The Petroleum Institute - Petroleum Geosciences

Faculty

Dr. Karl Berteussen
Professor & (Acting) Director of Research

Email:kberteussen@pi.ac.ae
Phone:+971 2 607 5286

Ph.D.: University of Oslo, Norway, 1976 (Seismology)
M.Sc.: Bergen University, Norway, 1972 (Geophysics)
B.Sc.: Bergen University, Norway, 1970 (Geophysics)

Experience:

2003-present	Professor Of Geophysics
1995-2003	President PGS Reservoir Consultants a.s.
1987-1995	Managing Chairman, Read Well Services a.s.
1984-1987	Senior Manager Geophysics (Chief Geophysicist), Saga Petroleum a.s.
1982-1983	Senior Research Geophysicist, Saga Petroleum a.s.
1980-1981	Assistant Professor, Oslo University
1979-1980	Senior Research Scientist, Sintef, group 28.
1977-1979	Assistant Professor, Oslo University.
1972-1976	Research Scientist, Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR)
1985 to 2003	Adjunct professor at the University of Tromsoe, Norway.

Professional:

Before joining PI he worked in the oil service company PGS (Petroleum Geo Services) were he was Senior VP for Reservoir Technology and President of PGS Reservoir Consultants.

At PGS he was the leader for the development and commercialization of a new product within the seismic industry (4 component sea bottom seismic). He was also the leader for an international group of consultants, covering all aspects of subsurface evaluation.

From 1987 to 1995 he was Managing Chairman for READ Well Services (RWS); a logging company were he also was one of the founders. RWS was among other things the company that first introduced digital multilevel well seismic to the oil industry in a commercially successful way.

From 1982 to 1987 he worked in the oil company Saga Petroleum, which now has been taken over by Norsk Hydro a.s. In Saga he was Senior Research Geophysicist before advancing to become Senior Manager Geophysics (Chief Geophysicist).

He worked as Assistant Professor at Oslo University from 1977 to 1981 except for a one year period as Senior Research Scientist at Sintef in Trondheim Norway. He was Research Scientist at the Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR) from 1972 to 1976.

Over 50 publications in the area of earthquake seismology, seismic acquisition and processing, management.

Selected Publications:

Andreassen, K., Hogstad, K., and Berteussen, K. A., 1990, Gas hydrate in the southern Barents Sea indicated by a shallow seismic anomaly. First Break, Vol 8, No 6.
Kolbjørnsen, K., Larsen, D. O., Kristiansen, P., and Berteussen K. A., 1991, Monitoring of an underground flow by sea bottom seismic instruments -a case study, extended abstract of paper presented at the 53rd EAEG Meeting, Florence.
Magnus, I., Hovde, J. K., Berteussen, K. A., and Kristiansen, P., 1992, Sea bottom geophones for seismic surveying, expanded abstract of paper presented at the 54th EAEG Meeting, Paris.
Berteussen, K.A., 1992, The use of permanent or semi permanent sea bottom acoustic sensors for reservoir seismic and reservoir surveillance. Proceedings; 3rd International Conference on the North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs; ed.: J.O.Aasen.
Kommedal, J. H., Berteussen, K. A., Barkved O. I., Jahren L., and Rathore J., 1993, Experience with sea bottom acoustic sensors on the Valhall field, expanded abstract of paper presented at the 55th annual EAEG meeting, Stavanger.
Frømyr, E., Berteussen, K. A., Jahren, L., Magnus, I., and Vestby, J. I., 1994, A small scale seismic survey with geophones on the seabed; An analysis of the character of noise and signal strength, expanded abstract of paper presented at the SEG, Los Angeles.
Berteussen, K. A., and Brown, R. J., 1997, Marine Four-Component acquisition boosts role of shear wave data in seismic work, Oil and Gas Journal, November 1997.
Berteussen, K. A., Langhammer, J., Andreassen, K., Sognnes, H. I., and Henneberg, K., 1999, Multi-Component Sea Bottom Data in Gas Hydrate Exploration, expanded abstract of paper presented at the 61st EAGE conference, Helsinki, Finland.
Berteussen, K. A., 2000, The cost efficiency of the new marine seismic technology, expanded abstract of Invited presentation, Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas.
Andreassen, K., Berteussen, K. A., Mienert, J., Sognnes, H., Henneberg, K., and Langhammer, J., 2001, Investigating gas hydrates using seismic multi-component ocean bottom cable data, expanded abstract of paper presented at the EAGE 63rd Conference & Technical Exhibition – Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Andreassen, K., Berteussen, K. A., Mienert, J., Sognnes, H., Henneberg, K., and Langhammer J., 2004, Multi-Component Ocean Bottom Cable data in Gas-Hydrate Investigation, . Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth.
Berteussen, K. A., 2005, The value of seismic; at decision time, expanded abstract for the 67th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, Madrid Spain.

Awards and Honors:

AGeophysicist of the Year award, NPD 1988.
Best paper award: The 1999 EAGE Mintrop award.
est poster award: The AAPG Annual convention, USA, Year 2000.