Contributors
David Allen is a petrophysicist for Schlumberger
Wireline & Testing with worldwide responsibility for
petrophysics. After receiving a BS degree in physics and
a BA degree in economics from Beloit College in
Wisconsin (USA), he joined Schlumberger as a field
engineer in 1979. Since 1982 he has worked in a vari-
ety of log interpretation positions and in 1988 joined
the engineering development team for the
Schlumberger logging-while-drilling (LWD) system. He
held various interpretation development and marketing
positions related to LWD and horizontal well evalua-
tion before taking his present assignment in 1995.
David has published extensively and received the
SPWLA Best Symposium Paper award in 1987.
Marc Andreani, who manages new technology for the
Schlumberger Wireline & Testing South Europe division
in Milan, Italy, is responsible for log interpretation sup-
port and introduction of key services including logging
while drilling. He joined the company in 1973, and
after field assignments in northern Europe and the
Middle East, he began work as a log analyst in Saudi
Arabia in 1980. From 1984 to 1989, he was a petro-
physicist in the Egypt division before transferring to
interpretation engineering in Clamart, France. In 1992
he moved to Milan to work in sales before becoming
marketing manager in charge of new technology (1994
to 1996). Marc is a graduate of Institut Supérieur
d’Electronique de Paris (ISEP) and holds a Master of
Physics degree from University of Paris, France.
Rob Badry, who is the interpretation development man-
ager in the Schlumberger Canada/Alaska Division, has
been actively involved with the CMR* Combinable
Magnetic Resonance tool since the initial tool field test.
Among his recent projects are field testing and intro-
duction of PLATFORM EXPRESS*, AIT* Array Induction
Imager Tool, the ARI* Azimuthal Resistivity Imager,
MDT* Modular Formation Dynamics Tester tool, and
UBI* Ultrasonic Borehole Imager services. He joined
the company in 1978 as an openhole field engineer in
Canada and had several sales assignments before work-
ing as senior log analyst in the Calgary Log
Interpretation Center. Rob joined the interpretation
development group in 1988, with a primary focus on
pressure transient analysis, followed by field testing and
introduction of a number of the company’s services.
Rob holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Robert Beham, a senior geophysical advisor with
Conoco (UK) Limited, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, is
responsible for prospect generation in the West of
Shetlands, a Tertiary play in the UK. He began his
career with Exxon in 1979 as an exploration geophysi-
cist and worked in a variety of onshore Gulf Coast
areas. In 1984 he joined the Conoco International
Exploration Group and was a development geophysicist
in London from 1985 to 1990. During the next seven
years, he was involved in interpretation projects in
Gabon, Nigeria, China and the US Gulf Coast, includ-
ing three years in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, working
for a new ventures team that was evaluating the Gulf of
Mexico with proprietary and commercial databases.
Robert earned a BS degree in geology from State
University of New York in Binghamton, USA.
William Borland received his BS degree in geophysical
engineering in 1973 from the Colorado School of
Mines, Golden, USA. After graduation he joined
Schlumberger Eastern Hemisphere Wireline Services
and had various assignments throughout Australia and
the Far East. From 1982 to 1984, he also taught under-
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graduate borehole geophysics at the West Australian
Institute of Technology in Perth. From 1985 to 1987, he
worked on the Optical Seismic Detector and the DSA*
Downhole Seismic Array projects at the Schlumberger
Engineering Center in Fuchinobe, Japan. He spent the
next two years at the Schlumberger Europe Unit in
London and helped introduce the RM* Reservoir
Modeling workstation. In 1990 he transferred to Kuala
Lumpur as division geophysicist in southeast Asia, mov-
ing to Bangkok, Thailand in 1992.
Alastair Bro wn, who is with BP Exploration Operating
Company Limited in Aberdeen, Scotland, is subsurface
leader and senior petrophysicist within the Eastern
Trough Area Project (ETAP) asset of BP. He began his
career with Shell International in 1979 and served as a
wellsite petroleum engineer, operations geologist
(North Sea), production geologist and petrophysicist
(Brunei), and geophysicist (London). In 1989 he moved
to BP Exploration where he worked as a reservoir engi-
neer and petrophysicist on various North Sea fields.
Alastair received a BS degree in applied geology from
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Daniel Codazzi, sonic section manager, Anadrill, Sugar
Land, Texas, USA, is in charge of developing the 8 1⁄4-
and 63⁄4-in. ISONIC* IDEAL sonic-while-drilling tools.
