Istvan Nagy-Korodi, Ph.D.

Experience

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  Datalog Ltd. UK

  Dec 2006 - Dec 2007

  Mudlogging Geologist

  Samples catching, cuttings description, trip sheets, updating the lithology descriptions, cavings reports etc.

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  Universitatea 'Babes-Bolyai' din Cluj-Napoca

  Oct 2007 - Nov 2014

  Scientific Researcher

  Beside of the official Ph.D. subject, I worked in different research projects lead by Prof. Dr. Corina Ionescu (Head of Geol. Department) , such are the following:- limestone microfacies analyses (several dozens; for provenance studies)- siliceous rocks (cherts, limnoquarzites, obsidians) studies- archeometry projects

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  Weatherford SLS

  Dec 2007 - Jul 2010

  Data Engineer (Unit Manager)

  Experience with shale gas (Alum shale - Shell Sweden, Skane region). Pixler plots, Formation Evaluation-, Gas-, Drilling- and Pressure logs and evaluations, drilling monitoring and optimization, morning meetings, client contact etc.

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  Baker Huges Inteq

  Jul 2010 - Feb 2012

  Data Engineer

  Pressure evaluation using Predict (DrillWorks 7.0) – at the end of each well, combined the mudlogging provided data (such are: Gas trend – Connection – Swabbed gas, C2:C3 ratio, Mud weight, Shale density, Temperature, Gaining at the trip-tank, Cuttings-Cavings etc.) and other drilling related phenomena (such is the wellbore ballooning; drag) with Predict provided calculations evaluated the formation pore-fracture pressures and overburden gradient. For the Predict the Corrected Drilling Exponent (DXC), Sonic and Resistivity logs were used.Working in integrated units provided an insight to AutoTrak, AziTrak and TesTrak (MWD and LWD) tools.Mud-, Gas-, Drilling-and Pressure logs, drilling optimization, drilling monitorization, morning meetings, oil show descriptions, end of well reports. Show less

