International
Some Visiting Geoscientists are restricted in their travel. After their name is listed the states in which they are able to travel. Also included is a small paragraph about the VG and possible title for their talk as well as topics they can elaborate on.
Wayne C. Ackerman
*Holland, Belgium, Germany > see also Western Region
Geologist/Reservoir Engineer in the Smart Wells Group with Shell International E&P in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. His current focus is on the application of new field development technologies which increase reserves and improve project economics. He received his B.A. in Geology from the University of Colorado in 1985 and his M.S. in Geology from The University of Tulsa in 1989. He has worked for Phillips Petroleum Company, Schlumberger Geco-Prakla and The Gas Research Institute in various assignments ranging from international exploration and production to geological research and business development.
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Nadeem Ahmad
Pakistan and nearby countries like UAE, Oman, Yemen, Qatar, Sandia, Kuwait, Bahrain
Nadeem recently joined Pakistan Petroleum Ltd as Exploration Manager in Islamabad after relocating from Reading, UK, where he was Geological Advisor in BG Group Plc. He has M.S. and Ph.D from USA with PhD work in Sequence Stratigraphy (major) and Geophysics (minor) from Indiana University Bloomington and Rice University Houston (degree from Indiana in Spring 2000). He also has MSc & BSc degrees in Applied Geology with 1st position and gold medals (Punjab University, 1985-90). He started his oil industry career from Schlumberger in 1991. Since then he has lived and worked in several countries while working for Unocal, BP,OMV and BG. His broad exposure and technical skills come from New Ventures, Exploration operations and Reservoir geology related assignments and projects from USA, Norway, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, east India, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Tunisia and Pakistan. His areas of past experience and current interest include Seismic Stratigraphy and Strat-Traps, Play fairway and CRS mapping, reservoir modeling, prospect inventory and portfolio modelling. He has also been teaching at the universities in USA and Pakistan including M.Phil classes at Quaid-e-Azam University and voluntarily conducts seminars/ workshops in the field of Sequence Stratigraphy. He has served on the Publications and Grants-in-Aid Committees of AAPG and Technical Review Committee of SPE-PAPG. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, Active Member of AAPG and member of other exploration forums and societies. He is currently the Chair of PAPG Technical Committee for the Annual Technical Conference 2010. He is currently teaching MPhil level Seismic Stratigraphy course at the federal university, conducting in-house course in PPL and delivers VGP lectures at the universities at their request.
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- Sequence Stratigraphy
- Plays and Prospects Evaluation
Anwar Al-Beaiji
Anwar Al-Beaiji joined Saudi Aramco in 2003 after completing a BSc degree in Geoscience from Tulsa University in Oklahoma. HeI previously worked as a Reserves Geologist - Reservoir Characterization Department, Wellsite Geologist, Exploration Resources Assessment Department and is currently working in the Upstream Joint Ventures Department, Saudi Aramco. Al-Beaiji also holds an Msc degree in Petroleum Geosciences from Imperial College London. He was a member of the 2008 Imperial College Barrel Award Team the took the 2nd Place award in the Global IBA competition during AAPG ACE in San Antonio.
Al-Beaiji currently leads the Young Professionals & Students Support Team (YPSS) of the Middle East Region. The YPSS main goals are: building a strong relationship among companies, universities and the AAPG; Maintaining high levels of students memberships; plan, organize and execute future activities such as Regional IBA competitions, Students EXPOS. He is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) where serving on the IBA committee, Student Advisory subcommittee and the Young Professional committee.
He also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and Dhahran Geological Society (DGS).
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- Fundamentals of Oil & Gas
- Professional Societies... What’s in it for me? A Personal Successful Experience
- Imperial Barrel Award
Ashish K. Banik
Asia Pacific: Bangladesah, Singapore, Nepal, Mayanmar, Srilanka, Thailand
Ashish Banik has over 15+ years of extensive hands-on broad petroleum engineering, petrophysical interpretation, and reservoir characterization experience working with PDVSA, ADCO, Qatar Petroleum, Schubarth Inc., BP Exploration & Production Inc., Shell/Petroleum Development Oman, WesternGeco, Frontera Resources Corporation, Marathon Oil Company, Halliburton Energy Services, and also with New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center in the area of deterministic and probabilistic petrophysical interpretation (both carbonate, shaley sand and tight gas reservoir, onshore and offshore) of open-hole, cased-hole, and LWD logs, RCA & SCAL analysis, core-log integration, formation evaluation, pre-drill pore pressure and fracture gradient prediction, shallow waterflow identification, integrated reservoir characterization, evaluation of oil water contact movement based on cased-hole log and pressure transient analysis. Ashish has solid academic training, professional experiences and wide cultural background. Ashish hold US Citizenship.
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- Integrated Reservoir Characterization Based on Core and Log data
- Carbonate and Clastic Rock Typing and SCAL Sample Selection Based on Integrating Core Sedimentology, Hydraulic Flow Unit and Lucia's classification.
- Role of Petrophysics in Exploration & Production of Oil & Gas
Eduardo A. Berendson
Indonesia
Eduardo A. Berendson specializes in stratigraphic concepts, reservoir modeling, petroleum geology and project management. A native of Piura, Peru, received his BS Degree from Louisiana State University and his Ms Degree from The University of Akron. Eduardo also holds a MA Degree in Business Management. He has over 15 years’ experience in international exploration and development projects. Eduardo is a recipient of AAPG Certificate of Merit and has been an active member in multiple AAPG Committees, including Membership, International Distinguish Lecture and International Liaison Committees.
