WINTER 1985 1 N TH E MID 1950S, WESTERN Puter

N TH E MID 1950s, WESTERN puter. The clicnl 's spec order is researched, any responsible oil company can buy a tltepreside11tS page I pioneered an exploration procedure then placed into lhe computer, and an copy of it. " new to the geophysical industry: the acqui invoice and data transmittal arc prepared. According lo j ohn Laker, vice-president sition of seismic spec dala. Some acro Copies of lhc dala lransmittal are then Gu lf Coast and Easl Coast Operations, magnetic data had been provided on a given to the geophysical technicians in the Weslern's spccul alivc surveys in lhc Gulf speculative basis, but no similar serv ice distribution area. of M exico are planned to anticipate the existed for seismic dala . " After I 've recorded the orders," ex needs of lhe industry far enough in ad In the ensuing years this spec service has plains Assislant Supervisor George Cava vance that data are available when and grown to such significance that it has be zos, " I assign them to one of the geophys where needed by oil companies desiring to come a fundamenlal part of our business ical technicians who arc responsible for participate in lease sales on the Out er requi1;ng that Western set up data sales de data distribution . They, in turn, pulJ the Continental Shelf or in state waters. Th e partments in Hou slon, Denver, London, and C algary. The spec inventory is divided into seven areas of operation including: 1) Gu lf Coast, 2) West Coast and Alaska M arine, 3) Latin America and the Gulf Coast tran sition zone, 4) onshore Alaska, 5) all mid Con linent, 6) southwest Pacific, th e Phil ippines and the South C hina Sea, and 7) Europe and Africa.

Gulf Coast Data Sales

Western 's network of spec departments began with what is now the Gu lf Coast Data Sales department. Thirt y-two-year veteran Bill Hud son handled all of'Wesl original sections from the file and take availability of state-of-the-art spec data, he ern 's spec work for the first 13 years of the them to the print shop for reproductions notes, allows all companies to compete for spec program . Then in 1980 the dcparl according to the client's request. If the available acreage at a fraction or the cosl ment was divided and Bill took responsi clienl selects onJy certain shot points to that would be necessary if they acquired bility for the Gulf Coast area while Palricia purchase, th e 'geo techs' splice out those the data exclusively for their own use. Greeson was named Manager, \Norldwide pieces and move the header information Service is a priority in Western's Spec Data Sales, covering West Coast and over, and prepare the data for shipment departments. Says Laker, ''If time com Alaska Mar ine. to the client. " mitments have bee n made to our clients, With more than 20 employees, Wesl Among the senior and junior geophys acquisiti on and processing schedules are ern 's Gulf Coast Data Sales department ical technicians who are cross-trained to adjusted to meet the requirements. Work remains the largesl of the five spec depart handle orders from start to Jinish are; schedules must be adjusted to accommo ments as a very large number of clients, Linda Dan g, Belh Bialas, Verna D avis, date our clients' needs; in the more than headquartered in H ouston and cities ShelJy Ford, Jani e Leung, Barbara Witt 15 years that we have been actively engaged throughout Louisiana, are interested in the kopp, Maria Tomek, Dancillc Garate, and in collecting spec data in the Gulf, we have buried resources of the Gulf of M exico. Liz Garza. Oth er technicians responsible never failed to meet such deadlines." Assistant supervisors Teresa Bishop and for drafting, post-plot m ap distribution, George Cavazos have worked in the de and inventory maintenance are Bruce partment six and 13 years, respectively, Friedman , K ay Skinner, and Rob ert World wide Data Sales and now supervise the work of the depa1-t Doss. With more than 13 years' exper ience in the department, George supervises Worldwide Data Sales is responsible As you pause to reflect on this gorgeous ment's 20 geophysical technicians. Teresa, aided by geophysical techni longtimers Carolyn Arbor and Betty J oli for a wide range of areas, both land and scene, may we wish for you and yours the cians Shirley Stinson, Calyn J amcs, Mary vette (nine years) and Victory Taylor (eight marine. This department serves East and same feeling of peace and serenity for the Rodriguez, Tami Banta, and Dee R od years). Southwest United States, supervised by holiday season and the coming new year. riguez, receives new orders. According to " I like to think of the spec department Vice President Ben Langston ; Gulf Coast Bill Hudson, all ofWestern's data inven as a film library," explains George. " All Tran sition Zone and Latin America, tory information is available on the com- of the original data belong to Western but supervised by Vice President Vic Boyd;

~atf?I/~ WINTER 1985 1 N TH E MID 1950s, WESTERN puter. The clicnl 's spec order is researched, any responsible oil company can buy a tltepreside11tS page I pioneered an exploration procedure then placed into lhe computer, and an copy of it. " new to the geophysical industry: the acqui invoice and data transmittal arc prepared. According lo j ohn Laker, vice-president sition of seismic spec dala. Some acro Copies of lhc dala lransmittal are then Gu lf Coast and Easl Coast Operations, magnetic data had been provided on a given to the geophysical technicians in the Weslern's spccul alivc surveys in lhc Gulf speculative basis, but no similar serv ice distribution area. of M exico are planned to anticipate the existed for seismic dala . " After I 've recorded the orders," ex needs of lhe industry far enough in ad In the ensuing years this spec service has plains Assislant Supervisor George Cava vance that data are available when and grown to such significance that it has be zos, " I assign them to one of the geophys where needed by oil companies desiring to come a fundamenlal part of our business ical technicians who arc responsible for participate in lease sales on the Out er requi1;ng that Western set up data sales de data distribution . They, in turn, pulJ the Continental Shelf or in state waters. Th e partments in Hou slon, Denver, London, and C algary. The spec inventory is divided into seven areas of operation including: 1) Gu lf Coast, 2) West Coast and Alaska M arine, 3) Latin America and the Gulf Coast tran sition zone, 4) onshore Alaska, 5) all mid Con linent, 6) southwest Pacific, th e Phil ippines and the South C hina Sea, and 7) Europe and Africa.

Gulf Coast Data Sales

~atf?I/~ WINTER 1985 1 Alaska Land, supervised by Vice President ing m aterials for land and marine surveys H erman Scmeliss; Wesl Coast and Alaska handled by Worldwide D ata Sales. Mar ine, supervised by V iet: Pn :sident Orval Brcmnan; and Far East, supervised by Vice President C hester Smith. W ith the Canada wide range of areas and the diversity of th e data, this team must be versatile in A strong demand for gas dictated the order to understand where the surveys move of Western Geophysical of Canada are located geographically and how the into the spec-data business, beginning with surveys were acqu ired. the Cana dian sed im entary deep basin . M anager Patri cia Gr eeson talks lo Th e dem and , coupled w ith favorabl e clients daily, upd ating them on all new governmental regulations, gave rise to the su rveys, assisting th em with their selection departm ent in the summ er of 1978. It is

of' available data, and helping them with currently man aged by William Ro ss and any questions or problems they m ay have. Roger H enningsgard. Since 1978, Western " We show a lot of data in our office as well of Canada has acquired spec data in the as in client offices,'' she says. P atricia is plain s, foothills, and far north " mu skeg" assisted by Assistant Supervisor Barbara areas. The acquisition of marine spec data, H azelri g with all land and non-U.S. sur initiated in 1983, includes the Scotian Shelf veys while Gerry Snow helps with West and Beaufort Sea areas. Coa st and Alaska M arine areas. W hilt' Assistant S upervisor Barbara Senior Geophysical Technician Trenton Hazelrig transmits an order received in Worldwide Data Sales, Senior Geophysical Pat Noah (right) manager of the Spec-Data department in D enver, reviews a section with M adden assists Barbara, inputting orders Patricia Greeson, manager of Worldwide Denver Data Sales, spends most of her time showing Tc:chnician Trenton M adden organizes data A ssistant]oAnn Buckridge. on th e comp uter, keeping track of n ew data to clients. requests. su rveys, and handling data-broker re Wh en the oil boom hit D enver, Colo quests while Juni or Geophysical Tech rado in 1980, it brou ght a strong d emand nician D ebbie Schwane checks in the for spec data to which the D enver office new lines and prepares orders for client ...... promptly responded. Pat Noah was pro delivery. °;' moted from office man ager to manager of Sup ervising new m a rine surveys is the D enver-based Spee-D ata departm ent. Gerry Snow, working closely with Aero Prior to that decision , says Pat, the deluge Service in the creation of marine m aps and of questions and phone calls was directed processing for completion of surveys. to Vice Presidents Charles Dick and Orval G erry coord ina tes the produ ction of Brann an, or when they were of out of the marine orders for delivery, with assistance office, referred to Hou ston . from Senior G eophysical Technician Ethel C urrently responsible for the Ro cky Sykes, who keeps detailed listings of the Mount ains, offshore Alaska and West m aps as well as quality checking each Coast , and onshore California, Pat 's re new line received against the base m aps sponsibilities closely parallel those of her for accura cy. Ethel aJso completes orders Hou ston counterpart , Patricia Gree so n , for delivery, working closely with Senior with regard to the offshore data sales. " She G eophysicaJ T echnician Hon g Nguyen , is responsible for the reproduction and who handles a large percentage of m arine shipping of the offshore West Coast and orders. Alaska orders and I am responsible for Department Secretary Dreena Pratt preparing contracts," Pat Noah explains. handles various corresponden ce and ac " It m ay sound confusing to an outsider, counting functions, being responsible for but it works to have her handling the the input of all West Coast and mar ine reproduction since Hou ston has mor e orders. room to store all of our marine data ; and Wa yne Got shall , senior draftsman , A s a senior draftsm an in the Worldwide since Mr. Brannan is based in the D enver office, I hand le the legal end. We both creates all land base map s for each new A 32-year veteran of Western, Bill Hudson Geophysical Technician Bruce Friedman Data Sales department, Wayne Gotshall Spec Department Manager Godfrey Dods survey while spotting new lines in existing currently manages the Gulf Coast Data Sales handles all of the drafting work on orders completes the m aps which summarize worth, with 22 years of experience in ex handle the mark eting of data due to the areas. Wayne's skills are aJso used in put department, the largest of the company's received in H ouston 's Gulf Coast Data Sales Western 's current spec season and are ploration, joined Western 's London staff numb er of clients in both the D enver and ting together brochures and other market- spec-data departments. department. mailed to clients for ordering pwp oses. in 1979. H ouston areas. We are both on-line to the

2 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 3 Alaska Land, supervised by Vice President ing m aterials for land and marine surveys H erman Scmeliss; Wesl Coast and Alaska handled by Worldwide D ata Sales. Mar ine, supervised by V iet: Pn :sident Orval Brcmnan; and Far East, supervised by Vice President C hester Smith. W ith the Canada wide range of areas and the diversity of th e data, this team must be versatile in A strong demand for gas dictated the order to understand where the surveys move of Western Geophysical of Canada are located geographically and how the into the spec-data business, beginning with surveys were acqu ired. the Cana dian sed im entary deep basin . M anager Patri cia Gr eeson talks lo Th e dem and , coupled w ith favorabl e clients daily, upd ating them on all new governmental regulations, gave rise to the su rveys, assisting th em with their selection departm ent in the summ er of 1978. It is

2 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 3 " computer, so we are always aware of what London's geographical responsibilities mcnts and their institutional agencies , both departments arc doing." include Europe, Africa, and the Middle national oil companies, and with local A center poised for todays challenges " Now that we have depaiimentalized," East. According to Dodsworth, the coun clicn ts . " The key to doing spec work," says Pat, " we have two employees who tries Western has been most actively in notes D odsworth , " is acquiring data that handle spec full -time and two that work volved in recently include the U nited the oil companies will find too valuable and with spec in addition to other responsi Kingdom , the Repub lic of Ireland, the affordable to ignore. '' bilities. ' ' Vice President Orval Brannan Netherlands, D enma rk, Norway, and Notes Patricia Greeson, " We arc com This is Houston Digital Center I supervises all the Western marine crews Mozambique. Spec work from the London mitted to these companies to deliver the along th e West Coast and offshore Alaska, office involves visits to the countries before, data to meet their needs. We do whatever all land crews in California, and he is also during, and after the performance of su r is necessary to get the orders out and give responsible for the H ouston and Denver veys as we ll as maintaining professional the clients the service we stand for. " • Spec-Data depaiiments covering those ter relationships with government depart- FFICIENCY. According to the per Profile article) . " Keeping pace with new dition, we maintain a computer ded icated ritories. Pat m anages a small staff of two: sonnel in Houston D igital Center 1 technology, improving our efficiency, and 50 percent of the time to the Computer her assistant, J oAnn Buckridge handles E (HDC I), that's a key word i-o remember being competitive in a rapidly fluctuating Science department's development work." only spec work, and Pam Shanahai1 works in positively con fro nti ng the current market," accordi ng to .Jordan, arc some W hile Western 's aim is to maintain a as a secretary and types aU of the depart challenges of the market. Th ese same of the current challenges for Wes tern as a "stead y stream of contracts and work," ment's spec contracts. employees would also suggest to you that, company and for the approximately 250 another important concern is to "e nsure largely due to the contin ued enthusiasm employees that comprise the HDC I Data that we're using the hardware efficiently London and dedication of quality-conscious West Processin g Operations department. H e and effectively so we can get the most erners, the company is well poised to face adds, " We still must strive to please our amount of work done with the least the competition in seismic exploration. clients with our quality of work and turn amount of computer time," he says. T he Department Manager Godfrey Dods The evolu tion of the first H ouston around time. ' ' "e normous changes" in compu te r hard worth describes the London Spec depart center began around 1967, as \!Veste rn ware and software that M ellette has ob ment as a " cosmopolitan group with relocated its corporate offices from Los served over the past several years have di ve rse bac kgrounds operating as an ef Angeles to H ouston because of the city's Marine Data Processing/HDC I enabled projects involving the newest tech fective team ." T he department's " five proximity to many oil company head nology to be submitted and ru n more and contributors'' include Dodsworth, Kantilal quarters and Gulf Coast operations. By Soule J'v1ellette, a Westerner for 31 years, more efficiently. But, ;:Jso, '' ... the caliber " K anti " R aithatha, Steve P ickeri ng, 1969, the Shrevepoii district office also had has been manager of Marine Data Pro of people doing the work, and supervising Karen Bedford, and Marina M ichael. ~ been relocated in Houston. T he Land and cessing/ HDC I since 1978. He began his the work, contributes greatly to the com '' There are no hard demarkation lines on In 1978. Western Geophysical Compa.nyo {Ca.nada formed a Spec-Data department Special Problems Center (LSPC) emerged career with the company in a field office pany's position of being a leader in the who does what, though we each spend the which, m anaged by R oger H enningsgard (left) and William Ross (right), has since as a sepai·atc department within HDC [ in in Galveston and, except for two brief industry .'' greatest pa.ii ofour time doing those things accumula1ed 111on · than 13,000 m iles ofdata rnrtl w \1Vestem Geophysical account. 1973, and three years later (in 1976) the episodes of onshore work, has been asso Mellette enjoys the personal satisfaction we do best," says Dodsworth. ce nter moved to its present site from the ciated exclusively with the marine side of of being able to interface with the younger former Westpark location. the business at various domestic and in ter processors within the company on a regu Jimmy .Jord aJ1 arrived inj anuary 1970 national locations. lar basis. " Each one of these people is from the Shreveport office to manage data Mellette is responsible for the manage highly qualified and dedicated," he says of processing activities in H ouston and was ment and organization of maime data pro the department's 200 employees, "an d at named vice presiden t of Data Processing cessing activities as well as several HD C I times has to work night hours and week Ope rations in 1978. In this position, he is departments common to both marine and ends to accomplish the goals of a project. '' responsible for directing the operations of land processing (Tape Library, Computer T hree data-processing supervisors are HOC I, as well as H DC II and the Denver, O perations, Playback, and Draft ing and responsible for the work of eight processing Calgary, and Singapore centers. J ordan R eproduction). H e also is responsible for groups in the M arine Data Processin g started out with Western nearly 40 years obtaini ng new data processing contracts depaii ment. T hey di rect the processing, ago, on Party 13 out of Collins, M issis and notes that he spends 25 to 30 percent main tain quality con trol checks, and an sippi. " I have thoroughly enjoyed being in of his time in meetings with clients: ''C lient swer processing questions from employees data processing," he reflects. " The thing contact is a significant part of my job , and and clients. They also visit clients and show I enjoy the most is contact with yo unger I enjoy th at.' ' them new techniques Western is using. people-see ing them develop- and also The Marine Processing department also P rojects are divided among the groups to the association with the cl ients we've supervises the draftin g and printin g re some extent by geographical area but, worked with th ro ugh the years." quirements of HD C II. " We work not primarily, accord ing to client. Typically, K anti R aithatha (left) is the longest-serving Westerner in the As assistant supervisors in Hou ston 's Gulf Coast Data Sales Jordan notes the steady growth years of only for the client oil companies, but also a group consists of an analyst in charge, a London Spec department and Steve Pickering (right) is the .newest departm ents, Teresa Bishop (left) handles spec orders as they are 1977 to 1982 and the addition of HD C II, for the R &D department in som e of their j unior analyst, and four to six geophysical addition , joining the department after working in Wester:n 's received and George Cavazos supervises geophysical technicians the "a nnex," in 1981 (see Spring 1985 testing procedures,'' M ellette says. ''In ad- tech nicians. A ustralian Digital Center and Western Ricerche in l'vfilan, Italy. responsible for production and data distribution to d ients.

