Mr. John Etgen

WAYSIDE, Texas USA , John Etgen and his wife, Jenni, had less than an hour before the window closed on the 50,000-foot air space clearance.

If they missed it, they'd have to wait several hours to launch their high-powered, dark-purple rocket , and take a chance that the winds would pick up.

"If something stupid happens ... I'm just going to cry," said Mr. Etgen, a Houston resident and research scientist for BP.
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Feverishly tossing small cardboard boxes behind him, Mr. Etgen, 42, returned to work, sliding a large cylindrical motor in place.A few feet away, his wife configured a satellite tracking system on her laptop that will go in the rocket's nose cone.

Known for having some of the "coolest," most sophisticated rockets, the Etgens spend their spare time at home building the missiles from scratch with fiberglass and a curing oven.They got into the launch shows about four years ago, and they have a reputation to protect at the Tripoli launch.

The couple met at the Colorado School of Mines, where they both studied geophysics.Mrs. Etgen now stays at home with their three daughters."Frankly, it is a hobby mostly for the adults," Mr. Etgen said, as his wife instructed their daughters to squirt their water guns away from the rockets.

"Some people like to fly big, showy things," Mr. Etgen said.
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Mr. Etgen's obsession stems from a Christmas shopping trip with his oldest daughter, Christi, now 11.She selected one of the toy kits and "hated it," Mr. Etgen said.

Theme: Power Talks on Advanced Prestack Depth Migration . Speakers: N. Ross Hill (ChevronTexaco E&P Technology Company) ann d John Etgen (BP Amoco).
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Speaker 2: John Etgen, BP AmocoTitle: Is Wave Equation Migration Ready to Replace Kirchhoff Migration ?Abstract: We've all seen synthetic examples that demonstrate improved imaging obtained from wave equation (as opposed to kinematic Kirchhoff) migration.Some (many?) field data examples also seem to demonstrate wave equation migration's superiority.But, how mature are these wave equation migration methods?Can they be incoporated into our seismic imaging "process" as easily as Kirchhoff methods are?For wave equation migration to become the imaging tool of choice, certainly it has to produce better images than Kirchhoff migration.But it must also provide methods for velocity model QC/update and it must be able to produce other "prestack" attributes such as amplitude versus angle, things that are readily obtained with Kirchhoff migration.
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Biography: John started his geophysics career at Colorado School of Mines, receiving a BS in Geophysical Engineering there in 1985.Then he headed west to Stanford and earned a Ph.D. in Geophysics in 1990, working with Jon Claerbout for the Stanford Exploration Project.Heading back east, he joined Amoco Production Company's Tulsa Research Center in late 1990.After the merger of Amoco and BP, he moved to Houston in 1999 to work for the newly formed BP Amoco Seismic Imaging and Operations group.Two more mergers (Arco and Vastar) have come, but still part of that group, he is currently a Senior Advisor at BP Plc.

Speaker: Jerry Young and John Etgen
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Speaker: John Etgen
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Speaker Jerry Young and John Etgen
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John Etgen started his geophysics career at Colorado School of Mines, receiving a BS in Geophysical Engineering there in 1985.Then he headed west to Stanford and earned a Ph. D. in Geophysics in 1990, working with Jon Claerbout for the Stanford Exploration Project.Heading back east, he joined Amoco Production Company's Tulsa Research Center in late 1990.After the merger of Amoco and BP, he moved to Houston in 1999 to work for the newly formed BP Amoco Seismic Imaging and Operations group.He is currently a Senior Advisor at BP.

John Etgen (BP)

John Etgen, BP America