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- 3D Reservoir Modeling: A Systematic Approach to Quantify Uncertainty
- Exploration Risk Assessment: Methodologies to Build a Strategic Portfolio
- Managing Cultural Differences: The Importance of Sensitivity in Global Organizations
Robert W. Blake
Rob is currently Brazil Exploration Manager for Chevron with twenty four years experience in frontier exploration and asset evaluation. He has led major exploration efforts in China, deepwater Nigeria, and Brazil in addition to participating in frontier exploration projects in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and western Gulf of Mexico. Drilling experience includes over 20 international wildcats and appraisal wells, including the billion barrel Agbami discovery offshore Nigeria. Degrees: MS Geology, State University of New York Albany and a BS Geology, University of California at Davis.
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Success and Failure in Frontier Exploration -- Examples from China, Nigeria and Brazi
Jelle Boels
Jelle is currently an Exploration Geologist in the Middle East team of the New Ventures Department of Shell International Exploration and Production in Rijswijk. After graduating in 2001 from Utrecht University with a MSc in Geology, specializing in recent sedimentation in Vietnam, Jelle did similar research in Azerbaijan with the Technical University Delft. He was active at PanTerra Geoconsultants as a reservoir geologist, describing cores and thin sections. In 2005 he joined Shell as an exploration geologist interpreting seismic and drilling wells at the NAM.
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- Petroleum Geology of the Netherlands
- Career Development for Petroleum Geologists
Muhammad Nawaz Bugti
Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe
I am an explorationst by background with more than 12 years upstream G&G experience. Currently working with Schlumberger Consulting Services as Senior Geologist and based in Kuwait.
I have MSc and BSc degrees in Geology from University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
My major technical skills include prospect generation/evaluation in numerous basins worldwide; Seismic, Wireline Log and Satellite image interpretation; application of geophysical attributes, volumetrics, economics and risking of prospects; surface geological mapping. I also have experience in quick opportunity screening in variety of basins and data room visits.
Highly skilled in Petrel and Landmark G&G applications, and 2D-3D seismic and wireline log, satellite image interpretation.
My technical areas of interest are Prospect Generation/Evaluation; Geological & Geophysical Interpretation, Reservoir Characterization, Static & Dynamic Reservoir Modeling, Structure & tectonics, Sequence Stratigraphy and Integrated Field Studies.
I am a good team player and multilingual; fluent in English, Arabic and major languages of Pakistan.
I enjoy teaching and have conducted several courses/seminars on Exploration, Field Development Planning, ...
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Gideon Lopes Cardozo
Netherlands
Geocientist working in the New Ventures Exploration team in Shell since 2004, with a focus on Russia and CIS, with an emphasys on seismic sequence stratigraphy, and (mega) regional tectonics since 2006. Graduate assessor for Shell with experience in assessments of internships and assessment days.
MSc. in Structural Geology and Tectonics from VU Amsterdam with an emphasys on neotectonics and sandbox modelling. PhD. in Earthquake Geophysics (Universié Louis Pasteur Strasbourg) and Tectonics (VU Amsterdam). Research focussing on earthquake tomography of the Upper Rhine Graben, linked with potential field data, seismic interpretation, structural field work, and finite element modelling to study the opening of the Rhine Graben as well as the recent tectonics.
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Gustavo
Castano
North Sea
Senior geologist with Texaco and presently based in Aberdeen Scotland. He has worked in exploration and development projects in Southeast Asia, the UK Atlantic Margin, the North Sea and Northern South America.
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- Deep Clastic Sediments -- Regional North Sea
- North Sea Statistics: FSD, Reserves Distribution, Depths, Etc.
Chuck Caughey
Geologist and Logistics Coordinator for Middle East Area, ConocoPhillips. Experience as geoscientist and manager exploring for and developing oil and gas fields in the US, Middle East, and Far East (Sumatra, East Java, Natuna). Publications and professional talks on oil and gas exploration, seismic and sequence stratigraphy, and field studies.
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- Finding New Oil in Old Fields
- Discovering Large Accumulations in Fractured Basement, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia
- Finding and Developing Your Geoscience Career
Herman
Darman
Asia/Pacific: Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia
Regional exploration geologist/seismic interpreter with Shell, currently based in The Hague. Has worked on geoscience projects in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and the North Sea. Current interests include SEAsia regional studies, seismic sequence stratigraphy and tectonics.
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- Petroleum System of SE Asia
- Tectonics and Sedimentation of Borneo Tertiary Basins
- GIS Application in Petroleum Exploration
Jan de Jager
Jan de Jager standing in front of stromatolites at Shark Bay (West Australia).
Jan de Jager is an experienced exploration geologist.
He studied geology at University of Utrecht (the Netherlands) where he completed his PhD in 1979 on the relation of turbidite sedimentation with syn-sedimentary folding and thrusting and invasion of large-scale olistostromes in the foredeep of the Italian Apennines.
In 1979 he joined Shell as international exploration geologist and worked and lived in many countries on all continents. He worked in a range of different settings such as passive margins, rift basins, foldbelts and intracratonic basins. In the latter part of his Shell career he held several jobs in quality assurance and as senior technical advisor for Shell's global exploration portfolio. In that role he had the privilege of seeing a very broad range of geological settings, petroleum systems, hydrocarbon plays and prospects, as well as discovered fields. This has allowed him to further broaden and deepen his petroleum geology experience. He has developed the ability to quickly grasp the essential elements (risks and opportunities) of hydrocarbon plays, and to integrate contributions from a variety of subsurface disciplines into a consistent geological picture.