WINTER 1985 5 4 WESTERN PROFILE " computer, so we are always aware of what London's geographical responsibilities mcnts and their institutional agencies , both departments arc doing." include Europe, Africa, and the Middle national oil companies, and with local A center poised for todays challenges " Now that we have depaiimentalized," East. According to Dodsworth, the coun clicn ts . " The key to doing spec work," says Pat, " we have two employees who tries Western has been most actively in notes D odsworth , " is acquiring data that handle spec full -time and two that work volved in recently include the U nited the oil companies will find too valuable and with spec in addition to other responsi Kingdom , the Repub lic of Ireland, the affordable to ignore. '' bilities. ' ' Vice President Orval Brannan Netherlands, D enma rk, Norway, and Notes Patricia Greeson, " We arc com This is Houston Digital Center I supervises all the Western marine crews Mozambique. Spec work from the London mitted to these companies to deliver the along th e West Coast and offshore Alaska, office involves visits to the countries before, data to meet their needs. We do whatever all land crews in California, and he is also during, and after the performance of su r is necessary to get the orders out and give responsible for the H ouston and Denver veys as we ll as maintaining professional the clients the service we stand for. " • Spec-Data depaiiments covering those ter relationships with government depart- FFICIENCY. According to the per Profile article) . " Keeping pace with new dition, we maintain a computer ded icated ritories. Pat m anages a small staff of two: sonnel in Houston D igital Center 1 technology, improving our efficiency, and 50 percent of the time to the Computer her assistant, J oAnn Buckridge handles E (HDC I), that's a key word i-o remember being competitive in a rapidly fluctuating Science department's development work." only spec work, and Pam Shanahai1 works in positively con fro nti ng the current market," accordi ng to .Jordan, arc some W hile Western 's aim is to maintain a as a secretary and types aU of the depart challenges of the market. Th ese same of the current challenges for Wes tern as a "stead y stream of contracts and work," ment's spec contracts. employees would also suggest to you that, company and for the approximately 250 another important concern is to "e nsure largely due to the contin ued enthusiasm employees that comprise the HDC I Data that we're using the hardware efficiently London and dedication of quality-conscious West Processin g Operations department. H e and effectively so we can get the most erners, the company is well poised to face adds, " We still must strive to please our amount of work done with the least the competition in seismic exploration. clients with our quality of work and turn amount of computer time," he says. T he Department Manager Godfrey Dods The evolu tion of the first H ouston around time. ' ' "e normous changes" in compu te r hard worth describes the London Spec depart center began around 1967, as \!Veste rn ware and software that M ellette has ob ment as a " cosmopolitan group with relocated its corporate offices from Los served over the past several years have di ve rse bac kgrounds operating as an ef Angeles to H ouston because of the city's Marine Data Processing/HDC I enabled projects involving the newest tech fective team ." T he department's " five proximity to many oil company head nology to be submitted and ru n more and contributors'' include Dodsworth, Kantilal quarters and Gulf Coast operations. By Soule J'v1ellette, a Westerner for 31 years, more efficiently. But, ;:Jso, '' ... the caliber " K anti " R aithatha, Steve P ickeri ng, 1969, the Shrevepoii district office also had has been manager of Marine Data Pro of people doing the work, and supervising Karen Bedford, and Marina M ichael. ~ been relocated in Houston. T he Land and cessing/ HDC I since 1978. He began his the work, contributes greatly to the com '' There are no hard demarkation lines on In 1978. Western Geophysical Compa.nyo {Ca.nada formed a Spec-Data department Special Problems Center (LSPC) emerged career with the company in a field office pany's position of being a leader in the who does what, though we each spend the which, m anaged by R oger H enningsgard (left) and William Ross (right), has since as a sepai·atc department within HDC [ in in Galveston and, except for two brief industry .'' greatest pa.ii ofour time doing those things accumula1ed 111on · than 13,000 m iles ofdata rnrtl w \1Vestem Geophysical account. 1973, and three years later (in 1976) the episodes of onshore work, has been asso Mellette enjoys the personal satisfaction we do best," says Dodsworth. ce nter moved to its present site from the ciated exclusively with the marine side of of being able to interface with the younger former Westpark location. the business at various domestic and in ter processors within the company on a regu Jimmy .Jord aJ1 arrived inj anuary 1970 national locations. lar basis. " Each one of these people is from the Shreveport office to manage data Mellette is responsible for the manage highly qualified and dedicated," he says of processing activities in H ouston and was ment and organization of maime data pro the department's 200 employees, "an d at named vice presiden t of Data Processing cessing activities as well as several HD C I times has to work night hours and week Ope rations in 1978. In this position, he is departments common to both marine and ends to accomplish the goals of a project. '' responsible for directing the operations of land processing (Tape Library, Computer T hree data-processing supervisors are HOC I, as well as H DC II and the Denver, O perations, Playback, and Draft ing and responsible for the work of eight processing Calgary, and Singapore centers. J ordan R eproduction). H e also is responsible for groups in the M arine Data Processin g started out with Western nearly 40 years obtaini ng new data processing contracts depaii ment. T hey di rect the processing, ago, on Party 13 out of Collins, M issis and notes that he spends 25 to 30 percent main tain quality con trol checks, and an sippi. " I have thoroughly enjoyed being in of his time in meetings with clients: ''C lient swer processing questions from employees data processing," he reflects. " The thing contact is a significant part of my job , and and clients. They also visit clients and show I enjoy the most is contact with yo unger I enjoy th at.' ' them new techniques Western is using. people-see ing them develop- and also The Marine Processing department also P rojects are divided among the groups to the association with the cl ients we've supervises the draftin g and printin g re some extent by geographical area but, worked with th ro ugh the years." quirements of HD C II. " We work not primarily, accord ing to client. Typically, K anti R aithatha (left) is the longest-serving Westerner in the As assistant supervisors in Hou ston 's Gulf Coast Data Sales Jordan notes the steady growth years of only for the client oil companies, but also a group consists of an analyst in charge, a London Spec department and Steve Pickering (right) is the .newest departm ents, Teresa Bishop (left) handles spec orders as they are 1977 to 1982 and the addition of HD C II, for the R &D department in som e of their j unior analyst, and four to six geophysical addition , joining the department after working in Wester:n 's received and George Cavazos supervises geophysical technicians the "a nnex," in 1981 (see Spring 1985 testing procedures,'' M ellette says. ''In ad- tech nicians. A ustralian Digital Center and Western Ricerche in l'vfilan, Italy. responsible for production and data distribution to d ients.

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...... i""""-..:;;..... ~ ...... Annie Washburn has worked as Alarine Data Processing department secretary for three years . . \s HDC l ,iccountant, 17 _1·1·;11 \ \ (·stcnwr .. H;u1k.Joncs' rrs1xmsibilities include sulm1i11in,1; Sa.1·s \'ice President.Jimmyjorclan, ha1·e \\'ith \\( ·stem liir ncar/_1 12 _1mr'>, l.1ru/on cha1gcs for processing work w the Billing "I t.hmvughly c1y.oycd being in data processing. '' Findlc.1· SUfX'ITisc.~hind proccssin!f f.irc>ups. clcp;utmcnt and handling the accounting 1rnrk associ;itcd with the centf'r's machines. gani zed to ensure next-day delivery to southwest U .S. locations. ations, keeps the computers operatin g 24 Bill Machachek, a 16-year Westerner, hours a day, seven days a week, with the supervises the scheduling, work flow, and .John Gillooly, the third marine data aid of his 47 employees. Clark, who inter person nel in the Playback department. processing supervi sor, says it 's important faces with nearly every department of the With 20 employees working three shifts a now lo use both one's expertise and per company (especialJy Computer Systems), day, the department uses six film plotters, sonality in client presentations involving is responsible for ensuring that alJ the jobs two electrostatic plotters, and two color After th e marine field tapes have been data processing results. H e says he receives processed on the computers of HDC I arc plotters to transform completed computer received , the analyst guides the processing a' ·Jot of satisfaction " from his job, though run to completion. H e also sets priorities tapes from land and marine processing of the data through a series of steps that his work is not for everyone: '' I th ink you for alJ these jobs, with guidance from the groups into either film sections or elec include editing, deconvolution (a process have to like the pace and the type ofjob. " marine and land processing managers, trostatic paper plots according to the needs Lo restore and improve the resolution of He adds, '' We've got good people here. and troubleshoots any problems that may of the analysts and clients. reflected events), velocity analysis with the T he three analysts I have are exce!Jent. '' occur with the computers. An IBM-3090 Carl Scott, Playback instruments super Velocity department, and afterstack pro Ma rine-processing analysts coordinate and two large-scale TBM-3081 systems visor, is responsible for the day-to-day in velocity analysis with J ohn Swearin gen , handle the production work and support operation, repair, and general mainten Soule i\lcllettc m;uwgcs marine claw process cess g and migration , including checking manager of the Velocity department. over 600 terminals both inside and outside ance of the equipment in HDC I as we!J as infi acti1·itics and HDC I dcp.inmcms. of' the completed seismi c sections. The anal yst determines what types of param Velocity information is interpreted from the main building. During the day, one of other centers. H e and Machachek also eter choices must be made based on tests sets of seismic data and sent back to the the 3081 's is devoted to time-sharing oper share dulies. " We feel like we have the best and specific client requests, and every effort processing groups for incorporation in to ation (TSO) and the 3090 and th e other group of people we've ever had," says is made to meet client schedules . " It's not programs to correct the data to fit certain 3081 to production; at night, alJ th ree are Machachek of his department. '' They' re unusual for analysts to work many week patterns of continuity. devoted to production. quality-conscious.'' ends and nights to get jobs out," says Each of Swearingen 's employees is a Mike Banik manages the Tape Library The last stage of seism ic data prepara Larry Cain , data processing supervisor. trained geologist who is able lo recognize, complex which consists of personnel in tion takes place in the Drafting and Re Jud y Adams, another data-processing for example, sands, shal es, and limestones shipping/receiving and tape storage, an production department. Sybil Kerry , a supervisor, says that a major volume of the through velocity analysis. "O ur work is active library, office staff to maintain paper 20-year Westerner and manager of the work is in the area of 3-D processin g, from all over the world. We have to be work, and a fu!J-time data entry person to department , and Sheila Smith, depart including some 3-D DIGISEIS® System familiar with alJ of the geology in order to enter transactions associated with the ment supervisor, oversee the final steps, wo rk . She adds that a great deal of client interpret this information ... . Seismic data tapes. The Library has the current capa which include preparation of quality in terest now exists in the dip-moveout have to fit some kind of geological concept," city to house 175,000 tapes, with the flex control prints, splicing, marine and land process (or partial prestack mi gration) and says Swearingen. H e explains that velocity ibility to double that capacity if necessary. drafting, quality control, reproduction notes that this process is commonly refen-ed analysis is an abstract field requiring ''a lot Three shifts of Tape Library employees (preparation of reduced prints), and client to as DMO , its Western Geoph ysical of experience and intuition." But he adds handle alJ the tapes coming into HDC I distribution. Drafting and Reproduction coined name, even by people outside th e that over the past several years there has (marine and land processing, R&D, West works with both film panels and 3-D seis ")'Ou get a chance to Imm a lot, "says /\.fa.rinc company. " There's something brewing aJJ been a 200 to 300 percent change in pro ern spec, and client reels), including ship mic data in the form of 35 mm movie films. Data Processing Supcl"l'isorjudy Ac lams. th e time!" says Adams of her job. " You cessing lechniques, resulting in " more ping output tapes to clients and other get a chance to learn a lot. .. . C lient con tact fine-tuning of the data," which in part, centers. " We try to save time by expe helps you keep up with what's going on in yields more precise velocity information. ditin g the completed work to clients,'' says DIGISE IS is a registered trademark of T erra the industry." Don Clark, manager of computer oper- Banik, explaining that the Library is or- Marine Engineering, Inc.

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8 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 9 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Presenting a challenge to Party 335

Chris Baker, Reporter Chris Baker and Rob Oliver, Photographers

T)AR TY 335 has been operating in the Unlike most prospects in the Emirates, Surveyor Paul Milsted. Working with Paul who usually work in the Veribo Lab, but is Steve White. Steve joined Western as a r United Arab Emirates for over eight this one is not confined to the desert, and are surveyors Mohammed Saad, Cliff also keeps a close watch on the recorder mechanic and has since swung onto the years. Starting as a drill crew, 335 was con includes an industrial area outside the town Glenn, Merle Elenga, Rich Fields, and where observers Jim Lyon, Leroy Kerns, recording crew. Party 335's recording verted to vibrators in 1978. In early 1984 it of Abu Dhabi. Consequently, a normal John Milner. and] unior Observer Ralph Halden keep crew serves as "training ground" for ob became a 480-channel, 3-D vibrator crew 3-D operation is complicated by highways, H eading the experienced crew of 3-D the tapes moving.Junior Observ~rMark servers learning about 3-D operations. and presently is working in the Emirate of towns, factories, storage compounds, and observers is Instrument Supervisor Rob T hompson supervises local hires Rob While observers are busy on line, me Abu Dhabi on what is reputed to be the a sewerage farm. These obstacles are first Buno. Not only does he supervise ob Oliver, MarkJames, and Brad Warren in chanics Dean Rohe, Keith Olsen, and Western vibrators work a line in the desert world's largest onshore 3-D project. negotiated by the survey crew, led by Chief servers Chris Henley and Pat Breker, troubleshooting the line. Assisting Mark Memencio Perez are supervised by Chief ofthe U.A.E . Mechanic Francesco (Chico) Merlino. (Daoud) Khan, the uphole work is much Geophysicist Deen Maricar and Resident .. Recent construction of a special Sebka the same as any other operation. The up Manager Roy Peck. They are assisted Buggy, based on a Toyota pickup, was hole records are processed in camp by by administrators Mike Nye and Dave initiated by the mechanics for use by the geophysicists Nat Breeding and Steve Arndt, while Secretary Jean Murphy observers in the soft Sebka areas of the Cook. Steve also relieves Party Manager watches the front desk. Babu, Bassam, and prospect. Chris Baker for breaks. Majed keep track of labor records and Equally busy is the vibrator crew, com Since the arrival of Thai and Tunisian liaison with the local authorities. posed of vibrator mechanics Greg (Red) laborers, the number of different national Now that the advantages of 3-D tech Raburn, Paul Perry, and Ken Lewis. ities on the crew has now reached 14. Our niques are being appreciated by prospec Together with Mechanic Steve Ham multinational camp is supervised by Camp tive clients, our experienced crew is antic mond, they have just completed repainting Boss Kalam, who has been with the crew ipating more of thcise challenging prospects and refurbishing the crews' 12 vibrators. since it began. In town, operations are and expects more Dlople to come to us for Troubleshooting-for obstades that can complicate a normal 3-D Taking a meal break, Driller Mertah Hamd smiles "a mouthful" For drillers, Mertah Hamd and Sardar directed by Field Supervisor Dave Munro, training .• operation is often the job ofSwveyor ClifTGlenn. for the camera.

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Local scenery indudes numerous camels sta tioned around a mosque outside the village of Bani Yas . M echanics Paul Perry (left) and Steve Hammond (right) prepare to direct vibrator traflic through town. ,... Mechanic Francesco (Chico) Merlino. (Daoud) Khan, the uphole work is much Geophysicist Deen Maricar and Resident .. Recent construction of a special Sebka the same as any other operation. The up Manager Roy Peck. They are assisted Buggy, based on a Toyota pickup, was hole records are processed in camp by by administrators Mike Nye and Dave initiated by the mechanics for use by the geophysicists Nat Breeding and Steve Arndt, while Secretary Jean Murphy observers in the soft Sebka areas of the Cook. Steve also relieves Party Manager watches the front desk. Babu, Bassam, and prospect. Chris Baker for breaks. Majed keep track of labor records and Equally busy is the vibrator crew, com Since the arrival of Thai and Tunisian liaison with the local authorities. posed of vibrator mechanics Greg (Red) laborers, the number of different national Now that the advantages of 3-D tech Raburn, Paul Perry, and Ken Lewis. ities on the crew has now reached 14. Our niques are being appreciated by prospec Together with Mechanic Steve Ham multinational camp is supervised by Camp tive clients, our experienced crew is antic mond, they have just completed repainting Boss Kalam, who has been with the crew ipating more of thcise challenging prospects and refurbishing the crews' 12 vibrators. since it began. In town, operations are and expects more Dlople to come to us for Troubleshooting-for obstades that can complicate a normal 3-D Taking a meal break, Driller Mertah Hamd smiles "a mouthful" For drillers, Mertah Hamd and Sardar directed by Field Supervisor Dave Munro, training .• operation is often the job ofSwveyor ClifTGlenn. for the camera.

Local scenery indudes numerous camels sta tioned around a mosque outside the village of Bani Yas . M echanics Paul Perry (left) and Steve Hammond (right) prepare to direct vibrator traflic through town. ,... HARING THE LIMELIGHT with Linda Elliott. Companies outfitted with Sales Manager Pat Noah handled inquiries surveys, as well as the LRS-16 KILOSEIS" Specs: Example of Shot Noise From Other (Darrell Connelly and Doug H art). SLitton Resour ces Systems, Aero IBM or DEC VAX systems can now be on these areas and followed up on requests Marine DigitaJ Telemetry System for inde Crews" (Mark Doyle, Walt Lynn, Richard Copies of technical papers and bro Service, and Downhole Seismic Service, equipped with CRYSTAL System work for additional information. pendent recording of up to 480 channels of Mar schall , and Ken Larner), Th e Gen chures presented at the SEG co nvention Western Geophysical Company displayed stations. The MicroVAX II also allows Western also displayed different aspects seismic data at 1 mscc sampling intervals. eralized Primary and the O 'Doherty or during the year arc available through its industry leadership at the 1985 Society for easier workstation setup, making it of land and marine data acquisition, Western Research personnel presented Anstey Formula" QcffR esnick), "A irgun the Marketing Services department of of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) meet more compact. shallow-water acquisition, data processing, talks on a vaiiety of topics: "A Demonstra Source lnstabil ities and Shot-by-Shot Western Geophysical. ing in Washington, D.C. , O ctober 6-10. Also popular at the SEG was Western ' s and interpretation. Included were posters tion of Long-Period Multiple Attenuation Signature Deconvolution" (Bill Dragoset, Special thanks to the Marketing Ser Western featured a demonstration of spec data display featuring coverage from on Dip Moveout (DMO) processing, re by Wave Extrapolation'' (Wende!J Wig Neil Hargreaves, ai1d Ken Larner), "3-D vices department for its long hours spent the V AXNMS operating system of the many areas such as Southeast United fraction statics, suppression of interfering gins), " Prestack Layer R eplacement" (Oz Seismic Lithologic Modeling to Delineate on convention preparation and to all CRYSTAL®Interactiv e Graphics System. States, Gulf Coast, Offshore Egyptian crew noise, VSP processing, and Seismic Yilmaz and Darran Lucas), " Cascaded Rapidly Changing R eservoir Facies: Case Westerners who contributed to the con 1 Viewing the MicroVAX II equipment for Western Desert, Mid-Continental U.S ., Lithologic Modeling (SLIMTh) . Once Migrations: A Way of Improving th e History from Alberta, Canada " (VaJery vention's success .• the first time, delegates commented favor Europe, Alaska Land, West Coast and again this year, posters depicted use of the Accuracy of Finite-Difference Time Mi Gelfand , Gary Taylor, Jon Tessman , and ably on the system's advanced improve Alaska marine, Gulf Coast Transition DIGISEIS®-200 RF Digital Data Acqui gration'' (Ken Lai11er and Craig Beasley), Ken Larner), " Model-Based Wavelet ments, says Customer Support Manager one, and Northwest Europe. Spec Data sition System for shallow-water and coastal " A Discussion of Seismic Acquisition Processing of Deconvolved Seismic Data''

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SEG Honorary Membership Citation for Booth B. Strange

