Training Instructors

Andy joined Ikon Science in 2010 as part of the technical support team in London. Here, he learned the ropes before transferring to the Houston office in 2011 to create the regional technical sales and support team.

In 2013 he moved to the Americas QI team, working on projects in both the US and Canada as a Senior Geoscientist. His project experience includes analysis of exploration, appraisal and development assets; AVO modelling, seismic to well ties, seismic inversion, petrophysics, and rock physics.

In September 2014, with the support of the company, he went back to university to complete a MSc. in Petroleum Geosciences at Royal Holloway, the University of London. Since completion, Andy spent time on sabbatical, teaching English in Japan, before moving to Kuala Lumpur to join the Ikon Science Asia Pacific office as the regional Technical Support Lead.

In mid-2018 Andy transferred back to Houston to head up the Technical Sales efforts in the region. He is often onsite at client offices doing project consultation, one-on-one tuition and teaching training classes.

Before joining Ikon Science as a Technical Sales Geoscientist for RokDoc, Hilda worked for Halliburton-Landmark in project management and consultancy, where she was responsible for Seismic Interpretation, 3D geological framework, mapping, velocity modelling and AVO analysis.  She also provided training across Latin America, Europe and West Africa.  Hilda has been involved in projects which include integrated studies in Barents, Kara, Laptev and Norwegian Seas, also Oman, Bay of Bengal and Off-shore Brazil.

Hilda has a BSc in Geophysics and an MSc in Integrated Reservoir Management, both from Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Denis is a Senior Geoscientist with 14 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He has been a part of Ikon’s Quantitative Interpretation team since December 2013.

Denis graduated from the Moscow State University of Oil & Gas with a BSc and MSc in Geophysical Methods for Oil & Gas Exploration.

Denis has worked around the globe including: Norway, UK, West Africa, India, Canada, Labrador and Newfoundland, Gulf of Mexico, Kazakhstan and Russia.

His QI skills include Rock Physics, Seismic Data Conditioning, Seismic Inversion and Litho-Fluid classification.

His main experience is with prospectivity studies in both frontier and highly explored settings using seismic data, integrated rock physics, inversion and interpretation workflows to highlight hydrocarbon potential in an area.

Mark Sams received an M.Sc. (1984) and a Ph.D. (1987) from Imperial College, London University.

From 1987 to 1994 he worked as a Research Fellow and Research Associate on rock physics research at Imperial College. In 1994, he moved to Malaysia where he joined Petronas Research and Scientific Services working on seismic processing, rock physics, AVO analysis and inversion. He joined Jason in 1997 where he eventually became the Regional Technical Manager for Asia Pacific leading teams focussed on rock physics and seismic inversion. In 2012 he joined Ikon Science as Quantitative Interpretation manager for Asia Pacific. In 2019 Mark joined Petronas Carigali as a Specialist in Quantitative Interpretation and in 2022 re-joined Ikon Science as VP of Services in Asia Pacific.

His interests are in the practical application of rock physics, deterministic and geostatistical inversion in the seismic reservoir characterisation workflow. He is a member of EAGE and SEG.

Joel is a senior geologist with 10 years experience. Since joining Ikon Science in 2012, he has played a diverse role, delivering service projects across the full range of Ikon’s technical offerings, including pore pressure, geomechanics, rock physics and seismic inversion. His primary focus for the last 8 years has been the execution and delivery of pre-drill pore pressure and wellbore stability studies across a wide range of geological settings for use in well planning, exploration, and de-risking.

Joel graduated from Missouri State University with a B.S. in Geology, and holds an M.S. in Geology from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Siddiq joined the Ikon Science Customer Care team in the Kuala Lumpur office in 2021. He currently supports the GeoPressure and Geomechanics business and client engagement.

Prior to that, Siddiq was a geomechanics engineer and was involved in various wellbore-drilling geomechanics projects covering different geological settings and operational challenges in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Australasia and India.

Fergus graduated in 2012 from Imperial College London with an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience. From there he joined Hess Corporation on their graduate program, rotating through the London, Houston, Paris and Stavanger offices.

In 2014 he joined Ikon Science in London, and latterly Aberdeen, providing software and workflow support to RokDoc users. In July 2018 he moved to Kuala Lumpur as the Technical Support Manager, heading up the team providing technical sales, support, and training across the Asia-Pacific region.

Jorge has a BSc in Geophysical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, and an MSc in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines, where he worked on seismic inversion and reservoir characterization of the Vaca Muerta unconventional shale in Argentina.

