Our Expertise Encompasses Every Activity Related to Marine Engineering Within The Seismic Exploration Business
Expert in hydrodynamic modeling and equipment integration, we can provide outstanding engineering studies and are capable of sourcing equipment and delivering turnkey solutions.
We will remain with you during the operational phase of your project, training your crews and engineers and mobilizing highly skills personnel in a safe and cost efficient manner.
We also developed a versatile database which allows planning in details a seismic survey and provides key figures such as cost, time, efficiency…
The company successfully completed more than 30 projects worldwide for various clients, including major international oil producers and geophysical contractors.
Years of Experience: 34
Specialization: Seismic Equipment, Seismic Surveys, Invasive Species Remediation, Technical Sales & Marketing
EDUCATION
University of Bridgeport: | B.S Management & Industrial Relations |
Minor in Marketing | |
Norwalk Technical College: | Drafting |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / CAREER DETAILS / COMPANIES / VESSELS
2016- CEO, Atlantic Seabird Consulting
2014-2016 Teledyne Marine Inc. V.P. Sales and Marketing
1982-2014 Bolt Technology Corporation, V.P. Sales and Marketing, Corporate Officer
1980-1982 R.T. Vanderbilt Company- Research Technician in Rubber chemicals and additives.
AREA OF EXPERIENCE
Worldwide International Business, Seismic Industry, Import & Export
EQUIPMENT KNOWLEDGE
Seismic Energy Sources, Survey Equipment, Handling & Towing, Survey Electronics, Mechanical Systems
LANGUAGE
English, French
CERTIFICATES
Military Specification soldering
COURSES
Internet Technology Security Analysis
To apply the knowledge and experience gathered in my career in the Oil & Gas Industry helping companies and individuals in the field of Geology and Geophysics.
1) Learning the Rubber chemical business and the industry standards for Research & Development in a laboratory environment
2) Moved into manufacturing position in a high tech field.
3) Promoted in the first 6 months to a supervisory role running the companies plastic molding department.
4) Took over supervision of the company’s electronics and encapsulation department.
5) Became involved in R&D development for new and existing products.
6) Traveled to various locations developing & servicing new tools for the Oil companies. Including:
a) Mobile seismic sources for remote area operation
b) Downhole seismic sources for reservoir investigation
c) Worked on high temperature electronic components capable of surviving hot steam injection zones in oil wells
d) Worked on the development of an Implosion device for deep well logging
e) Developed downhole receiver strings for cross well tomography
f) Aided the USGS develop a water gun tool to help with Invasive species mitigation
g) Developed the company IT system and handled setup of networks and MRP systems
h) Moved into technical sales and set up all processes for the sales department.
i) Handled marketing responsibilities along with domestic and international tradeshows
j) Built a large and loyal customer base through great customer service and commitment to detail leading to the largest sale in the history of the company
Our company was founded in 1979 as a precision seismograph survey contractor. We started out mapping abandoned underground coal mines in the Illinois Basin for both coal and geotechnical companies [URS, Burlington, NJS, Terracon, Bechtel, Parsons (CA, Peru, Miami), among others] and immediately moved on to mapping coal reserves over all the major coal basins in the US for Exxon Production Research (EPR), Gulf, among other majors and independents, and the principal coal companies including Peabody, Island Creek, and Consolidation Coal for the next 8 years. Along the way, we continuously developed new high-resolution seismic instrumentation and techniques and ran the first 3D for EPR. We went international in 1980 and spent a year in Australia mapping land coal reserves. We returned to Australia in 1999 for the better part of a year mapping coal reserves in 3D underlying coastal lakes in New South Wales with new marine seismic instrumentation and digital streamers, and then were invited to New Zealand in 2006 to run river surveys for a coal power plant finding that the river followed a major previously unknown fault that interrupted their captive reserves.
We returned to Florida in 1995 after working in the Midwest and overseas for two decades and concentrated on developing new digital marine equipment and high-resolution seismic methods to image karst along canals and the ICW. In 2007 we funded our own research and surveyed about 100 line-miles of 2D marine seismic in Biscayne Bay finding numerous karst collapses and got the attention of the USGS. By 2016, we had mapped more than 350 line-miles of canals from Miami out to the Everglades, and run detailed 3Ds at several collapses on both land and offshore in very high detail over more than 700 line-miles. By 2015 we had developed and modified advanced land seismic equipment for detailed mapping of the near surface in Miami.
Over the past 18 years or so we have run surveys from Africa (minerals), practically all the west coast of South America (oil & gas, port and other engineering), to the Middle
East (nuclear facilities), Indonesia (coal) and around the US Gulf Coast (various engineering).
We have just about wrapped up a 3-year “mega-project” with Miami-Dade Water and Sewer and the USGS. The program included 3Ds to map from the surface to the Boulder Zone at each water treatment plant and 2D canal regional studies from the Everglades east to the ICW.
