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Michael J. Uland, Director of Reservoir Technologies
- Mechanical Engineering, M.S., Purdue University, 1974
- Engineering Science, B.S., Purdue University, 1973
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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
- Chemical Engineering, M.S., Colorado School of Mines, 1983
- Chemical Engineering, B.S., Montana State University, 1978
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Jim has over 22 years experience in the petroleum
industry. Jim's expertise includes specialization in the area of application
and development of numerical simulators for fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs.
He was a co-developer of Marathon Oil Company's 3-D, 3-phase simulator for
naturally fractured reservoirs and was instrumental in testing and debugging of
the dual-porosity versions of the commercial black-oil and compositional
simulators for Marathon's applications. In addition to simulation expertise,
Jim's work at Marathon Oil Company's Technology Center involved company-wide
training and consultation in the areas of reservoir engineering, reservoir
simulation, naturally fractured reservoirs, horizontal wells and production
risk/uncertainty analysis. He was most recently Manager of Reservoir and Well
Performance, a multi-disciplinary organization involved in 3-D geologic
modeling, laboratory special core analysis, reservoir simulation and general
reservoir engineering. Jim has authored or co-authored over a dozen articles
primarily dealing with naturally fractured reservoirs or horizontal wells. He
was a member of the SPE Editorial Review Committee from 1987-2000 and most
recently served as an Executive Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and
Engineering. He served as Chairman of the Twelfth SPE Symposium on Reservoir
Simulation (1993) and on the program committees for the 1991 and 1997 symposiums.
Jim is a registered PE, and a member of the SPE, API, and AICHE.
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Reinaldo J. Michelena, Ph.D, Director of Geophysical Technology
- Geophysics, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993
- Geophysics, M.S., Stanford University, 1990
- Physics, B.S., Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1984
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Reinaldo has spent fifteen years dedicated to research, development, and application of innovative seismic methods to help reservoir delineation and characterization, from programming and testing of novel algorithms to integrated interpretation of field data results. He has demonstrated the ability to plan, initiate, and complete multidisciplinary, complex technical projects.
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.
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Omar G. Angola, Technical Advisor
- M.Eng. Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2002
- M.Sc. Reservoir Geoscience & Engineering, IFP School, France, 2002
- DEA Signal-Image-Parole, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 1993
- B.S. Computer Engineering, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela, 1987
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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
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Huabing Wang, Ph.D, Reservoir Engineer
- Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., University of Utah, 2008
- Chemical Engineering, M.S., Brigham Young University, 2003
- Chemical Engineering, B.S., Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 1997
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Huabing joined iReservoir in 2008 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His Ph.D. thesis focused on multiphase, multiscale simulation of fractured reservoirs completed at the Petroleum Research Center in the University of Utah. Huabing developed an expertise in modeling the multiphase fluid flow in fractured petroleum reservoirs using numerical methods and integrated fractured reservoir studies.
Huabing’s research contributed to a team that is developing the next generation control-volume-finite-element (CVFE) based reservoir simulators which is funded and supported by the U.S Department of Energy. On a project-specific level, he is experienced with modeling and simulating basement fractured reservoirs: either from seismic to sub-seismic feature field model, or from core sample and single seismic feature to fault-zone model. With his background, experience and research in conventional thermodynamic phase equilibriums, Huabing has been able to model immiscible and partially-miscible oil/water interfacial properties at a molecular level using quantum statistical methods. His work may help future researchers answer questions about multiphase fluid flow in reservoirs.
During his research and education, Huabing has become proficient with various computer languages to program scientific computations, visualization and interface development.
Huabing is a member of the SPE, AAPG, SEG and AIChE.
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Sepehr Fadaei, Reservoir Engineer
- Petroleum Engineering, M.S., Stanford University, 2008
- Petroleum Engineering, B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2006
- Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2006
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Sepehr started his professional career at iReservoir after graduation from Stanford in 2008. During the summer of 2007 he completed an internship for Occidental Oil & Gas Corp. which entailed field modeling by integrating geostatistical modeling, flow simulation, production history matching and forecasting.
Sepehr served as a research and teaching assistant at Stanford Center for Reservoir Forecasting (SCRF). His Master’s thesis concentrated on the use of streamline information to assist in automated history matching of naturally fractured reservoirs using the probability perturbation method. For his bachelor’s thesis Sepehr reviewed thermodynamic modeling of wax deposition in gas condensate reservoirs.
Sepehr has been the recipient of achievement awards such as: the Miller fellowship award from Stanford University, the gold medal in the 33rd International Chemistry Olympiad (India, 2001), fifth place in the TIC Micromouse Robots Competition (UK, 2005), ranked first in his graduate class at Stanford, as well as, first in class as an undergraduate.
Sepehr’s multidisciplinary background includes experience and use of multiple types of petroleum software programs. His current areas of interest include: simulation, history matching, geostatistics and EOR. Mr. Fadaei is a member of SPE and IAMG and former member of ASME.
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Ann V. Givan, Geologist
- Geology, M.S., Montana State University, 1983
- Geology, B.S., University of Southern California, 1980
- Professional Teaching License, California State University, 1990
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Ann ‘s previous oil and gas experience includes oil and gas exploration for Shell Oil Co. in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and deep gas exploration for Nance Petroleum in the Williston Basin. More recently she has worked in the Piceance Basin of Colorado, multiple basins in Wyoming, the Smackover formation in Arkansas, the Hugoton field in Kansas, offshore India and heavy oil in Canada.
Ann currently manages and performs quality control of client data and performs basic petrophysical analysis for several iReservoir projects. She manages iReservoir’s data base and gives support to iReservoir’s team of engineers, petrophysicists, geophysicists and geomodelers.
Ann is an active member of AAPG, AWG, NSTA, GSA, and local sections of industry related professional organizations.
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