Patrick Connolly
Former BP Senior Advisor, Geophysical Analysis
Elastic Impedance: inventor
Extended Elastic Impedance: co-inventor
Seismic Net Pay method: inventor
Inversion by matching to pseudo-wells: inventor
Awards & Professional Recognition
SEG Best Paper in The Leading Edge, Honorable Mention, Elastic Impedance, 1999
SEG Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal, 2001
EAGE Distinguished Lecturer, 2007
SEG Distinguished Lecturer, 2010
BP Upstream Technology, Technology Development Award, Stochastic Inversion, 2014
SEG Best Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting, 2017
Selected Publications
Elastic impedance, 1999, P Connolly, The Leading Edge 18 (4), 438-452
Extended elastic impedance for fluid and lithology prediction, 2002, DN Whitcombe, PA Connolly, RL Reagan, TC Redshaw, Geophysics 67 (1), 63-67
A simple, robust algorithm for seismic net pay estimation, 2007, P Connolly, The Leading Edge 26 (10), 1278-1282
The Application of Very Large Numbers of Pseudo-Wells for Reservoir Characterisation, 2014, PA Connolly, MJ Hughes, Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, SPE-171879-MS