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My academic background consist of geology from the University of Auckland (NZ). I then ventured to Australia where I gained two years working experience as an exploration and mining geologist dealing with land rigs (RC, diamond, vacuum, SIS wells, as well as drill stem testing. I have acquired skills in coring, chipping, DST, sampling, and geotechnical testing). In more recent times, I have ventured in the oilfield industry as a drilling engineer, I hope to learn as much as possible about oilfield and see where I interest lie so I can specialize in a particular area as the oilfield is quite broad. I am currently on accelerated program to become an assistant drillerField GeologyExperience working for Xstrata Oaky Creek Coal, Business Development• Chip logging, Core logging, Geophysical Interpretation and Corrections, Coal quality Sampling, Geotech Sampling, Seam Picking on geophysics, Data entry on excel and Acquire• Geological Software including MapInfo to generate maps and Minnex to create predictions for allocated boreholesEngineering Geology • Geological mapping, hazard investigation, identifying different drill core samples• Geological mapping from various geology field trips where we had to produce various litho-stratigraphic bedding types as well as identify significant geological structuresGeophysical TechniquesExperience at university using various geophysical techniques to recognise and investigate subsurface materials• Conducing various geophysical surveys including seismic, magnetics, gravity, GPR, radiometric• Picking out first breaks in seismic sections and analysing different geological structures in a seismic section• Data acquisition and data processing of various geophysical methods