Contributors
Ridvan Akkurt is a Senior Petroleum Engineering Consultant at Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He began his career in 1983 as a Wireline field engi- neer for Schlumberger in Africa and then worked for GSI (Geophysical Service Inc.) in the Middle East as a field seismologist, and for Schlumberger-Doll Research in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) research. He also worked for Shell as a geophysicist and for NUMAR as a senior research scientist. Ridvan founded NMR- PLUS Inc. in 1997 and consulted for major oil and ser- vice companies on various aspects of NMR logging until he joined Saudi Aramco in 2005. He has a BS degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and a PhD degree in geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, USA. He has several publications and patents in NMR logging, has taught courses on NMR logging and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE and SPWLA.
Ibrahim H. Al-Arnaout is a Petroleum Engineer who works for Saudi Aramco in the Southern Area Production Engineering Department (SAPED). He received his BS degree in petroleum engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran. He has 10 years of petroleum work experience, particularly in the areas of intelli- gent fields and well intervention. He is a member of the SPE and has published several technical papers. Ibrahim is currently the Head of the Haradh and Harmaliyah Production Engineering Unit at Udhailiyah.
Salah Al-Harthy is a Senior Sales Engineer for Schlumberger in Houston. He began his Schlumberger career in 1996 in the Middle East, performing and designing cementing, sand control and matrix acidizing jobs in Saudi Arabia and Oman. In 1999, he transferred to the USA, where he worked as a fracturing and stimu- lation vessel engineer on deepwater Gulf of Mexico operations. In 2001, he began coordinating sand con- trol tool applications for deep water, and in 2002, he moved to well completion sales in Houston. He returned to Oman as operations manager in 2003, and then spent a year as GeoMarket* technical engineer in Venezuela before assuming his current position. Salah obtained a BS degree in materials science and engi- neering from University of Manchester, England.
H. Nate Bachman is a Senior Physicist and Project Leader at the Schlumberger Sugar Land Product Center in Texas. There he oversees magnetic reso- nance tool development and answer products, as well as training materials and seminars on magnetic reso- nance for oilfield professionals. Nate holds a BS degree in physics from Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA, as well as MS and PhD degrees in physics from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. Prior to employment at Schlumberger, he held a research appointment in physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
George Brown joined Sensa fiber optics in Southampton, England, as manager of interpretation development in 1999. (Sensa was acquired by Schlumberger in 2001.) He is responsible for develop- ing fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor (DTS) interpretation methodology, analyzing Sensa* DTS data and training Schlumberger staff and clients to interpret DTS data. He began his career with Schlumberger Wireline in 1973, working 12 years in the Middle East and the North Sea in operational, management and sales positions. During the next 15 years, he was with BP Exploration in several posts, including head of petrophysics at the Sunbury Research Centre in England and senior formation eval- uation consultant with the Intelligent Wells Team, charged with developing new permanent monitoring systems for horizontal and subsea wells. George earned a degree (Hons) in mechanical engineering from Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry, England.
Rex Burgos is a Program Manager at Schlumberger Integrated Productivity and Conveyance Center in Sugar Land, Texas. There he is involved in product development activities for the ACTive* services portfo- lio. He has held several technical support functions including manager of the InTouch knowledge manage- ment system, technical advisor and most recently technical support manager for the Coiled Tubing Services business segment. Other past assignments include serving as a technical instructor for Well Services at the UK Training Center, as product cham- pion for CoilCAT* coiled tubing data acquisition sys- tem and as a coiled tubing software applications engineer in Rosharon, Texas. He currently holds a Director Membership position with the Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) and is a previ- ous member of the API Well Intervention and Well Control Subcommittee. He joined Schlumberger in 1983 as a field engineer and has had several offshore and land assignments in the Far East. Rex has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
Oscar A. Bustos, who is based in Sugar Land, is Domain Manager, Acidizing and Conformance, for Schlumberger Well Services. In this position, he has global responsibilities that include providing techni- cal support, business direction and liaison between clients and Schlumberger for acidizing and confor- mance services. He also provides technical guidance for new product development and research. He joined Schlumberger as a field engineer in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1995. Subsequent assignments took him to Argentina, Kuwait and Texas as engineer in charge of fracturing services, district technical engineer, stimu- lation engineer, operations manager and GeoMarket technical engineer. Before assuming his current post in 2008, he was based in Denver as GeoMarket tech- nical engineer for the US West GeoMarket region. Oscar studied geology at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and earned a BS degree in petroleum engi- neering at Universidad de America, both in Bogotá. He also has an MBA degree from RSM Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Chanh Cao Minh is the D&M Director of Measurements at Schlumberger Sugar Land Product Center. Previously, he was section manager responsi- ble for the CMR* combinable magnetic resonance tool in the NMR Department from 1997 to 2004. He joined the company in 1978 as a field engineer, working in France and Norway. He has held various management and staff positions in Europe and Southeast Asia, con- centrating primarily on reservoir simulation. He man- aged the Schlumberger Computing Center in China (1990 to 1991) and then became a research scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA. Before taking his current assign- ment in Sugar Land in 2008, he was a petrophysicist in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and then a petrophysicist domain champion in Luanda, Angola. Chanh has a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from Université de l’Etat à Liège, Belgium.
Romulo Carmona is currently Petrophysical Advisor to Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) for the bitumi- nous reservoirs of the Orinoco belt. He joined PDVSA in 1982 as a petrophysicist in operations. Romulo received an engineering degree in geology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas in 1977.
Jon Christian works for Schlumberger in Sugar Land, Texas, where he serves as Product Champion for the ACTive portfolio of coiled tubing services. He joined Schlumberger as a wireline field engineer and has held positions in sales, marketing, technique and man- agement in the USA and South America. A graduate of Rice University in Houston, Jon has a BS degree in mechanical engineering.
Stephen Coulson has more than 20 years of experi- ence in the field of satellite Earth observation and its applications, the last 18 of which have been with the European Space Agency (ESA). In the early 1990s, he worked on the development of processing facilities to deliver ocean wind, sea-surface height and wave spec- tra for national meteorological offices within three hours of sensing for the ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites. Throughout the 1990s, he coordinated a group of scien- tists around the world to develop the technique of syn- thetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry for the production of digital elevation models (DEMs) and displacement maps of the Earth’s surface for earth- quakes, landslides and subsidence events. Since 2000, he has managed an ESA program to support the devel- opment of the European Earth observation services industry and is now head of the Industry Section within the Directorate of Earth Observation Programs in the European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy. Stephen earned a degree in physics from the University of Durham and a PhD degree in theoretical physics from the University of Southampton, both in England.
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