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Marc Sterling
President
E-mail: msterling@sterlingseismic.com
Marc has over twenty nine years of experience on a wide array of processing platforms in exploration, production and engineering applications. He has been actively involved in 3D processing and development for over twenty years. At Western Geophysical, he was the Group Leader of the “Research and Special Projects Group.” Following his years at Western, Marc moved on to work with Aspen Geophysical, Bolt Technology, Production Geophysical Services and Geosignal. In all cases, enjoying senior technical positions as well as management. Aside from production processing projects Marc has been instrumental in shear wave research and software development.
As President of STERLING, Marc's technical support and involvement in all aspects of company operations are a result of his dedication to the customer and adherence to his own high standards of quality assurance. His shear wave and engineering experience has consistently lead to unsolicited work. He is a proven explorationist in both structurally complex and stratigraphic exploration provinces. He has consistently shown the ability to develop innovative processing sequences to better delineate exploration objectives.
Jeff Omvig
Vice President, COO
E-mail: jomvig@sterlingseismic.com
Jeff has over 25 years of experience in the geophysical services industry with several industry-leading service providers. Prior to joining STERLING Jeff was the Manager of Land Program Development for ION's (formerly I/O) Integrated Seismic Solutions (ISS) division, where his focus was developing global onshore multi-client programs in the most challenging land environments where data was nonexistent or insufficient. Previous to ION, Jeff spent the majority of his career with WesternGeco, where he served in various technical and management capacities including positions as geophysical analyst, project leader, processing supervisor, technical coordinator, center manager, regional DP manager, and manager of North America DP. As North America DP manager his responsibilities included P&L for WesternGeco's largest business unit; operations management for processing operations in Houston, Denver, New Orleans, Calgary, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Bakersfield, Midland and Poza Rica, Mexico; DP training and technical support for North America, Mexico/Central America, and South America business units and strategic management of input to the R&D cycle for North American DP operations. Jeff's processing experience and expertise includes 2D and 3D land, marine and OBC processing. His processing experience ranges from most U.S. onshore basins, Alaska and GOM to Africa, the Middle East and South America. Jeff's focus at STERLING is on new business development and the evolution of new service offerings to add additional value to services currently available at STERLING SEISMIC.
Bill Schorger
Senior Geophysicist
E-mail: bschorger@sterlingseismic.com
Bill has over thirty years of experience in the geophysical industry. He began with Seismograph Service Corporation (SSC) where he worked in both data processing and data acquisition. In Denver, he managed the Domestic Exploration Processing Center. He then moved on to Field Operations where he became the Area Supervisor for the Western United States. After seven and a half years with SSC, he started Echo-Tech, which he ran for three and a half years successfully developing and fielding speculative seismic programs in the Michigan Basin. He then moved on to work with Production Geophysical Services and Geosignal. Prior to STERLING Bill worked for Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia for 5 years. At Saudi Aramco Bill handled projects ranging from multi-component VSPs, field crew and processing supervision to OBC acquisition and QC in the Arabian Gulf. His primary focus at STERLING is in marketing and client relations.
Bob Nemecek
Senior Geophysicist
E-mail: bnemecek@sterlingseismic.com
Bob has over thirty one years of broad based experience in seismic acquisition and data processing with GSI, Sefel, Norpac and Western Geophysical. He had extensive field experience with GSI and Norpac. His 3D experience spans sixteen years and has taken him to postings in Denver, Houston, Midland, Bakersfield, Brisbane Australia and Bogata, Colombia. Through his travels in South America, Bob has also become fluent in Spanish. Joining Marc in 1995 as the first staff member at STERLING, Bob's international experience and data processing skills have been key factors in the success of STERLING. His extensive experience throughout the United States has proven invaluable to his numerous repeat clients. In recent years he has been active processing structurally complex 3Ds, many from the Permian Basin.
Tim Michel
Senior Geophysicist
E-mail: tmichel@sterlingseismic.com
Tim has over nineteen years of worldwide 2D/3D data processing experience. After graduating from Colorado School of Mines with a degree in Geophysical Engineering, he went to work at Vector Seismic Data Processing where he worked for 15 years. Before joining Sterling Seismic Services he was a processing geophysicist with GMG/AXIS in Denver. He has processed domestic 3D datasets from around the Rocky Mountin region, Texas, Mid Continent, California and Michigan. His international experience includes datasets from Venezuela, Portugal, Yemen, Russia and Indonesia.
Tim has extensive experience solving complex structural problems and statics issues. He spent his time at GMG/AXIS working with velocity anisotropy in fractured basins including the Barnett shale play in Texas. At STERLING in 2005 Tim processed an 1100 square mile nine 3D merge for Chevron in the Permian Basin through PSTM.
