Paul Mitchell

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ABOUT PAUL MITCHELL

Paul Mitchell is a Principal Geophysicist at Harbour Energy in the UK. He has broad ranging responsibilities and is a technical authority for geophysics within the company. Paul has more than thirty-five years of experience in exploration, development, and production geophysics from around the world. He spent a number of years working in ExxonMobil\'s Upstream Research Center in Houston specializing in seismic depth imaging, 3D volume interpretation and 4D seismic. He is currently working within a multi-disciplinary team developing subsurface models and planning wells for late life oil production and a large gas development project in the North Sea. His current interests are in 4D seismic and its application to 4D Seismic History Matching. He has presented his work at numerous international conferences. Paul holds a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Southampton and an M.Sc. in Exploration Geophysics from Imperial College in London. He is the Founding President of the EAGE Local Chapter in Aberdeen and was Chairman of the SPE\'s Seismic2018 and 2019 conferences. Paul served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer for the 2018/19 season when he presented his topic of 4D Seismic History Matching at 23 locations around the world; from Bogota to Tokyo, Stavanger to Cape Town and everywhere in between.