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EDUCATION:
University of Wales, Ph.D., Marine Geophysics, 1998.
University of British Columbia, M.Sc., Marine Geophysics, 1986.
University of Toronto, B.Sc., Physics 1982 (Geop. Option, Honours Program).
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:
Data of Birth: February 26, 1959
Place of Birth: Goose Bay, Labrador.
Nationality: Canadian
SUMMARY
Geophysicist with 25 years of experience.
Extensive experience in project and team management as well as an in depth understanding of seismic processing (11yr), seismic acquisition (5yr), interpretation procedures (8yr) and A&D (2.5yr). During my career I have worked in Canada, Norway, France, Russia and South East Asia.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2006-Present Scotia Waterous, Associate Director. Assist with corporate and asset divestitures. Duties included evaluation of oil and gas assets, preparation of marketing material, presentations to prospective bidders and management of seismic workstations. I have worked on 37 mandates including domestic (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, NWT and offshore east coast Canada) and international mandates (Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Peru, Argentine, Columbia, Syria and Egypt).
2001 - 2006 Ptarmigan Resources Ltd. One of the founders of this junior exploration company. Duties included the management of the company, raising investment capital and presentations to senior and technical personnel of potential farm-in partners. The company holds an interest in exploration licenses offshore eastern Canada. Several key shareholders contributed technical skills to the project and my technical roll included purchase and interpretation of seismic data; reprocessing of the 2D marine seismic data and AVO analysis. The tectonic regime of western onshore to offshore Newfoundland is a mirror image of the foot hills and foreland basin plays of Western Canada. The tectonic regime is characterized by extensional faulting followed by compression as the Iapetus ocean subsequently closed. Extensive over-thrusting of allochthonous units and major tectonic event in the Carboniferous further complicate the geology of this region. Seismic data show a typical triangle zone formed at the base of the allochthonous units and a stable foreland basin to the west. Prestack migration, conforming to accepted AVO amplitude preserving processing flows, permitted several AVO analyses to be performed on the data. This work was performed by myself using Promax software with some modifications. The results indicated several positive targets. Total data volume interpreted – 500km of 2D; AVO – 100 km 2D, re-processed (100km).
2005 Norsk Hydro Canada Oil and Gas. Consultant, Reinterpretation of an extensive database of 2D (>300km) and 3D (>1000km2) seismic data from the Jeanne D'Arc Basin, offshore Eastern Canada using Seisworks (Landmark). The Jeanne d'Arc Basin is a fault-bounded Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous reactivated sector of the larger Late Triassic-Early Jurassic rifted area on the Grand Banks. This Lower Cretaceous play formed during Early Mesozoic break-up of the Pangaea continental mass and the birth of the Atlantic.
1991 – 2006 Shearwater Geophysical Corporation, President. Shearwater is a consulting company started in 1991 while pursuing Ph.D. studies. My first contract was with Mobil Oil Canada Properties Ltd. (Now ExxonMobil) for QC of 3D seismic data acquisition over the Hibernia oil field. Between 1991 and 2003 I provided services to the oil and gas industry, which included project management, seismic processing, interpretation and data acquisition QC. I have processed and supervised the processing of seismic data including 2D (> 5000km) and 3D (>100km2) land and marine programs. I have successfully managed several 2D land (>314 km) and marine seismic acquisition programs (>500).
1998-1999 Memorial University Seismic Imaging Consortium, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Project Geophysicist, Post Ph.D. research on seismic migration algorithms using advanced wavelet compression routines (results presented at 1999 CSEG) and development of multiple removal software. During the course of the research I studied several migration algorithms, wrote a migration program including reproducing the results in Jon Claerbout's book Imaging the Earth's Interior. My research involved applying wavelet transforms to wave equation migration operators.
1996 - 98 C-CORE. Educational leave of absence for Ph. D. studies at the University of Wales.
1993 - 96 C-CORE: Assistant Director, Seabed Geophysics Group. Assisted in management of 7 Engineers and 5 Geoscientists. Positions held at C-CORE during my part-time Ph.D. studies. My central research duties revolved around my Ph.D. research into using advanced time frequency techniques to relate seismic and acoustic reflections to rock properties. Other duties include research into marine seismic and acoustic sources and rock property relationships to seismic and acoustic signals.
1991 - 93 C-CORE: Project Manager.
1988 - 91 C-CORE: Project Geophysicist.
1986 - 88 Texaco Canada Resources Ltd.. Explorationist, Interpretation of seismic data and prospect generation for the Southern Alberta region. Specific projects included successful interpretation of the Beaver Hil Lake gas play and evaluation of Nisku Pinical reefs.
1984 - 86 Department of Geophysics and Astronomy, U.B.C.: Graduate Teaching Assistant.
1984 - 86 Department of Geophysics and Astronomy, U.B.C.: Research Assistant.
1982 - 83 Division of Seismology and Geomagnetism, Earth Physics Branch of Energy, Mines and Resources: Geophysicist.
