented at least 8,000 hours/man of informal training for the company in 1-½ years.2000–2001 The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
* Research assistant in a project for Shallow Water Flow identification from geophysical tools. Developer of a methodology to estimate Vp/Vs ratios from the inversion of multicomponent seismic data.1998–1999 PDVSA Exploration, PDVSA, Caracas, Venezuela
* Team leader in the group for seismic acquisition operations.
* Survey designer of 6 acquisition seismic programs on land (3D seismic)
* Member of the bidding and evaluation group for seismic acquisition.1994–1998 CORPOVEN, PDVSA, Caracas, Venezuela
* Geophysicist: In Seismic Processing and Acquisition Group.
* Survey designer and supervisor of at least 17 acquisition seismic programs on land (2D and 3D seismic)
* Borehole seismic acquisition and processing
* Seismic Processing of at least 3 small 2D projects and 1 small 3D Project.
* Seismic Attribute Analysis for several projects.
Education
1999–2001 The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
* Master of Science in Geology, Petroleum geosciences option.
* Thesis topic: Vp/Vs ratio prediction from inversion of multicomponent seismic data, in order to predict sands prone to Shallow Water Flow. 1988–1994 Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
* Ingeniero Geofisico (Geophysicist)
* Additionally, 2 years in Physics
* Thesis topic: Evaluation of several commercial time and depth pre and post stack migration algorithms with a synthetic generated line.
Professional Interests Seismic Inversion, AVO, Seismic – petrophysics correlation for geological modeling. To lead reservoir characterization teams with a real multidisciplinary point of view.
Relevant Publications
* Moreno, C; Castagna, J; Huffman, A; and Bertagne, A, 2002, The Vp/Vs inversion procedure: A methodology for Shallow Water Flow (SWF) prediction from seismic analysis of multicomponent data. Submitted to the 2003 OTC.
* Moreno, C; Young, R; and Castagna, J, 2.001. Appropriate acquisition and processing for shallow 3D seismic surveys. 71st SEG meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
* Moreno, C; Del Pino, E.; Cerquone, H and Roa, E. 1.995 Evaluation of time and depth migration algorithms for pre and post stack seismic data. Special invitation to the First Latin-American Geophysical meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* Moreno, C; Del Pino, E.; Cerquone, H and Roa, E. 1.994 Evaluation of time and depth migration algorithms for pre and post stack seismic data. VII Venezuelan Geophysical Meeting, Caracas, Venezuela. This paper won the "Virgil Winkler " award as best student work.
TIPS
* Experience with several software in geology and geophysics (Hampson and Russell: AVO, Strata and Emerge; Geoquest: Charisma, Geoviz; Landmark: Promax 2D and 3D; Kingdom Suites; MESA; SIERRA; Seislink; IRAP RMS; others)
* Languages: Spanish, and English as a second language.
* No limitations for travelling worldwide.
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