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Jean-Claude Heidmann has 40 years of experience in the geosciences and energy sector. He holds a Master of Science degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Paris XI and a Master of Exploration from the IFP School. He has spent his whole career in the energy sector working for the Total Group in France and abroad. He has held various positions including Manager of Business Development for Technology and R&D and Global Vice President at Total's New Ventures Identification. Major achievements have been the TOTAL Award for Audacity, an outstanding track record of major discoveries, and the publication in the 2017 edition of the "AAPG Giant Fields of 2000-2010" for his Incahuasi discovery. He also acquired academic experience both at IFP School as Director of Geo-Resources and Energy and then as Total Education Director in charge of corporate academic partnerships.

As an exploration geochemist graduated from ENSG School (Nancy, France), Yann has 31 years of experience in geochemical exploration, including 20 years with BRGM (French geological survey). West and Central Africa, South America, India, Russia were the main working place for mining exploration, mineral inventories and environmental mining assessment. Currently independent consultant, he mainly works for international mining companies in Western Africa as geochemist, regional exploration leader and exploration data manager.

As a petroleum engineer graduated from the industrial engineering school "Arts et Métiers" and the French Petroleum Institute (Economy), Gildas has for more than 25 years' experience with very diverse types of operating companies on 4 continents, the major TOTAL after his studies, PERENCO the French-British independent company for the majority of his career, PIERIDAE, a Canadian junior company, recently the national NORTH OIL COMPANY as Development Manager in Doha-Qatar, but also for consultancy companies such as BEICIP-FRANLAB. During his assignments, he held operational and engineering positions in the fields of production / well / petroleum engineering, offshore and onshore, with both technical and managerial responsibilities.

Holds a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Toulouse (1990) and a Master's degree in Computer Sciences from the Institute National Polytechnique of Toulouse (1993). More than 30 years of worldwide experience in Oil & Gas with a special focus on Africa, North and South America, Middle and Far East and East Europe. He has in-depth knowledge of tectonics and deformation and the application of structural geology for added value at basin- to reservoir-scale. He leads and provides advice fully integrated with the essential processes of petroleum system analysis, play fairway definition and prospect risk and resource estimations in line with Play-Based Exploration (PBE) and with Exploration Management System (EMS). At the forefront of new technology developments to innovate in the analysis and interpretation of big data for Geosciences, he is accountable as well for applied teaching, learning and assessment methods for transferring know-how in the realm of the tectonics and structural geology.

Olivia Gémain est anthropologue et travaille sur les questions d'écologie humaine et du facteur humain en entreprise. Elle est spécialiste du Haut Potentiel Intellectuel.

Psychologue clinicienne spécialiste du psychotraumatisme

As a Petroleum Geologist graduated from IFP-School, Jean-Pierre has 38 years of experience. He started his career with Geoservices, then BP, being involved in geological operations, then basin synthesis studies. Hired by the French Petroleum Institute in 1991, he occupied various positions within IFP-School Petroleum Geosciences master's education programs. From 2006 to 2013, he was appointed Director of the E&P Department. During this period, he also involved himself as team leader of regional studies (South America, Austral Basin) for BEICIP & TOTAL. Lately employed by TOTAL he was posted successively as Geosciences Advisor in Nigeria, then Head of the Strategy Competition & Benchmark team in the Exploration Division in Paris headquarters.

Ludovic Peignard began his career as an exploration geophysicist, involved in many Oil & Gas projects, covering various domains of geosciences. While getting experienced in geosciences, feeling a lack of flexible and swift software solution in the Oil & Gas Industry, Ludovic has developed EarthQuick, a software to act as a companion for Geoscientists. The solution evolved rapidly and let now geoscientists performed usual tasks which are part of their redundant duties, covering a wide range of facilities, from geosciences data loading and interpretation to volumes assessment, passing by mCSEM feasibility studies. From 2016, EarthQuick has also turned to Near Surface issues, keeping the same motto: letting user get straight to the point through simple and intuitive workflows. From 2013, Ludovic has become a geophysicist consultant, a technical software expert and an associate professor in Geophysics at different reference institutions (IFP School, IFP Training, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Polytech Sorbonne (UPMC) and École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG)). Ludovic graduated M.Sc.'s from the EOST (France) in 2006 and from the IFP School in 2007, major Geophysics.

