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Recent Company Awards and Certifications
Kurt
Strack
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Award |
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2006 |
Dr. Strack is named the new SEG Research Committee Chair, SEG, New
Orleans |
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2006 |
Visiting Professor of
Yangtze University, Ministry of Education, China |
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2006 |
Expert Advisory Committee
Member, Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oils and Gas
Resources, Yangtze University, Ministry of Education, China |
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2004-2005 |
Distinguished Speaker |
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2003 |
Distinguished Technical
Achievement Award, SPWLA, Galveston |
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2003 |
Member of Russian
Academy of Natural Sciences
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2003 |
Kapitsa gold Medal of
Honor |
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2003 |
Reginald Fessenden Award, SEG, Dallas |
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1999 |
Distinguished
Lecturer for the 1998-99 program, SPE |
Horst Rüter
Yardenia Martinez
Kurt Strack's Award details
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Visiting Professor of
Yangtze University, Ministry of Education, China
Yangtze
University welcomes Dr. Kurt M. Strack |
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Expert Advisory Committee Member,
Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oils and Gas Resources, Yangtze
University, Ministry of Education, China |
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Distinguished Speaker Award
Society of Petrophysicists and Well
Log Analysts (SPWLA) Presented Kurt Strack in appreciation of his
outstanding contribution to the SPWLA as a Distinguished Speaker |
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Distinguished Technical
Achievement Award
Society of
Professional Well Log Analysts
June
22-25, 2003
Galveston,
Texas
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Extract
from the SPWLA
conference program:
Dr.
K.M. Strack is president of KMS Technologies- KJT Enterprises Inc.
specializing in borehole logging tool and permanent sensor development. Kurt
also serves as Adjunct Professor in the Geosciences Department at the University of Houston
where he teaches borehole geophysics. Before starting KJT Enterprises, Kurt
served as Chief Scientist for Baker Atlas in Houston after being Resistivity
Product Line manager and Advanced Scientific Research Department manager. There
he supported Logging Tool Development and Interpretation through modeling
yielding numerous new logging tools. Prior to that Kurt pioneered LOTEM (Surface
transient electromagnetics for hydrocarbon exploration) development and several
advanced borehole research ideas in Germany, Australia and the USA. Kurt
received a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne, Germany and a M.Sc. from
Colorado School of Mines. He worked over the past 20 years as a geophysical
consultant and as university researcher and teacher as R & D manager in the
geothermal and logging industry.
Kurt has published over
100 publications, 1 textbook and authors/co-authors over 10 patents. He also
received a Fulbright scholarship and numerous international grants/awards
throughout his career. His main interest is integrating geophysics with other
disciplines, technology transfer and project development. He is a member of
SPWLA, AAPG, ASEG, DGG, BDG, SPE, SEG and EAGE. He was 1998-1999 SPE
distinguished lecturer on Through Casing Resistivity. Apart from chairing many
workshops at International Conventions he was co-chairman of SEG Summer research
workshops on: Integration of Seismic Data with Well Logs (1995), NMR Imaging of
Reservoir Attributes (1998), Effective Technology Transfer of Model-based
Geo-Inversion Techniques (1999), and Pore Pressure Prediction (2002). He was
also co-chairman of the SPWLA topical conference on Borehole Anisotropy (April
2000) and Guest Editor of the special issues of Petrophysics on Borehole
Anisotropy. Kurt has taught courses and mentored many students and professionals
at many universities and companies in the international oil industry.
Press releases:
Alumni, Mines, The
Magazine of Colorado School of Mines, Vol 93, N 4, Fall 2003, p 35.
JPT,
Journal of petroleum technology, September, 2003, p 85.
The Leading Edge, September 2003, Vol. 22, N 9, p 914.
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Member of Russian Academy of the Natural Sciences
Dr. Kurt Strack has been introduced to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
as a Foreign Member for his
contribution to the development of innovative borehole logging tools and the
pioneering work in electrical geophysics for the oil industry are indeed
noteworthy.
The Diploma English
translation.
