 | dGB USA
| | | dGB-USA
1 Sugar Creek Center Blvd.
Suite 935
Sugar Land, TX 77478
USA
Tel. +1 281 240 3939
Fax. +1 281 240 3944
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| | | Getting there...
| Who is Who
| dGB management
| | | Fred Aminzadeh is president and CEO of dGB-USA and Global Business Development and Technology Alliance Director for dGB Group. He worked 17 years for Unocal in technical and management positions. Fred has authored many books, patents and articles on different aspects of geophysical technology, including modelling, seismic attributes, seismic processing, AVO and reservoir characterization. Fred earned his PhD from the University of Southern California. He is President of the SEG and has served as chairman of SEG's research committee for two years. He was the recipient of the SEG's Special Commendation Award for leading and successfully completing a $ 25 Million Industry / Government supported project on 3D Salt and Overthrust Modelling. | | William N. ("Bill") Barkhouse is Vice President Technology and Marketing for dGB-USA. He has explored for oil and gas for 30 years for ExxonMobil in various technical leadership and managment executive positions in over two dozen geologic basins around the world. His technical expertise is in deepwater integrated subsurface interpretation. He has a well known track record in creative application of new technology applied to challenging subsurface problems while reducing uncertainty and risk in drilling for exploration and producing wells. He is past President of the SEG in 1999-2000 and currently serves the SEG Foundation as Vice Chairman. He currently serves on several Boards and is also a member of the EAGE, SPE, and EEGS. | Marketing | | Layton Payne is the Director, Marketing, dGB-USA, covering The Americas. He has over 25 years of multi-disciplinary experience as a exploration and development geophysicist, strategic marketing and branding, business development, and sales. Prior to joining dGB-USA, he was Business Manager, Fugro-Jason, selling reservoir characterization software and services to super-majors, majors, large independents, and small oil and gas firms. As an geophysicist, he explored Gulf of Mexico MMS lease sales for seven years and discovered three gas fields. Beyond the oil and gas business, Layton opened and ran the Houston office for Silicon Valley based Latitude Communications (now Cisco Systems) and was Director, Business Development, at strategic marketing communications and branding firm, Pennebaker. | Case study department
| | | David Connolly has joined dGB-USA in 2002 as Chief Geologist. He has over 20 years of industry experience in various aspects of petroleum geology and geophysics. Formerly with Texaco, he has worked on a variety of international and national exploration assignments. His areas of expertise include reservoir characterization, sequence stratigraphy, integrated seal analysis, petroleum migration and 3D visualization. He has co-authored various talks and poster sessions on deep water technologies. Prior to joining Texaco, he worked as core analyst and laboratory manager for Schlumberger-Anadrill. He is mainly involved in seismic object detection and interpretation studies, especially on fluid migration. | | | Friso Brouwer Chief Geophysicist, joined dGB in 2002 after completing a MSc in Applied Geophysics at Delft University of Technology. His primary areas of expertise are seismic attributes, application of neural networks on seismic data, inversion & reservoir characterization. Friso has made important contributions in product and workflow development for OpendTect. His scientific focus is to further develop integration of geology and geophysics with the aid of advanced interpretation tools such as seismic attributes, seismic charge and seal analysis, SSIS, DHI analysis and rock property transforms. | Software development department
| | | Kristofer Tingdahl has been developing geoscientific software for dGB since late 1998, when started his MSc project as an intern at the Enschede office focusing on steering algorithms. Kristofer continued to pursue a dGB sponsored PhD at Goteborg University, Sweden, focusing on object detection (faults and chimneys). During his PhD studies, he developed an attribute calculation engine and 3D visualization that founded the base of OpendTect. He received his PhD degree in April 2004, and has been working with dGB since. Kristofer is based in the Houston office since June 2005 working with OpendTect development and support for 3rd party developers in the Americas. | | Yuancheng Liu has joined dGB-USA as a research scientist. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Houston. His specialty is modeling and data analysis. He will apply his mathematical and statistical skills in processing and interpreting multi-volume seismic data as well as implementing new algorithms within OpendTect. | Office Support | | Venice Kostandy is a dGB-USA administrative assistant, responsible for all the logistics and administration. She has a bachelor's degree in accounting. She worked for the US Embassy in Egypt for seventeen years; 7 years for the State department in the Finance Management Office and 10 years for the Department of commerce as commercial specialist. |
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News
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AAPG Award of Excellence
David Connolly, Carlos Selva Fred Aminzadeh received the AAPG Award of excellence “Top 10” Poster Presentation for the presentation...
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Management Change
Press Release- Sugar Land, TX- dGB-USA announces appointment of Dr. Kristofer Tingdahl as its new CEO, effective September 1, 2008. Friso Brouwer will assume the...
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OpendTect 3.2.1 released
It is our pleasure to announce the release of OpendTect v3.2.1. This is a major new release with many interesting new capabilities and new plugins....
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