Born: |
Houma, Terreboune, Louisiana, USA - 24th June 1942 | |
Nationality: |
United States of
America New Zealand Citizenship (1981) |
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Educated: |
Texas Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist University, USAF. | |
| Electronics Technician, Engineering, Geology, Psychology, Aircraft Maintenance and management. | ||
Residence & communications: |
Currently Queenstown, New Zealand | |
| Right of residence and work within Europe, Australia, New Zealand and USA | ||
| Postal: PO Box 613, Queenstown, New Zealand Voice: (64) (03) 442 3100 Fax: (64) (03) 214 4640 GSM Mobile: (64) (021) 632 448 | ||
| E-mail: jim.huff@tejas.co.nz | ||
Current employment: |
Tejas Consultants (Own Organization) | |
Status; health & safety certification: |
All normal offshore medical & safety certification current OPITO/UKOOA Currently fit, available |
Area Experience:
Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas USA
Jr Observer & Shooter
Seismic system operation and system maintenance for well velocity surveys, As a shooter was responsible for the loading capping and priming shot holes for land seismic surveys. Off road vehicle operations in desert conditions.
Gravity and magnetics system operation, data collection, survey chain man and off road vehicle operations in mountainous areas in Colorado. Side line of horse wrangling.
GSI Dallas play back centre. Play back of Magnadisk, SIE and Techno analogue data tapes for static picking and plotting of static corrected data. Responsible for seismic data play back system maintenance and operation.
Trouble shooting seismic instrument systems ,electronic support systems and navigation systems. The commissioning and rigging of land and marine seismic crews . Travel to crews for on site trouble shooting and repair.
Offshore 2D & 3D deep water marine operations:
Roles: Party Manager, Assistant Party Manager, Instrument Engineer Seismic & Navigation, and Observer.
Area Experience:
West Coast USA, Gulf of Mexico, Beaufort Sea, North Sea, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Yellow sea, Sea of Japan, Timor Sea, Tasman Sea, Indian Ocean, North & South Pacific, North & South Atlantic, Australian Bight,
Party Manager
Responsible for survey vessels over all operation. This encompassed liaison with charter companies ships crew, vessel maintenance at sea and ship yard. Vessel manoeuvring in busy sea ways to protect vessel and towed equipment arrays. Vessel supplies and provisioning. Seismic crew training in safety, good seismic practices and position advancement in the corporate structure. Survey planing with client and client relations as to chargeable and non-chargeable activities. Maintaining the daily and monthly production records and production targets set by shore management.
Assistant Party Manager
To assist the Party Manager with vessel manoeuvring in busy sea ways to protect vessel and towed equipment arrays. Responsible for inventory control of expendable items, replacement equipment parts and local purchase item control. Also to ensure that general onboard maintenance was carried out.
Instrument Engineer Seismic and Navigation Systems.
Responsible for the maintenance, repair and calibration of the seismic and navigation instrumentation systems to the manufacturers specification. Client relations in the pre-acceptance running of system quality control tests.
Observer
Day to day running of the seismic system and streamer repair work. One step up from general dogs body.
Roles:
Survey design, planning and parameter selection. - Client representation for 2D, 3D, 4D & OBC seismic surveys, site surveys, rig moves and platform template locations. - Navigation chain planning and calibration. - Contractor and bid evaluation. - Joint venture set up and vessel rigging. - Transport and logistics manager. - Contract Party Chief for emerging national companies. - Liaison with government departments for new ventures in virgin areas.
Seismic Data Acquisition Systems:
Texas Inst. 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000; Texas Inst. DFS I, II, III, IV, V, TSR; Litton Industries LRS 888; Sercel SN 338, SN358; Syntron Syntrack digital systems; Input/Output systems; WesternGeco Modified Systems, WesternGeco Q Marine
Streamer Systems:
High Resolution, Deep Water, Multiplexed, Multiple tow , Ocean Bottom.
