Reservoir Geophysicist
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITAE
ALBERT O. AUSTIN, Ph.D.
************@***.*** P.O BOX 1361
*********@*****.*** Fresno, TX 77545
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
An integrity and results driven professional Geophysicist, Petro-physicist and Geologist with 20+ years of shale, gas and oil experience. Proven track record of bringing success and increased productivity. Well accomplished in the exploration and exploitation of both classis and carbonates including conventional oil and gas, resource plays, heavy oil, shale gas/oil and SAGD evaluations. Adept at handling large development projects and working with large teams. Expert in seismic data management analysis, solving complex data quality issues and perform advanced data manipulation.
Advanced skills in Petro-physics, geological interpretation, project economics, mapping, well geological and engineering operations; Creative and innovative application of geologic skill-set including multi-well and multi-zone Petro-physical assessments to optimize productive reservoir characteristics and determine geologic trends. Seasoned experience in using various industry software applications including Geo-Scout, Petra, Omega Extended inter-bed Multiple Prediction (XIMP), Geo-log, Seisworks, Wave equation and various MS Office software. Provide the most comprehensive collection of brand protection and enhancement services specializing in product recalls, returns, retrieval services, and quality audits.
Facilitate the process of and loading subsurface data (well) data within the company from the time of
Planning, acquisition through interpretation, analysis and archival to ensure optimum efficiency.
Provide expertise on projects that impact data management processes or require development of new processes.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Law, Alliance International University, College of Law, Lusaka, Zambia
St. Thomas University School of Law - LLM International Law; with an emphasis in Human Rights, Miami, Garden, FL
University of Houston, M. S. Petroleum Engineering; Emphasis in Formation Evaluation & Core Analysis, Houston, TX
University of Wisconsin, B.S Geology and Physics; Major: Structural / Sedimentary Geology
Superior, WI
PUBLICATIONS
Dissertation
Alliance International University, Lusaka, Zambia
Title: Comparative study of Legal Problems of Environmental Impact on Oil Exploration in Niger Delta
Thesis
St Thomas University, School of Law, Miami-Garden, Florida
Title: Environmental Impact on Oil Producing States of Niger Delta
Thesis
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Title: Formation Evaluation & Core Analysis
KEY SKILLS & EXPERTISE SUMMARY
Experience seismic (2-D/3-D) in support of upstream oil & gas operation, process seismic data
from variety of geological setting and utilizes different types of software to solve geological
problems, direct vendors as they conduct proprietary processing projects.
Developed proficiency in deep-water channels and stratigraphic traps in Garden banks, Gulf of Mexico subsalt, Louisiana shelf, State & Federal waters Gulf of Mexico, salt flank and subsalt structures, Texas Shelf, Trio-Vicksburg trend South Texas.
Seismic processing, including data conditioning, noise suppression, data enhancement, velocity
analysis and imaging. Conduct analysis, recognizes issue, support the formation of new and
innovative workflows and methods to resolve problems and ensure the delivery of quality
results. Procure & Managing third party vendors as well as coordinating different project, and
define projects objectives, design projects to meeting business requirements. Support various
geophysics computational tools, model, algorithms and software. Seismic acquisition techniques
software wave propagation, digital signal processing, numerical modeling and inversion, finite
difference methods and optimization, strong computational and algorithmic knowledge.
Improved seismic imaging and reservoir characterization for offshore field seismic imaging and reservoir characterization for offshore field development.
Prepared anisotropic sonic log acquisition, processing and interpretation in wells for improved reservoir imaging, reservoir estimates, Wolf-camp limey-silty shale, with inter-bedded layers, Woodford shale deposit of Devonian-Mississippian of Marfa basin, and Eagle Ford shales
Developed multiple elimination techniques based on wave equation principle applied on land seismic data, surface-rated noise attenuation algorithms applicable to 2D/3D seismic data, inversion of pre/post-seismic data using deterministic and/or stochastic techniques for reservoir description studies.
Incorporated well logs, Petro-physics, engineering and bio-stratigraphic data with seismic to develop high quality 3D structural, stratigraphic interpretations of geologic settings in sub-salt environment.
Enhanced the structural interpretability through accurate static solution and the continuity and interpretability of shallow area, pre-stack data suitability.
Defined accurate final velocity field, optimization of pilot production.
Analyzed 3D seismic data to identify problematic design parameters/workflows to address the attenuation, seismic attribute analysis and imaging and 3D multiple attenuation pre-seismic migration and testing
Demonstrated competence in reservoir modeling and evaluation, integrating logging data geological information in Agbamil oilfield Niger Delta offshore and Uge Deepwater offshore.
Conducted reservoir scale geophysical analyses in determination of reservoir characterization, generation of structural and stratigraphic isopach maps use in field development planning, and reservoir estimation.
Skilled in velocity modeling by integrating borehole sonic, VSP and seismic data for analysis of 3D seismic to identify problematic design parameters/workflows to address the attenuation, seismic attribute analysis and imaging, 3D multiple attenuation pre-seismic migration and testing
Accomplished Geological, Geophysical and reservoir assessment. Seismic Processing and Interpretation of seismic data.
Seasoned Geophysics experience in recoverability of thin sand oil reservoir, and optimization of thin sand oil resource.
Improved the quality of processing (PTSD &PSDM) and seismic inversion, micro-seismic monitoring and infill drilling
Analyzed of seismic velocity, bandwidth and basic data attributes to determine optimum processing sequence.
Developed rock physics and seismic attributes/methods for Green River shale formation plays.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Texas Human Rights Group
Executive Director 2017-Date
Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait
Geophysicist, Senior Specialist 2013-2017
Wali & Wali, Associates P.C, Atlanta, GA 2009-2013
Legal officer
DrillVER-Pemex, (Mexico State Oil Company) Poza Rica, Mexico 2000-2006
Senior Geophysicist
Chevron Geosciences, Houston, TX 1980-2000
Senior Advanced Geophysicist – Exploration/Development
The Analyst-Schlumberger, Houston, TX 1979-1980
Log Analyst
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