Tom Neville – Principal Consultant
Tom Neville is an expert on all aspects of formation evaluation, linking geology, petrophysics, and reservoir engineering. He has experience in shaly sands, carbonates, and unconventional reservoirs from around the World, and has worked in operations and acquisition support, asset evaluations and field studies, logging tool and interpretation workflow development, and pore-scale petrophysical research.
Tom is currently Principal Consultant at Asia-Pacific Formation Evaluation Services and Technical Advisor to Qteq. After completing a BSc degree in Geology at the University of Queensland, Australia in 1989, Tom worked as an exploration and development geologist for several Australian E&P companies before joining Schlumberger as a petrophysicist in 1996. In the following twenty years Tom held a variety of technical and management positions in operations, engineering, and research with Schlumberger, including Research Director for Reservoir Geosciences at Schlumberger-Doll Research, Formation Evaluation Software Discipline Manager at Schlumberger’s Beijing Geoscience Centre, and Asia/Australasia Petrophysics Advisor for Schlumberger Wireline.
Tom is co-author on over twenty peer-reviewed technical papers, conference presentations, and other publications, and won the Best Paper Award at the 2007 SPWLA Annual Symposium. Tom is also co-inventor on eleven US patents.
Tom is a member of AAPG, SEG, SPE, and SPWLA. He has served on the SPWLA International Board of Directors for six years and has been a member of the SPWLA Technology Committee for the past five years, and a Technical Reviewer for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering for the past seven years. He is a highly-rated instructor with over fifteen years experience providing training on all aspects of formation evaluation, including Schlumberger’s internal Reservoir Petrophysics course, which he introduced in 2003 and led for over ten years.
For more information about Tom, and to connect with him, view his LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tneville/.