Louis ***** is a ***** Consultant with 36 years of domestic U. S. and international exploration, development and new venture operations experience. He has a B. S. and M. S. in Geology from the City University of New York and is a certified international ***** trainer.

For the past 25 years he has been providing ***** , training, advisory and mentoring services to major, independent and national petroleum companies. In addition, he has provided these services to engineering, petroleum industry service and software development firms, government regulatory agencies and universities.

His consulting services are primarily employed in the world-wide search for hydrocarbons and include two and three-dimensional seismic data interpretation and ***** project management. He is a prolific generator of drilling opportunities with numerous field discoveries and successful development drilling operations to his credit.

Louis has extensive experience screening and evaluating petroleum business deals from individual drilling prospects to large scale new ventures and production acquisitions. He routinely utilizes state-of-the-art ***** tools such as seismic inversion, AVO, and seismic attribute analyses to generate and validate petroleum industry business opportunities.

His recent three-year European consulting assignment produced a new deepwater exploration model sufficiently noteworthy to be presented at his client’s annual international technical conference. Applying his seismic interpretation exploration technique, he added significant value to his client’s North Sea assets by identifying and documenting 30 potential field areas for drilling.

His innovative seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques have often found hydrocarbons, triggering drilling and new business opportunities. He has accomplished this in both conventional and non-conventional plays and currently maintains a competitive exploration edge in several basins and trends.