Timothy Berge, Consultant Geophysicist

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Timothy Bryan Swearingen Berge,

P.G.

Phone: 303-***-****

Denver, Colorado

abqec6@r.postjobfree.com

The University of Texas at Austin

M.A.

Geology and Geophysics, 1981

University of Wisconsin,

Madison

B.S. Geology and Geophysics, 1976

Profile

25 Years Corporate experience, an Industry expert in AVO, Inversion, Workstation interpretation, Sequence

and Structural Geology, Reserves certification and Risk Assessment.

Professional Experience

Geophysical Consultant

1/2006 –

Present

Areas: Alaska, International, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, West Africa, Europe,Western

US, Client references available.

Forest Oil

1998 – 2006

Geology

and Geophysics Manager, Forest Oil Alaska, Anchorage, AK(1/2004- 2006)

Re-focused and re-built BU after Redoubt reserve write-down and Force Energy buy-out.

Developed new Gas play, move to portfolio management, built and managed an enormous database.

Developed technology for seismic recognition of coal and coal-associated pay. Expertise in Coals

as a source rock and reservoir.

Managed an office of 22 and Field operations

consisting of Osprey Platform and West McArthur Field facilities, West Foreland base camp, airstrip, disposal facilities,

etc.

Led and executed a very successful transition from UNIX-based to PC-based geoscience computing environment.

Several discoveries

including West Forelands and Three Mile Creek gas fields.

Chief Geophysicist, Forest Oil International, Denver, CO (1998-2004)

Responsible for all of Forest’s international geophysical activities in South

Africa, Gabon, Italy, Romania, Tunisia, Bavaria, Switzerland, Albania, Thailand, other areas.

Discovery of Ibhubesi

field, RSA (2000).

Consultant, Houston, TX

1996-1998

Technical Advisor, Corpoven,

Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela (1996-98). Supervision of 2 exploration teams in the Eastern Venezuela Basin

and in the Barinas/Apure Basin. Consulting for Teikoku in Officina Basin, Venezuela.

Various Gulf offshore projects for Spirt, esp. Ship Shoal 265.

2D and 3D interpretation

and mapping in Bohai Bay, PRC as a geophysical consultant for Apache (1997-1998)

Exxon

1981 - 1996

Lead Geophysicist, Exxon Ventures, CIS, Inc., West Siberia Group (1993-1996)

Coordinated Priob Field Tender Bid. Editor of Exxon/Sodeco/Dalmorneftegas Sakhalin

TER (feasibility study). Lead technical teams to Khanti-Mansiysk in West Siberia. Nomination of Kazym Exploration Block. Seismic

stratigraphic studies, Field development planning, 2D and 3D seismic survey acquisition planning, processing, and interpretation.

Lead pilot Geologic workstation planning and implementation.

Exxon Exploration Company, Houston, TX., Europe/Russia New Ventures, West Siberia Team (1992-1993)

Exxon Co., International, Production, Houston, TX, Strategic Business

Development Team (1990-1992)

Responsible for initiating and developing Exxon

new play opportunities primarily in Russia, Timan-Pechora, Western Siberia, and Sakhalin Basins.

Esso Colombiana Ltda., Exploracion, Geofisico Mayor, Bogota, Colombia. Lower, Middle, and Upper Magdalena, Llanos and Putumayo Basins (1988-1990)

Responsible for exploration evaluation of 5 active Exploration Blocks in the Lower Magdalena. Six wells were drilled

resulting in 2 new field discoveries (El Deseo and Arjona).

Exxon Co., USA, Western Division Expl., Midland, TX. Frontier Project, Great Basin

Area, Washington, Arizona, and other Western US exploration frontiers (1986-1988)

Exxon Co. USA Western Division Expl., Denver, CO (1981-86)

Regional interpretation and prospecting in all the major inter-montaine basins of the Western US

(Wind River. Powder River, Big-Horn, Green River, Uinta, Overthrust areas).

Involved in Road

Hollow (Overthrust) and Squaw Butte (Wind River Basin) new field discoveries.

Awards and Affiliations

AAPG G&G Integration

Committee Chairman, 2005-current

SEG Global Affairs Committee Chairman, 2001-2003.

AAPG G&G Integration

Committee Chairman, 2005-2007

State of Texas

Professional Licensed Geoscientist, Geophysics, License # 6318

Active member of AAPG, SEG, RMAG, AGS, DGS,

WTGS, HGS, SGV, and GSH.

Multi-lingual, excellent Russian and Spanish and some German.

Publication record, Biography, and References

available on request.

Autobibliography

Berge, T.B., 2004, “General Elastic Inversion, Orange Basin Case Study”, Offshore Technology

Conference Expanded Abstracts, OTC #16923, 10 pgs, 4 eqs, 12 figs.

Berge,

T.B., 2003, “Structure of the Alpine Foreland”, in TransAlp Conference, Extended Proceedings, Mem. Sci. Geol.,

v 54 (speciale) Padova, 2002,ISSN 0391-8602, p197-200, 7 figs.

Berge,

T.B., 2002, “Volumetric Reservoir Characterization”, SEG/SPE Development and Production Forum, Snowmass, Colorado,

25-30 Aug., 2002.

2000, “Results

of a Seismic Test Program, Eastern Carpathian

Mountains, Romania, in SEG/EAGE/RSG Bucharest 2000 International Geophysical Conference and Proceedings” (Radu

G. Dimitriu and Dumitru Ioane. P. 280 – 283.

1990

“Stereographic Projections Using Lotus 1-2-3”

Geobyte, vol. 5, no. 6, p. 36-39.

1988, “Drilling Well Prognosis Using a Spreadsheet”

in Applications of

Microcomputers

in Petroleum Exploration Symposium Volume, Permian

Basin Graduate Center.

