CURRICULUM VITAE
Tony D. Lawrence
Petrophysical Consultant
TDL International, Inc.
13155 Noel Rd Suite 900
Dallas, Texas 75240, U.S.A.
1-214-728-5610 Phone
1-469-762-3018 Fax
tdl@tdlinternational.com
Executive
Summary of Qualifications:
Extensive
Petrophysical Experience: over forty years in the oil
and gas industry for major exploration, producing, reserve certification, and
service companies. Areas include Deep Water West Africa, North Africa,
Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Viet Nam, South China Sea, Russia,
Mexico, Central America, South America, the North Sea, Europe, Turkey, Asia,
the U.S. Gulf Coast, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico, West Texas, Mid-Continent,
Rocky Mountains, California, Alaska, Canada and the Middle East. Extensive
experience in both sand and carbonate reservoirs.
Specialties:
Petrophysical /
Core / Well Log / Geophysical Data Integration.
Net Pay /
Reserves Estimation
By-Passed
Pay Location
Unitization
Procedures / Equity Determination.
Synthetic
Curve Generation and Petrophysical Integrity Quality
Control.
Interpretation
and Development of Leading Industry Software Programs.
Magnetic
Resonance Log interpretation.
Core
Analysis Data Integration - Proficient in integrating regular and special core
analysis (SCAL) data for improved Petrophysical
log-to-core calibrations and facies associations.
Skills:
Latest
Technology - Familiar with the latest wireline and logging-while-drilling (LWD)
technological advances.
Software
Familiarity - Familiar with a wide range of the latest Petrophysical
software products.
Technical
Advisor - Responsible for Petrophysical integrity,
log quality control and training for major oil and gas
company for several years.
Contract
Procedures - Experienced in writing contract specifications and evaluating bids
for acquisition of log and core Petrophysical data.
Petrophysical Staff Coordinator -
Experienced supervisor of Petrophysical staff
including employee multi-disciplinary skill evaluations.
Extensive
Experience:
Open-Hole / Cased-Hole Well Log Analysis - Clastics and Carbonates.
Custom Log Interpretation Development.
Thin-Bed, Low-Resistivity / Low-Contrast By-Passed
Pay.
Magnetic
Resonance
Petrofacies Estimation
Probabilistic and Deterministic Methods.
Computer Work stations and PC Environments.
Network / Data Transmission Methods.
Field and Office Work Environments.
Marketing / Sales of Computer Software
Applications.
Achievements:
President
and Owner of TDL International, Inc. a successful petrophysical
consulting company, since it’s incorporation in the
State of Texas, U.S.A. in 1999:
http://www.tdlinternational.com
.
Developed
original methods for synthetic curve generation offered by two major petrophysical software companies currently in use by the
oil and gas industry worldwide:
https://www.cgg.com/en/What-We-Do/GeoSoftware/Petrophysics/PowerLog
One of the consulting petrophysicists involved in the deep water discovery of
large hydrocarbon fields in Mauritania and Senegal, West Africa
https://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/kosmos-delineates-gas-discoveries-off-mauritania-and-senegal/
Also, one of the primary petrophysicists involved in the discovery of Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme
(TEN) deep water oil and gas fields in the in Ghana.
https://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/ten-development-project-deepwater-tano-ghana/
One of the primary petrophysicists
involved in the discovery of deep water Jubilee and other oil and gas fields in
the West Cape Three Points and Deepwater Tano Blocks
in Ghana, some of the largest in West Africa
https://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/jubilee-field/
Exceptional
Contribution Award from ARCO Chairman in 1998 for certification of the
Indonesia Tangguh gas fields, 14.4 TCF proved and
18.3 TCF probable, the third largest hydrocarbon discovery in ARCO history (
now BP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangguh_gas_field
.
http://www.tdlinternational.com/TDL.tangguh.wildcat08.pdf
Special
Award for ARCO Indonesia Ubadari gas discovery in
Irian Jaya presented in 1998.
Received
1997 ARCO Exceptional Contribution Awards for the Wiriagar/Berau and Vorwata gas discoveries
in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
Presented
special WILDCAT AWARD from C.E.O. of ARCO for discovery of Indonesia Tangguh Field in 1997.
