cyril de verdiere

consultant

About

Reservoir Engineer with 4 year experience in numerical modeling and a M.S. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University.

Country

france

City

pau

Industry

oil & energy

Skill

seismic imaging, borehole seismic, seismic inversion, signal processing, numerical simulation, high performance computing, programming, earth science, reservoir simulation, petroleum engineering, numerical analysis, seismology, matlab, gas, optimization, reservoir management, inversion, geophysics, petrophysics, computer science, object oriented programming, c++

Experience

consultant

graduate student research assistant

stanford university

2014-1 - 2014-6 · 6 mos

Research project advised by Prof. Hamdi Tchelepi on solver for oil and gas subsurface flow modeling. Implemented in Cuda C a GPU preconditioner, the Massively Parallel Nested Factorization, for reservoir simulation. Presentation to industry sponsors at the 2014 annual meeting.

reservoir engineer for exploration and acquisition

total

2017-9 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

research numerical engineer for reservoir modeling

total

2014-7 - 2017-9 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Research Numerical Engineer for reservoir simulation with Intersect: - Designed strategies for simulation of unstructured reservoir models: selection, Java implementation and test of meshing options and numerical schemes in collaboration with other members of the processing workflow (geomodeling, visualization...). - Demonstrated workflow to process billion-cell reservoir models: C++ implementation of model refinement up to several billion cells, generation of representative test cases and simulation run on thousand cores in parallel on Pangea. - Coordinated implementation of options related to Resqml grid format in Sismage-CIG geoscience platform and in Intersect in order to improve user-friendliness: prototyping, specifications and testing.

geophysicist intern

schlumberger

2012-4 - 2012-8 · 5 mos

Improved quality of an internal processing Fortran code by debugging and building unit tests for functions related to borehole seismic imaging. Participation to a wireline job.

research geophysicist intern

total

2010-9 - 2011-9 · 1 yr 1 mo

* Gap-year internship: geophysicist in a multi-disciplinary research center in Aberdeen (Scotland). Demonstrating a new processing technique for time-lapse seismic: * designing and processing of synthetic time-lapse datasets * developing a java-coded implementation of the technique * using TOTAL in-house 4D inversion tools

intern in it project management support

bnp paribas

2010-7 - 2010-8 · 2 mos

Internship in IT project management support on an investor relationships software: link with institutional investors’ relationship team.

Education

supélec

2008-1 - 2012-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

stanford university

engineering

2012-1 - 2014-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Computational Geoscience track: - numerical methods: linear algebra, optimization, PDEs - high performance computing: openMP, MPI and CUDA - petroleum engineering: multiphase-flow, reservoir simulation, gas injection processes, introduction to geostatistics and to reservoir geomechanics Research project on linear solvers on GPU for reservoir simulation, advised by Prof. Hamdi Tchelepi.