Ludovic Peignard began his career as an exploration geophysicist, involved in many Oil & Gas projects, covering various domains of geosciences. While getting experienced in geosciences, feeling a lack of flexible and swift software solution in the Oil & Gas Industry, Ludovic has developed EarthQuick, a software to act as a companion for Geoscientists. The solution evolved rapidly and let now geoscientists performed usual tasks which are part of their redundant duties, covering a wide range of facilities, from geosciences data loading and interpretation to volumes assessment, passing by mCSEM feasibility studies. From 2016, EarthQuick has also turned to Near Surface issues, keeping the same motto: letting user get straight to the point through simple and intuitive workflows. From 2013, Ludovic has become a geophysicist consultant, a technical software expert and an associate professor in Geophysics at different reference institutions (IFP School, IFP Training, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Polytech Sorbonne (UPMC) and École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG)). Ludovic graduated M.Sc.'s from the EOST (France) in 2006 and from the IFP School in 2007, major Geophysics.

Ludovic Peignard began his career as an exploration geophysicist, involved in many Oil & Gas projects, covering various domains of geosciences. While getting experienced in geosciences, feeling a lack of flexible and swift software solution in the Oil & Gas Industry, Ludovic has developed EarthQuick, a software to act as a companion for Geoscientists. The solution evolved rapidly and let now geoscientists performed usual tasks which are part of their redundant duties, covering a wide range of facilities, from geosciences data loading and interpretation to volumes assessment, passing by mCSEM feasibility studies. From 2016, EarthQuick has also turned to Near Surface issues, keeping the same motto: letting user get straight to the point through simple and intuitive workflows. From 2013, Ludovic has become a geophysicist consultant, a technical software expert and an associate professor in Geophysics at different reference institutions (IFP School, IFP Training, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Polytech Sorbonne (UPMC) and École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG)). Ludovic graduated M.Sc.'s from the EOST (France) in 2006 and from the IFP School in 2007, major Geophysics.

Ludovic Peignard began his career as an exploration geophysicist, involved in many Oil & Gas projects, covering various domains of geosciences. While getting experienced in geosciences, feeling a lack of flexible and swift software solution in the Oil & Gas Industry, Ludovic has developed EarthQuick, a software to act as a companion for Geoscientists. The solution evolved rapidly and let now geoscientists performed usual tasks which are part of their redundant duties, covering a wide range of facilities, from geosciences data loading and interpretation to volumes assessment, passing by mCSEM feasibility studies. From 2016, EarthQuick has also turned to Near Surface issues, keeping the same motto: letting user get straight to the point through simple and intuitive workflows. From 2013, Ludovic has become a geophysicist consultant, a technical software expert and an associate professor in Geophysics at different reference institutions (IFP School, IFP Training, École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Polytech Sorbonne (UPMC) and École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG)). Ludovic graduated M.Sc.'s from the EOST (France) in 2006 and from the IFP School in 2007, major Geophysics.

Edwige has 20 years' experience in exploration, development and production in the North Sea, North Africa, West Africa, US Gulf of Mexico and onshore Canada. She started at Lasmo Plc in 1997, where she worked in North Africa New Ventures. Joining Nexen in 2001 as Exploration Geologist she had a major role in Nexen's exploration efforts in the North Sea. As UK Exploration and Appraisal Manager, Edwige led the Golden Eagle field discovery and appraisal campaign. She also took on various international technical and development project leadership roles based in Nexen Canada. In 2015, Edwige set up GeoTactics Consulting Ltd, helping companies develop and implement growth strategies in exploration and development. Edwige is a graduate from IFP School.

Upstream petroleum economist and engineer with more than 30 years experience. He has worked for industry, government and more recently research. He was involved in a wide range of offshore and onshore, oil and gas project evaluations cases in different countries. During this training, he will share his working methodology based on interviewing the different departments for gathering the key data, designing robust decision models and delivering his analysis to decision makers in a comprehensive way.

Michel is a professor of sedimentology at the University of Montpellier, where he created the Reservoir Geology master program which he managed for ten years. His main fields of research are facies sedimentology, basin architecture and associate reservoirs. With ELF-EP he spent five years developing understanding of turbidite and basin plumbing systems. He was supervisor for more than 30 Master Thesis and 19 PhD, and managed numerous cited publications on these topics.

