New Team Members
In a continuing effort to embrace a variety of expertise to improve Ellington's capabilities to develop solutions facing the oil & gas industry worldwide, we are proud to announce the addition of
Maria Bolivar to our foram
paleontology team.
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Ellington & Associates, Inc. provides geological services worldwide to the oil and gas industry. As one of the major destinations for cuttings and cores, we appreciate the importance of the data contained within these samples, and we have progressively expanded and developed services that assist our clients in extracting and analyzing that data. We are well known for our wide range of paleontological, geochemical, and petrographic services and experience. Our goal is to provide our clients with the maximum value that can be effectively extracted from all their data sources.
Since inception in 1988, we have grown to serve over one hundred exploration and production companies in 41 countries. Even though our list of clients includes many familiar names, we provide services and support to a large number of independent paleontologists, geochemists, and consultants.
The experienced staff at Ellington and Associates has broad domestic and international expertise and includes geologists, geophysicists, petroleum engineers, financial professionals, and exceptionally well-trained lab technicians. In addition to our internal staff, we have associations with an extensive network of technical and financial specialists worldwide.
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William
“Bill” Ellington, Jr., President and CEO, is a registered Professional
Engineer and Geologist with degrees in Geology and Petroleum Engineering
from Texas A&M University. He has 30 years of technical and business development experience in
oil and gas exploration, development, and operations in North America,
South America, and West Africa working with a variety of private and
public companies.
In addition, Bill has worked with government bodies, including the
U.S. Department of Commerce and The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, on
several government-funded feasibility studies and plans for energy
projects to promote increased economic development and commercial
interests in developing countries.
Bobby
Ellington, has been a key principal in the firm since Ellington &
Associates began in 1988. He
has worked for more than 50 years with independent and major oil companies
in all aspects of the energy sectors.
His many years and wide range of experience provides practical
solutions and keen insights into oil and gas operations.
Alan
Smith has over 25 years of technical, commercial, financial, and
investment banking experience in the United States, Russia, Latin America,
Southeast Asia, and North Africa, and owns interests in several oil and
gas properties.
He has
degrees in Geology and Geophysics from Texas A&M University and an MBA
in Finance from Stanford University. He was the director of one of the first American-Russian oil and
gas joint ventures, was the manager of the Gasoducto Transandino pipeline
project from Argentina to Chile, and was the economic advisor for the
Bolivia-to-Brazil pipeline project. He specializes in the commercial
evaluation of energy projects and in the economic and technical evaluation
of oil and gas fields, and he has extensive experience organizing
datarooms and representing sellers and also buyers of oil and gas
properties.
Pat
Preas is a graduate in Geology from the University of Houston and in
Mathematics and Biology from Stephen F. Austin University. He brings over 25 years of
wellsite, exploration, production, and reservoir evaluation experience to
our firm. At Duke Energy, he
planned and implemented exploration projects and geological operations for
PanEnergy Exploration in the Peruvian Ucayali Basin. This also included
evaluations to determine the hydrocarbon supply and deliverability for
integrated hydrocarbon/electric power development projects.
In addition, his experience includes geological and commercial
analyses and operations in Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, South America,
and Africa.
Jacob Moore has
degrees in Geology from Cornell University (PhD) and the University of
California, Davis. He has an extensive background in geochemical
analysis and interpretation and is focusing on product development and
integration of new services into Ellington's available suite of petroleum
solutions.
Jorge
Gámez is a chemical engineering graduate from Texas A&M University
with over 20 years experience in the oil and gas industry. His expertise includes oil and gas
field production facilities operations including primary, secondary, and
tertiary recovery. Jorge has
spearheaded the feasibility assessment of various oil and gas projects
including new fields, field expansion, secondary recovery, gas plant
upgrades, and facilities expansion.
He has also executed various licensing and marketing agreements and
is well versed in marketing and business negotiations.
Louis Hutchinson is an alumnus of Texas A&I University (now part
of the Texas A&M system) in Kingsville, Texas and has over
40 years of experience as a foram lab manager extracting and
preparing a vast range of samples and microfossils for analysis.
Consultants
are an integral part of Ellington and Associates’ continuing expansion of
services. Among those associated with us are such
well-respected geoscientists and paleontologists
as:
Geochemistry
Anthony Gorody, PhD – geochemistry, mudlogging
quality control, environmental assessment, hydrogeology experienced
consulting-expert for litigation issues.
