Key Technical Expertise

• Over 35 years of solid, all round experience as an interpretation geophysicist.I have up to date working experience with North Sea operators which includes field development drilling and prospect generation. I have a practical understanding of the up-to-date seismic interpretation technologies and rock physics techniques.
• Expertise with the latest visualisation and interpretation software, Petrel, Paleoscan and RocDoc1D2D and also LandMark Decision Space and Kingdom 2d/3dPAK.
• Specialist depth conversion experience, Petrel and Velocity Manager™ depth conversion software user, analysis using spreadsheets.
• Equity determination experience both as Independent Expert and as Oil Company Geophysical Committee representative.
• Well to seismic ties, synthetic seismogram generation, Petrel and Syntool™ user.
• Seismic processing supervisor, testing and data enhancement.
• Past lecturer for Oxford Brookes University’s Petroleum Geology M.Sc. course.Experienced seismic workstation instructor.

Past Project Summary

• Development Geophysicist for The Blackbird and Ettrick fields. Providing all geophysical support for the Reservoir Simulation and Geological modelling teams and economic assessment of near field potential as the fields approach CoP. A member of the subsurface team that drilled the final, successful producer well on the Blackbird field.
• Review of the mature Annabel and Audrey Fields. A depth image error caused by a velocity anomaly associated with a 3km high wall of Permian Salt was recognised and corrected using the latest Reverse Time Migration Technology. The correction to the image revealed a drillable target (See Technical Paper).
• Development Geophysics for the Grove Field.
• Maturation of 24^th licencing round, Faraday, prospect on the western HPHT flank of the J-Ridge, up to sanction for drilling. The Upper Jurassic Fulmar prospect was delineated by a Relative Acoustic Impedance anomaly.
• Structural interpretation and mapping for a continous layered model across the reverse-faulted basin margin of the Broad Fourteens basin.
• Pre Tertiary mapping in the Faroe-Shetland Basin and Corona Ridge using multiple 3D volumes.
• Technical Due Diligence and Acreage evaluation; Cambay Basin, India and Deep Water Nile Delta, Egypt.
• Prospect mapping and maturation up to recommendation accepted for drilling around the HTHP area of the North Sea's Central Graben.
• Seismic mapping and regional compilation for Pre-stack Depth Migration velocity modelling.  10 overlapping 3D surveys were interpreted and the horizons were combined to give highly accurate, wavelet hugging, regional horizons suitable for velocity estimation via seismic tomography. The project
1. provided a valuable database for staff geophysicists.
2. considerably reduced the time taken to complete detailed prospect evaluation.
• Depth conversion study as part of a Southern North Sea Equity Determination