CURRICULUM VITAE of June 2010 NAME: Omre, Karl Henning PRESENT POSITION: Professor in Statistics; Department of Mathematical Sciences; Norwegian University of Science & Technology(NTNU); Trondheim, Norway COORDINATES: website: www.math.ntnu.no/~omre pmail: IMF/IME NTNU 7491 Trondheim Norway email: omre@stat.ntnu.no phone: +47 73 51 44 00 (p) +47 73 59 35 31 (w) +47 90 93 78 48 (m) fax: +47 73 59 34 24 (w) DATE OF BIRTH/ August 13th, 1951/ NATIONALITY: Norwegian. CIVIL STATUS: Married, three children. EDUCATION: Sivilingeniør (MSc. equiv.), in 1975; Majoring in Operational Research/Statistics; Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, Norway. Phd. in 1985 Thesis in Geostatistics ‘Alternative Variogram Estimator i Geostatistics' Stanford University, Stanford, California. LANGUAGES: Norwegian, English. EXPERIENCE: Employment record: 1992 - present: Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); Trondheim. 2004 - 2005: Visiting Professor/ Australian School for Petroleum, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 1992 - 2000: One fifth position/Norwegian Computing Center; Oslo 1998 - 1999: Half time position/Department of Petroleum Engineering; Stanford University; Stanford, California 1992/March: Bergacademie Freiberg; Freiberg, Germany. 1991/April: Xian Petroleum Institute; Xian, P.R. China. 1988/March: Centre de Geostatistique; École National Superieure des Mines de Paris; Fontainebleau, France. 1983 - 1992: Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo. 1980 - 1983: Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Stanford University, California. 1976 - 1980: Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo. 1975 - 1976: Military Service; The Logistic Office of the Army, Oslo. Teaching and advisor experience: Phd. students: Kjartan Rimstad; 2008 - Rock-Physics models in Lithology-Fluid Inversion Jon Satrom; 2007 - Time-lapse Lithology-Fluid Inversion Marit Ulvmoen; 2005 - 2009 Markov Random Fields in Prestack Seismic Inversion into Lithology/Fluid classes Inge Bjorn Myrseth; 2005 - 2009 Uncertainty Assessment in Ensemble Kalman Filters Ole Petter Lodoen; 2001 - 2005 Uncertainty in Complex Spatio-Temporal Models: Production History Conditioning in Reservoir Evaluation Jo Roislien; 1999 - 2004 Random Field Models and Near Well Reservoir Characterization Jo Eidsvik; 1999 - 2003 Stochastic Reservoir Characterization and Integration in Near-well Regions Ayele Taye Goshu; 1999 - 2003 Spatial Statistics in Ground Water Modelling Arild Buland; 1998 - 2002 Statistical Methodology in Seismic Processing and Inversion Odd Kolbjornsen; 1997 - 2002 Parameter Estimation in Spatial Models based on Indirect Observations Hilde Borgos; 1996 - 2000 Stochastic Modelling and Statistical Inference of Geological Fault Populations and Patterns Alfhild Lien Eide; 1994 - 1999 Stochastic Reservoir Characterization Constrained by Seismic Data Anne-Randi Syversveen; 1993 - 1998 Spatial Stochastic Point Models for Reservoir Characterization Bjørn Kåre Hegstad; 1993 - 1997. Sampling from Stochastic Reservoir Models Constrained by Production Data. Håkon Tjelmeland; 1992 - 1996. Stochastic Models in Reservoir Characterization and Markov Random Fields for Compact Objects MSc students: Advisor for approximately 35 students PhD Committees: NTNU, Norway University of Oslo, Norway Aalborg University, Denmark Strassbourg University, France Delft University, Holland University of Copenhagen, Denmark SCIENTIFIC GRANTS/AWARDS: 2008 EMIL's Prize for