1985, “Torcer Station and the Texas and Pacific Railroad”

in Structure

and Tectonics

of Trans-Pecos Texas, (P.W. Dickerson and W.R.

Muehlberger,

editors), WTGS publication 85-81, p. 227-278.

1984, “Structural Evolution of the Chihuahua Tectonic

Belt, Trans-

Pecos, Texas”

WTGS Bull. vol. 23 no.7, p.7-13.

1982, “Structural Evolution of the Chihuahua Tectonic

Belt” in

Geologic Studies

of the Cordilleran Thrust Belt, vol. 1(Powers, R.B.,

Editor), Rocky Mtn. Assoc. of Geol., p. 451-457.

1982, “Structural Evolution of the

Chihuahua Tectonic Belt” [abs.]

AAPG

Bull. vol. 66, no. 5, p.548.

1981, “Structural Evolution of the Malone Mountains, Hudspeth

County, Texas” University

of Texas at Austin Masters Thesis, p. 1-93,

3

plates.

Berge, T.B., Fred Aminzadeh and Tanja Oldenziel, 2001, “The Application

of Neural Network to Predict Reservoir, Gas Content, and Secondary Migration Routes, A Case History from Ibhubesi Field, Orange

Basin, South Africa” in “Reservoir Resolution Through the Comprehensive Use of Seismic Data Attributes”

SEG-GSH Spring Symposium 2001, chairmen Mike Graul and Tury Taner, paper 2.6, 5 p.

Berge, T.B., Fred Aminzadeh, Paul de Groot and Tanja Oldenzeil, 2002, “Seismic Inversion Successfully

Predicts Reservoir, Porosity, and Gas Content in Ibhubesi Field, Orange Basin, South Africa”, in “The Leading

Edge”, April, 2002, pp. 338 – 348.

Berge, T. B., Liaw,

A.L., Osypov, K., Denham, D., Webb, S. and Abriel, B., 2002, GAC champions PCs for Student Sections: The Leading Edge, 21,

no. 2, 206-208.

Berge, T.B. and Buffler, R.T., 1982, “A Three-Dimensional Seismic Study

of

Challenger Knoll” [abs.],

AAPG Bull. vol. 66, no. 5, p. 548-549.

Berge, T.B., and George C. Smith,

2004, “General Elastic Inversion, Orange Basin RSA Case Study”, AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 88 (2004), No.13. (Supplement).

AAPG International Conference, Cancun, Mexico Oct. 24-27, 2004 Abstract.

Berge, Timothy B., Jeff

Aldrich, Francis Tsehlone, and N’dzumbu Vele, 2004, “Recent Activities in the Continued Development of the Giant

Ibhubesi Gas Field, South Africa”, AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 88 (2004), No.13. (Supplement), AAPG International Conference,

Cancun, Mexico, October 24-27, 2004, Abstract.

Berge, T.B., Osberge, C., Dowse, M., and Dickerson, E., 1985, “Road

Log from

Van Horn to Devils Ridge,

to Malone Mountains to San Ignacio and on to

Alpine”

in Structure and Tectonics of Trans-Pecos Texas. (P.W. Dickerson

And W.R. Muehlberger, editors), WTGS pub. 85-81, p. 16-24.

Berge, T.B.,

Delgado, J., Hernandez, L., Ramos, A., and Roa, E., 1997,“Estudio

Integrado del Area de Pato, Norte de Oficina, Cuenca Oriental de Venezuela” CORPOVEN internal report #007530,

Puerto La Cruz, 25-04-97, 33 p. + figures maps and crossections .

Berge, T.B., Delgado, J.,

Hernandez, L., Ramos, A., and Roa, E., 1998, “Applied Sequence Stratigraphy of the Oficina Formation, Eastern Basin,

Venezuela”, AAPG Bulletin, V. 82 (1998), No. 13 (Supplement), AAPG ANNUAL MEETING, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 17-20,

1998, Expanded Abstract.

Berge,

T.B., Gonzalez, A., Issa, N., Rengal, M., and Serrano, O. “Estudio Integrado del Area Barinas Norte, Flanco Surandino,

Cuenca Barinas-Apure, Venezuela”, CORPOVEN internal report, Puerto La Cruz, 31-10-97, 23 pages + figures maps and crossections.

Berge, T.B., and Chelette, S.L., 1999, “Use of 3D Seismic in Offshore

Mining of Gold and Diamond Deposits” in SAGA 6th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, 28th September

– 1st October 1999, paper 13.3

Berge, T.B., and Steve Veal, 2005 “Structure of the Alpine Foreland”, Tectonics, Vol. 24,

TC5001, doi:10.1029/2003TC001588, 2005, 10p 7f. AGU.

Aminzadeh, F.,

de Groot, P., Berge, T., and Valentini, G., 2001 “Using Gas Chimneys as an Exploration Tool”, in World Oil, Part

1 May, 2001 pp. 50 – 56, Part 2 June 2001, pp.

Jeff Aldrich, Robert Zilinski, Janell Edman,

Werner Leu, Tim Berge, and Kevin Corbett, 2003, “Documentation of a New Petroleum System in the South Atlantic”

AAPG Annual Meeting 2003. Abs.

Aldrich,

J.B. and Berge, T.B. 2000, “Fluvial-Deltaic Architecture of the Orange River Delta, Examples from

Block 2A, AK 3D Seismic Survey” in SAGA 6th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, 28th September

– 1st October 1999, paper 15.3

Aldrich, J.B. and Berge, T.B. 2000, “Fluvial-Deltaic Architecture of the Orange River

Delta, Examples from Block 2A, AK 3D Seismic Survey” in proceedings from the 6th Annual 3-D Symposium, RMAG

and DGS, 15 pages.

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