40 years in both efficiency and technical prowess of seismic exploration. '' In the early 1950s, Booth pioneered the turnkey bidding process wh ich involves bidding marine jobs on a per-mile basis in stead of a monthly rate. According to Savit, "this suggestion revolutionized the indus try because it made it possible to operate with higher quality personnel and equip ment instead of lowest-cost operations. '' Booth also introduced the idea of gathering speculative data to the industry, resulting in investments in research and development to back up the " spec" data. After he became president in 1965, his in sight led him to move the compa11y's head Booth B. Strange, past president and quarters from Los Angeles to Houston in past chairman of the board of Western order to develop Western as a leader in a Geophysical, was presented an SEG Hon '' high oil activity'' area. orary Membership Award at the 1985 Throughout his career, Booth demon SEG convention in Washington, D.C . strated natural talents and technical abil The award was given to Booth in recog ity. After his retirement from Western nition of his " distinguished contributions Geophysical in 1984, he fonned Booth B . to exploration geophysics. " Strange Interests, a consuJting and invest During his 48-year career with Western ment business. Geophysical, Booth made a series of con Booth "e ncouraged and facilitated ac tributions. According to Senior Vice Pres tive participation in SEG by Western em ident Carl Savit, ' 'The changes pioneered ployees,'' says Savit. Westerners wish to CRYSTAL is a registered trademark and service SLIM is a trademark and se1v ice mark of Western KILOSEIS is a registered trademark of Western by Booth B. Strange have contributed in congratulate Booth on his contributions to mark of Western Geophysical Company of' America. Geophysical Company of America. Geophysical Company of America. a fundamental way to the vast improve the industry and on his richly deserved ments that we have experienced in the past award .•

14 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 15 HARING THE LIMELIGHT with Linda Elliott. Companies outfitted with Sales Manager Pat Noah handled inquiries surveys, as well as the LRS-16 KILOSEIS" Specs: Example of Shot Noise From Other (Darrell Connelly and Doug H art). SLitton Resour ces Systems, Aero IBM or DEC VAX systems can now be on these areas and followed up on requests Marine DigitaJ Telemetry System for inde Crews" (Mark Doyle, Walt Lynn, Richard Copies of technical papers and bro Service, and Downhole Seismic Service, equipped with CRYSTAL System work for additional information. pendent recording of up to 480 channels of Mar schall , and Ken Larner), Th e Gen chures presented at the SEG co nvention Western Geophysical Company displayed stations. The MicroVAX II also allows Western also displayed different aspects seismic data at 1 mscc sampling intervals. eralized Primary and the O 'Doherty or during the year arc available through its industry leadership at the 1985 Society for easier workstation setup, making it of land and marine data acquisition, Western Research personnel presented Anstey Formula" QcffR esnick), "A irgun the Marketing Services department of of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) meet more compact. shallow-water acquisition, data processing, talks on a vaiiety of topics: "A Demonstra Source lnstabil ities and Shot-by-Shot Western Geophysical. ing in Washington, D.C. , O ctober 6-10. Also popular at the SEG was Western ' s and interpretation. Included were posters tion of Long-Period Multiple Attenuation Signature Deconvolution" (Bill Dragoset, Special thanks to the Marketing Ser Western featured a demonstration of spec data display featuring coverage from on Dip Moveout (DMO) processing, re by Wave Extrapolation'' (Wende!J Wig Neil Hargreaves, ai1d Ken Larner), "3-D vices department for its long hours spent the V AXNMS operating system of the many areas such as Southeast United fraction statics, suppression of interfering gins), " Prestack Layer R eplacement" (Oz Seismic Lithologic Modeling to Delineate on convention preparation and to all CRYSTAL®Interactiv e Graphics System. States, Gulf Coast, Offshore Egyptian crew noise, VSP processing, and Seismic Yilmaz and Darran Lucas), " Cascaded Rapidly Changing R eservoir Facies: Case Westerners who contributed to the con 1 Viewing the MicroVAX II equipment for Western Desert, Mid-Continental U.S ., Lithologic Modeling (SLIMTh) . Once Migrations: A Way of Improving th e History from Alberta, Canada " (VaJery vention's success .• the first time, delegates commented favor Europe, Alaska Land, West Coast and again this year, posters depicted use of the Accuracy of Finite-Difference Time Mi Gelfand , Gary Taylor, Jon Tessman , and ably on the system's advanced improve Alaska marine, Gulf Coast Transition DIGISEIS®-200 RF Digital Data Acqui gration'' (Ken Lai11er and Craig Beasley), Ken Larner), " Model-Based Wavelet ments, says Customer Support Manager one, and Northwest Europe. Spec Data sition System for shallow-water and coastal " A Discussion of Seismic Acquisition Processing of Deconvolved Seismic Data''

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2-D .and 3-D Case 1-listork~~ se ismic data. If accurately derived , the fl pl su1face-seismic surveys and geological data used with exible user co ntrol of dis ay in defining sedimentary sources detected shore exploration prospects. This brochure refraction-derived static corrections (or re derived from well logs and core anal ysis. format and annotation. High-resolution in high-sensitivity acromagnetic data. outlines Aero's advanced processin g and fraction statics) can measurably contribute This fold er describes the role of VSPs in color and black-and-white plots may be Subtle, low-amplitude magnetic anomalies integrated interpretation capabilities in to the solution of both short- and long -- lJaWuttrnGeophysical ____ _ obtaining useful borehole information, as produced on film or paper. associated with sedimentary sources are this area. wavelength static problems. Th e R efrac well as Western 's interactive VSP capa not apparent in normal contour map tion Statics brochure focuses on the EGRM presentations. Seismic Lithologic Modeling: 2-D and bilities. Included are inscr1s on offset VSPs . ~ .; ~1tT; \ New facets in approach for estimating static corrections, ---:;-~.-I.I.imeractive explora tion 3-D Case Histories. Seismic Lithologic (for im aging structural and stratigraphic showin g application of thi s technique to M odeling (SLIM ) is a computer process detail away from the borehole), zero-offset three representative data problems. for detailed lithologic interpretation of VSP processing (for providing important seismic data. This brochure describes this in formation along and beneath the bore process in which parameters of an inter hole), and salt-proximity surveys. preter's initial hypothesis (input model) are systematically perturbed to improve progressively the fit between migrated field data and synthetic data obtained on the basis of the perturbed model.

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recovered and studied , and in important This information from the well allows the drilling at this time usually leads to a EVERAL WESTERNERS HAVE the earth's surface is a likely place to search rocks can be made by anal yzi ng the velo portions of the sedimentary sequence, explorationist to calibrate the seismic data scramble by the oil companies to acquire Srequested more detailed information for hydrocarbons can come from aeromag city information obtained from the pro complete cores ar e cut. This information at this one location. ac reage in the region with hope of re on Western activity aside from the tradi netic surveys, which measure the variation cessing of the seismic data. from th e borehole allows such studies as A re-interpretation of existing and new peating this early success. Two recent tional recording and processing of data. In in the magnetic field of the earth. Variation (3) The environment of deposition can be biostratigraphy, geochemistry , and scdi data is undertaken to see if the knowledge examples of tliis rush for acreage have been response to these inquiries, PROFILE will in the magnetic field gives , among other estimated by examining the general shape mentology to determine the sediment's age gained at this borehole can be transferred the far-offshore Green Canyon drilling in publish a series of articl es featuring some things, the extent and possible th ickness of of the seismic reflection packages. This and temperature history at this particular to other portions of the basin. H ow th is the Gulf of M exico and the Ll anos Basin of these specialized areas as well as activities the sedimentary rocks in an area where oil stage of the interpretation is so mewhat location in th e ground . extrapolation occurs wilJ be covered in discoveries in Colombia. of our affiliate companies (Aero Service, is typically found. speculative because there are no wells to Valu able information is also obtain ed later articles. At thi s stage of the evaluation of the Core Laboratories, Litton R esources Sys These surveys are linked with the study provide precise calibration control. for the well on the thickness and quality of The objective of this re-evaluation of basin or region, tl1e success of the company tems, Petrophysical Services, Inc., Nolen & of the rocks exposed on the ground and reservoirs for containing hydrocarbons, as the seismic and well data is the identifica is directly proportional to tl1e ability, imag Associates, Downhole Seismic Services), together they enable the geologist to esti The next phase in the evaluation of an well as the source rock richness and abun tion of other drillin g locations to continue ination, and technology of the team of operating jointly or independently. m ate the type of rocks which might be area involves directly gathering informa dance for generation of the hydrocarbons. the exploration of the basin. Success in explorationists interpreting the data. Th e first article of the series di scusses buried in the area, as well as the likely tion below the surface by drilling. The first various aspects of in teq)retation including thickness of the rocks. wells to be drilled in a11y area are usually a limited amount of primary background Another clue that the geologist looks for drilJed as much to gain information as to information to assist the reader in com in the outcrop rocks is the surface exposure search for hydrocarbons. The well drilled prehending th e process. of oil and gas. These surface exposures can primarily for information in a basin is Geochemistry. The study of thc distribu Reservoir. Any porous and permeable come in the form of oil seeps, lakes of tar called a stratigraphic test. Definitions tion and aniounts of the chemical elements rock that yields oil or gas. Sandstone and and bitumen, and gas seeps. Man has used It is common for oil companies in th e in minerals, ores, rocks, soils, and water. broken limestone are the most common these seeps for light and heat for centuries. early phases of exploration to share the cost The following basic tenns are frcq ucntJy reservoirs. In many cases, the surface seeps are of a seismic survey or potential field survey. Interpretation used by geophysical and geological in ter Interactive Interpretation. The use of a directly linked to the underground deposits It is less common for the companies to preters. Th is list is by no means exhaustive graphics workstation (such as Wcstcrn's Sedimentology. The study of scdimentaiy of oiJ or gas. Fractures, faults, and dipping share the cost of th e first weU or •vells, Objectives and readers arc encouraged to refer to CRYSTAL® System) tl1at responds to and rocks and the processes by which th ey were beds are the usual mechanisms that bring except in ve1y high cost areas such as the technical dictionaries for other definitions. displays tl1e results of real-time interpreta formed. T he objective of an interpretation of an such hydrocarbons to the surface. Beaufort Sea, as th e knowledge gained tion of a 3-dimensional or 2-dimensional exploration data set is to evaluate the sub Once an area merits further investiga gives a clear exploration advantage to the Acoustic Impedance. Th e product of data set. Stratigraphy. The science of rock strata, su rface geology of a region. tion, it is necessaiy to acquire data that will company with the weU data. velocity of sound multiplied by density of usually the study of the original succession This can be for a combination of rea give more detailed information regarding After the drilling of the fast well, or wells the medium . Lithology. The description of rocks on the and age of rocks, and their composition, sons. Is a tract of land worth spending tl1e thickness and type of subsurface rocks. in an area, th e exploration activity either basis of color, mineralogical composition, fossil content , and geophysical and geo corporate funds to acquire? Once one or TypicaJJy, seismic surveys are conducted increases dramatically or slows down de Basin Study. An evaluation of all avaiJ and grain size. chemical properties. more oil or gas wells have been driJled, along with surface gravity and magnetics. pending on the information gained from able geophysical, geological, and geochem does the field need to be more carefully T hese data must now be integrated with the wells. In a1Jcases, a re-evaluation of the ical infonnation to derive the hydrocarbon Lithostratigraphy. Stratigraphy based on Structure. The shapes and relative ar delineated as to size, shape, etc. , in order the surface geology and aeromagnetic seismic and potential-fields data takes place, potential of the basin. the lithology of rock layers. rangement of rock layers in a region. to ensure more efficient production? In this data. This level of the interpretation will often with new surveys being acquired. latter case, the data sets are often extensive enable the explorationist lo accomplish Now the complex ity of the interpreta Biostratigraphy. Stratigraphy based on Petrology. A branch of geology deali ng Structure Map. A map compiled from and of many different types. several objectives: tion increases considerably. In the well, a the separation and differentiation of rock with the origin, occurrence, structure, and seismic data and well data at a selected level Let us look in a little more detail at some se ries of " logs" are run to measure phys (1) The subsmface shape of rock layers in units on the basis of fossils they contain . history of rocks. within the sedimentary section. of the various objectives of an interpreta ical properties of the rocks such as seismic the basin can be mapped to see if potential tion and see how these evaluations are velocity, density, conductivity, radioac hydrocarbon traps exist. carried out. tivity count, and electrical potential. Some early indications that an area of (2) Early estimates of the lithology of these AJso, the rock cuttings from the drill are

21 20 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 Interpretation of Geophysical and Geological Data

John Sherwood , R eporter

21 20 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 Typical Stratigraphic Column Hh ydrocarbo ns have been located, it is to improve the resolution of subtle a nd basin. Vve have traced the development of essential to know which rocks generated complex geologic features. T his resolution the analysis from the first early reconnrtis Showing relationship .between them in particula r locations, ;rnd at what improvemen t leads directly to better ex sance to the detailed 1-D interpretation biostratigraphy , sedimentology, point in geologic time. Also, the explora trapolation or the phys ical µammeter s th at allows development wells to be drilled and geophysics. tionist must establish which arc hi s reser associated with the hydroGu·bon discovery and platforms to be set in the right location voir un its a nd in what environment were away from the borehole. In complex situa for produ ct ion of thl'. discovered oil and GR * Resistivity Age in Seismic tions, the 3-D interpre tation may indicate gas. In subsequent articles, we will look in Series Stage Lithology they deposited. Reflections T his information enables the explora new locations to dr ill. more detail at the various interpreta tion Myt tionist to locate the sam e reservoir at new In th is article we have seen how the techniques such as th e structur al evalua points in the basin . Under sta nd in g the explorationist uses interpreLive techniques tion, the stratigraphic evalu ation, and th e P liocene Tertiary 6000 ' Sands /with interdisciplin ary basin stud y .• Lower mechanics of the trap in which the hydro to evaluate a basin or a small piece of a lnterbedded Shales Undiff. Paleo cene carbons were found is also important so that simila r traps may be identified. Imp ortant also is the timin g or the

developm ent of the trap in relation to the OJ i::::g I - -- Low<•l•nd matur ity time a nd subsequent movement OJ of the hydrocarbon . OJ D ani.an ln a later article, integrating these com - . .. ···- ponents into a full basin study will be discussed in deta il. ~ 65 I Ma astr ichtian 111 1.- ~ ~ Ch•ll / L ' • • 0 < un 0>to 3-D Seismic ~~ '"

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Th e interpretation of seismic data a nd Santonian c . 78 well data plays a key role in th e develop ment of a field , or series of discove1y wells. un 1acian Th e 3-D survey falls in this realm of de ~I 82 velopment , and is particularly important A 3-D cube of seismic data is displayed on Western 's CRYSTAL System. where the subsurface is comp lex beca use ~~• Apt"• !W 86 of folding, fau lting, and other distorting effects. Th e 2-D data are usually inade ...... ,, ~Ui:: I "'"''";'" I I==!I A"""''""' L. :fJ - quate for resolving the full potential of the l~} """'""' ~- acreage. From the st;mdp oint of the inter I i21 I pretation, the 3-D survey generates a large .,.___ quantity of data from closel y spaced lines. In 3-D , the data mu st be thought or as a volum e of data over the prospect area. T he use of an interactive grap hics sys tem such as the Western G eophysical CRYSTAL System is essential in the evaluation of these volum es of data. Th e power of the computer is put to work in the interactive interpretation in a way that was not possible in the early stages of the eval uation of an a rea. The explorationist is able to view the data in m any d ifferent ways a nd directly Carboniferous Ca rbonaceou s San d s/Coa l extract seismic parameters such as amp li "'Gamma Rays tude and freq uency from the data volume. t Millions of years Th e objective of th is 3-D interpretation is A single line of data is shown using interacti\le display techniques.

WINTER 1985 22 WESTERN PROFILE 2.3 Typical Stratigraphic Column Hh ydrocarbo ns have been located, it is to improve the resolution of subtle a nd basin. Vve have traced the development of essential to know which rocks generated complex geologic features. T his resolution the analysis from the first early reconnrtis Showing relationship .between them in particula r locations, ;rnd at what improvemen t leads directly to better ex sance to the detailed 1-D interpretation biostratigraphy , sedimentology, point in geologic time. Also, the explora trapolation or the phys ical µammeter s th at allows development wells to be drilled and geophysics. tionist must establish which arc hi s reser associated with the hydroGu·bon discovery and platforms to be set in the right location voir un its a nd in what environment were away from the borehole. In complex situa for produ ct ion of thl'. discovered oil and GR * Resistivity Age in Seismic tions, the 3-D interpre tation may indicate gas. In subsequent articles, we will look in Series Stage Lithology they deposited. Reflections T his information enables the explora new locations to dr ill. more detail at the various interpreta tion Myt tionist to locate the sam e reservoir at new In th is article we have seen how the techniques such as th e structur al evalua points in the basin . Under sta nd in g the explorationist uses interpreLive techniques tion, the stratigraphic evalu ation, and th e P liocene Tertiary 6000 ' Sands /with interdisciplin ary basin stud y .• Lower mechanics of the trap in which the hydro to evaluate a basin or a small piece of a lnterbedded Shales Undiff. Paleo cene carbons were found is also important so that simila r traps may be identified. Imp ortant also is the timin g or the

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WINTER 1985 22 WESTERN PROFILE 2.3 1 fi~l~ffirrrmd~I~~~mrrrm~ ,.

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junior Observer Chris Holloway ch;mges tapes, watches cable. keeps records, and is responsible for data acquisition on board the Western Shore. (Photo by Gerry Turk) \Vorking in Western 's Payroll departJTJencfor 11 years, Supervisor Reggie Martin confinns an employee ·s longevity status.

As secreta1y for the Marketing Services department in Houston, Milly Svoboda is primarily responsible for scheduling advertising, organizing and mailing all company Coordinator Gaiy Hai·tquist, pictured in brochures, and assisting with all convention preparations the shooting shack, recently transferred for the Litton R esources Group. from the Western Harbo r to the Western Inlet.

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Jose Barmudas, cook for Party 347 in Colombia, poses with " Lora " perched on Standing on a " paint raft" for the Western Viking II is his shoulder. Party M anager Pete Christison. (Photo by Richard Llewellyn) 25 24 WESTERN PROFILE ~ Since 1982, Jvlark Wilson has produced all of the typeset copy for the PROFILE, brochures, ads, and Field Supervisor Bob J ensen is pictured in the field oilice of Party -----729 near graphics generated in the M arketing Services department. t;he Llanos area of Colombia. (Photo by Wayne Prince)

Captain Emst Spiering, on U1e bridge of the Western African, directed the vessel's recent trip to the shipyard.

Communications Technician since 1981, Stuart M arion radios a m essage to one of Western ' s ships offshore Louisiana. (Photo Finishing some paperwork in Party 342's camp oilice in Colombia by David Beile) is Party Manager Alan Den11am.

WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 27 ~ Since 1982, Jvlark Wilson has produced all of the typeset copy for the PROFILE, brochures, ads, and Field Supervisor Bob J ensen is pictured in the field oilice of Party -----729 near graphics generated in the M arketing Services department. t;he Llanos area of Colombia. (Photo by Wayne Prince)

Captain Emst Spiering, on U1e bridge of the Western African, directed the vessel's recent trip to the shipyard.

WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 27 Barry Fitzsimmons, observer on tl1e Western Glacier, perparcs to add a lead weight to a cable section so that the cable will tow evenly at the right deptl1 .

.. Logging in a reel to be converted into a final section is junior Playback Technici

Preparing lunch for die Northern Lighter is Cook Dino Kontogonis. (Photo uy john As m echanic, Paul Peny recently helped construct a special Stiller) buggy for Party 335 .

