Osareni Christopher Ogiesoba
Business
address:
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The
University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology University Station,
Box X
Austin, TX 78713-8924
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E-mail address: | osareni.ogiesoba@beg.utexas.edu
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Professional
Summary March 13, 2013
Academic
Background
B.Sc.
Geology, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, 1979
M.Sc. DIC,
Geophysics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Royal School of Mines,
London, England, 1983
M.Sc. Applied Seismology, University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, 2004
Ph.D. Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
University, Montreal, Quebec, September 2007
Areas
of Expertise
A.
Seismic
interpretation of depositional systems.
B.
Seismic
data processing and seismic anisotropy.
C.
Multicomponent
data processing and velocity ratios estimation for reservoir characterization.
D.
Seismic
modeling.
E.
Acreage
evaluation and prospect generation.
F.
3D
seismic attributes-based rock property prediction in hydrothermal dolomite
reservoirs.
Professional
Work Experience
A.
Present
Position: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The
University of Texas at Austin (October 2007 – Present).
Seismic
interpretation of the Frio Formation in South Texas Gulf Coast; development of
regional structural and stratigraphic models; post-stack processing of the
seismic volume; seismic attribute analysis; pre-stack velocity analysis;
development of post-stack velocity analysis algorithm.
B.
Teaching
Assistant, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, McGill University, Montreal
(2004 – 2007).
C.
Research
Assistant, The Consortium for Research in Elastic Wave Exploration Seismology
(CREWES), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2001 – 2004 ).
Seismic interpretation of the Frio Formation
in South Texas Gulf Coast. Development of regional structural and stratigraphic
models. Post-stack processing of the seismic volume. Seismic attribute
analysis. Prestack velocity analysis. Development of
post-stack velocity analysis algorithm.
D.
Research
Assistant, WesternGeco, Denver, Colorado (May 2003 –
August 2003).
Development of converted-wave velocity ratio scanning
algorithm for automatic transformation of PS to P time.
E.
Geophysical
Advisor, Mobil Corporation (1999 – 2000).
Team leader of reservoir
management team (multidisciplinary team): Mobil Southwestern oil fields, Niger
Delta, West Africa.
F.
Geophysical
Advisor, Mobil Corporation (1997 – 1999).
Responsible for integration of
geological, geophysical, and reservoir-engineering data for optimal production
uplift, Mobil Producing Nigeria Southwestern oil fields, Niger Delta, West
Africa; responsible for the development of deep exploration plays in the
cluster.
G.
Geophysical
Advisor, Dallas, Texas, Mobil Corporation (1996 – 1997).
Reservoir
characterization and gas injection project, Mobil Producing Nigeria
Southwestern oil fields, Niger Delta, West Africa.
H.
Senior
Staff Geophysicist, Houston, Texas, Mobil Corporation (1995 – 1996). Deep-water
block seismic evaluation: Mobil Western block, Niger Delta, West Africa.
I. Senior Staff Geophysicist, Mobil
Corporation (1991 – 1994).
Regional mapping of deep leads and prospects;
development of structural and stratigraphic framework for Mobil deep plays,
Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; GMA stratigraphic modeling of an
offshore stratigraphic hydrocarbon indicator (HCI) and wildcat recommendation:
Niger Delta, West Africa; supervision of seismic mapping projects and wildcat
recommendation: Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; 3D seismic
interpretation, reservoir delineation and recommendation of development wells,
Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; team leader on 3D mapping projects and
wildcat recommendations: Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; 3D mapping of
an oil-bearing submarine fan: Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa.
J. Staff Geophysicist, Mobil Corporation
(1988 – 1991).
HCI analysis/ evaluation of Mobil Northern gas fields:
Niger Delta, West Africa; identification, delineation, and recommendation of
Deep leads: Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; in- house consultant on
seismic evaluation of deep water acreages during a lease sale: Niger Delta,
West Africa; training and development of Mobil seismic interpreters: Nigeria,
West Africa; seismic evaluation of an offshore acreage during a lease sale:
Southwestern Cameroon, West Africa.
