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Dr. Hai-Zui ("Hai-Ray") Meng, President
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Hai-Zui("Hai-Ray") Meng has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry working in various technical positions. Hai-Ray created iReservoir.com, Inc. to provide integrated reservoir characterization and fluid flow simulation consulting services using state-of-the-art geoscience and engineering technologies. Previously, he was with Marathon Oil Company, Dowell Schlumberger and Flopetrol-Johnston Schlumberger.
Dr. Meng has conducted numerous integrated reservoir characterization, reservoir simulation and reservoir management studies. Dr. Meng has extensive reservoir characterization experience including seismic attribute analysis, depth imaging, 3D faulted structural framework modeling, deterministic and stochastic AI inversion, 3D geologic model construction, and 'very practical' geostatistical modeling for reservoir engineering problems.
Dr. Meng has also conducted detailed reservoir management studies using both black-oil and compositional fluid flow simulation models that are constrained to honor the existing geological, geophysical, petrophysical, and engineering data.
Dr. Meng has served on various Technical Committees for both the SPE and SEG.
- Chairman for the 1996 SEG Development and Production Forum
- Technical Editor for the SPE Reservoir Management Reprint Series
- Technical Editor for the SPE Formation Evaluation Journal
- Author and co-author of several SPE and SEG papers
- 1984 U.S. patent for "Method of Determining Optimum Cost-Effective Free Flowing or Gas Lift Well Production"
- Author of the chapter "Design of Propped Fracture Treatments" in Schlumberger's 1987 textbook on Reservoir Stimulation.
Dr. Meng is a member of SPE, SEG, DWLS and DGS.
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Michael J. Uland, Director of Reservoir Technologies
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Mike has over 32 years experience in the petroleum industry. Mike has 15 years of field experience covering a range of engineering positions: Drilling, Facilities, Downhole, Operations, EOR, Reservoir, and Acquisitions & Divestiture. For the last 17 years (10 at Marathon Oil and 7 at iReservoir), Mike has been involved in multidisciplinary reservoir modeling studies. These projects required the data integration of Geophysics, Petrophysics, 3-D Geo-modeling and Reservoir simulation for the creation of effective reservoir management tools.
Mike's current technical interests are:
- Cost-effective Reservoir Management using fit-for-purpose Reservoir Characterization Models
- Integrated 3-D Modeling using Geophysics, Petrophysics, Geology, and Engineering Data
- Optimizing the value of 'Integrated Technology Transfer' for Business Unit planning
- Application of New Technology for competitive advantage in New Markets
- Creation of 'updateable' 3-D geo-models using collaborative workflow tools.
Mike is a registered PE, and a member of SPE, SPWLA, AAPG, SEG, and ISA
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James R. Gilman, Director of Engineering
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Jim is a registered PE, and a member of the SPE, API, and AICHE.
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In 1991 he worked at Amoco Production Company, Tulsa, OK as a visiting Scientist in the Tulsa Research Laboratory where he developed a code to do kinematic ray tracing in transversely isotropic media.
During 1993 - 2000 he worked at PDVSA- Intevep, Research and Technological Support Center where he served as Project Leader, Seismic Techniques for Reservoir Characterization. He was involved in all stages of the work performed in the area of multicomponent surface seismic. He successfully applied innovative ideas for the integrated interpretation of 3C data using structural, lithological, production, and fracture information. He also developed new methods to estimate fracture orientation from 2D and 3D converted wave data. The results of these methods were compared successfully with results obtained from azimuthal AVO analysis of P-wave data. Horizontal well trajectories where designed using these results.
In 2000 he spent seven months as a visiting scientist at CGG Americas Inc., Houston, TX, where he developed a method to perform automatic correlations between PP and PS records. This method was tested successfully with 3C data from the Orinoco heavy Oil Belt.
From 2001- 2003 he worked for PDVSA, (Intevep, Research and Technological Support Center) as a Senior Scientist for Reservoir Delineation and Characterization where he led a multidisciplinary team of geologists, geochemists, geophysicists, petrophysicists, reservoir engineers, and geostatisticians.
Reinaldo is principal author or coauthor of over fifty papers published in internationally recognized journals and proceedings of national and international congresses. He has been involved in activities at a number of academic institutions and is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He has been actively involved in all three societies, including Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysics in the area of seismic inversion from 1994 - 2001.
Omar has over 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. His early work was in PDVSA Intevep Scientific Visualization group developing E&P software including display of reservoir simulation output, thin-sections image processing and laboratory measurements. In 1992 he was awarded a scholarship to pursue studies in Signal Processing and Computer Science. His work included integrating and calibrating data from different sources and scales, geocellular modeling applications on constructing high-resolution reservoir models, assessing geospatial relationships, volume calculations and upscaling for numerical reservoir simulation.
Examples of project work include:
- Geocellular modeling for Carito-Mulata Field and Furrial Field, Eastern Venezuela.
- Regional estimation for facies and reservoir properties using varying directions of anisotropy, Santa Barbara and Carito fields, Eastern Venezuela.
- 3D Geomodeling of Borburata Field, South-Western Venezuela.
- Data integration and structural modeling of 2 seismic horizons and more than 100 faults for North Monagas Integrated Project, Eastern Venezuela.
Omar’s areas of interest include:
- Integrated reservoir studies
- Near fault fluid-flow behavior
- Complex structure modeling
- Geostatistics