Principal Petrophysical Consultant/Advisor

Paul Hofstra has been exposed to all aspects of Petrophysics during a Shell career of 30 years. He has worked in R&D and has been assigned to operating units in the Netherlands, Germany and Brunei. Paul was Team leader of a multidisciplinary petroleum engineering team working on 4D seismic projects. He provided advice and support on specialised and novel petrophysical issues to operating units all over the globe. Besides the basic petrophysical skills he is strong in advanced techniques like neural networks, probabilistic modelling and statistics. Paul frequently trained young staff on the job and in the training center through formal training. He had also a global role to maintain petrophysical knowhow and standards around the world.