He joined the Dowell sensors group in 1983 at St.
Etienne, France. Six years later, he transferred to
Anadrill in Sugar Land to develop the KickAlert* early
gas-kick detection system. In 1992 he moved to
Anadrill in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where he was
responsible for engineering Slim 1* measurements
while drilling. He returned to Sugar Land the following
year to serve as section manager for this tool. He
assumed his current position in 1995. Daniel has a PhD
degree in fluid mechanics from the Université Louis
Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
Steve Crary, who is at the Schlumberger Product Center
in Sugar Land, Texas, USA, has been involved in
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) interpretation
development since August 1997. He joined the com-
pany as a field engineer in West Texas, with subsequent
assignments as sales engineer in the West Texas divi-
sion, district manager for the Midland, Texas openhole
district, and data center manager for the West Texas
division. In 1985 he became USA land interpretation
development manager, and after three years, joined the
interpretation development staff to work on interpreta-
tion techniques for North America. He has also served
as product development manager for Schlumberger in
Canada and Alaska (1991 to 1993); interpretation
development manager for Schlumberger North America
(1994 to 1995); and most recently interpretation devel-
opment manager for the Gulf Coast division in New
Orleans, Louisiana (1995 to 1997). Author of numerous
papers, Steve received a BS degree in physics from
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Joe Cross, who is based in Lafayette, Louisiana, is geo-
physical advisor with the Conoco Gulf of Mexico Basin
Analysis Team. His primary responsibility is an ongoing
basin framework project that supports the division’s
exploration teams. He also works with the division
database. After joining Conoco in 1980, he worked as
an exploration geophysicist in the Rocky Mountain
region, the Gulf of Mexico basin and offshore
California, USA. Since 1994, he has been involved in
geodata management as part of a project to build a dig-
ital divisional database. Joe holds BS and MS degrees in
geology from Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
Virginia, USA.
Louis Desroches, who is with GeoQuest in Caracas,
Venezuela, is operations manager for the Banco de
Datos de Exploración y Producción, or BADEP Project,
a joint venture of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)
and GeoQuest. He joined the company in 1980 as a
field engineer in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, with
subsequent assignments in Ventura, California, and
Balikpapan, Indonesia. In 1985 he worked as a log ana-
lyst in Jakarta, Indonesia and the following year became
computing center manager in Adelaide, Australia.
Following assignments in Jakarta, he became district
manager for GeoQuest in Nigeria in 1992. Before
assuming his current position in 1997, he was
GeoQuest Asia-Pacific business development manager
for information technology and data management in
Jakarta. Louis obtained a BS degree in mechanical engi-
neering from University of Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Chris Einchcomb is a senior geophysicist for the
BP/Statoil Alliance in Viet Nam. He has 14 years of
international exploration and appraisal experience with
BP Exploration and has been involved in licensing in
the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea and
exploration and appraisal projects onshore UK. His
international experience includes assignments in the
USA and Venezuela. He spent the last five years work-
ing on exploration and appraisal projects in Viet Nam,
both from a UK base and in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam. Chris received a BS degree in geophysics from
the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
Jørgen Espeland , who is based in Aberdeen, Scotland,
has been information services manager for GeoQuest
UK and Central Europe since 1994. He is responsible
for all data management and information technology
(IT) projects in this area including all outsourced pro-
jects. In his 10 years with Schlumberger his assign-
ments have included client support specialist for IT and
applications; corporate support supervisor for
Charisma*; and GeoQuest UK software support man-
ager. He has a BS degree in electronics engineering
from University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology, England.
Charles Flaum, a scientific advisor at Schlumberger-
Doll Research (SDR), Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA,
acts as a consultant on petrophysical interpretation and
specializes in nuclear and magnetic resonance tool
response. He began his Schlumberger career as a field
engineer in Oklahoma (USA) and spent nine years in
various field assignments. He has also served a number
of years in various positions at the Houston Product
Center, at Schlumberger Riboud Product Centre,
Clamart, France, and at SDR. Charles has a BS degree
in physics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada,
and a PhD degree in nuclear physics from the
University of Rochester, New York.
