Data Analyst

Brandon K. Simmons

Upstream E&P/Seismic Data Analyst 832-***-**** ph)

(adiucl@r.postjobfree.com email)

Discipline: Geoscience Support & Seismic Information Management

Experience: 16 Years Industry Relevant, 19 Years Total Work Experience

CAREER SUMMARY

Upstream Information Management professional approaching 20 years in the oil and gas industry, including two independent exploration companies, Halliburton – Landmark Graphics Corporation, Chevron North America, and ExxonMobil. Areas of expertise include Geoscience support in multi-functional asset teams, centralized seismic support teams, seismic data management, seismic and well data loading, data migration, and data integration. Major projects include several successful migrations from early Petrel to Petrel with Studio, OpenWorks R2003 to R5000, OpenWorks R2003 to Paradigm Epos 4, SMT to OpenWorks, SMT to Paradigm Epos 4.1, and large-scale data integrations at multiple super-majors. Most recently, I led the seismic tape transcription project for ExxonMobil, which was a massive ~$5 million-dollar undertaking. This project involved designing all necessary workflows to pull approximately 6 million legacy seismic magnetic tapes out of the Underground Vaults and Storage salt mine in Kansas, subsequently loading the seismic data into a cloud computing solution. I also managed vendor payroll verification & project budget tracking, logistics (salt mine in Kansas to Houston), magnetic tape to USB transfer point, metadata capture, and a new loading process which yielded a 98% decrease in turnaround time for seismic data loading. I presented this at PNEC 2019 as the first speaker from ExxonMobil in 8 years. Following that project, I created the roadmap for the Digital Transformation effort currently underway at ExxonMobil, allowing seismic data to be loaded in a highly automated environment with little hands-on interaction. The business lines will receive a more complete seismic product (using ML & AI written by Computational Data Sciences to pick the faults and water bottoms) while maintaining the highest level of data quality. This allowed my team to pivot away from seismic data loading and other menial tasks so their geophysical skills could be utilized to bring immediate uplift to the business lines. These changes brought an increase in efficiency of over 900%.

KEY SKILLS

•Motivated and enthusiastic

•Creative and Innovative

•Team oriented

•Personable, well liked

•Versatile

•Quick learner

•Self-starter who works well with little or no supervision

•Adapts quickly to new environments

•Skilled at learning new software systems

Experience:

Summary

2017 – 2020 ExxonMobil UDT – Seismic Information Management Team Lead

2016 – 2017 GraphTec Inc – Technical Drawing Engineer (Architectural)

2014 – 2015 ExxonMobil UIT – Petrel Studio Deployment Team

2013 – 2014 Chevron SASBU – Onsite Seismic Data Management Consultant

2010 – 2012 CEO at Simmons Energy Partners, LLC (Data Management)

2008 – 2010 Chevron DWEP – Onsite Seismic Data Management Consultant

2006 – 2008 Halliburton – Landmark Graphics Corporation

2006 – 2006 Pan American Production – Geotech

2005 – 2006 Neuralog, Inc. – Well Log Software Trainer

2002 – 2005 Hawkeye Stratigraphic, Inc. – Geotech

Achievements Awards & Recognition:

•2007 Halliburton/Landmark MVP Award

•2008 Halliburton/Landmark Top Consulting Project Award

•2008 Chevron DeepWater Recognition & Awards (Creation of the Benchmark Inventory Procedure)

•2009 Chevron DeepWater Recognition & Awards (Leadership and Team Motivation)

•2010 Chevron DeepWater Recognition & Awards (Interpretation Data Process Improvement for Paradigm Epos 4)

•2018 ExxonMobil Recognition for creation of new seismic computing systems, new processes for seismic loading, strategic thinking, and leadership

•2018 ExxonMobil Certificate of Recognition for streamlining the seismic data loading process

•2018 ExxonMobil Recognition letter from the Brazil leadership team for the loading of ~4,000 2D lines in 4 days (Thursday-Monday); resulting in the capture of ~2 million gross acres across 14 blocks against an incredibly tight deadline

•2019 ExxonMobil Opening speaker at PNEC, gave a talk about Creativity and Innovation in a Pre-Cloud Seismic Environment versus an In-Cloud seismic environment. It was the first time ExxonMobil had a speaker at PNEC in 8 years, and the response from the crowd was extremely positive and enthusiastic

Company: ExxonMobil – SIM Upstream Digital Transformation UIS 2017-2020

Title: Seismic Data Analyst III (Sr.)/Technical Team Lead SIM HOU & SIM BA

Key Job Duties:

•Daily oversight of seismic data loading and navigation analysis teams in Houston and Buenos Ares, Argentina to maintain alignment and give the teams a chance to ask questions or present potential hurdles (team comprised of ~30 analysts)

•Led the Seismic Tape Transcription Pilot Project as part of the Digital Transformation effort, which involved developing radically new solutions and converting those theories into multiple roadmaps with actionable items that teams from all over ExxonMobil participated in. The goal of the pilot was to test feasibility of transcribing 30,000 seismic tapes and making that data available in a cloud system within three months; so, myself as Project Lead, along with my team delivered 60,000 seismic surveys with no additional cost while completing the pilot a week early

•Analyzed all processes currently being used by the Houston seismic team, then completely reinvented the processes so tasks that were linear now ran in parallel, on much faster hardware that I worked with IT to design, and the seismic itself was moving from our teams in Houston and BA, Argentina

•Member of Seismic Information Management team providing seismic data coordination, analysis, and data conditioning for the South American Business Unit.