1981 Geological Survey of Canada, E.M.R.: Geophysicist.
PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Technical Skill Development
Seismic Data Ownership, Piece, October 30, 2008
Risk and Analysis of Exploration Plays, CSEG short course, May 9, 2008
How rock and reservoir properties determine oil and gas recovery; A course for production geologists and reservoir engineers.
Standard First Aid and CPR (St. John Ambulance, October 1999)
VSP Analysis - Schlumberger
Depth Migration of Foothills Seismic Data - SEG
Wavelets: Principles, Applications and Implementations - Texas A&M
MED - Basic Safety - A1 - Offshore survival and safety training course.
Exploration Seismic Tomography - Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Vibrator Seminar - Texaco Canada Resources
Petroleum Exploration Economics and Risk Analysis - Texaco Canada Resources
Seismic Field Techniques - Oil and Gas Consultants International, Inc.
3-D Seismic Collection, Processing and Modelling - SEG
Visual and Basic Well Log Analysis Techniques - etcetera consulting ltd.
Exploration Contouring, Mapping and Data Interpretation Methods - Texaco Canada Resources.
Human Resource Development
Management Skills for Technical Professionals - Faculty of Business Administration, MUN.
Conversational French - Level 1, Continuing Education, MUN
Conversational French - Level 2, Continuing Education, MUN
Conflict Management Seminar, Centre for Management Development, Faculty of Business Administration.
Professional Affiliations
Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta
Professional Engineers and geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador
Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES
Pike, C. J., P. Patey, I. Atkinson, 2004. The Cmbro-Ordovician Platform Offshore Western Newfoundland: A New Exploration Frontier in Northern Reaches of Appalachia. Presented at the Appalachian Region, Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Focused Technology Workshop, Understanding the Trenton Black-River Reservoir.
Wright, James A., Ian Atkinson, Craig Rowe, Chris J. Pike, William J. Scott, 2002, A Novel 3D Seismic Survey, Shoal Point, Newfoundland: New Data, New Interpretation. AGS, Vol. 38, Num. 1 (2002), 2002 Colloquium and Annual General Meeting.
Pike, C.J., 1999, The wavelet transform: migration of compressed data versus compressed migration operators., 1999 CSEG, Calgary, AB.
Pike, C.J., 1998. High resolution acoustic investigations of sub-seabed soils: relationship of wavelet transformed acoustic images to soil properties and some geotechnical parameters. Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales.
Pike, C.J., 1994. Analysis of high resolution marine seismic data using the wavelet transform. Wavelet Analysis and Its Applications, Volume 4, Wavelets in Geophysics, Edited by Efi Foufoula-Georgiou and Praveen Kumar, Charles K. Chui Series Editor, Academic Press, Inc., 1994.
Pike, C.J. and Guigné, J.Y., 1993. Acoustic imaging of marine soils: a Wavelet Transform application. 1993 Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland. Abstract: Supplement to EOS April 20, 1993, p56.
Guigné, J.Y. and Pike, C.J., 1992. The Use of Precision Acoustics as Strategic Input to Geotechnical - Acoustic Correlations, The 10th Forum for Offshore Site Investigation, Keynote Address.
Guigné, J.Y., Clarke, J.I., Inkpen, S.T. and Pike, C.J. 1991. Interactive Acoustic Mapping of Seabed Sediments. Invited paper. Conference, Institute of Acoustics, Weymouth, England, May 1991.
Inkpen, S.T., English, J., Pike, C.J., Guigné, J.Y., Guzzwell, J., Hunt, P. and Tuff, K. 1991. A Three-Dimensional Acoustic Site Surveying Probe. Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference 1991, Houston, Texas, May 1991, pp 525-534.
Guigné, J.Y., Pike, C.J. and Inkpen, S.T., 1989. 1500 Hz 3-D Acoustic Imaging of the Near Sub-seabed. Joint CSEG-CSPG national convention, May 1989, Calgary, Alberta.
Morel-A-L'Huissier, P., Green, A.G. and Pike, C.J., 1987. Crustal refraction surveys across the Trans-Hudson Orogeny/Williston Basin of South Central Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 92, No. B7, pp 6403-6420, 1987.
Pike, Chris J., 1986. A seismic refraction study of the Hecate sub-basin, British Columbia. M. Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Pike, Chris J. and Clowes, R.M. 1986. Hecate Strait B.C.: a seismic structural model from airgun ocean bottom seismograph studies. Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists National Convention, May 1986, Calgary, Alberta
Forsyth, D. A., Dufresne, D., Green, A.G., Jackson, R. and Pike, C.J., 1983. Crustal Structure of Arctic Ocean-Floor Ridges near the North Pole. EOS Vol. 64, No. 45 S22A-08, 1983.
Green, A.G., Morel-A-L'Huissier, P. and Pike, C.J., 1983. Interpretation of CO-CRUST seismic refraction data across the Superior-Churchill boundary zone and the Williston Basin. 1983 GAC/MAC/CGU meeting.
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