Lecturers Energy and Environment Program, NTNU 2008 - 2012 Uncertainty in Reservoir Evaluation - URE Research Initiative - six NTNU professors NOK 9.4 mill. from four companies, The Research Council of Norway and NTNU incl. 4 Phd grants 2006 - 2010: Bayesian Lithology-Fluid Inversion based on Well and Seismic Data Four NTNU professors NOK 6.8 mill. from three companies and The Research Council of Norway incl. 3 Phd grants 2003 - 2007: Uncertainty in Reservoir Evaluation - URE Research Initiative - five NTNU professors NOK 8.0 mill. from four companies, The Research Council of Norway and NTNU incl. 4 Phd grants 1998 - 2003: Uncertainty in Reservoir Evaluation - URE Research Initiative - five NTNU professors NOK 7.7 mill. from four companies and The Research Council of Norway incl. 5 Phd grants 1999: Schlumberger Stichting Foundation Grant US$ 15 000 1997 - 1998: Norsk Hydro Post.doc.grant NOK 0.5 mill. 1996: Statoils Award for Research Scientists. 1996 - 1999: Vista/Statoil one Phd grant NOK 1.05 mill. 1996 - 1998: European Community: Joule/Production Forecasting with Uncertainty Quantification/ 2/3 post. doc; NOK 1.5 mill. 1995: SPE Editorial Review Committees Award as Technical Editor. 1994 - 1996: Norwegian Research Council Strategic University Program; ‘Uncertaint yin Management of Natural Resources; NOK 4.1 mill. with three other professors incl. 3 Phd grants. 1993 - 1995: European Community; Joule II/Geosciences II Reservoir Engineering Project/Topic 5; NOK 2.2 mill. incl. one Ph.d. grant. 1992 - 1996: Norwegian Research Council; PROPETRO/ two Ph.d. grants 2 x NOK 0.9 mill. 1991: International Expert Grant in Geostatistics; P.R. China; April, 1991. 1988: Visiting Professor (Cat.II) at Centre de Geostatistique of École Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris; Fontainebleau; March, 1988. 1981 - 1983: Graduate Student Grant; Geostatistical Programme, Department of Applied Earth Sciences; Stanford University, California; two years. 1980 - 1982: Research Grant; The Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, two years. PUBLICATIONS: Submitted Publications: Satrom, J. and Omre, H.; 2009: Ensemble Kalman filtering with schrinkage regression techniques; paper submitted for publication. Rimstad, K. and Omre, H.; 2009: Impact of rock physics trends and Markov random fields on hierarchical Bayesian lithology/fluid prediction; paper submitted for publication. Myrseth, I., and Satrom, J. and Omre, H.; 2009: Resampling the ensemble Kalman filter; paper submitted for publication. Selected Publications: 2010: Myrseth,I. and Omre,I.; 2010: The ensemble Kalman filter and related filters in Large-scale inverse problems and quantification of uncertainty by L.Biegler, G.Biros, O.Ghattas, M.Heinkenschloss, D.Keyes, B.Mallick, Y.Marzouk, L.Tenorio, B.van Bloemen Waanders and K.Willcox (eds); John Wiley & Sons, UK Ulvmoen,M. and Omre,H.; 2010: Improved resolution in Bayesian lithology/fluid inversion from seismic prestack data and well observations: Part 1 - Methodology; Geophysics, Vil.75, No.2, pp R21-R35. Ulvmoen,M., Omre,H. and Buland,A.; 2010: Improved resolution in Bayesian lithology/fluid inversion from seismic prestack data and well observations: Part 2 - Real case study; Geophysics, Vol.75, No.2, pp B73-B82 Karimi,O., Omre,H. and Mohammadzadeh,M.; 2010: Bayesian closed-skew Gaussian inversion of seismic AVO data into elastic material properties; Geophysics, Vol.75, No.1, pp R1-R11. 