•Created new processes for transfer of historical seismic data from GeoFrame to Petrel and Studio

•Consult with geophysical interpreters and respective Team Leads to coordinate delivery of new seismic products

•Consult with ExxonMobil in-house seismic processors to facilitate exchange of reprocessed seismic products for geophysical interpretation or archival

•Load 2D and 3D seismic data to Petrel/Studio and GeoFrame for analysis and interpretation

•Coordinate with navigation team to determine proper positioning of 2D and 3D seismic data

•Create new seismic surveys for loading new vendor data in Petrel/Studio.

•Capture meta-data from seismic headers and enter it in Data Management Console to produce new load sheets

•Condition seismic data as needed for loading using a combination of geophysical tools

Company: GraphTec Inc. 2016-2017

Title: Technical Drawing Engineer

Key Job Duties:

•Review architectural design firm drawings and engineer construction methods, materials, and techniques in order to take the idea from concept drawing to reality

•Produce highly detailed 3D CAD drawings for manufacturers to use as a step by step go by during the construction process

Company: ExxonMobil – EMIT/UIT 2014-2015

Title: Petrel Studio Deployment Data Analyst

Key Job Duties:

•Member of Studio Data Track & Deployment team providing seismic and well data assessment and preparation support plus project rebuild and Petrel/Studio workflow assistance for four Business Unit deployments

•Created Seismic assessment scorecard using the Petrel Data QC tools to assess a Business Unit’s data to determine the amount of clean-up required for Studio readiness

•Assessed data and participated in meetings with WANO, Sakhalin, South America and Middle East

•Consulted with Business Unit personnel on preparing Seismic and Well data for Studio promotion

•Prepared and promoted hundreds of 3D surveys/volumes and 2D lines/vintages to Studio

•Involved in remediation of 2D seismic navigation between different line vintages

•Developed expertise with Petrel Data QC Tools and 2D SEGY Toolbox by using these Application to correct 2D problems

•Assisted in the creation of a Petrel RMS seismic amplitude balancing solution workflow which benefits the interpreters by associating standard seismic templates to the data

•Participated in well data loading for all Deployments which included 72k wells for Calgary

•Developed knowledge with the EMSDB to Studio Pump and expertise with Petrel Data QC Tools for well header and log clean-up

•Assisted and advised multiple deployments with Petrel project rebuilds, including remotely rebuilding 20+ projects for the Calgary Athabasca deployment and 10+ more for GOM Production and South America

•Expert in rebuilding Well Section Windows and Re-parenting 3D and 2D interpretation data

•Updated Petrel Support training modules for Production, Completion, Image, Dipmeter and Lithology data from Petrel Version 2013 to Petrel 2014. These materials were presented twice in 2015

Company: Chevron – Southern Africa SBU 2013-2014

Title: Seismic Data Manager (Block 0 & Block 14)

Key Job Duties:

•Deployment of Petrel Studio in the Southern Africa Strategic Business Unit

•Upgrade from Petrel 2011.2.3 to Petrel 2012.6 including the Studio environment

•Consolidation of reference projects for upgrade to Studio

•Data cleanup of all seismic data in preparation of upgrade

•Archival of legacy data not being upgraded to Petrel Studio

•Management & Coordination of members on the data cleanup and upgrade team

•Development & documentation of cleanup and upgrade processes and best practices

•Responsible for creation and management of the Block 14 Seismic Data Catalogue

•Testing Petrel 2013.2, Petrel 2012.6, and Petrel Studio in the Chevron Production Environment

•Responsible for defining data quality attributes and tagging data types for upgrade to Petrel Studio

•Responsible for creation and implementation of seismic volume vintage names and naming standards

•Responsible for all seismic data management end user requests in Block 0 and Block 14 of the Southern Africa SBU

•Seismic data loading/scaling in Petrel, Epos, and OpenWorks

Company: Simmons Energy Partners, LLC 2010-2012

Title: CEO

Key Job Duties:

•Creation of new business and on-site consulting services including: Shell, Chevron, BP, BHP, LukOil/Vanco, Southwestern, and SK Oil

•Management of time allocation and payroll for 16 consulting data managers and geoscientists, as well as 3 talent acquisition specialists

•Assisted with major projects at Shell (nDI software deployment, 2012) and at BHP (R5000 data cleanup initiative, 2011)

•Write custom .sh scripts as needed to automate processes and execute queries for all clients

•Coordination between members of the IT staff, the business units, and the exploration teams for all clients

•Creation and use of attribute volumes to aid in exploration efforts as requested by LukOil/Vanco (2011)

•Analyzed all data and performed cleanup to address issues of redundancy across interpretation platforms and projects in order to improve data quality and efficiency for all clients

