Tony’s Career:

Current Position: 1999 to Present:

President / Owner of TDL International, Inc., in Dallas, Texas, USA. Consulting Petrophysicist. Currently working for clients as a consultant on special petrophysical contract projects, such as estimating net pay, calculating reserves, evaluating prospects, generating pseudo / synthetic well logs, developing log models, and well log / core data interpretation and data quality control.

Previous Positions:

1992 – 1999: Senior Petrophysical Supervisor (Geological Specialist, 7 1/2 years), ARCO Indonesia (now BP).

Primary petrophysicist for reserves estimation, core and log analyses for the ARCO Wiriagar/Berau (Tangguh) gas discoveries in Papua (Irian Jaya).
Responsible for ARCO Java Sea geological operations including, wireline logging, logging-while-drilling, mud logging and coring.
Performed well log analysis and net reserve calculations on existing wells for field studies and special projects including ARCO Wiriagar/Berau (Tangguh), ARCO New Ventures, and ARCO Bali North on both clastic and carbonate reservoirs.
Well log quality control and interpretation on active exploration, delineation and development wells.
Recommended well logging programs for optimized well evaluations.
Wrote specifications for tenders for wireline logging, logging-while-drilling, mud logging and coring contracts plus evaluated such tenders.
Supervised Schlumberger contract personnel operating the ARCO in-house Geoframe workstation.
Supervised and trained ARCO Indonesian national petrophysicists on well log interpretation and in the use of computer log analysis software.

Previous Positions continued:

1990-1992, 1980-1982:

Senior Petrophysicist, Exploration Data Acquisition Group. (4 years) ARCO International Oil and Gas Co. / ARCO Oil and Gas Company Plano/Dallas Texas, U.S.A.

Provided quality assurance and formation analysis support for district operations at well site and in office.
Tested and implemented data transfer between desktop PC's and Mainframe computers.
Developed new interpretation techniques.
Represented ARCO on the Alaska Cook Inlet Trading Bay Equity Committee.
Worked on Alaska Prudhoe Bay Equity Determination Procedures.
Trained ARCO geologists and engineers in well log interpretation and quality control.
Developed low-resistivity pay, thin-bed analysis software for ARCO petrophysics group.
Performed FMS imaging analysis and INCLINE dipmeter analysis.
Developed automatic curve editing and synthetic curve generation program for editing well logs or generating pseudo curves to fill in missing data.

Previous Positions continued:

1982-1990, 1975-1980:

Sr. Staff Petrophysicist (13 years), Atlas Wireline Services (Dresser Atlas), Houston, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Dallas, Texas; Anchorage, Alaska; Ventura, California; Bakersfield, California.

Designed software models for PC-based log analysis packages (WDS-Well Data System).
Provided technical seminars for customers and for in-house training purposes.
Coordinated log / core data integration for improvements in determining net sand/pay count.
Supervised log analyst teams on special interpretation projects.
Installed log analysis software packages for clients including training.
Developed new log interpretation techniques (Dielectric Log Analysis, Low-Resistivity Pay,
TBA Thin-Bed Analysis, Carbon / Oxygen Log Interpretation).
Provided solutions for special interpretation problems such as CBIL (Acoustic borehole imaging log) and Stratigraphic Dipmeter Interpretation.
Authored and presented numerous technical papers.
Responsible for the Marketing/Sales of advanced and innovative services.
Designed, authored and compiled marketing brochures for advanced formation evaluation services (TBRt Thin-Bed, Resistivity tool, Dielectric log, etc.).
Executive Account Administrator for major oil and gas clients

Previous Positions continued:

1974-1975:

Digitizing Engineering Manager, Petroleum Information, Houston, Texas (1 1/2 years)
Supervised a group of 14 employees in converting well logs to digital tape data.
Well log analysis for special projects.
Interviewed, trained and managed new employees.

Previous Positions continued:

1972-1974:

Field Engineer, Schlumberger Well Services, Louisiana, Oklahoma, USA. (2 years)
Responsible for open-hole logging crew and equipment.
Performing well-site logging operations and interpretation.
Logging engineer for record setting deepest well drilled in the world at the time (Bertha Rogers No. 1 in Oklahoma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Rogers )
Nominated for "Wildcatter Award".