Steve Crary is Schlumberger Petrophysics Domain Champion in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. He joined the company as a field engineer in West Texas, with subse- quent assignments as sales engineer in the West Texas Division, district manager for the Midland, Texas, Openhole District and data center manager for the West Texas Division. In 1985, he became USA land interpretation development manager and, after three years, joined the interpretation development staff to work on interpretation techniques for North America. He subsequently served as product development man- ager for Schlumberger in Canada and Alaska, interpre- tation development manager for Schlumberger North America and interpretation development manager for the Gulf Coast Division in New Orleans. He has also worked on various magnetic resonance projects at the Sugar Land Product Center and served as Wireline domain champion in Moscow. Author of numerous papers, Steve received a BS degree in physics from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Andrew Cutts, who is based in Gatwick, England, has been the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Engineer for WesternGeco Land Global Operations Support since 2006. He is responsible for supporting all land seismic crews worldwide with GIS and works closely with R&E in the development of remote-sensing solutions for land seismic studies. Prior to joining WesternGeco, he implemented GIS solutions for a housing association. He has written or contributed to several technical papers and jointly holds one patent. Andrew has a BSc degree (Hons) in geography from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth and an MSc degree in geographic information systems from the University of Leicester in England.
Eric Decoster obtained an engineering degree at École Centrale Paris in 1976 and an MSc degree in civil engineering, flow through porous media, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 1977. He joined Schlumberger in 1978. Based in Barcelona, Venezuela, he is currently Schlumberger Principal Petrophysicist in the Faja Regional Technology Center in Puerto la Cruz.
Charles Flaum is a Schlumberger Petrophysical Advisor for the Magnetic Resonance While Drilling Project (ProVISION* real-time reservoir steering ser- vice) in Sugar Land. He began his career in 1977 as a field engineer in Oklahoma, USA. He subsequently worked in operations and R&D in various locations worldwide, including six years at Wireline headquar- ters in Montrouge, France; five years in Houston; a year in Clamart, France; two years in Beijing and 14 years at Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The author of many papers and holder of numerous patents, he has specialized in nuclear log- ging, magnetic resonance and general petrophysical interpretation. Charles earned a BSc degree (Hons) in physics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and a PhD degree in nuclear physics at University of Rochester, New York, USA. He also did postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.
Michael J. Fuller is the Section Head for Stimulation in the Schlumberger Client Support Laboratory in Kuala Lumpur. Previously, he was a senior chemical engineer in the Stimulation Fluids Engineering Department in Sugar Land. Since joining the company in 2004, he has worked in product development of stimulation fluids, specifically those related to matrix acidizing. Michael holds a BS degree in business chemistry from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, and a PhD degree in chemistry from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Juanih Ghani is a Senior Production Technologist with Talisman Malaysia Ltd. He has 15 years of experi- ence in the oil and gas industry as a petroleum engi- neer and has been an SPE member since 1993. Juanih was graduated from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 1992 with a BS degree in elec- trical and electronics engineering.
Andrew Gould is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Schlumberger Limited, a position he has held since February 2003. He started his career at Ernst & Young, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. His career at Schlumberger began in 1975 in Paris. Andrew is a member of the boards of direc- tors of Schlumberger Limited and of Rio Tinto plc. He serves on the commercialization advisory board of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran. He is a patron of the Permits Foundation, an international industry initiative to improve work per- mit regulations for the spouses of expatriate employ- ees. Andrew received a degree in economic history from the University of Wales. He holds an honorary Doctorate in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and is an honorary Fellow of Cardiff University in Wales.
Ola Gråbak joined the European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN) in 1993 after earning his master’s degree in electrical engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. After com- pleting the European Space Agency Young Graduate Program, he worked in facilities management within the ESA Earth Observation ground segment until 1996. From 1996 to 1997, he earned a master’s degree in space studies with the International Space University in Strasbourg, France. Since his return to ESRIN, Ola has been involved in Earth observation applications development, dividing his time between developing the industrial aspects and supporting the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) ser- vice element.
Nurul Ezalina Hamzah is Well Services Engineer for the Petronas Carigali Well Integrity Engineering Department in Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia. His role is to implement, monitor, manage and supervise the execution of well integrity engineering operations, well data acquisition and rectification programs as well as nonrig-assisted production enhancement activ- ities. He began his career in 2004 as a Schlumberger Wireline openhole field engineer in Aberdeen. He has been with Petronas Carigali since 2005. Nurul holds a BSc degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Nick Heaton received a BSc degree in chemistry from the University of Leeds and a PhD degree in chemical physics from the University of Southampton, both in England. He then worked in NMR research at the University of California at San Diego, USA, the University of Stuttgart in Germany, and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, investigating the structure and dynam- ics of complex fluids. In 1998, he joined the Schlumberger Sugar Land Product Center as NMR interpretation development specialist. Since then he has held positions in sales, marketing and product development. He is currently based at Schlumberger Wireline headquarters in Clamart, France.
Ralph Hinsch has been an Exploration Geologist with Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG (RAG) in Vienna, Austria, since 2004. Previously, he held research positions at Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ), Germany, and at the University of Vienna, where he still teaches seis- mic interpretation. Ralph holds a diploma in geology from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a PhD degree in geosciences, with a focus on structural geol- ogy and geodynamics, from the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Martin D. Hürlimann, Scientific Advisor in the Sensor Physics Department at Schlumberger-Doll Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, works on the development of new measurement techniques for magnetic reso- nance well logging and conducts research on porous media and reservoir fluids, with special emphasis on NMR measurements. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and was cochairman of the 9th International Bologna Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media (MRPM9) in 2008. He earned a master’s degree (Dipl. Natw. ETH) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, and a PhD degree in physics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Before joining Schlumberger in 1992, he held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he con- ducted research on nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy detected by superconducting quantum interference devices.
Mohd Isal Pudin bin Ismail, who is based in Kuala Lumpur, has been a Production Technologist for Petronas Carigali since 2005. Among his responsibili- ties are forecasting well technical potential, analyzing well performance, redesigning gas lift and trouble- shooting well problems. Working as a production technologist for the Tiong-Kepong field, he has been involved in generating proposals for data acquisition and production enhancement activities, verifying monthly well tests and providing subsurface data for the study center group and regional team in Kerteh. He received a BSc degree in petroleum engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Skudai, Johor.
Abul (Jamal) Jamaluddin is a Schlumberger Advisor for Fluids and Flow Assurance at the Deepwater Technology Hub in Kuala Lumpur. He established Reservoir Fluid-Flow Assurance Advisory Services for Schlumberger at Rosharon, Texas, and developed fluid analysis laboratories in Houston, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait and Macaé, Brazil. He works with operating engineers worldwide to help reduce uncertainties in reserves
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