Ali Tura

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Ali Tura is Professor of Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) with over 30 years of industry experience prior to academia. Dr. Tura was Geophysical Senior Fellow at ConocoPhillips, Geophysical Advisor at Chevron, and 4D subject matter expert at Shell. He has also been part of the global exploration review teams for ConocoPhillips and Chevron. Dr. Tura is currently Chief Scientist at Tulip Geosciences consulting on global project reviews and geophysical technology implementation with several energy companies in addition to providing courses. He is also co-director of the industry consortium Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP) at CSM which is entering its 40 th year with around 20 industry sponsors. Dr. Tura's expertise is in reservoir characterization and monitoring, rock physics and AVO, multi-component and time-lapse seismic, CCUS, fiber optics, machine learning, and compressive sensing acquisition and processing. He was SEG Distinguished Lecturer in 2021 and received the Best Paper Award at SEG-IMAGE conference in 2021 (out of over 700 industry/vendor/academia papers). Dr. Tura serves on multiple SEG and SPE committees related to reservoirs, research, CCUS and technical committees for organizing various international conferences.

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