MEET THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Roberta Mendes
Petrobras
General Manager of Reservoir Technology, Petrobras E&P Reservoir Department.
Roberta is graduated in Civil Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 1999. Just after his bachelor’s, she took her master’s degree at the same university also in Civil Engineering, in 2002.
In 2003, she joined Petrobras and in February 2004 she finished her specialization in Petroleum Engineering. At Petrobras, she started as a reservoir engineer, working with water management, reservoir management and reservoir geomechanics. She worked in many important projects, applying technologies during development production phase in Campos Basin and Pre-salt reservoirs in Santos Basin.
She managed Buzios Reservoir team from 2013 until 2018. In December 2018, she was designated general manager of Information Technology and Telecommunications for Upstream segment. In March 2022, she became General Manager of Reservoir Technology at Petrobras’ headquarters.
Gustavo Côrte
Heriot-Watt University
Estelle Rebel
TotalEnergies
Is a Senior R&D Geophysicist working in the development of advanced monitoring technologies for CCS projects and focusing on the use of Distributed Acoustic Sensing in the energy transition. Before joining TotalEnergies 4 years ago, she worked in CGG both in France and in Canada, contributing to the development of technologies such as on-demand 4D seismic and surface microseismic monitoring. As such, she was involved in both the acquisition developments as well as the processing algorithms. She holds a PhD in Seismology from the University of Nice (in collaboration with French Atomic Energy Agency).
Philippe Solans
TotalEnergies
Philippe is currently working within the Reservoir Management team (CSTJF, France) as focal point for Virtual Metering & Back-Allocation and Fiber Optic Sensing. His role is to help affiliates and Development Project Teams to optimize their production and define their Monitoring Plan.
He joined Total in 2012 as a geophysicist within the seismic monitoring team, followed by positions at HQ in Exploration, Development and Geophysics Lead at Total Gabon. His main interests are Subsurface Monitoring and Production Optimization.
Philippe received a M.Eng. in Geophysics from Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (Strasbourg, France) and a M.Sc. in Earth Sciences and Geodynamics from Strasbourg University.
Jonathan Brain
Shell
MONICA MARIA MUZZETE DA COSTA
Petrobras
MONICA MARIA MUZZETE DA COSTA
Petrobras
Monica has been in the Oil and gas industry for the last fifteen years, after graduating in Geophysics in the University of São Paulo, Brasil, in 2005. She started her career working with seismic processing for Schlumberger before joining Petrobras, where she worked as a reservoir geophysicist for ten years. With significant contributions in 4D modeling for the most important Pre-salt assets in the company, Monica's contribution extends to the research with CENPES in projects involving rock physics and digital rocks. She is one of the technical representatives in Petrobras University for geophysical training and mentoring. Monica's expertise in fluid and rock modeling extended interpretation through various types of pre-salt carbonatic systems. She is currently participating in the planning of the 4D seismic strategy for Buzios field.
Marcos Grochau
Petrobras
Marcos received PhD from Curtin University (Australia), Master’s degree from UNICAMP and the Science Academy of Czech Republic (Prague) and Bachelor’s degree from UFRGS University (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
His background includes seismic acquisition, processing and interpretation. He has been working in reservoir characterization and time-lapse (4D) projects on several hydrocarbon fields.
He wrote a book on Time-Lapse (4D) Seismic, he has papers published in Geophysics, The Leading Edge, Geophysical Prospecting and presentations at SEG and EAGE conferences. He received Awards of Merit from both SEG and Petrobras as the coordinator of a strategic research applied projects in Petrobras aiming to apply 4D seismic in carbonate reservoirs.
Mona Hanekne Andersen
Equinor
Specialist Reservoir Geophysicist and leading the Geophysical Reservoir Monitoring Competence Group in Equinor. Started in Research with lithology and fluid prediction work, moved over to Exploration to get seismic interpretation experience - but did not find any oil and hence moved over to production assets. Worked with 4D seismic in three decades and was involved in the piloting and full field installation of a permanent seismic system at Snorre Field. Since 2016 heading up the competence group to ensure experience transfer, competence building, standardizing workflows, evaluating seismic demand and monitoring strategies for field development and production projects across the company.
Professor Florian Doster
Heriot-Watt University
[PhD, Stuttgart University, 2011] is Professor for Multi-Scale Multi-Phase Flow Modelling in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University and Program Director for the MSc program Subsurface Energy Systems. Previously he worked at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University and the Department of Mathematics at University of Bergen as well as the Institute of Computational Physics at Stuttgart University. His research interests include the study of multi-physics multi-phase flow phenomena in porous media and their appropriate physical and mathematical description across length and time scales. He focuses on phenomena related to CO2 storage, flow in fractured porous media and hysteric phenomena such as trapping. His research is funded by the ACT(BEIS), European Commission, US Department of Energy, the Scottish Energy Technology Partnership, Norwegian Research Council, Foundation CMG, Total, BP and Petronas.
Dan Clarke
Shell
Since 2013, Dan has worked across several different pre-salt fields in appraisal and development settings. His main interests are reservoir characterisation, deployment of new technology and the integrated interpretation of geophysical data to generate value and impact decisions.
