AFES Committee

PRESIDENT

Casper van den Nouland

Shell UK Exploration & Production

Casper is a petrophysicist with Shell in Aberdeen. He obtained an MSc in physics at Leiden University in the Netherlands before joining Shell in 1999. The first four years he worked on a variety of projects in the Dutch onshore exploration team before transferring to a role as field petrophysicist in the Dutch offshore production asset. In 2006 he moved across the North Sea to join Shell's Aberdeen office. Recently Casper was also a member of the DEVEX committee. Casper has a keen interest in core analysis, thin bed evaluation and permeability modeling.

Tel: +44-1224-880488

E-mail: casper.vandennouland@shell.com

SECRETARY

Craig Lindsay

Helix RDS Ltd.

Craig is a Principal Core Specialist with RDS Ltd. located in Aberdeen. Previously he worked for over twenty years in the core analysis business (Core Lab), following on from an initial spell of mud logging (Gearhart), after graduating from Liverpool University in 1981. Current role includes project management for core analysis / SCAL and formation damage projects, quality control of SCAL data / integration with petrophysics / reservoir models and saturation height modeling.

Tel: +44-1224-741400

E-mail: craig.Lindsay@baker-rds.com

 

TREASURER

Richard Fairbairn

CNR International (UK) Ltd

Richard works on CNR's international portfolio of interests, primarily in North Sea, West & Southern Africa as senior petrophysicist. These fields cover the full range of development ages, from exploration & appraisal, through to mature field infill drilling. In a previous incarnation, Richard has worked for Shell UK & International and consultancy companies. Beyond 'conventional' petrophysics, he has particular expertise with 'Russian' logs & cased hole operations.

Tel: +44-1224-303600

E-mail: Richard.fairbairn@cnrinternational.com


PAST PRESIDENT

Donald Keir

Apache North Sea Ltd

Donald is Principal Petrophysicist at Apache North Sea Ltd in Aberdeen. Prior to this he held posts with BP and ExxonMobil. Donald’s current role covers a wide range of petrophysical applications from exploration to development. Donald has served on the SPWLA board of directors as Regional Director for Europe.

Tel: +44-1224-756430

E-mail: Donald.Keir@apachecorp.com

 

UNIVERSITY LIAISON OFFICER

Anika Ephraim

Weatherford

Anika is the Regional Technical Sales Engineer for Weatherford’s Wireline Services group, her areas of responsibility cover Europe and sub-Sahara Africa. She has 10 years industry experience, working as a field engineer for Schlumberger Wireline in various locations and as the Marketing Manager for Sondex.

Souterhead Road

Altens Industrial Estate

Aberdeen

Aberdeenshire

AB12 3LF

Tel: +44 (0) 1224 380 669

E-mail: anika.ephraim@eu.weatherford.com

 

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

John Morgan

 

Following graduations from both St Andrews (1998) and Aberdeen (1999), John has led a somewhat varied career as a computer programmer, geophysicist, surveyor, mud-logger, MWD engineer and most recently MWD co-ordinator. John is currently sheltering from the storm of recession in the haven of academia, and is studying for the MSc in Integrated Petroleum Geoscience at Aberdeen University.

Tel: +44 (0)782 534 6479

Email: john.morgan.09@aberdeen.ac.uk

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE (DEVEX)

Jenny Garnham

AGR

Currently working as a Consultant Petrophysicist for TRACS/AGR in Aberdeen. Specialises in open hole formation evaluation and integrated reservoir modelling.  Also a geo/petro trainer for both Nautilus and TRACS.

E-mail: Jenny.Garnham@agr.com

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE

Franck Michel

Halliburton, Sperry Drilling

Is currently the Europe West Africa Petrophysical support Manager for Halliburton, Sperry Drilling, based in Aberdeen.

Franck grew up near Lyon, France then elected to attend Robert Gordon’s University in Aberdeen, graduating with a BSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was hired on by the local Sperry office in’96, and worked as a MLWD Field engineer for the next 5 years, transferring into the LQA/QC Log Analysis team in 2001 supporting both the UK and Algeria LWD operations. In 2005, he then moved into a commuting Log Analyst position for the Other Africa district primarily supporting Cameroon, Gabon and Congo, followed by the Africa Regional Petrophysical support Manager’s position in 2007.

Tel:+44 (0)1224 727320

E-mail: franck.michel@halliburton.com

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE

Andy Ronald

PGL-Senergy

Andy is a Petrophysicist with PGL-Senergy located in Banchory.  Prior to joining PGL he worked for Schlumberger Wireline in Aberdeen and the Far East as Field Engineer, ops support and sales.  Andy currently provides operational support for several clients in addition to performing project work involving rock physics, saturation height modeling and petrophysics.

 Tel:

E-mail: andy.Ronald@senergyltd.com

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE

Steve Cuddy

Steve is an independent Petrophysical Consultant and Principal Petrophysicist at RDS. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Aberdeen University where he holds a doctorate in petrophysics. He has 35 Years industry experience in formation evaluation gained with Schlumberger and BP.  Areas of expertise include the quality control and repair of wireline and LWD electrical logs, saturation-height (FOIL) functions, electro-facies modelling (Fuzzy Logic) and permeability prediction. Steve was the General Chairman with overall responsibility for the 2008 Edinburgh Annual Symposium of SPWLA.

Tel:

E-mail: steve.cuddy(at)baker-rds.com

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE (Website management)

Jorge Gonzalez Iglesias

Schlumberger Oilfield UK PLC

Jorge is a Petrophysicist in Schlumberger currently supporting LWD and Wireline data acquisition in the North Sea.  His present job also involves data processing of basic and advance technologies. He joined Schlumberger in 2006 based in Aberdeen.  Jorge has a MSc Mining Engineer and is finalizing MSc in Petroleum Engineer  (TUDelft).

Tel: + 441224728741

E-mail: Jiglesias@slb.com

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE

Rebecca Nye

Fugro-Jason

Rebecca recently joined Fugro-Jason UK Ltd as a Petrophysicist based in Aberdeen.  Prior to this she worked for Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements where she began her career as a LWD engineer in Italy.  Rebecca’s current role involves petrophysical evaluation and rock physics modeling for seismic (AVO) inversion, 4D and Geostatistical inversion studies.

E-mail: rnye@fugro-jason.com

 

TECHNICAL SUB-COMMITTEE

Richard Arnold

Core Laboratories (UK) Ltd Solutions UK

Richard works on Business Development within Core Lab's Rock Properties group based in Aberdeen. Previously he has held various technical and managerial posts with Core Lab and others in various parts of the world. He has over 20 years experience in the planning and performance of core based formation evaluation projects from all over the world.

 Tel: +44-224-421131

E-mail: richard.Arnold@corelab.com