HyperMedia Home PageHyperMedia Home PageTwelve years experience finding innovative solutions and designing computer systems to implement these solutions. Strengths in inter-disciplinary communication and integration. Considered as an engineer who can generate new ideas and make the transition from theory to practice
Wrote commercial Macintosh application modeling thermal maturation and fluid migration.
Received $1500 innovation award for designing software to determine sand body size from 3D seismic data. Results were key to determining number of wells required to develop oil reservoirs. Presented results at SEG workshop.
Performed one of the industry's first quantitative determinations of in-situ displacement efficiencies; results were instrumental in determining economics of drilling over 100 new wells. (paper - SPE)
Produced industry's first stochastic 3D reservoir description conditioned by 2D thickness maps. Generated techniques to represent reservoir descriptions in reservoir simulators.
Increased company share of Prudhoe Bay in negotiations by $5,000,000, by developing novel statistical method that resolved a conflict of the validity of different laboratory measurement techniques.
Designed company's first reservoir engineering relational (Oracle) data base, significantly improving data integrity and availability to 70 reservoir engineers.
Designed improved FORTRAN algorithms used to optimize oil production rates from the Prudhow Bay field, converting from an iterative to direct solution, resulting in significant calculation speed.
Improved department's risk analyses by developing Monte Carlo and Stochastic methods of handling data uncertainties.
Kowledgeable in C++, FORTRAN, Pascal
BP Exploration, Houston, Texas - Lead Reservoir Engineer (1980-92)
Senior Facilities Engineer - Alaska, Production Engineer - Alaska , Petrophysicist - California
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering - University of California, Berkeley, California
B.S. in Bioengineering - University of California, Berkeley, California