AnthonyRobin Westerman
Summary
- Paleoproterozoic basement mapping with airborne geophysics, ground geochemistry and diamond drilling
- Structural analysis of multiphase fold belts with photogrammetry and ground truthing
- Ground Penetrating Radar for petroleum reservoir outcrop analogs
- Seismic acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation for coal, oil and gas, on land and sea, also in well
- Mud logging, well logging, rock physics and rock mechanics
- Overpressure
- Underground Coal Gasification.
My PhD thesis is on “The development of secondary porosity & permeability in fractured rock.” It is available at: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7840/
Contact info
Email: DrRobinWesterman@aol.com
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony-Westerman
Phone: +44 7305 656 190
Location: United Kingdom
Industry Experience
Education: PhD
Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant
Years of experience: 20 years or above
Work Experience
Geophysicist
Seistran Ltd.
Prepared & gave a 3-day workshop with Aaxal, Cranfield for an NNPC Field Crew working in Chad.
Geophysicist
Legacy onshore 2D seismic & well data analysis for:
i) due diligence in proposed field developments
ii) UCG prospect evaluation
iii) 14th Landward Licensing Round applications.
Geophysicist
Geophysicist
Seistran Ltd.
Short courses for:
a) SINOPEC managers in Aberdeen
b) Absolute BME in Kuala Lumpur
Geophysicist, Moray Firth Asset Team
Injector well positioning & Rock Physics based inversion.
Ettrick injector well positioning based on QC of new acquisition with interpretation of PreSTM processing.
Principal Geoscientist
Seismic Rock Physics; introduced non-linear inversion to RokDoc.
Farm-in decisions – those since drilled proved correct.
3 successful 25th Round Applications on Central North Sea blocks leading to Wintershall's Blakeney discovery.
Senior Researcher
Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University
Project managed:
- time-lapse seismic in the North Sea.
- modelling 3 segments of ARAMCO’s Ghawar Field.
- Underground Coal Gasification, Coal Bed Methane & Carbon Capture and Storage.
- Carbon dioxide storage for Scotland.
Exploration Geophysicist and MD
Geophysicist
ONGC–Schlumberger Wireline Research Centre, India
Finite Difference modelling guided waves.
Worked with the ‘father of VSP’, Professor E. I. Gal’perin.
World first simultaneous VSP-Walkaway and surface seismic survey.
Geophysicist
British Coal Technical Services and Research Executive
High-resolution surface seismic.
Redefined structures contributing 3 year’s national production.
Designed Inverse VSP & in-seam borehole geophone installation.
Initiated FAPS - the Fault Analysis Projection System.
Managed the National Logging Contract.
Senior Data Engineer
Seismic Analyst
Photo- & Structural Geologist
Hunting Geology and Geophysics
Regional Geologist
Industry Expertise
- Research Institute
- Geology
- Fracking
- Oil & Gas
- Clean Coal
- Alternative Fuels
- Geosciences
- R&D
- 3D Modelling
- Teaching
- Scientific writing
- Spacial Data Analysis
- Time Series
- open science
- Citizen Scientist
- Eng. geology
- Team Leader