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Houston, Texas Area

TBA

Perth, Australia

Managing pre-FEED studies for Laverda, a Deepwater Oil and Gas development opportunity in the Greater Enfield Area, North Western Australia.

Manage development of Xena tie-in for Pluto foundation project

Develop and integrate the Business Case to effectively handle produced CO2 either through capture and storage, transport to markets or sequestration using carbon offsets

Lead Deepwater acceleration and standarisation of development strategy and equipment across Shell's global Deepwater portfolio.Multiple opportunities were identified in Malaysia, Brunei, Brazil and GoM. The team pursues Generic FPSO's and floating host existing in the market as redeployments or Spec builds to drive down development cost and unlock the difficult deepwater barrels.Our most notibale success was unlocking of a key paleogene field in the GoM.

Managed three integrated development teams, budget $15 millionDelivered Forcardos West (Unmanned Jacket + 4 development wells) through FID.Delivered FID on Afiesere ad Eriemu appraisal and development campaign (6 Wells + ESP completion - first time for SPDC). Our team supported the execution of the campaign.Delivered Batan and Odidi infill development program through FID.Matured the Field Development Plan (FDP) and Basis For Design (BoD) for AFEROLOW through feasibility milestone (a $4 Billion onshore development opportunity). This required introducing a complete new way of developing onshore fields for Shell in Nigeria

Managed an integrated team to deliver the $AUD 700 million Western Flank sub sea tieback to Goodwyn through feasibility. Drilled a key successful appraisal well into the GH reservoirs that aligned the JV and key Woodside stakeholders on the GIP range. Managed a team of 12 direct reports and 3 indirect reports Delivered the TIOF (1200M deepwater project, Mauritania, West Africa) Early Production system to feasibility in 6 months, where the project was stopped due to expense of development system and large subsurface uncertainty. I managed a team of 19 direct reports covering Subsurface, Sub sea, Process Engineering, Maritime Engineering & Operations. I was also responsible for subcontracting companies (e.g., Frontier flow assurance group, FMC sub sea group)Managed alignment of skills, QC process and team infrastructure to progress the Field Development Plans for multiple fields in Deepwater Mauritania (TIOF, Teve'T and Banda). The job encompassed about 30 subsurface reports. A key highlight was securing approval and delivering a $US60 million appraisal campaign for the newly discovered TIOF deepwater field. As part of this program we delivered a $5 million appraisal well, cheapest for West Africa.Managed a subsurface team of 15 personnel to deliver the Chinguetti Field Development Plan. We designed, managed and delivered two successful appraisal campaigns including 4 wells acquiring core and carrying out a production test. The field did not perform to expectation. A key learning from the project was to slow down the pace and spend further effort in appraisal due to large remaining uncertainty in the reservoir performance. I managed a budget of $15Million/year.

Developed the Business-To-Technology (BTM) process while working in Technology, Strategy and Planning for Shell research centre. This process helped define the research program clearly linked to the current and future business needs. Lead the seismic constrained reservoir modeling of the Bonga (Nigeria deepwater field) reservoirs. Utilized new inversion techniques, AVO analysis and volume based seismic interpretation techniques.Worked in seismic interpretation research, with emphasis on 3-D post stack attribute analysis, 4-D seismic analysis, and pre-stack processing and volume interpretation techniques.

 Developed the seismic constrained static models for the Perseus Gas field, North West Shelf, and developed an uncertainty management approach which connected lateral prediction of the static reservoir properties with geo-statistical analysis. The field has been producing for some time now along the expectation case. Member of Woodside's special project team carrying out Geophysical work on farm-in opportunities and exploration prospects. Work included AVO analysis, interpretation, depth conversion, high end processing techniques and risk analysis.

Worked on a vibroseis crew providing processing quality control, surface static acquisition & analysis and vibroseis signal quality control.

Masters Of Science, Geophysics (Seismic Processing)

Activities and Societies: Masters degree in Geophysics, Thesis researched Seismic multiple attenuation using autoconvolution technique.

Bachelor Of Science, Geophysics

Activities and Societies: Attained Batchelor of Science with Honors majoring in Oil and Gas Geophysics.