Consultancy

Kirk Petrophysics in close relationship with Storecore have developed the consultancy as a mean to help our oil operator clients identifying, achieving and maintaining high level of quality for their coring operations.

With on board experience engineers and a team building up with new asset joining us, Kirk Petrophysics is offering to the Oil and Gas industry a cost effective solution for the success of their full formation evaluation program.

Not only capable to perform services at the well site, we offer full package of high level expertise to define the best core acquisition program following by a core analysis program according to the expectations for the field to explore.

Malcolm (Wellsite Coring Supervisor)

After gaining his BSc in Geology, and a Cert.Ed. from Bristol University, Malcolm became a Technician at various establishments including the Rotherham Museum and Chelsea College, London.

At Chelsea College, Malcolm was involved in the preparation of thin and polished sections and polished mounts, and the maintenance of laboratory equipment.

Subsequently Malcolm worked for Kalgoorlie Gold Operations, Australia, mapping and sampling an open-cast mine floor.

During employment at GAPS as a Laboratory Technician, Malcolm spent a year initiating and running a laboratory in Indonesia and instructing in laboratory techniques. He also played a major part in setting-up our Dutch Core Analysis Laboratory.

Malcolm joined the Core Analysis Division in 1988, initially as Supervisor of the GAPS Cairo Laboratory. Since 1990 he had been based at the Core Analysis Division in London, where he worked in both Conventional and Special Core Analysis. He was Supervisor of conventional core analysis with the additional responsibilities of equipment calibration and data quality control.

In 1998 Malcolm joined StoreCore as Laboratory Supervisor responsible for the management of storage facility and laboratories. His skills as a “trouble shooter” were applied to remote well site locations where his multi-skill base supported drilling operation.

In 2008, Storecore merged with Kirk Petrophysics increasing the perspective of Malcolm applications.

Malcolm is regularly sub-contracted out to oil companies both on and offshore to perform a diverse range of services including core handling, biostrat preparation, mud doping, core plugging and thin section preparation.

Bas (Senior Technical Advisor)

Bas retired from Shell International Exploration and Production, The Netherlands early 2007 as a Principle Petrophysicist.

He joined Shell Research in 1969 where he worked in the petroleum-production area on petrophysical and production-engineering subjects. As an experimentalist he was involved in a variety of research topics, notably all kinds of petrophysical, reservoir engineering and rock mechanical aspects.

Following an assignment to the NIOC, Tehran (mid 1978 to mid 1979) where he was involved in the set up of an EP laboratory, he worked on the topics of asphaltenes precipitation and miscible flooding in the section Recovery Processes. In the period 1976 to 1981 wellsite experience was gained by co-ordinating coring jobs for which he spent half a year at the wellsite. In 1986 he took up a position as head of the Special Core Analysis group in the Production Services department of Shell International E&P in Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

The focus of this team was mainly on core and reservoir engineering studies including support to Shell?s Operating Units on core analysis programmes. Next to directing a group of professionals in the SCAL team Bas gave expert training on core analysis at Shell?s International E&P training?s centre. He is author of Shell?s Core Analysis Manual. Furthermore Bas carried out numerous certification audits of Core Analysis Vendors all over the world on behalf of Shell OUs in the context of Shell?s requirements for Minimum Standards of Coring and Core Analysis.

To ensure that API recommended practises for core analysis procedures are acceptable for Shell he was appointed as a member of the API Subcommittee on Core Analysis on behalf of Shell. Because of his years long experience in experimental research he played an important role in the design, development and building of Shell?s recently opened E&P laboratory in The Netherlands. He has been active with the Society of Core Analysts for many years with positions in Technical Committees, symposium arrangements and finance.

The SCA is a chapter at large of the SPWLA with some 600 members from all over the world. At the moment he holds a position as the VP membership in the board. He is also the webmaster of the SCA website. After retirement from Shell he took up a senior technical advisory position with us with the main focus on new developments.