ROBERTO CERVANTES

CAREER HISTORY:

Mr. Cervantes has over 30 years worldwide acquisition experience.  Previous experience includes resident Crew Seismologist,  Observer, System Operator, Navigator, System, Engineer,  Party Manager, Vibroseis, and heli-portable jungle acquisition.  He has served as a land and marine acquisition consultant in more recent years.  He is  experienced in all aspects of project management,2D/3D   land and marine 2D and 3D acquisition, 3D and 2D field seismic data processing, survey planning and cdp coverage. Competent in the use of ProMAX, VERIFY-IT and MicroMAX processing  systems,  3D geometry  and design packages ( OMNI, MESA Core). Technical Manager, web developer and PC Cluster installator using Linux Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 PVFS, MPICH and OSCAR, System Imager software and Mastering Windows XP in a local area network. Setting up DSL connections and system administrator.

Trafalgar Exploration Services Inc  1998-1999

Quality Control Assurance Supervisor  providing technical assistance and QC supervision for Land 3-D, OBC,  Transition Zone  Geophysical Surveys. Technical Manager in IT services, web developer and setting up workstation with Solaris and AIX Unix. TCP/IP and hardware maintenance. And UNIX system administrator. Technical Writer for training material, tender bids and proofreader for technical document presentations. Also setting up PC Cluster with Redhat LINUX 7.1, 7.2, 7.3. MOSIX Cluster Management, PVS, LUI, CSU and MPICH software. Security installation with SSH and Internet research about latest GNU cluster management and monitoring software for Linux Cluster. services. 3D data processing.

Freelance Geophysical Consultants Ltd. 1990-1997

2D,3D Acquisition Consultant. Land,  Transition, Shallow Water and Marine Operations.

Recent Experience 3-D OBC/ dual sensor operations Syntron  bottom cable  Venezuela Senior QC seismologist responsible for data quality utilizing QC onboard processing. Tools.  

Land 3-D heliportable Peru  

3D Acquisition Consultant. Marketing representative in South America.

Various Land and Marine 2D and 3D projects in the USA and South America 

Acquisition Consultant.  2D and 3D  jungle heliportable and vibroseis operations.

Central and South America  utilizing SN388 and I/O II recording systems.

Halliburton Geophysical Services  1988-1989

Senior Observer.  Assigned to  3-D land Vibroseis and Portable crews.

Geophysical Services, Inc. (GSI) 1987-1988

Assigned to  3D marine operations with dual fiber-optic streamers. Responsible for data project planning, survey setup planning and infill.  Complied crew QC reports    

Geosource, Inc. 1982-1986

Crew Manager, Shore Manager, and Instrument Manager. Experienced in the use and operation of contractor  Binning systems. 3-D survey design tools. Vessel rigging and   equipment installation.

Geophysical Services, Inc. 1980-1982

Crew Seismologist, Instrument Engineer, and Party Manager.  Assigned  to  2D and 3D marine operations. Worldwide 

Western Geophysical 1977-1980

Junior Observer, Observer, and Chief Observer.  Assigned to marine shallow water, 2D, and land Vibroseis operations .

Schlumberger 1975-1977

Mud Logger, Mineralogist.  Assigned to well drilling operations .

EXPERIENCE AND SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE:

Project Management

Parameter testing, survey planning, safety, and environmental impact.

Back-down and Teleseis applications.

Deep Water 3D Seismic Multi Streamer Operations

Binning systems with dual fiber-optic cables, also dual analogue streamer.

Tracking System STS III.

Ocean Bottom Cable Operations.

Parameter sweep testing, dynamite, poulter, primacord, heliportable,

3-D transition zone surveys,

Land 3D Seismic

Experience with telemetry cable, quad and sextuple line swaths with octonary roll-on, perpendicular dynamite shot-line, single and double zig zag, slip sweep and vibroseis inline or perpendicular and patterned shot arrays.

Seismic Processing

Parameter testing, Apollo, Omega , FT-1, FT-2,  ProMAX ,MicroMAX,

QC systems  Census, SeisNav

Pelton ver 6.2

Geotrace Technologies 3D design

MESA Geological Modeling

Oil Pathfinder, Designing field variables in land

Swift Survey Package

Arcview 3.1

Mapinfo 4.5

Refraction and Uphole software

Instrumentation

Sercel 388/368, DFS-VII, MDS16, MDS-18, OYO DFM 480, I/O System One and Two, Seistronix TX-500, TSR II fiber optics, TIGER II, LRS-100, AIRCOM III, OYO MX-160 Syntrak. I/O MSX,SYNTRAK SERCEL 408ULX, 408UL, RAS-24, I/O System4, Aram Aries, DSU and MEMS (Sercel and I/O).

