Dick Nieuwland
Dick Nieuwland graduated in geology at Leiden University and did
a PhD at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian
National University in Canberra. He joined Shell in 1979 and worked
as research geologist in structural geology in the Shell research
lab in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. He then worked for Shell as
production geologist in Thailand and as chief geologist in Turkey,
thereafter resuming his carrier as senior research geologist at
Shell Research. In this position he was responsible for technical
advice in exploration and production; he developed and gave
in-house workshops and seminars for Shell and for a number of State
Oil Companies. Dick joined the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1999
where he is in charge of the sandbox modelling. In 1999 he founded
NewTec, a consultancy company though which he continues to be
active in the E&P business.