As Shell’s principle technical expert for Risks and Volumetrics he was responsible for the global consistency and quality of risk and volume assessments of all of Shell’s exploration prospects and projects. As part of this role he developed, together with 2 colleagues, an internal Shell Risk & Volumetrics course that he delivered more than 20 times in all major Shell locations around the globe.
He co-edited a well-received book on the Geology of the Netherlands (2007) in which he wrote the chapters on Structural Setting and Petroleum Geology.
After 31 years he retired from Shell in 2010 and has recently been appointed as professor Regional and Petroleum Geology at the free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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- Risk & Volume assessment for Hydrocarbon exploration (presentation, or half-day workshop format)
- Risk assessment for exploration prospects in the light of geoiphysical evidence (presentation or half-day workshop format)
- The Netherlands through Geological time
Ahmed
N. El-Barkooky
Egypt and adjacent countries
Ahmed N. El-Barkooky is a lecturer of geology at Cairo University. He's got his Ph.D. in Geology from Cairo University and has been engaged in teaching several courses in field geology, subsurface and petroleum geology, sedimentation and tectonics. In the meantime, he's been working for oil companies as a consultant of exploration stratigraphy and sedimentology. Ahmed enjoys more than 23 years of experience in both the academic and industrial fields. He was involved in exploration projects and special studies regarding basin architecture, tectonic control of facies, stratigraphic prediction, standardizing integrated stratigraphic tool kits and sequence stratigraphy. He carries out sedimentological research in various depositional environments (rift basins, fluvial facies, shallow and deep marine clastics). Ahmed El-Barkooky conducts geological field seminars and courses for both students of geology and professional geologists.
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Michael D. Campbell
Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., was appointed as Chair of EMD's Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) Committee in 2004 and to the DEG Advisory Board-Gulf Coast Section in 2009. He was also appointed to the Astrogeology Committee in 2008 and was appointed as a member of the AAPG Advisory Council in 2010 and was elected EMD President (2010-2011).
He currently serves as Vice President and Chief Geologist/Hydrogeologist for I2M Associates, LLC based in Houston, Texas with offices in Seattle, Washington. He is a licensed Professional Geologist (P.G.) in the States of Texas, Washington, Mississippi, Wyoming, and Alaska. He is also licensed as a Professional Hydrogeologist (P.H.) in the State of Washington and has been designated as a Qualified Person by the Canadian Stock Exchanges. Expanded Bio | CV
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- Uranium Recovery Realities in the U. S. –– A Review
- The Role of Nuclear Power in Space Exploration and the Associated Environmental Safeguards: An Overview Return to Titles
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Lee
D. Entsminger
Middle East
Area manager, Middle East, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston. Over 24 years of oil and gas experience in the U.S. and international. Areas of expertise include assessment of exploration potential and economic evaluation, regional geology, petroleum systems, stratigraphy and tectonics.
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Lee H. Fairchild
*Asia Pacific - AU or Singapore
Exploration geophysicist, with specialties in structural analysis, fault seal, and reservoir connectivity in producing fields or discoveries. Primarily international experience, most recently in Norway, Australia, and Newfoundland. Has owned an independent petroleum geology consulting company for the last 10 years.
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Alfredo
E. Guzman
Mexico
Exploration Strategies Coordinator with Pemex Exploration and Production, Villahermosa, Mexico, specializing in petroleum exploration, sedimentology.
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- The Petroleum Geology of Mexico
- The Role of Geology in the Search for Oil and Gas
Syed
Tariq Hasany
Asia Pacific and Middle East
Petroleum exploration is main work. I have done almost all sort of exploration assignments in my career including drilling, seismic acquisition, wellsite operations, 2D/3D seismic interpretation, Risk assessment, Prospect generation, asset management, team leader for G&G teams, project management, technical presentations, papers writing, professional bodies and community services, petroleum education promotion, conferences organization.I have worked most of the important petroleum regions of the world except USA, Canada and West Africa.
Presently, I am working and evaluating exploration opportunities in Asia with main focus on countries and basins of Middle East, Russia and Central Asia. This is a very large regin and territory but one of the most oil and gas producing and attractive area for oil companies for invest and to look new business plans in exploration and field development.
These areas are very mature but several basins and plays are yet to be fully explored and that makes these region still the most demanding area for investment.
- Central Asia:
- The basins I worked in last few years are, In the Central Asia , Precaspian (kazakhstan), North Ustyurt (Kazakhstan), Turgay and Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan), southern caspian (Turkmensitan and Azerbaijan), Caucasus, Afghan- (Georgia) Tajik, Amu Darya Basin ( Turkemanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Tajikastan)
- Middle East:
- Persian Gulf, UAE and evaluation of entire Dubai offshore and onshore areas, Oman onshore, Levant Basin offshore covering Syria, Isreal and Lebanon,
- South East Asia;
- Onshore East and West Java Basin,offshore East Java Basin, East Indonesia, Kutie Basin, Indonesia.
- West Siberia Basin
- focusing mainly in Khanty Mansyisk Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Author and conductor of of several technical courses about Exploration Geology, Structure geology, Operations Geology, Prospect Generation and Basin Analysis.