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  MOL Group

  Mar 2015 - Dec 2020

  In June 2017 successfully co-founded the LiFE (Lithium for Energy) project at MOL Hungary. Oilfield brines – as potential microelement resource: once the oil being removed, the reservoir fluids are pumped back into the host rock to maintain the pressure and keep up the production. These fluids can be considered de-oiled brines, containing dissolved macro- and micro-elements, which could potentially be extracted, whereby increasing the efficiency and profit generation. The above-mentioned facts lead to naissance of the so called “LiFE (Lithium For Energy)” MOL project (2017-ongoing), with goals to identify (Hungarian) Li anomalies, and to assess the feasibility of lithium production in terms of available lithium resource and feasible lithium extraction technologies.As a project manager of reservoir waters related lithium mining, my role included the preparation of a demo project as well as coordination of lithium resource exploration activities. Show less Specialties:• Quality controlling, assuring and supervising cuttings description, gas/oil show characterization (including stain, fluorescence, odour, cut and cut fluorescence), pore pressure prediction, mud-weight, weight-on-bit, torque, mud additives, LWD and MWD services, geosteering etc. • Confirming coring and casing points and TD as per geological characteristics (cuttings) and well program. Advising on drilling hazards and drilling bit optimization.• Actively contributing to writing and planning of well programs – based on offset wells and different data sets.• Ensuring that the mud, fluid samples, cuttings, SWS, cores, sampling done as per well-plan and properly labelled and packed. Describing cores, core chips and core end pieces (HC indicators and lithology).• Assisting the operations petrophysicist in selection of SWC sample depths (e.g. pay and waste zones, sealing mudstones-claystones). Supervising of OH wireline loggings and other wireline operations for deep PVT, fluid, gas sampling. Assisting at reservoir characterisation and supervising perforation jobs.• Providing daily geological and end of well reports. Founding member in the Company New STAR (Seismic Towards Advanced Reservoir production and management) Project Working group (reviewing and establishing better fracking workflows, searching for exploration projects, reviewing reservoir and production databases). Involved in mudlogging and coring tender writing connected to the Omani and Kazahstani drilling program (2016 & 2017). Compiling well plans with exploration geologist colleagues: providing geological inputs (pore pressure prediction, reservoir modelling, reservoir characterization, mudlogging and coring etc.) for the Statements of Requirements & Well engineering planning (to Well delivery process). Critically reviewing well plans. Show less Beside of the wellsite geologist position I was selected to run a non-operated concession of MOL, the Ngosso project, our solely interest in Cameroon. The joint venture was operated by Addax Petroleum Ltd. (a Sinopec Company) from Geneva, Switzerland. As a project manager of MOL, I was responsible to ensure that the project is under control, is completed on time and its budget changes are well overthought, so that the project's objectives are met. My typical responsibilities were:•representing MOL's interests (regarding the project conception, and on site at different TCM/OCM meetings in Geneva and Douala, Cameroon)•collating project objectives•providing advice on the management of the project•coordinating various professionals working on a project (cross-checking of financing, geological, and geophysical interpretations)•carrying out risk assessments•making sure that all the targets of the project are met•making sure the quality, HSE standards are met•monitoring sub-contractors to ensure guidelines are maintained (especially the mudlogging, GCT, wellsite geology etc.)•overseeing the accounting, cost and billing•organizing weekly and daily phone calls to ensure the control of the project•writing summaries, reports (post-evaluation report, post-mortem analysis) on the project for the senior management •monitoring and approving all budgeted project expenditures•together with PMO and Controlling department monitoring cash flow projections and reporting of actual cash-flow and variance to the senior management on a regular basis (biweekly)Possessed and obtained key skills in this project •organisational skills•management and leadership skills•analytical skills•developed interpersonal skills•numeracy skills•commercial awareness•communication skills•team-work skills•diplomacy Show less

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Sr. Wellsite Geologist

    Feb 2012 - Oct 2020

  • Project Manager

    Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
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  Universitatea „Babeș-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca

  Feb 2018 - Oct 2020

  Assistant Professor

  Beside of my Sr. Wellsite Geologist position at MOL Group Plc., I was an assistant professor at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania. I was teaching Petroleum Geology for B.Sc. Geologist students.

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  MOL Norge AS

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2022

  Specialties:• Quality controlling, assuring and supervising cuttings description, gas/oil show characterization (including stain, fluorescence, odour, cut and cut fluorescence), pore pressure prediction, mud-weight, weight-on-bit, torque, mud additives, LWD and MWD services, geosteering etc. • Confirming coring and casing points and TD as per geological characteristics (cuttings) and well program. Advising on drilling hazards and drilling bit optimization.• Actively contributing to writing and planning of well programs – based on offset wells and different data sets.• Ensuring that the mud, fluid samples, cuttings, SWS, cores, sampling done as per well-plan and properly labelled and packed. Describing cores, core chips and core end pieces (HC indicators and lithology).• Assisting the operations petrophysicist in selection of SWC sample depths (e.g. pay and waste zones, sealing mudstones-claystones). Supervising of OH wireline loggings and other wireline operations for deep PVT, fluid, gas sampling. Assisting at reservoir characterisation and supervising perforation jobs.• Providing daily geological and end of well reports. Show less

  • Operations Geologist

    Oct 2020 - Feb 2022

  • Sr. Wellsite Geologist

    Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
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  MOL Group

  Feb 2022 - now

  Reservoir Geologist - PO | Geologist focusing on Petrolithium & REE exploration

  As a Reservoir Geologist I work in the subsurface team, to develop robust and consistent geological interpretations for development/ drilling/ WO plans, individual well recommendations, and reserves forecasting in Hungary. Beside of this, I am working in a small research group, studying and mapping of petrolithium anomalies (oilfields related reservoir waters with high Lithium concentrations).