Senior Coordinator Craigwood Milne (left) and Coordinator jolm]aeger are crew members on the Western Arctic. They Junior Observer R ob Oliver surveys a line for Party 335 in A bu have worked for Western 20 years and seven years, Dhabi. respectively. (Photo by Rashan Darwish Ali)

WESTERN PROFI LE 29 Barry Fitzsimmons, observer on tl1e Western Glacier, perparcs to add a lead weight to a cable section so that the cable will tow evenly at the right deptl1 .

.. Logging in a reel to be converted into a final section is junior Playback Technici

Preparing lunch for die Northern Lighter is Cook Dino Kontogonis. (Photo uy john As m echanic, Paul Peny recently helped construct a special Stiller) buggy for Party 335 .

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Dr. Craig Beasley Selected for 1985 Litton Advanced Technology Achievement Award

Dr. Craig Beasley, a research mathe Thursday, May 9, in conjunction with the matici an in Hou ston, was selected to Coq)orate Advanced Engineering Sym receive one of Litton 's Advanced Tech posium in San Francisco, California. nology Achievement Awards for his devel Awardees arc chosen by a committee of opment of the " Fast Multiple R eflection Litton officers whose responsibilities arc in Attenuation" computer algorithm for patents and licensing, advanced-technology enhanced seismic data interpretation. engineerin g and planning, and commun Fast Multiple R eflection Attenuation ications. Selections arc based on the cre (Fast MA) is an efficient, cost-effective ativity represented by the new technology, computational method of fi.lte1ing out mul its potential for strengthening the com tiple reflections, or reverberations , from petitive position of the company, and its seismic data for a detailed view of the market-expansion possibilities. earth's su bst ruct u re. Closely related to Beasley join ed Western 's Computer other velocity discrimination methods, the Sciences department in Jun e 198 l after Fast MA process can attenuate multiple earning his PhD in mathematics from reflections while retaining primary reflec North Texas State University. H e received tions almost as a by-product of conven his BS in mathematics from the University Litton President Orion Hoch (left) and Litton tional seismic data processing. of Houston in 197 4 and his MS in mathe R esources Group patent counsel Bob Lowe Scott Eovaldi, playback tedmician in the annex in H ouston, is The award was presented to Beasley on matics from Emory University in 1977 . congra tulate Dr. Craig Beasley (right). pictured at work on the OPS-11 #1. (Plwto by Carl Scott)

CRYSTAL' System offers with CRYSTAL Workstations. Also, a new enhancements complete, stand-alone CRYSTAL System is available with the MicroVAX computer. \!Vestern has introduced enhancements Western is prepared to install the entire to the C RYSTAL Interactive Graph ics stand-alone system on a turnkey basis. System, incl uding a comprehensive 2-D Indu stry-wide acceptance of the interpretation module to complement the CRYSTAL Sys tem has also enab led 3-D package. Concurrently, the advanced Western to make reductions in pu rchase On boa1d the Western Glacier during sea trials, M arine capability release 2. 1 for the 3-D module and lease fees. Supeni1tendent Ron Bickham 'sjob is to ensure that the ship has been implemented on the VAXN M S T he software cffo rt was performed A 2-D section is displayed on the CR YSTAL has no m ajor breakdowns or lost time.• operating system. jointly at the London and H ouston R &D System monitor. Each display is accompanied by an annotation box indicating line locations The new 2-D software allows the user to centers. Participants included Aftab Alam and shotpoints. Implem entation of 2-D sur load 2-D lines from a region, create loops, and H uw J ames in London and Bill Scott veys on an interactive system is more diflicult inspect ties, and interpret horizons in real in H ouston. than 3-D data due to m isties in survey lines time. All 2-D and 3-D routine prospect " T he new enhancements round out the and variations in recording parameters. interactive work can be perfo rmed on th e C RYSTAL System ," said Linda Elliott, CRYSTAL System. Customer Support Manager , " Now the Com puter centers with IBM main workstation can be a worksaver for vir frames, m inicom ters, Clerk Sheri Pileggi handles all filing, paperwork, and time DEC VAX pu or tually all interpreters." cards for all three shifts in the Playback department. (Photo by MicroVAX systems now can be equipped Carl Scott)

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Dr. Craig Beasley Selected for 1985 Litton Advanced Technology Achievement Award

30 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 31 Exploration in Honduras Peruvians Complete Processing Training

The government of H onduras, in pre Herald Tribune as well as through direct or the geochemical aspects of the project Western 's influence in th e seismic soft such as the Versatec plotters, FPS array paration for a bidding round for explora mail. stems from the need to identi f)1 th e occur ware market con tinues to spread over the processor, and Tektronics graphics stations. tion licenses, has commissioned a mul ~l'h c success of this first-of-a-kind project rence, richness, and maturity of hyd ro wo rld. O ve r the past several years our Initial contacts for th is contract were titude of geological and geophysical studies is to be credited to th e dedication and carbon so urce rocks to comprehend th e oiJ processing systems have been installed in made by Gary Jon es, presently m anager through its Direccion General D e Min as professional expertise of the LRG P roject and gas potential or a basin . many countries, includi ng Canada, Brazil, for operations in Colombia. The contract E Hidrocarburos (DGMH ), a division of Sta ff. Th e review of th e seismic database Pin ally, the generation of' a document Venezuela, Colombia, Pakistan, Italy, was subsequently negotiated by Ju an the Minist ry of Natural R esources. was conducted by Special Interpretation th at integrated all the facets of the proj ect Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi , and recently Vallhonrat, manager of the comp uter Those studies, funded by the World Projects Tony Kudrna , under the experi was hand led by \Ncstern Research J\lfan Yugoslavia, Ecuador , and China. As science operation in H ouston vvho con Bank , arc aimed at bu ilding up an ex enced eye of Manager of Interpretation agcr oflnt egTated Exploration Technology of J 985, Peru became a member of th e tinues to be responsible for managing pro ploration database suitable for the assess and Special Processing Mana ger J ohn M arc D eBuyl. group through their narionaJ oil company, jec t operations in Lima. A group of geo ment of the hydrocarbon prospectivity of Sherwood. The onshore geology of H on Bolstered by the acquired experience PET ROPERU S.A. physicists and programm ers from Western the co untry. duras was skill fully rea<>sessed by Peter th roughout Hondura s, similar projects Training began in April of this year are currentl y wo rking in Lima with PET Litton R esources Group took th e chal Emmet of Aero Service. His contribution can now be undertaken in the futu re with when four members of PETROP ERU 's ROPER U to train their users of the soft lenge from World Bank and DGMH to included the reevaluation of the available increased confidence in LRG's capacity to staff travelled from Lima to Hou ston for ware and assist them in data processing. demonstrate how well an integrated syn gravity and magnetics data as well as the c:.lcli\'er a superior product. a three-month course in the use of the IBM The four Westerners in Lima arc: Dave thesis of the available geological and remote-sensing data interpretation. Aero syste m and Western 's seism ic program. J ohnston, senior geophysicist and project geophysical st udies can produce a quality Service's involvement in the hydrocarbon These four included Lu is Hernande z, leader for Western ; Bob Kearney, sen ior product. Th e project included the assem exploration of H onduras includes the ac syste ms supervi sor for PET R OPE R U programmer; and BiJJ T hraves and Gene bling of a comprehensive databa~eto assess quisition, processing, and interpretation of PETROPE R U 's processing group are and leader of the group; R afael Neyra, T horne, geophysical anal ysts. Bob expects the relative hydrocarbon prospectivity of a high-sensitivity aeromagnetic survey con gathered in front of Western 's Houston office geophysical supervisor; Federico Pardo, to be with the group in Peru for only three the three main sedimentary basin s in sisting of some 39 ,000 km of data available for graduation pictures on completion of geophysicist; and M iguel H eredia, pro months, while the other th ree look forward Honduras. Three promotional meetings in to oil compan ies on a non-exclusive basis. their training. From left to right are Miguel grammer. A fifth man, Engineer J esus to half a year helping Los Peruanos get off Houston , Tokyo, and London followed on Core Laboratories' contribution to the H eredia, program mer; R afael Neyra, geo Leiva, was included in th e group for six to a good start with our seismic processing physical supervisor; Luis I-Iemandez, sys O ctober 1, 8, and 15, respectively, to pre project came from Lee Gibson who is cur weeks of intensive training in the main system . tems supervisor; and Federico Pardo, sent the findings of the L itton R esources rentl y settin g up Core's biostratigraphy tenance of various hardware component s geophysicist. Group study to the oil industry. services . Biostratigraphy is the science of The benefit to Western ;:mcl the Group recognizing fossils in rock samples for the from this project is the opportunity to detennination of the rocks' geologic age and demonst rate to a high-level audience and how layers of sediments were deposited . to the industry LRG 's capabilities in mul The review of the geochemistry was the tidisciplinary consulting services. Each responsibility of Kirk Cromer, one of Core meeting was announced in World Oil, Oil Lab's senior scientists from the Geological and Gasjoumal , the AAPG Explorer, the Studies Group headed by Paul Swetland, Wall Street journal , and the International who edited the document. T he importance

Aero Service Appoints Remote Sensing Interpretation Supervisor

graduate of the Un iversity of South Ala Cynth ia Sheehan has joined Aero Ser Sheehan, a nationally recognized author R ecently pictured in the Baton R ouge State vice as senior geologist and supervisor of ity in the area of remote sensing, was bama and did her graduate studies in Times, Western Passage Mate j ohn Sm ith remote-sensing interpretation . Primary formerl y with the USGS EROS Data geology, with an emphas is in remote aids an injured motorist alter a two-car col responsibilities in this position include Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, sensing, at the Un ive rsity of lowa. lision jn Baton R ouge, Louisiana. j ohn and superv isin g Aero's image processing effort and most recently held the position of Sheehan 's work in geological remote another a.cciden t witness used their em er on the Interactive Digital Image Man ip international geologist with Un ion Texas sensing has appeared in theAAPG Bulle gency care training to assist t11e victim untjJ ul ation System (IDIMS). Petroleu m . She is a geology/geography tin and various symposium proceedings. an ambulance arrived.

32 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 33 Exploration in Honduras Peruvians Complete Processing Training

Aero Service Appoints Remote Sensing Interpretation Supervisor

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Litton Parent/Student Loan Program party pickings

and send it to the financial aid officer at a Demonstrating continuing commitment expensive to obtain an education loan. selected vocational school , college or uni to higher education, Litton has established Th e program , including th e Student ve rsity. Th is officer will complete the a new education loan program in addition Loan ProgTarn and Parent Loan Program , second section which includes an cstimritc to its Litton Merit Scholarship program . is available to all full-time employees with of ex penses and enrollment information. As a part of Litton 's employee benefits al least one year of continuous service to Th en submit the application form to package, the Comp any is sponsoring a any Litton company. P ARTY 105-R IV WESTERN chanic Dave Michael, found a lot of things met the Western Sea and the Western one of the designated lending institutions. compr ehensive student/ parent loan pro To apply for these loru1s, co mplete the OCEAN to bargain for at the local souks (markets) Voyager to transfer fuel and water as they The approval process usually takes al least gram for employees and their families. first section of the application available while Navigation Engineer Martin Cooke were heading to Dar es Salaam and Mom six weeks. Litton sponsorship makes it easier and less from the Industrial Relations department M. Clark , R eporter was wandering around in indecision as to bassa, respectively. Some old friends were what fancy camera to buy to add to his met again and traded notes on the places collection . After the shopping sprees, the to visit in different towns. Syledis operators Spring 1985 find s the Wesl em Ocean in crew usually met for a little relaxation and Connal Bromwich and Nick Marchant Carl Savit serves on the Outer Continental Shelf the sunny climes of the southern hem to swap stories on what bargain was where were welcomed on board as they accom Policy Committee isphere off M ozambique. and how much di scount was given. panied all the syledi s gear that we had Before moving south, we had spent At this time, the airgun crew was busy taken off the Western Sea to carry to some time working off Libya, Tunisia, and rigging new bundles keeping Steve Mas M aputo. Carl was appointed to represent th e oil Senior Vice-President Carl Savit was recently, afrer a transit through the Suez ters, Tom Palen , Steve Bryant, Graham In M aputo we were met by Marin e service industries and will present their recently appointed to a two-year term on Canal, off Saudi a Arabia in the Arabian Chambers , Lando Ocheda, Ver Ber Supervisor Russ Stanland and Party Man viewpoint to the secretary. Individual the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Policy Gulf. mundo , and Ernie Sabado out of mis ager Tony Quinn. Keiron McGrath and coastal states, fishing interests, " bi g oil", Committ ee of the OCS Advisory Board. This program was interesting. Coor chief. The rigging continued into our tran Colin Templeton were kept busy helping "small oil", small business, environmental Th e OCS Policy Committee provides dinators K eith Prior and Miles Clarke , sit to North Yemen . rig the Maxiran towers needed on board. organizations, and seve ral other groups arc policy advice to the Secretary of the Inter together with Assistant Coordinator Jon After a brief stop in Djibouti, we moved It was impossible to move around the each represented by one member. After ior, through the Director of the Min erals Smith, were kept "o n their toes" as we south to Mombas sa where we picked up country to the M axiran stations by road so attending his first meeting in November, Mru1agement Service, on the Department were working in the largest oilfields in the crew and, as it turned out, said our fare a helicopter was employed for the installa Carl reports that the discussions can be of the Interior's offshore program and on world. There were many obstructions such wells to Coordinator Colin Reid who was tion and maintenance of these base sta quite lively . all aspects of leasing, exploration, and as platforms, jackets, pipe-laying barges, transferred to the Western R eliance. Dur tions. Syledis operator Bill Maher was on development of OCS resources. Carl Savit supply boats, tankers, and divers. An air ing hi s short stay he made a lot of friends. hand to lend valuable assistance . gun firing within close proximity of diving Luckily for the crew, we spent a ni ght in Halfw ay through the program , it was operations can be dangerous to those Mombassa and had an opportunity to look necessary to make a port call to take on worki ng underwater. There was never a around the city. Taking a taxi ride into fuel, stores, and crew. H ere we were met Westerners are elected dull moment. town was quite exciting and bets were by returning crewmembers, Technician officers of GSH We were all very sad when Coordinator made as to how far we would travel before Dave Johnson, Ob server Dean Wilde, K eith Prior was transferred to the West having to get out and push . The drivers Steve Bryant -our u tility man-and Ken Larner, vice- president of research ern ChaJJcnger but we all wish him well. always assured us we would make it and Gun M echanic Tom Palen. We also and development, and Rhond a Boone, K eith had become a fixture on Party 105, they were right, but we didn' t push our welcomed newcomers to Party 105, Co marketing services manager , have been having been aboard since the rig- up in luck and only travelled short distances. ordinator Mike "Flash" Clark, Gun elected first vice-president and secretary, 1981. He was replaced by Colin Reid Instrument Supervisor Roger Barrett Mechanics Frank Soloman and Steve

respectively, of the Geophysic,;1.ISociety of from the Western Atlantic. joined us for the transit down to Maputo Shooter, and juni or Observer Roly Sum H ouston for 1985-1986. Th e chapter is Following Saudi, the vessel and crew during which we carried out various gun mer. On the shore-side, Party M anager the Society of Exploration Geophysicists' moved to Shat:jah and Fujairah, in the and cable tests in preparation for our next Tony Quinn was joined by Assistant largest section, with 2,342 members .• United Arab Emirates, to perform three job. Observers Ian Barley, Colin Taylor, Party Manager Tom Perera. separate operations which covered the and Kevin Mead helped Roger a nd When we complete our present assign C hristmas and N ew Year period of Instrument Technician Adrian Burt per ment we will be heading for port and our 1984/85 . Observers Dean Wilde and Rob form these tasks. periodic dry docking. Afterwards, many K en Larner Rhonda Boone M adsen , together with Chief Gun M e- Off Beira, on our way to Maputo , we more kilometers of seismic exploration .

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Litton Parent/Student Loan Program party pickings

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PARTY 370-CHINA peanuts with chopsticks while the dining crews are currently working in a high ,. lines and filters. Engine oil became so were easily mired in the slippery clay. sible for traini ng over 120 C hinese per car rocks from side to side. Th ere's plenty resolution mode using one millisecond viscous that it wouldn 't even flow from an Juni or Observers Larry May and Tim sonnel. Convincing th e Chinese of the Tom Fleure, R eporter of time to catch up on sleep, but nobody sampling near the Daqing oil field. The upturned barrel. T he morning routine of Wren as well as Observer Alan Soper, advantage of Western's methods can J. W. Sparkman, Tom Fleure, and wants to oversleep and end up at the Soviet Daqing field is by far the largest oil produc heating and starting the vehicles often took together with our Chinese line crew, sometimes take time. Party Manager Vic Craig Keele, Photographers border. Upon arrival in Daqing, there is ing field in China, accounting for over half hours onl y to have the effort frustrated a donned waders and headed into the marsh Mutten initiates this . exposure in daily still a three-hour drive west over rutted the nation's total production each year. few hours later by freeze-ups. Drillers Jim on foot. In the deeper areas of the swamp meetings with his Chinese counterpart. farm roads to Party 370's current prospect. What the members of 370 have dis Forsyth, Joe Hill , Ed Ratliff, andJ. W. and lakes the crew used aluminum boats Likewise, seismologists Tom Fleure and The adventure begins in a mass of Party 370 and twin 371 are two of covered in the six months since their arrival Sparkman finall y resorted to keeping for transport, but many places were still Joe Scarlett find that getting geophysical humanity at the Beijing (Peking) central Western 's newest crews, having started is that the Daqing area is a region of ex smudge pots filled with burning diesel at inaccessible to both boat and buggy and concepts across with drawings and malh railway station: In a terminal that serves operation in December, 1984. Th ey are tremes: the winter is extremely cold , the strategic places on the drill buggies. How the crew resorted to the age-old transport ematics is often easier than trying to rely over 100,000 people daily, just finding the also unique in that they are a cooperative spring is extremely windy, and since the ever, with one winter under our belts every of "shanks mare" (foot-slogging). on translation into C hinese. right train at the right time can be difficult. effort with the Petroleum Corporation of thaw, the entire prospect is extremely wet. one anticipates being much better pre On some lines, Observers Lynn The old maxim th at the teacher learns The train for us is the express heading the People's Republic of China. China 's The frigid January weather was quite pared for the onset of cold weather this Fall. Fischer and Craig Keck have quite a by teaching certainly holds true in the case northeast to Harbin , then continuing to objective for the project is to have Western a shock to everybody, but especially to The thaw in April radically changed the tricky job driving the recording buggy to of Crew 370; every man has gained valu our destination ofDaqing. On the 20-hour personnel train the Chinese in the opera the drillers who spend most of each day operation of the entire crew by floodin g the spread. To alleviate this difficulty able experience by dealing v.rith the various ride everyone has a chance to sample some tion of a state-of-the-art seismic crew for outside. Temperatures dropping below about 70 % of the prospect area. Surveyor Mechanics Mark DiMaria, Bill Kitchen, problems that arise from a new area and local Chinese delicacies like sea cucumbers two years, then turn the crew's operation - 35°F had many adverse eflects includ M ike Fokakis was forced to change from and Burke Zollinger are putting dual changingenvironrnents. Undoubtedly, the or garlic soup as well as to r.ractice eating over to our Chinese counterparts. Both ing gelling the diesel fuel which clogged fuel pinflags to bamboo poles just to keep the superwide tires on th e recording buggy. trend will continue over the nex t 18 ' stations visible above th e rising water. It This modification should be especially months of the contrac t to the benefit of was soon apparent that despite superwide helpful during the rainy season. both Western and our new Chinese tires, ou r line buggies and drill buggies Sixteen Western employees are respon- friends.