I love to visit universities and colleges to meet young students and to deliver lectures on technical topics such as Exploration Geology, Structure geology, petroleum system analysis but I realize that new students and freshmen look upon us for guidance for starting career path specially when they are standing at the doorway of their career to enter or struggling to select subject for reserach which would be applied and useful in future. Keeping this thought in my mind, I have visited several universities in Central Asia and Pakistan in the last 12 years. I hope I would continue helping young geologists and engineers in their careers in future as well.TOPICS:
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- Basin Studies, Basin Modeling, Exploration Geology
- Structure Geology (thrust and rift structures)
- Professional growth in petroleum industry,
- Guiding students and young geologists in career pathway for professional growth
- Subject selection for research especially for university students
- Introduction of petroleum geology and petroleum industry for new students or fresh garduates; what to do and how to do?
Chris
P.M. Heath
Canada, Western United States
Researcher and consultant based in Vancouver. Has 30 years experience as exploration geoscientist and business developer. Worked for Amoseas and Amoco and recently associated with Edinburgh and British Columbia universities. Current focus is on ways for geoscience educators, in cooperation with employers, to make improvements in geoscience education process.
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- Exploration Geology
- Reservoir Engineering & Development
- Trends, Employment, Recruiting & Careers
- Geologic Mapping, Computer and Remote Sensing
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- Technical and Non-Technical Skills in the Work Place
- Careers in the Geosciences: Degrees and Employment
Debra
Higley-Feldman
Canada
Petroleum geologist with U.S.G.S. since 1983, Lakewood, Colorado. Previously uranium exploration geologist with Nuclear Assurance Corp. Research includes petroleum system assessment of foreland basins, thermal maturity of hydrocarbon source rocks, reservoir characterization, and 2D and 3D computer modeling.
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John
R. Hogg
Canada
Based in Calgary. Exploration Manager for Atlantic Canada Exploration with Pan Canadian. Has 20 years of experience in exploration. Interested in stratigraphy and sedimentology with clastic sequences and interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic for exploration and development applications. Formerly AAPG Advisory Council Member and past Chair AAPG House of Delegates.
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- Exploration Geology
- International Emphasis
- Deepwater Exploration
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- Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration
- Why a Geology Student needs a well rounded Degree
- Deepwater Exploration - Why the costs are so high
Sanggam Hutabarat
Indonesia
Currently works as geologist for Saudi Aramco based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He was graduated from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), majoring in Geological Engineering and holds a Master degree in Reservoir Geophysics from Universitas Indonesia (UI). He worked initially as a mud-logger and then working as sedimentary petrologist and reservoir geologist with Core Laboratories (Reservoir Group) in Jakarta for around 13 years. He joint Schlumberger (DCS and Wireline divisions) in 1999 based in Jakarta with various responsibilities ranging from technical to administrative aspects. He worked for several months with Kufpec (Kuwait's Oil Company) as chief geologist based in Jakarta, before joint Saudi Aramco in September 2006.
His main technical interests include petrology (Tertiary carbonates, marine –non marine clastics, volcaniclastics/basement), geological interpretation of well logs mainly of borehole images, and reservoir characterization including integration of geological and geophysical/seismic data from single- and multi-wells. He is member of AAPG, SPWLA, SEG, EAGE, IPA and IAGI and has published and presented several technical papers.
Since 2001 has been active to give lecturing to local universities and AAPG student chapters (ITB, UNPAD, STTNAS, UPN, UGM) regarding methods and applications in borehole geology with examples from Indonesia. The sponsors were Schlumberger and IAGI (Indonesian Association of Geologists).
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- Borehole Images Techniques and Applications
- Petrographic Techniques and Applications
- Borehole Images and Dipmeter Analysis For Sedimentary and Structural Interpretations
- Core and Log Analyses For Geological Reservoir Study
Athar Jamil
Asia Pacific, Canadam, Middle East
Athar is currently Technical Manager Joint Venture & New Business for Tullow Pakistan with almost 18 years integrated exploration & production life cycle experience. He started his career with Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) in 1994. His key areas of expertise involved sequence stratigraphy, prospect and play fairway analysis, common risk segment mapping, portfolio management, structural modeling, operation geology & drilling Operations, petrophysical interpretation, resource and risk assessment and field development. He has worked in a range of diverse tectonic settings such as passive margins, rift basins, foldbelts and in a number of sedimentary basins mainly in Pakistan and across the world. His broad exposure and technical skills come from his work with Global New Venture Group involved in new venture projects in Africa and Southeast Asia including Mali, Mauritania, Madagascar, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand etc.
Athar has MSc degree in Petroleum Geoscience with first position and distinction from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. He also has MSc and BSc degrees in Petroleum Geology with 1st position and Gold Medal from University of the Punjab Lahore- Pakistan. He has been associated with a research group working on “Geology & Hydrocarbon potential of Neoproterozoic–Cambrian basins in Asia”. He is also author of one of the chapters of the book on Neoproterozoic Petroleum Systems (currently under publication by UCL). He has authored, co-authored and presented a number of technical papers. Besides an active member of AAPG, he is also vice president of SPWLA (Pakistan Chapter). He has also supervised a number of MSc and MPhil students for their research projects. Pakistan and South Asia
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- Petroleum Systems of Pakistan FSD, Creaming curves analysis and future exploration trends
- Neoproterozoic Petroleum Systems of Pakistan and South Asia
- Risk and Resource assessment for Hydrocarbon Exploration
Geovani C. Kaeng
Indonesia, China, India, Malaysia
Geovani Kaeng has been a Subsurface G&G Technology Consultant with Halliburton Drilling Evaluation and Digital Solution (Landmark) as based in Jakarta, Indonesia since 2006. His role is to provide geoscientists in the petroleum industry with consulting services on Landmark's G&G applications for petroleum exploration and field development. Kaeng joined Halliburton after earning his undergrad degree in Geology at TRISAKTI University Indonesia in the same year. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1984.
