Wayne W. Frenier, a Schlumberger Advisor working in the Oilfi eld Chemical Products department of Well Services in Sugar Land, Texas, is responsible for devel- oping acidizing stimulation products. He joined the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, USA, in 1970 to work on acid inhibition and chemical cleaning and subsequently moved to Schlumberger Dowell in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He joined Hydrochem Industrial Services in Houston as a research supervisor and returned to Schlumberger in 1998. Wayne obtained a BS degree in chemistry from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA; and an MS degree in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is the author of 23 patents, 50 techni- cal articles and two books.


Toshinobu Kaneko, a Solutions Engineer in Houston, is the completions and production-engineering spe- cialist for Schlumberger companies in North America and the Gulf of Mexico. He is responsible for the devel- opment of the sand-management solutions process for Schlumberger services in deepwater projects. He joined Schlumberger Wireline & Testing in 1996 as a reservoir engineer for Japan, Korea, Sakhalin and Taiwan (JKST) after obtaining BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Toshinobu also worked as production and stim- ulation engineer specialist for Schlumberger Oilfi eld Services JKST and East Asia before taking his current assignment in 2001.


Hans Kristian Kotlar, Specialist in Production Technology for Statoil ASA, is based in Stavanger, Norway. His main areas of interest are well chemistry, scale and formation damage and applied biotechnol- ogy in the oil industry. Since joining Statoil in 1990 as a section manager in polymer alloys, he has worked in various research fi elds dealing with well chemistry and laboratory experimentation and investigation. He assumed his current position in 2000. The author of more than 100 publications and patents, Hans has an MS degree in technical biochemistry from the Norwegian Institute of Technology at Trondheim, and a PhD degree in cancer immunology from the University of Oslo, Norway.


Bjorn Langseth, Schlumberger Sandface Completion Architect in Stavanger, Norway, oversees tubing-con- veyed perforating job design, using Sand Management Advisor, PURE methodology and the SPAN* Schlumberger perforating analysis program. He joined Schlumberger as a fi eld engineer in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1980. Since then he has worked in various engineering, instructional, management and marketing positions in Norway, France, Libya, Nigeria and Houston. Bjorn holds a postgraduate diploma in offshore engi- neering from The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.


Bruno Lecerf, Schlumberger Solutions Engineer in the Engineering Applications department in Sugar Land, Texas, is currently working on sandstone matrix acidizing. His most recent project is the development of e-Virtual Lab, which uses e-mail attachments to run Virtual Lab* simulations on a remote computer. He also contributes to the development of new fl uids for sandstone acidizing and supports clients and cowork- ers in designing matrix treatments with maximum effi - ciency using Virtual Lab and StimCADE* well stimulation software. Bruno joined Schlumberger in 2002 after earning an MS degree in chemical engineer- ing at the University of Houston, and an MS degree in chemistry from Ecole Supé rieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, France.


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Joe Lima is the Schlumberger business development manager for CoilFRAC* stimulation through coiled tubing in Sugar Land, Texas. There he works on devel- oping new tools and improving the overall process to expand the business worldwide. He completed a BS degree in petroleum engineering from Marietta College in Ohio before joining Schlumberger as a fi eld engineer in Houma, Louisiana. Joe worked in the cementing and stimulation business throughout the USA in a variety of positions including fi eld service manager, DESC engineer and operations manager before taking his current post in 2002.


Jorge López-de-Cárdenas, Schlumberger Sand Management Solutions Manager in Rosharon, Texas, oversees the development and worldwide implementa- tion of Schlumberger sand-management services. He joined Schlumberger in 1981 as a wireline fi eld engineer in Mexico. From 1983 to 1984, he was Schlumberger fi eld location manager, Cañ adon Seco, Argentina, and then recruiting offi cer for Schlumberger Surenco in Mexico City. He spent the next fi ve years at the Schlumberger Houston Product Center, before moving to Schlumberger Perforating and Testing Center in Rosharon, as product develop- ment engineer and then engineering manager of gun systems. From 1996 to 1997, he was product develop- ment manager of perforating. Subsequent assignments were perforating business development manager for Latin America, Oilfi eld Services international account manager and cased-hole business development manager for North and South America. Prior to Schlumberger, he worked as production manager for Grupo Industrial ASM, Los Reyes La Paz, Mexico, and professor of physics at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Holder of several patents on perforating tools and techniques, Jorge has a BS degree in mechanical and electrical engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana, and an MS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston.


