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Prof. LOPEZ M.

Michel is a professor of sedimentology at the University of Montpellier, where he created the Reservoir Geology master program which he managed for ten years. His main fields of research are facies sedimentology, basin architecture and associate reservoirs. With ELF-EP he spent five years developing understanding of turbidite and basin plumbing systems. He was supervisor for more than 30 Master Thesis and 19 PhD, and managed numerous cited publications on these topics.
DR. NEUMAIER M.

Martin is an independent consultant assisting customers with geological studies and hydrocarbon prospectivity evaluations from basin to prospect range. Previously, he has worked for Schlumberger for ten years. Martin has conducted and published numerous industry and academic projects around the world, in a variety of different basins and at any level of exploration maturity, from frontier to near-field exploration. Martin also holds an honorary lecturer position with Imperial College London (United Kingdom) where he teaches basin and petroleum systems modelling and supervises PhD and MSc students.

Dr. SEYVE C.

As a former geologist with Total, Christian has more than 30 years of experience in the oil industry, from HR stratigraphy to basin analysis. He worked for 12 years in Angola, being lecturer at A.Neto University and in charge of competencies development. Working as Geosciences Education Manager, he created local training programs, in which national case studies were warmly approved by the authorities as key elements of educative projects.
Prof. GUIRAUD M.

Professor at the Dijon University in France, Michel has been the Director of several PhD theses on South Atlantic sedimentary Basins. For more than 30 years, he has been involved in numerous geological field campaigns (in Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Gabon, etc.) He is probably one of the best specialists of the Basins of the Southern Atlantic margins, having an extensive knowledge of their salt tectonics, sedimentology, specific crustal characterizations and evolution.

Prof. LOPEZ M.

Michel is a professor of sedimentology at the University of Montpellier, where he created the Reservoir Geology master program which he managed for ten years. His main fields of research are facies sedimentology, basin architecture and associate reservoirs. With ELF-EP he spent five years developing understanding of turbidite and basin plumbing systems. He was supervisor for more than 30 Master Thesis and 19 PhD, and managed numerous cited publications on these topics.
FABRE G.

Gilles has more than 10 years of experience in the Oil industry, with more than 30 integrated studies completed. He has worked as Development Geologist for major operator and consulting companies. He has developed integrated workflows, to adapt methods of modelling to fit objectives. Since 2012, he has been thoroughly involved in the development of Reservoir modelling trainings for IFP School and IFP Training.

VIOT A.

Alain has more than 30 years of experience in the Oil industry. He has worked as Data Engineer, Well Site Geologist, Operation Geologist and Production Geologist. During the last ten years, he has been a teacher in charge of various Well Site Geology courses, including on site individual coaching. He has developed a well appreciated tailor-made approach, for various companies such as TOTAL, ENI, HYPERGAS. More recently, he has been thoroughly involved in the development of a technical Certification process, designed for well site and operation geologists, in cooperation with TOTAL and IFP training.

DR. MAGALHAES

Magal is Research Associate at Universidade de Lisboa. His experience includes over twenty years of practical application of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy through reservoir characterization and zonation, 3D geological modelling, and reservoir management. Besides, he was Lecturer in Brazilian universities and an Instructor of Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology with Petrobras. Having published several papers on these topics, he is currently also a reviewer for Marine and Petroleum Geology, Geological Journal, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, and Arabian Journal of Geosciences.
DR. GABAGLIA

Guilherme is an expert in Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Tectonics, and has been the Leader of High-resolution sequence stratigraphy group in Petrobras for 21 years, which has trained more than 1500 geoscientist and engineers. Besides, he has supervised tens of graduate students (MSc and PhD) and published several papers on these issues.

DR. MAGALHAES

Magal is Research Associate at Universidade de Lisboa. His experience includes over twenty years of practical application of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy through reservoir characterization and zonation, 3D geological modelling, and reservoir management. Besides, he was Lecturer in Brazilian universities and an Instructor of Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology with Petrobras. Having published several papers on these topics, he is currently also a reviewer for Marine and Petroleum Geology, Geological Journal, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, and Arabian Journal of Geosciences.