Bob Freedman has 21 years of experience in opera-
tions, research and engineering in the petroleum indus-
try. He earned a PhD degree in theoretical physics from
the University of California at San Diego. After gradua-
tion he became a research fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center, California and later a research scien-
tist at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. In 1976,
he joined the Shell Bellaire Research Center in
Houston, where he worked on borehole physics and
formation evaluation problems. Later he worked in
operations as a senior petrophysical engineer for Shell
Oil Co. in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1981, Bob
founded Petroleum Physics, a consulting company that
provided formation evaluation expertise to major and
independent oil companies and service companies. In
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rently working on magnetic resonance logging.
Patrizio Gossenberg is currently a senior petrophysicist
with Agip. He began his career as a log analyst in the
Schlumberger computing center in Milan, Italy in 1983.
Soon after joining Agip in 1991, he became involved
in formation evaluation research and development,
focusing on reservoir characterization using logging-
while-drilling and nuclear magnetic resonance mea-
surements. Patrizio received a degree in geology from
Milano University, Milan.
Michael Greenberg, who works for GeoQuest in
Houston, Texas is general manager of the Conoco
Service Team, responsible for a major information tech-
nology and data management outsourcing arrangement
with Conoco. He joined the company in 1983 as a
Wireline & Testing field engineer with postings in
Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Angola. He was also
engineer in charge in Belem, Brazil, working offshore,
desert, land and jungle locations. He then became
field service manager of wireline operations in Soyo,
Angola. From 1990 to 1993, he managed recruiting
coordination and university relations at Schlumberger
Limited. He spent the next three years as manager of
quality management systems and ISO 9000 for
GeoQuest. Michael holds a BS degree in electrical
engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
and an MBA degree from Cornell University, Johnson
Graduate School of Management.
Paul Haines is the manager of the data management
planning group for GeoQuest in Houston, Texas. This
group interfaces with clients and GeoQuest software
developers to define product content and long-term
direction for GeoQuest corporate data management
products. Previously, Paul was the project leader for
Geoshare product development and marketing at
GeoQuest in Houston. Before this he was based in
Caracas, Venezuela as GeoQuest district manager of
Venezuela and Trinidad. He began his career in 1978
as a field engineer in Houston. Among his various
assignments was serving as senior sales engineer for
Schlumberger Offshore in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
also managed a client log interpretation center at Exxon
USA Exploration Division in Houston, and was a log
analyst at the Schlumberger Offshore Interpretation
Center in Houston. Paul holds a BS degree in earth and
planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Mohamed Hashem is a senior petrophysical engineer
on the Auger basin development team, for Shell
Offshore Inc.—Deep Water Division, in New Orleans,
Louisiana. He joined Shell in 1990, and worked for five
years in exploration and production as a petrophysical
engineer for the Shelf Division. Previously, Mohamed
worked for Schlumberger Overseas and in California,
and also taught formation evaluation at University of
Southern California in Los Angeles. Author of numerous
SPE publications on formation evaluation and an SPE
and SPWLA member, he received his BS degree in
mechanical engineering from Ain Shams University in
Cairo, Egypt; an MS degree in petroleum engineering
from University of Southern California in Los Angeles;
and an Engineers Degree in petroleum engineering
from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
Pete Hegeman is lead interpreter in the interpretation
engineering department of the Schlumberger Sugar
Land Product Center and since 1991 has been respon-
sible for the development of well test interpretation
techniques and job design software products. After
Summer 1997
receiving BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering
from Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
USA, he began his Schlumberger career with the
Johnston Testers division in Houston in 1978. There he
worked primarily on drillstem test interpretation tech-
niques, and well test data acquisition systems. In 1986
he transferred to the Schlumberger Data Services center
in Ventura, California, as an applications engineer. For
the next six years he performed well test and produc-
tion log interpretation for Schlumberger Pacific Coast
operations. Pete is presently serving a three-year term
on the SPE Pressure Transient Testing Technical
Committee, and is a technical editor on the SPE
Editorial Review Committee.
Vaughan Hewett has been operations geophysical con-
sultant to Enterprise Oil plc since 1992. He has had 18
years of experience managing geophysical projects,
with responsibility for designing, coordinating and
managing the acquisition and processing of 2D and
3D seismic, gravity, magnetic and VSP surveys, both
on- and offshore. He has also served as a consultant to
Norsk Hydro a.s., Ultramar Exploration Ltd., and Simon
Horizon LTD. In addition, he worked 10 years for
Geophysical Services Inc. as a geophysical technical
advisor and coordinator in the Middle East. Vaughan
earned a BS degree in geology from University of
Portsmouth, and an MS degree in petroleum geology
and geophysics from Imperial College, London,
England.