Paleontology (wellsite and
non-wellsite)
Nannofossils:
Osman Varol, PhD – Very
extensive and well-known record of accomplishments. Worked with over
20 oil companies in 61 countries on sediments ranging from Jurassic to
Tertiary. Recent assignments have been in GoM deepwater,
subsalt. Innovator and champion of industrial application of
calcareous nannofossil analyses. Published zonations schemes for the
Paleogene (world-wide and North Sea Basin) and Neogene (South East Asia)
in addition to numerous papers on the taxonomy of calcareous
nannofossils. Worked on several of the first North Sea wells to take
advantage of new wellsite technologies extensively using calcareous
nannofossils to "biosteer" drilling operations. Additional
experience at the wellsite in the use of calcareous nannofossils to
determine casing points during the drilling of high pressure wells in
various basins around the world.
Eric de Kaenel, PhD – More than 24
years working as a geologist and nannopaleontologist with in-depth
experience and knowledge of Jurassic to Quaternary nannofossil
biostratigraphy in a variety of regions worldwide, including North Africa
(Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco), Europe and Asia Minor (Spain, Portugal, France,
Italy, Switzerland, Romania, Turkey), the North Sea (Norwegian and Danish
sectors) Latin America and the Caribbean (Mexico,Trinidad,
Venezuela), and the U.S. (Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Coast). In
addition, Eric has been a key member of the team on the JOIDES Resolution
DSDP/ODP Project in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as the
Mediterranean Sea)
Mark Jiang, PhD – Over 20 years experience in
calcareous nannofossil analysis, domestic and international.
Extensive experience in nanno-foram correlations in onshore and offshore
Gulf of Mexico. Many assignments in deepwater GoM, upper
Cretaceous to Tertiary. In-depth knowledge in translating floral pulse
signals to GoM foram tops, sequences, and eustatic cycles.
Published floral pulse models for GoM Miocene, Oligocene, and
Eocene. Discovered the correlation between Cretaceous coccolith
abundance peaks and the 3rd order cycle highstands in the GoM Miocene
thereby boosting the effectiveness of calcareous nannofossils as a
correlation tool.
David Charles Rutledge, PhD – More than 19 years
intensive and varied lab and wellsite experience in nannopaleontology with
a detailed working knowledge of Jurassic to Quaternary nannofossil
biostratigraphy worldwide, including Trinidad, Brazil, West Africa, North
Africa, Southeast Asia, the North Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. More
that 200 wells. Assignments include "biosteering" horizontal
development wells, casing picks (including high-pressure /
high-temperature wells), and long duration overseas jobs in structurally
complex settings.
Magdy H. Girgis, PhD – More
than 27 years experience in nannopaleontology with a focus on Jurassic to
Quaternary nannofossil biostratigraphy in many regions, including the
Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Yemen), Libya, Egypt (Gulf of Suez, Sinai,
Western Desert), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Europe (North Sea, Spain,
Norway, Denmark, Netherlands), Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand), West
Africa (Nigeria, Angola, Gabon, Ghana), South America (Colombia, Brazil),
the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago), and other regions around the
globe. Developed high resolution zonations as biosteering tools for
accurate placement of horizontally drilled wells. Has extensive
wellsite experience in (a) actively steering horizontal drillings into
carbonates reservoirs (Danian, Maastrichtian, Turonian, Aptian and
Barremian ages) in the North sea Basin, (b) monitoring
horizontal/highly-deviated drilling into clastic targets: Oligocene
offshore Trinidad and Tobago and Miocene offshore Mauritania, and (c)
monitoring exploration and appraisal wells, mainly sub-vertical holes, in
various basins.
Foraminifera
Gerald M. ("Jerry") Ragan – Over
24 years of industry experience in more than 850 Gulf of Mexico onshore
and offshore (both shelf and deepwater, and subsalt) wells.
Integrated foraminiferal results with nannofossil data to build
high-resolution biostratigraphic databases.
Maria Bolivar – More
than 18 years of research and applied industry experience in more than 200
wells. Currently working on various GoM projects, primarily
deepwater, subsalt, upper Cretaceous to Tertiary. Highly
knowledgeable of Mesozoic and Tertiary microfaunal biostratigraphy,
shallow and deep marine clastic sedimentology and the integration of data
sets for sequence interpretation. Extensive experience in Venezuela
and Trinidad.
We have extensive industry contracts and have a broad
network of experienced oil and gas professionals that we tap to find the
precise set of skills and experience needed to turn any challenge into a
successful and profitable venture. We are motivated, energetic, and seasoned professionals with broad
commercial and technical knowledge, strong project management and
organizational skills, and extensive international and domestic energy
industry experience.
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