2008: Lodoen;O.P. and Omre,H; 2008: Scale-corrected Ensemble Kalman Filtering Applied to Production History Conditioning in Reservoir Evaluation; SPE Journal, Vol 12, No 2, pp 177-194. 2006: Roislien; J. and Omre; H.; 2006: T-distributed Random Fields: A Parametric Model for Heavy-tailed Well-log Data; Mathematical Geology, Vol.38, No.7, pp 821-850. Larsen; A.L.; Ulvmoen; M.; Omre; H. and Buland; A.; 2006: Bayesian Lithology-Fluid Prediction and Simulation on the basis of a Markov Chain Prior Model; Geophysics, Vol.71, No.5, pp 69-78. 2005: Kolbjørnsen; O. and Omre; H.; 2005: Bayesian Inversion of Piecewise Affine Operators in a Gaussian Framework, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics; Vol.14, No.1, pp. 56-74. Lodoen; O.P.; Omre; H.; Durlovsky; L.J. and Chen; Y.; 2005: Assessment of Uncertainty in Reservoir Production Forcasts using Upscaled Flow Models; in Geostatistics Banff 2005, Vol 1; Ed. Leuangthong,O. and Deutsch,C., Springer, pp 713-723. 2004: Omre; H. and Lodoen; O.P.; 2004: Improved Production Forecasts and History Matching using Approximate Fluid Flow Simulators; SPE Journal, September 2004, pp. 339-351. Eidsvik; J.; Avseth; P.; Omre; H.; Mukerji; T. and Mavko; G.; 2004: Stochastic Reservoir Characterization using Pre-stack Seismic Data; Geophysics, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 978-993. 2003: Buland; A.; Kolbjornsen; O. and Omre; H.; 2003: Rapid Spatially Coupled AVO Inversion in the Fourier Domain; Geophysics, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 824-836. Buland; A. and Omre; H.; 2003: Bayesian Wavelet Estimation from Seismic and Well Data; Geophysics, Vol. 68, No. 6, pp. 2000-2009. Buland; A. and Omre; H.; 2003: Joint AVO Inversion, wavelet estimation and noise level estimation using a spatially coupled hierarchical model; Geophysical Prospecting, Vol. 51, pp. 531-550. Buland; A. and Omre; H.; 2003: Bayesian Linearized AVO Inversion; Geophysics, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 185-198. 2002: Borgos; H.G.; Omre; H. and Townsend; C.; 2002: Size Distribution of Geological Faults: Model Choice and Parameter Estimation; Statistical Modelling, Vol. 2, pp. 217-234 Eide; A.; Omre; H. and Ursin; B.; 2002: Prediction of Reservoir Variables Based on Seismic Data and Well Observations; Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Vol. 97 No. 457, pp. 18-28. Eidsvik; J.; Omre; H.; Mukerji; T.; Mavko; G. and Avseth; P.; 2002: Seismic reservoir prediction using Bayesian integration of rock physics and Markov random fields: A North Sea example; The Leading Edge, Vol. 21,No. 3; March 2002; pp. 290-294. Omre; H.; 2002: Stochastic Reservoir Models Conditioned to Non-Linear Production History Observations; in Kleingeld and Krige (Ed.) Geostatistics 2000 Cape Town, Volume I; January 2002; pp. 166 - 175. Borgos; H.G. and Omre; H.; 2002: Uncertainty in Fault Geometries; in Kleingeld and Krige (Ed.) Geostatistics 2000 Cape Town, Volume I; January 2002; pp. 277 - 286. 2001: Hegstad; B.K. and Omre;H.; 2001: Uncertainty in Production Forecasts Based on Well Observations, Seismic Data and Production History; SPE Journal; December 2001; pp. 409 - 424. 