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Dr. Arthur Cheng Joins OHM as Vice President of Research

Monday, December 07, 2009

Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc (OHM), announced today that Dr. Arthur Cheng has joined OHM as Vice President of Research to be based in Houston, Texas. Arthur will report directly to OHM’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Lucy MacGregor, and will assume responsibility for directing OHM’s research effort, including management of the WISE and LFP consortia.

Stated Dr. Lucy MacGregor:
“Integration of seismic, electromagnetic and petrophysical information lies at the heart of OHM’s research efforts. We are delighted that Arthur is joining our team, bringing his experience and expertise to furthering these endeavours”

Added Dr. Arthur Cheng:
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to join such a top notch organization as OHM. I look forward to working with our team to develop new technologies and applications in CSEM, seismic inversion and rock properties modeling.”

Arthur C.H. Cheng received a B.Sc. with Distinction in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1973, and a Sc.D. in Geophysics from MIT in 1978. He was one of the co-founders of the Earth Resources Laboratory at MIT, and Project Leader of the MIT Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium. He joined Western Atlas (now Baker Atlas) as its Manager of Acoustic Science in 1996, and served in various technical managerial roles at Western Atlas and Baker Hughes. Since 2000 he has been a Founder and Director in Cambridge GeoSciences, consultants in borehole geophysics and petrophysics.
Arthur is currently the Vice President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicist (SEG). He is also an Associate Editor for Geophysics in Borehole Geophysics and Rock Properties, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the SEG Beijing Office. He has published over 90 technical papers, and co-authored three patents and two books on borehole acoustics. He has helped organize over 20 SEG and SPE summer, international, and post-convention workshops, symposia, and forums.

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