Who We Are

Dr. Bingjian Li is currently the President and Geological Advisor of BlackRiver Geoscience LLC (BRG). At BRG, Bingjian has developed a few advanced image data applications along with his team  for unconventional shales, conventional (i.e. deepwater & carbonates) and fractured reservoirs and successfully introduced them to both domestic and international clients. Before founding BRG, he was the Principal Geologist at Schlumberger Petro-Technical Services and Geology Domain Champion at Reservoir Evaluation Wireline North America based in Houston. Dr. Li was responsible for geology solution product development with a primary focus on shale reservoirs using geology measurements, including the latest borehole image technologies, sidewall cores, and other logs. He was also one of the main geologist who field-tested the latest Quanta Geo technology and successfully introduced it to the US land market. He was actively involved in the fracture characterization of fractured shales in the US from 2013 onwards. Prior to his US assignment, he worked for Schlumberger as Principal Geologist in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and as Senior Geologist in Canada (after joining the company in 1997). He gained intensive experience in borehole image data in facies and depositional environment interpretation in clastic reservoirs, natural fracture characterization for any type of fractured reservoir, and other geological applications worldwide. Before joining Schlumberger, he had a one-year stint with HEF Petrophysical in Canada as the Manager of Geology, earning interpretation experience for the majority of the available borehole image tools on the market. Dr. Li also worked for CNPC at the wellsite and at the Beijing office. He served as committee member and abstract reviewer for SPE ATCE conferences from 2013-2015. Moreover, he chaired the G&G sessions in SPE ATCE 2014 and SPE ATCE 2015. Dr. Li received his BSc in petroleum geology from Northeastern Petroleum University, China, and his PhD in reservoir geology and sedimentology from Aberdeen University, UK (under the sponsorship of Shell/ESSO (UK)). He has published (or coauthored) more than 20 papers for professional conferences and journals. 

Mr. Jason Gendur is a Principal Petrophysicist with over twenty-five years’ experience in North America, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and Europe. Jason started as a wireline field engineer and field service manager which provided a base of proper log technique and quality control. He and has expertise in both open and cased well log evaluation. In Houston he led the petrophysics domain in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico’s tortuous, high-pressure logging programs and evaluation of thin beds. Then he moved to the North America land division, leading the complex unconventional well interpretations and teaming with other domains to pinpoint lateral landing points where the best reservoir and completions quality existed. Jason also has skills in logging behind casing and pulsed neutron logs. New technology expertise includes triaxial induction, dielectric dispersion, nuclear magnetic resonance, and advanced spectroscopy. He is also familiar with special deployments such as thru-bit logging. Jason is also keeping up with new petrophysical methods using data science and machine learning. He holds a degree in Industrial engineering and is also a certified project management professional.

Dr. Linji An is an experienced, highly motivated geologist with over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He started in southern California where he engaged in reservoir characterization, 3D geologic modeling and fault seal analysis of Wilmington field in Los Angeles basin for a SEGD project. After a short stint in Bakersfield where he worked on equity assessment for DOE on Navy Petroleum Reserve #1 (Elk Hills), he moved to ARCO Exploration and Production Technology in Plano, Texas, and worked on several fault seal analysis projects in Myanmar and the Gulf of Mexico. After ARCO was purchased by BP in 1999, he went to work for Sterling Commerce (now IBM) as a software engineer for 7 years. In 2007, he joined AERA Energy in Bakersfield, first as a development geologist and worked on diatomite reservoir steam flooding project in South Belridge field, then as an exploitation and exploration geologist and evaluated potentials of East Coalinga Primary fluvial reservoir and Kreyenhagen shale in San Joaquin basin. During these years, he built Petrel and EarthVision models, calculated volumetrics, analyzed log, core and geochemical data, interpreted seismic data, performed petrophysical and fault seal analysis, made geologic maps and cross sections, designed and drilled wells, prepared 3D grids for reservoir simulation, and monitored subsidence and processed microseismic data. He also finished his fault seal analysis software Dr.Seal during this time. In 2014, he moved to Texas again and joined Pioneer Natural Resources and specialized in full spectrum Petrel modeling of Eagle Ford shale in southern Texas, including geomodeling, volumetrics, uncertainty analysis, resource ranking, 3D grid preparation for reservoir simulation, some petrophysical and geomechanics analysis. 