Martin is an independent consultant assisting customers with geological studies and hydrocarbon prospectivity evaluations from basin to prospect range. Previously, he has worked for Schlumberger for ten years. Martin has conducted and published numerous industry and academic projects around the world, in a variety of different basins and at any level of exploration maturity, from frontier to near-field exploration. Martin also holds an honorary lecturer position with Imperial College London (United Kingdom) where he teaches basin and petroleum systems modelling and supervises PhD and MSc students.

As a former geologist with Total, Christian has more than 30 years of experience in the oil industry, from HR stratigraphy to basin analysis. He worked for 12 years in Angola, being lecturer at A.Neto University and in charge of competencies development. Working as Geosciences Education Manager, he created local training programs, in which national case studies were warmly approved by the authorities as key elements of educative projects.

Professor at the Dijon University in France, Michel has been the Director of several PhD theses on South Atlantic sedimentary Basins. For more than 30 years, he has been involved in numerous geological field campaigns (in Angola, Nigeria, Congo, Gabon, etc.) He is probably one of the best specialists of the Basins of the Southern Atlantic margins, having an extensive knowledge of their salt tectonics, sedimentology, specific crustal characterizations and evolution.

Michel is a professor of sedimentology at the University of Montpellier, where he created the Reservoir Geology master program which he managed for ten years. His main fields of research are facies sedimentology, basin architecture and associate reservoirs. With ELF-EP he spent five years developing understanding of turbidite and basin plumbing systems. He was supervisor for more than 30 Master Thesis and 19 PhD, and managed numerous cited publications on these topics.

Gilles has more than 15 years of experience in the Oil industry, with more than 50 integrated studies completed. He has worked as Development Geologist for major operator and consulting companies. He has developed integrated workflows, to adapt methods of modeling to fit objectives. Since 2012, he has been thoroughly involved in the development of Reservoir modeling trainings for IFP School and IFP Training.

Alain has more than 30 years of experience in the Oil industry. He has worked as Data Engineer, Well Site Geologist, Operation Geologist and Production Geologist. During the last ten years, he has been a teacher in charge of various Well Site Geology courses, including on site individual coaching. He has developed a well appreciated tailor-made approach, for various companies such as TOTAL, ENI, HYPERGAS. More recently, he has been thoroughly involved in the development of a technical Certification process, designed for well site and operation geologists, in cooperation with TOTAL and IFP training.

Magal is Research Associate at Universidade de Lisboa. His experience includes over twenty years of practical application of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy through reservoir characterization and zonation, 3D geological modelling, and reservoir management. Besides, he was Lecturer in Brazilian universities and an Instructor of Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology with Petrobras. Having published several papers on these topics, he is currently also a reviewer for Marine and Petroleum Geology, Geological Journal, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, and Arabian Journal of Geosciences.

Guilherme is an expert in Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Tectonics, and has been the Leader of High-resolution sequence stratigraphy group in Petrobras for 21 years, which has trained more than 1500 geoscientist and engineers. Besides, he has supervised tens of graduate students (MSc and PhD) and published several papers on these issues.

Magal is Research Associate at Universidade de Lisboa. His experience includes over twenty years of practical application of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy through reservoir characterization and zonation, 3D geological modelling, and reservoir management. Besides, he was Lecturer in Brazilian universities and an Instructor of Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology with Petrobras. Having published several papers on these topics, he is currently also a reviewer for Marine and Petroleum Geology, Geological Journal, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, and Arabian Journal of Geosciences.

Gerson J. S. Terra is a carbonate sedimentologist who joined PETROBRAS in 1975 and his entire career has been spent in petroleum industry. He starts to work with carbonate sedimentology in 1977. His experience in PETROBRAS includes assignments in sub-surface geology, sedimentology, exploration and reservoir geology. He has extensive experience with oil industry training as an instructor in hundreds of courses both in the classroom and in field courses. Current research involves non marine carbonate rocks, cretaceous and Jurassic marine carbonate rocks, high resolution stratigraphy and field analogues for Brazilian Pre-Salt carbonates. He was retired from Petrobras in 2016 after 41 years as a Senior Geologist and Master Consultant. Currently, Gerson Terra is an Independent Consultant.

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Jean-Louis Cappelli graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs. He is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 40 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. His experience comprises 35 years with Elf-Aquitaine and then with TOTAL, where he was a training instructor for in-house seminars and development courses (both, reservoir-oriented and exploration-oriented courses).