1997: Syversveen; A.R. and Omre; H.; 1997: Marked Point Models for Facies Units Conditioned on Well Data; in Baafi and Schofield (Ed.) Geostatistics Wollongong 1996, Vol I; Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 415 - 423. Lia; O.; Omre; H.; Tjelmeland; H.; Holden; L. and Egeland; T.; 1997: Uncertainties in Reservoir Production Forecasts; AAPG Bulletin, Vol 81, No 5 (May 1997), pp. 775 - 802. Damsleth; E. and Omre; H.; 1997: Geostatistical Approaches in Reservoir Evaluation; Invited Technology Today Series in Journal of Petroleum Technology; May 1997, pp. 498 - 502. Omre; H. and Tjelmeland; H.; 1997: Petroleum Geostatistics; in Baafi and Schofield (Ed.) Geostatistics Wollongong 1996, Vol. I; Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 41 - 52. Tjelmeland; H. and Omre; H.; 1997: A Complex Sand-Shale Facies Model Conditioned on Observations from Wells, Seismics and Production; in Baafi and Schofield (Ed.) Geostatistics Wollongong 1996, Vol I; Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 634 - 646. Eide; A.L; Omre; H. and Ursin; B.; 1997: Stochastic Reservoir Characterization Conditioned on Seismic Data; in Baafi and Schofield (Ed.) Geostatistics Wollongong 1996, Vol I; Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 442 - 453. Kolbjørnsen; O. and Omre; H.; 1997: Bayesian Disjunctive Kriging Applied to Prediction of Reservoir Volume; in Baafi and Schofield (Ed.), Geostatistics Wollongong 1996, Vol. I; Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 609 - 620. Hegstad; B.K. and Omre; H.; 1997: Uncertainty Assessment in History Matching and Forecasting; in Baafi and Schofield (Ed.) Geostatistics Wollongong 1996, Vol. I; Kluwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 585 - 596. Syversveen; A.R. and Omre; H.; 1997: Conditioning of Marked Point Processes within a Bayesian Framework; Scandinavian Journal of Statistics; May 1997. 1995: Lia; O.; Omre; H.; Tjelmeland; H.; Holden; L.; Egeland; T.; Andersen; T.; MacDonald; A.; Hustad; O.S. and Qi; Y.; 1995: The Great Reservoir Uncertainty Study - GRUS; in PROFIT - Project Summary Reports Ed. Olsen et al.; Norwegian Petroleum Directorate; Stavanger, Norway; pp. 191 - 204. Høst; G.; Omre; H. and Switzer; P.; 1995: Spatial predictions of air pollution from spatial/temporal observations; Journal of the Americal Statistical Assosiation. (JASA), Vol. 90; No. 431, pp. 853 - 861. 1994: Omre; H.; Sølna; K.; Dahl; N. and Tørudbakken; B.; 1994: Impact of Fault Heterogeneity in Fault Zones on Fluid Flow. In North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs - III; Ed. J.O. Aasen et al, Klüwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 185 - 200. Hegstad; B.K.; Omre; H.; Tjelmeland; H. and Tyler; K.; 1994: Stochastic Simulation and Conditioning by Annealing in Reservoir Description. In Geostatistical Simulations; Ed. M. Armstrong and P.A. Dowd; Klüwer Acad. Publ,; pp. 43 - 55. Hjort; N.L. and Omre; H.; 1994: Topics in Spatial Statistics; Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 21, No.; 4 pp. 289 - 358. 1993: Georgsen; F.; Egeland; T.; Knarud; R. and Omre; H.; 1993: Conditional Simulation of Facies Architecture in Fluvial Reservoirs. In Geostatistical Simulations; Ed. M. Armstrong and P.A. Dowd; Klüwer Acad. Publ.; pp. 235 - 250. Georgsen; F.; and Omre; H.; 1993: Combining Fibre Processes and Gaussian Random Function for Modelling Fluvial Reservoirs. In Geostatistics Troia ´92; Ed. A. Soares; Klüwer Acad. Publ. ; pp. 425 - 439. Omre; H.; Sølna; K. and Tjelmeland; H.; 1993: Simulation of Random Functions on Large Lattices. In Geostatistics Troia ´92; Ed. A. Soares; Klüwer Acad. Publ. ; pp. 179 - 199. Omre; H.; Tjelmeland; H; Qi; Y. and Hinderaker; L.; 1993: Assessment of Uncertainty in the Production Characteristics of a Sand Stone Reservoir. In Reservoir Characterization III; Ed. B. Linville; Pennwell Books; Tulsa, Oklahoma; pp. 556 - 604.