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RONALD LIVESAY
He
served as a consultant to ARCO Oil & Gas Company's Research and
Technology Division from 1988 to ARCO’s acquisition by British
Petroleum.
Livesay continues as a consultant with BP. Consulting
services have also been supplied to Shell Oil, Ford Motor Company, Dow
Chemical, Vetrotex America, Landis Plastics and others. As
the software developer for the Drilling Engineering Association’s DEA-130
(2001-2002), he built a database from the test results for a significant
number of test joints using information from several testing agents in an
amazingly colorful collection of formats. He
was directly responsible for the design, development, and testing of
real-time processing systems required by various functional organizations
within ARCO, including the departments of Drilling & Completion
Technology, Fluid Systems, Well Services, and Downhole Measurements. Past
accomplishments include the successful development and testing of
real-time software for a state-of-the-art nuclear radiation downhole
measurement device. Livesay's proven expertise in the application of
digital signal processing techniques contributed to the development of
real-time software for ADAMS -- an advanced drill string analysis and
measurement system -- for which ARCO won the prestigious R&D 100 award
in 1990. He also designed a massively parallel processing system for use
in several real-time measurement-while-drilling applications. In addition
to his activities at ARCO, Livesay has managed the design and development
of petroleum production database management systems for other corporations
within the oil and gas community. Prior
to founding Hecate Software, Livesay served for nine years as manager of
software development for the petroleum-consulting firm of Cawley,
Gillespie & Associates. Under his direction, CG&A developed a
broad spectrum of software products, including several large relational
and hierarchical petroleum database management systems and numerous
computational models used for petroleum reservoir analysis. These products
operated in a diverse, interconnected computing environment consisting of
VAX, PRIME, and GA minicomputers; over fifty microcomputers: and assorted
peripheral data storage devices, graphics hardware, and CAD systems. One
such database implementation included an on-line retrieval system for the
oil and gas production of all wells (over 200,000) in Texas. This system
included sophisticated query capabilities, extensive reporting facilities,
and interactive graphics. Livesay was also the sole designer and developer
of an elaborate, highly modular reserve and economics analysis. Before joining CG&A, Livesay was employed for six
years as a physicist at Radiation Research Associates. There, he
participated in the development and utilization of optical radiation
transport programs used in the design and analysis of satellite-based
nuclear event detection systems for the U.S. Air Force. He also provided
software support during the development of several Monte Carlo radiation
transport codes for Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs, the Air Force
Geophysics Lab and the Federal Ministry of Defense, Federal Republic of
Germany. Livesay attained his M.A. degree in software design and development from Texas Christian University in 1982. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1972. Prior to his attending the University of Texas, Livesay served as an electronics technician in the U.S. Navy from which he received an Honorable discharge. | HOME PAGE | WHO IS HECATE? | Some of the projects involving Livesay: | PROJECT DEA | PROJECT PARTS | PROJECT FEEDBACK | PROJECT PRODUCTION
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