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James W. Sewell - Senior GeophysicistJim has a B.S. degree in physics from Texas Christian University. A proven oil and gas finder for 55+ years with Shell Oil Company, Kerr McGee, PetroQuest, and now, FOCUS. He is directly credited in finding commercial reserves in High Island 21, 22 & 34, Boomvang (EB 642, 643), Ship Shoal 232, 233 & 239 and East Cameron 34, representing over 524 BCF of gas and over 67 MMBO. Jim's expertise is in quickly and accurately interpreting and mapping seismic data.
Lee Burson - Senior GeophysicistLee brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise as a geophysicist to every project with which he is involved. With more than 50 years of experience, he has been instrumental to the success of numerous discoveries both offshore and onshore Gulf of Mexico and several interior U.S. and international basins. At FOCUS, Lee is responsible for prospect generation and development using all available sources of geophysical and geological data. He has extensive experience with highly advanced geophysical techniques including Bright Spot analysis and AVO as well as 3D Landmark and SMT workstations. Lee was previously with CLK Co. (a prospect generation and evaluation company primarily dedicated to McMoran Oil and Gas), Superior Oil Co., Mobil Oil and ARCO. Lee is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, where he received his Professional Degree in Geophysical Engineering.
Mike Keaveney - Senior GeophysicistMike is a premier geophysical interpreter with specialization in prospect generation. Most of Mike’s 50 year career has been working the Gulf of Mexico as an explorationist. Mike began his career with Mobil Oil and later became a consultant. As such he has worked for over twenty companies, including Saga AS, Amoco International, Texas Eastern International, Kerr-McGee, Shell Deep Water Services, British Borneo, Newfield, Noble International, and Transco. Mike has been with FOCUS for over seven years as a geophysicist, with particular expertise in seismic software, including SMT, IESX as well as other geological and geophysical tools. In addition, he has over 14 years experience onshore Gulf Coast USA. Mike has a B.S. in geology from the University of Houston.
William W. Holden – Petroleum EngineerBill has a Chemical Engineering Degree from the University of Texas and has over 45 years experience in reservoir and drilling engineering. He began his career in 1978 with Oryx Energy then joined GMT – a small independent oil & gas company, and has worked with Focus Exploration, LLC at various capacities since 2005. Bill’s expertise is in reservoir engineering and economic analysis of projects with a great deal of experience in many other engineering disciplines including operations and drilling. He is also very experienced in utilizing geology and geophysics in his project analysis as well as working deal structures with respect to operating rights and land issues. Bill is an expert in identifying bypassed and unproduced pay potential in both producing fields and exploration plays.
Gregory L. Johnston – Senior GeophysicistGreg earned a BS in Geology at Georgia Southwestern and a Master’s Degree in Geophysics from Georgia Tech University and has been working as an explorationist in the oil & gas industry for over 41 years. His primary focus throughout his career has been in the Gulf Coast Tertiary trends and Gulf of Mexico concentrating on geological and geophysical integration to analyze both producing fields and regional and sub-regional exploration plays. Greg is an excellent seismic interpreter and has a depth of knowledge with respect to seismic attributes and their application to hydrocarbon prospectivity. While he is comfortable analyzing all stratigraphic play types, he is particularly adept in salt dome environments.
William Catanese - Senior GeologistBill has worked in the oil industry for over 41 years. His areas of expertise have been the shallow and deep water Gulf of Mexico and onshore Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, where his geological and geophysical analyses have led to the production of approximately 350 BCF of natural gas and 16 MMBO of oil. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Geology from Long Island University. Bill previously worked for Kerr McGee Corporation, Newfield Exploration and Englehart Energy. He is proficient in Landmark, SMT and Petrel geophysical software as well as ARC GIS, Petra, IHS and Lexco geological software. His expertise lies in redevelopment of older producing fields, but has extensive experience in Exploration and Acquisitions.
Jeffrey Sabo - Senior GeophysicistJeff is an exploration geophysicist with over 44 years experience developing and evaluating prospects in both the deepwater and shelf areas of the Gulf of Mexico. He is an excellent prospect generator and has extensive experience with seismic modeling, AVO analysis, seismic stratigraphic and depth imaging. Prior to joining Focus, he was Geophysical Manager at Tana Exploration and an explorationist at Spinnaker Exploration. Jeff has also worked for Union Pacific Resources (Anadarko), Gulf Oil & Gas and Western Geophysical. Jeff has a MS degree in geology from State University College of New York at Buffalo and a MBA from Houston Baptist University.
Sonny Manley - Computer Application TechnologistSonny holds a BA and MA in Geology from the University of Texas. Sonny started his 49 year career with Philips Petroleum included seismic processing, seismic interpretation, computer application and IT support where he established a close working relationship with Don Crider and Mike Scherrer. Since joining the team at Focus, his main contribution is utilizing state of the art GIS mapping applications to keep Focus' prospect generation, mapping and risk mitigation at constant levels of high efficiency.Sonny accomplishes this by writing proprietary software programs which effectively incorporate diverse and extensive land, geological, geophysical and engineering databases for use in and linked to the GIS applications.