•Negotiated the sale of Simmons Energy Partners, LLC to The Willis Group/SeisStream Global (late 2012)

Company: Chevron – Analysts International 2008-2010

Title: Seismic/Interpretation Data Manager (Deepwater GOM)

Key Job Duties:

•PreR5000 data cleanup and migration to R5000

•Migration from R2003 to Epos 4 (Oracle to SQL Database transfer)

•Creation of new projects and surveys

•Loaded and scaled all seismic data into newly created surveys

•Loaded and QC’d all interpretation data into new surveys

•Management & Coordination of members on the data cleanup and migration teams

•Development & documentation of cleanup processes and best practices

•Preparation and management of PreR5000 metrics, issues, and time spreadsheets which I reported to upper management

•Responsible for creation and management of the Pre and Post migration Inventories

•Software testing, data validation and QC in the R5000 environment

•Knowledge sharing with BU’s at a global level regarding cleanup and migration to R5000

•Data Migration to NextGen software

•Evaluated data management processes and procedures and developed new operational strategies which proved to be faster, safer, and more efficient

•Responsible for global implementation of newly developed processes and procedures

•Creation of custom #sh scripts used to automate processes

Major Projects:

•PreR5000 data cleanup, Migration to OpenWorks R5k, Next Gen Deployment to Epos 4

Company: Halliburton - Landmark Graphics Corporation 2006-2008

Title: Data Management Consultant

Key Job Duties:

•Data loading of both 2D & 3D data into R2003 as well as R5000

•Well and seismic data cleanup and remediation

•Data conversion Geoframe to Openworks

•Data conversion SMT to Openworks

•QC – 2D and 3D seismic projects

•2D and 3D seismic data loading as needed for conversion projects

•Creation of OpenWorks and SeisWorks projects as needed for conversion projects

•Data Conversion GeoGraphix to OpenWorks

•Data Conversion GeoGraphix to GeoFrame

•PreR5000 well and seismic data cleanup

Major Projects:

•Dominion- GeoFrame to OpenWorks conversion

•Anadarko- GeoFrame to OpenWorks conversion

•Samson- SMT to Landmark conversion

•El Paso- SMT to Landmark conversion

•Hess- GeoFrame to OpenWorks conversion/GeoGraphix to OpenWorks conversion

•Newfield- PreR5000 data cleanup and Upgrade

•BHP- GeoGraphix to OpenWorks conversion

Company: Pan American Production Company 2006-2006

Title: Geotech (Full time for one year, and on consulting basis for 5 years.)

Key Job Duties:

• Well log interpretation and lateral correlation

• Permian Basin research and analysis of the Canyon & Jackson sands

•Preparation of structure maps, fault plane maps, and isopach maps

•Preparation of structural and stratigraphic cross sections based off of data collected from the Gulf Coast Geological Library (well logs/scout tickets)

•Assisting in all aspects of prospect generation

Company: Neuralog, Inc. 2005-2006

Title: Trainer

Key Job Duties:

•Application support for Neuralog, Neurasection, and Neuraview

•Class instructor for the entire Neuralog suite of software

•One on one mentoring for Neuralog and Neurasection

Company: Hawkeye Stratigraphic, Inc. 2002 - 2005

Title: Geotechnical Coordinator

Key Job Duties:

•Preparation of geological maps (Using AutoCAD) such as structural, isochron, and isopach maps

•Preparation of structural and stratigraphic cross sections (by hand or using Neuralog/AutoCAD)

•Data gathering, from the GCGL or PI Dweights, Data loading into SMT Kingdom exploration software

•Picking formation and fault tops and entering that data into the NeuraDB database.

•Creation of base maps by hand spotting wells and 2d seismic lines

EDUCATION:

Ashford University - San Diego, CA

•Bachelor’s degree: Environmental Studies 3.93 GPA - Member of:

•Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society

•Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society

•Phi Beta Lambda (Future Business Leaders)

•Golden Key International Honor Society

University of Texas at Austin – Austin, TX

•Post Graduate: Python, AI, ML, and Neural Networks

•Expected Completion: June, 2020

Technical Training

•Petrel with Studio

•SMT Kingdom Suite

•Openworks System Administration

•Paradigm Epos 4 & 4.1

•OpenWorks R5000

•Practical Seisworks

•PowerView

•GeoProbe

•GeoGraphix Discovery

•UNIX Essentials in the Solaris 10 OS

•Advanced R5000 Migration and QC Workshop

•R5000 Project Migration and Customer Planning

•GeoGraphix System Administration

•Seismic Data Management

•Geo Data Management

•Petroleum Geology, Reservoir Characteristics

•Physical Geology

•Seismic and Geology

•Reservoir Fluid Flow and Natural Drive Mechanisms

•Seismic Methods

•Petroleum Characteristics by Basin Type

•Faults in Petroleum Provinces

•Reservoir Geology

•Lateral Correlation of Logged Data

•Seismic Methods and Hydrocarbon Detection

•Organic Matter: Progenitor of Petroleum

Business Professional Training

•The Effective Consultant

•Creating The Future

•The Trusted Advisor

Certifications:

•Neuralog suite

•Unix Essentials

•Numerous Landmark upstream applications

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