Within Shell, Dan has played a key role driving different processing and interpretation workflows and in his talk (“Reservoir Monitoring for Pre-salt Reservoirs”) will offer some unique perspectives covering 4D processing & interpretation.
Dan has a MSci in Geophysical Sciences and MSc in Exploration Geophysics – both from the University of Leeds, UK. He has previously worked in Egypt and the USA.
Babak Jafarizadeh
Heriot-Watt University
Is a faculty member in the Institute of Geo-energy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. He holds a PhD in Investment and Decision Analysis from the University of Stavanger in Norway, and before joining academia, has worked as a senior economic analyst in the energy industry. His research aims to improve business decision making by integrating finance, engineering, and decision analysis. He is the author of the book “Economic Decision Analysis”.
Dr. William Burnett
ExxonMobil
Earned a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geophysics at University of Texas at Austin, where he focused on seismic diffraction imaging. Will entered the geophysical industry as a seismic land crew worker in 2002, but since joining ExxonMobil in 2011, he has held a broad range of research and applied roles involving seismic survey design, ground-penetrating radar, induced seismicity, FWI, and applications of specialized imaging. Most recently, Will coordinated global seismic reservoir monitoring programs as ExxonMobil’s 4D seismic technical team lead, and is currently a geophysical coordinator for their Guyana programs.
Denis José Schiozer
Denis José Schiozer
University of Campinas
Is a Full Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Campinas, Director of Center for Petroleum Studies (1998-2002, 2014-2020), Chair of Energy Simulation (since 2014), Director of EPIC Research and Education, and researcher 1A from CNPq. His research interests are reservoir management, reservoir numerical simulation, decision analysis, and integration of reservoir simulation with reservoir characterization and production facilities. He holds a BSc. in Aeronautical Engineering at Aeronautical Technological Institute (1986), MSc. in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Campinas (1989), Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering at Stanford University, and MBA at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (1997). Over 500 publications, 95 M.S. dissertations oriented, 30 Ph.D. theses oriented. Awards: Academic Zeferino Vaz - UNICAMP (2000 and 2019), Excellence in Education and Research SPE Brazil (2006 and 2015), winner ANP Innovation 2018 (project UNICAMP-SHELL), finalist ANP Innovation 2019 (project UNICAMP-PETROBRAS), 30 awards with students.
Jorge Lopez
Jorge Lopez
Shell
Is a Geophysicist with 25 years of experience working for Shell in many technical and managerial capacities, including assignments in R&D, Exploration, Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Reservoir Monitoring, applied to reservoirs onshore and in deep water. He is credited with opening new fields of geophysical technology, several patents, and multiple publications. He moved to Brasil in 2019 and currently leads the Subsurface Technology group, tasked with investing the ANP R&D obligation in a large and diverse portfolio of projects. Jorge holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin and enjoys coaching and outdoor sports.
Nathalia Cruz
Nathalia Cruz
Petrobras
Is a senior reservoir geophysicist at Petrobras ultra-deep waters exploration and production division. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and is a MSc candidate at the Federal Fluminense University. She has over 17 years’ experience in national and multinational companies focused on the acquisition, processing, interpretation and modeling of geophysical data. Since 2009 with Petrobras, she has been part of several exploration and development teams, working in the Pre-salt projects of Lapa, Sapinhoá, Iracema, Tupi and Mero. For the last 8 years she was the leading geophysicist in the seismic characterization and monitoring of the giant Tupi Field, the first Santos Basin Pre-salt area to make use of 4D seismic to monitor WAG (water-alternating-gas) injection. As of this year, she joined the team of geoscientists responsible for the development of the giant Mero Field.
Samantha Grandi Karam
Shell
Is a Senior Research Geophysicist working in R&D and deployment of Reservoir Surveillance and CCS MMV technologies. Currently in Houston, she has been with Shell for 14 years and has directly contributed to maturing technologies such as, surface microseismic monitoring, DAS, land 4D seismic, and on-demand ocean bottom nodes. Before joining Shell, she worked in PDVSA as an Operations and Processing Geophysicist and obtained a MSc and a PhD in Geophysics from MIT.
Andrew Curtis
University of Edinburgh
Is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Chair of the Mathematical Geoscience, with research interests in inversion, imaging and characterization of 3D media using seismic, ultrasonic and electrical data. He has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals, edited the volume ‘Geological Prior Information’, and was awarded the Reginald Fessenden Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysics in 2017 for his work on seismic interferometry.
Alexandre Bertrand
Vår Energi
Alex has been with Vår Energi in Stavanger for four years, first as a Geophysical Advisor working on the Balder, Ringhorne and Goliat fields, and currently as Geophysics Manager, leading a team of geophysicists specializing in acquisition, processing and QI. Prior to joining Vår Energi, Alex worked 10 years for ConocoPhillips on the Ekofisk LoFS and Eldfisk field, and before for Geotrace in the UK. He holds a PhD from Heriot-Watt University (ETLP) and a Masters in Geophysics from Strasbourg (France).