Reservoir Engineering and Management, Geophysics, Geology

Olarinre Salako, Ph.D.

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SUMMARY

Seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity to solve business and technical problems.

** ***** ** ******** *** R & D experience in quantitative analysis, modeling and simulation, and interpretation of subsurface data for oil and gas exploration, field appraisal and development.

Recent experience in data science and machine/deep learning, and cloud computing applications.

Aiming to leverage proven knowledge of business, capital project management, research and development, and multi-disciplinary team lead skills to add values to your organization.

Ph.D. educated in Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences. A lifelong learner, with a recent Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Data Science and several certifications in Machine Learning, various on-the-job training certifications in oil and gas, and several soft-skills courses.

Author and co-author of several successful project and research proposals, technical reports to clients (oil producing companies, and US Department of Energy), conference papers, journal articles, and internal/external presentations.

SKILLS

Soft Skills

People and team management, Customer-focused, Business acumen, Project conceptualization, Both big-picture and detailed oriented.

Knowledge/Expertise:

PVT Analysis, Petrophysics, Reserves Estimation and Booking

Water Injection, LoSal EOR, CO2 EOR, and CO2 storage

Static and dynamic reservoir modeling (Conventional and Unconventional) and Well Planning

Oilfields: Bell Creek, Bakken, North Sea (Schiehallion, Nelson), Gulf of Mexico, & Niger Delta.

Non-seismic (Electromagnetics, Resistivity, Gravity, Magnetics)

2D & 3D Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing, and Interpretation – Structural and Stratigraphy

Velocity model building, seismic-well tie, time-depth conversion

Play Analysis, Prospect Evaluation and Mapping, Field Appraisal and Development

Quantitative Seismic Interpretation (Rock physics, AVO modeling, Seismic inversion and Attributes analysis) for reservoir characterization

4D Seismic Data Integrated with Reservoir Engineering for Mature Field Management

Industry Software Proficiency

PHDWin, IHS Harmony, Petrel, Techlog, Kingdom, Hampson Russell, RokDoc, Omega, ProMax, CMG, Eclipse, etc.

Data Science and Machine Learning:

Python programming and libraries (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.) and SQL.

Machine Learning, Deep Learning (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, NLTK, Arima, etc.)

MATLAB, Fortran, C++, Linux, Jupyter notebook, PySpark, Azure.

EXPERIENCE

Emakemtos USA Inc. Houston, TX, USA 2019 - Present

CEO/Principal Consultant (Geoscience and Engineering)

Developed and delivered an industry-focused course on New Opportunities and Production Optimization in Mature Fields, as a Consultant to Acetop Energy, USA.

Consulted for an E & P company in Nigeria on static and dynamic modeling, simultaneous AVO inversion for reservoir characterization (facies classification), using prestack seismic and well logs data from a Niger Delta oilfield. The aim is to aid optimum well placement and field development.

Consulted for a company on the 4-D screening of a portfolio of brownfields to determine candidate fields for feasibility of 4-D seismic campaign to unmask bypassed & compartmentalized oil through accurate infill wells placement.

Energy and Environmental Research Center Grand Forks, ND, USA 2015 - 2019

Research Scientist (Technical Team Lead - Geoscience and Engineering Data Integration)

Led the 2D/3D seismic interpretation and time-depth conversion for several oil producing clients.

Led the implementation of machine learning application for modeling of missing sections of well logs and integration of well logs and seismic data to predict reservoir properties.

Led a multi-disciplinary team of four to develop an innovative workflow for 4D seismic inversion integrated with pulsed neutron logs, fluid-flow model to monitor, manage and optimize production from Bell Creek reservoir subjected to CO2 EOR and incidental CO2 storage.

Generated workflow and user documentation for field implementation of Fairfield Nodal ZLand 3C seismic data acquisition receiver system. Significantly contributed to field design, risk assessment and mitigation controls for 2D/3D/4D seismic acquisition.

Conducted geomechanical inversions of pre-stack seismic data sets as inputs to building of geomechanics models for a reservoir subjected to CO2 EOR, and an unconventional reservoir.

