SEG ROI Forum at NAPE Summit:
E&P Technologies that deliver a solid ROI

Laurie Weston Bellman
President, Sound QI Solutions, Ltd.

Laurie Weston Bellman is the President of Sound QI Solutions Ltd., a Calgary-based QI consulting and software company she founded in 2007. Originally a physics/astronomy graduate from the University of Victoria, B. C., Canada, Laurie started her oil and gas career with Shell Canada doing seismic processing and interpretation in the central plains area of Alberta. Seeking adventure and travel, she took a position with LASMO plc in London, to work on various European, North African and Middle East projects. She later returned to Canada and began her consulting career, initially with short term interpretation contracts for a variety of companies. As her interest in the early days of QI grew, she started a company to explore and contribute to this fascinating field.

Dimitri Bevc
Team Lead, Chevron Corporation

Dimitri Bevc leads the interpretive imaging strategic research team at Chevron, with activities that include machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Cloud Computing. Prior to Chevron, Dimitri was founder and president of 3DGeo, an innovative seismic imaging software and service company. His interest in Digital Transformation dates to the mid 90s, when he and colleagues at 3DGeo developed an Internet Seismic Processing System. He has been involved with numerous Silicon Valley startups and technology investment organizations, was consulting professor at Stanford, and is an affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Dimitri is technical chairman for the SEG 2019 San Antonio meeting, and was charged with spearheading the Digital Transformation theme for SEG’s 2018 meeting. Dimitri holds a Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University, and M.Sc. and B.A degrees from U.C. Berkeley.

David Cannon
Vice President, Geoscience; Diamondback Energy

Dave has 11 years of total industry experience working multiple unconventional plays throughout the US L48. After obtaining his MS in Geoscience from Penn State University, with a focus on structural geology and geomechanics, he moved to Midland, TX and worked Rockies unconventional assets with ConocoPhillips. His breadth of experience included plays in Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, and Montana. Then Dave moved to Tulsa with Samson Resources and eventually Newfield Exploration working Rockies and Mid-Continent unconventional plays, such as the Shannon/Sussex, Niobrara, ETX “Eaglebine”, Buda/Georgetown/Glen Rose, Meramec (STACK), and Woodford (SCOOP). In early 2014, Dave moved back to the Basin with Diamondback Energy, where he is dedicated exclusively to Permian Basin unconventional exploration, assessment, and development.

Bill Fairhurst
President, Riverford Exploration, LLC
Manager, Tight Oil Resource Assessment, Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas – Austin

Bill has been involved in the majority of U.S. resource plays prior to the resource revolution and is credited with economic discovery of the WolfBone play in the Delaware Basin. Previously, he placed his company in Elm Coulee Bakken Field prior to its discovery, the largest onshore U.S. discovery in 56 years. He and his teams have also discovered dozens of new fields in traditional plays in the Williston, Rocky Mountains, Permian, mid-Continent, Gulf Coast Mesozoic basins, offshore U.S. and has worked and lead exploration programs on six (6) continents. Bill graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Geology, Economics-Management; the University of Missouri-Columbia with Master in Geology; and from the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston with Master of Business Administration concentrating in Finance.

Brian Fuller, PhD
VP Reservoir Geoscience, Sterling Seismic & Reservoir Services

Klaas Koster
Chief Geophysicist, OXY, Inc.

Klaas Koster is a geophysicist known for his work in multi-component acquisition, quantitative interpretation, seismic inversion, and time-lapse seismic methods. He was the 2010-2011 SEG President. Dr. Koster received the SEG Presidential Award for his outstanding service to the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Shawn Maxwell
Geophysical & Geomechanical Advisor, Newfield Resources

Shawn Maxwell is Geophysical and Geomechanical advisor for Newfield Resources, based in The Woodlands. Previously he was President and Chief Technology Officer for Itasca IMaGE, Chief Geophysicist and Microseismic Advisor for Schlumberger, led microseismic development at Pinnacle Technologies (Halliburton) and ESG, and served as a Lecturer at Keele University in England. Shawn was awarded a Ph.D. specializing in microseismology from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.

Mike Perz
Director, Technology & Innovation, TGS

Mike Perz holds a BSc in Physics (University of Toronto) and an MSc in Geophysics (University of British Columbia). Upon graduating in 1993, he joined Pulsonic Geophysical as a seismic processing applications programmer, and four years later moved to Geo-X Systems Ltd. (later Divestco Inc.), first writing code then managing the processing R and D group. In 2010, Mike joined Arcis Corporation where he was employed as Vice President of Technology and Integration at the time that organization was purchased by TGS in 2012. He remains at TGS to this day, and his current title is Director, Technology and Innovation, a role whose primary mandate is to demonstrate the value of seismic in unconventional resource development. Mike’s research interests have historically spanned all elements of land processing, including deconvolution, interpolation, azimuthal imaging, and, most recently, pre-stack depth migration.

Kenneth Schwartz
Permian Portfolio Advisor, Chevron

Kenneth Schwartz is a Permian Portfolio Advisor at Chevron and has worked on development, exploration, and business development projects within the Permian for the last 9 years. Kenneth received Geology degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Nevada, Reno and has 18 years of experience working domestic and international projects for Chevron and previously, ExxonMobil.

Timothy E. Tyrrell
Geoscience Technical Manager, XTO Energy

Background in Geophysics, graduating from Colorado School of Mines in 1983 with a BSc Geophysical Engineering degree. Thirty-five years of industry experience working exploration and production projects around the world. Currently XTO Energy’s Geoscience Technical Manager responsible for leading the company’s induced seismicity efforts. Led development of XTO’s Induced Seismicity Protocol which includes risk assessment and mitigating measures.

Rob Yorke
CEO, Advanced Geophysical Technology, Inc. “AGT”

Rob currently serves as CEO of AGT, an advanced seismic imaging technology company. Rob has provided seismic imaging services and software solutions to the oil service industry for more than 35 years of which the last 23 years have been based in the U.S. His broad experience ranges from managing divisions within publicly traded oil service companies to leading small, entrepreneurial privately held seismic imaging companies. Rob began his career in Calgary with Veritas in 1981. before moving to the U.S. in 1993. He subsequently served as Vice President of Seismic Services for ADS in 2001, and then president of Core Lab’s Reservoir Technology Division. He also served as President of the U.S. division of Paradigm Geophysical and CEO of 3DGEO. Rob attended Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada from 1979-1981, where he majored in Computer Science.

Vasudhaven Sudhakar
Manager Reservoir Services – Western Geco
Schlumberger

Vasudhaven Sudhakar has over thirty-seven years of proven experience in the oil and gas industry, both domestically and internationally. He brings strong technical expertise in integration of geological and geophysical data into shale exploration and development.