Deal with the Seal
NPF webinar series

Kevin Galbraith is a Geomechanics specialist focused on a broad range of themes relevant to the oil and gas industry. He joined Lundin in 2015 working in drilling, caprock and reservoir geomechanics. He has an BSc in Petroleum Geology from University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Petroleum Geochemistry from University of Newcastle.

Sirikarn Narongsirikul holds a MSc degree in Petroleum Geoscience from Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide and a PhD in Experimental Rock Physics and Geomechanics from University of Oslo.

She started her geophysical career with Chevron Thailand in 2002, with subsequent expat assignments in Perth office, Australia. In 2014, she joined ConocoPhillips Norway and has since worked as an Overburden Geophysicist in the Greater Ekofisk Area. Her work focus has been on the integration of 4D time-lapse seismic, and geomechanics for overburden management, including drillability evaluation, well failure and integrity analysis, and CSRI monitoring.

Fred Santarelli holds an MEng from the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etiennes and a PhD from Imperial College (London). He has 35 years of experience in petroleum related Geomechanics in general and injection issues in particular. After working for various operators, he co-founded Geomec and has been its CTO ever since. He has co-authored over 80 technical papers and 10 patents. He has worked on the monitoring of all the CSRI wells of the Greater Ekofisk Area since 2010.

Tron Golder Kristiansen is applying geomechanics to solve various challenges in the oil and gas industry. This include work in all areas of geomechanics in multiple disciplines within subsurface and drilling. He started his work with Amoco including work at their research center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is also an alumnus of Amoco Petrophysics School. He was a Global Geomechanics Advisor for BP from 2003 to 2016 in the central geomechanics team in the Global Wells Organization located in London and Houston. He was involved in both BP and partner operated projects, R&D and technology implementation around the world. He joined Aker BP as manager in 2016 to set up a Engineering Geology team for operations geology, wellsite geology and rock mechanics. Team located in Stavanger, Trondheim and Oslo. He is currently Chief Engineer Rock Mechanics in Drilling & Wells in Aker BP. He has an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Stavanger from 1992.

Danila Shutemov holds a double master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Russian State University of Oil & Gas & Petroleum Engineering from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He joined ConocoPhillips Norway in 2013 and worked as a chemical and production engineer in the Greater Ekofisk Area (GEA) fields prior becoming CSRI Lead in the end of 2019. Currently Danila is leading CSRI team being responsible for delivering Greater Ekofisk Area CSRI vision and strategy.

Elin Skurtveit is a structural geologist with 20 years of experience working at NGI, a leading centre of research and consultancy in engineering-related geosciences. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Bergen focusing on mechanical processes and faulting related to CO2 reservoir characterization. Elin follows up several projects related to CO2 storage and has a passion for integrated research combining geology, geomechanics and rock physics. She is involved in experimental work and has a broad experience in rock characterization, including fault zones and fractures.

Mette is a Senior Reservoir Geologist at Vår Energi. She is a Geology Advisor with PhD degree from Århus University and working experience from the oil industry in Norway and Denmark as well as from the Danish Energy Agency. Employment in both oil companies and at a governmental authority provides detailed knowledge of the oil industry seen from both industrial and governmental side.

In the past millennium Ebbe studied and researched at Oslo university, MIT and Harvard in a conglomerate of themes including plate tectonics, structural geology, sedimentology and numerical geodynamics.

While researching he spend more than 1000 nights in tents mostly in the Arctic, and about the same amount of sleepless nights writing computer-code mostly regarding fluid-rock interaction.

Over the time this has resulted in ca. 50 peer-reviewed papers including mantle to Quaternary rocks and their habits, as well as a children’s book and several TV programs about Earth science

Ebbe joined oil industry in 2007, with the start-up Aker Exploration, which through merges has become Aker BP. In industry he has focused on quantification of subsurface parameters, basin and petroleum system modelling, geomechanics and human bias in estimates.

Isabel started at Equinor in September 2020 and works as a senior geologist in Exploration in Harstad. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, where she investigated structural controls on fluid flow. Work included investigating how properties of cap rocks and faults control hydrocarbon leakage and retention using data from the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Before joining Equinor, she previously worked for Wintershall Dea and Wellesley Petroleum. She took her bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Cambridge and Royal Holloway respectively.