]. W Sparkman checks out the ruts made by a mired water buggy.

Fmm left to right,]oe HiJJ, Mark DiMaria, and Xue Xiu Dong pull Hoping t11e water will stop rising is Driller]oe Hill (center) and 0111 une more winch cable in the battle against the swamp. helpers.

Junior Observer Tim Wren (center) and the jug crew maneuver the In January, Party 370 drillers work their way across a frozen lake. boat to deeper water.

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]. W Sparkman checks out the ruts made by a mired water buggy.

Fmm left to right,]oe HiJJ, Mark DiMaria, and Xue Xiu Dong pull Hoping t11e water will stop rising is Driller]oe Hill (center) and 0111 une more winch cable in the battle against the swamp. helpers.

Junior Observer Tim Wren (center) and the jug crew maneuver the In January, Party 370 drillers work their way across a frozen lake. boat to deeper water.

37 PARTY 127-WE STERN NARROWS

Pictoral Review

Chris Broome and Michael Haight, Photographers

Adjusting a control panel in the recording Working in 3-D quality control, Geophysi room is Party 127 Compressor M echanic cist K eith Edwards traveled to the Western Tim H an sen. Narrows to check navigation signals and information from the WISDO!VI® System .

In the galley, Cook Bob Moore keeps A s coordinator, Rodn ey Alswager is in Technician Sean Carvey spends som e of Andy Furlough, wid1 \-Ve.stem for a year and a ha.If, is mtvigator for Assisting the captain of" the ship is the responsibility of !llfate steadily busy preparing meals for the crew of dJarge of alJ seismic activity on the Narrows. his ofT-time photographing beautiful Gulf Party 127. 1\tfichacl Guzzctti. the Narrows. sunsets.

As party m anager, Tim Cole organizes port call fur the Western Don Perkins, recording room shifr leader, helps unreel cable dwjng Narrows. a crew change in Gulfport, !vlississippi.

W ISDOM is a registered trademark of Western G eophysical Com pany of America.

38 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 39 PARTY 127-WE STERN NARROWS

Pictoral Review

Chris Broome and Michael Haight, Photographers

As party m anager, Tim Cole organizes port call fur the Western Don Perkins, recording room shifr leader, helps unreel cable dwjng Narrows. a crew change in Gulfport, !vlississippi.

W ISDOM is a registered trademark of Western G eophysical Com pany of America.

38 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 39 PARTY 340-DENMARK The crew moved back to Jutland, this W1;ght,John Gallagher, Joe Davis, Jens time in the central pa.it, IOr a non-exclusive Krogstrup , Erik Bc1tclsen,Jan Laustcn, Robin Wrigley , R eporter and speculative survf'y oJ'SO il le 400 kilometers. and Morten Ander sen, drillers; Max Photographer Snow, rain, and thawing madr wo rking Croce , seismologist; a nd Ove Nygaard, conditions f;:ir from enjoyable but the crew administrator. Denmark is not a new operation area for managed to keep working with a credit::ible At the time of writing Oate M ay), Spring Western as the company has been here on performance. has fin ally shi ned through and the crew is and off for the past six years. H owever, By now key memb ers of the crew had beginnin g to enjoy the benefits of working there has been a lull in activity and it was settled clown and the various departments in what can only be called one of the most not until September 1984 that Party 340 were comprised of: Bob Moore and Tim truly hospitable places in th e world . T he was reactivated in northern Jutl and . Lawson, observers; Stuart Mitchel and production is going well and we a.J'ewe ll on Apart from Party M anager Dave Reid, Vic Bass, surveyors; Tom Sinclair and target to fini sh the survey on schedule. just about all of the ex patriate crew mem Jens Westergaard, m echanics; Gary bers were new to the 31·ca. \iVith the Danish personnel this was quite the opposite and many of th e old faces from previous con tracts ca me back; Jens Westergaard as shop mechanic, Axel Knudsen a nd Svend Christensen as permitmen, Ole P edersen as shooter, a nd Tommy Han sen as ex plosives man. T he crew was initially boosted by per sonnel from other operations to help with During a recent port caJJ,junior Observer Casey Leenheer transfers cable needing repair from the reel. a new telemetric recording system and the new buggy-moun ted drill units . Out side experts included Darrell Clapsadd le, Bruce Hare, Leo Magnum, Mike Zel lum, and many others who contributed to a good start-up and trouble-free move into production. L ocal residents often came to inspect i\ {·stcm drilling op erations north o{ Copcnhagcn . De nm a.ii. Permitting in a European country is often a great task in tact and diplomacy. Party 340 can be justly proud of the per mi tmen , Alex Knudsen and Svend Ch ristensen, \·vho have done a fine job with a minimum of fuss and cost. As Autum n changed into Winte r, the crew finished its ini tial contract in.Jutland with one client and moved into another area on Sjaelland, north of Copenhagen , for another client. Durin g this peri od the weather really became a problem , with daily temperatures of - 20°C ( - 4°F) being quite common. Apart from the effect this had on general morale, the equipment took quite a hamm ering as well. Water buggies froze up and geophones fro ze to the ground. About this time a few more old faces started to reappear in the drilling department with the return of Gary Wright and John Gallagher. It did not

·~ Instrument Technician Jim Barber tests out the gun controller Recording observer logs is Assistant Observer Steve Kn eller. take long for the crew to overcome the '.~.i~\h.!;W.JJN/jf~~ aboard the Western Narrows. problem s of severe weather and produc Shootc1:~in action arc Ho Holst (lc!i ) and Benn_1· Pictured 11·orking in th e \!(j en o/Jicc in ccmra.l tion gradually improved. .fc ssing. .Jutlnrnl is Pcnnitm an Axel Knud sen .

WESTERN PROFILE 40 WINTER 1985 41 PARTY 340-DENMARK The crew moved back to Jutland, this W1;ght,John Gallagher, Joe Davis, Jens time in the central pa.it, IOr a non-exclusive Krogstrup , Erik Bc1tclsen,Jan Laustcn, Robin Wrigley , R eporter and speculative survf'y oJ'SO il le 400 kilometers. and Morten Ander sen, drillers; Max Photographer Snow, rain, and thawing madr wo rking Croce , seismologist; a nd Ove Nygaard, conditions f;:ir from enjoyable but the crew administrator. Denmark is not a new operation area for managed to keep working with a credit::ible At the time of writing Oate M ay), Spring Western as the company has been here on performance. has fin ally shi ned through and the crew is and off for the past six years. H owever, By now key memb ers of the crew had beginnin g to enjoy the benefits of working there has been a lull in activity and it was settled clown and the various departments in what can only be called one of the most not until September 1984 that Party 340 were comprised of: Bob Moore and Tim truly hospitable places in th e world . T he was reactivated in northern Jutl and . Lawson, observers; Stuart Mitchel and production is going well and we a.J'ewe ll on Apart from Party M anager Dave Reid, Vic Bass, surveyors; Tom Sinclair and target to fini sh the survey on schedule. just about all of the ex patriate crew mem Jens Westergaard, m echanics; Gary bers were new to the 31·ca. \iVith the Danish personnel this was quite the opposite and many of th e old faces from previous con tracts ca me back; Jens Westergaard as shop mechanic, Axel Knudsen a nd Svend Christensen as permitmen, Ole P edersen as shooter, a nd Tommy Han sen as ex plosives man. T he crew was initially boosted by per sonnel from other operations to help with During a recent port caJJ,junior Observer Casey Leenheer transfers cable needing repair from the reel. a new telemetric recording system and the new buggy-moun ted drill units . Out side experts included Darrell Clapsadd le, Bruce Hare, Leo Magnum, Mike Zel lum, and many others who contributed to a good start-up and trouble-free move into production. L ocal residents often came to inspect i\ {·stcm drilling op erations north o{ Copcnhagcn . De nm a.ii. Permitting in a European country is often a great task in tact and diplomacy. Party 340 can be justly proud of the per mi tmen , Alex Knudsen and Svend Ch ristensen, \·vho have done a fine job with a minimum of fuss and cost. As Autum n changed into Winte r, the crew finished its ini tial contract in.Jutland with one client and moved into another area on Sjaelland, north of Copenhagen , for another client. Durin g this peri od the weather really became a problem , with daily temperatures of - 20°C ( - 4°F) being quite common. Apart from the effect this had on general morale, the equipment took quite a hamm ering as well. Water buggies froze up and geophones fro ze to the ground. About this time a few more old faces started to reappear in the drilling department with the return of Gary Wright and John Gallagher. It did not

WESTERN PROFILE 40 WINTER 1985 41 PARTY 190- PRUDHOE BAY, ALASKA • John Stiller, Pho1ogrnphcr

Pictoral Review

West Coast and Alaska Marine divi sion began their summer season with a DTGISEIS' operation, the first DIGISEIS

project to take place in the Beaufort Se~.

DIGISEIS is a radio telemetry system used Seen at anc/Jo,., the Arct ic Star 11·as the mo ther ship nm/ rcco,-c/ing 1·css1·/ !Or the DlG ISEIS for shaJ low-water surveying. The Arctic operation. S tar se1-ved as the shooting and recording vessel, assisted by three 30-foot navigation boats. Th e W estern B eaufort se1-ved as additionaJ living quarters for the crew during the six-week operation, lasting from early Jul y to m id-August.

Senior Na1·igator C01y Burch enters param Pulling in the guns afrcr a dar of shooting is Rcncl_1· w head li>r the line nm/ begin ln.1·i11g buoys nrc (fcfi to n~1.;h1)Reggie Hammoncl.Jcff ,\ la_1Yillc. Scott I \ 'ooc/_1·, ;ii)(/ Pete I fill . eters in to the W ISD OM' N

l Tim Blanchard is pictured coiling hydrophone cables and prepping A s chief'na1·iga 1ar, Bill Cottrell coordinates buor deplo_\'J/1cnt and Un.like most of the crc11· members 1mrki11g Jc!T 1\fay1·ille 11·as assistant roordinator for Checking the buoys prior to a day 's start-up buoys. After early Summ er DIGISEIS w01k was completed, Tim nal'igai ion qualitr control of the three line boats. outside in rn:f51d ;1rctic temperatures, Cook the DIGISEIS opcrntion, helping BillJeffries is Coordinator Bill Jeffries. returned to D eadhorse base ca.mp as an assistant party m anager for "Spoon" Huelle norks "stm 'c-sic/c" pre in ;J/ phases of thejob . all N orth Slope crews. paring meals.

42 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 43 PARTY 190- PRUDHOE BAY, ALASKA • John Stiller, Pho1ogrnphcr

Pictoral Review

West Coast and Alaska Marine divi sion began their summer season with a DTGISEIS' operation, the first DIGISEIS

project to take place in the Beaufort Se~.

42 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 43 PARTY 109- R /V WESTE RN guns on each reel , vvith space for an ad board working, spare parts were stowed , PART Y 361- CANADA CH ALLENGE R ditional 12 guns to be put, on making a and e\'e1y thing was ready to begin opera total of' 60 gu ns. In the co mpressor room tion s and acquire seismic data. M ike West and Al Ferworn , Reporters Derck Hough, Rcpor/cr 3 x 800 cf'm LMF compresso rs plus For the o!l-lcial takcm'Cl'Joc Saltamachia 2 x LJ-60 cfm LMF compressors were and Danny Stegall came f'rom London installed with room left for an additional bringing Karina Shtopman to christen Over the past two years Westcm's office T he con\'ersion of th e v\!cstcrn C hfll 800 cfm LMF compressor if' the need the sh ip . After the formal speeches were in Calgary has been instru mental in a lcngcr from a stern trawler into a se ismic should arise. O\'er, Karina smashed champagne on the surge of 3-D land seismic work in western ship was a major challenge met by Lhe Lon Roger Barrett, inst rument su pervisor bow and the RI V I \!estem Challenger Canada. O ffice and field personnel have don Marine Operations d ivis ion, headed from London , designed the installat ion of' belonged to Western Geophysical. A news all endeavored lo make 3-D a cost-effective by V ice President Joe Saltamachia and the recording room and the co mputer co nference was given by Joe Saltamachia, tool for exploration com panies. Marine Operations Arca Manager Danny floo r. W hen yo u realize the size of the Danny Stegall, and Derek Hough and In Feb rua ry 1983, Wes tcrn's fi rst Stegall. 1,9 10 squ;:ire-foot recording room, you can then a guided lour was conducted of the Ca nadian 3-D survey was conducted at f hc second largest seism ic shi p in the imagine what a difficult task this \'\1as, but ship for all the reporters. Zarna Lake, Alberta. T hese data quickly world, the 300-foot vessel was converted in every thing went very smoothly. T he nav i A documentary was also made on the revealed several important benefits in the Kiel, West Germany, in the summ er of gation equipment was al so put in to the RN \1\festcm Challenger and shown on three-dimensional approach. A major 1984 and was christened in November. recording room. George Sims, navigation th e German National Telev ision. T he problem was the high cost compared to Co n\·ersion was a major operation . supervisor, traveled to Houston ro as launching was shown on the Germa n 2-D techniques; hence, the challenge to C utt ing and welding, pulling down the semble all the equip ment and ensure that National News. make 3-D competitive. Th rough the use overhead , ripping up rhe decks, and rear nothi ng was left out which frequently T he evening of the lau nc hing boasted of m ulti-line recording systems and im ing out the buhvarks was necessary before happens with new rig-ups. Durin g th is rig a dinner held in the Kiel Yacht Club plementation of efficient acquisition and rebuildin g could begin . The stern had a up every thing went as planned and not one celebra ting the hand ing over of' the R IV processing techniques, Western has met new housing added where the cable and item was missing during the installation \!\lestem C hallenger. th is challenge. guns were go ing Lo be installed . Ballast or which shows what an excellent job both Th e Wes1em Challenger departed for Western perfo rmed more tha n 45 water tanks we re bui lt on to the stern for Roger and George did in their planning. the Norwegian T rench to check on water individual 3-D surveys last winter and km the gun skid s and a helicopter pad was Bill Quinlan and Simon Plachta co a nd airgun signatures before starting acquired over 400 sq of data. Man y built above the cable and gu n deck. ordinated the video and co mmunication production. At the time of this writi ng, the of the proj ects were shot in areas where Scott A nderson, observer for Party 361, is pictu red in the doghouse. N umerous Western personnel arrived installation. Kel Brown came from H ous \!\leslem Challenger is working in the clients required the superior im agin g for the conversion. Party M anager Derek ton for th e Irunarsat installation which was No1i h Sea. power of 3-D m igration to locate elusive pinnacle reefs . Hough arrived from Ca iro in the first clone in a min imu m amount of time. As week in September. Then in October Co installations continued, Captain Nordsted 3-D surveys commence with discussions ordinator Richard (Dick) Rowland, Ca Sorensen was sorting out the ship's prob RIV Western Challenger about a target the client wishes to image in detail. After other pertinent information le1ing Superv isor Paul Harrison, Captain lems with crew, storage, safety equipment, Specification s Nordsted Sorensen, and Chief Enginee r navigational aids, etc. has been determined , one of Western 's Helping him we re C hief M ate Kim design teams goes to work to optimize the Kim Jorgensen arrived together. Th e Length 97 .8 meters crew, which was going to be Party 109, Villefrance, First M ate Palle Hansen, economics of the survey. These 3-D 's must Beam 15.8 meters was sta rring to take shape. Th e shi p was Engineer Orla Anderson, First Engineer be planned according to the depth of the renamed the RN Western C hallenger. Soren Christoffersen, and Electrician Draft 6.0 meters target, the multiplicity desired, existing cut lines, available equ ipment, and environ Th e name Challenger was aptly named Palle Stevn. C hief Engineer Kim Jor Aecom mod at ion 60 for the crew, because th e conversion was gensen had qui te a b ahead . Besides mental factors. T his planning is done by jo Speed 16 knots indeed a challenge! overh auling all the engines, a new control the 3-D department co nsisting of Mik e Durntion at sea 10 weeks When the airg·un and water-gu n instal room had to be buiJt and tested . A com West, Andreas Gamp , andJam esJ essop, lation started lo take place, Field Super plete lire-detect system was in stalled Wate r Maker 24 tons per clay who work from a library of maps and aerial photos. visor Glen Barker arrived with his assis throughout the ship. Special mention LMF Compresso rs 5 Most of the 3-D 's have a grid-type line tant Jeff Rupert. Th e rest of the crew should be made for Captain Nordsted and Generators 2 x 110K VA layout. T he source lines are perpendicular consisted of H ead G un M echanic Jim boLhC hief Engineers Kim Jorgensen and l x635 KVA Costello, Gun M echanic John Atkinson, Orla Anderson on a very difficult j ob to the receiver lines and up to ten receiver Clean Power 2x75 KVA G unners Dave Sciberras and Graeme handled in a very professional manner. lines are recorded for each shot. Th is con Scholes, and arri ving from Party 107 to Th e big day, November 3, 1984, finall y Energy Source Water/ Airguns figuration ensures an ideal mixture of off help were Gunners Billy Milburn, Martin arrived. This was the date the \J\lestern Record ing System LRS-16/DFS.V sets and azimuths in each stacked trace, thus providing superior noise cancellation . Coyne, Paul Wilson, and many others. Challenger was handed over to Western Cables Able to carry 4 Th e airgun and water-gun rig-up was Geophysical officially. The ship was ready cables and spares The su rvey design , complete with pre planned shooting sequence, then goes to completely difk rent f'rom th ose on other to go to sea. T he entire ship was newly Pictured in the portable Jab is Teclmician Rick Chernenko/T. Behind him is the test equipment ships. T here arc six gun reels with eight painted , all seismic equipment was on the field crew superv iso r, Doug E aton , for trouble-shooting the 3-D station boxes.

