AA Geophysical

Alan Atkinson is a Partner in Rockflow Resources , providing independent technical and management consultancy services to the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Alan is also a Director of AA Geophysical Ltd, providing depth conversion training through Rockflow Resources and the RPS Group's Nautilus Training Alliance . Alan has over thirty years of expl... oration, field development, and production geoscience experience with operators in West Africa, South Asia and the North Sea. Specialising in the application of high end geophysics to structural and stratigraphic seismic interpretation, his areas of expertise are reservoir characterisation (using pre-stack inversion, AVO analysis) and velocity modelling (pre-stack depth migration and depth conversion). He started his career working the North Sea with Phillips Petroleum and Amerada Hess in London, and subsequently moved to CNR International, working Angola and Cte dIvoire. He then moved to Cairn Energy, living and working in India, and becoming Chief Geophysicist during their successful Rajasthan campaign. Here, he supervised several significant seismic acquisition and processing programmes, and managed a geophysical studies team undertaking, amongst other projects, AVO modelling work and pioneering 4D studies on Indias largest onshore fields. He is now a partner in Rockflow Resources Ltd, a specialist technical and management consultancy serving the international petroleum industry, primarily advising on reserve evaluations for a variety of clients worldwide and providing services as an Expert Witness in oil and gas disputes. Alan devised the Depth Conversion Methods & Pitfalls course in 2009 and Depth Conversion Methods & Petrel Workflows two years later. The courses have been delivered over 50 times to audiences across the world. He is an active member of SEG, EAGE, SPE and PESGB.Read More