Melbourne Based Well Site Geologist

Mobile (Australia): (+614) 1290 1844

Timothy Casey B. Sc. (Hons.)

An Australian well site geologist with IWCF/ IADC (WellCAP) Supervisor's combined Subsea & Surface Well Control Certificate (BOP ticket), ten years of broad technical experience in the petroleum industry including CBM, high problem solving skills and demonstrated software capability.

Well site geologist experience includes chip logging or "mudlogging", wireline log interpretation, production zone identification, picking formation tops, devising lag approximation formulae for client, daily reporting for geological operations, management of those operations in compliance with environmental conservation guidelines and with respect to local cultural sensitivities, definition & implementation of SOP & client-specific OH&S policy.

Rig supervisor or "company man" experience includes reporting on engineering operations, activity logging, conducting well site inductions, overseeing BOP tests & conducting crude LOTs, and general well site supervision such as conducting safety meetings & preparing JSAs as required, signing on/off as permit authority, supervising visitors, opening and closing access roads as dictated by weather & client liabilities, and organising in timely manner; transport, fluids, services & equipment as required by the well site.

As a Scientist...

I am not particularly partial to any ideas that are not directly supported by material evidence. History has taught us that scientists have never been clairvoiyant and those venturing beyond the implicit limitations of material evidence are rarely, if ever, correct in their speculations. The theory of luminiferous aether presents us with an object lesson. First proposed by Rene Descartes and later formalised by Robert Hooke, luminiferous aether gained enormous support in spite of the early experiments that called the theory into question (Whittaker, 1910). Even when totally refuted by the Michelson-Morley experiment in 1887, many career scientists remained in denial, in spite of the emerging quantum theory. Svante Arrhenius was one such scientist, and refining Tyndall's idea of aethereal heat transfer (Tyndall, 1861, p. 285) with a backradiation warming mechanism, Arrhenius (1896, p.255) devised the "Greenhouse Effect". Like many career scientists, even two decades after the Michelson-Morley experiment demolished the idea of aether, Arrhenius (1906, p. 154, 225) continued to glibly propagate the idea, as if it had never been challenged. Investigation of the science, or lack thereof, behind the "Greenhouse Effect" exposes it as another career proposition just like luminiferous aether, with yet another refutation (Wood, 1909) that is studiously ignored. The lesson we learn from the history of science is that scientific-sounding speculations have little, if anything, to do with science. This is why I allow neither my career nor my ambitions to encroach on any scientific research in which I am engaged. Moreover, my approach to science ensures that, from me, you will always get a straight answer about what has been found, instead of arm-waving about what may or may not be found.

As an Achiever

My scientific deferral to material observation has forced me to accept that things do not always work as we expect them to, and my determination ensures that if there is another way, I always find it. This web site is a case in point. It works differently to other web sites and the functionality is neither hindered by your choice of browser nor by any reluctance on your part to allow web-based scripts to run on your computer. Everything here, from static panels to drop down menus, has been designed to operate irrespective of how you surf the web - all while conforming to international standards. My unwillingness to surrender to mediocrity and my adherance to the scientific method both contributed to the combination of functionality and interoperability you see on this site. I don't speculate. I pose a question and make an observation to get my answer. This is how I can go beyond what glossier candidates can only pretend to achieve. My interoperable and standards-compliant drop-down menus were a world-first. How many other candidates can lay claim to a world-first in anything?

Refereed Papers

Jago, J. B., Gatehouse, C. G., Powell, C. M.c.A., Casey, T., Alexander, E. M., 2010, "The Dawson Hill Member of the Grindstone Range Sandstone in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 134, pp. 115-124, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rssa/trssa/2010/00000134/00000001/art00008.

Unrefereed Journal Articles

Casey, T., 2010, "Volcanic Carbon Dioxide: Guesswork, Politics and Intemperate Volcanoes", Australian Institute of Geoscience News, No. 100, pp. 8-17, http://www.aig.org.au/assets/368/2010-03_AIG_News_100.pdf.