Kaeng has been active in an AAPG Student Chapter organization since 2002 and was the president of TRISAKTI University Student Chapter of AAPG from 2004-05. He is currently serving the AAPG Asia Pacific Region as Student Chapter Affairs Coordinator. His focus as a VG is to enthuse students about the importance of being active in a student organization for their future career in the industry after they graduate.
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- How AAPG Student Chapter as a Student Organization Contributes to Your Future Career in Industry (for university visit)
- AAPG Student Chapter Operation (for Student Chapter visit)
- G&G Software Technology for Petroleum Exploration and Field Development
George Omagbemi Kakayor
Africa
George is a Senior Reservoir Geologist with Shell International E&P in Rijswijk, the Netherlands. Holds a M.Phil in Petroleum Geology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has over 12 years industry experience in Reservoir Studies, Field Development Planning and Operations geology. Interests include Sedimentology, 3D Reservoir Modelling, Reservoir Outcrop (Analogue) Studies, and Sequence Stratigraphy (clastics).
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- Reservoir Engineering & Development
- Trends, Employment, Recruiting and Careers
- Geologic Mapping, Computer and Remote Sensing
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- Sedimentological aspects of reservoir development in brown fields.
- Impact of Sequence stratigraphy in finding by-passed oil.
- Outcrop Analogues and their subsurface counterparts.
John
Kaldi
Asia/Pacific
John Kaldi is a scientist and educator of wide international repute. He was born, and spent his early childhood, in Budapest, Hungary, then emigrated to Britain and the United States. John attended Queens College, City University of New York, studying for the Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Geology. He received a Ph.D from Cambridge University, England, in 1980. His dissertation topic was the Sedimentology of Permian Carbonates of Northeast England. From 1980 to 1982 Dr. Kaldi worked as a Research Geologist for the Saskatchewan Geological Survey in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, specializing in Mississippian Carbonate reservoirs. In 1982 he moved to Calgary to work for Shell Canada as a Senior Research Geologist, focusing on production geology in carbonates. Dr. Kaldi joined ARCO Oil and Gas Co. in Plano, Texas, in 1987 as a Senior Reservoir Geologist. Between 1991 and 1995, he was a Geological Specialist with ARCO, Indonesia, in Jakarta, working mainly on the evaluation of reservoirs, seals and pay in offshore northwest Java. In 1995, he became the Development Geologist responsible for ARCO Indonesia's 2 TCF Pagerungan gas field. In 1997 Dr. Kaldi joined VICO Indonesia as Chief Geologist. In early 1998, he accepted the position of Director, National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics in Adelaide.
Dr. Kaldi is a member and active participant in a number of professional organisations, including American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA) Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), and Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)
John Kaldi's specialities include carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, seal evaluation, reservoir geology and multi-disciplinary studies, and he has more than 40 refereed publications on these topics. He was an organizer of the AAPG Hedberg Conference on Seals and Traps, has served as Book Review Editor for Journal of Sedimentary Geology, Associate Editor for Bull. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology, and has been Technical Program Chairman for the Indonesian Petroleum Association. He has been a member of the AAPG Grants-In-Aid Committee, a member of AAPG's International Liason and Development Geology Committees and is presently a member of the AAPG House of Delegates. His courses on "Evaluating Reservoirs, Seals and Pay" and "Multidisciplinary Teams" have been presented to AAPG, IPA, PESA and NZAPG audiences as well as to private major oil and gas companies, numerous times. He is Program Manager for the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre's Program on Seal Evaluation. Dr. Kaldi received AAPG's Special Commendation Award for Significant Contributions to Petroleum Geology in 1997. He was the PESA Distinguished Lecturer (1996) and was recently selected as AAPG’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2002-2003. His "mission" as AAPG Visiting Geoscientist, is to visit Universities around the Asia Pacific region to inform and enthuse students about careers in the Petroleum Industry.
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- Is There a Future for Professionals in the Petroleum Industry?
- Technical Careers in the O&G Business
Jess
B. Kozman
Middle East and Asia
Jess B. Kozman is currently Principal GeoScientist and Service Delivery Manager for Schlumberger Information Solutions. He is responsible for capture and dissemination of best practices for information management implementations in over 40 countries in the Middle East and Asia Region.
Mr. Kozman has worked in the oil & gas industry since 1980. He began with a Texaco seismic field crew in West Texas, worked as a seismic interpreter and computer coordinator for 15 years with ENSERCH (Now Newfield Exploration Co.) then in IT management at Meridian Oil (now Burlington Resources), and as a geophysicist and computer data specialist for Seismic Exchange, Inc., with headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1999 he joined the seismic data management group of GeoQuest. He is now based with his family in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and has three children in the International School there. He has implemented information and technology solutions for international oil and gas clients on all six populated continents and frequently speaks about information technology at international conferences.
