C&C Reservoirs Hires Robert Trice as Manager of E&P Solutions

Trice, an industry-recognized specialist on carbonate and fractured reservoirs, will play a vital role for C&C Reservoirs' E&P solutions business focusing on these reservoirs.

July 2004 - Houston, Texas
C&C Reservoirs today announced the addition of Dr. Robert Trice, an expert in carbonate and fractured reservoirs, to its team of reservoir specialists. Working in the London office, Trice will be responsible for taking the lead in developing E&P solutions services on carbonate and fractured reservoirs. In this key role, he will also provide customer support and selective proprietary consulting to C&C Reservoirs' clients.

With 20 years of industry experience in the integration and application of geological and petrophysical data, Trice has worked for independent and major oil companies, including Shell and Enterprise, and has served in various consulting capacities and on the SPE Forum and SPWLA committees related to fractured reservoir characterization and borehole image log interpretation. He has more than 10 years' experience in R&D projects and is a recognized industry specialist in these areas.

In addition to authoring or co-authoring more than 20 papers, Trice worked on the EU-funded Dual Permeability Project, which used high-quality outcrop data to develop geological rules to predict fracture networks away from the borehole. The project also focused on improving fault-scaling properties so that they could be combined with subsurface data to model fluid flow within discrete elements as a reservoir simulation model. A significant result of this project was a published "cookbook" that could be used by oil industry generalists to approach fractured reservoir characterization.

Trice also served as an industry and scientific advisor to the Fracares Thermie Project, which was formed to build a geologically realistic model of a naturally fractured reservoir in shallow oil-bearing limestone. He has participated in R&D projects that considered fault properties from the perspective of borehole image logs and fluid flow characteristics, and served on a multinational committee to develop commercial software to model two-phase flow in discrete fracture models.

Trice holds a PhD from London University for his work on platform carbonate successions in Southern Italy, which formed new ideas and models on how the Southern Apennines developed geologically. With his considerable scientific experience in working within the oil industry, Trice will be a great asset to C&C Reservoirs' efforts to provide clients with new tools for interpreting carbonate and fractured reservoirs.