Evaluating Fault and Cap Rock Seals

About the Editors

Peter Boult graduated (Geology) from Leeds University in 1976. He has 23 years experience in the oil industry; 6 years experience on the well site in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia; 10 years experience as an academic researcher working in the Cooper, Eromanga, and Papuan Basins; 4 years experience as a company geoscientist working in the Otway and Bass Basins; and 3 years experience as Chief Geologist with the Petroleum Group at Minerals and Energy Resources, South Australia. Boult gained his Ph.D. on hydrocarbon seals in 1996 from the National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (Australia). He has continued to be actively involved in seals research through his position as visiting researcher at the Australian School of Petroleum in Adelaide.

John Kaldi received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, England, in 1980. He spent 16 years working in the upstream sector of the industry (Shell, ARCO, VICO) and since 1998 he has been in academia. First, as the Director of the Australian National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics in Adelaide, and, for the last year, as Head of School, Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide. Kaldi is a member and active participant in a number of professional organizations, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Indonesian Petroleum Association (IPA), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM), International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), and Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA). Kaldi’s specialties include carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, seal evaluation, reservoir geology, and multi-disciplinary studies. He was an organizer of two AAPG Hedberg Converences on Seals, has served as Book Review Editor for JSP, Associate Editor for the CSPG Bulletin, and has been Technical Program Chair for the IPA. He has been a member of the AAPG Grants-in-Aid Committees and is presently a member of the House of Delegates. He is Program Manager for the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre’s Program on Seal Evaluation. Kaldi received AAPG’s Special Commendation Award for Significant Contributions to Petroleum Geology in 1997.