44 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 45 PARTY 109- R /V WESTE RN guns on each reel , vvith space for an ad board working, spare parts were stowed , PART Y 361- CANADA CH ALLENGE R ditional 12 guns to be put, on making a and e\'e1y thing was ready to begin opera total of' 60 gu ns. In the co mpressor room tion s and acquire seismic data. M ike West and Al Ferworn , Reporters Derck Hough, Rcpor/cr 3 x 800 cf'm LMF compresso rs plus For the o!l-lcial takcm'Cl'Joc Saltamachia 2 x LJ-60 cfm LMF compressors were and Danny Stegall came f'rom London installed with room left for an additional bringing Karina Shtopman to christen Over the past two years Westcm's office T he con\'ersion of th e v\!cstcrn C hfll 800 cfm LMF compressor if' the need the sh ip . After the formal speeches were in Calgary has been instru mental in a lcngcr from a stern trawler into a se ismic should arise. O\'er, Karina smashed champagne on the surge of 3-D land seismic work in western ship was a major challenge met by Lhe Lon Roger Barrett, inst rument su pervisor bow and the RI V I \!estem Challenger Canada. O ffice and field personnel have don Marine Operations d ivis ion, headed from London , designed the installat ion of' belonged to Western Geophysical. A news all endeavored lo make 3-D a cost-effective by V ice President Joe Saltamachia and the recording room and the co mputer co nference was given by Joe Saltamachia, tool for exploration com panies. Marine Operations Arca Manager Danny floo r. W hen yo u realize the size of the Danny Stegall, and Derek Hough and In Feb rua ry 1983, Wes tcrn's fi rst Stegall. 1,9 10 squ;:ire-foot recording room, you can then a guided lour was conducted of the Ca nadian 3-D survey was conducted at f hc second largest seism ic shi p in the imagine what a difficult task this \'\1as, but ship for all the reporters. Zarna Lake, Alberta. T hese data quickly world, the 300-foot vessel was converted in every thing went very smoothly. T he nav i A documentary was also made on the revealed several important benefits in the Kiel, West Germany, in the summ er of gation equipment was al so put in to the RN \1\festcm Challenger and shown on three-dimensional approach. A major 1984 and was christened in November. recording room. George Sims, navigation th e German National Telev ision. T he problem was the high cost compared to Co n\·ersion was a major operation . supervisor, traveled to Houston ro as launching was shown on the Germa n 2-D techniques; hence, the challenge to C utt ing and welding, pulling down the semble all the equip ment and ensure that National News. make 3-D competitive. Th rough the use overhead , ripping up rhe decks, and rear nothi ng was left out which frequently T he evening of the lau nc hing boasted of m ulti-line recording systems and im ing out the buhvarks was necessary before happens with new rig-ups. Durin g th is rig a dinner held in the Kiel Yacht Club plementation of efficient acquisition and rebuildin g could begin . The stern had a up every thing went as planned and not one celebra ting the hand ing over of' the R IV processing techniques, Western has met new housing added where the cable and item was missing during the installation \!\lestem C hallenger. th is challenge. guns were go ing Lo be installed . Ballast or which shows what an excellent job both Th e Wes1em Challenger departed for Western perfo rmed more tha n 45 water tanks we re bui lt on to the stern for Roger and George did in their planning. the Norwegian T rench to check on water individual 3-D surveys last winter and km the gun skid s and a helicopter pad was Bill Quinlan and Simon Plachta co a nd airgun signatures before starting acquired over 400 sq of data. Man y built above the cable and gu n deck. ordinated the video and co mmunication production. At the time of this writi ng, the of the proj ects were shot in areas where Scott A nderson, observer for Party 361, is pictu red in the doghouse. N umerous Western personnel arrived installation. Kel Brown came from H ous \!\leslem Challenger is working in the clients required the superior im agin g for the conversion. Party M anager Derek ton for th e Irunarsat installation which was No1i h Sea. power of 3-D m igration to locate elusive pinnacle reefs . Hough arrived from Ca iro in the first clone in a min imu m amount of time. As week in September. Then in October Co installations continued, Captain Nordsted 3-D surveys commence with discussions ordinator Richard (Dick) Rowland, Ca Sorensen was sorting out the ship's prob RIV Western Challenger about a target the client wishes to image in detail. After other pertinent information le1ing Superv isor Paul Harrison, Captain lems with crew, storage, safety equipment, Specification s Nordsted Sorensen, and Chief Enginee r navigational aids, etc. has been determined , one of Western 's Helping him we re C hief M ate Kim design teams goes to work to optimize the Kim Jorgensen arrived together. Th e Length 97 .8 meters crew, which was going to be Party 109, Villefrance, First M ate Palle Hansen, economics of the survey. These 3-D 's must Beam 15.8 meters was sta rring to take shape. Th e shi p was Engineer Orla Anderson, First Engineer be planned according to the depth of the renamed the RN Western C hallenger. Soren Christoffersen, and Electrician Draft 6.0 meters target, the multiplicity desired, existing cut lines, available equ ipment, and environ Th e name Challenger was aptly named Palle Stevn. C hief Engineer Kim Jor Aecom mod at ion 60 for the crew, because th e conversion was gensen had qui te a b ahead . Besides mental factors. T his planning is done by jo Speed 16 knots indeed a challenge! overh auling all the engines, a new control the 3-D department co nsisting of Mik e Durntion at sea 10 weeks When the airg·un and water-gu n instal room had to be buiJt and tested . A com West, Andreas Gamp , andJam esJ essop, lation started lo take place, Field Super plete lire-detect system was in stalled Wate r Maker 24 tons per clay who work from a library of maps and aerial photos. visor Glen Barker arrived with his assis throughout the ship. Special mention LMF Compresso rs 5 Most of the 3-D 's have a grid-type line tant Jeff Rupert. Th e rest of the crew should be made for Captain Nordsted and Generators 2 x 110K VA layout. T he source lines are perpendicular consisted of H ead G un M echanic Jim boLhC hief Engineers Kim Jorgensen and l x635 KVA Costello, Gun M echanic John Atkinson, Orla Anderson on a very difficult j ob to the receiver lines and up to ten receiver Clean Power 2x75 KVA G unners Dave Sciberras and Graeme handled in a very professional manner. lines are recorded for each shot. Th is con Scholes, and arri ving from Party 107 to Th e big day, November 3, 1984, finall y Energy Source Water/ Airguns figuration ensures an ideal mixture of off help were Gunners Billy Milburn, Martin arrived. This was the date the \J\lestern Record ing System LRS-16/DFS.V sets and azimuths in each stacked trace, thus providing superior noise cancellation . Coyne, Paul Wilson, and many others. Challenger was handed over to Western Cables Able to carry 4 Th e airgun and water-gun rig-up was Geophysical officially. The ship was ready cables and spares The su rvey design , complete with pre planned shooting sequence, then goes to completely difk rent f'rom th ose on other to go to sea. T he entire ship was newly Pictured in the portable Jab is Teclmician Rick Chernenko/T. Behind him is the test equipment ships. T here arc six gun reels with eight painted , all seismic equipment was on the field crew superv iso r, Doug E aton , for trouble-shooting the 3-D station boxes.

44 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 45 who handles logistics for the two 3-D system. Station coordinates arc automat approximately 15 experienced 3-D pro crews: Party 341 manag ed by John ically compu ted and recorded on tape. cessors, and these people are kept busy Smith, and Party 361 managed by Garth After the lines are cut, surveyed, and during the season wl-ie-R all jobs seem to Seabrook. The lield operation for 3-D is drilled, one of the 3-D recording crews have priori! y status. Three groups are much more complex than for conventional moves in under the direction of observers active under the direction of John Wall, work. The station location work involves Danny Swainston and Scott Anderson. Frank Nicholson, and Jim Hostetler. many more tJ1an the usual number of sur These men have perfected a system for At the tin1e of this w1;ting, two crews are vey teams. Initially, a very la rge number shooting 3-D's quickly and efficiently, with engaged in 2-D helicopter-portable work of survey personnel were assigned to one th e help of the reg·uJar staff including in the Canadian Rockies. As soon as the

crew, and even this effort was barely suf~ Barry Els, Spencer Werry, Brad Smith, snow flies , \!Vestern will be occupied once ficient to ensure a smooth production flow. Darin Beaumont, and Ben Rao. again with furthering their 3-D capabilities Survey Supervisor Jeff Had.ford imported The 3-D crews are supported by a port in Canada .• a Litton Inertial Survey system wh ich has able lab with computerized test equipment greatly increased the efficiency and accur (the "Ve ribo") to re-al ign the digital re acy of the surface survey. The perimeter cording boxes as the need arises, without of the 3-D is surveyed manually, after having to transport them back to the which the internal stations can usually be Calgary office. Byron Wallace and Rich surveyed with a truck-mounted inertial Chernenkoff assure that 24 hours of elec tronics maintenance are available daily to .....Th is Canadian crew member is " necking" keep the crews running smoothly . cable on a hard-cut receiver line. The Processi ng department now has

\ Bill Parkinson, with Party 361, works a typical northern Alberta cut R eviewing a panel of 3-D data are (left to right) Lennert Den Boer, line. Bill Westwood, Mike West, Doug Eaton, and Andre Latour.

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Programmer Andre Latour explains how to interpret a 3-D time A recording helper connects one of the station boxes. slice.

47 who handles logistics for the two 3-D system. Station coordinates arc automat approximately 15 experienced 3-D pro crews: Party 341 manag ed by John ically compu ted and recorded on tape. cessors, and these people are kept busy Smith, and Party 361 managed by Garth After the lines are cut, surveyed, and during the season wl-ie-R all jobs seem to Seabrook. The lield operation for 3-D is drilled, one of the 3-D recording crews have priori! y status. Three groups are much more complex than for conventional moves in under the direction of observers active under the direction of John Wall, work. The station location work involves Danny Swainston and Scott Anderson. Frank Nicholson, and Jim Hostetler. many more tJ1an the usual number of sur These men have perfected a system for At the tin1e of this w1;ting, two crews are vey teams. Initially, a very la rge number shooting 3-D's quickly and efficiently, with engaged in 2-D helicopter-portable work of survey personnel were assigned to one th e help of the reg·uJar staff including in the Canadian Rockies. As soon as the

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Programmer Andre Latour explains how to interpret a 3-D time A recording helper connects one of the station boxes. slice.

47 downWesterns line for 30years

THE 30-YEAR CAREER PATH OF operator from 1969 to 1974, and as a Mississippi, Alabama, Delaware, Florida, where he lived from 1964-1968; and to satisfying as his current realm of operations. With no retirement plans in sight, Brunner Goff began in Rolling Fork, Mis gun mechanic from 1974 to 1976. Not New Jersey, and Rhode Island), and over Singapore, where he lived from 1968 to " I travel about 30 % of the year, most Chester says that he has stayed with the sissippi. At that time, current Vice Presi until February 1977 did Brunner become to the west African coastal countries of 1972. In March 1977 he was promoted recently to Australia, China, India, Japan, Western team because, "It's a good dent Jimmy Jordan was a party chief on ''grounded'' as he transferred to Galveston, Angola and Sierra Leone. He remembers to coordinator for Far East, Middle East New Zealand, and Singapore." His activ company to work for, I enjoy working for Party 19 and hired Brunner as a helper. It working in a shop as a gun mechanic. He his most interesting assignment as being marine operations and in July of that same ities in foreign lands include supervision for Western, and I couldn't get another job!" was not long before Brunner switched to is currently senior mechanical assembler. Project Mohole with special Party S-5 in year to an area manager for Western's the Singapore data processing center and More than likely, it's Chester's weU London and Middle East operations. Party 77 and the sea. He remained on In traveling the "doodlebug water Hawaii and Puerto Rico. land, marine, and shallow-water crews in planned field strategy that's kept him on marine crews for the next 22 years, as ways, ' ' Brunner has worked in most of our A special dinner honoring Brunner was Chester asserts that he has enjoyed each the Far East. Although he enjoys his Westem's starting line-up for 30 years and a shooter from 1955 to 1969, as a gun coastal states (Hawaii, Texas, Louisiana, celebrated at Louie's-on-the-Lake Restau of his assignments with Western, especially travels, Chester notes, "l always enjoy will keep him there for many years to rant in Seabrook, Texas. In presenting the his stint in Australia, but none have been as coming back home after being overseas." come. diamond and emerald service pin, LRS Vice President Dick Farris commended Brunner and his wife Anne on being a loyal Western "team.'' Also attending the dinner were LRS President Jim Porter, OLIVE BARBER BEGAN her 30-year assignment involved cadastral mapping for Russell and Helen Brown, Lou and Doris career with Western Geophysical' s Aero a resort-area waterway in Escambia Brents, Judy Farris, Sid and Gloria.John Service division on the whim of a personnel County, Alabama. "This was the first ston, and Chuck and Kicki Sebastian. placement service in Philadelphia, Penn project that I was completely in charge of sylvania on July 18, 1955. and my first adventure in the deep south. Currently a quality control analyst for It allowed me to work in conjunction with Aero's navigation department, Olive my husband, Henry, who has been em notes, " I didn't know what I was getting ployed by Aero for 28 years." into, really. Vve relocated from the pan ''The point is, when you finish these Standing, Vice President Dick Farris handle of Texas to Philadelphia and I went maps, the landowners must come in and presents Brunner Goff, flanked by Anne down to the employment agency to apply dete1mine whether you've done your work Goff and Russell Brorvn, with a pin and for a job. The placement officer sent me to properly. I came to realize from this ex congratulatory lrnndshake for reaching a Aero Service and they hired me to title perience that there are four things in life hallmark 30 years with Western. search files of microfilm for a land use map. people are real touchy about; their chil It was really close work and all it required dren, their religion, their work, and their VICE PRESIDENT OF FAR EAST was a keen eye." property. Nobody wants you to be off even Operations Chester D. Smith joined Olive eventually entered the areas of six inches because it 's their property and Western Geophysical onJuly 21, 1955, as compilation and drafting which led to the taxes at stake.'' a computer on Party 52 after hanging up search of deeds and property titles in "AH in all, it's been a good job. I've his football jersey with Mississippi State courthouses throughout the eastern states worked with some great people and had where he graduated with a BA in math. bordering Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, West few regrets. Aero's been good to me and Quality Control Analyst Oli\'CB arber cele Chester's been gaining yardage ever Virginia, Ohio, and Delaware. my family. And in return I feel I've got brated 30 years of service with Aero Serl'ice 18, 1985. since as a chief computer, party manager, Olive says that her most challenging 30 years of experience to offer Aero." • on]uly seismologist, party chief, and full super visor. He currently leads a squad of ap proximately 500 employees whose playing field stretches from Australia to Singapore. In the early 1960s Chester obtained his Fellow Westerners give Vice President Chester Smith a surprise reception honoring his passport and began out-ohountry assign 30th anniversary. ments in South America and Australia,

48 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 49 downWesterns line for 30years

48 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 49 This summer, the Western Passage and provide emergency medical and marine right equipment and people. Enthusiasm Party 703, loca ted in Beeville, Texas, a dinner and presented flight bags as an record. This spirit is apparent from the was recently recogn ized for an outstand extra token of appreciation from the Safety Western Naimws were in the shipyard and firefighting training to handle all types of is high in these classes and crewmembers condition in which they keep their ing safety achieveme months of crewmembers had the opportunity to emergencies. After training, Western will be prepared and willing to handle nt-22 department. Door prizes were also equipment and shop.- Butch Allen receive a medical first responder course crews can render medical aid to injuries, any emergency if they arc ever needed . accident-free service. presented. and marine firefighting training. care for the ill, and handle and extinguish CongTatulations to the crews of the Passage T he crew and guests were honored with Party 703 takes a lot of pride in its Western's goal is to train as many per a shipboard fire. and Narrows.-Dick Bye sonnel as possible on all vessels in order to Emergencies can be handled with the

Cable Pusher Hipolito Garza (standing) Party 703 truck dri\·ersjcssic Gom ez (111i1h Attending Party 703 's October safety dinner puses with ]hick Driver Alfredo Gonzalez cap) and Clemente Garza celebrated their is Chief Sun-eyor Duane fa1dy , his wiil·,

.zm/ tlw Gmv ..alez family at Party 703 's safety 2-year safety dinner 11·id1 Clemente's familr, Jan, and childrrn f\,fandy and Cathy. dinner. Sophie, Martin , and Raymundo.

Party 750 may have some new faces, 750 has one of the best safety records consequences. but nothing has changed in its high stan in the company. 7 50 is usually involved Party 750 was served a steak dinner Western Passage CaptainjefTKlorer extinguishes an electrical fire Western Narrows crcwmembers cu·c pictured in mw·ine firelighting dard of safety practices. Party Mana ger in roadwork wh ich is one of the most dif with all the trimmings in Kinston, North while crewmcmbers look on. school. Philip Shute has certainly carried on the ficult working environments. Moving a Carolina. Several safety awards were same safety leadership as Chuck Toles vibroseis operation through a roadway presented to the crew and door prizes were and J eff Ogilvie, as Party 750 celebrated requires total awareness by everyone on drawn for all in attendance.-Butch Allen another six months accident-free with a the crew. One lapse of concentration by safety dinner. any member of the crew could have dire

Denny Remler (right), permit agent for Party Manager Philip Shute presents Clrde Richard Kelly rccci\·cs a one-year safety Party 750, receives a five -year safety award Pendergrass wit/J a five-year sakty award as a11·ard from Party 750's Party Manager

Western Passage Cook Dee ~Villiamsonand Coordinator Jo Byrne at a recent safi:ty dinner in Kinston. Norm Clyde's wife, lvfmy, looks on. Philip Shute. • Bill Seymore cakes Clifl"Gon 's blood pressure in a medical class. perform CPR in medical class. Carolina.

WINTER 1985 51 50 WESTERN PROFILE This summer, the Western Passage and provide emergency medical and marine right equipment and people. Enthusiasm Party 703, loca ted in Beeville, Texas, a dinner and presented flight bags as an record. This spirit is apparent from the was recently recogn ized for an outstand extra token of appreciation from the Safety Western Naimws were in the shipyard and firefighting training to handle all types of is high in these classes and crewmembers condition in which they keep their ing safety achieveme months of crewmembers had the opportunity to emergencies. After training, Western will be prepared and willing to handle nt-22 department. Door prizes were also equipment and shop.- Butch Allen receive a medical first responder course crews can render medical aid to injuries, any emergency if they arc ever needed . accident-free service. presented. and marine firefighting training. care for the ill, and handle and extinguish CongTatulations to the crews of the Passage T he crew and guests were honored with Party 703 takes a lot of pride in its Western's goal is to train as many per a shipboard fire. and Narrows.-Dick Bye sonnel as possible on all vessels in order to Emergencies can be handled with the

.zm/ tlw Gmv ..alez family at Party 703 's safety 2-year safety dinner 11·id1 Clemente's familr, Jan, and childrrn f\,fandy and Cathy. dinner. Sophie, Martin , and Raymundo.

WINTER 1985 51 50 WESTERN PROFILE Dick Tvlercer chose an early retirement in order to embark on a new career as Manager/ Steward of a small golf course in Cypress H ills Provincial Park located in south eastern Alberta, Canada. Western of Can ada President Leo Dunn presented Dick with the traditional son of Design En engraved retirement watch and Dick's gineer John Reavis, was one of a group of wife, Evelyn, received an arrangement of 721 Texas seventh graders who partici red roses. pated in Duke University's Fifth Annual Dick started with Western of Canada in Search for mathematically and verbally 1950, and since 1966 has been a super brilliant students. The students invited to visor. His outstanding contributions to the ceremony had obtained scores on at Western arc appreciated by all who know least one of the three sections of the Schol him and his dedication has been a large Dick and Evelyn Nlercer celebrate his re astic Aptitude Test (SAT) equal to or factor in the successful operations oflocal tirement at a djnner hosted by Western of greater than the scores obtained by 85 per field crews.-R ena Novak Canada colleagues. cent of the college-bound high school sen iors. These very capable seventh graders Peter Hom , airgunlcompressor mcdianic for the Western Pacific, receives his 15-year or 12-year-olds took this college entrance service pin fmm Area Man ager Boyd Kolozs test as participants in Duke University's (right). Talent Identification Program (TIP). Paul received a Certificate of Distinction in recognition of his achievement.