K.
Senior
Geophysicist, Mobil Corporation (1988 – 1988).
Prospect generation and
recommendation: Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; gas potential studies
of Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; training and development of seismic
interpreters: Nigeria, West Africa.
L.Senior Geophysicist, Dallas, Texas, Mobil Corporation (1986
– 1987).
Edop field 3D seismic data processing
project: Mobil acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; in-house consultant on
seismic evaluation of an offshore acreage and identification of oil and gas
fields during a lease sale: Niger Delta, West Africa.
M.
Geophysicist,
Mobil Corporation (1983 – 1986).
Seismic
interpretation and wildcat recommendations of a submarine channel play: Mobil
acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; seismic evaluation
of offshore acreages during a lease sale and well-site duties: Mobil acreage,
Niger Delta, West Africa.
N.
Junior Geophysicist, Mobil Corporation (1980 – 1982).
2D
seismic interpretation and recommendation of appraisal well location: Mobil
acreage, Niger Delta, West Africa; well-site duties, postdrilling
mapping and volumetric; quality control of 1982 2D seismic data processing.
Professional
Societies
American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Canadian Society of Exploration
Geophysicists Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Awards
and Honorary Societies
Howard
Scholarship, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2006 – 2007
Mobil
SPOT AWARD for outstanding performance: Inanga
Evaluation Team, 1994
Federal
Government of Nigeria Postgraduate Scholarship Award, 1982
Federal
Government of Nigeria Academic Merit Award for outstanding University student:
University of Benin, Nigeria, 1977 – 1978
Publications
Articles
Peer
Reviewed
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hammes, U., 2012,
Seismic interpretation of mass-transport deposits within the upper Oligocene
Frio Formation, south Texas Gulf Coast: AAPG Bulletin, v. 96, no. 5, p.
845‒868.
Ogiesoba, O. C., Wright, W., Wang, F. P., Popini,
M. V., Franco, M. P., Lourenco, A. T., and da Silva, G. B. D., 2011, Seismic
conditioning and attenuation of high-angle coherent noise in a mixed carbonate
and siliciclastic setting, Campos Basin, offshore
Brazil: a case study: Geophysics, v. 76, no. 5, p. B199‒B212.
Ogiesoba, O. C., 2010, Porosity prediction from seismic attributes
of the Ordovician Trenton–Black River groups, Rochester field, southern
Ontario: AAPG Bulletin, v. 94, no. 11, p. 1673–1693.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hart, B. H., 2009, Fault imaging in
hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs: a case study: Geophysics, v. 74, no. 3, p.
B71–B82.
Non-Peer-Reviewed
Ogiesoba, O. C., 2009, Hydrocarbon prospecting in Ordovician
Trenton–Black River, in Laubach, S. E.,
and Tinker, S. W., eds., 2009, Earth’s art:
celebrating the Centennial of the Bureau of Economic Geology, 1909–2009:
The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, p.
108–109.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hart, B. S., 2009, Amplitude envelope and fault
zone reflection phenomenon, in Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Annual Meeting, Houston.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Stewart, R. R., 2004, Prestack
Vp/Vs scanning and
automatic PS-to-PF mapping using multicomponent seismic data, in Canadian
Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Convention, Calgary, Expanded
Abstracts.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Stewart, R. R., 2003, Vp/Vs from multicomponent seismic data and automatic PP time
mapping, in Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Expanded
Abstracts, p. 789– 792.
Abstracts
Ogiesoba, O. C., Eastwood, Ray, Hammes,
Ursula, and Ambrose, W. A., 2012, Seismic-attribute characterization of the
Eagle Ford Shale, Dimmit County, south Texas (abs.): American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstract 1231149, 1 p.