Last April we completed a 700 line-mile 2D and three 3D surveys offshore Miami out to about 1500ft of water to the edge of the continental shelf/slope that drops off into the Florida Straits. There we mapped numerous hydrate accumulations that show up as BSRs (Bottom Simulating Reflectors), a bit unusual in only 1000-1300ft of water.
Cheers, Cam
TRINNY L. WALKER
CAMERON WALKER
7061 NE 8TH Drive
Boca Harbour Island
Boca Raton, FL 33487
MAIN: 561 251 5352
FAX: 561 245 8111
Email: walkermarine@yahoo.com
Here is a “postscript”;
As a specialist in shallow marine and onshore high resolution seismic data acquisition, Walker has run surveys for Exxon, Exxon Production Research, Exxon Coal and Minerals, Mobil Oil, Gulf Minerals, Marathon, Chevron, Tenneco, Amoco International, Amoco Chemical, Unocal, Noble Energy, Plains Resources, Hunt Petroleum, Shell Oil, Duke University, South Florida University, Colorado School of Mines, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, Southern Illinois University, the States of Illinois, California, Florida and Texas, US Department of Energy, USGS, Army Corps of Engineers, national and international coal companies, national and international geo- technical firms, independent oil and gas companies, and extensive Walker Marine internal research. My international seismic exploration experience includes high resolution shallow and deep reflection surveys onshore and offshore Australia, onshore Qatar, offshore Abu Dhabi, D.R. Congo and Peru, Lake Tanganyika, parts of the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, south and north Chile, offshore Australia, Nigeria, Peru, Mauritius, Grenada, Ecuador, Suriname and New Zealand.
Deep target high-resolution projects include basement studies in Illinois, Mid- Continent rift, and East African Rift, and deep oil exploration in Louisiana and Arkansas. Hard rock area experience includes surveys in west Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming, Washington State, Appalachians and Qatar. Walker has run salt dome surveys in Louisiana swamps, coastal marshes of Texas and Louisiana, and 2D river surveys, 2D hazard surveys in the Gulf, offshore California and Nigeria, and 2D and 3D surveys in more than 25 states. Walker designed and ran a large onshore offset 3D VSP in Peru.
Marine surveys since 1989 have included 2D and 3D seismic, magnetics, bathymetry and side scan sonar surveys in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, California, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Manitoba, the Orinoco, Chile, Patagonia, Peru, Mauritius, Australia, Abu Dhabi, Grenada, Ecuador, Suriname, Nigeria and New Zealand.
River work include dam site whitewater surveys in Patagonia, coal and mineral surveys in New Zealand and numerous canal profiling surveys for structural and stratigraphic studies related to aquifer and injection well site characterization in S.E. Florida from 2003 to present day in 2017. Oil and gas exploration in the principal rivers in Suriname was completed in 2014.
Walker, C., Oct. 1979, Seismic methods for coal mine planning, Min. Congr. J., Wash, D.C.
, 1986, Interpretations of high-resolution downhole air gun seismic data, 39th Midwest Mtg., SEG, Tulsa, OK.
, 1988, Shallow seismic profiling for a tunnel site near Chicago, 58th Ann. Internat. Mtg., SEG, Expanded Abstracts.
, 1992, High-resolution seismic profiling at Big Hill Salt Dome, Sol. Min. Res. Inst., 1992 Fall Mtg., Houston.
, 2008, Imaging karst aquifers in Biscayne Bay, Florida with multichannel seismic: conventional wisdom defied, AGU, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Neal, J.T., et al., 1993, Anomalous zones in Gulf Coast salt domes with special reference to Big Hill, TX and Weeks Is., LA, SNL Report SAND92-2283.
Heigold, P. C., 1990, Seismic reflection and seismic refraction surveying in northeastern Illinois, Environmental Geol. 136, Il State Geol Survey, Champaign.
Baker, M. R., et al., 1991, Geophysical surveys at the proposed low level radiation repository, Hudspeth Co., TX, Bull. W. TX Geol. Soc., V.30, No. 5, pp 5-15.
Cunningham, K. J., Walker, C., 2008, Marine high-resolution seismic reflection data in southeastern Florida: indications of a regional seal bypass system, AGU, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Cunningham, K. J., Walker, C., 2009, Narrow and Broad Sags Structures beneath Biscayne Bay and the Shelf Margin of Southeastern Florida, USA: Evidence for Hypogene Karst? , Chernivtsy, Ukraine, May 12-17, 2009.
Cunningham, K. J., Walker, C., 2011, Eocene-to-Miocene Karst Seismic-sag Structural Systems, Southeast Florida Platform, USA. AAPG Houston Meeting, April, 2011.