EAGE 2020 Annual Conference Online

New Era for Geoscience

Friday 11 December | 16:00 - 17:00

A pandemic, struggling economies, a volatile oil and gas industry challenged by environmental concerns, energy transition, and digital technologies are all impacting the role of the geoscientist today and recruitment prospects for the future. We bring together industry and academic experts to talk about the challenges facing the geoscience discipline in a turbulent world.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Andrew Davies

Principle Geoscience Advisor, Halliburton Landmark

Andrew Davies is Principle Geoscience Advisor at Halliburton Landmark. He joined the industry in 2006 working for Neftex Petroleum Consultants where he held roles including Senior R&D Geoscientist and Head of Innovation.

He has published numerous academic papers, served on governmental and academic advisory panels, and is a senior visiting research fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. Andrew has a PhD in Paleoceanography from the University of Southampton, UK.

Ellie Ardakani

CEO/ Cofounder, Meta Innovation Technologies

Ellie is an award-winning tech entrepreneur and a published geoscience advisor, passionate and committed to incorporation of digital technology to increase return on investment on both data and human capital in the energy sector and beyond.

Dr. Ardakani co-founded Meta in 2017, a tech company dedicated to empowering the Energy and Mining industries with web-based technologies for immersive staff training and AI data analytics. Prior to Meta, she worked in various roles in the oil and gas sector. Ellie holds a PhD in Exploration Geophysics from the University of Alberta. She is the vice chair of SEG Women’s Network, SEG SEAM Product Manager, mentor for AGU Mentoring365 program, and an active member of AAPG, EAGE, SPE.

Patrick Corbett

Professor of Petroleum Geoengineering, Heriot-Watt University

Patrick Corbett has 40 years' experience in the oil and gas and wider energy sector and puts great value on the role of the EAGE's role in promoting cross-disciplinarity.

He has been involved reservoir science and engineering research with more than 100 reviewed publications, 30 PhD students and many MSc students in the last 30 years at Heriot-Watt University.

He sees a current challenge in the way wider society appreciates the importance of geoscience and its understanding and is addressing this through poetry as a way of expanding deeper awareness and interest in the geosciences.

Philippe Montagnier

VP Geoscience Discipline, Total

Philippe has 32 years of experience as geoscientist in the O&G industry, mostly at exploration and with a mix of assignments between Total headquarters in France and overseas (Cameroon, Nigeria, Syria, Bolivia, USA) working a large variety of plays in almost all geological settings.

After 12 years as seismic interpreter, Philippe held during 12 other years different managerial positions, both in new ventures and exploration portfolio management. For the last 8 years, Philippe was appointed successively Total Corporate Head of Geophysics, VP Exploration Africa and lately VP Geoscience Discipline.

Philippe holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale de Géologie de Nancy (1985), a MSc in petroleum geophysics from the IFP-school (1988) and a MBA from the ESSEC Business School (2003).

Andrea Lovatini

Digital Subsurface Solutions – Geosolutions Global Manager, Schlumberger

Andrea Lovatini is the Global Geosolutions Manager for the Digital and Integration Division of Schlumberger. In his role he is responsible worldwide for the geoscientists, technologies and services related to geophysical processing and imaging activities, survey design and modeling, seismic characterization and monitoring, multiphysics integration, geoscience and exploration consulting.

Andrea has a MSC in Telecommunication Engineering, with specialization in Digital Signal Processing from the Politecnico of Milan, Italy. He started his career working as geophysicist in Geosystem a geophysical integration company purchased by Schlumberger in 2007, where he held various positions working on electromagnetics methods from algorithm development, to field processing, to geophysical consulting. In Schlumberger he held several technical and managerial roles in WesternGeco and PTS, including managing the marine onboard geophysics team, leading the center of excellence for multiphysics, responsible for R&E, land acquisition, processing and interpretation of multiple geophysical methods, leading the global seismic characterization business till becoming vice president for Geosolutions for WesternGeco.

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