Arnaud Huck

About

Chief Technology Officer of dGB Earth Sciences. Over 15 years' experience in the geosciences industry, including seismic reservoir characterization, AVO modelling and well modelling. I am responsible for the management of dGB's services-based operations and customized studies worldwide and the training of seismic interpreters on dGB's open source software OpendTect. Area of expertise: North Sea, Africa and Middle East, Americas. Technical background: Geoscientist for dGB Earth Sciences since 2004: Rock properties predictions, well simulations, impedance inversions, and AVO studies. Wrote several papers on reservoir characterization, HitCube inversion. Specialties: Reservoir characterization, well modelling. Acoustic and elastic impedance: pre- and post-stack inversion Neural network rock property predictions Grid and volume-based Facies classification Attribute analysis Data enhancement/filtering Mapping and interpretation of seismic chimneys for charge and seal-risk analysis Software packages: OpendTect, H&R, Matlab, Scilab Programming languages: C++, Java, python, jython, HTML

Experience

• dGB Earth Sciences (21 yrs 8 mos)
  • Chief Technology Officer
    Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

    Lead R&D programmer at dGB Earth Sciences. Development of the next generation commercial plug-ins to OpendTect. Responsible for the management of dGB's services-based operations and customized studies worldwide.

  • Chief Geophysicist
    Jan 2014 - Aug 2019 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    Responsible for the management of dGB's services-based operations and customized studies worldwide and the training of seismic interpreters on dGB's open source software OpendTect. Lead R&D programmer in the development of the next generation HorizonCube processing.

  • Senior Geoscientist, Case Studies Manager at our Global Head Office
    Aug 2007 - Dec 2013 · 6 yrs 5 mos

    Seismic interpretation and reservoir characterization studies, including structural and stratigraphic interpretation, analysis of DHIs and fluid migration paths, inversion and rock physics modeling of siliciclastic and carbonate rocks. Geoscientific support for software development.

• MSc Intern at CGG
  Feb 2004 - Jul 2004 · 6 mos

  MSc geophysics internship in time processing (automation of Residual Moveout picking).

• Intern at Université de la Polynésie française (UPF)
  Jun 2003 - Aug 2003 · 3 mos

  Internship on "Methods used at the Moblas-8 satellite laser ranging station of the Geodetic observatory of Tahiti".

• Intern at Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre - RéNaSS
  Aug 2002 - Aug 2002 · 1 mo

  Passive seismic surveying in the region North of Basel, Switzerland.

• Intern at Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre
  Jan 1999 - Jan 1999 · 1 mo

  Laboratory core measurements of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility on rock samples from Bohemia and Moravia.