Philippe (PhD) is a technical consultant and instructor in carbonate geology with more than 36 years of worldwide industry and field experience in all aspects of applied modern and ancient carbonate geology. This experience includes 31 years with TOTAL of which 4 years with ADMA-Opco, 3 years with ExxonMobil, training instructor for in-house seminar and development courses (reservoir oriented and exploration oriented courses).

Hugues Féniès holds a Ph.D. in sedimentology from the Bordeaux University, sponsored by the research center of Total. He has more than 30 years of experience within the oil industry. He has been working for ExxonMobil as a geologist, seismic interpreter and reservoir engineer for 22 years in Europe. He now works with CV Associés Engineering as a consultant specialized in reservoir geology and he organizes training sessions for the petroleum and mining (uranium) industries. He has worked recently for the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) providing clastic facies reservoir courses to the geoscientists of PDVSA, the national company of Venezuela. He is also an Associate Professor at the Bordeaux University, where he teaches sedimentology, seismic interpretation and reservoir geology and supervises Master's degrees and PhDs research projects. He is also involved in research programs sponsored by major oil companies (Total, Nexen, and Engie) and has published several papers related to the characterization of shallow water reservoirs. He is vice-president of the French Association of Sedimentologists (ASF) and a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS).

Predictive stratigraphy consultant, 1957, French, more than 35 years of experience in the industry. He served as a clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy advisor with Repsol from 2006 to 2016, supplying internal expertise to exploration and production projects run in both Madrid and affiliates. After studying geology at the Université de Caen in France, he joined the industry in 1981, starting as a seismic surveyor in South Yemen and Gabon with C.G.G. before processing and interpreting seismic data in Massy (France). In 1985, he worked as an exploration geophysicist with Fina Exploration Norway in Stavanger. In 1989, he joined Elf in Paris, in the basin study group. His transfer to their scientific and technical centre in Pau brought him much closer to rocks. Since the early 90's he has described quite a mileage of cores and has dedicated attention and time to trace fossils and ichnofabrics.

Mateu has a wide E&P experience (43 years) covering most carbonate basins from the Precambrian to the present. His technical publications have been internationally recognized with over 3,000 citations. He was an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer and received the AAPG Citation of Excellence and Special Commendation Award. Mateu was based in Madrid as External Advisor in Carbonate Geology with Repsol. As the founder of Carbonates International Iberia S.L. based in Mallorca, he was involved in consultation with Shell, NorskHydro, Repsol, PDO, Enron, Petronas, Petrobras, Apache, etc. Before, he was Staff Research Scientist with AMOCO Production Co., based in Tulsa (Ok), leading research on karst and unconformity related reservoirs. He was Fullbright Scholar at the University of Miami with Dr. Ginsburg, and Visiting Scientist at the Universities of Wisconsin and Liverpool.

Predictive stratigraphy consultant, 1957, French, more than 35 years of experience in the industry. He served as a clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy advisor with Repsol from 2006 to 2016, supplying internal expertise to exploration and production projects run in both Madrid and affiliates. After studying geology at the Université de Caen in France, he joined the industry in 1981, starting as a seismic surveyor in South Yemen and Gabon with C.G.G. before processing and interpreting seismic data in Massy (France). In 1985, he worked as an exploration geophysicist with Fina Exploration Norway in Stavanger. In 1989, he joined Elf in Paris, in the basin study group. His transfer to their scientific and technical centre in Pau brought him much closer to rocks. Since the early 90's he has described quite a mileage of cores and has dedicated attention and time to trace fossils and ichnofabrics.

Predictive stratigraphy consultant, 1957, French, more than 35 years of experience in the industry. He served as a clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy advisor with Repsol from 2006 to 2016, supplying internal expertise to exploration and production projects run in both Madrid and affiliates. After studying geology at the Université de Caen in France, he joined the industry in 1981, starting as a seismic surveyor in South Yemen and Gabon with C.G.G. before processing and interpreting seismic data in Massy (France). In 1985, he worked as an exploration geophysicist with Fina Exploration Norway in Stavanger. In 1989, he joined Elf in Paris, in the basin study group. His transfer to their scientific and technical centre in Pau brought him much closer to rocks. Since the early 90's he has described quite a mileage of cores and has dedicated attention and time to trace fossils and ichnofabrics.