Jack Horkowitz is a lead petrophysicist with
Schlumberger Wireline & Testing, working in the inter-
pretation development group in Midland, Texas. He is
currently working on open- and cased-hole geochemi-
cal log interpretation and NMR applications for
enhanced carbonate and clastic formation evaluation.
Before joining Schlumberger in 1995, he was a senior
petrophysicist in the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
Division of Pennzoil Exploration and Development
Company in Houston, Texas. He also spent five years as
a petrophysicist with BP Exploration in Houston,
involved in seismic calibration and lithology and fluid
prediction for shelf and deepwater Gulf of Mexico
prospects. Jack holds MS and PhD degrees in geology
from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
Kai Hsu received his MS and PhD degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
From 1979 to 1981, he was a research engineer at
Scientific Systems, Inc., where he worked on biomed-
ical signal processing and pattern recognition applica-
tions. He joined Schlumberger-Doll Research,
Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1982 and worked on
acoustic well logging, ultrasonic imaging and borehole
seismic problems. Since his transfer to Anadrill in 1992,
Kai has been responsible for developing downhole and
surface processing, interpretation and answer products
for the ISONIC tool. He is currently an engineering spe-
cialist in the logging-while-drilling product line.
Mike Jackson, who is based in Stavanger, Norway,
heads well construction for BP Exploration, Norway.
He is responsible for platform drilling operations in the
Ula and Gyda area and for exploration drilling in this
area employing mobile offshore drilling units. Since
joining BP in 1986, he has served as senior drilling
engineer for BP Syria, and as senior drilling engineer,
BP London, England. From 1993 to 1996, he was
senior drilling engineer for the BP/Statoil Alliance in Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam, responsible for well design
and engineering operations on exploration and
appraisal wells drilled in Vietnam. The wells drilled
included reefal carbonate and high-temperature, high-
pressure clastic plays. He also previously worked for
Baroid and IDF in drilling fluids engineering and man-
agement in worldwide operations. Mike has a BS
degree in physics and geophysics from University of
Liverpool, England.
Bill Kenyon is a scientific advisor in the interpretation
science department at Schlumberger-Doll Research,
Ridgefield, Connecticut. Now working in the carbonate
reservoirs program, he was recently involved in nuclear
magnetic resonance petrophysics. Bill was previously
program leader in rock physics and department head
of the software engineering group. He joined
Schlumberger in 1968 in Houston, Texas. He has a BS
degree in engineering physics from the University of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada and a PhD degree in electri-
cal engineering from Princeton University in New
Jersey, USA.
Robert Kleinberg was educated at the University of
California, Berkeley, (BS degree in chemistry) and the
University of California, San Diego (PhD degree in
physics). After two years at the Corporate Research
Laboratory of Exxon Research and Engineering
Company, he joined Schlumberger-Doll Research in
Ridgefield, Connecticut. He has been program leader
of applied electromagnetics and is presently a scientific
advisor. His main projects at Schlumberger have been
in the areas of ultrasonics, electrical resistivity, nuclear
magnetic resonance and gravimetry.
Werner Klopf , senior petrophysicist for Schlumberger in
Milan, Italy, works on interpretation development, par-
ticularly for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements.
After joining the company in 1978, he had various field
assignments in South America. From 1984 to 1994, he
was a log analyst with several different postings both in
Milan and Paris. Werner has been in his current position
since 1994. His degree in petroleum engineering was
earned at University of Leoben, Austria.
Ken Landgren, software engineering manager for data
management at GeoQuest in Houston, Texas, is respon-
sible for the design and development of GeoQuest data
management software . From 1978 to 1982, he held
various positions in field operations and management
in Gulf of Mexico operations, and was unit geophysicist
for Schlumberger Offshore in New Orleans, Louisiana
(1982 to 1986). He was also section manager for seis-
mic engineering at Schlumberger in Clamart, France. In
1988 he moved to Schlumberger Austin Product Center
where he was workstation coordinator and then
Geoshare project manager. In 1993, he became mar-
keting manager for data management, responsible for
data management strategy and for marketing data man-
agement products and services. In 1996 he became
manager for IT and data management in GeoQuest
North America. Ken has BS and MS degrees in physics
from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
Ignacio Layrisse is the general manager of Exploration
& Production at Intevep, S.A. Since joining Intevep in
1977, he has held many positions such as researcher,
unit head, manager of the crude-oil handling program
and production department manager. He was assigned
to Lagoven for two years to work on emulsion technol-
ogy. He holds 10 patents in crude upgrading, dehydra-
tion, desalting and emulsions and has many
publications in these areas. Ingacio earned a BS
degree in chemistry from Simon Bolivar University,
Caracas, Venezuela, and an MS degree in technology
management from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge.
