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Kelvin L. Soice
Seismic Data Processor
Seismic Data Processor with long experience on complex projects, including meeting
demanding client requirements. Both individually and as part of a team, processes seismic
data from initial geometry QC through migration, fulfillment of client product requests,
archiving data, and the generation of the final report.
Professional Experience
Schlumberger Technology / WesternGeco Resources, Houston, Texas (1995—2016)
Project Leader/Senior Geophysical Engineer
Employed for 20+ years as a processor of land and marine seismic data. Recent
project focus: Onshore and offshore Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, India,
Romania, Nigeria and Brazil.
Familiarity with the Omega processing software package, INVA, Petrel E&P software
and UNIX.
Premigration processing including geometry, survey merging, and trace editing,
refraction and reflection statics, using radon, Tau-P, FK, despike, and denoise filters,
and multiple attenuation.
Pre-stack time and depth migration including Kirchhoff, Beam and Reverse Time
Migration algorithms on Marine, Synthetic and Land data.
Post Migration interpolation, stack, gain, filters.
Tomography based velocity model adjustment.
Water bottom, salt horizon, velocity and 3D anisotropic parameter picking.
Velocity model manipulation, editing and salt body inclusion.
Support, automation, flow standardization and construction of master setup to be used
in all future phases of projects, debugging, software update testing, client request
fulfillment, deliverables, QC of outgoing products, tape copy, final report writing and
archiving.
Experienced with Infield Quality Control, checking geometry and noise as data was
acquired, 4 months total in field. Checking geometry, removing noisy traces, creation of
trace-to-shot & detector relation files. Including being embedded with a field crew to do
cost-benefit analysis of operations.
Regularly learned and implemented new algorithms, workflows, software, and
significant updates.
Worked closely with clients including meetings, presentations, status reports, and both
intermediate and final reporting. Extensive use of Microsoft Office products including
Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Sync.
Relevant course work includes Anisotropic parameter picking, theory of Depth
Migration, Salt Interpretation and picking, 4 Component Seismic processing, Unix
Systems administration, Petrel/I2I Modeling software and 3-D Seismic Survey Design
and Analysis.

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Sample Projects and Initiatives
Software version performance comparison and testing, including:
- KDM Volcan testing comparison of performance metrics and KDM performance
testing metric between versions
- Migration travel time file compression tests
- KDM Travel Time reduction and GPU tests of performance metrics between
versions of travel time algorithms and the usage of GPU type node
- Regression testing on Omega, Petrel and Omega Cluster Manager, performing
functionality testing, speed comparisons, and confirmation of results
- Collaboration with the Software Development team in development, debugging, and
testing of new software, including evaluation of teaching materials
Creation of procedures to achieve results not envisioned by software programmers,
such as developing a procedure that enabled generating different set of inside and
outside mutes for above and below the unconformity. Created a procedure to smoothly
merge overlapping stack sections, or for the easy production of SEGP1 survey files,
and for a selection of gathers strung together to cover the same area as a stack.
Recognized and respond to new errors in rapidly evolving software:
- Developed a procedure to deal with certain irregularly shaped stacked sections
- Worked with Data Management to improve the system for archiving tapes
Volunteered to visit Slavnyeft client site in Russia to improve client uptake and use of
purchased Omega data processing software. Demonstrated use of the software for
solving daily seismic data processing problems.
Advised management on feasibility and efficiency of using third-party software to
automate routine testing.
For the Seismic Guided Drilling department, which performs many iterations of
tomography very quickly, developed a master setups directory of approved and verified
workflows that simplified the process and reduced errors. Additionally, implemented a
parameter entry feature of Omega to consistently identify the tomography iteration and
append the information to each output dataset.
Work History
Trinidad and Tobago 3D Extension & Angostura & Span 2D for BHP, Black Sea for
Lukoil, Mississippi Canyon I-III for Stone Energy, Cyprus Blk 12 for Noble Energy, SP62
& Main Pass for Apache Corp, Greater Shalimar & Nigeria & Iraqi 2D for
ConocoPhillips, BS4 for Shell, Shallow Hazard Cube for Chevron, Angola for Cabinda,
Starr Hidalgo & Lake Salvador Reprocess for EOG, Horst for Edge Petroleum, Polk 3D
for Alabama Coushatta, Chad 2D for ExxonMobil, Hannibal/Redfish Merge for Cabot Oil
& Gas, Shelf C 2D4C for AIM Geophysical. For Schlumberger/WGC, involved in CD18,
EManatee, WAZ3, Lake Salvador Emerge, Starr Hidalgo Emerge 1, Lake Salvador
Complex/Barataria Bay, Starr/Hidalgo Phases 7, 8, 8A, 9, 9W, 10, Merge I-X , and
Webb/Duval Phases 2, 3, and 9. Average project value $1–5 million each.
Education
Masters of Geophysical Engineering – Montana College of Mineral Science and
Technology, Butte Montana
Bachelor of Science in Physics; Minor in Astrophysics – University of Calgary, Calgary
Advanced High School Diploma with Excellence – Queen Elizabeth High School,
Calgary, Canada