Mr. Kozman is a Certified Petroleum Geophysicist and a Licensed Professional Geophysicist. He maintains membership in the SEG, EAGE, American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of Malaysia. He is certified at the Foundation Level in PRINCE2 Project Management by the U.K. Office of Government Commerce.
Mr. Kozman has a Bachelor of Science in Geology and Geophysics from the Honors College at Michigan State University and has done graduate work in the mechanics of sediment movement and laboratory work on neutron activation analysis of rare earth elements in immiscible magmas. He has done field work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Canada, offshore Bahamas, and the Oslo Rift area. He has authored papers on gravity modeling of salt domes, long-offset seismic acquistion, 3D seismic analysis, databases and computer sciences, and contributed columns to geological and geophysical society newsletters.
Mr. Kozman has participated in geologic field trips in the United States, Australia, Scotland, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and authored a geologic field guide to hiking trails in Big Bend National Park in the United States.
When not working, he enjoys hiking with his family (he recently returned from a tour of the Khmer temples at Siem Reep, Cambodia), and competitive pub darts. He is supported by his gorgeous wife, Catherine, who owns Spaces Talk, a landscape design firm specializing in organic and native plantings.
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- The Last of the Vikings: A Geoscientist’s Career in the Oilfield
- The Persistence of Wisdom: Managing the Proliferation of Geotechnical Data
- Never Forget It’s Rocks Down There: The Importance of Field Work to Petroleum Discovery
Kim Kiat Liaw
Asia Pacific
KK obtained his BSc (Hons) in Geology from University Malaya in 1980. In 1994, he completed a part-time PhD with Karlsruhe University, Germany. He has a very varied geoscience experiences as well as a colorful employment history.
He started as a hydroelectric dam-site geologist with Geological Survey of Malaysia. He then spent 12 years as a pioneer the Malaysian-German Joint Project exploring for coal in the jungles of Borneo, Sarawak. Subsequently he became Exploration Manager for two key Malaysian Development Projects: (i) Regional Geochemical Survey, (ii) Industrial Minerals & Constructional Materials.
At the height of his coal exploration stint, KK led a large integrated team responsible for surface mapping, topographic survey, geophysics, round-the-clock drilling (3 shifts) & wireline logging. Highlights include: (i) establishment of a large coal resource base, (ii) start-up of 3 coal mining outfits, (iii) discovery of world's largest piece of amber, (iv) a 1-year German-CDG scholarship at University Hamburg to carry out PhD lab work, (v) recognition by BGR, Germany as a role model project in inter-governmental collaboration.
In 1996, KK joined the oil and gas industry starting with Shell's Sabah Exploration Team, Miri covering onshore, shelf & deepwater domain. He became the Focal Point in Geochemistry and HC Charge Modeling, Volumetric Assessment and Operations Geology. He was involved in Shell's regional courses in Asia-Pacific. An international assignment to Shell Nigeria, Lagos (2005-08) got him involved in deepwater Niger Delta exploration surrounding the giant billion-barrels Bonga oil field, appraisal of the giant 22-Tcf Nnwa-Doro gas field, and portfolio analysis & management.
From 2009, he has been in the New Ventures Group (Shell–1 year, BHP-Billito–2 years) to screen new opportunities involving regional studies and basin-scale evaluation.
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- Coal Geology
- Environmental and Hydrogeology: Geological Hazards
- Exploration Geology
- Geochemistry
- Trends, Employment, Recruiting & Careers
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- Exploration geology (given) - coal, oil & gas
- Career in geosciences (given)
- Engineering geology
Peter
Lloyd PDF
Asia Pacific
Peter Lloyd received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in National Sciences, Geology, from the University of Cambridge, England. He recently retired to Nice in France, after spending over 30 years in an overseas career with BP, Deminex, and Schlumberger where he enjoyed a series of technical, marketing and business management positions in exploration and production geology, as well as research and engineering. Peter has lived and worked in Europe, North and South America and both the Middle and Far East, and has lectured in Africa and the FSU.
He was part of the team that built the first micro-electrical scanning tool in 1985, and has specialized in high resolution image analysis and log interpretation in complex lithologies. More recently he has been involved in training initiatives, and he is currently a Tutor and Lecturer for Heriot Watt’s Masters Program in Petroleum Engineering.
Peter has taught extensively. He was Adjunct Professor on the University of Texas’ Software Engineering Master’s program, and a Visiting Professor with Brunei University where he taught modules of their Petroleum Geoscience programs. He has given more than 60 industry schools on Petroleum Geoscience, Subsurface Facies Analysis and Log Interpretation, and from 2001-2004 he managed a Schlumberger training company for the Middle East and Asia/Pacific.
Peter has presented more than 30 technical papers, and in 1999-2000 was an SPWLA Distinguished Lecturer addressing two themes, “Chasing Channel Sands” and “Evaluating Fractured Basement”. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers on careers and education.
He was on the Board of the SPWLA as Regional Director for the Far East from 1998-2001, President of the AAPG’s Asia/Pacific Region (1999-2002), an AAPG Delegate (1999-2008), and a member of the AAPG’s Advisory Council. He received an SPWLA Award of Appreciation in 1999, and an AAPG Distinguished Service Award for “promoting the internationalization of petroleum geoscience” in 2000. In 2002 he was elected as the AAPG’s Vice President. He was a candidate for AAPG President in 2005-2006.