Selected
by Pertamina and ARCO Indonesia as a representative
at the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing, China for 1997 to present new
method for editing and generating Pseudo/Synthetic sonic curves:
http://www.tdlinternational.com/synthetic.htm
.
1995
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from ARCO International Oil and Gas
Company for developing computer model to locate by-passed pay using well logs,
resulting in over 100 million dollars (USD) of additional reserves for ARCO and
Pertamina.
1994
Outstanding Contribution Award from Atlantic Richfield Indonesia, Inc. for
discovering large by-passed gas reserves in the Java Sea using only cased hole
well logs.
1994
Outstanding Contribution Award from Atlantic Richfield Indonesia, Inc. for the
development of computer programs to locate potential source rocks.
Other
Honors/ Memberships:
Former
President, Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), Dallas Chapter.
Society of Petroleum Engineers. Indonesian
Petroleum Association.
Career
History:
1999
to Present:
Owner/President
of TDL International, Inc., 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
Primary petrophysicist for reserves estimation, core and log
analyses for the ARCO Wiriagar/Berau
(Tangguh) gas discoveries in 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.
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.
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.
1973-1975:
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.
1972-1973:
Field
Engineer, Schlumberger Well Services, 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".
Education:
The
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama U.S.A., Bachelor of Science, Major:
Physics, Minor: Mathematics. Dean’s List. Mathematics Honorary. Special training in
engineering, geology and geophysics. Numerous
petroleum industry courses.
Publications:
"Evaluation
of Thin Bedded Turbidites in the Union Pacific / Ford
98 Area of Wilmington Field Utilizing High-Resolution Processed FMI Resistivity
Data" (Joint Meeting Pacific Coast Convention of AAPG and Western Regional
Meeting of SPE, Long Beach, 2000)
"Sonic/Density
Well Log Data Editing with Pseudo Curve Generation - Indonesian Examples Using
a Multiple Crossproduct Non-Linear Method
"(World Petroleum Congress, Beijing, 1997)
"Low-Resistivity,
Low-Contrast Pay: Some Examples from Offshore North West Java, Ardjuna Basin, Indonesia" (AAPG, Houston, 1997)
"Comparisons
of Conventional Wireline Resistivity Logs Versus Logging While
Drilling/Measurement While Drilling Logs in the Offshore Northwest Java Sea of
Indonesia" (Indonesia Petroleum Association, Jakarta, 1995)
"Talang Akar (Oligocene) Source
Rock Identification From Wireline Logs - Applications
in the Deep Ardjuna Basin, Offshore Northwest
Java" (Indonesia Petroleum Association, Jakarta, 1995)
"U.S.
Gulf Coast Field Experience with Thin-Bed Well Log Analysis" (GCAGS,
Lafayette, 1990)
"Thin-bed
Log Analysis Using High Resolution Measurements" (SAID/LASER/SPWLA, Paris,
1989)
"Applications
of the High Resolution Deep Investigation Resistivity (TBRt)
Instrument"
(SAID/LASER/SPWLA, Paris, 1989)
"Dielectric
Log Applications in Complex Lithologies and Variable
Salinity Fluids" (International Meeting on Well Logging Techniques,
Beijing, 1989)
"An
Advanced Interpretation Technique Integrates Well Log and Core Data for
Thin-Bed Reservoir Evaluation" (GCAGS, Corpus Christi, 1989)
"Simplified
Dielectric Log Interpretation in Variable Salinities Using Resistivity vs.
Phase Angle Crossplots" (SPWLA, London, 1987)
"PDK-100
Log Examples in the Gulf Coast" (SPWLA, Dallas, 1985)
"Log
Evaluation of Clastic Shaly Formations Using
Corrected Rwa-Ratio Techniques" (SPWLA, New
Orleans, 1984)
"Continuous
Carbon/Oxygen and Neutron Lifetime Log Proposed Interpretation for Organic
and/or Shaly Depositional Environments" (SPWLA,
New Orleans, 1984)
"Continuous
Carbon/Oxygen Log Interpretation Techniques" (SPE, Las Vegas, 1979, JPT,
1981)
"Proposed
Spectralog Product Index for Clay Volumes"
(Dresser Atlas, Houston, 1980)
"California
Applications of the Continuous Carbon/Oxygen Log" (API, Bakersfield, 1977)
"The
Use of Photon Logs to Evaluate Gravel Packing" (API, California, 1976)
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