Press releases:
SCA press release
JPT
March 2004
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Kapitsa gold Medal of
Honor
Russian
Academy of Natural Sciences awarded Dr. Kurt Strack with a prestigious
Kapitsa gold Medal
for his
contributions to the development of innovative borehole logging tools and
the pioneering work in electrical geophysics for the oil industry. The Medal
is handed on behalf of the Presidium of the Academy with a
Diploma having a
registration number.
The Diploma
English translation.
Press releases:
SCA press release
JPT March 2004
TLE March 2004
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History
of the Medal
In
1994 on the initiative of the members of the Academy (authors of scientific
discoveries) P.L.Kapitsa Gold and Silver Medals were established to be
awarded to authors of scientific discoveries.
On the front of the Medal - a bas-relief of academician
P.L.Kapitsa, Nobel Prize winner, the author of scientific discoveries,
around the bas-relief there is a circular inscription "The Russian Academy
of Natural Sciences". On the back side - an inscription framed with laurel
leaves "To an author of a scientific discovery".
The Medal has a blue ribbon. It is handed on behalf of the
Presidium of the Academy with a diploma having a registration number.
Among those decorated with the P.L.Kapitsa Gold Medal:
Nobel Prize winner (physics) member of RANS A.M.Prokhorov, Nobel Prize winner
(chemistry) I.R.Prigozhin, member of RAN S.P.Kapitsa, Rector of the Moscow
State University Corresponding member of RAS, vice-president of the RANS
acad. V.S.Novikov, member of the RANS V.A.Sadovnichy, Director of Institute
of Bioregulation and Gerontology, member of the RANS V.Kh.Khavinson.
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Reginald Fessenden Award
SEG Honor and Awards Committee and the
SEG Executive Committee selected Dr. Kurt Strack to receive the Society's
Reginald Fessenden Award. This
Award is giving to those who have made a specific contribution to
exploration geophysics, such as invention to theoretical or conceptual
advancement. Dr. Strack is being recognized for his technical
contributions in the field of borehole geophysics and more specifically for
being instrumental in the development and implementation of Through Casing Resistivity (TCR) and 3D Induction Logging which have provided the industry
with techniques for identifying bypassed hydrocarbon behind
casing and in thinly laminated sand-shale sequences.
Ceremony:
 The
Honors and Award Ceremony took place
during SEG's 2003 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, October 26-31.
The information
about the Meeting Awards was published in
The Leading Edge,
September 2003.
SEG President Mike Bahorich awards Kurt Strack with the Reginald Fessenden
Award.
Press releases:
JPT press release
TLE March 2004
Colorado School of Mines 2004
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Distinguished Lecturer
for the 1998-99 program
Society of
Petroleum Engineers
SPE
lecture on Through Casing Resistivity,
abstract
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Horst Rüter's
Award details
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SEG Special Commendation Award:
 SEG honored
Horst Rüter for his many
contributions not just in seismology but in other fields of geophysics as
well. Rüter has provided substantial contributions to under-standing
problems related to the transmission of seismic waves in cyclic layered
media and, in particular, in-seam seismology. His contributions went far
beyond theory; he led the development of the first certified “intrinsically
safe” seismic recording instrument for use in coal mines. In addition, he
contributed extensively to the development of instrumentation in the
wide-ranging fields of electromagnetic, core and borehole measurement, and
making significant contributions to geothermal applications and
high-temperature instrumentation. He has effectively served the academic
community, including encouragement of students, committee participation, and
editorial contributions on international journals. He also helped found the
Environmental Section of the German Geophysical Society and made many other
contributions to European and international geophysics. For his pioneering
work in many diverse areas of geophysics, Horst Rüter is awarded the Special
Commendation from SEG.
Citation for
Horst Rüter
Horst Rüter
received his Diplom-Geophysiker from the University Münster, Germany
, in 1968
. His thesis covered anisotropic wave propagation in natural
ice crystals. He earned a doctorate (1975) in geophysics at the
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, for developing innovative data
acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques for shallow
reflection seismology.
