Volker Schuller

About

• Prediction and evaluation of hydrocarbon potential based on outcrop information, seismic profiles and log data • Screening and evaluating play concepts for E&P business • Mapping and interpretation of surface and subsurface structures (3D, 2D seismic data) • Structural geology and tectonics • Fault Seal Analysis • Basin analysis, fluid migration, basin modeling and burial history • Thermochronology • Provenance analysis • Clastic sedimentology and interpretation of sequence stratigraphic records Specialties: Structural Geology and Tectonics Thermochronology Basin Modelling

Experience

• Senior Expert Exploration at OMV Petrom
  Sep 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• OMV Upstream - Exploration Geology Department (20 yrs 9 mos)
  • Senior Geologist, OMV E&P Vienna
    Jan 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 10 mos

  • Vienna/Austria
    Present

    - technical support for Exploration OMV global ventures - expertise focus on Structural Geology, Tectonics and Fault Seal Analysis for Exploration and Development Projects - Due diligence for business development project - Fault and top Seal domain expert - global peer review team member and governance process support

  • Senior Exploration Geologist, OMV/Ophir, Perth, Australia
    Feb 2015 - Jan 2016 · 1 yr

    - Evaluation of Hydrocarbon potential W-Africa. - Prospect generation and planning (secondment assignment to Ophir Energy/Perth) .

  • Senior Geologist, Production and Development, Team Lead, OMV E&P Vienna
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Project team lead for development and appraisal projects projects OMV-worldwide - Due diligence for business development projects

  • Senior Geologist, OMV E&P Vienna
    Nov 2011 - Jan 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

    - Exploration&Production, Vienna Basin, Europe - Prospect evaluation, generation and planing - Play concepts evaluation

  • Senior Geologist, OMV UK, London
    Nov 2009 - Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    - Exploration&Production, North Sea, Atlantic Margin - Prospect evaluation, generation and planing - Play concepts evaluation

  • Geologist, OMV E&P Vienna
    Feb 2006 - Oct 2009 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Exploration, prospect and play concepts, seimic interpretation, prospect generation and wellplaning (Austria, Germany, Eastern Europe, Middle East)

• Co chair for Sixth International EAGE Conference on Fault and Top Seal at Freelance
  Sep 2022 · 1 mo

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• Postdoctoral Research Assistant at University of Tuebingen, Germany
  Aug 2004 - Jan 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Research Assistant, Phd at University of Tuebingen
  2001 – 2004

  Research Assistant at Department for Tectonics and Geodynamics of Geology Faculty: - Basin Evolution, Teconics and Geodynamics - Applied research methods: fission track thermochronology, Vitrinite reflectance -basin modeling, heavy mineral analysis, structural geology and kinematics, micropaleopntology, seqeunce stratigraphy