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CAREER HISTORY:
Mr. Cervantes has over 38
years worldwide acquisition experience in land and marine operations. Previous experience in, Vibroseis, and heli-portable jungle
acquisition, OBC, deep marine, transition, gravity and magnetic data providing
continuous coverage over the land-marine interface; airborne data augment land
and marine 3D data. 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 Mesa11, OMNI 12,
Testif-I, Globe Claritas, ITA, RadExpro, Petrel, Opendtect,GMS SPS Check, IntViewer,
Geometis MX, MIRA, ITA, Neptune, GPseismic and setting up Linux PC Cluster for seismic data processing. Also doing lately land and marine seismic
crew start-up and technical audits. Actually working as Crew Manager for Saudi
Aramco GDAD department.
Saudi Geophysical Consulting – January 2012 - Present
3D designer and Field
Acquisition Supervisor for STAROIL company in
Trafalgar Exploration -Tesla Exploration Services Nov Dec 2011
Seismologist and QC man,
checking survey data with GPseismic software and using OMNI and
Ecopetrol - Petroseismic Services Sep 2011 October 2011
Performed a technical audit
on the M/V Gulf supplier offshore
Saudi Geophysical
Consulting Jan 2009- Dec 2010
Technical
Manager for seismic projects and also liaison with Saudi Aramco providing
manpower from SGC. Prepare bids and mostly office work processing Microtremor,
gravity, uphole, geotechnical data for underground water and geotechnical work
for foundations. Became member of the Dhahran geophysical society and attended
14 months of seminars and geophysical meetings at Saudi Aramco. Also
participate in a technical audit and field QC work in
Craddock
Engineering June 2006 2008
Quality control supervisor in a large 3-D
dessert seismic acquisition operation with Geofizyka Krakow and Zueitina Oil
Company. Using Sercel 408XL and SQC-Pro, Nomad 65 vibrators VE432, HYPACK
guidance system and DSD Network, OMEGA processing and Omni Workshop software.
Areas of Midween-Hakim, Fidda and Zella, NC-74A, NC74B.
Also working in
GRC July 2003 March 2005
Quality Control Assurance Supervisor
providing technical assistance and QC supervision for Land 3-D and Transition
Zone Geophysical Surveys. Technical
Manager in IT services. 3D data processing.
Installation of PC Clusters using LINUX Redhat 7.2-7.3 and OSCAR Cluster
management. Supervision and completion of land 3D Kehsht 3D for OEID in
Trafalgar Exploration
Services Inc 1998-2003
Quality
Control Assurance Supervisor providing
technical assistance and QC supervision for Land 3-D, OBC, Transition Zone Geophysical Surveys. Technical Manager in IT
services. 3D data processing.
Installation of PC Clusters using LINUX Redhat 7.2-7.3 and OSCAR Cluster
management. Supervise a marine 3D in the Gulf of Mexico for PEMEX through
Trafalgar Exploration and RPS Energy joint venture, also a long 2D 14 km
streamer for depth target in the
Recent
project 2002 supervising a 3D high resolution seismic in Chad North Africa hired to
implement and improve data quality . Increased production and implemented HSE
standards. During 1998 worked in land
vibroseis dessert operations in 6 different crews working for PDO in
Freelance Geophysical
Consultants Ltd. 1990-1997
2D,3D
Acquisition Consultant. Land,
Transition, Shallow Water and Marine Operations, including all
navigation systems and acoustic positioning for the marine vessels.
Recent
Experience 3-D OBC/ dual sensor operations Syntron bottom cable
3D
Acquisition Consultant. Marketing representative in
Various
Land and Marine 2D and 3D projects in the
Acquisition
Consultant. 2D and 3D jungle heliportable and vibroseis operations.
Central
and
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.
OBC
dual Sensor operations
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 as well as
transition and OBC.
Seismic
Processing
Parameter
testing, Apollo, Omega , FT-1, FT-2,
ProMAX ,MicroMAX,
QC
systems Census, SeisNav
Pelton
ver 6.2
Geotrace
Technologies 3D design
Oil
Pathfinder, Designing field variables in land
Swift
Survey Package
Arcview
9.3
Mapinfo
10
Refraction
and Uphole software
Omni
Workshop 10
Opendtect
Hampson
Russell
DirectAid
Globe
Claritas
GPseismic
ProMAX
Seismic
Processing workshop
RadExpro
OpendTEct
Petrel
2009
WinPICS
5.4
Kingdom
Geoframe
4.2
ITA
instrument test analysis
Testif-i
SeisImager
and Surfseis
VisualVoxtAT
INTViewer
Instrumentation
Sercel
388/388, RAS-24, 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. La Coste Romberg Model G,
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, VE464.
