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Exploration Geophysicist
SUMMARY
26 years experience in both exploration and development prospect generation with a 60% lifetime exploration success rate (6/10) and an 83% lifetime success rate for development drilling (5/6). Major strength in 2D, 3D depth imaging, both pre and post-stack; significant experience with both Landmark and GeoQuest.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Team Leader, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia (Jan. '06 - present)
Saudi Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Team Leader, Offshore Arabian (Persian) Gulf, Saudi Arabia 2004-2005
Saudi Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
* Planned, acquired 1st Arabian Gulf marine expl. survey since 1987
* Result: 8 leads with combined potential of 40 TCF (P50)
* Result: 3 - $50 MM deep offshore gas wells authorized for drilling
* Result: KARN-6 tested 4/15/06 as 40+ MMCF/day gas discovery
Senior Interpreter, N. Ghawar area, Saudi Arabia 2000-2004
Saudi Aramco; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
* Result: 40+ MMCFD Gas discovery, FZRN-23
Consulting Geophysicist - Pakistan team 2000
Orient Petroleum; Houston, TX and Islamabad, Pakistan
* Result: 3 expl. prospects in L. Indus Valley
Senior Geophysicist - Gulf of Suez, Egypt team 1998-2000
Seagull Energy / Ocean Energy; Houston, TX
* Designed demultiple processing flow, performed contractor QC, and created velocity field for 100 sq. km. 3D Pre-Stack Depth Migration
* Completed interp integrating PSDM, geology, magnetics, biostrat
* Result: 60 – 80 MMBO discovery, E. Zeit A-21
Senior Geophysicist - Teak Asset Development Team 1997-1998
Amoco Trinidad; Houston, TX
* Result: developed 40 BCF gas in Teak field, offshore Trinidad through seismic mapping and use of seismic amplitude anomalies
* Result: Two oil development successes in Teak field (10 MMBO), including the 2nd deepest horizontal well in S. America
Senior Geophysicist - Gulf of Suez (GOS) team 1990-1997
GUPCO (Amoco joint venture); Cairo, Egypt
* Acquired, performed boat processing, QC'd contractor processing, interpreted 800 sq. km. 3D survey in GOS
* Result: 2 discoveries (75 MMBO and 21,000 BOPD IP combined, GS301-1, SG 310-4, and 3 prospects with over 100 MMBO risked reserves, 1 dry hole)
Senior Geophysicist - W. Africa team 1989-1990
Amoco Production Company; Houston, TX
* Reconnaissance mapping in Ghana, and W. Africa Op. Support
Research Geophysicist Lithology Prediction group 1988-1989
Amoco Research Center; Tulsa, OK
* Geophysical support for reservoir characterization project to correlate seismic amplitudes and porosity using geostatistical techniques.
* Designed and acquired 100+ hz. high res. 3D over N. Cowden field
Geophysicist - Michigan team 1985-1988
Amoco Production Company; Houston, TX
* Mapped Prairie du Chen sand pinchout for stratigraphic prospect generation. No prospects drilled due to drop in oil price
Geophysicist - W. Texas team 1980-1985
Amoco Production Company; Houston, TX
* Acquired, processed and interpreted 2D seismic for exploration prospect generation - Midland Basin.
* Result: one field discovery (SE Draw, Lynn Co.), 3 dry holes
EDUCATION
B.S. Mathematics of Applied Sciences, U. of Iowa, 1979 (Custom designed for geophysics incl. geophysics, geology, math, physics, computer science)
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Jason GeoSystems Basic Inversion Course 1 week – '04
Subsurface Geologic Mapping with Tearpock 1 week – '01
GeoQuest IESX Seismic Workstation Interp. 1 week – '99, 1 week – '00
Landmark Courses in Beg. and Adv. SeisWorks, 3 weeks - '92, '94, '96
3D Stratigraphic Interpretation from Brad Macurda, 1 week – '96
Interpretation of 3D Seismic Data from Alistair Brown, 1 week – '96
Field Trips and Field Work, total of 14 weeks – 1980 – 2006
Internal Amoco and Aramco Courses, misc., 19 weeks - 1980 – 2004
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
SEG, AAPG, Dhahran GeoScience Society (DGS)
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