David Paddock

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Geophysical Consultant @ Houston, TX, US
Houston, TX, US
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About David Paddock

With over 38 years of oil industry experience, I deliver actionable results and recommendations on a contract basis, primarily in the Permian Basin, Rockies, and in carbon sequestration. As a certified petroleum geophysicist and a licensed geophysicist, I have successfully applied a range of seismic reservoir characterization techniques, including AVO lithology, curvature, and residual structure to various geological settings, including offshore Gulf of Mexico, onshore Gulf Coast, and virtually all unconventional plays worldwide.I am regarded by the industry as the top practitioner of Ant Tracking, a seismic attribute with which I have developed a technique to correctly predict hydraulic communication along faults in the Permian Basin and South Texas, with applicability to other basins and to carbon sequestration projects. I also have extensive experience in new product development, technical sales, mentoring, and integration with other domains. I have previously served as Schlumberger's surface seismic interpretation leader for carbon sequestration, and as its corporate chief geophysicist for unconventionals during unconventional resources' formative years. I have three times built world-class teams that deliver competitive advantage through teamwork, cross-discipline integration, and a dogged pursuit of excellence, but can also work alone or in a small team setting. I deliver results.

David Paddock's Current Company Details
Paddock Geophysical

Paddock Geophysical

Geophysical Consultant
Houston, TX, US
David Paddock Work Experience Details
  • Paddock Geophysical
    Geophysical Consultant
    Paddock Geophysical
    Houston, Tx, Us
  • Paddock Geophysical
    Owner
    Paddock Geophysical Apr 2022 - Present
    Houston, Texas, United States
    Perform projects on a contract basis, primarily in the Permian Basin, Rockies, and in carbon sequestration.Recent projects:- Department of Energy: Seismic natural fracture characterization in a frontier Rockies basin.- Attic oil field development in a SE New Mexico oil field from the 1950s.- Mentoring college students in SEG's EVOLVE carbon sequestration program.
  • Retired
    Retired Geophysicist
    Retired Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
    Houston, Texas, United States
  • Schlumberger, Western Geco Limited.
    Technical Manager
    Schlumberger, Western Geco Limited. Jul 2015 - Apr 2020
    Houston, Texas, United States
    New product development for the use of seismic for unconventional resource field development. Also did technical sales, performed technical work, and mentored staff. Developed technique for predicting excessive water production in the Permian Basin. Developed techniques with drilling staff and external vendors for predicting shallow drilling hazards using either airborne gravity or dense surface seismic; received corporate innovation award from the drilling group with my drilling co-worker for this breakthrough.Early retirement upon COVID's arrival.
  • Schlumberger Production Management
    Geophysical Lead
    Schlumberger Production Management May 2013 - Jun 2015
    Houston, Texas, United States
    Seconded to Schlumberger Production Management Eagle Ford development project. Performed technical work and managed a staff of two geophysicists. Moved acreage selection methodology from client's velocity anistropy technique to a combined technique using Poisson's ratio, AVO anisotropy, and ramp fault identification, which was six times more effective. Oversaw seismic inversion, discrete fracture network, and analytics work. Developed fault attribute technique for rescuing water-prone acreage from excessive water production, increasing client stock price by a factor of two. This technique was later modified for use in the Permian Basin, where it has a 95+% predictive rate.
  • Slb
    Business Technical Advisor (Halftime) And Acting Chief Geophysicist For Unconventionals (Halftime)
    Slb Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
    Houston, Texas, United States
    Half-time Business Technical Advisor for the Western Hemisphere for Schlumberger WesternGeco's Seismic for Unconventionals group while simultaneously acting informally (but paid) half-time to oversee that group on behalf of corporate. Met annual financial goals in that one month on the job, growing the business 1000-fold, primarily through accounting corrections and bringing WesternGeco to understand that they were, and already had been, hip-deep in unconventional work, and were not neophytes.
  • Schlumberger
    Worldwide Geophysical Technical Advisor - Unconventional Resources
    Schlumberger Apr 2012 - Feb 2013
    Houston, Texas Area
    I served as the lead geophysicist for Schlumberger worldwide in the global move into shales for gas and for oil. I liased between the pertinent Schlumberger segments to ensure a relevant, technically correct, integrated seismic solution for unconventional resources as well as performing and managing projects for clients. I served as product champion for Seismic HRA, an integrated core / log / seismic analysis solution geared to leverage all available geoscience measurements toward intelligent acreage development go / no go and well spacing decisions as well, potentially, toward fluid sensitivity identification and proppant strength selection.
  • Schlumberger
    Scientific Advisor -Seismic Reservoir Characterization
    Schlumberger Aug 2009 - Apr 2012
    Houston, Texas Area, With Worldwide Responsibilities
    I managed a group of two at WesternGeco responsible for seismic reservoir horizon interpretation and seismic petrophysics. I was personably responsible for advising on the seismic reservoir characterization of gas shales worldwide. Recognized by industry as one of the top few experts on the use of Ant Tracking worldwide.I worked on projects in the Eagle Ford, Wolfcamp, Haynesville, Fayetteville, Barnett, and Mancos Shales and either managed or advised on projects in the Marcellus Shale, the Bakken Formation, the Silurian Shale in the Lublin Basin in Poland, and the Yukon.
  • Schlumberger
    Principal Reservoir Geophysicist
    Schlumberger Oct 2004 - Jan 2010
    Performed seismic reservoir characterization projects, primarily with post-stack attributes with Schlumberger DCS Consulting Services group. Transferred in 2006 to DCS Reservoir Seismic Services group, where I transformed the group from a group selling seismic inversion to a group offering rock-physics-based seismic reservoir characterization solutions for client opportunities and problems. Our gorup was recognized by Chopra and Marfurt as the best practitioners on the planet.
  • Schlumberger
    Lead Geophysicist
    Schlumberger Sep 2000 - Jun 2004
    Performed seismic reservoir characterization projects, primarily with post-stack attributes with Schlumberger DCS Consulting Services group. Before the crash in 2002, I managed a staff of five.
  • Arco Permian
    Senior Geophysicist
    Arco Permian 1998 - 2000
    Midland, Texas, Usa
    Responsible for field development for 10 fields in the southern Midland, southern Delaware, and Val Verde Basins. Project geophysicist for Horizontal Devonian play and took over the Spraberry play. Technology in these two plays (horizontal drilling and extreme multi-stage fracture stimulations) were those that enabled the current unconventional boom. Back then we didn't know enough to know that we were "unconventional".
  • Vastar Resources
    Geophysicist
    Vastar Resources 1993 - 1995
    Discovered Brookeland Field using techniques that, 31 years later, are still considered trade secrets.

David Paddock Skills

Geophysics Seismology Earth Science Geology Reservoir Management Petroleum Field Development Petroleum Geology Petrel Characterization Seismic Inversion Unconventional Gas Upstream Inversion Oil And Gas Oilfield Energy Industry Geological Mapping Onshore Oil/gas Seismic Attributes Sequence Stratigraphy Directional Drilling Seismic Interpretation Structural Geology Shale Gas Fracture 3d Seismic Interpretation Seismic Stratigraphy Reserves Fluids Geoframe Avo Sedimentology Data Acquisition Oil And Gas Exploration Reservoir Characterization Oil

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