Area Manager Boyd Kolozs (right) presents a 15-year service pin to Rodney Waldron , coordinator on the Western Odyssey.

Fayla Chambers, daughter of Technical Coordinator Ron Chambers, recently com peted in a dance competition at the Roland Western's Gulf Coast Marine division recently honored four retirees at a reception held on Dupree Dance Expo. Fayla and two others Thursday, August 15. After receiving congratulat01y watches from Vice President John received a bmnze medal for a character jazz Research Processing Supervisor]im Scott (left) and Manager Interpretation/Special Laker, the group posed for a PROFILE photo. From left to right is john Amato (October dance to the "Wizard of Oz. " Fayla has of Processing]ofm She1wood (right) congratulate Senior Geophysicist Bill King on 15 years 13, 1947),]ulius Rasmussen Uanuary 9, 1950),]ohn 'Spider' Webb (December 1, 1950), been taking dance for seven years at Ann of service with Western Geophysical. and Russell Brown (April 13, 1953). Moody Sill Dance Studio.

WINTER 1985 53 52 WESTERN PROFILE Dick Tvlercer chose an early retirement in order to embark on a new career as Manager/ Steward of a small golf course in Cypress H ills Provincial Park located in south eastern Alberta, Canada. Western of Can ada President Leo Dunn presented Dick with the traditional son of Design En engraved retirement watch and Dick's gineer John Reavis, was one of a group of wife, Evelyn, received an arrangement of 721 Texas seventh graders who partici red roses. pated in Duke University's Fifth Annual Dick started with Western of Canada in Search for mathematically and verbally 1950, and since 1966 has been a super brilliant students. The students invited to visor. His outstanding contributions to the ceremony had obtained scores on at Western arc appreciated by all who know least one of the three sections of the Schol him and his dedication has been a large Dick and Evelyn Nlercer celebrate his re astic Aptitude Test (SAT) equal to or factor in the successful operations oflocal tirement at a djnner hosted by Western of greater than the scores obtained by 85 per field crews.-R ena Novak Canada colleagues. cent of the college-bound high school sen iors. These very capable seventh graders Peter Hom , airgunlcompressor mcdianic for the Western Pacific, receives his 15-year or 12-year-olds took this college entrance service pin fmm Area Man ager Boyd Kolozs test as participants in Duke University's (right). Talent Identification Program (TIP). Paul received a Certificate of Distinction in recognition of his achievement.

Area Manager Boyd Kolozs (right) presents a 15-year service pin to Rodney Waldron , coordinator on the Western Odyssey.

WINTER 1985 53 52 WESTERN PROFILE Western of Canada has a newly formed hockey tea.n1. All players are \t\festern employees and they compete in the Energy Resources League, comprised of Calgary-based oil and related companies. (First row, left to right) Dave Chown, Jim Reed, John Shield, Jon Williams, Bruce Richardson, and Barry Mulvaney. (Second row, left to right) Keith Jones, Paul Anderson, Bill Westwood, Dave Arcand, TreForE vancic, Ray Rhyno, .Don Crowell, Mike McGuire, Dave Geddes, Rick Robinson, andJom1 R eed.

What would you like to read about in Field Supervisor Bob Jensen (left), cwTently working in Colombia, is congratulated by your company magazine? Tn order to im Resident Manager Gary Jones on 15 years of service. (Photo by Patrick Gould) plement new ideas, features, cmd columns, we need your contribulions and support. Please call or write in with news tips and updates from your area of work. The PROFILE schedul e has been altered. A general outline of deadlines is as follows:

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Spring ...... Janmuy 15 Summer ...... May 15 Winler September 15 ...... Greg Walz Let us know how we can help in in forming you of the activities of Western month for the family of LSPC Manager Geophysical. Bill Walz and wife, Neta. Their youngest son, Gary, graduated from AJiefHastings Sincerely, H igh School on May 23. Gary was a member of the Hastings Senior Council and the National Honor Society. He also ~::f:a~::-received a civil engineering scholarship Editor from Texas A&M University where he is Teddi Johnston, daughter of Western Re currently a freshman. Sandra Amezquita, daughter of Senior Sec search Mechanical Engineering Manager retary Amparo Amezquita, graduated from Gary's older brother ,Greg, graduated Otis Johnston and his wife, Lynda, grad Cypress-FaiTba.nks High School in Houston from Texas A&M on May 3 with a BS in uated from the University of Houston at in June. Sandra is currently attending electrical engineering. Greg began work Clear Lake on August 2, 1985 with a BBA Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdo ing as a marketing engineer for Hewlett degree. ches, Texas. Packard on July 8 in Colorado Springs, Teddi is currently employed at Ford Aero Colorado. space where she has worked for two years.

54 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 55 Western of Canada has a newly formed hockey tea.n1. All players are \t\festern employees and they compete in the Energy Resources League, comprised of Calgary-based oil and related companies. (First row, left to right) Dave Chown, Jim Reed, John Shield, Jon Williams, Bruce Richardson, and Barry Mulvaney. (Second row, left to right) Keith Jones, Paul Anderson, Bill Westwood, Dave Arcand, TreForE vancic, Ray Rhyno, .Don Crowell, Mike McGuire, Dave Geddes, Rick Robinson, andJom1 R eed.

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54 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 55 Future Westerners

Sarahjanc Harris Nicholas Daniel Genoshe born December 27 , 1984 born March 14, 1985 dau ghter of Mar c Harris son of Daniel Genoshe Hc;id Surveyor M arine P rocessing

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Cody James Tomlinson Marine Electrician Wilhelm G. H einrichs born February l , 1985 and R eceptionist Lily Heng, both from the son of Gordon Tomlinson Singapore a/lice, were married on July 12, Truck Driver 1985 in Hilden, Germany. They honey Party 708 mooned in Spa.in after a reception at a local Hilden hotel. On February 16, 1985, Geophysical Tech nician Linda Dang and My V Huynh were married in Ho uston, Texas. L inda has worked in Gulf Coast Data Sales for over five years. After a reception at the Golden Stan W. Scott, son of Playback Instrument City R estaurant, the couple honeymooned Supervisor Carl Scott, married K eisha in H awaii. Payne at Northwest Church of Christ in Houston, Texas, onjw1e 22, 1985. A honey Justin Louis Merrigan Leila Margot Henkes moon cruise in the Caribbean followed born April 24, 1985 bornjul y 16, 1985 the ceremony. son of Mike M errigan daughter ofJ an H endrik H enkes Part y M anager Senior Navigator Pan y 703 Party 109

Bryan Joseph Perez born M ay 25, 1985 son of J esse Perez Man ager, Finance & Administration Singapore

56 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 57 Future Westerners

Sarahjanc Harris Nicholas Daniel Genoshe born December 27 , 1984 born March 14, 1985 dau ghter of Mar c Harris son of Daniel Genoshe Hc;id Surveyor M arine P rocessing

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Bryan Joseph Perez born M ay 25, 1985 son of J esse Perez Man ager, Finance & Administration Singapore

56 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 57 Future Westerners THEY SERVE

Service Anniversaries ... Ju/Vi August Septembe1~October

39YEARS 22 YEARS 17 YEARS Forrest, William Y. Brooks, William T. Barbour, Jimmie H . *Chatoor, Winston J. *Funkhouser, Donald W. 37 YEARS Knapp, Ralph S., Jr. * Di Battista, Angelo *Greeson, Patricia A. Robinson, William P. Mitchell, Stewart W. * Floyd, Emitt E. Gortemiller, Gale W. *Savit, Carl H. 21 YEARS Moree, Robert F. G. Hickman, Thomas Winborn, Stephen A. Balzrette, Joe W. Noble, David P. *McKenzie, Harold Porceddu, Eraldo O 'Sullivan, Patrick A. * Davis, Joe L. C. 36 YEARS Rossi, Paolo Kerry, Sybil A. * Pepper, Peter J. Chiari, A lberto Sharp, James R. McCormic, Richard M. Posada, Gerardo M. Cramer, Neal P. *Milne, Craigwood C. 16 YEARS Rector, Joan C. Taylor, Dalton Natalini, Silvano Astorino, Antonio Rodriguez, Lupe Ashley Ellen Frederick Andrew Steven Biddle Thigpen, Ben B. Santucci, Cesare Ragan, Frank * Bergsrud, Wesley A. born AuglJst '.n , 1985 born September 8, 1985 Sessa, Claudio 35 YEARS Rutherford, Derrick * Boyer, Charles E. granddaughter of Carl Scott son of Jim & J ane Biddle *Smith, Guy A. Dungan, Wilton B. Cantu, Joe Playback Instrument Supervisor Lead Computer Operator 20YEARS * Urbanek, Gerald R. Trucchi, Sergio Dondi, M arisa lride Houston Digital Center T ape Librarian Creel, Larry L. Webster, David L. Elsden, Mark 34 YEARS *Fair, Gary L. *Garrett, Richard D. YEARS * Hollander, John E. Martin, Eugene H . 12 Quintana, Benny *Shammas, Victor Godkin, Robert G. * Deen, Patsy S. *Gonzalez-Lopez, Higinio Smith, Jeff D. Denley, C. Frank 33 YEARS * Hill, James A. Michael William Brombacher Wilson, James C. * Eastcro ft, Robert * Butler, Huey H., Jr. born August 25, 1985 Young, Brian * Hix, Thomas B., Jr. Garza, Ruben lnnarnorati, Rocco Hakes, Larry M . son of' Soraya A. Brombach er 32 YEARS 19 YEARS M artin, Reginald H . Graphics Supervisor Hudson, William M. Langston, Gordon C. * Abouda, Ali Mohamed H ouston Miller, Alvin A. Mason, Robert J. Lenz, Norman E. Bell, James, Jr. *pfingsten, John R. Saltamachia, Joe G. Lister, Mario P. Bennett, John W. Scott, Gary L. *Squires, James R. Martin, Dallas J. Brannan, Orval F. Slevinski, Michael T. McPeek, Nathaniel K. 31 YEARS Brown, Bill L. Vancini, Roberto Moore, James A. Scott, Carl W. Colazilli, Terigio 15 YEARS *Nuttall, Peter Cooper, Carl L. Perry, Paul M . 30 YEARS Garcia, Manuel M. * Drira, Abdelfatah Barber, Olive * Henkes, J. Hendrik Ramey, W alter J. *Grira, Ahmed Ali Monziani, Luigia Roberts, Kevin W . * Harding, Peter Neben, Stanley E. Perrone, Vincenzo M arconi, Lucio Schmidt, Reese R. Hornsby, James M. Siller, Jill A. Smith, Chester D. Smarrelli, Lucio * Karouia, Maklouf *Smith, John N . RobertJoseph Copley Tortorella, Michelangelo Samir Ahmed Malik 29YEARS * Kostanic, John S. Stone, Dillard F. born September 10, 1984 Wisecup, R. Daniel born j une 12, 1985 *T assi, Rom ano Lombardo, Umberto Tillery, Robert W. son of j ohn Copley son of Mubarik Malik M arzoli, Eliseo 14 YEARS 28 YEARS Walls, Christopher A. Coord inator Geophysical Analyst *McDonald, Barry Bailey, Keith * Patroncino, Aldo Whetzel, M ark I. Western Passage Party 9 17 Miranda, Anthony F. Elliott, Linda T. *Wright, Clifford W.1 Jr. 27YEARS Murray, Richard N . Hatton, William T. 11 YEARS Meghan Rebecca Yoder Gregory, Ernest D. *Mutten, Victor H. Lee, Rodney E. *Alamo, Garcia Ricardo born September 13, 1984 *Warren, Thomas A. * Unverricht, Henri * Polisensky, Janosi k Alessi, Angela gran ddaughter of Becky Dill Venturini, Claudio * Ralton, Franklin 26 YEARS Banik, Michael Tape Librarian Rosser, Richard A. Roundtree, Claud E. 18 YEARS Barnum, Kenneth Lee H ouston *Sands, William J. Cain, James L. 24 YEARS Tivelli, Aldo Boone, Rhonda S. *Cooper, Leonard P. Cooner, Ronnie R. Bottensek, Dale Edward * Edwards, Anthony J. 13 YEARS Weidner, M elvin I. * Brewer, Martin Stephen Hough, Derek *Anderson, Don C. Welshe, Robert G. Buelow, Colleen Jones, Joe Barbieri, Augusto Cassatato, Eugenio 23 YEARS Lambert, Richard N. Bortoletto, Giuseppe Davis, Allie Sue Sumrall, James S. * Ray, John R. Cola, Renato De Albuquerque, lvaci S.

58 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 59 Future Westerners THEY SERVE

