Technical Leads

JON ELLIOTT

Pore Pressure

Jon has over 35 years of continuous oil and gas exploration industry experience, initially as a Mudlogger then as a Wellsite Geologist and more recently as an Operations Geologist and specialist pore pressure engineer. He has extensive experience in many types of reservoir including platform and reef carbonates, fractured basement, thinly laminated clastics and has been involved with numerous geosteered development projects. He has been Wellsite Geologist on more than 120 wells around the world in East and West Africa, the North Sea, West Papua, PNG, India, China, Australia and Indonesia and as an Operations Geologist responsible for more than 250 wells mostly in the Asia Pacific area. In addition, he has conducted pore pressure/ fracture gradient analysis on a further 400 wells. Jon is a member of the team that designed, built and supported the RWEB and Pressure Explorer software applications and has delivered courses on Wellsite and Operations Geology in China, Indonesia and Australia and Pore Pressure Engineering courses in Perth, Dili in East Timor, Sydney and Malaysia.

BERNIE MALONEY

Drilling, Well Completion & Intervention

Bernie Maloney has 35 years comprehensive and broad experience in the upstream oil and gas industry across drilling, completions, well interventions, testing, stimulation, production technology and reservoir engineering. His experience was gained working with service companies, consultancies, independents and multi-national majors throughout Australia, Asia, MENA and the USA in a variety of roles. Bernie has worked in many remote locations, onshore and offshore, including subsea. He has been engaged in exploration and appraisal, field developments and ongoing production activities in low permeability, mature fields through to new and very high perm prolific oil and gas producers. Most roles Bernie has fulfilled required interfacing, engagement and an ability to communicate clearly with numerous other disciplines and stakeholders. Bernie is a chartered and registered Professional Engineer, recognised in Australia and internationally.

LAWRENCE T. BOURKE

Borehole Imagery & Wellbore Stability

Lawrence Bourke has an MSc degree in Sedimentology from the University of Reading and a BSc in Geology from The University of Strathclyde. His career start was in core-based sedimentology with Palaeoservices in 1979, and then three years as a field development geologist with Sun Oil 1983-1985. He joined Schlumberger in 1985 as applications development geologist and worked on the GLT, and then MST, FMS and OBDT. He then formed a consultancy group within Schlumberger specialising in image interpretation. He has worked since as an image interpretation geologist with Z&S, Baker Hughes and for the last 12 years with Task Geoscience, now Task Fronterra Geoscience.

JEREMY PROSSER

Sedimentology

Jeremy is a Sedimentologist with 27 years experience of research and application in field of clastic sedimentology. 19 years experience in management and business development roles. Jeremy has a BSc (Geology) and PhD from the University of Aston Birmingham, and an MSc from the University of South Carolina. His career started as a sedimentologist with GAPS Geological Consultants (1988). He then undertook five years post-doctoral studies at the University of Aberdeen, before joining Z&S (1994) working on borehole image data. He established the Z&S office in Perth WA (1996-1998), subsequently spending eight years with Baker Atlas as Asia Pacific Geoscience Manager, and finally Asia Pacific Sales Manager, before joining Task Geoscience in 2006. He is currently Task Fronterra Geoscience’s Global Business Development Manager.

DAVID A. CASTILLO

GeoMechanics

Director of a company providing integration of geomechanical advise across multiple disciplines within oil & gas, geothermal and C02 sequestration operators. Applications include pre-drill predictions, real-time verification while drilling, predicting responses to hydraulic stimulation and C02 feasibility studies. Extensive international experience as a Geophysicist which included ensuring high quality geomechanical consulting services within GMI and Baker Hughes. Applications included unconventional reservoirs, deep water drilling, 5-year technology planning and C02 planning. Designed a data acquisition program for and mentoring for operators interested in developing their own internal geomechanics team.

ALEX AITKEN

Approval and Permitting

Alex Aitken has extensive experience in land management, agronomy and the rural sector. His background includes 21 years as a farmer and 23 years in Agribusiness where he attained positions at senior management levels. Alex’s current role as Stakeholder and GIS Manager involves (amongst other things) negotiating between farmers, industry and governments regarding pipeline, seismic survey, well drilling and other infrastructure access. Alex’s suitability for land liaison is based on his significant Agribusiness and farming background. He has significant experience in land care and conservation including restoration of farming and pastoral lands after pipeline construction. All Alex’s roles have required the ability to communicate with farmers and suppliers alike. Alex has extensive experience in negotiating and consultations with local, state and federal government bodies and Ministers. These consultations have ranged from pipeline access to representation for the National Firearms Buy Back Scheme.

DR JOSEPH HAMILTON

Mineralogy

Joseph is a geologist with a BSc from London University and a DPhil from Oxford University. From 1975 to 1988, he held research positions as a geochemist at Columbia, Glasgow and Cambridge Universities. From 1988 to 2003, he held various research and research management positions in CSIRO and in the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre.This period was followed by two years as Professor of Petroleum Geoscience and Head of the Petroleum Geoscience Unit, University of the West Indies. Subsequently, he returned to Australia to work as a reservoir mineralogist with Intellection, ALS Ammtec and then as the mineralogy advisor to Lithicon (now FEI). In April 2015, he joined AnaMin as senior geologist working with well site application of FTIR mineral analysis. His current interests are in the development and application of technologies for rapid and robust mineral analysis.

CLIFF MARTIN

Petrophysics

Cliff has accumulated a wealth of experience in over 40 years in the upstream oil and gas industry. Initially as a wireline logging engineer working at the wellsite for Birdwell then Gearhart at locations around the USA. Since then he has spent in excess of 20 years as a staff Petrophysicist with Conoco and ConocoPhillips providing support to operations in a variety of locations including Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, USA, and Russia. He has also spent 10 years with Occidental in petrophysical capacities in a number of locations including the southern and northern North Sea Libya, Russia, Australia, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, and Colombia. Before leaving Indonesia in 2011, Cliff spent 3 years as a consultant Petrophysicist for Chevron in Jakarta. More recently Cliff has been working in Malaysia as a consultant Operations Geologist and Petrophysicist for Mubadala and ConocoPhillips and has continued conducting industry training courses and the mentoring of junior and national staff wherever he has worked. He was president of FESI in Jakarta for a number of years.

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