Developed a MATLAB workflow to manipulate 3D seismic coordinate projection. This saved the company several thousands of Dollars by avoiding subcontracting the task.

Edinburgh Time Lapse Project Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2010 - 2015

Researcher (Time Lapse Geophysics and Reservoir Engineering Data Integration)

Provided QI Geophysical R & D services to major oil companies (e.g. BP, ExxonMobil).

Static and Dynamic Simulation Modeling of various production mechanisms (e.g. LoSal EOR).

Developed workflow for Simulation-to-Electromagnetic (EM) modeling, integrated with Simulation-to Seismic modeling for joint sensitivity studies of time-lapse marine seismic and EM for reservoir-monitoring. This involved rock physics modeling, and optimal survey designs.

Compared time-lapse marine seismic and EM modeled responses. This revealed the value of integrating EM and Seismic in reservoir monitoring.

British Geological Survey Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2009 - 2009

Graduate Intern Geophysicist

Conducted 2-D seismic processing (velocity picking/analysis) using ProMax.

Estimated the seismic quality factor (Q) using spectral ratio method.

Related Q to the porosity of the fractured reservoir for a back-of-the-envelope reserve estimation.

Royal Energy Limited Lagos, Nigeria 2002 – 2008

Geoscientist (Exploration Geophysicist)

Data room activities, farm-in prospect evaluation, play analysis, reserve estimation, and field development guided by seismic data interpretation, seismic tie with well logs, inversion, and time-depth conversion.

Worked with vendors on seismic data acquisition survey design, planning and execution, and data processing to ensure high quality and timely deliverables.

EDUCATION

Columbia University Engineering and Emeritus Institute New York, USA

Postgraduate Diploma (4/4) in Applied Data Science (with fundamentals of Machine Learning).

Heriot Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Petroleum Engineering (Reservoir Geophysics and Engineering).

Heriot Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Geoscience for Subsurface Exploration Appraisal and Development.

Federal University of Technology Akure Nigeria

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) (Magna Cum Laude – 4.15/5) in Applied Geophysics (minors in Mathematics, Physics and Geology).

VOLUNTEERING

Partner, Assessor and Mentor (2019 – Present) – i-Scholar Initiative (ISI), Texas, USA

oProviding Scholarships and Mentoring for younger generations.

Technical Program Monitor (2019) – Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), USA

oProviding technical program supports at the SEG Conventions

Approved Van Driver (2017 – 2019) – Northlands Rescue Mission, Grand Forks, ND, USA

oTransported and offloaded food to temporary and emergency shelters for homeless people, and offloaded food to elementary schools in Grand Forks, North Dakota USA.

TESTIMONY

“Dr. Salako provided consultancy services to Acetop Energy on 3D/4D Seismic inversion for reservoir characterization with our clients in Nigeria. He also collaborated with us in developing and delivering an industry course on mature field production optimization. Dr. Salako is a detailed oriented professional with expertise in the integration of geoscience with reservoir engineering. He documents every detail of his work and provides the necessary guidance. He also introduced the concept and applications of data analytics to the oil and gas industry to our clients who came to attend the course.” Dr. Olusanmi O. Emmanuel, CEO - Acetop Energy (2020).

“During my career I had the chance to work with Olarinre on a time-lapse seismic inversion project. His broad experience and expertise in the field of reservoir engineering has been a great contribution to better understand the results in terms of fluid and pressure changes. On a professional but also on a personal level Olarinre is a very pleasant person to deal with, and I sincerely hope that we will have the chance to work together on any future occasions.” Dr. Peter Haffinger, MD – Delft Inversion (2019).

“Dr. Salako is engaged, providing new ideas and timely solutions to projects including IMS, PCOR, Joint Inversion, BEST, and Trinity (Oil Producer), and proposals. He provides leadership to the teams in integrating different subsurface skillsets, and he is particularly effective integrating geophysics and reservoir engineering. Dr. Salako is keen to promote the EERC’s capabilities. He produced several journal articles and conference papers as both author and coauthor. He is the in-house expert and go-to-person on rock and fluid physics, seismic inversion and reservoir geophysics. He performs his work with integrity and takes pride in his work” Annual Performance review at the Energy and Environmental Research Center (2018).

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