Service Anniversaries ... Ju/Vi August Septembe1~October

58 WESTERN PROFILE WINTER 1985 59 Cavalieri, M arsilio Sharma, Vinay Kumar *Farley, Terry Pedersen, Norman H. De Bow, G. Ransom * Beringer, Elaine E. Pesarini, Gianpaolo M ario * Kucera, Diana L. Charlebois, Joan *Shaw , Roger A. Feeney, Kenton R. * Pham, Q uockhanh De Leon, Ismael Boardman, Joann Oody) Ramirez, Joe A. M artens, Ryszard A. Cini, Louis Slipets, Linda D. Forcer, N igel J. Phifer, Thomas David Delle Vedove, Roberto Browne, William V. Seymour, Wilford S. Miller, Isaac W. Cistone, Stephen A. Smith, Richard Franklin, Charles L. * Poirier, Renee Y. Denzi n, Lane Wade *Cramer, Neal Parker, Jr. Spradling, Q uenti n M. Moffitt, David Cockey, Christopher A. *Taylor, Colin Frisco, Sandra Prihatna, ljan Echols, Matthew De Leon, Joe V. Sullivan, Terrance P. Moya, Ray V. Collier, Wyatt Temple, Mark R. Fuller, Will M . Purtill, M ichael A. Fettig, William Thomas Franklin, John B., Jr. Sykes, Ethel L. Mu scat, Mario Conboy, Michael Ray *Terpening, Michael Funke, Ruthanne S. *Qu inn, Daniel J. *Taylor, Victory J. Narang, John I. Crady, Jackie Sue *Tisserat, Bruce A. Gallagher, Dennis G. Quirein, M arie C. Furlan, Franco Gentry, Russell A. !I ii ~ Guzzetti, Michael R. Jolivette, Betty L. *Valenzeula, Tomas F. Naughton, Andrew L. ;j I i * Curry, Ian Thomas Washburn, Anna L. Garcia, Derna L. Ramos, Olga * Hansen, Kolbjorn * Lavender, Janice V. Vela, Conrado Nelson, M arsha K. i: '" * Dame, Loren Ray White, Annabelle C erdan, Raymond S. Ray, Pamela K. I i,, Harter, Linda Anne Maricar, A. M . llmudeen Vicentini, Guido Nichols, Herbert L. Davidson, Trevor Whitlock, Frederick Giannone, Vito Pio *Reddicks, James H. I ; I ~ * Henderson, Diana * Parks, Tommy Joe Wallete, Elizabeth L. Null, Harvey 1f I i Day, Charles B. D. F. Wickenheiser, M ark A. Gilbert, Jeffrey T. Richardson, Ian !• ; If Jer J. * Klabunde, Paul Rinehart, Dennis Bryan Wallete, William M . Parry, emy Edward 'j ' I' *Doffing, Rlchard L. *Will, Marcia Green, Calvin Richings, Alfred Scott, William Wilson Perez, Joe Henry Doyle, Mark R. Wise, Michael Brent Gustin, Bruce E. Rickey, M ichael E. Kushner, Andrew M . 7YEARS Petermann, Gary S. ' ' 11 * Falcon, Juan J. Woods, David * Haggerty, Michael L. Roberts, Michael W. Lodato, Alessandro Silverman, Jay Neal [I * Adams, Julia Jenkins Martin, Rosemarie (Reggie) A. *Skinner, Marvin W. Protho, Sherilyn ., "' * Fann, Jerry C. * Yilmaz, O zdogan Haidar, Steve A. *Saltray, James Edward Albright, James F. , , I ~a *McGrath, Kieron John Strickland, Linda L. Rivera, Thelma R. Ford, Raymon Harrison, Paul Wi lliam Satterley, Anthony John *Alvarez, Orlando ~. . :I~ ... Yl:'.Aa5 Neugebauer, Walter Todd, Richard Klock Roach, Mark Christopher Friedman, Bruce F. Harvey, Phillip John Schmaltz, Larry Joe Arespe, Ray Anthony Ackland, Nigel J. J. * Nowak, Virginia M. Watson, Shirley Jean Roncone, Frank Thomas * Garner, Terry E. * Hassanein, Musleh M . Sekulich, Michael J. Barbour, Randy Clay *Anthony, Glenn A. Ross, Michael Jr. Hayden, Christopher Selasky, James A. II l !1 * Pepper, Steve Glenn Garza, Braulio, 8YEARS * Billish, Gerald Atkinson, Andrew J. Posada, Jose Isidro, Jr. Sanchez, Armando 'lD' *Garza, Clemente, Jr. * Hayes, Howard, Ill Senseney, John K., Jr. *Alphonse, Joseph Gomez * Bungay, Carolee E. Baker, Randall K. Reid, Colin Austin Schearer, Philip Glasshof, Mark Hill, David S. Shoemaker, Jeffrey K. Anderson, DeWayne L. *Chatterton, Harry S. Barallon, Guy P. D . *Sanchez, Ernesto R. *Schock, Dean Ray Granlie, Timothy W. Hoffmann, John E. *Slade, Ian W. *Benecke, Walter *Chavez, Eulojio 'I Battaya, Alfred F., Jr. Speight, Daniel John Simler, Anthony * Hadland, Arthur John * Holland, Rickey Smith, Ian R. Bernoski, Margaret M. Chiang, Michael Bennett, Anthony B. *Villacis, Nestor A. Simpkins, Charles Denny * Harless, J. Shane How ell, James E., Jr. Smith, Jonathan Richard Blanks, Nathaniel, Jr. Closius, Keith A. Bertholon, Jean C. Whiteman, Harvey C. Simpson, Michael Kevin * Hatfield, David M. Huey, Gregory J. Smyth, Hugh Patrick Boswell, John D. Coleman, Dennis R. Blizzard, Robert G. *Yarnold, Richard C. Slocum, Michael T. Hayes, Leonard E. Humphrey, Richard C. *Snyder, Dwight * Boydstun, James Lowry Cortis, Victor F. Boatman, Karen K. Yeary, David M. Smith, Judy E. Hinwood, James C. Hurst, Allen L. Spoto, Tom * Breon, Jeffrey Mark *Cottam, Michael A. Boniwell, Graham T. Young, Joseph , R. *Syme, William Randy Hughes, Paul J. Huxley, John R. Starner, Gerald L. Cathey, David A. *Cuellar, Alfred M. Boston, Timothy J. Taylor, Charles P. lnstone, Gerald B. lannuzziello, Mario Stevens, Charles L. Campagnolo, Giorgio Culbertson, Berry D. Bouras, John, Ill 10 YEARS Tetreault, David Jeffreys, Deborah A. Isom, Steven C. Strong, Blanche *Coltharp, Rodney C. Cantoni, lvo Deane, Gardner A. Brells, Nancy Lynn Thorne, Ernest Eugene Joyce, John B., Jr. Jaegar, John G. T. Summers, Joe C. Di Profio, Dino *Chladek, Susan L. DeGonia, Karen S. Breon, James A. *Tobar, Domingo D. King, Brian Douglas Jensen, Gerald L. Summers, S. Karen *Cini, Ling Diggins, Charles F. Bromwich, Connall G. M . Drake, Richard Trespalacios, Heriberto Khan, Sher Ahmed *Jones, Cynthia L. Tachiquin, Jose *Dismore, James L. Di Profio, Vanda Bryans, Bradley W. Flynn, Maurice Tutt, Chris Owens Kornman, Antone W. Jones, Gary Ernest Tetreault, Catherine W. *Ells, Ronald Wayne Dirks, Charles D. * Burch, Corwin S. Garcia, Martin Wahba, Mohsen M . Kroschel, Alan *Joseph, Brenda G. *Thompson, Frederick Gurski, Adam M. Felletti, Luigi Emerson, Clifton 0. Butcher, David L. *Warren, Louise M. I I Lewis, William Joseph, Mary J. *Thompson, Kris Hallada Gusso, Paolo Flores, Juan Emmite, Thomas R. Byers, Jonathan D. White, Richard C. I Lipinski, Beverly A. Kania, Richard A., Jr. Tse, M artha H . L. Ghirardelli, Dolmino * Falcon, Enemencio Cantlon, Gregory D. * Haile, Simon L. Wieber, Thomas B. t:: * Lockwood, Arthur John Kean, Steve R. Trinh, Long H . *Gibbs, Peter Leslie Fitt, Matthew F. Caraway, Arthur S. Hamd, Merthah A. D . Young, George MacCurtain, Patrick Kemp, Jon A. Turner, David F. Hashme, Dil Bagh Gibson, William G . Forgey, Lynn L. Champion, Chester W., Jr. 11 Zavala, Enrique Cuba *Mainus, Manley R., Jr. Kupelikilic, Yasar *Ungless, Nigel G. E. Josserand, Charlene Gordon-Brown, Ovidio France!, Valerie Cini, Joseph Zelum, Michael Joseph I *Malik, Mohamed Rafique Lambert, Anthony Uva, Sergio Liberatore, Vincenzo *Hepperle, Siegmund Frosch , Ronald Wayne I Cline, Barbara Ellen t *Manzur, Akkas * Lamplough, Robert S. *Valenzuela, Catarin a Jeffries, William Ross *Gaar, Coma Richardson 6 YEARS Cone, Perry G. Malik, Mabarik Ahmed *Mehring, Nancy Angela * Leung, Janie Vaughan, Beverly G . *Johnson, Joseph Gagnon, Steven P. *Abela, Elvis Cook, Raymond Martin, Steven D. C. Moeller, Dale D. Lewington, Kenneth W. Vessio, William M. Kacy, Howard William *Garcia, Roberto I. Adams, Kelley Coppola, David A. Moreno, Ramiro Morris, Meryl A. Licata, Salvatore Weedmark, Ron R. *Kendrick, Dewey Clyde Gialloreto, Pierino Allen, Everett (Butch) L. *Craver, Pete F. Penfield, Glen T. Mughal, Khalid M. Liebman, Trudie A. Wengert, David J. *Peterson, Gerald L. Kim, Chong C. *Gibbons, Michael Andrews, Richard 0. Cuddus, Ytbarek Muthalathu, Joseph P. Lu, Phan Whitaker, Barry B. Kim, Eunsuk Gratwohl, Harold George Angie, Albert L. Cummins, Jefferey C. Rich, Harold Dwight Myers, Bobby W. Lu, Thang Whitehair, Kenneth *King, Catherine S. Greathouse, Susie E. Anki, Barbara D. Davis, Elizabeith L. Robson, Bruce Austen O'Connor, Mathew Madsen, Robert F. Wilkerson , Leola A. Scott, Graham Forster * Klitzing, Michael Wayne Grinner, Joanne D. Bastida, Linda Gay *Davis, Verna M. Posada, James Marshall, John R. Williams, Bruce L. Silva, Salvador F. Kuhnast, Gustav * Gross, August J. Boeckmann, Gerald C. Dawson, Peter W. * Powell, William N. McCarthy, Arthur J. Wi se, George, W., Jr. *Thorson, Mark J. Masotti, Paolo Harris, Eric Brennan, Arthur Joseph .... Day, Richard A. ' * Reynolds, Colin Melgren, Richard N. Wu, Hae Pyng Usmani, Aswaq Ahmad Molina, Ruben T. Harris, John F. Brillon, Sheryn A. . I DeAmer, Charles A . j * Rogers, Cynthia Ann Miller, Daniel Charles Yanez, Ch arles M . *Moore, Craig Alan Herrera, Nannie Brooks, Evelyn B. Del Papa, Pasquale Vargas, Sigifredo Rogers, Gregory M. *Miller, Ron Walker, Larry Burl Moreno, Manuel *Holme, Robert N. *Brown, Elwyn F. • Diable, Brian J• I Saltray, John F. Moore, Neil R. *Netterville, Michael Holmes, Calvin G. *Brown, Ronald G. Dickerson, Nannie B. 9 YEARS Saukam, Vanchan Nunez, Cayetano * Interrupted Service Orozco, Alfonso R. * Hume, Jon Richard * Butler, Helen E. *Edmunds, Martin John *Ames, Patricia V. Schembri, Nicholas Nye, Michael E. Pastore, Luigi Judy, David W. Buxton, Barton Thomas Edwards, Peter James Arbor, Carolyn Yvonne 1, Scott, Larry M. O ' Hare, Nicholas C. Paxton, Jimmy Wayne *Jupp, Paul Anthony Cahill, Brett A. '· Eiesland, Linda Attia, Ramsay Sharifi, Soorena Parker, William Troy *Pennell, Jack C. Kessel, Louis J. Campbell, Glenn Evans, Joseph *Ayers, Dennis Michael . ~'- Pereda, Vincent Kirkland, Sylvia I. Carey, Douglas J.

60 WESTERN PROFCLE Cavalieri, M arsilio Sharma, Vinay Kumar *Farley, Terry Pedersen, Norman H. De Bow, G. Ransom * Beringer, Elaine E. Pesarini, Gianpaolo M ario * Kucera, Diana L. Charlebois, Joan *Shaw , Roger A. Feeney, Kenton R. * Pham, Q uockhanh De Leon, Ismael Boardman, Joann Oody) Ramirez, Joe A. M artens, Ryszard A. Cini, Louis Slipets, Linda D. Forcer, N igel J. Phifer, Thomas David Delle Vedove, Roberto Browne, William V. Seymour, Wilford S. Miller, Isaac W. Cistone, Stephen A. Smith, Richard Franklin, Charles L. * Poirier, Renee Y. Denzi n, Lane Wade *Cramer, Neal Parker, Jr. Spradling, Q uenti n M. Moffitt, David Cockey, Christopher A. *Taylor, Colin Frisco, Sandra Prihatna, ljan Echols, Matthew De Leon, Joe V. Sullivan, Terrance P. Moya, Ray V. Collier, Wyatt Temple, Mark R. Fuller, Will M . Purtill, M ichael A. Fettig, William Thomas Franklin, John B., Jr. Sykes, Ethel L. Mu scat, Mario Conboy, Michael Ray *Terpening, Michael Funke, Ruthanne S. *Qu inn, Daniel J. *Taylor, Victory J. Narang, John I. Crady, Jackie Sue *Tisserat, Bruce A. Gallagher, Dennis G. Quirein, M arie C. Furlan, Franco Gentry, Russell A. !I ii ~ Guzzetti, Michael R. Jolivette, Betty L. *Valenzeula, Tomas F. Naughton, Andrew L. ;j I i * Curry, Ian Thomas Washburn, Anna L. Garcia, Derna L. Ramos, Olga * Hansen, Kolbjorn * Lavender, Janice V. Vela, Conrado Nelson, M arsha K. i: '" * Dame, Loren Ray White, Annabelle C erdan, Raymond S. Ray, Pamela K. I i,, Harter, Linda Anne Maricar, A. M . llmudeen Vicentini, Guido Nichols, Herbert L. Davidson, Trevor Whitlock, Frederick Giannone, Vito Pio *Reddicks, James H. I ; I ~ * Henderson, Diana * Parks, Tommy Joe Wallete, Elizabeth L. Null, Harvey 1f I i Day, Charles B. D. F. Wickenheiser, M ark A. Gilbert, Jeffrey T. Richardson, Ian !• ; If Jer J. * Klabunde, Paul Rinehart, Dennis Bryan Wallete, William M . Parry, emy Edward 'j ' I' *Doffing, Rlchard L. *Will, Marcia Green, Calvin Richings, Alfred Scott, William Wilson Perez, Joe Henry Doyle, Mark R. Wise, Michael Brent Gustin, Bruce E. Rickey, M ichael E. Kushner, Andrew M . 7YEARS Petermann, Gary S. ' ' 11 * Falcon, Juan J. Woods, David * Haggerty, Michael L. Roberts, Michael W. Lodato, Alessandro Silverman, Jay Neal [I * Adams, Julia Jenkins Martin, Rosemarie (Reggie) A. *Skinner, Marvin W. Protho, Sherilyn ., "' * Fann, Jerry C. * Yilmaz, O zdogan Haidar, Steve A. *Saltray, James Edward Albright, James F. , , I ~a *McGrath, Kieron John Strickland, Linda L. Rivera, Thelma R. Ford, Raymon Harrison, Paul Wi lliam Satterley, Anthony John *Alvarez, Orlando ~. . :I~ ... Yl:'.Aa5 Neugebauer, Walter Todd, Richard Klock Roach, Mark Christopher Friedman, Bruce F. Harvey, Phillip John Schmaltz, Larry Joe Arespe, Ray Anthony Ackland, Nigel J. J. * Nowak, Virginia M. Watson, Shirley Jean Roncone, Frank Thomas * Garner, Terry E. * Hassanein, Musleh M . Sekulich, Michael J. Barbour, Randy Clay *Anthony, Glenn A. Ross, Michael Jr. Hayden, Christopher Selasky, James A. II l !1 * Pepper, Steve Glenn Garza, Braulio, 8YEARS * Billish, Gerald Atkinson, Andrew J. Posada, Jose Isidro, Jr. Sanchez, Armando 'lD' *Garza, Clemente, Jr. * Hayes, Howard, Ill Senseney, John K., Jr. *Alphonse, Joseph Gomez * Bungay, Carolee E. Baker, Randall K. Reid, Colin Austin Schearer, Philip Glasshof, Mark Hill, David S. Shoemaker, Jeffrey K. Anderson, DeWayne L. *Chatterton, Harry S. Barallon, Guy P. D . *Sanchez, Ernesto R. *Schock, Dean Ray Granlie, Timothy W. Hoffmann, John E. *Slade, Ian W. *Benecke, Walter *Chavez, Eulojio 'I Battaya, Alfred F., Jr. Speight, Daniel John Simler, Anthony * Hadland, Arthur John * Holland, Rickey Smith, Ian R. Bernoski, Margaret M. Chiang, Michael Bennett, Anthony B. *Villacis, Nestor A. Simpkins, Charles Denny * Harless, J. Shane How ell, James E., Jr. Smith, Jonathan Richard Blanks, Nathaniel, Jr. Closius, Keith A. Bertholon, Jean C. Whiteman, Harvey C. Simpson, Michael Kevin * Hatfield, David M. Huey, Gregory J. Smyth, Hugh Patrick Boswell, John D. Coleman, Dennis R. Blizzard, Robert G. *Yarnold, Richard C. Slocum, Michael T. Hayes, Leonard E. Humphrey, Richard C. *Snyder, Dwight * Boydstun, James Lowry Cortis, Victor F. Boatman, Karen K. Yeary, David M. Smith, Judy E. Hinwood, James C. Hurst, Allen L. Spoto, Tom * Breon, Jeffrey Mark *Cottam, Michael A. Boniwell, Graham T. Young, Joseph , R. *Syme, William Randy Hughes, Paul J. Huxley, John R. Starner, Gerald L. Cathey, David A. *Cuellar, Alfred M. Boston, Timothy J. Taylor, Charles P. lnstone, Gerald B. lannuzziello, Mario Stevens, Charles L. Campagnolo, Giorgio Culbertson, Berry D. Bouras, John, Ill 10 YEARS Tetreault, David Jeffreys, Deborah A. Isom, Steven C. Strong, Blanche *Coltharp, Rodney C. Cantoni, lvo Deane, Gardner A. Brells, Nancy Lynn Thorne, Ernest Eugene Joyce, John B., Jr. Jaegar, John G. T. Summers, Joe C. Di Profio, Dino *Chladek, Susan L. DeGonia, Karen S. Breon, James A. *Tobar, Domingo D. King, Brian Douglas Jensen, Gerald L. Summers, S. Karen *Cini, Ling Diggins, Charles F. Bromwich, Connall G. M . Drake, Richard Trespalacios, Heriberto Khan, Sher Ahmed *Jones, Cynthia L. Tachiquin, Jose *Dismore, James L. Di Profio, Vanda Bryans, Bradley W. Flynn, Maurice Tutt, Chris Owens Kornman, Antone W. Jones, Gary Ernest Tetreault, Catherine W. *Ells, Ronald Wayne Dirks, Charles D. * Burch, Corwin S. Garcia, Martin Wahba, Mohsen M . Kroschel, Alan *Joseph, Brenda G. *Thompson, Frederick Gurski, Adam M. Felletti, Luigi Emerson, Clifton 0. Butcher, David L. *Warren, Louise M. I I Lewis, William Joseph, Mary J. *Thompson, Kris Hallada Gusso, Paolo Flores, Juan Emmite, Thomas R. Byers, Jonathan D. White, Richard C. I Lipinski, Beverly A. Kania, Richard A., Jr. Tse, M artha H . L. Ghirardelli, Dolmino * Falcon, Enemencio Cantlon, Gregory D. * Haile, Simon L. Wieber, Thomas B. t:: * Lockwood, Arthur John Kean, Steve R. Trinh, Long H . *Gibbs, Peter Leslie Fitt, Matthew F. Caraway, Arthur S. Hamd, Merthah A. D . Young, George MacCurtain, Patrick Kemp, Jon A. Turner, David F. Hashme, Dil Bagh Gibson, William G . Forgey, Lynn L. Champion, Chester W., Jr. 11 Zavala, Enrique Cuba *Mainus, Manley R., Jr. Kupelikilic, Yasar *Ungless, Nigel G. E. Josserand, Charlene Gordon-Brown, Ovidio France!, Valerie Cini, Joseph Zelum, Michael Joseph I *Malik, Mohamed Rafique Lambert, Anthony Uva, Sergio Liberatore, Vincenzo *Hepperle, Siegmund Frosch , Ronald Wayne I Cline, Barbara Ellen t *Manzur, Akkas * Lamplough, Robert S. *Valenzuela, Catarin a Jeffries, William Ross *Gaar, Coma Richardson 6 YEARS Cone, Perry G. Malik, Mabarik Ahmed *Mehring, Nancy Angela * Leung, Janie Vaughan, Beverly G . *Johnson, Joseph Gagnon, Steven P. *Abela, Elvis Cook, Raymond Martin, Steven D. C. Moeller, Dale D. Lewington, Kenneth W. Vessio, William M. Kacy, Howard William *Garcia, Roberto I. Adams, Kelley Coppola, David A. Moreno, Ramiro Morris, Meryl A. Licata, Salvatore Weedmark, Ron R. *Kendrick, Dewey Clyde Gialloreto, Pierino Allen, Everett (Butch) L. *Craver, Pete F. Penfield, Glen T. Mughal, Khalid M. Liebman, Trudie A. Wengert, David J. *Peterson, Gerald L. Kim, Chong C. *Gibbons, Michael Andrews, Richard 0. Cuddus, Ytbarek Muthalathu, Joseph P. Lu, Phan Whitaker, Barry B. Kim, Eunsuk Gratwohl, Harold George Angie, Albert L. Cummins, Jefferey C. Rich, Harold Dwight Myers, Bobby W. Lu, Thang Whitehair, Kenneth *King, Catherine S. Greathouse, Susie E. Anki, Barbara D. Davis, Elizabeith L. Robson, Bruce Austen O'Connor, Mathew Madsen, Robert F. Wilkerson , Leola A. Scott, Graham Forster * Klitzing, Michael Wayne Grinner, Joanne D. Bastida, Linda Gay *Davis, Verna M. Posada, James Marshall, John R. Williams, Bruce L. Silva, Salvador F. Kuhnast, Gustav * Gross, August J. Boeckmann, Gerald C. Dawson, Peter W. * Powell, William N. McCarthy, Arthur J. Wi se, George, W., Jr. *Thorson, Mark J. Masotti, Paolo Harris, Eric Brennan, Arthur Joseph .... Day, Richard A. ' * Reynolds, Colin Melgren, Richard N. Wu, Hae Pyng Usmani, Aswaq Ahmad Molina, Ruben T. Harris, John F. Brillon, Sheryn A. . I DeAmer, Charles A . j * Rogers, Cynthia Ann Miller, Daniel Charles Yanez, Ch arles M . *Moore, Craig Alan Herrera, Nannie Brooks, Evelyn B. Del Papa, Pasquale Vargas, Sigifredo Rogers, Gregory M. *Miller, Ron Walker, Larry Burl Moreno, Manuel *Holme, Robert N. *Brown, Elwyn F. • Diable, Brian J• I Saltray, John F. Moore, Neil R. *Netterville, Michael Holmes, Calvin G. *Brown, Ronald G. Dickerson, Nannie B. 9 YEARS Saukam, Vanchan Nunez, Cayetano * Interrupted Service Orozco, Alfonso R. * Hume, Jon Richard * Butler, Helen E. *Edmunds, Martin John *Ames, Patricia V. Schembri, Nicholas Nye, Michael E. Pastore, Luigi Judy, David W. Buxton, Barton Thomas Edwards, Peter James Arbor, Carolyn Yvonne 1, Scott, Larry M. O ' Hare, Nicholas C. Paxton, Jimmy Wayne *Jupp, Paul Anthony Cahill, Brett A. '· Eiesland, Linda Attia, Ramsay Sharifi, Soorena Parker, William Troy *Pennell, Jack C. Kessel, Louis J. Campbell, Glenn Evans, Joseph *Ayers, Dennis Michael . ~'- Pereda, Vincent Kirkland, Sylvia I. Carey, Douglas J.

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