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Mentoring fellow geoscientist, sharing best practices of Oil and Gas Exploration, influencing business decisions, spearheading excellent geoscience collaboration.

Houston, Texas, United States

Guyana- Suriname Regional Exploration. Guyana regional interepretaion, Maturation of Hess assest in Suriname Block 42, Block 59, and evalaution of open acerage and farm-in opportunities. Dataroom/Farm-in assesments include Guyana Shelf, Suriname Shelf, Canje Block, Demerara Bid round, and others.Activities include: Basinwide stratigraphic and structural interpretation, lead geophysicit for Zanderij Well, QI analysis of leads (inversion, AVO, prestack analysis, and lithologic… Show more Guyana- Suriname Regional Exploration. Guyana regional interepretaion, Maturation of Hess assest in Suriname Block 42, Block 59, and evalaution of open acerage and farm-in opportunities. Dataroom/Farm-in assesments include Guyana Shelf, Suriname Shelf, Canje Block, Demerara Bid round, and others.Activities include: Basinwide stratigraphic and structural interpretation, lead geophysicit for Zanderij Well, QI analysis of leads (inversion, AVO, prestack analysis, and lithologic estimation from seismic) Show less

Houston, Texas Area

Evaluate and propose GOM blocks for lease sale acquisition, map regional structural setting, determine salt movement, salt-weld geometries, identify mini-basin formation/styles, generate both subsalt structural traps and mini-basin amplitude supported prospects. Lead the maturation of all prospects and leads around Hess infrastructure in GOM NE Garden Banks. Lead seismic reprocessing projects that incorporate several multi azimuth datasets including coil, waz, obn, and naz… Show more Evaluate and propose GOM blocks for lease sale acquisition, map regional structural setting, determine salt movement, salt-weld geometries, identify mini-basin formation/styles, generate both subsalt structural traps and mini-basin amplitude supported prospects. Lead the maturation of all prospects and leads around Hess infrastructure in GOM NE Garden Banks. Lead seismic reprocessing projects that incorporate several multi azimuth datasets including coil, waz, obn, and naz acquisitions. See publications. Carried out rock physics and AVO modeling to de-risk prospects, perform fluid substitution on well data using Rokdoc to classify and predict AVO behavior, carried out prestack gather evaluation. Calibrate seismic attributes to geology, generate synthetic well ties, correlate geophysical signals to well log response, carry out seismic stratigraphy to classify and predict geology away from well controlGenerate both quick-look map based resource assessments and detailed monte-carlo simulations to quantify volumetric uncertainty, risk dependencies, and economic valueUtilize Spotfire to highlight correlation(s) between rock properties, rock quality, trap type, etc to expedite focused exploration Create smart visualizations that enable senior management to quickly assess the key risks and potential of an opportunity Show less

Houston, Texas Area

Create/optimize field development plans by integrating geoscience with reservoir, production, and drilling engineeringEmploy rigorous 3D seismic interpretation to identify resource potential, evaluate structural uncertainty, determine fault orientation, define reservoir limits, and integrate these results in 3D geologic model that are SEC reserves booking compliant and validated by reservoir engineering. Fields include Baldpate, Conger , PSD, Llano. Carried out design and… Show more Create/optimize field development plans by integrating geoscience with reservoir, production, and drilling engineeringEmploy rigorous 3D seismic interpretation to identify resource potential, evaluate structural uncertainty, determine fault orientation, define reservoir limits, and integrate these results in 3D geologic model that are SEC reserves booking compliant and validated by reservoir engineering. Fields include Baldpate, Conger , PSD, Llano. Carried out design and execution of Deepwater wells at Llano, Conger, and PSD. Tasks include permitting documentation, well site selection, worst case discharge evaluation, shallow hazards analysis, facies prediction, selecting casing depths, litho/bio-stratigraphic correlation, well trajectory design, create a geologic operations manual, determined well logging design, and performed real-time well-site geologic operations. Experienced 4D seismic interpreter in the Deepwater GOM both above salt and subsalt. Successfully used 4D seismic technology to evaluate remaining reserve potential, plan new wells, and generate new drilling targets. Familiar with the 4D processing workflows that generate reliable 4D results. Lead several seismic reprocessing efforts to optimize image quality and retain seismic amplitude fidelity including overseeing projects from initiation to completion. Collaborate with team to optimize processing workflows that incorporate processes such as full wave form inversion, reflection wave form inversion, well mis-tie tomography, subsalt tomography, anisotropy analysis, salt scenario analysis, vector offset output analysis, azimuthal analysis, converted wave modeling, and post-migration processing. By employing the best seismic imaging technology, I have advanced prospects from poorly imaged concept to drillable. Show less

Early career geologist exposed to all phases of exploration and production with an emphasis on geophysics. During this portion of my career I was mentored by several more senior processing and interpretation geophysicists. Gained exposure to various basins including GOM, Brazil, and Appalachian BasinExpanded education through formal coursework and on-the-job training. Formal coursework included 2 years of coursework in geophysics at University of Houston

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Conducted permeability and porosity experiments on soil cores and shale bedrock core samplesDesigned and carried out contaminant hydrogeology experiments to investigate the parameters controlling flow in various soil types at both field and lab scaleDeveloped contaminant hydrogeology fluid flow numerical models that represented physical experiments in order to understand parameters controlling mass trasportTaught hydrogeology labs covering groundwater pumping at wells… Show more Conducted permeability and porosity experiments on soil cores and shale bedrock core samplesDesigned and carried out contaminant hydrogeology experiments to investigate the parameters controlling flow in various soil types at both field and lab scaleDeveloped contaminant hydrogeology fluid flow numerical models that represented physical experiments in order to understand parameters controlling mass trasportTaught hydrogeology labs covering groundwater pumping at wells, potentiometric mapping, darcy experiments, perform electrical resistivity data collection, collecting groundwater samples, performing stream gaging measurements Show less

Well log correlation and sequence stratigraphy of the Marcellus Shale (Appalachian Basin) in Pennsylvania and New York using Petra

Collected data for stream gauging measurements, calculated annual discharge therefrom, and prepared reports for flood control analysis. Responsible for the maintenance and construction of new stream gaging stations including surveying. Responsible for groundwater sampling of wells across central Pennsylvania, performing water chemistry analysis on such samples, and tabulating results in a database. Learned groundwater modeling software (MODFLOW)

M.S., Geoscience; Hydrogeology

Activities and Societies: Thesis “Quantifying Solute Transport at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory”

B.S., Geoscience

Activities and Societies: Thesis “Using numerical methods to quantify the processes controlling turbulent flow to pumping wells.”