He provides software and workflow support for RokDoc, and works regularly with Spanish-speaking customers in Colombia, Chile and Mexico.

Jeremy Neep is a geophysicist with over 20 years’ experience in geophysics and geoscience and joined Ikon Science in August 2014 as Principal Geoscientist. Jeremy is responsible for delivering and peer-reviewing Joint Impedance and Facies Inversion (Ji-Fi) projects and acts as a peer reviewer to the QI team (EAME) and other projects worldwide. Jeremy assists with deploying new R&D technologies and technical QC of software improvements and is the technical processing lead for the Ikon-Petrotrace JV.

Prior to joining Ikon, Jeremy worked for 17 years at BP, leading the processing QC on external contractor projects ranging from worldwide exploration processing, through to detailed PreSDM velocity model building and 4D processing projects for all the producing Azerbaijan fields. He also worked extensively in geophysical analysis both in internal R&D and in projects on AVO inversion/reservoir characterization from frontier exploration through to producing fields. He published conference papers on AVO angle analysis on dipping beds, spectral blueing, time-variant colored inversion, AVO inversion benchmarking and OBS imaging. Jeremy was the lead instructor within BP for advanced courses on wavelet estimation and seismic inversion, as well as teaching courses on the seismic resolution, seismic net-pay, and borehole geophysics. Jeremy also mentored and coached many geophysicists across the company. Prior to BP, Jeremy was a Research Associate at Imperial College working on seismic attenuation and wavelet estimation.

Jeremy has a BSc in Physics from the University of York, an MSc in Applied Geophysics from the University of Birmingham and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Imperial College London.

Ed has completed pore pressure projects in areas where seismic velocity data are the only available data to large regional studies that include more than 600 wells. Ed’s career with Ikon Science started in 2008 initially based in the Teddington office working on rock physics projects. He transferred to the geopressure team in 2009.

Prior to joining Ikon, Ed was employed by Petris, where he supported the petrophysical software Recall, helping clients to resolve problems and assist with their understanding of the software.

Ed graduated from Southampton University UK with an MGeol (Master of Geology). His final year dissertation involved studying whether climatic indicators (i.e. quartz/feldspar ratio) can be used to correlate Permian sandstone sequences in the North Sea. He also spent part of the final year of his degree on and around on-shore oil rigs in the Western Canadian sedimentary basin.

Jeremy Gallop has a BSc.Eng. from Queen’s University and a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in geophysics. He worked for Encana and Cenovus Energy for 13 years before moving to Ikon in 2014. His experience covers 3D/4D and 3C seismic data interpretation, geostatistical reservoir characterization, and field optimization, predominantly in unconventional settings. His interests include stress dependence of granular contact rock models, formation damage as well as anisotropic shale model building.

Jakob is a senior geologist. Having graduated from the University of Copenhagen & DTU in 2005, with an MSc in Geology, he started his career as a sedimentologist working for Geosyd, in Denmark, then Corex, in Egypt, specializing in sedimentology and facies modelling.

In 2010 Jakob joined Ikon Science’s geopressure department in Durham, before moving to our Asia-Pacific office in 2012 and Houston in 2019. He has more than 12 years’ experience as a geologist & pore pressure specialist working on projects in Australia, Kutai Basin and East Java Indonesia, NW Borneo, offshore Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah, Gulf of Thailand and Malay Basin, Cuu Long, Nam Con Son, Phu Khan basins offshore Vietnam, and the Sindh Basin Pakistan. He has also worked on pressure projects on the Niger Delta and offshore Cameroon, the Central North Sea and the Barents Sea.

Andrey graduated from Moscow State University of Oil&Gas with a BSc in Geophysical methods of Oil&Gas exploration. After graduation, Andrey spent a brief period working in geological database department at Lukoil Overseas. He then joined Schlumberger Western Geco as field QC geophysicist doing quality control and express processing of seismic data. Working on a number of projects in Western Siberia and Libya with conventional dynamite and vibroseis 3D/2D land crews. In 2008 Andrey joined Moscow branch of Fugro-Jason firstly as a member of seismic data processing team and later switched to inversion and reservoir characterization. At Jason, Andrey has worked on a number projects, employing the skills of inversion, interpretation, and analysis on projects in the Western Siberia , Timano-Pechora, Volgo-Urals, Gulf of Mexico and offshore Ghana regions. Joining Ikon Science in April 2013, Andrey now works on seismic analysis & geologic modelling, with a focus on well tie, seismic data conditioning, seismic interpretation, wavelet estimation and inversion (RokDoc, Strata, Kingdom, Petrel).