Reservoirs read carefully.
Linda Echikh, P.Geo.
Independent petrophysical and geological support for the upstream oil and gas sector. Fourteen of the last thirty years spent at Sproule and Ryder Scott, signing the kind of numbers a board has to defend.
Four things, done properly.
Every assumption written down, every cutoff defensible, and a straight answer on fit and turnaround before any work starts.
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Petrophysical evaluation
Petrophysical solutions tailored to your reservoir, built to unlock the upside of a play and identify bypassed pay. Single wells through full fields, simple lithologies through multi-mineral models.
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Geological studies
Regional stratigraphic frameworks, correlation, facies and structural setting, through to mapped reservoir properties and in-place volumes.
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Reserves and resources
Independent estimates prepared to NI 51-101 and COGEH definitions, for year-end reporting, audit updates, acquisitions and securities filings.
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Training
Practical formation evaluation and reserves training for subsurface teams, sized to the group and scheduled around it.
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Linda Echikh, P.Geo.
A petrophysicist and geologist who has been reading logs since 1993, and who signs her own work.
Dunes Science Consulting is an independent practice. What that buys a client is someone who engages and consults with them at every stage of the project, with the deadline kept in view from the first conversation to the signed report.
The bulk of the last two decades was spent inside two names a Calgary reserves buyer already knows. Eight years at Sproule as Senior Petroleum Geologist and Petrophysicist, leading the assessment of geological, petrophysical and production characteristics of reservoirs. Six years before that at Ryder Scott, preparing year-end reserve and resource reports and reserve updates for securities-commission requirements, acquisitions and divestitures.
The work spans clastics and carbonates across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, and projects in more than thirty countries beyond it: Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Oman, Siberia, Uzbekistan and the United States among them.
It is desk work. Evaluation happens at a computer, not at a wellsite, so location is not a constraint on who she can work for.
- Designation
- P.Geo.
- APEGA
- Member since 2007
- Based
- Calgary, Alberta
- Serving
- Calgary and Alberta
- Languages
- English, French, Russian, Arabic
- Education
- B.Sc. Petroleum Geology, University of Boumerdes
Thirty years of it, most of it independent-evaluator work.
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2020 – present
Dunes Science Consulting, Calgary
Independent petrophysical and geological consulting.
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2012 – 2020
Sproule, Senior Petroleum Geologist and Petrophysicist
Led the assessment of geological, petrophysical and production characteristics of reservoirs. Applied reservoir engineering, steam-assisted gravity drainage, CT scan and NMR for reservoir characterisation, and the assessment of risk and uncertainty in resources and reserves.
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2006 – 2012
Ryder Scott Petroleum Consultants, Geologist and Petrophysicist
Year-end reserve and resource reports and reserve updates for securities-commission requirements, acquisitions and divestitures, alongside geological and petrophysical evaluation.
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2006
IHS Energy, Area Geologist
Regional geological evaluations, southwest Saskatchewan and southern Alberta.
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2005
Trigil Energy, Consulting Geologist
Land sale and prospect evaluation.
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2003 – 2005
Petro-Canada, Geologist
Shallow gas group; Cretaceous and Duvernay shales.
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2001 – 2002
Geological Survey of Canada
Geological database work, Yukon and Beaufort Sea.
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1993 – 2000
SONATRACH, Algeria, Exploration Geologist
Geological modelling of an Upper Devonian–Carboniferous reef with AGIP, partly in Milan. Reconstruction of the regional Palaeozoic palaeostructure of the North Sahara. Triassic prospect estimation at Hassi R’Mel, prospect ranking on the Tilhemt Dome by geological risk, and burial-history modelling of Silurian shale oil generation. Set up and presented technical data rooms for prospective investors.
Tell her the wells and the deadline.
A short description of the scope is enough to start. You will get a straight answer on fit, method and turnaround before any commitment.