Derek Goff Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Covington, Louisiana

• Created 4-D acoustic impedance change maps to evaluate reservoir depletion of existing Miocene turbidite reservoirs for a mature field in the Gulf of Mexico
• Quantified remaining resources using rock physics modeling of different reservoir extraction scenarios to relate acoustic impedance changes to water sweep
• Built upon existing Remaining Resource Assessment workflow, providing improved volumetric calculations and reducing risk of existing prospects in Chevron’s opportunity catalog
• Proficient with Paradigm Software (EPOS, GOCAD), Hampson-Russell (Petrosys), and Rockpro (Chevron proprietary rock physics software)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Calculated subsidence rates in the Louisiana Coastal Zone from changes at GPS monitoring stations
• Quantified the relationship between subsidence rates and surface geology, identifying high risk areas
• Generated a subsidence map of the Louisiana Coastal Zone with ArcGIS, interpolating between local subsidence measurements and constraining with lithology to estimate regional subsidence rates

Houston, Texas Area

• Ran quality control on shot records by correcting geometry, muting bad traces, and picking first breaks
• Processed shot gathers and performed semblance analyses to create stacked and migrated 2-D seismic lines for data from the Permian Basin, California, Michigan, and Florida
• Conditioned 3-D gathers from two merged surveys along the Texas Gulf Coast to illicit a clearer AVO response through filtering of noise, and refining the RMS velocity picks to reduce multiples

Houston, Texas Area

• Correlated and interpreted well logs, identifying formation tops and pay intervals in southern Louisiana
• Interpreted 3-D seismic volumes in GeoFrame, then incorporated production and well log data of nearby wells to create structure, isochore, and production maps of two hydrocarbon bearing sands
• Used maps to estimate the reservoir size of several structural plays and assess the risk of using modern drilling techniques to re-drill formations that were previously produced

Durango, CO

I acted as a trip leader, organizing multiple guides and boats on trips down the Lower Animas River. I kept the team on schedule, while insuring the customers were in a safe and fun environment. A summer job.

Master’S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General

Activities and Societies: AAPG, SEGThesis: Resistivity and Shear Wave Velocity as a Predictive Tool of Sediment Type in Levee Foundation.

Bachelor'S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General

Activities and Societies: Fly Fishing Club, Theta Xi Fraternity