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Baehr, Bill - Consulting Geophysicist

Registered Consultant

Qualification Summary

Forty-one years as a petroleum exploration geophysicist with broad technical and managerial experience in seismic interpretation, data processing and acquisition including geologic area from Montana through the Gulf Coast to Florida and offshore China.

Competent in the use of interactive workstations to solve problems of structure and fault pattern on client's deep Wilcox prospect, including a seismic attibute analysis.

Instrumental in the development and presentation of exploration prospects for client/company use or for sale to industry partners.

Determined and utilized appropriate software as seismic process analyst in Exxon's geophysical data processing center.

Well versed in velocity analysis - depth and pressure perdiction, structural depth mapping.

Investigated Gulf Coast - Wilcox and yegya Formations using AVO techniques.

Explored Smackover to Miocene, extensively in the Middle and Lower Wilcox, the East Texas and Arkla basins, South Florida, Southern Oklahoma, Williston Basin, New Mexico, and China, specifically the Pearl River Area and Yellow Sea.

Employment Experience

Consultant, Houston, Texas - Geophysicist (1982-pr)

Tipperary Corporation, Houston, Texas - District Exploration Manager (1979-82)

Total Petroleum, Inc., Houston, Texas - District Geophysicist (1974-79)

Superior Oil, Houston, Texas - Exploration Mapping Supervisor (1978-81)

Exxon Company, USA - Process Analyst and Geophysical Interpreter (1953-74)

Education/Membership

M.S. in Geology - Kansas State 1954

B.S. in Geology - Kansas State 1951

B.S. in Industrial Physics - Kansas State 1951

3-D Seismic Workstation course work

SEG, AAPG, HGS, GSH