Paul Spooner

Paul is our IP Product Champion for Petrophysics at Geoactive Limited | Paul has over 37 years’ experience with a comprehensive background in logging operations, open and cased hole, with 10 years as a Wireline Field Engineer in SE Asia and West Africa. This was followed by 10 years in a Geoscience Centre, which Paul managed for 6 years, performing advanced log analysis, specialising in NMR applications, and working on many complex, multi-well, volumetric interpretations, integrated field studies and prospect evaluations, from many regions across the world. Paul first used Interactive Petrophysics on joining PGL as Principal Consultant 16 years ago, 2 years later becoming IP Product Champion, and continuing in that role as the company became Senergy, LR Software, and now Geoactive. Paul provides global support, delivers training, and helps guide product development. Paul has also presented at many SPWLA local chapter meetings and authored several papers on petrophysics. Paul holds a BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

NMR - Back to Basics

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) logging has come a long way since its inception as a permeability tool, when researchers in the 1960s discovered the link between NMR T2, pore size and hence permeability. Today, it stands as one of the most...

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Understanding Uncertainty in Petrophysical Interpretation

All petrophysical interpretations carry a degree of uncertainty - this is not a flaw, but a fundamental reality of the process. From the moment data...

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