Seminar: Salt in Petroleum Exploration, friend or foe?

28 março 2016, 16:49 • Elisa do Nascimento Pires Costa

Next Friday, April 1th, at 11h00, the seminar “Salt in Petroleum Exploration, friend or foe?" will be held, presented by Mr. Gil Machado, from Galp Energia.

Venue: Room V1.08, Civil Engineering Building, IST - Alameda Campus

A geologist with a degree from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon with an European Doctorate from University of Aveiro-Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic dealing with Stratigraphy and Petroleum Geology. Worked for Galp Exploration and Production as a Geoscientist since 2010 on all stages of exploration and development planning, from new opportunities to pre-development. Seismic interpretation and sedimentary fairways analysis using seismic attributes were some of the main work areas, including in salt basins.

Worked for Petreoleum Development Oman from 2012 to 2013 as a Stratigrapher. In PDO he was in charge of the Lower Paleozoic and PreCambrian Stratigraphy in the GeoSolutions team. Worked on well stratigraphy while drilling, well litho- and biostratigraphic correlation, refinement of biostratigraphic schemes among other tasks.