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Steve earned his B.S. in Geology from Louisiana State University in 1983
and his M.S. in Geology from the University of New Orleans in 1987.
While a student Steve gained invaluable experience working numerous
contract and part-time jobs in the industry including field roustabout,
teaching assistant, petrographer, and geotech.
Steve joined Texaco’s Gulf of Mexico Offshore Division full-time in 1988,
where he evaluated numerous shelf and deepwater blocks, managed
geologic activities for several drilling wells, cross-trained to handle all
geophysical/geological functions, and became adept at seismic
interpretation, structural mapping, log interpretation, and geologic support
for planning and executing drilling operations.
In 1992, Steve won an assignment to Texaco’s North Sea UK to work as a
geologist on an integrated, multidiscipline team responsible for optimizing
field production of the Tartan Field and for developing Strathspey Field.
He prepared detailed static geological models for reservoir simulation. In
addition to gaining abundant wellsite experience, one notable
achievement was the planning and drilling of a horizontal well that
penetrated reservoir in two fault blocks with an exploratory tail in a third
fault block. At the time this 10,000 BOPD & 40MMCFGPD well set a world
record for horizontal displacement within Texaco and saved the company
the cost of two additional wells.
Steve returned to the U.S. in 1995 to work on a shelf asset team
responsible for re-interpreting and revitalizing Texaco’s core shelf asset.
In the summer of 1997, Steve joined Shell Deepwater as a geophysicist
performing regional to prospect specific evaluations for either lease
acquisition or drill maturation. In addition to pre-salt and post-salt
structural mapping, he successfully integrated seismic stratigraphy and
AVO for reservoir prediction. Also, he championed numerous 3d
acquisition, reprocessing and PSDM interpretations across the deepwater
GOM, most notably in the Perdido foldbelt, where he was the lead
geophysicist for the 500 MMBO + Great White discovery in 2002.
Following his work in the Perdido, Steve transferred to Cairo, Egypt
primarily to work the Nile Delta. There he was the Subsurface Technical
Lead for the Nile Delta NEMed team that identified, risked, matured and
drilled Shell’s recent NEMed discoveries.
In 2006, Steve joined Shell’s Alaska Team to perform a regional
evaluation and develop prospects for the 2008 Chukchi Lease Sale.
Upon completing his sale work he joined GoMex.