2013 Distinguished Lecturer

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Carl Regone

Contractor, Houston, TX, USA

Acquisition modeling: Expect the unexpected

Biography

Carl Regone received BS and MS degrees in mathematics and physics from Virginia Tech and Case Western Reserve University and, after working briefly in the defense industry on guided missile technology, he joined the oil industry as a geophysicist. He worked for four years in processing and interpretation, first for Amoco in New Orleans and then with the USGS in Washington, D.C. He then rejoined Amoco at their research center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he spent 20 years working on seismic acquisition and imaging problems, primarily focusing on land seismology. For many years he had the luxury of working with Amoco's research seismic crew and he consulted on seismic data quality problems worldwide for Amoco. An 18-month assignment in London during that period brought exposure to interesting acquisition and imaging problems in Europe and West Africa. During all that time, Carl made use of Amoco's finite-difference modeling capability to augment real field experiments. With the Amoco merger with BP in 1999, Carl moved to Houston and began to concentrate on deep-water subsalt imaging problems. Modeling work during that period resulted in the development of the wide-azimuth towed-streamer methods for which Carl (along with John Etgen) was awarded the 2008 SEG Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal.

Carl has published and presented widely and has served as an Associate Editor of Geophysics. He retired from BP in 2008 and now works nearly full time as a contractor with them. Recently, Carl has been focusing again on land problems and was the primary builder of the unconventional shale model for the SEG SEAM Phase II consortium.