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Dale Logan, who is based in Midland, Texas, has been
the interpretation application development manager
for the Schlumberger North American Central States
Division (CSD). His main responsibilities include set-
ting direction for his group and developing NMR appli-
cations for CSD markets. He joined the company in
1981 and has had numerous assignments in Texas,
New Mexico and Canada involving engineering, log
analysis and sales engineering. Before assuming his
current position in 1996, he was sales development
manager in Roswell, New Mexico, USA. He has
worked with NMR since 1986 and written several
papers on applications of NMR technology in forma-
tion evaluation. Dale received a BS degree in electrical
engineering from McGill University in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada.
Jairo Lugo leads exploration projects in the South Lake
area for the geology department at Lagoven S.A. in
Caracas, Venezuela. He is also a professor at the gradu-
ate school of the Universidad Central de Venezuela,
currently advising on MS and PhD degree theses. His
16 years of experience within Lagoven have included
many assignments in reservoir geology, production
geology and exploration geology. Jairo earned a degree
in geology from Universidad Central de Venezuela and
a PhD degree, also in geology, from the University of
Texas at Austin.
Richard Meehan is a research scientist in the interpreta-
tion and geomechanics department at Schlumberger
Cambridge Research in England who works on devel-
oping and applying signal processing techniques to
the seismic-while-drilling problem. He joined
Schlumberger in 1985 and worked for three years on
the physical properties of shales. From 1989 to 1991,
he did research on drillstring vibrations, which led to
his current work on seismic while drilling. Richard
obtained a BS degree in mechanical engineering from
the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland and an
MS degree, also in mechanical engineering, from the
Cranfield Institute of Technology, England.
Orlando Mor eán is an information technology consul-
tant for E&P at Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)
working on the BADEP Project—outsourcing the cre-
ation and technical service provision of the PDVSA
E&P data and specialized applications environment.
Since 1987 he has worked for PDVSA and affiliates in
assignments related to the use of information technol-
ogy as a productivity lever and transformation tool.
Orlando has BS and MS degrees in electronic engineer-
ing from Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela,
and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from
Pennsylvania State University in University Park.
Chris Mottershead , technology business manager for
the British Petroleum Global Business Centre, works
with the company’s businesses to ensure that the neces-
sary technology delivery and assurance processes exist.
After serving as a safety physicist with the UK Atomic
Energy Authority, he joined BP Research in Sunbury as
a control engineer (1978 to 1982). His subsequent
assignments with BP have included project manager of
computer developments, manager of geoscience com-
puting, commercial manager for technology (BP
Exploration Technical Centre in London); and business
team leader of subsurface resources and manager of
petrotechnical shared resources (BP in Aberdeen). Chris
has a BS degree in applied physics and an MS degree
in cybernetics from King’s College, University of
London, England. He is also a Chartered Engineer, and
a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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Eugenio Ochoa manages the BADEP Project within
the exploration and production (E&P) coordination of
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. His responsibilities
include implementing a corporate E&P database for
PDVSA and affiliates and for establishing an integrated
environment for an E&P data-specialized system for
the corporation. Since 1965 he has worked as geolo-
gist, production geologist, production geology manager
and corporate exploration manager for a number of
companies based in Venezuela. Eugenio obtained
a degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela in
Caracas and an MS degree from University of Wyoming
in Laramie, USA, both in geology.
Dennis O’Neill manages data processing business
development at Geco-Prakla in Houston, Texas. He
joined the company in 1977 as program leader of
acquisition systems research at Schlumberger-Doll
Research (SDR), Ridgefield, Connecticut. After working
in the engineering department in Houston, he headed
reservoir modeling systems in the engineering depart-
ment at Schlumberger KK, Tokyo, Japan (1982 to 1985).
