6343 Louisville Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70124, USA
PROFILE:
Thirty years with Shell, Amoco, and BP. Twenty years experience in pore pressure analysis and seal evaluation in geologic basins worldwide. Teaches pore pressure courses for SEG, AAPG and BP/Chevron. Holds a B.S. in electrical engineering, M.S. in mining engineering and Ph.D. in geology.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Developed the centroid concept for pore pressure and seal quality evaluation of large overpressured structures. Application of the concept saved Amoco $50 million on an exploration prospect in Vietnam.
- Developed and wrote Presgraf – a software program for 1d and 2d pore pressure prediction in sedimentary basins. Presgraf is now marketed by Landmark.
2000-Present
- Postgraduate student at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Developed a new dielectric concept for defining the entrapment of overpressures in mudstones called the gating depth concept.
- Taught a series of pore pressure prediction classes (about 30 courses total) for SEG, EAGE, AAPG, Landmark, Chevron/BP drilling alliance, and others
- Currently an independent researcher ... but mostly retired to farm in Versailles, Kentucky.
- Petrophysical specialist in a global technology support group that integrated Arco, BP and Amoco pore pressure, basin modeling and petrophysical technologies.
- Principal pore pressure specialist for 10 years working exploration projects in the North Sea, Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, Egypt, Myanmar, Canada, Colombia, China, the Caspian Sea, and Trinidad. Addressed both seal quality and drilling issues.
- Production coordinator for 2 years in a petrophysical research/training team. Built a noval acoustic device for surveying cracks on marble on Amoco’s high-rise building.
- Adjunct professor at Tulane University teaching petrophysical courses at night for 5 semesters as part of an industry-sponsored education program.
- Petrophysical engineer working the hostile overpressured environment in the deep Tuscaloosa trend (results published in the Journal of Petroleum Technology).
Before 1982 Shell Oil and Shell Development Corporations
- Petrophysical team leader. Supervised logging operations. Created a new method for the evaluation of dolomite reservoirs. Developed an electrokinetic method for logging water-flood injection wells (results published in Journal of Petroleum Technology).
- Researcher on azimuthal-resistivity and nuclear magnetic logging devices.