Silvio Adrian Castro Cell: 832-***-****
Seismic Data Analyst 32 Riva Row
The Woodlands, TX 77380
Summary
Geoscience E&P Consultant, Seismic Data Analyst with 15+ years of experience in O&G Industry. Now working as a contractor consultant on my own company, ofering Seismic Data loading and Application Support on G&G Applications . Willing to relocate and available for travel as need.
Work
History
GEOTOOLBOX
SOLUTIONS INC
Feb 2015
Present
CEO and Founder.
Startup on early stage that ofers Seismic Data Analysis & E&P Information Consultants.
Client Favel: on site 2D & 3D Seismic Loading for Interpretation Projects on Petrel & IHS Kingdom Suite. Well Data loading in Interactive Petrophysics. North West Basin Salta Province, Argentina. From 2016 - 2017.
Client Favel: Project maintenance & Seismic data loading Petrel. Texas & Oklahoma felds 2017.
Client YPF Seismic Data Loading 2D & 3D post-stack Interpretation & Attribute Calc. Neuquen Basin. YPF Argentina. Geoframe 4.3 and Petrel Studio Project maintenance, data quality control and data set export for partners and data service providers during 2015 to present days. Repsol Brazil
Repsol Sinopec
Brazil
Aug 2007
Feb 2015
Seismic, Well & Interpretation Data Loading, G&G Application Support Consultant
Seismic Data Loading – Interpretation Data Loading – Well Data Loading.- G&G Application Support. Covering all the Major Platforms (Schlumberger, Landmark, Paradigm and IHS).
Organizing and Administrating Structured and Unstructured E&P Data - Corporate Repository Integration.
Functional Application Support covering Geoframe 4.3 Omega, OpenWorks2005, Paradimg Suite, GOCAD/SKUA, RokDoc, Fugro Jason, CGG H&R 8.3 to 10.0, Temis, MidValle 2d-3dMove, Petrel Studio, SLB Legacy (WellDB, SeisDB,CPS), Eclipse, Interactive Petrophysics 8.
Taking care to third parties data delivery like Gov. Agencies (ANP - IBAMA), International Partners
(Statoil, Petrobras, Ecopetrol, Sinopec, Hess, Woodside), Providers (PGS, Spectrum, ION, TGS, Western Gecko). etc
Standardization and QC/QA tasks for Seismic Information (headers, reports, navigation, etc.)
Corporate Seismic Data Repository maintenance (Load, Export, Update, Metadata) Petrel Studio, Pro-source Well, Pro-source Log, Pro Source- Seismic. Katalyst Glassdoor.
Taking Care of Farm-out process (data gathering, distribution, and security)
Seismic Gathers loading to SLB Omega, Paradigm Epos/ Echos, CGG H&R 10.1 on Attribute, Inversion and QC Projects (on house seismic acquisition projects).
Data loading of Seismic, (2d- 3d) data from diferent sources, check of parameters completion, compliance with local regulations and Industry Standards.
Loading and Exporting Interpretation Data from several Apps and formats and diferent applications.
Performing media integrity checks (tapes and disks) also headers completion in order to maintain the integrity of the asset.
Control Navigation and Observer report Documents as part of the delivery set.
Assistance to Geophysical and Geologist groups on planning resources and asset previous to start each project.
Relevant Achievements
Application Support Engaging with users on G&G Application supports as the frst assistance on incidence resolution Savings on ISV Functional Support and less impact in time.
E&P Project and Data Management Assisted E&P Team of 80 Geologist, Geophysics and Petrophysics 200+ Interpretation Projects, 175 Field Development Projects 40 Attributes and Inversion Projects 45 Reservoir. Modeling projects. Seimics related task, survey creation, seismic loading, data quality check, nomenclature and project performance & Integrity check .
Migration Support Assisted on several migration process of all the projects on E&P Unit on Repsol Brazil including Schlumberger & Paradigm Platforms were versions baseline requires. Resulting in a reduction of cost since was an internal task with ad-doc resources.
Drilling RTM support Assisted by Drilling Supervision Team Loading daily advance logs on 3D Varco Visualization System & Geoprobe 3.2 32 Well from Santos, Campos and Espirito Santo Basins were covered.
Data rooms Farm-out: Responsible for the process Creating all the projects on G&G Applications in order to farm-out the re-salt asset of Santos, Campos & Espirito Santo basins. Repsol 2009-2010. as a Highlight, this task allows to concrete Sinopec assets acquisition of 40% on Repsol Brazil asset, this occurs in Houston during August 2010.
Corporate Database implementation Assisted the team to implement and populate the Corporative E&P Asset Database System on Repsol Brazil under Prosource Studio involving Seismic and Well data. Assisted on the integration of the Corporative E&P Asset Remote Data Base under Katalyst Glassdoor. Seismic, Wells, Logs, and Documentation were loaded and meta data generated. Brazil 2012-2013.
Corporate Technical Archive. Assisted in the implementation process (Design, Building, and Maintenance) of Repsol Brazil E&P involving 5000 data tapes several formats on service, usage, maintenance, life cycle, and reporting. 500 Hard Drives containing data delivery, 1200 wells logs printed and saved on digital media and 25000 scanned & Indexed documents related to Business Unit.
Campos 33 Seismic 3D Seismic Acquisition & Processing. Responsible for Support to Geophysical Team Projects for Gathers QA/QC Projects for Time & Depth Processing under Omega and Geocluster a - QA/QC Iteration control Partners Data Delivery / Share / Documentation. Brazil 2012 - 2013 – 2014. Project & Data Management using Omega to perform QC for Depth Migration process.