Energy Source Systems:
Air Guns, Aqua-pulse, Boomer, Dynamite, Gas Guns, Maxipulse, Marine Vibroseis, Sleeve Guns, Sparker, Vapochoc, Water Guns.
Navigation Systems:
Acoustic, Argo, Buoy Navigation systems, dGPS Satellite, Hifix, Hiran, Hirex, Hydrotrac, Lorac, Loran C, Main Chain, Maxiran, Mini-Ranger, Omega, Pulse 8, Raydist, Shoran, Spot, Syledis, Transit Satellite, Trinav, Trisponder, Toran.
Miscellaneous Systems:
Bottom Samplers, Current Meters, Gravity Meters, Magnetometers, Side Scan Sonar, Submersibles, Sonar Buoys.
Logistics, Administrative & Communication Systems:
All normal computer operating systems, TCP/IP radio data links, Inmarsat HSD links; normal admin. integrated software suites, Office, Works, Other software packages Foxpro, Corel Draw, Pagemaker, Photoshop; Internet software Eudora, Netscape, Opera, and various HTML editors.
By Country:
Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia.
Arctic: Alaska, Norway.
E. Europe: Russia
Europe: Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK.
Far East: South Korea.
North America: Canada E. Coast, USA Gulf Coast, USA Land Areas, USA W. Coast.
Pacific: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand ,Tonga.
Asia: Bangladesh, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sarawak, Singapore Viet Nam
By Sea Areas:
West Coast USA, Gulf of Mexico, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, North Sea, English Channel, Irish Sea, Bay of Biscay, Norwegian Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean sea, Caspian Sea, South China Sea, Gulf of Bengal, Gulf of Thailand, Yellow sea, Sea of Japan, Arafura Sea, Timor Sea, Tasman Sea, Indian Ocean, North & South Pacific, North & South Atlantic, Australian Bight.
Anschultz, Amerada Hess, Amoco, Arco, BHP, BP, Chevron, Conoco, Dragon Oil, Elf Aquitaine, Elf Gabon, Elf Norway, Eniepsa, Esso, Forest, Fugro, Geco, Getty, Hadson, Hunt Oil, Kirkland, Marathon, Mobil, Monarch Geophysical, NAM, Nopec, Norsk Hydro, NPD, Occidental, Pedco, Petronas, PGS, Phillips, Placid, Seahawk, Shell, Sonangol, Statoil, TGS Nopec, Triton Energy, Ultramar, Union Texas, Wesminco, Zapex, Zeus.
Shipyard management , vessel repair and vessel rigging design, - Audio engineering and acoustic engineering for indoor and outdoor live music performances, Musical Stage shows and recording studios. - Graphic design and desk top publishing . - Competent off road vehicle driver in desert and mountainous terrain. - A general openness toward cross-cultural working groups and environments, and the issues which may arise.
2003 - 2009 Tejas Consultants (Geophysical Consultants)
1997 - 2003 Exploration Partners International (Geophysical Consultants)
1976 - 1997 Offshore Surveys International Ltd (Geophysical Consultants)
1972 - 1976 Geophysical Service Inc. (Geophysical Contractors)
1971 - 1972 Aquatic Exploration (Hunt Oil Company )
1969 - 1971 Geophysical Service Inc. (Geophysical Contractors)
1965 - 1969 United States Airforce (National Defence)
1961 - 1965 Geophysical Service Inc. (Geophysical Contractors)
Member of IAGC
Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
The Energy Institute
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Bill Hodgson Offshore Surveys International The Old Rectory, Dinsdale-on-Tees, Darlington, DL2 1PN England Tel. (44) (1325) 720257 Fax (44) (1325) 721039 E-mail offshoresurveys@hotmail.com |
Kevin Corbett Wrangler Resources,LLC 1801 Broadway. Denver, CO USA, 80202 Tel (1) (303) 292-4110 E-mail kcorbett@frii.com
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