Ms Julitta K. Pourciau is an accomplished, highly motivated geologist and sedimentologist with over 17 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She gained expertise at British Petroleum where she worked in exploration, appraisal, and production assignments. Her sedimentology experience consists of logging sections in the field (Fan 3, Tanqua Karoo Basin, South Africa; and Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico), and core descriptions of conventional cores from the Gulf of Mexico (Pliocene section – Troika field; Miocene section – Aspen, Thunder Horse and Freedom/Gunflint fields; Paleocene/Eocene section – Kaskida and Tiber fields; and Jurassic section – eolian Northlet). At BP, Ms Pourciau also described the depositional systems of the Miocene and the Cretaceous sections from the deltaic updip facies to the distal fan settings in the abyssal Gulf of Mexico. The work consisted of core data and provenance description, shelf edge definition based on 2D and 3D seismic data sets, facies mapping and generation of gross depositional environment maps. Julitta has extensive experience in seismic stratigraphy, regional setting/play fairway mapping and new play concepts, integrated reservoir deliverability, siliciclastic deepwater sedimentation, and ArcGIS.  She obtained her MS degree in sedimentology at Louisiana State University. Under the guidance of Prof.  Arnold Bouma, Julitta worked on the characterization of a fine-grained submarine fan system from proximal to distal setting in the Tanqua Karoo basin in South Africa.

Dr. Du is an accomplished reservoir geo-modeling geoscientist and simulation engineer. He has been engaged in many petroleum engineering researches and practices as well as oil/gas reservoir characterization, heterogeneity modeling, geological model constructions and fluid flow dynamic simulations. Dr. Du’s cross-discipline knowledge and integration experiences provide him a unique perspective in reservoir modeling studies. He studied hydraulic fracturing process, developed software for hydraulic fracturing design, conducted lab testing of fracing fluid rheology, formation compatibility, and proppants geomechanical properties and conductivity, optimization of low permeability and heterogeneous reservoir production with fracturing designs and well patterns. At GTI as research scientist, he played a key role and participated in multiple DOE funded research projects, including AI techniques to optimize field practices, hydrates characterization of lab synthesis and recovery, laser perforation and lab tests, LNG safety modeling, shale and coalbed methane reservoir characterization and CO2 sequestration. His Ph.D. study was reservoir heterogeneity description, modeling and its impact on fluid flow. Continued as research fellow,  he  performed characterization and heterogeneity description of Long Beach CA turbidite reservoir and modeling, worked on bed-sequence depicturing, core-log GR cross-correlation and shifting, bed-grain size distribution tests, shale/silt top continuity mapping etc.; designed core analysis to calibrate conventional core properties to in situ condition, corrected and cleaned logging curves - depth, steam, well bore collapse and end-of-hole influences, built stochastic reservoir geology and property models and OOIP for steam-flooding field simulation and management. In his last 15+ years, Dr. Du worked for Schlumberger as Principle Reservoir Engineer (and geoscientist), provided various complexity reservoir modeling, simulation and Petrel G&G/RE/Eclipse workflow consulting services and training classes including - structure, property, DFN and micro-seismic applications; and worked as reservoir modeling and engineering Advisor at Devon and Hunt Oil where he conducted many different types of reservoir study, model build, and simulations including GOM/Africa offshore reservoirs, and on shore conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, tight gas and carbonate fracture reservoirs, and complex faulting systems with fields in South and North America, Asia, Middle East and Romania. In addition, Dr. Du performed integrated unconventional reservoir studies as a team leader and published several well-cited SPE papers. In summary, Dr Du has developed strong expertise in both reservoir modeling and simulation and prepared himself as a unique professional for reservoir studies.  

Frans de Reuver is an accomplished borehole image log interpreter working as an independent consultant since 2011. He received his MSc. Degree from Leiden University in The Netherlands, majoring in sedimentology and petrology and has over 25 years of experience in various positions in the oil & gas industry. He started his career as a reservoir geologist in Calgary, Canada working in the Western Canadian Basin and after a brief stint as mudlogger/wellsite geologist in the Southern North Sea, he joined a consultancy company in The Netherlands conducting numerous core-based reservoir characterization studies. His work in core-based studies covers a wide range of depositional settings, geological ages and geographical regions. In 2007 he became manager of the reservoir geology group at which time he introduced borehole image log interpretation as a service in the company.  In his current work he strongly benefits from his extensive experience in core-based reservoir description studies providing him with a solid basis for the analysis and interpretation of borehole image logs and the integration with core, wireline logs, petrophysics and seismic data. He has worked with data from most wireline and LWD-based image logging tools in different geological settings. Although having a strong background in sedimentological analysis, he has also become highly skilled in structural interpretation, fracture analysis and in-situ stress analysis, developing a thorough understanding of geomechanical principles related to the formation of natural fracture networks and of borehole breakouts and drilling induced fractures. Recent projects include single and multi-wells studies in mixed clastic/carbonate  environments (25+ wells, Onshore Egypt), fracture studies in carbonates and clastics (Kurdistan, Libya, Piceance Basin, USA), deep water clastics (Offshore W. Africa), various projects in the Dutch and Danish Offshore (Permian through Paleocene/Pleistocene) and unconventional resources in the Permian Basin, Texas.Biograph