Richard W. Postma

CONSULTING GEOPHYSICIST 730 17th St., Suite 999
Denver, Colorado 80202
303.446.8649


SUMMARY:

Twenty-six years of major oil company experience including 2-D and 3-D interpretation, workstation applications, depth migration and wavelet extraction technology. Domestic and international experience, and management experience.


EXPERTISE:

  • Interpreted 2D and 3D seismic surveys, most recently using interactive interpreter work stations. Areas interpreted include North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Michigan Basin, Colombia, Venezuela, Egypt and Syria.
  • Managed a special projects group composed of ten geophysicists, physicists and mathematicians.
    - Evaluated interpreter workstations for the company and incorporated workstation technology into offices in Houston, Denver and The Hague.
    - Initiated the use of depth migration and applied technology as a service to the exploration offices.
    - Applied the latest technology that included seismic acquisition, seismic modeling, data processing and gravity and magnetics interpretation to exploration problems.
  • Made significant contributions in the area of seismic inversion, wavelet processing and depth imaging/prestack depth migration of geophysical data
  • Saved tens of millions of dollars to the company through the correct placement of exploration wells as a result of application of advanced technology, proper depth conversion and depth migration, application of wavelet processing to stratigraphic interpretation, etc.
  • Developed a three-day seminar on advanced data enhancement and inversion techniques, and presented it to all company geophysicists in ten company offices including five offices in foreign countries.
  • Represented Marathon Oil Company at four University and National Laboratory Consortia.
  • Authored or co-authored several articles that were presented at professional meetings. Published articles in both physics and geophysics publications. Authored numerous
  • internal scientific papers of a proprietary nature.
  • Multilingual (German, Spanish, some Russian). Extensive overseas experience, both traveling and permanent living.

EMPLOYMENT:

INTERACTIVE EARTH SCIENCES CORPORATION 1995 - Present
Denver, Colorado

Consulting Geophysicist, Prestack Depth Migration

PARADIGM GEOPHYSICAL 1994
Houston, Texas

Senior Staff Geophysicist,
Depth Migration and Interactive Model Building, 2D and 3D

MARATHON OIL COMPANY

1977 - 1994

Advanced Senior Geophysicist, 1988 - 1994
Technology Testing and Applications
Geophysical Technology Department - Littleton, Colorado

Manager, Special Projects Department 1983 - 1988


International Exploration - Houston, Texas

Research Geophysicist, 1977 - 1983
Geophysical Research Department
Littleton, Colorado

TEXACO INC.

1972 - 1977

Seismic Interpreter 1976 - 1977
Offshore Exploration Department - New Orleans, Louisiana

Seismic Interpreter 1974 - 1976
Geophysical Exploration Department - Bogota, Colombia

Computer Programmer, Analyst 1972 - 1974
Geophysical Center - Bellaire, Texas



ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

RESEARCH:

Utah State University - Logan, Utah 1972
Aeronomy Department - NSF Research Fellow

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Huntsville, Alabama 1969 - 1970
Aeronomy Department/Astrophysics Department - NASA/ASEE Fellow


TEACHING (Full-Time):

Transylvania University - Lexington, Kentucky 1968 - 1972
Department of Science and Mathematics - Assistant Professor


TEACHING (Part-Time):

Metropolitan State College of Denver - Denver, Colorado 1994
Department of Physics - Part-time instructor

Arapahoe Community College - Littleton, Colorado 1991 - 1992
Department of Mathematics - Part-time instructor

Houston Community College - Houston, Texas 1973 - 1974
Department of Mathematics - Part-time instructor

Kentucky State College - Frankfort, Kentucky 1971 - 1972
Department of Mathematics - Part-time instructor



EDUCATION:

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Physics
M.S., University of Kentucky, Physics
B.S., Utah State University, Mathematics and Physics