Peter is a Past President of the Formation Evaluation Society of Malaysia, and has been active on the technical committees of several international AAPG, SPWLA and SPE conferences and colloquia. A “Certified Geologist” of the AAPG-DPA, and “Chartered Geologist” of the Geological Society of London, he is also a member of the DPA, EMD and DEG divisions of the AAPG. Other affiliations include the EAGE, SPE, SPWLA, the Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA), and life membership of the Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM) and the South East Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX).
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- Exploration Geology
- Reservoir Engineering and Development
- International Emphasis
- Trends, Employment, Recruiting and Careers
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Bill
Maloney
UK
Senior Vice President Global Exploration, Statoil ASA with over 20 years of experience primarily in International upstream business. Started career as a geologist with Shell Oil Company in 1981. Moved to Texaco in 1997 and left the company shortly after the conclusion of the merger with Chevron as V.P. Exploration and New Ventures. Started with Statoil in my current position in February 2002.
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- Creating Value from International Exploration
- Portfolio Management in Exploration
Taufik Alif Manan
Indonesia
Taufik Alif Manan has international geophysical and managerial supervisory experience in seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation for Medco Energi International, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. His areas of experience are in Oman, Libya, Tunisia, Cambodia and Yemen. He has sixteen years experience exploring and developing oil and gas in Indonesia (Sumatra, East Java, East Kalimantan and Buton), Oman (Karim Small Field), and Cambodia (Offshore and Onshore).
He has been published by and has given professional talks with Indonesian Association of Geophysicists (HAGI), SEG Jakarta Convention in 2006, Medco Convention (Best Poster for Cambodian Exploration), and some universities in Indonesia (University of Indonesia, University of Trisakti and University of Brawijaya, Malang).
His current interests include SE Asia (Cambodia and Indonesia), Middle East (Oman and Yemen), and North Africa (Libya and Tunisia) seismic exploration. Active professional association with SEG (since 1997), AAPG, IPA (Professional Division Secretary), Indonesian Association of Geophysicists (HAGI) and Geologists (IAGI).TOPICS:
Javier
J. Meneses-Rocha
Mexico
Based in Villahermosa, Tabasca, he joined PEMEX in 1976 as field geologist in southeast Mexico. Since 1986 his work with PEMEX has ranged from field work, regional studies, prospect evaluation, planning, technical analysis of exploration projects and reserve and resource assessments.
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- Structure, Tectonic Evolution and Petroleum Systems Assessment of Southeast Mexico
- Shear Zones Vs Fold and Thrust Belts and Its Role in Petroleum Occurrence
Robert K. Park
Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand (at times)
Born in Motherwell, Scotland, and obtained an Honours degree in Geology from U. of Glasgow, where the seeds of interest in sedimentology were sown. Took my first step on the international trail by moving south to England, to enroll as a graduate student at the Sedimentology Research Laboratory at the University of Reading. There I was fortunate to become part of a research group led by David Kinsman working on sabkhas of the Trucial Coast. In addition to the fascinating modern carbonate - evaporite geology, this was my first real exposure to the petroleum industry, thanks to grants from AAPG and PRF and local logistics support from Phillips Petroleum company, who ultimately became my employer.
I joined Phillips in their Denver office and began my oil patch career working the Michigan Basin, Central Rockies and North Slope regions. I later moved to Phillips head office in Bartlesville where I was a member of the Exploration Research Projects Group, serving the company's worldwide operations. As the resident carbonate authority, I became involved in studies of Chalk and Zechstein reservoirs of the N. Sea; Jurassic plays in Morocco; and was given my first introduction to SE Asia through some field work in the Philippines. I returned to Denver to initiate some development drilling in the Denver Basin before being assigned to head up the Mobil-Phillips-Chevron geology team in the Prudhoe Bay Arbitration.
A yen for more international exposure led me to join Schlumberger as SE Asia Unit Geologist, based in Jakarta but supporting operations (mainly dipmeter and reservoir characterization) throughout SE Asia, China, India and Australia. I returned to the industry mainstream by joining Maxus Energy's newly formed Special Projects Team in Jakarta. While the name over the door kept changing: Maxus-YPF-Repsol-CNOOC, I remained there as in-house carbonate specialist, a role that was of particular importance when seconded to work with the operations team installed in Kodeco Energy following a partnership agreement with YPF.
Since taking early retirement from CNOOC ...
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- Equatorial Carbonate Systems
- Miocene Carbonate Reservoirs of SE Asia
Iain D. R. Percival
Scotland, Netherlands
Iain Percival retired from the position of Group Chief Petroleum Engineer in the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies after 33 years of service. In this position he was responsible for ensuring the availability of skills and capability at both individual (4500 staff across the globe) and company level to deliver quality field development plans, reservoir management activities and reserve replacement. Prior to this final job he held positions in both the Corporate Centre and Operating Units covering Global Sub Surface Technical advice, Technology Development, Petroleum / Development Engineering Management, Global New Business Opportunity Evaluation, Development Geology as both manager and technical professional and Petrophysical Engineering. He has worked in the Netherlands, USA, Gabon, Malaysia (Sarawak), Oman and Brunei. Prior to his studies and service in Shell, Iain spent three years as a seaman officer in the Royal Navy.
