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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name , Ph.D.Atlanta, Georgia EMAIL AVAILABLE Cell: (Street Address )540=1035Geological Advisor / Senior Geologist / Sedimentologist / Stratigrapher / Exploration Manager Highly skilled Petroleum Geologist with deep-water clastic focus supported by a PhD in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy(Stanford) and nearly 20 years of industry experience. Seasoned seismic and well-log interpreter with an expertise in bore-hole image log interpretation. Industry experience ranges from New Ventures opportunities to appraisal-development, from basin to reservoir scale. Skills in these areas include: petroleum systems analysis, play fairway analysis, exploration prospect delineation and maturation, and the integration of seismic and well log data in geostatistical models with skills honed to reduce risk and quantify uncertainty at each stage of the exploration and development life-cycle. While recognized as a technical expert in deep-water sedimentology, roles have included broad cross-functional individual contributor positions as well as exploration team lead and exploration manager postings. Skilled field geologist with extensive domestic and international fieldwork experience (Western U.S., Pacific Northwest, New England, South America, Tunisia, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, and France).EXPERIENCEDEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Atlanta, GA 2021-2023 Geologist and compliance officer in the Response and Remediation Program of the Environmental Protection Division. Responsible for oversight of properties listed on the Georgia Hazardous Site Index (HSI) and compliance with the requirements of the Rules for Hazardous Site Response. Responsible for assessment of sites reporting new releases of hazardous materials as well as determining when sites have been sufficiently remediated to the point they can be removed from the HSI. Routine interaction with private citizens both as individuals and as representatives of companies subject to our oversight as well as with governmental officials both elected and appointed in the course of daily work and less commonly in the context of policy discussions.KOSMOS ENERGY, LLC; Dallas, Texas 2017 2020Approached by anexternal recruiter and supported by colleague with former employer (Chevron) who had subsequently joined Kosmos. Reported to VPs in the Chief Exploration Officers organization as a Senior Geologist focused primarily on projects within the remit of the Current Portfolio team and progressively adding New Ventures projects ultimately transitioning full time to the New Ventures team.Senior Geologist, International New Ventures (11/2019 3/2020)- Analyzed petroleum systems, play and prospect screening for basin entry and acreage capture opportunities.- Participated in data room screens for farm-in opportunities and prepared recommendations for senior management typically with very short deadlines (typically 1-2 weeks) and limited data. Senior Geologist/Project Lead Cote DIvoire Asset Current Portfolio Team (1/2018 3/2020)- Primary contributor as Project Lead on major regional play fairway analysis for offshore Ivorian Basin in support of Kosmos licensed acreage.- Geologic support for seismic acquisition and processing (12,000 sq. km seismic acquisition).- Led screening and prospect maturation.- Partner management responsibilities included coordination with BP (non-operator) and with PetroCI (National Oil Company) including quarterly conference calls and twice annually technical presentations to senior management and ministry officials.Senior Geologist Mauritania: Lamantin Prospect (1/2017 1/2018)- Developed Lamantin lead to drill ready status in 4 months utilizing only fast track 3D seismic in order to meet aggressive rig schedule and maintain alignment with partners.- Prepared statement of requirements for drilling and coordinating with drilling and petrophysics on well plan and data acquisition design.- Prepared contingency appraisal program and gained partner alignment.- Lead prospect geologist for operations-coordinated daily updates with wellsite geologist and operations team.- Conducted post-well analysis planning and early execution. BHP BILLITON; Houston, Texas 2011 2017Joined BHP Billiton Petroleum as a Stratigrapher and Interpreter for the Gulf of Mexico Regional Exploration Team and advanced to Manager Regional Exploration in positions described below Manager Regional Exploration: Caribbean Team; Houston, Texas (3/2015 1/2017)- Led a team of 13 geologists responsible for delivery of comprehensive regional play fairway analyses including updated plate reconstructions detailing evolution of the Caribbean, crustal modeling, chronostratigraphic and tectonostratigraphic frameworks and petroleum systems models to support exploration on licensed deep-water blocks in Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados.Team responsibilities- Developed an integrated mega-regional understanding for Colombia to Guyana.