Oliver Schenk

Oliver is a geologist and senior basin and petroleum system modeler for Schlumberger at the Technology Center in Aachen, Germany (formerly IES). Currently he is technically supporting new ventures work. Oliver has more than 14 years of experience in multidimensional applications of basin and petroleum system modeling in the international petroleum exploration industry. For more than six years he was project manager for the Alaska North Slope multiclient petroleum system-modeling project, which constitutes the first major 3D petroleum system modeling effort based on a regional-scale geologic model. Since 2007, he has been affiliated with the basin and petroleum system modelling group at Stanford University, mentoring graduate students and providing occasionally guest lectures. Oliver received his Diplom degree in geology from RWTH Aachen University in Germany as well as a Ph.D. in structural geology in which he focused on fluid-assisted grain boundary migration in rocks and analogues.