Colleen Hodges
Senior Geophysicist
E-mail: chodges@sterlingseismic.com
Colleen has been in the industry for thirty plus years starting with Gulf Oil in Houston in 1977. From 1979 to 1992 she worked for Sun Oil/Sun E&P/Oryx Energy. At Sun/Oryx she processed data from the Mid-Continent, Rockies, West Coast and various International data sets. Her varied experiences in processing for Sun included AVO, Inversion and Pre-Stack Depth Migration. While there, she also spent time as an interpreter involved in the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Basin, Bakersfield Arch, Williston Basin, Nebraska Paleo play and the Leo Sands of South Dakota.
From 1994 to 1999 she worked at several processing centers in Denver including Veritas. During this period she processed data from the Ohio Basin, Appalachian Thrust Belt, Rocky Mountains and Venezuela. She worked for Blackhawk Geometrics from 1999-2000. At Blackhawk her primary focus was on processing engineering data. Her years of experience add what we insist upon at STERLING, the background necessary to produce a superior product. Her experience in interpretation as well as the diversified processing background have proven to be valuable assets to STERLING.
Lee Hakim
Senior Geophysicist
E-mail: lhakim@sterlingseismic.com
Lee has over seventeen years of worldwide 2D/3D data processing experience. After graduating from the University of Colorado with a degree in Physics, he went to work at Vector Seismic Data Processing where he worked for 13 years, four of which were spent in their Houston offices. Before joining STERLING he was a processing geophysicist with GMG/AXIS (GX Technology) in Denver. He has processed domestic 3D datasets from the Rocky Mountain region, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Colorado, and Utah. His international experience includes datasets from Canada, Yemen, Offshore Ghana, Colombia, and New Zealand. Lee has extensive experience solving complex structural problems and statics issues. Additionally, he spent three years working with velocity anisotropy to visualize fractures in the Powder, Wind River, Green River, and Big Horn Basins in Wyoming.
Joe Teff
Geophysicist
E-mail: jteff@sterlingseismic.com
Joe started with Sterling Seismic as a part time employee in June of 2000 while attending the Colorado School of Mines. When Joe graduated with a Geophysical Engineering degree in December of 2001 we hired him on full time. For five years he worked with and was mentored by Steve Jaggard. His primary focus during this period was Kansas, the Appalachian Basin and Michigan. Since Steve Jaggard's retirement Joe has expanded his experience to include projects in Senegal Africa, the Ukraine, Quebec, the Uinta Basin, Illinois and Arkansas.
Steve Powell
Senior Geophysicist
E-mail: spowell@sterlingseismic.com
Steve has twenty seven years of geophysical experience in data processing. He has worked for Aspen Geophysical, Bolt Technology, Production Geophysical Services and STERLING. Steve's professional focus for the last ten years has been on Refraction Statics and Geometry QC/Correction. At Sterling Steve currently provides essential quality control functions and manages the front end processing group for all land based projects through his expertise in utilizing GMG “Fathom” and Renegade Geophysics' “Seismic Studio” 2D and 3D refraction statics packages. His function of providing quality control, refraction statics solutions and geometry verification/correction at the initiation of each project has been critical to our success at STERLING. Steve's talents are certainly part of the reason that Renegade selected STERLING as a development site for their “Seismic Studio” package.
Craig Matsunaga
Geophysicist
E-mail: cmatsunaga@sterlingseismic.com
Craig joined Sterling Seismic Services in February 2007 after 11 years as a processing geophysicist Pulsonix, Inc. His experience includes extensive 2D processing in the Western United States as well as data from Australia and New Zealand. He is primarily concentrating on 2D front end processing quality control including geometry and refraction statics. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1993 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and was introduced to the Oil & Gas Industry via Western Geophysical.
Erik S. de Roos
Geophysicist
E-mail: ederoos@sterlingseismic.com
Erik obtained a B.S. degree in Geoscience from Penn State University in 1995. He then spent five years processing data in the field and has experience with Land, TZ, and Marine datasets. He worked with Schlumberger Geco-Prakla as a Senior Geophysicist and Crew Leader. He has processed 3D data from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma , Venezuela, Barbados, Grand Banks Canada, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Currently Erik works for Steve Powell where his focus is on refraction static solutions and geometry QC. His addition to the staff in February of 2005 was a critical step in our ability to keep pace with the growth of STERLING. His experience and dedication have made him a key member of our staff.
Nick Grenfel
Geophysicist
E-mail: ngrenfel@sterlingseismic.com
Nick graduated 2006 with a B.S. in Geology from the University of Montana. Currently Nick works for Steve Powell in the front end at STERLING. His emphasis is on refraction statics, data QC, loading data and building geometries. Nick is in charge of the archive program for all the processors.
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