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CV John
Quirk
Principal Seismic Acquisition Consultant
Date
of Birth
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1st November 1950 |
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Residence /
Nationality |
UK / British |
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Educational
Degree |
BEng (Part1)
Engineering Science and Industrial Management |
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Languages
(fluent) |
English |
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Languages (not
fluent) |
French |
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Contact Details |
jq@qualitycontrol.co.uk, http://www.seisqc.com |
Over
20 years worldwide acquisition experience
since 1983. 8 years as an observer, senior observer and party chief with
geophysical contractor. Operating as an acquisition consultant since 1991, John
has wide experience of seismic and navigation quality control and data
processing. He also has training and experience in project planning and
management
Areas
of Experience
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Project
Management |
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Management of
seismic acquisition projects |
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Acquisition |
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Supervision
and quality control of 2D, 3D, multi-vessel and OBC acquisition programmes.
Special respect is given to minimisation of 3D costs by use of expedient
shooting and infill programmes. Navigation of hazards, shallows and high
currents areas hold special interest. QHSE monitoring and advancement. |
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Navigation |
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Extensive
experience of quality control of 2D, 3D and OBC
surveys.
Navigation data
processing of 2D, 3D and OBC data. |
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Processing |
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Experience of
both QC and on-board production seismic processing systems. |
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Software |
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Extensive
knowledge of MS Office and many other programmes in popular use.
Programming skills in Visual Basic. Several bespoke programmes in use for
QC and data logging. |
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Mapping |
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Preparation of
survey maps, charts and attribute displays using Manifold, Surfer and VB
scripting within MSWord |
Geographical
Experience
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Africa |
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Nigeria,
Cameroon, Ghana, Gabon, Congo, Mauritania, South Africa |
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Americas |
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Gulf of
Mexico, Caribbean, Greenland, Brazil |
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Asia |
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Israel, Saudi
Arabia, UAE, Iran, India, China, Malaysia, Australia, Turkey |
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Europe |
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North Sea (all
areas), Irish Sea, Minches, Barents Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean. |
Technical Training
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Course |
Operator |
Dates |
| Q Marine Seismic Acquisition |
WesternGeco |
2006 |
| Seismic Data Processing using
Freeseis |
Reflection
Exploration |
2004 |
| Neptune Navigation Data Processing |
ECL |
2002 |
| Navigation Data Processing |
ECL |
1996 |
| Internet programming course |
Liverpool
University |
1996 |
| Unix course, summer school |
Liverpool
University |
1996 |
| C programming, summer school |
John Moores
University |
1993 |
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Safety Training
|
Course |
Operator |
Dates |
| Offshore Survival & HUET |
Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre |
2006 |
| Defensive Driving Course |
Lancashire Road Safety Unit |
2005 |
| Offshore Survival & HUET |
Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre |
2002 |
| Safety Management Course |
Thonger Safety |
2002 |
| Safety Management Course |
PGS |
2000 |
| Offshore Survival - refresher
course |
Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre |
1999 |
| Advanced First Aid |
PGS |
1999 |
| Offshore Survival & HUET |
Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre |
1994 |
| Safety Management Course |
Thonger Safety |
1992 |
| Offshore Survival - refresher
course |
Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre |
1991 |
| Safety Management Course |
Shell (Sponsored by NAM) |
1991 |
| 5 day personal survival |
Petans - Lowestoft |
1988 |
Education
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Course |
Operator |
Dates |
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BEng (Parts I&II)
Engineering Science and Industrial Management |
Liverpool University |
1975-1977 |
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A Level GCEs |
NE Liverpool Technical
College |
1973-1975 |
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ONC Electrical Engineering |
NE Liverpool Technical
College |
1968-1970 |
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General Course in Engineering |
Birkenhead Technical
College |
1967-1968 |
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O Level GCEs |
The Alsop Grammar School |
1962-1967 |
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