In
1968
Horst joined Deutsche Montan Technology (DMT)
, world-renowned as the leading research institution of the German
coal mining industry. Horst was a
pioneer in modern seismic exploration techniques for hard coal
mining. Thus, one of the first 3D onshore seismic surveys (1975) was
conducted under his scientific guidance. High resolution techniques,
specific layout-designs, and the first computer-aided interpretation
system to explore cyclically-layered deep- coal deposits are
highlights of his outstanding career. Methods he established are
today accepted as geophysical standards. In addition, Horst
introduced modern well logging methods for black coal
mining. Furthermore, he developed
entirely innovative digital well logging tools, such as an acoustic
televiewer or specific methods to survey deviated slim drill holes.
Horst always liked to apply
geophysics in deep coal mines. An excellent example of his
underground activities is called in-seam seismology. He was the
first to record Airy phases in channel waves, the only useful
information carrier in the in-seam seismology-technique.
In addition to surface and
underground seismic, Horst pioneered engineering and environmental
geophysics in Germany . He organized seminars and meetings in these
fields for more than one decade. As a result, today we find research
groups at many German universities dealing with engineering and
environmental geophysics.
Horst spent 26
years as the head of DMT’s geophysical department. Under his
leadership more than
100 third-party-funded research projects were successfully
performed. He developed his institute into the most important
private geophysical contractor in Germany and offered a great
variety of methods to mining and civil engineering.
Because of his geophysical
experience which he transferred to students of the Ruhr-University
and further universities and because of many mutual research
projects between DMT and additional universities Horst was given the
title of Professor of the Ruhr-University in 1987.
Horst is a member of many
scientific societies such as SEG, EAGE, ASEG, SPWLP, and the German
Geophysical Society (DGG). He is currently a vice president of the
DGG and the Geothermal Society (GTV). He is a foreign fellow of the
Indian Geophysical Union and a member of the Siberian Academy of
Engineering Sciences. For many years he served as the editor in
chief of Applied Geophysics.
He has written more than 50
scientific papers and is coauthor of the Handbook of Geophysical
Exploration, Seismic Coal Exploration, In-Seam
Seismics, published by Elsevier. For 20 years he was a member of
the scientific team, organizing the Mintrop Seminare, the most
successful continuation program for exploration
geophysicists in Germany .
Horst retired from DMT in
2001. However, he continues to teach and to do research, presently
with a focus on active and passive borehole seismology, exploration
of spontaneous combustion in coal seams, and exploration of
geothermal resources.
I think we are very
fortunate that Horst Rüter acted and still is busy in geophysics.
Students, associates, colleagues, his former company and clients,
and all professionals who worked with Horst benefited from his
knowledge and charm. His personal attributes make him a most
pleasant person to work with.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c.
Lothar Dresen
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Geowissenschaften
Institut für
Geologie-Mineralogie-Geophysik
44780 Bochum
Germany
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Conrad Schlumberger Award
2005
is presented to Horst
Rüter for his important contributions in applied seismology
over a wide range of subjects that included in-seam
methodologies, propagation in cyclic layer media, engineering
geophysics, acquisition geometries in refraction and reflection
methods, geothermal applications of seismics as well as advanced
instrumentation for seismic, electromagnetic, core and borehole
applications.
Madrid, Monday 13 June 2005
The
Conrad Schlumberger Award is presented to a member of the
Association who has made an outstanding contribution over a
period of time to the scientific and technical advancement of
the geosciences, particularly geophysics. The Conrad
Schlumberger Award consists of a medal and a certificate.
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Yardenia Martinez' Award
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Award of Merit
SEG Honor and Awards Committee and the
SEG Executive Committee selected Yardenia Martinez to receive the
Award of Merit for best student poster presented at the SEG 2005
hosted in Houston. This award was obtained by the poster she
presented related to her master thesis dissertation. This award
complete a series of other two awards earned for her work
related with her master's research.
Ceremony:
 The
Honors and Award Ceremony took place
during SEG's 2006 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1-6.
SEG President Terry K. Young awards Yardenia Martinez.
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