Shallow Water   OBC dual Sensor operations , Transition Syntron and I/O Bottom cables 

Vibroseis Electronics

VCS-IIIB, VCS-V, Mountain System (QC), Pelton Advance II , VibraSig. Post Sweep Service (PSS), Pelton Advance III Vib Pro, VE416, VE432.

Energy Sources

Vibroseis, dynamite (poulter and primacord), airguns, sleeve exploders, down hole hammer, Canterra, Jackro, Jed drills, ( flushers ) Augers, Dhekis, Bullrock II & III, Mayhew  500,1000 and Careys. S-wave vibrators.

Navigation

Differential GPS Trimble 4000 DGPS.Argo, Syledis, SPOT, Maxiran, Transit satellite MX-1107, GPS Ashtech XII, TI Navstar 1400, Shoran and Loran, hand-held GPS Magellan,

Survey

Theodolites Wild T-0, T-1, T-1000, T-1600; Distomats (EDMs); Psion Organizer data collectors.

Geophone Testing Equipment

Geospace G-900, SMT-100, SMT-150

Operating Systems and Other Systems

UNIX, Ultrix, Open VMS, Open Windows, Novell, DEC 2020, PDP-11,  MicroVAX, MicroMAX, ProMAX, 980B-990B, OS/2, CPM, MS-DOS,  MOTIF, OSF1, DX10, VMS, SCO UNIX, X-Windows, Solaris, Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0, Office 97,all Internet Software, HTML programming and Relational Database software.

TRAINING COURSES:

DFS V  Operator’s School, Dallas, 1980.  Configurable Marine System Operator School,

Marine Firefighting School, College Station,

CMS Maintenance School,

980B & 990B Minicomputers and Assembly Language,

771 Satellite Communication,

CPR Medical,

MK 227 Gyrocompass,

MX 1107 Transit Satellite,

Digital Electronics,

Airgun Controller (TIGER II),

Dbase III Programming Language,

Advance UNIX for Mainframes,

Advance Macros and Programming, Spreadsheets,

Word Perfect 6.0, 1995

Local Area Networks (LAN), Novell 3.1, 1996

All PDO safety training  required to work in Oman,1998

1995     HTML Internet Programming,

1999     Internet Networking

2000     Visual Basic Programming

2001     Routers and Internet network with Linux

2001     Windows 2000

Seismic Courses Completed

1996.    SeisNav OBC Software,  Census 4.4,   ProMAX 5.01

1997.   3D Design, Geotrace Technologies,

1998.    SSI SeisNet Real Time Data Capture

1999.    Landmark Corporation, ProMAX 3D ver 7.1

1999     SLS, VERIFY-IT

2001     FOCUS 4.3 3D

2001      OSCAR, PVFS Cluster Installation

AREAS WORKED:

Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Brazil, Ecuador, the Gulf of Mexico, USA, Cotonu, People’s Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, TChad, England,India, Iran, Oman and France.

Terrain worked includes desert, Andes Highlands (4200 meter AMSL), swamp, transition zones, shallow water, deep marine, ocean bottom cable, sand dunes, national trust reserves, deltas, jungle heli-portable, plain jungle, Savannah plains, and environmentally sensitive areas with local natives.

LANGUAGES:

English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and some Arabic.

AFFILIATIONS:

Active Member of the Society Exploration Geophysicist (SEG).

Vice Chairman Membership of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC).

Member of the Geophysical Society of Houston

Recent Field Quality Control supervision

Party Chief in a 500 sq. km. in Assam 3-D North West India, in charge of logistics and implementing a 3D crew for land portable with I/O System 4, ShotPro, Thales Navigation Z-Max satellite receivers, Mesa and VISTA field processing.

EDCO Kish International - Iran Dec 2004 Present

Supervising OEOC 3D crew in a semi transition seismic project in Mansuri 3D, near Ahwahz city, one of the largets oil rseservoirs in Iran.

SINOPEC- NIOC - Iran May 2004 Dec 2004

Supervising BGP Chinese crew in Kashan 3D land vibroseis and dynamite, crew start-up and parameter design. OEOC-OEID Paydar 2D land vibroseis crew near the border with Iraq, military area in the border with Iraq. Many mine fields being cleared by a special team before seismic crews get into the safe corridors.