Energy Sources
Vibroseis, dynamite (poulter and primacord),
airguns, sleeve exploders, down hole hammer, Canterra, Jackro, Jed drills, (
flushers ) Augers, Bullrock II & III, Mayhew 500,1000 and Careys. S-wave vibrators,
Digiseis and Thumper. Sandwich Box and Vibrascope for vibroseis testing
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, Leica 1200 GPS, Skyfix,
Multifix III, MUltifix IV. Sprint Navigation QC. REFLEX binning system,
acoustic EchoSouunder, Glonass satellites, DigiRange II acoustic range system,
Oyo Geospace Navigator, GPS trimble 4000SSI, DSM 232, Aries GPS radio pods,
Furuno satellite compass, Robertson AP9 MK3, ODOM Echotrak MKIII fathometer,
SPRINT 3D, Model 7000 streamer velocimeter.
Survey
Theodolites
Wild T-0, T-1, T-1000, T-1600; Distomats (EDMs); Psion Organizer data
collectors. Thales Z-MAX, Leica 1200, Trimble 5000 satellite receivers.
Geophone Testing
Equipment
Geospace
G-900, SMT-100, SMT-150, SMT-200-300 and 400, Seistec, LT388, SGT-100.
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, Unix AIX, Linux, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT
4.0/2000, XP and Windows 7, Office 2010, Linux Redhat 9 all Internet Software,
HTML and JavaScript programming and
Relational Database software.
TRAINING COURSES:
DFS
V Operator's School, Dallas, 1980. Configurable
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
1995 HTML Internet Programming,
1999 Internet Networking
2000 Visual Basic Programming
2000 Routers and Internet Networking with Linux
6.1
2000 Windows NT
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, PFVS with PC Clusters installation
AREAS WORKED:
Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Panama,
Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Aruba, Curacao,UK, France, Norway, Bonaire, Brazil, Ecuador, the
Gulf of Mexico, USA, Cotonu, People's Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Mexico,
Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, England, TChad, Korea, Iran ,Oman, Libya, Sudan, India,
Japan Malta 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, OBC, back down, Deep
Marine.
LANGUAGES:
English,
Spanish, Portuguese, French and some Arabic and Farsi.
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
Geophysical Society of Houston
Houston
Geological Society
Dhahran
Geophysical Society - Saudi Aramco
Saudi Geophysical Consulting- Saudi Aramco 2012 - Present
Crew Manager for S70
and S71 high density channels crews using Distance Separated Simultaneous Sweep
and distance separated simultaneous slip sweep and 24 vibrators and Time Domain
Multiple Access, Sercel 428Xl and VE464 vibroseis electronics in wide azimuth
surveys with 2400 Fold.
Ecopetrol - Petroseismic Services - Sep 2011 -November 2011
Performed a technical audit
on the M/V Gulf supplier offshore
Saudi Geophysical
Consulting Jan 2009- July 2011
Technical
Manager for seismic projects and also liaison with Saudi Aramco providing
manpower from SGC. Prepare bids and mostly office work processing Microtremor,
gravity, uphole, geotechnical data for underground water and geotechnical work
for foundations. Became member of the Dhahran geophysical society and attended
14 months of seminars and geophysical meetings at Saudi Aramco. Also
participate in a technical audit and field QC work in
Zueitina Oil
Company
Supervision of
several 3D seismic surveys using vibroseis as energy source, setting field
parameters and acquisition tolerances and processing routines. In charge of a
Polish crew 2Z in blocks NC74A, NC74B, Safsaf, 103BC, 103D/T, Ettalla,
103EN-Ext, 103EL-Ext, NC171, LPC3. Using Sercel 428 and 408 with VE438
vibroseis electronics with DSD Network and Hypack guidance system. Field 3D QC
processing and 3D volume rendering.
Alphageo
Supervisor
in 2 different seismic c crews working in North East India for National India
Oil Exploration, using Hampson Russell, OMNI, VISTA 3D, MESA and many other
geophysical training software in many disciplines for the benefits of the
company. Recruiting and training suitable personnel to be able to work within
the seismic crews using I/O System 4.
EDCO
Supervising
OEOC 3D crew in a semi transition seismic project in Mansuri 3D, near Ahwahz
city, one of the largest oil reservoirs in
SINOPEC-
NIOC –
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
Ecopetrol
–
Supervising Western Geco vessel in a large
marine 3D project with 8 streamers in Bahia 3-D, offshore
OEID
–
Supervising
Chinese Sinopec SGC-201 Crew in KHESHT 3D project with helicopter and dynamite
in a mountain terrain , FARS province in
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
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.
Land
transition with the use of dynamite, air guns and vibroseis as energy source in
a complex area bordering the
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. Rotated through various operation
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
Enron Oil & Gas
Venezeula Limited
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 such as PDVSA and Minister of Environment. Overall
operations, daily report writing and logistics final report complied for Enron
and the Minister of Energy and Mines, Corporacion Venezolana del Petroleo.
Chevron Overseas
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. Gavity survey using LaCoste Romberg Model G Gravity meters.
Petrolera Perez
Companc : Neuquen and
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
EXXON, 1995
LAND,
DOB:
Education : B.S Mineralogy-Universidad de Chile, 1973
Post Graduate
Degree in Computer Sciences- U. de Chile, 1984
Passport
Number: 6.497.972-8
Temuco
CHILE
Tel. 56 45 386028
Fax 56 45 386027
E-mail:robertoc@rcervantes.com
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