Panel: Integrating Seismic Data with Reservoir Models in Complex Offshore Environments
Date: 27th January 2025
Moderated by Wathik Alaaraji (TGS)
Wathik Alaaraji
Business Development Manager, TGS
Wathik Alaaraji is a Business Development Manager at TGS based in the UAE. His current efforts at TGS are focused on the Middle East and Mediterranean regions and include improving seismic acquisition efficiency in both shallow and deep marine environments as well as the advancement of Near Surface Imaging and Full Waveform Inversion in the region. He received his B.Sc. in Earth Sciences from UCC in Cork, Ireland in 1999 before pursuing an M.Sc. in Petroleum Geoscience from Imperial College London in 2001, and an M.Sc. in Renewable Energy Systems Technology at Loughborough University in 2021.
john brittan
VP Geophysics for the Imaging & Technology Group, TGS
John is the VP Geophysics for the Imaging & Technology group at TGS. After a PhD and PostDoc at Imperial College, London utilizing FWI to image, amongst other things, the Chicxulub impact crater - John has held positions in at PGS, ION and TGS, both in R&D and data processing operations. As VP of Geophysics, he needs to understand all aspects of seismic signal processing, model building and imaging, and how this affects geophysical deliverables.
