Wireline Issue 26 Winter 2013

GEOPHYSICS

PROFILE

Eivind Fromyr’s role as chief geophysicist at PGS offers him the opportunity to play a key role in discovering and recovering the world’s oil and gas. He relishes the technical challenges involved

Rock on When we pull off in our cars or turn on our boilers as the cold spell hits, it is easy to forget where the energy comes from and the technical ingenuity that made this possible. At the heart of oil and gas discovery are the men and women who are the sector’s very own ‘intrepid explorers’. Wireline chats to Eivind Fromyr, chief geophysicist at PGS, about three decades filled with restless innovation. “I ’m in the UK today, going to Asia next week and South America the week after,” says Eivind as we try to It’s no wonder then that Eivind was seduced by the opportunities of working in oil and gas; it wasn’t in his original career plans. He thought he would end

“It is a global industry which gives me an opportunity to see parts of the world I wouldn’t normally see. I have travelled through Asia, Africa, South America and North America, so in that sense it is an exciting way to get to know the world,” he says.

pin down a time to chat with him. If ever there was proof required that geophysics in the oil and gas industry is an exhilarating field to work in, Eivind’s schedule would provide the hard evidence to back this up.

up developing cruise guided missiles when he was studying cybernetics (the scientific study of how people, animals

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