SEG Council

Gustavo Carstens obtained a degree in geophysics from La Plata University, Argentina, in 1981. Since 1979, he has worked in seismic acquisition and processing for seismic contractors and as an independent consultant. He started with Horizon Exploration Ltd., then Denver Processing Center, and then back to Horizon as data processing supervisor. In 1990, he joined Western Geophysical, serving as data processing manager for Argentina (1995–1996) and Bolivia (1996–1997). At the end of his relationship with Western Geophysical in 1999, Carstens was new business director for Latin America. He has also worked as South America regional marketing manager for Trace Exploration (1999–2000).

As an independent consultant since 2001, Carstens has been working in seismic acquisition and data processing all over Latin America and in Saudi Arabia, as well as working part time for different companies. In that regard, he has been Latin America regional marketing manager for ARAM and Latin America sales representative for Sensor, an ION company. Currently he is the new business developer for South American Seismic.

Carstens has been on the board of the Asociación Argentina de Geólogos y Geofísicos Petroleros for many years, serving two terms as president. He also has been on the board of the Unión Latinoamericana de Geofísica for several years and served as its president. From 1994 to 1996, he served as chairman of the Argentina Chapter of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors.

Carstens joined SEG in 1980. In recent years, he has been part of the Membership Committee, for which he was chairman for the 2010–2011 period, the Global Advisory Committee, the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Advisory Committee, the Emerging Professionals International Committee, and the Women’s Network Committee. He represented his local association on the SEG Council on many occasions, and he represented his local association at the General Assembly in Tulsa in 2008. He served on the SEG Board of Directors as director at large (2014–2016). Carstens also has been the organizer of the Challenge Bowl in Argentina since 2009 and then in different countries in the Latin America region. He also has contributed to the formation of three SEG Student Chapters in Argentina.

John Duhault is a “hunter finder mentor” geoscientist with 39 years of Canadian and international exploration experience, including more than 50,000 hours of interpretation experience in conventional and unconventional resource plays. He is currently the principal consultant for Starbird Enterprises, where he is considered a 3G specialist (geophysics, geology, geomechanics) and also specializes in exploration and exploitation play development, mentoring and teaching, reservoir characterization, microseismic, and induced seismicity interpretation. He has presented papers and taught courses on the business value of integrated geophysical applications in Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and Europe. He received the best written paper award from the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) for his Cardium microseismic paper (2012).

Duhault has worked for, consulted to, and found oil and gas for integrated senior oil and gas companies, intermediate producers, and numerous junior independents. He founded and led two private junior oil and gas companies (2003 and 2008). In the past, Duhault has been a reservoir characterization paper reviewer for SEG meetings, chair of the CSEG’s Value of Integrated Geophysics Committee and has presented papers at CSEG, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta, SEG, and European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers meetings.

Outside of the geophysical world, Duhault has been on the following boards; director and chairman of the Prairie Action Foundation (5 years), Focus: Reducing the Cycle of Family Abuse in Western Canada (5 years), and director and president: Scenic Sands Community Association (6 years).

Duhault holds a BS in geological engineering from the University of Manitoba (1979). He is currently past president of the CSEG and serves on the SEG Council as a CSEG representative.