ANGLESEY GEOPHYSICAL SERVICE

                Declan Prichard                

Job Title: Director & Chief Geophysicist

Address: 1 Llain Wen, Tynygongl, Anglesey, Gwyneddll, 74 8SD.

Tel:+44 1248 853 987, Fax:+44 1248 853 874, Mobile:+44 850 109 385

E-mail: anglesey-geophysical@dial.pipex.com

• Over 20 years experience in oil exploration, as a Geophysicist specialising in seismic data acquisition and processing. Geometry and statics problems of land 3-D a speciality. Processed numerous 3-D surveys since 1982, with TENSOR GEOPHYSICAL SERVICE (4 years land and marine 3-D) and more recently completed seven years with SAUDI ARAMCO completing land 3-D surveys.
• Directed the set-up and training of 2-D and 3-D offshore QC and processing procedures for a major Norwegian contractor. Processed over 50,000 km of marine seismic data for the same company over the last two years.
• Recently completed the processing of over 10,000 km of 2-D marine seismic data from the Danish North-Sea. Part of a speculative survey acquired by FUGRO-GEOTEAM AS. Also pioneered their navigation QC methodology and seismic data processing of high resolution mini-airgun data, for sea floor mapping and hazard survey.
• Recently completed an 8 month contract to supply processing services to a client in Yaraven, Armenia. Completed the processing, through 3-D migration, of a 20 million trace inshore 3-D survey acquired in the Persian Gulf area. Project completed in 28 days during the summer of 1995 with the aid of one other Geophysicist.
• Helped pioneer Saudi Aramco's 3-D processing, using standard Disco and in house Disco compatible software. Was actively involved in the processing of all of Saudi Aramco's 3-D surveys from the first in the summer of 1991, until my departure in May 1995.
• Helped to implement the change in SAUDI ARAMCO'S Geophysical Processing Division, from an old IBM based mainframe environment to the modern UNIX - based systems involving Cray Supercomputers, distributed workstations and interactive processing techniques.
• Software experience includes DISCO-FOCUS, PROMAX, Western's OMEGA and many others.

April 1995 - present date: Chief Geophysicist / Director of ANGLESEY WIND & ENERGY LTD and ANGLESEY GEOPHYSICAL SERVICE. Providing consulting services of Seismic Data Processors to Seismic Contractors and Oil Companies and developing wind energy projects large & small.

Aug 1988 - Mar 1995: Geophysicist with SAUDI ARAMCO, in the Geophysical Data Processing Department. Duties included technology implementation, setting of job standards, training, data processing, research and employee supervision.

April 1986 - July 1988: Processing supervisor with TENSOR GEOPHYSICAL EGYPT. Supervision and processing of land and marine seismic exploration data. Duties included initial client liaison, sales & service, billing and training.

Dec 1984 - Mar 1986: Senior Seismic Analyst with SEISMOGRAPH SERVICE CORPORATION at Casper, Wyoming. Processing land seismic data acquired for UNOCAL in the Rocky Mountain area.

Sept 1983 - Nov 1984: Geophysicist with TENSOR GEOPHYSICAL SERVICE CORPORATION, Metairie, Louisiana. Exclusively processing 3-D seismic data volumes for a number of clients world-wide. Personally billed over $700,000 in completed one-man contracts during 1984.

Nov 1982 - Aug 1983: Geophysicist with DIGICON GEOPHYSICAL CORPORATION of Houston, working in Caracas, Venezuela and also in Houston R & D department.

Oct 1978 - Oct 1982: Field Seismologist/Assistant Party Manager with GEOPHYSICAL SERVICE INTERNATIONAL from London, UK and Dallas, Texas. Working on data acquisition assignments in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Indonesia and Venezuela.

April 1976 - Aug 1976: Technician with MARKAM & CO., Broad Oaks Works, Chesterfield, England. Performing non-destructive testing of welded and cast steel fabrications for the power generation industry.

Jan 1976 - March 1976 & July 1974 - Dec 1974: Lab technician at THE SWISS INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH, CH 5234, Villigen, Switzerland. Assisting researchers in the manufacture of subatomic particle detectors. Work here was on an alternating basis with education at Sheffield Polytechnic.

1978: Salford University, Manchester, England: BSc with honours in Physics of Natural Resources with minors in Geophysics and Mathematics

1976: Sheffield Polytechnic, Sheffield, England: Higher National Diploma in Applied Physics with minors in pure physics, electronics and mathematics. The course involved company and industry sponsored schools and seminars, including a range of supervisory and management training such as Ken Blanchard's.

Fluent in both English and Welsh in addition to being reasonably proficient in French, Spanish and German.

• Petroleum Exploration Society GB
• Society of Exploration Geophysics
• Member Institute of Directors
• European Association of Exploration Geophysicists
• American Wind Energy Association

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