The next four years were spent working on applied arti-
ficial intelligence at SDR. In 1989 he moved to the
Austin Product Center, Texas, first as technical consul-
tant for acquisition systems, and then as systems
department head. Two years later, he joined Geco-
Prakla as a technical consultant in acquisition systems
and then as regional data processing technical manager
before assuming his current position in 1997. Holder
of US patents for artificial intelligence-based signal
analysis and log quality control, Dennis has a BS
degree in mathematics from Manhattan College, New
York, New York and an MS degree in computer science
from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Jacques Pelissier-Combescur e started his career with
Schlumberger in 1968 after graduation from Ecole
Polytechnique in Paris, France. He had a number of
field assignments in the North Sea, Middle East and
Africa, and since 1975 has been involved in log inter-
pretation. He is presently manager of the reservoir
engineering section at the Sugar Land Product Center,
where his responsibilities include the development of
software products related to the MDT Modular
Formation Dynamics Tester tool, and completion and
well testing interpretation and job design.
John Rasmus is an engineering specialist in the LWD
resistivity sensor group at Anadrill, Sugar Land, Texas,
working on the development of LWD interpretation, par-
ticularly for the RAB* Resistivity-at-the-Bit tool. He
joined Anadrill after working in the wireline field organi-
zation in Calgary, Canada, and in Kansas, USA, and the
Rocky Mountains. His work at Anadrill has included
LWD and drilling optimization application development.
John has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from
Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames,
USA and is a registered professional engineer in Texas.
Julian Singer is an interpretation advisor in petro-
physics, and has been Schlumberger South America
unit petrophysicist since June 1996. He joined
Schlumberger in 1965 and held various positions in
operations until 1981 when he went to Schlumberger-
Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut to work on
sonic interpretation. From 1983 to 1989, he was head
of formation evaluation and then electromagnetic inter-
pretation development with Schlumberger Engineering
in Houston. From 1989 to 1991, he was in charge of
interpretation development for Latin America based in
Caracas, Venezuela before moving to New Delhi, India
as the director of the ONGC-Schlumberger Wireline
Research Centre. He received an MS degree in physics
from University of Oxford, England.
Jim Sledz, the director of global exploration informa-
tion management strategy for Conoco in Houston,
Texas, is responsible for development and implementa-
tion of exploration information management strategy
within Conoco worldwide. He joined Conoco in 1980
in their research facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma,
where he led a team of scientists in the design and
development of the first geologic and geophysical inte-
grated interpretation workstation. This system was
implemented worldwide and only recently abandoned.
After completing a four-year assignment as manager of
Exploration Services in the Conoco London office, he
moved to Houston to lead efforts on global application
development and global strategy. Jim holds a BS degree
in geology and mathematics from Western Illinois
University in Macombe, and an MS degree in geology
from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Mike Tweedy, a drilling advisor with Chevron
Petroleum Technology Company in Houston, Texas,
manages technology portfolios for strategic investments
in drilling and well performance research and develop-
ment. He was previously team leader of the horizontal
technology group based in Houston. Most of his career
has been spent in international operations; he served as
drilling superintendent in Australia, managing a major
horizontal well project for West Australian Petroleum
Pty (WAPET) Limited, and helped drill several high-
pressure, high-temperature wells for WAPET and for
Western Mining Petroleum Division. He also was team
leader of a cooperative technology endeavor between
Mobil, BP, Texaco and Chevron. Author of several
papers on horizontal well and emerging technology,
Mike received a BS degree in petroleum engineering
from Montana College of Mineral Science and
Technology in Butte, USA.
Jim White, the unit petrophysicist for Schlumberger
Northern Europe/CIS, is based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
His main assignment is interpretation support of new
measurements from wireline and logging-while-drilling
sensors. After joining the company in 1974, he spent
four years as a field engineer in the Middle East and
then worked in various field management, marketing
and interpretation support positions in Scotland,
Denmark and Norway. He has also worked as a consul-
tant for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and as
account manager for Shell Oil Company operations in
Aberdeen. Jim has a BS degree in physics from Imperial
College, London, England.
Jane Whitgift is business information manager with
responsibility for the technical applications and infra-
structure for BP Exploration business units based in
Aberdeen, Scotland. After receiving an MS degree in
chemical engineering from University of Sheffield and
an MS degree in information systems from University of
South Bank in London, England, she began as an appli-
cations programmer with McDermott Engineering in
London in 1983. Jane joined BP in 1986 and has
worked most recently as an IT consultant focusing on
information management. She has been in her current
position since March 1997.
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