Evert van de Graaff
Evert van de Graaff was awarded his Ph.D. in sedimentary geology
by Leiden University in 1971. He worked as a field geologist on
sedimentary basin studies in Australia till 1978. After joining
Shell in 1978 he held operational assignments as reservoir
geologist / production geologist / petroleum engineering team
leader with Brunei Shell Petroleum, Shell Expro and the NAM (NAM is
Shell's Dutch operating company). Whilst based in Shell's
headquarters in The Hague he worked on a wide range of reservoir
characterisation / modelling projects covering both clastic and
carbonate reservoirs in many parts of the world (North Sea, South
America, Africa, Middle East, Far East, Australasia). Following a
5-year stint as senior lecturer in Geosciences at Shell's EP
training department he was senior technical advisor /team leader
for static reservoir modelling technology. In this capacity he also
carried out numerous QC reviews on the subsurface aspects
(including reserves estimates) of field development plans and A
& D opportunities. After retiring from Shell in 2003 he started
his own consultancy in parallel with working part-time for a
service company that specializes in core evaluations.