Contributors
Roger Barton is Chief Geologist at True Oil Company in Casper, Wyoming, USA. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil industry. Roger received a BA degree in geology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Craig Beasley completed BS, MS and PhD degrees in mathematics before joining Western Geophysical in 1981. He served in several capacities in the computer sciences, R&D and data processing departments, including worldwide VP of R&D and worldwide VP of data processing, and continued as VP of data process- ing after the formation of WesternGeco. He has received two Litton Technology Awards, a Performed by Schlumberger Silver Award and the SEG Best Presentation Award and has served as the Esso Australia distinguished lecturer. He is an Honorary Member of the Geophysical Society of Houston and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He has published widely on a variety of top- ics such as prestack imaging, migration, acquisition and the connections between acquisition, processing and imaging. He also served as VP and as president of the SEG and is a 2009 SEG Distinguished Lecturer. Currently based in Rio de Janeiro, he is Chief Geophysicist for WesternGeco; he is also a Schlumberger Fellow and the Chair of the newly formed SEG Foundation Committee for Geoscientists Without Borders.
Ken Bird, a Research Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), is based in Menlo Park, California, USA. He specializes in the petroleum geol- ogy of northern Alaska, where his experience spans more than 45 years and includes writing more than 100 papers and abstracts. Currently, he is a coleader of the Alaska Petroleum Resources Project. Prior to joining the USGS in 1974, he spent seven years as an exploration geologist with Shell Oil Company. Ken has a BS degree in geology from Oregon State University, in Corvalis, USA, and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
Jefferson Creek is a Senior Research Consultant, Flow Assurance Core Team, Chevron Energy Technology Company in Houston. He is a corporate technical expert on reservoir fluid analysis and phase behavior, wax deposition, asphaltene precipitation and deposition and hydrate formation, remediation and blockage formation. He also chairs the company’s Virtual Phase Behavior Team. After serving as a post- doctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, he joined Chevron Oil Field Research Company in 1977 to work on fluid analysis and phase behavior. He has also worked on automated analytical toxicology at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1969 to 1971). Jeff earned a BS degree in chemistry and mathematics at Middle Tennessee State University, in Murfreesboro, USA, and MS and PhD degrees in chemistry and physical chemistry at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, USA.
Myrt (Bo) Cribbs is a Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor in Chevron’s Deep Water Gulf of Mexico Exploration and Major Capital Projects Business Unit in Houston. He has been a wellbore formation testing
and well testing specialist for more than 15 years. He has 29 years of experience as a reservoir engineer with Chevron in New Orleans, Houston and the Partitioned Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He earned a BS degree at Mississippi State University, in Starkville, USA, in 1980.
Chengli Dong has been a Reservoir Domain Champion with Schlumberger in the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico since 2008. He is involved in downhole fluid analysis, formation testing and sampling, and develop- ment and applications of new formation tester tools and answer products. He began his career in 1991 as a certified chemical engineer, working to develop new coating and building materials for the Beijing Construction Institute and later for Beijing Nisus New Building Material Company. In 2001 he joined Schlumberger to work as principal reservoir engineer developing formation testing technologies at the Sugar Land Product Center in Texas, USA. Chengli holds a BS degree in chemistry from Beijing University and a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Bertrand du Castel is a Schlumberger Fellow based in Sugar Land, Texas. His main responsibilities are Schlumberger computer activities with a current focus on the application of artificial intelligence techniques to oilfield automation. He is also involved in expanding the reach of the oilfield business into new activities such as geothermal energy. Bertrand joined Schlumberger in 1978 and spent five years in France before moving to Austin, Texas, where he was involved in the company’s software activities including acquisi- tion, communication, processing, logistics and opera- tional systems. Bertrand is a past director and vice-chairman of the Petroleum Open Software Corporation, Chairman of the Java Card† Technical Committee and member of other computer-based oil- field and industry organizations. In 2005 he received the Card Technology Visionary Award for his pioneering of the Java Card. He is the author of papers on com- puter security, logic, artificial intelligence, software engineering and linguistics and has patents in both oil- field and general computer fields. With Tim Jurgensen, he coauthored Computer Theology: Intelligent Design of the Worldwide Web (Midori Press, 2008). Bertrand has a degree in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris, and a PhD degree in theoretical computer science from the University of Paris.
Tor Ellis, who is based in Stavanger, has been a Senior Completion Engineer with Marathon Petroleum Company (Norway) LLC since 2003. He is lead comple- tion engineer for the multiwell Alvheim and Volund projects, coordinating all completion-related activities for the varied well types in these projects. After earn- ing a BEng degree (Hons) in mechanical engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1997, he joined Marathon Oil UK (Ltd) in Aberdeen as a completion engineer for the Brae fields and other Marathon assets in Europe. From 2001 to 2002 he was based in Houston, working as an offshore completion engineer on the Canyon Express project in the Gulf of Mexico. Before taking his current post, he worked as a completion engineer for the Greensand development well, offshore Ireland in the northern Celtic Sea.
Hani Elshahawi leads Shell’s Fluid Evaluation and Sampling Technologies (FEAST) global center of expertise, which is responsible for the planning, exe- cution and analysis of global high-profile formation testing and fluid sampling operations. Hani has more than 20 years of experience in the oil industry and has worked in both service and operating companies in more than 10 countries in Africa, Asia and North America. He has held various positions in interpreta- tion, consulting, operations, marketing and product development. The holder of several patents and author of more than 70 papers in various areas of petroleum engineering and the geosciences, he is currently the President of the SPWLA and a Distinguished Lecturer for the SPE. He has a BS degree in mechanical engi- neering and an MS degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Alpay Erkal is a Project Manager at the Schlumberger Regional Technology Center in Houston, where he is involved in modeling water production from shale gas fields. He began his career at Schlumberger in 1999 as a reservoir engineer for Schlumberger Information Services (SIS) and led the SIS North America Group responsible for support, training and consulting for reservoir engineering software. He has also worked as a field engineer with Mobil Mediterranean and as an R&D engineer for Turkish Petroleum Company. He received his BSc degree in geological engineering from the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara, Turkey, and earned MSc and PhD degrees from the Geological and Petroleum Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, USA. Before joining Schlumberger, Alpay worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and then in the research faculty at Alfred University, in New York, USA.
Jesús García Hernández is PEMEX Characterization Asset Submanager for the South Exploration Asset, in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. He has extensive experience in prospect evaluation and production in offshore operations. Jesús obtained a degree in petro- leum geology from the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, along with an MBA degree from Universidad Autonóma del Carmen–Tulane.
Gordon Goh is a Reservoir Engineer with Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services based in Kuala Lumpur. He has been with Schlumberger since 2001. Gordon received a BSc degree in chemical engi- neering from the University of Malaysia and an MS degree in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
José M. Grajales-Nishimura is responsible for coordi- nating research activities in the Geology Program at the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) in Mexico City. During his career at IMP he has been involved in various research projects such as petrology and geochronology work for regional mapping of basement rocks or younger igneous rocks that have an effect on the petroleum basins of Mexico. He has also worked on application of strontium isotopes in stratigraphy and on diagenetic studies of the origin and distribution of porosity in carbonate reservoirs. His current research
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