Detailed Experience:

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Petroleum Exploration/Development:

A majority of my upstream experience, within the energy industry, has been in the domestic Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Mid-Continent regions. Other significant areas include the Rocky Mountains, southeastern, northeastern, and western U.S. Numerous prospects have been successfully drilled in these areas. Areas of international experience includes the offshore areas of Australia and Western Africa (including deep water). The latter, a 1½ year project with Ocean Energy, was an active exploration/development property, which currently has production exceeding 100,000 BOPD. Over 750 square miles of 3-D seismic data were regionally interpreted and mapped. The prospects generated/evaluated resulted in at least eight successful wells.

Member of the Amerada Hess “Transition Team” for the evaluation of Transco’s offshore Gulf of Mexico producing properties, which were ultimately purchased in 1989 for $900 million.

Initiated a large increase in exploration activity in south Texas, which was based on the results of successful drilling on the first 3 subtle strat-trap prospects (10 Bcf/well at 7000′). Also am currently an integral part of a client’s Barnett Shale project (since 2005), which have resulted in 20 wells being drilled, so far (with a 95% success rate).

Developed proprietary, multi-attribute, seismic processing/interpretation techniques for enhancing Amplitude vs. Offset (AVO) responses, which directly resulted in improved exploration successes.

Computer Applications:

Began using PC-based workstations in 1983 and currently have complete 2D/3D seismic interpretation and visualization capabilities (SMT Kingdom workstations).. Have also licensed and written an extensive, personal library of computer programs, for additional interpretation, processing (SIS Vista software with macro capabilities for generating specialized routines, and dGB OpendTect interpretation and processing software) and modeling applications (Geotrace EasyMod – Synthetic Seismogram, AVO/ Stratigraphic/Structural Modeling and Acquisition Design software – refer to successful strat-trap drilling, mentioned previously).

Other software familiarity includes Hampson-Russell’s AVO software (also UNIX-based version) for AVO modeling and processing and the SIS Field Design, on which a number of cost-efficient 3-D acquisition designs have been successfully implemented.

Expert user of Seismic Micro-Technology-based software (SMT 2d/3dPak, VuPak, and TracePak), for 3-D seismic interpretation and structural/stratigraphic mapping, and visualization. Some limited use of the GeoVis (and Cogniseis’ VoxelGeo) software for seismic visualization capabilities. Have also utilized both Geoquest, and Landmark workstations for several previous projects and prospect evaluations.

Data Processing:

Early in my career, I spent two years as a Seismic Data Processor and Group Leader at Western Geophysical, and was responsible for supervision of the company’s swath processing (a pre-cursor to modern 3D seismic surveys), and assisted the Research & Development department in their programming efforts.

Responsible for supervision of contractor processing of both 2-D and 3-D seismic data and have utilized many specialized processing techniques such as AVO analysis, seismic inversion, wavelet processing and attribute analysis, which resulted in several unique and successful prospects.

Initiated depth imaging project, to correct for laterally-varying velocity field, on Wilcox fault-shadow prospects, several years before this approach became common (e.g. offshore sub-salt play). Recently completed a 3D, Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) seismic processing project, to resolve similar time imaging problems.

Seismic Data Acquisition:

Initiated, designed and supervised the first 3-D survey for Plains Resources (Vibroseis and dynamite) in 1993. Many successful 3D seismic surveys have been completed since that time.

Initiated and supervised the first onshore swath program (Vibroseis) in 1988 for Amerada Hess, as a precursor for later 3-D surveys. Wrote the computer program to calculate CMP locations for it (no in-house application available at the time).

Supervised the acquisition/processing and interpretation of over 1600 miles of 2-D dynamite data for an $8 Million Joint Venture, during the period from the late 1970′s through the early 1980′s.

Supervised numerous checkshot velocity surveys and VSP’s and published programs for well-site velocity survey computations.

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