- Plate scale tectonics and structure.- Mega-regional reservoir mapping (GDE mapping).- Integrated petroleum systems modeling.- Developed and maintained critical risk maps for multiple clastic plays.- Technical support for access decisions through bid rounds and farm-ins. Supervisor - Regional Exploration: Central and South Atlantic Team; Houston, Texas (9/2013 3/2015) Team leader for regional exploration work in support of licensed acreage in South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago and Brazil.- Supervised a small team (2 geologists and a graduate student) responsible for delivery of an integrated play-fairway analysis for the Orange Basin South Africa in support of BHPB prospect maturation teams:- Time limited workplans required to meet deadlines imposed by delivery of newly acquired 3D survey covering more than 10,000 km2.- Developed plans with team to integrate previously completed studies with critical path workplans to develop a first pass basin framework on time.- Coordinated team to execute parallel workplan in Trinidad & Tobago with only minimal time between critical milestones.- Liaisoned with Angostura production team (offshore Trinidad) to ensure integration of regional work with high resolution data from local producing assets.- Led sub-regional exploration analysis leveraging resources from license management team for Foz do Amazonas Basin, Brazil.- Managed team vacancies and grew organizational capability.- Identified skill gaps and critical needs for internal and external consultants to assist in executing workplans. Senior Geologist, Gulf of Mexico Exploration -Western Gulf of Mexico Team; Houston, Texas (8/2012 8/2013) Lease Sale Coordination Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 229, November 2012- Led lease sale team for western sale beginning during corporate reorganization in July 2012.- Responsible for a team of 4 assessing acreage of 4 deepwater Gulf of Mexico protraction areas (strategic decision to exclude the Gulf of Mexico shelf),- Coordinated interaction with specialist teams for pore pressure prediction, basin modeling and reservoir characterization.- Led interactions with Corporate Quality Assurance Group.- Developed presentations for and presented to Petroleum Exploration Leadership Team and advised on bid strategy for sale 229.- Acquired ~75% of targeted blocks bid thereby assembling a new strategic position in the Western Gulf of Mexico.Prospect Maturation- Responsible for prospect maturation across the Western Gulf of Mexico.- Advised on plans for seismic preprocessing.- Developed reservoir fairway maps and gross depositional environment maps.- Updated prospect portfolio in advance of next Western Gulf of Mexico lease sale.- Consulted on Paleogene opportunities across the Gulf of Mexico. Stratigrapher and Interpreter, Paleogene Exploration, Gulf of Mexico Regional Exploration; Houston, Texas (6/2011 8/2012)Paleogene Play Basin-wide Reassessment in support of strategic plan to re-enter play in 2012-2013- Updated and refined gross depositional environment maps for Paleogene play in the Gulf of Mexico.- Integrated competitor well data where available and refined view of risk associated with reservoir presence and quality.- Integrated whole core and side wall core porosity and permeability data for reservoir quality assessment.- Lead Seismic Interpreter for Keathley Canyon, Southern Garden Banks and Walker Ridge.- Led play fairway analysis and CRS map generation (in conjunction with cross-functional team). Regional Team Responsibilities- Monitored SCOUT reports and maintained team knowledge of competitor activity.- Participated in lease sale preparation, sale day activities and post-sale review. CHEVRON CORPORATION; San Ramon, California and Houston, Texas 2004 2011 Began with Chevron after completing Ph.D. as a Stratigrapher and Sedimentologist in Chevron Global Upstream and Gas Business Unit and was repeatedly selected as the leading candidate for each of the promotions described below. Lead Stratigrapher, Asset Development, Southern Africa Strategic Business Unit, Chevron Global Upstream and Gas; Houston, Texas (10/2010 6/2011)Consulting Stratigrapher for Asset Development Projects, Block 14 (Angola) New Field Development, Houston, Texas. Lucapa Asset Project- Stratigraphy and Earth Modeling Consulting - developing facies models and reservoir property ranges as well as refining the stratigraphic framework for the middle Miocene in support of full-field development-scale reservoir model (including 3D seismic interpretation and reservoir modeling).- Interfaced with reservoir modeling and simulation specialists in a multi-functional team.- Operations support for appraisal drilling Q4, 2010.