Daniel C. Huston

Hunter 3-D Inc.
6001 Savoy, Suite 110
Houston Tx. 77036
(713) 981-4650 or,
(281) 242-0639
website: www.hunter3dinc.com
email: hunter3d@wt.net

Summary of qualifications

Twenty five years experience in exploration geophysics, skilled in onshore and offshore 2-D and 3-D seismic interpretation. Also skilled in seismic processing and geostatistics with extensive experience in modeling, AVO, inversion and other DHI techniques. Please see the publication list below. I am honored to have been chosen as a biographee in each of the 2001-2007 editions of Who's Who in America.

Professional experience

1996- Present:  Hunter 3-D Inc.   Sugar Land, Texas

Founded geophysical consulting company with wife Holly. Clients include: Total, Elf Exploration, The Rudman Partnership, Burlington Resources, Frontier Oil and Gas, Petroquest, Blackstone Minerals, Agip, Samson, Shell, Santos USA, Goldman Sachs, UNOCAL, Chevron and others. Projects have included: 3-D offshore GOM field evaluations, Onshore SE Asian AVO project, 3-D onshore Texas Wilcox/Yegua exploration, Hackberry bright-spot evaluations, Yegua seismic inversion project, Geostatitical integration of wells and seimic velocity data, Cotton Valley Reef exploration, Michigan P.D.C./Dundee project, deep overpressured AVO analysis, many prospect evaluations for investment purposes. I was the principal interpreter for Elf's Matterhorn MC243 deep water GOM discovery in 1999-2000.

1992 - 1996:  UNOCAL Corporation   Houston, Texas

UNOCAL asset team Senior Geophysicist for the Yegua and Hackberry trends onshore Texas. Responsible for 2-D and 3-D workstation interpretation for field development and close-in exploration. Technical advisor in field negotiations and farm-ins/farm-outs. Planning/supervision of 3-D acquisition and processing.

1991 - 1992:  UNOCAL Corporation   Houston, Texas

Geophysicist in UNOCAL's offshore Texas group responsible for 2-D and 3-D prospect generation and inventory analysis of Miocene: Rob L, Rob M, Marg A, Siph D, and Pleistocene CS sands.

1987 - 1991:  UNOCAL Corporation   Brea, California

Processing Geophysicist/Team Leader for Advanced Seismic Methods group at UNOCAL's Research Center. Specialist in AVO, Cluster Analysis, Inversion and other DHI methods applied to onshore California, Alaska, North Sea, Turkey, Gulf of Mexico and other areas. Extensive synthetic modeling experience.

1984: SOHIO Petroleum Corp.  San Francisco, Ca .

Geophysical Intern: initiated successful seismic/well velocity analysis of Ivishak reservoir, North Slope Ak.

1981 - 1983:  U.S. Minerals Management Service  Anchorage Alaska

Geophysicist responsible for 2-D seismic interpretation for inventory analysis in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, Western Beaufort Sea, and Navarin Basin in support of offshore lease sales.

1980: R&M Consultants  Anchorage Alaska

Geologist performing well site work for engineering study of proposed trans-Alaska gas pipeline.

1980: C.C. Hawley Assoc.  Anchorage Alaska

Geologist responsible for mineral survey with EM and resistivity tools, geologic mapping, sampling, and mineral assessment work.

Education

Masters degree in Geological Sciences, geophysics major, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1987

B.S., geology and geophysics, double major, The Univ. of Hawaii, 1980

Publications

Huston, D.C, Huston, H.H., and Johnson, E., Geostatistical Integration of Velocity Cube and Log Data to Constrain 3-D Gravity Modeling, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Leading Edge, Volume 23, No. 9, pp. 842-846. Sept. 2004.

Backus, M.M., Catto, A.J., Chang, J.Y., Todd, C. P., Wood, L., Huston, D.C., and Simmons, J.L., A Young Offshore Oil and Gas Field, expanded abstract for the SEG Summer Research Workshop on AVO Aug. 9-14 1992 in Big Sky Montana.

Huston, D.C., and Backus, M.M., 1989, Offset Dependent Mis-tie Analysis at Seismic Line Intersections, Geophysics, vol. 54, 962-972

Huston, D.C., 1989, Seismic Response and Well Logs in an Elastic Earth, AAPG Bull. vol. 73/4 (abstract)

Backus, M.M., Garcia, A.I., and Huston D. C., 1987, On Deconvolution and Inversion in a One-Dimensional Earth, in Bernabini, M., Carrion, P., Jacovitti, G., Rocca, F., Treitel, S., Worthington M., Eds., Deconvolution and Inversion: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 208-225.

Huston, D. C., and Backus, M. M., 1986, Interpretation of Seismic Signal and Noise Through Line Intersection Analysis, 56th Ann. Intl. Mtg. SEG., Expanded Abstracts, 501-503.

Huston, D.C., 1984, Deconvolution in Practice: a Case History from Offshore Louisiana, Geophysics, vol. 50 (abstract)

Awards received

UNOCAL's 1989 Science and Technology Creativity Award for AVO analysis supporting the the discovery of the Merrill Ave. gas field onshore California.
Best Speaker Award from Project SEER, an industry sponsored seismic research group at the Univ. of Texas. 1986
Industrial Associates Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, 1983
Who's Who in America - 2001 through 2007 and Who's Who in Science and Engineering 2002-2007 Editions

Professional Memberships/Certifications

Houston Geological Soc., Geophysical Soc. of Houston, AAPG, SEG, SIPES
Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists: Certification #2596
Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists: Geophysics Licensee #3453

References

Furnished upon request