Neil currently works as a “specialist” geologist with ConocoPhillips supporting global exploration and development. In the dim and dusty past, he acquired a PhD in structural geology from the university of Leeds, graduating in 1989. Since then, (and for the last 32 years) he has worked with Conoco and latterly ConocoPhillips in a variety of technical roles. He is the last remaining Aberdeen-based employee in the company. His main work interests are in improving trap analysis, focusing on both fault and top seals and how to better predict hydrocarbon column height ranges in undrilled prospects.

Marc Bond (B.S. Geology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1977; MSc, Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, 1981) is a geoscientist with over 40 years of petroleum industry experience. Marc joined Rose & Associates, LLP in November 2014. Previously he held a variety of management and interpretation roles in both the international and domestic arenas with BG Group and Tenneco Oil. His most recent position was Chief Geophysicist, accountable for delivery of effective performance and technical quality in the Geophysics function. Prior to that he was the Subsurface Assurance Manager for 6 years, responsible for the company-wide subsurface assurance for all projects, including Exploration, Appraisal and Development ventures and conventional and unconventional resources. Marc created, designed and implemented this new assurance process, ensuring consistency, objectivity, and best practice of geologic resource and chance assessments of subsurface opportunities. Along with Gary Citron, Marc was instrumental in organizing and maintaining the Risk Coordinators workshop and network to share and compare best practices within the industry. He has worked on several international projects, with substantial experience in Bolivia sub-Andes where he was the Exploration Manager and lead subsurface interpreter. Along Creties Jenkins, he has created the Mitigating Bias, Blindness, and Illusion in E&P Decision Making course.

After obtaining his Ph.D from Imperial College in 1986, Pete spent 5 years as a field geologist working in Alaska, Libya and Yemen. In 1990 he joined the Fault Analysis Group where he specialised in seismic interpretation and fault analysis. In 1995 Pete joined Badleys. He is a structural geologist specializing in fault seal analysis especially in fault-bounded compartments.

Andrew is a geoscientist with a particular interest in shales and mudstones. After PhD and postdoctoral research in marine and isotope geochemistry, he spent several years with BP and many at Newcastle University, before joining Durham University’s Department of Earth Sciences in 2013 – where he is currently Head of Department. He has worked on many problems linked to the physical and chemical properties of fine-grained sediments, including seals to petroleum reservoirs and CO2 storage sites, leakage, gas shales, and pore pressure estimation. He has been involved with and led several Joint Industry Projects, including the Caprocks consortium which forms the basis of this talk. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and was awarded the Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award for Best Paper in AAPG Bulletin in both 2009 and 2013 – both related to mudstones.

Senior geologist at the NPD, has worked with regional geology and field geology offshore, in particular seismic interpretation and pressure evaluation. Also interested in onshore geology of the Scandes.

Mr Fisher is currently Professor of Petroleum Geoengineering at the University of Leeds and CEO of PETRIVA, which is a recently established spin-out company providing consultancy services and data-mining/visualization software. He was awarded a PhD in low temperature geochemistry in 1993.He then worked for Rock Deformation Research Ltd (now Schlumberger) where he spent around 15 years conducting research and consultancy work on the impact of faults on fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs. In the last 10 years, he has become involved in research projects that integrate workflows and software in the geology, petrophysics, geophysics, geomechanics and petroleum engineering disciplines. He is also the research director for the Centre for Integrated Petroleum Geoscience and Engineering at the University of Leeds and manages the Wolfson Multiphase Flow Laboratory.

Philipp Müller holds a master's degree in Geoscience from the University of Kiel in Germany. In the past, he worked at the Geomar (Kiel, Germany) and the Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (Oslo, Norway) focused on reflection seismic interpretation of vertical seismic anomalies including pipe structures and hydrothermal vent complexes. In 2019, he started his Ph.D. project dealing with fault and top seal analysis supervised by Christian Hermanrud at the University of Bergen.

M.Sc (sivilingenør) in Mathematical statistics from NTNU (1992)

Work Experience:

Statoil 1993-2014
Origo Exploration 2014-2017
NPD 2017-

Hans Martin has mainly worked in Exploration with prospect and play evaluation, including methodology and best practices, post mortem analysis, QA/QC of exploration opportunities, portfolio analysis and exploration strategy.