Ogiesoba, O. C., Hammes, Ursula, and Mousavi, M., 2011, An investigation of the petrophysical and acoustic properties of mass-transport
sediments within the Oligocene Frio Formation, South Texas Gulf Coast (abs.):
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention & Exhibition
Abstracts Volume, v. 20, p. 134.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hammes, Ursula, 2010,
Understanding lithologic significance of amplitude
envelope and acoustic impedance within Oligocene and Miocene strata, South
Texas Gulf Coast (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual
Convention & Exhibition, v. 19, p. 191.
Johnson,
B. E., Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hammes,
Ursula, 2009, Techniques for imaging 4th- and 5th- order shelf sequences in 3-D
seismic data: Miocene, South Texas Gulf Coast (abs.): American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, v. 18, p. 109.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hammes, Ursula, 2009,
Seismic interpretation of mass-moved sediments within the upper Oligocene Frio
Formation, South Texas Gulf Coast (abs.): American Association of Petroleum
Geologists Annual Convention, v. 18, p. 157.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hart, B. S., 2008, Fault imaging in
hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs: A case study (abs.), in Society for
Exploration Geophysicists, Development and Production Forum, Austin.
Hammes, Ursula, and Ogiesoba, Osareni, 2008, Seismic imaging of sediment ridges in
growth-faulted subbasins of the Oligocene of the
South Texas Gulf Coast—are they shale, salt, or seismic artifacts? (abs.): AAPG 2008 Annual Convention and Exhibition Abstracts
Volume, v. 17, p. 74.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Hart, B. S., 2005, Fault controlled porosity
within a Trenton-Black River hydrothermal dolomite reservoir, Essex County,
Southern Ontario (abs.), In AAPG Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Stewart, R. R., 2003, Vp/Vs from multicomponent seismic data and automatic PS to PP
time mapping (exp. abs.), in Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
Dallas, Expanded Abstracts, p. 789–792.
Ogiesoba, O. C., and Stewart, R. R., , Prestack Vp/Vs
scanning and automatic PS-to-PP time mapping using multicomponent seismic data
(exp. abs.), in Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2004
Annual Convention, Calgary, Expanded Abstracts.
Contract
Reports
Wright,
Wayne R., Wang, F. P., Zahm, L., and Ogiesoba, O. C., 2008, Reservoir characterization, Albian carbonate succession, Pampo
field: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, phase 2
summary report prepared for Petrobras, 179 p.
Thesis
Prestack Vp/Vs
scanning and automatic PS-to-PP time mapping using multicomponent seismic data.
Dissertation
Seismic
exploration methods for hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs: A case study of the
Trenton-Black River Groups.
Lecturing
Lectures
and Addresses
Understanding
lithologic significance of amplitude envelope within
Oligocene and Miocene Strata, South Gulf Coast: presented to Geophysical Group,
Jackson School Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas, October 2, 2009.
Amplitude
envelope and fault zone reflection phenomenon: presented to Geophysical Group,
Jackson School Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas, July 17, 2009.
Prestack velocity ratio scanning from PS-wave data: presented to
Geophysical Group, Jackson School Institute for Geophysics, The University of
Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, March 6, 2009.
Seismic
interpretation of mass-moved sediments within the upper Oligocene Frio
Formation, South Texas Gulf Coast: poster presented at American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Austin, Texas, July 7 2009.
Seismic
imaging of large channels in the Miocene interval, South Texas Gulf Coast:
presented to Geophysical Group, Jackson School Institute for Geophysics, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, October 24, 2008.
Fault
imaging in hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs: A case study: presented at
Development and Production Forum, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Austin,
Texas, 2008.
Fault
controlled porosity within a Trenton-Black River hydrothermal dolomite
reservoir, Essex County, Southern Ontario: presented at 72nd Annual
International Meeting, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary,
Alberta, 2005.
Prestack Vp/Vs
scanning and automatic PS-to-PP time mapping using multicomponent seismic data:
presented at Annual Meeting, Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Calgary,Alberta, Calgary, Alberta,
2004.
Vp/Vs from multicomponent seismic data and
automatic PS to PP time mapping: presented at 73rd Annual International
Meeting, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Dallas, Texas, 2003.