Ecopetrol - Colombia Nov 2003 -April 2004

Supervising Western Geco vessel in a large marine 3D project with 8 streamers in Bahia 3-D, offshore Cartagena. Recording system was I/O MSX, Spectra Navigation, Omega 8.0 processing system, SSS air gun system, SENTRY solid streamer, C-Nav, Multifix 3 and Trinav positioning, Reflex real time binning system.

OEID -IRAN June to October 2003

Supervising Chinese Sinopec SGC-201 Crew in KHESHT 3D project with helicopter and dynamite in a mountain terrain , FARS province in IRAN.

KNOC- Korean National Oil Corporation May 3 - July 17 2003

Marine 2D in BLOCK VI-1 East Sea Korea, using solid streamer and SKY Premier positioning system, SYNTRAK recording system.

Cliveden Petroleum Chad North Africa 2001- 2002

Supervising a 3D high resolution seismic crew in Chad North Africa hired to implement and improve data quality . Increased production and organized a HSE program. Thumper as energy sources and RAS-24 acquisition system.

Petroleos Mexicanos ( PEMEX) May-July 1999

Land transition with the use of dynamite, air guns and vibroseis as energy source in a complex area bordering the USA. Duties were as field QC and data processing with the use of SLS and VERIFY-IT to check the position of the hidrophones using first break picking. The training of the PEMEX geophysical staff in transition areas was also involved in the daily duties.

Petroleum Development Oman March 1998 to Sept. 1998

Field QC seismologist supervising the acquisition of 6 seismic crews using Vibroseis as energy source, P-wave and S-wave vibrators, single, double zig zag and crossline swath 3D designs, slip sweep in desert sensitive areas in the desert of Oman.

Empresa Nacional del Petroleo de Chile (ENAP) 1997-1998

On board QC supervision, including Omega 6.2 QC processing, UNAVCHK navigation processing, Real Time Dynamic binning system ( FLEX-QC). Also the supervision and logistics of the seismic data acquisition in several 3D marine projects in the Strait of Magellan.

Enron Oil & Gas Venezeula Limited Caracas 1996-1997

Data acquired in the Eastern Gulf of Paria   3D (OBC ) Ocean Bottom Cable shot by PGS.  Air Gun source, dual sensor  Syntrak bottom cable,  On board QC processing utilizing  Promax with Census for cdp coverage and attribute analysis  My  duties  were, responsible for QC Data processing, close monitoring of the coverage in a congested area , coordinate planning of the infill with client and contractor to optimize coverage to provide necessary offsets.            Also responsible for liaison  with government officials. Overall operations and logistics final report complied for Enron and the Minister of Energy and Mines, Corporacion Venezolana del Petroleo and the Minister of Environment.

Chevron Overseas Peru Limited 1996

Ucayali Basin, Jungle Peru Land Heliportable, 2D I/O System II with Dynamite, Gravity, Uphole, ProMAX  field Processing,  Operating in a sensitive area with natives, bats and rabies.  My duties were field acquisition consultant responsible for QC processing and general operations. 

Mobil Oil Bolivia : Madre de Dios Basin Jungle of Bolivia 1996

Land 2D Heliportable  Recording system Sercel 388 , Uphole survey , Using field ProMAX processing system to generate brute stacks.

My duties covered the complete operation which also included the field  processing, instrument tests, operations and logistics. .

Petrolera Perez Companc : Neuquen and San Jorge Basin Argentina  1995

Vibroseis 3D survey recording 1200 channels,  Contractor Western Geophysical,    Omega, Specs field processing, Uphole survey . recording system I/O system 11, Mayhews 1000.  Responsibilities Quality control of the complete operation :

Costilla Energy Incorporated  1995

3-D Vibroseis - Dynamite, transition zone in Texas. Two thousand channels on the ground GECO/Prakla crew using an  I/O system II. Recording system Responsibilities QC supervision of the complete operation.

EXXON, 1995

LAND, MARSH- USA,  QC various 3D jobs SWAMP,  shothole with conventional survey equipment. Duties included, QC processing and seismic acquisition supervision using air boats and 6x6 buggies.

Education:

Universidad de Chile 1973 B.S. Minerology
Universidad de Chile 1984 B.S. Computer Sciences Undergraduate

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