John Lovell, Product Discipline Manager for Coiled Tubing at the Schlumberger Integrated Productivity and Conveyance Center in Sugar Land, Texas, is responsible for new surface and downhole products on coil. He joined the company in 1984 as a research sci- entist at Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefi eld, Connecticut, USA, where he developed fi nite-element and spectral algorithms for electromagnetic modeling. In 1993, he completed a PhD degree in electrical engi- neering from Delft University, The Netherlands, and later transferred to Anadrill to develop imaging prod- ucts for the RAB* Resistivity-at-the-Bit tool. He joined the Anadrill marketing department in 1996 to manage the business development of MWD and LWD services. In 1999, he joined the Sugar Land Product Center to spearhead the development of the E-Pulse* electro- magnetic telemetry tool for MWD. The author of many publications and four patents, John holds MA degrees in mathematics from the University of Oxford, England, and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He taught at the University of Para, Belem, Brazil, and was SPWLA Distinguished Lecturer in 1998.


Hisham A. Nasr-El-Din, Senior Research Consultant and Group Leader of the Stimulation Group, is at the Research and Development Center at Saudi Aramco. He holds BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a PhD degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research interests include well stimulation, formation damage, two-phase fl ow, fl ow in porous media, enhanced oil recovery, rheology, conformance control, interfacial properties, adsorption and nondamaging fl uid tech- nologies. He played a key role in the introduction of VDA* Viscoelastic Diverting Acid technology and the extension of viscoelastic surfactant technology to acid fracturing and fl uid-loss control in the Middle East. He has several patents and has published more than 200 papers. He is adjunct professor with the University of Alberta, Canada, and has supervised several PhD stu- dents. He serves on the SPE steering committees on corrosion and oilfi eld chemistry and is a technical edi- tor for SPE Production and Facilities. Hisham has received numerous awards within Saudi Aramco for signifi cant contributions in stimulation- and treat- ment-fl uid technologies, stimulation design, and for his work in training and mentoring. Prior to joining Saudi Aramco, he worked as a staff research engineer with the Petroleum Recovery Institute in Calgary, Canada.


Masatoshi Nishi Schlumberger Data & Consulting Services (DCS) Operations Manager Pakistan, is based in Islamabad. There he is responsible for managing the DCS team for all domains: geology, geophysics, petro- physics and reservoirs as well as petrophysical support for Reservoir Evaluation Wireline and Drilling and Measurements operations. He joined Schlumberger in 1992 as a wireline engineer serving in Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Korea and Sakhalin. Six years later, he became a log analyst and was involved in the fi rst screenless sand-management project in Japan. Masatoshi received an MS degree in geophysics from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.


Masaaki Numasawa, who is based in Tokyo, Japan, has been a senior petroleum engineer with the Engineering (Well Construction and Service) Group at Japan Petroleum Exploration Company, Ltd. (JAPEX) since 2003. He joined the company as a production operator in the Shiunji gas fi eld in 1985 after earning a degree in technology from the department of mineral resources engineering at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. At JAPEX, he has also worked as production engineer, reservoir engineer, senior researcher and manager of the production section and reservoir engineering group.


Tom ORourke, Schlumberger Senior Geomechanics Engineer in Aberdeen, Scotland, is involved in optimiz- ing drilling, completion and production processes, par- ticularly in sand management. He joined the company as a fi eld engineer in 1974 after receiving a BS degree in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. He also worked as a log analyst and man- ager before obtaining his MS degree in geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. He worked in interpretation and development, reservoir description, business development and was a wireline account manager before taking his current post in 2001. Tom is the author of several papers and has taught courses and seminars in vertical seismic profi les, seismic processing and wellbore stability.


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