Campos 33 Interpretation & Modeling project assistance. Performing Seimic, Wells and Interpretation Data Load, Project maintenance and multiple International partners (Stat Oil, Petrobras, Sinopec) delivery.
Campos 33 Gavea Well Seismic Processing Support for Acquisition process - Gathers Qa/Qc Support for VSP processing - Iteration control Data delivery to multiple international partners (Stat Oil, Pertobras, Sinopec) Brasil 2013-2014.
Campos 33 Attributes Inversion & Attributes calculation & processing Assisted in the design of remote processing infrastructure (cluster) for processing using third-party facilities. Responsible for the Data Management, Project Maintenance, System Administration and Application Support on Paradigm Platform and Remote Cluster Facilities Brasil 2012-2013. Repsol YPF
Argentina (NOC)
Sept 2003-Jul
2007
Neuquen
Seismic Analyst. Geoscience Application Support.
Seismic, Interpretation and Well data loading, Project Manteinance and Application Support SLB Geoframe, LMK OpenWorks, Fugro Jason CGG Hampson & Russell.
Corporate E&P Database of Argentina Oeste Basin information to Pro-source Seismic / Well manager.
Technical Library / Archive Administration. Several Legacy format Exabytes, SDLT MD tapes.
Well log digitizing process Neuralog NeuraDig and NeuraBase and Digger+ GTCO Digitizer (from paper/flms to digital)
Relevant Achievements
Corporate Technical Archive. Assisted in the management process involving: Seismic data tapes, Wells logs printed and tapes, Planimetric & altimetric maps, Topographic surveys reports, permits reports and Cutting samples.
E&P Application Support. Engaging with users on G&G Application support as the frst assistance on incidence resolution. Resulting on savings on Functional Support and less impact in time.
3D Visualization Room Assisted to Interpreters to navigate 3D Visualization facilities.
E&P Project and Data Management. Assisted E&P Team of 300 Geologist, Geophysics and Petrophysics on several projects from all the Neuquen Basins. Vaca Muerta Shale projects. Loading Seismic 2D-Lines and 3D surveys.
SAT Servicio
Asistencia
Tecnicas SRL
Sept 2001
August 2003
Neuquen
IT Admin – Database & GIS Support
IT Management and general infrastructure support of 200 employees.
GIS and Geodatabase maintenance Permits and HSE Database for clients
Well, Seismic and Cartographic digitizing process, system conversion and image matching
Permit & HSE Audit System.
Neuquen City
Local
Goverment
December 1995
Aug 2001
Neuquen
System Analyst Support and Development
Commerce & Permits Department
Internal Development of a Commercial License Permits Application on Genexus Environment Assist to create Commercial Statistic Profle of the City. Naceres Centro
Terapeutico
Integral
Neuquen
August 1992
October 1995
Special Educator Assistant
Assistance on Special Education on Children with Special Needs or Disabilities. Computer-based alternative teaching & communication Skills. O&G
Related
Skills
Knowledge of E&P data workfow dealing with diverse media (digital & analogic).
Application Support / Seismic, Well, Interpretation Data loading/ Project manteinance on several Platforms as Schlumberger, Paradigm, Landmark, IHS, CGG Veritas.
Profciency in SLB Geoframe Suite/ Petrel/ Omega/ Eclipse performing tasks like user permission, index construction, backups, restore, consolidation (master project – user project) Services Control (daemons services).
Seismic Loading 2D/3D data, marine & land. Dealing with (pre & post-stack data). Performing task like export, conversion, extraction, transfer, fltering, scaling.
Gathers and Seg-D data handling, extraction from tapes and several media.
Planimetric & altimetric load, processing, control.
Cartographic loading, conversion, generation, formats Zmap, Lat Long,
QA/QC of seismic / well data (headers verifcation – consistency).
Gravimetric data loading – conversion to ESRI/GIS formats (Geodb & Shape fles).
Interpretation Data Management horizons, grids, scatter sets, (importing, exporting, conversion, etc)
Well, data loading Las, Lis,dlis and images (OBMI) (logs, images, reports), standardization, normalization.
Project maintenance (Documentation, Access, Backups, Indexing, trimming, etc )
User Support reacting to errors, data inconsistencies or slow latency.
Seismic Database Maintenance (ex. Seis Db – Pro-source Seismic – Paradigm Data management module)
Well/Log data repository management (Well DB, Log Db, Pro-source Well/Log )
E&P Documentation process – Meta data generation -
Tape Library (Exabyte, 3590 / 3592 / SDLT/LTO/DAT) Management, Extraction, Maintenance,Life Cycle.
Well Log Digitizing Systems Neuralog Log & Neura DB Management
ESRI Arc GIS Desktop & Server Operation/Query/Content Creation Personal
Skills
Safety and Security Mindset
Proactive vision of the positive teamwork advantage.
Customer & Goal prioritization
Strong Analytical Vision, Problem solving approaching in any task
Report & Communication as Priority.
Comfortable with user contact to accomplish the task
Flexible in schedules and time dedication.
Comfortable with schedules and deadlines or pressure.
Willing to work in multicultural and diverse environments Additional
Skills
Linux Admin and CLI / Scripting Skills.
Windows Workstation profciency.
Network administration basics.
Scripting Basics.
Autocad Map drafting and digitizing to be include in GIS.
Profciency in Microsoft Ofce .
Multilingual Spanish (mother language), English and Portuguese.
Web and tech-savvy, require little to no training. Computer Science Degree System Analyst
Argentina 1988-1992
Education
Commerce & Account Technical Degree High School
1986