Charles Andrews has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Hyperdynamics since December 2007.
Mr. Andrews is a Geoscientist with over forty years experience in the oil and gas exploration and geophysical services industries. His 10-year tenure with Shell Oil Company included: magnetics and gravity operations seismic interpretation assignments Party Chief of seismic refraction and seismic reflection marine crews Party Chief of a seismic reflection land crew and as Division Geophysicist for Operations with Shell's seismic land crews in the Houston Area. Prior to leaving Shell his last assignment was in the E&P head office working with a team evaluating seismic data from offshore western Canada.
After leaving Shell's E&P Head Office he has held a succession of Consulting Executive and Management Positions in exploration companies: Mosbacher Energy Company and Precision Wells Inc. where he is V.P. of Geophysics and in service companies: GeoQuest Data Services Inc. which he formed and was Chairman CEO and later also became Chairman CEO of sister company GeoQuest Exploration Inc. He then formed his own consulting company Andrews Geoscience Inc. doing acquisition and processing QC and interpretation and became experienced in 3-D seismic acquisition design and processing. With others he formed and was a Partner in Applied Seismic Concepts Inc. developing seismic data processing applications on a SX-2 Super Computer at the Houston Area Research Center in The Woodlands Texas. He is currently V.P. at Seismic Wavelet Imaging Inc. which does seismic processing to enhance the resolution of seismic data.
Andrews is a present or past member of international oil industry societies SEG IAGC AIPG AAPG SIPES and has been registered as a Geophysicist in the State of California. He is a past Secretary of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Chairman of the Data Processing Committee of the Geophysical Society of Houston. He is a past Vice-President and President of the Geophysical Society of Houston and past Treasurer of the Houston Division of the National Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.
He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics with Geology minor from Texas Christian University and a M.S. degree in Geophysics from Texas A&M University. Andrews is a Retired Lt. Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve having served on Guam M.I. and in the Office of Naval Petroleum Reserves Washington D.C. during the Korean War.
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