- Analyzed and integrated appraisal drilling results for field-wide asset development planning (resource and reserves determination) interacting with corporate Exploration Review Team and preparing for roll up of new Reservoir Model.Gabella Asset Project- Lead Earth Scientist for asset development and exploration and exploitation opportunities.- Regular interaction with partners and concessionaire on progressing Gabela Development Program.- Led refresh of prospect inventory for exploitation potential, reviewed/updated resource and reserves numbers and validated through corporate Exploration Review Team. Block 14 Stratigraphic Support ProjectConsulted as needed for all other assets in Block 14 Development Portfolio (including but not limited to Negage and Lianzi) and interfaced with BBLT and TL asset teams to capture and communicate lessons learned to asset development teams.- Maintained up-to-date core and reservoir properties database for Development Team.- Integrated where possible real-time drilling results from producing assets in Block 14.- Interacted with production geologists to understand challenges and lessons learned from producing assets. Interpretation and Modeling Software Used- Paradigm 3D Canvas and associated software- Geocad- GeologDevelopment Geologist, Chevron Global Upstream & Gas, Southern Africa Strategic Business Unit; Houston, Texas(1/2008 10/2010)Geologist on Lucapa Asset Team and Gabela Asset Team Block 14 (Angola) New Field Development. Responsibilities were initially limited to those two asset teams until scope of work was extensively expanded in October 2010 to include all described in the above position for 10/2010 to 6/2011.Deepwater Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Consulting, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Deepwater Stratigraphy Team; San Ramon, California and Houston, Texas (10/2005 1/2008) Project work included the following.Indonesia DeepwaterGehem, Gendalo and Rangas Fields, integration of bore hold image data for reservoir modeling. Agbami FieldCompletion of 2005 work integrating core and image data for reservoir modeling and assisting with construction of Static Earth Model.Technical Development- Assisted with development of patent application for U.S. Patent No. 7,363,158 B2: Method of creating a stratigraphic model using pseudo core generated from bore ole images.- Lead geologist on team developing approach for automated bore-hole image interpretation (subsequently patented in the U.S. and globally U.S. Patent No. 7,620, 498 B2)- Contributed to global effort to assemble a robust database of Net-Gross and other stratigraphic data for deepwater depositional system maintained by the Energy Technology Company Earth Science Research and Development Team (key resource for Angola data).Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Consulting, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Stratigraphic and Geostatistic Services Team; San Ramon, California (7/2004 10/2005) Project work included the following:Agbami FieldCore description and bore hold resistivity image log facies cladssification for full field reservoir modeling (including 3 cores and.35,000 ft of image data)Nsiko FieldCore description, image log integration and support for full field reservoir model. Aparo FieldCore description, image log integration and support for full field reservoir model. EXPERIENCE WHILE PURSUING Ph.D.Was an exploration group intern for BP America from 6/2002 to 9/2002 for the No Reservoir Surprises team focused on the deep-water Gulf of Mexico in the Mars-Ursa Development Area. Leveraged two seasons worth of field work from 2000 and 2001 to design and execute a major field expedition in Ph.D. research area in 2002. Led a team of 10 graduate students and several industry professionals on a 5 week project to collect data and generate robust maps and models of a world class channelized turbidite section in the Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation in the Silla Syncline, Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chile. This project laid the ground work for additional Ph.D. projects for other students in my department and has contributed to ongoing work in the region for the last 20 years. EDUCATIONPh.D., Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences; Stanford University; Stanford, California; 2004 Advisor: Prof. Donald R. Lowe. Co-advisors: Stephan A. Graham and William R. Normark. Dissertation title: Depositional History of the Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, Silla Syncline, Magallanes Basin, ChileBA with Honors in Geology; Williams College; Williamstown, Massachusetts; 1997 Honors Thesis in Geology: The Quarternary Evolution of Waldron Island, Northern Puget Lowland, Washington Advisor: Prof. David P. Dethier: Second Reader: Prof. Paul Karabinos; Faculty: Prof. R.A. Wobus, Prof. M.E. Johnson, Prof. W.T. FoxRelevant courses: Historical Geology, Physical Geology, Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Invertebrate Paleontology with Lab Practicum, Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Structural Geology, Seminar in Stratigaphy, Honors Thesis course for preparation of Honors Thesis in glacio-marine sedimentology. BA in History; Williams College; Williamstown, Massachusetts; 1997 AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPSMcGee Fund Grant, Stanford University (2000, 2002) Janes Fund Grant, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University (2002) Class of 1960 Scholar, Williams College (1996 1997) LANGUAGESEnglish, Spanish (proficient reader, conversational); French (basic) COMPUTER SKILLSExperienced Petrel, Paleoscan, Kingdom, Trinity, Landmark, and Paradigm user with familiarity with GeoLog, Hampson-Russell, and Jason. Proficient user of ArcGIS together with GIS enabled drafting tools (ACD Canvas). Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating environments. Functional knowledge of Spotfire for data analysis. PATENTSKowalik, W.S., Corea, W.C, Crane, W.H., Schweller, W.J., 2009, Automated borehole image interpretation, United States Patent, US Patent No. 7,620,498 B2, November 17, 2009. Stelting, C.E., Schweller, W.J., Corea, W.C., Crane, W.H., Goggin, L.R., 2008, Method for creating a stratigraphic model using pseudocores generated from borehole images, 2008, United States Patent, US Patent No. 7,363,158 B2, April 22, 2008. PUBLICATIONSCrane, W.H. and Lowe, D.R. (2008) Architecture and evolution of the Paine channel complex, Cerro Toro Formation (Upper Creataceous), Silla Syncline, Magallanes Basin Chile, Sedimentology, v. 55, n. 4, p 979-1009. Hruka, M., Corea, W., Seeburger, D., Schweller, W. and Crane, W.H. (2009) Automated segmentation of resistivity image logs using wavelet transform, Mathematical Geosciences, v. 41, n. 6 p. 703-716. Fildani, A., Romans, B., Fosdick, J. Crane, W. and Hubbard, S. (2009) Orogenesis of the Patagonian Andes as reflected by basin evolution in southernmost South America, Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 22, p. 259-268. Bernhardt A., and Crane W.H. (2009) Introduction to the Cerro Toro Formation in the Silla Syncline, in Fildani, A.F., Romans, B.W., and Hubbard, S., eds., Stratigraphic evolution of deep-water architecture: Examples of controls and depositional styles from the Magallanes Basin, southern, Chile, SEPM Field Trip Guidebook Number 10, p. 21-23. Crane, W.H. and Lowe, D.R., (2009) NW Margin of the Paine C Channel Complex, Silla Syncline, in Fildani, A.F., Romans, B.W., and Hubbard, S., eds., Stratigraphic evolution of deep-water architecture: Examples of controls and depositional styles from the Magallanes Basin, southern, Chile, SEPM Field Trip Guidebook Number 10, p. 29-30. ABSTRACTS & POSTERSCrane, W.H., Roth, J. Mabe, K, Satik, C., Lackey, W.T., and Ambriz, R. (2008) Heavy oil characterization for development of Gabela Field, deepwater Block 14, Angola, AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa. Crane, W.H. (2007) Textural trends in a conglomeratic slurry flow deposit, Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, Chile; implications for debris flow transformation, Abstracts: Annual Meeting-AAPG, Vol. 2007, pp. 29. Stelting C.E., Beall, J., Goggin, L., Crane, W.H., Schweller, W.J., Murphy, J. and Richey, M. (2007) Criteria for differentiating channel and sheet reservoirs; a deep-water field example, Abstracts: Annual Meeting AAPG, Vol. 2007, p. 133. Crane, W. H. and Lowe, D.R. (2005), Architecture, evolution and stacking patterns of the Paine channel complex, Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, Silla Syncline, Magallanes Basin, Chile, Abstracts Annual Meeting AAPG Vol. 14, p.A30-A31.Fildani, A.F., Hessler, A.M., Calderon, M. Herve, F. and Cra ne, W.H. (2005) Stratigraphic record across an extenstional-contractile basin transition, southern Patagonia, Chile, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America Vol. 37, Issue 7, p 442.Sanabria, D.I., Smith, L.M, Crane, W.H., Donovan, A.D., Willis, D.K., Matava, T., Turner, J.C., Mesling, K., Lanan, B.A., Thomson, J.W., Antrim, L.K., Burch, T., (2003) An integrated framework for the understanding of the petroleum and reservoir systems in the Mars-Ursa Basin; deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts, AAPG Vol. 12, p. 153.Crane, W.H., Lowe, D.R., Duerichen, E., Weislogel, A., Erohina, T., Graham, B., Hubbard, S., Johnson, C., Krull, A., Mason, E., and Tice., M. (2003) Architecture and distribution of deep-water channel complexes, Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes foreland basin, Chile, Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts AAPG, Vol. 12, p. 35. Cooper, E. and Crane W.H. (1996) Structural Controls on regional geomorphology at Potter Mountain Massachusetts In: Keck Research Symposium in Geology, April 1996, Vol. 9, p. 34-37. Dethier, D.P, Crane, W.H., Hirshfeld, M.A., Holbert, J.K., Morgan, W., and Sylwester, R.E. (1996) Morphology and seismic stratigraphy of marine banks, northern Puget Lowland, Washington, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Vol. 28, Issue 7, p. 435. |
