Gary Frisch

Gary Frisch has over 34 years of experience in creating, developing, interpretation of petrophysical data concentrating in the cased hole environment. He began as an open hole field engineer with Halliburton Logging Services in Farmington New Mexico. He was transferred to Houston to work in Interpretation and Development in November 1990. He worked on thin bed interpretation but soon migrated to the cased hole environment where he designed and wrote the production logging software including multiprobe array tools. He then developed leading edge computer programs for cement evaluation for multiple type of measurements including sonic, ultrasonic and attenuation that provides interpretation of any cement evaluation tool currently in use throughout the industry. Authored more than 25 technical papers on both cased and open hole log interpretation, holds 15 U.S. patents along with several international patents. Member of Society of Petro physicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).
Some of the various highlights include being responsible for the interpretation of the cement and casing evaluation for the Macondo relief wells DD1 and DD3 using data from both Halliburton and Schlumberger. Combined multiple open hole and cased sensors to generate a new evaluation method for well abandonment. Technique has been used successfully in multiple well abandonments in the GOM for multiple operators including cut and pull of multiple casing strings. He also developed several programs to evaluate and quantify well integrity from mechanical, ultrasonic, electro-magnetic and formation compaction tools. Created interpretation packages from the raw data to complete solutions ranging customized spreadsheets to three-dimensional images.

Affiliations & Accreditation
MSc University of Wyoming - Petroleum Engineering
BA Western State College - Business Administration

Course(s) Taught for RPS
N529:  Well Integrity Cement Evaluation
N539:  Cased Hole Formation Evaluation for Reservoir Monitoring