Jim Wallace has over 40 years of international petrophysical experience in providing integrated, cost-effective solutions for conventional, unconventional, and disposal zone assessments.

Jim’s technical capabilities include deterministic and probabilistic integrated petrophysical evaluations, robust petrophysical property development for use in reserve studies, fractured reservoir petrophysical assessments, and modeling. Jim is also experienced at both open and cased-hole formation evaluation program design including contract design, bidding, and analysis, as well as petrophysical coaching and training.

Jim’s work experience includes three years with Schlumberger Well Services and 20 years with Mobil Oil Corporation working at the Mobil Exploration and Producing Technology Center as a petrophysicist. Jim left Mobil in 2000 after the ExxonMobil merger, to pursue his dream to co-own and operate a start-up company offering a wide range of technical services to the Oil and Gas Industry.

Jim and his business partner successfully managed a growing company (Hunt, Wallace & Associates) for 10 years until the partnership successfully ended in 2010. Jim launched a new petroleum technical services company, Wallace International, in January 2011 to continue serving his Global customer base and to expand in other businesses. Jim is the Managing Director of the Company.

Jim has published papers with the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Society of Well Log Analysts, and the Indonesian Geologic Society. Jim holds a B.A. degree in Physics from the State University College at Oswego and an M.B.A. degree from Southern Methodist University. Jim has been an active member of both SPE and SPWLA for more than 40 years.

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Ronald (Ron) D. Moore
Ron Moore is a data technologist with fourteen years of major oil company (Mobil) data management experience. Ron’s most effective ability is to learn and implement new techniques rapidly. Versatility and flexibility are his key attributes. Ron’s skills include data room preparation and implementation, database administration, RECALL, and ORACLE log, core and geologic database support, and data preparation and editing. Ron’s other functions include the preparation of hardcopy and digital data outputs required by clients, data back up, setting user permissions, and maintaining available disk space for project expansion.

Ron has utilized a variety of software packages in support of data needs for Formation Evaluation, Production Geoscience, and Reservoir Characterization.

Ron’s educational background includes attendance at Tarrant County Jr. College and is a graduate from George A. Ball High School, Galveston, Texas. Ron also is certified in RECALL database administration.

Mark Poweski, P.E.
Mark Poweski, P.E. has more than 40 years of experience in providing integrated petrophysical evaluations of both domestic and international projects. Mark’s skills include extensive experience in conventional petrophysical analysis, integration of core analysis results to improve petrophysical modeling, reservoir simulation, well testing and reserve estimation.

Mark is also experienced in reserve auditing, international operations including contract administration and bidding, non-operated property administration, and petrophysical training.

Mark’s work history includes three years with Schlumberger Overseas, ten years with Sun Oil Company working as a petrophysicist, reservoir simulation engineer, and international reservoir and completions engineer. He has also worked as an associate with several consulting firms including Netherland and Sewell and as a consultant to several oil companies and the Florida DER. Mark holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Engineering (Petroleum) from the University of Texas.

Mark is a 40+ year active member of both SPE and SPWLA and has served several years as an exam editor and author for NCEES and as a local SPWLA chapter president.

Laird B. Thompson Ph.D.
Laird B. Thompson is an industry-recognized expert in borehole imaging interpretation and in the characterization of fractured reservoirs. Laird managed Mobil’s fractured reservoir R&D program that included an annual budget of about $750,000 with about 10 workers, looking at all aspects of reservoirs that are producing from faults and natural fractures: fault sealing & permeability issues; discrete fracture modeling issues; scale-up to effective properties; simulation issues for faults & fractures.

Laird performs as an internal consultant on image log interpretations for numerous exploration wells worldwide. Laird has applied borehole image analysis to a variety of fields for sedimentary and stratigraphic analyses (offshore Nigeria fields, Qatar, Indonesia, Australia).

Laird focuses on fractured reservoir analysis to predict porosity, permeability and permeability anisotropy for wellbore planning. Laird’s work experience includes South Ellwood, offshore California; Tempa Rossa, southern Italy sub thrust carbonates; Ramos/Aguarague, northern Argentina; Camisea project, Peru; Vietnam fractured granite play; Indonesia fractured metamorphics play; Belridge heavy oil, California; Anschutz Ranch East field, and Tip Top – Hogsback field, Wyoming. Laird is cognizant of the bottom line – and has been directly involved in the discovery and production of 1.5 billion barrels of hydrocarbons.

Laird holds a Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Dallas, an M.S. from the University of California at Davis, and a B.S. from Stanford University. Laird has also authored numerous papers and patents on image log analysis.