Iain has degrees in Geology from the University of Aberdeen, Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and an MBA from Brunel University in London. He is a member of SPE, AAPG and the Energy Institute of the UK. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the School of Physical Science of the University of Aberdeen, an external examiner for the School of Geosciences and is a visiting professor in the Robert Gordon University Energy Centre also in Aberdeen.
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- Reservoir Engineering and Development
- Trends, Employment, Recruiting and Careers
- International Emphasis
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- Role of Geology in Development Planning & Project Management
- Rewards & Challenges of 32 Years As A Geologist on the International Oil Business
- Importance of Managing the Non-Technical Aspects of Development Planning To Ensure a Successful Project
James
L. Pindell
Caracas, Mexico, Trinidad, England
Director, Tectonic Analysis Ltd., Billingshurst, England, consultant for upstream industrial research projects. 15 years organizing research programs, some as academic programs at Dartmouth College. Focussed on Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Andes, Atlantic Margins. Adjunct/Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, Rice University, Oxford University, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.
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- Upstream Geologic Research in Exploration
- Plate Kinematic Contributions to Exploration
Valary
L. Schulz
*West Central US (TX, OK), Alberta, Saskatchewan
Consulting geologist, Dallas. Has 30 years experience in petroleum development and exploration, as well as mineral development and exploration throughout the Americas. Presents a pragmatic perspective on the industry.
NOTE: Valary speaks Spanish and French and is willing to speak at International schools.
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- Preparing Yourself for a Career in the Natural Resources
Stephen M. Scott
Indonesia
Stephen M. Scott is an Exploration Geophysicist for Genting Energy in Jakarta, Indonesia focusing on the company’s Kasuri Block PSC in West Papua, Indonesia. He has extensive international experience having worked in over 15 basins in 10 countries/regions on: acreage/basin evaluation and prospect generation within all structural regimes and covering terrestrial to deepwater depositional systems; 2D/3D seismic interpretation and seismic acquisition/processing oversight; broad petroleum system concepts; exploration and appraisal drilling; reserves certification and staff training and development. He has helped achieve a composite 75% success rate on ~55 exploration, appraisal and development wells thus far in his career.
Stephen practiced his profession for more than 20 years with Atlantic Richfield Corp. where he was a principal in the discovery of the 22 tcf Tangguh Gas Fields in Bintuni Bay, West Papua. He holds B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Geophysics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the United States and active status professional membership in AAPG and SEG.
Stephen has been active in volunteer service to the petroleum industry and academia having served as Chairman of the Technical Program Committee for the Indonesian Petroleum Association’s 2006 and 2012 annual conventions and exhibitions and as Conference Co-Chairman for the joint HAGI (Indonesian Association of Geophysicists)-SEG Conference in 2009. He has also given approximately 160 three-hour guest lectures on reflection seismology and petroleum systems fundamentals at five Indonesian universities. Most of those lectures have been under the banner of the AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Program.
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- Reflection Seismology Acquisition, Processing, Interpretation
- Petroleum Systems Fundamentals
Abul "Shams" Shamsuddin
> Indonesia
Shams started his career as a geochemist with Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corp. then went to Houston where he worked for Unocal for 10 years. Now he works as a geologist for Chevron Bangladesh in their division of exploration and production. Also, Shams teaches part time at the Jahangir Nagar University in Dhaka. He studied at Lumumba University in Moscow, Moscow State University and French Petroleum Institute. His specialities include petroleum systems, geochemistry and regional geology. Shams speaks Bengali, Russian and English.
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- Petroleum System
- Global Oil & Business
- Geology for Non-Geologist
Donald Sim
> Asia Pacific region
Geoscientist working on International New Ventures, Woodside. Formerly with Shell, explored various parts of the Asia Pacific region: Northwest Borneo deepwater, Central Luconia and Phillipines carbonates, Northwest Shelf of Australia, offshore Vietnam.
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Berend van Hoorn
> Asia Pacific > Canada > Europe Regions
Berend has had a long history of employment with Shell worldwide spanning a period of over 30 years. His job positions included working as an exploration geologist in Oman, Japan, Malaysia, Spain, UK, The Netherlands and the USA. Of particular relevance to deepwater exploration were his assignments as Head of Regional Geology for Shell UK in London, Head of Global Geology for Shell International in the Netherlands, Chief Geologist, Shell Offshore (Deepwater) in New Orleans, and Manager for technical reviews of all global deepwater ventures with a Shell involvement.
Berend has been a Consulting Geologist for the past nine years which has included the development of deepwater and new exploration plays worldwide while maintaining a continued involvement with Shell training as well as conducting peer reviews with third parties. Berend holds a Masters Degree in Geology and a Ph.D. in Earth & Natural Sciences (Geology) both from Leiden University in the Netherlands. His Ph.D thesis was based on the paleogeographic and stratigraphic evolution of an Upper Cretaceous turbidite basin the south-central Pyrenees. He was Technical Co-Chairman for the International AAPG Conferences in Birmingham and Barcelona in 1999 and 2003 respectively.
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- Geological Setting of Turbidite Systems: A Global Comparison
Stanley
R. Wharton
> Trinidad > Tobago
Exploration Geologist with a major oil company based in Trinidad & Tobago; deep water offshore, shallow water and onshore prospecting experience, transpressional and extensional environments. Background in computer application in geology, and landslide geological hazards. Seventeen years experience as a Geologist.
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- Exploration/Exploitation Geology
- Pliocene/Pleistocene Deltaic Sedimentation
- 3D Seismic Facies Analysis