Drs Frans Kets

Visiting Research Fellow Rock Physics, petroleum geo-Engineering

Telephone number: +31 6 12548121
Email address: F.B.Kets@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.145

Biography

Frans Kets worked with Shell for 32 years (1977-2009) as geophysicist in a variety of roles, until he retired at normal retirement date. Most of his work in Shell was in Shell Research, with assignments in seismic processing research (deconvolution, signal processing and quantitative interpretation), interpretation software development, seismic processing deployment (amongst others: 3D pre-stack depth migration), seismic inversion and last but not least: rock physics, in particular the rock physics of shales (permeability, seismic signature). He had several assignments as manager of research sections, worked in an operational environment for several years, and has carried responsibilities for Shell training in geophysics worldwide for a period. Before he joined Shell, he worked as a PhD student at the University of Utrecht on atomic and molecular physics.

He became Visiting Research Fellow in University of Leeds on March 1st, 2010, and is cooperator with CiPEG.

Qualifications

Experimental Physics, 1968-1972, University Utrecht, Netherlands

Grade: Drs (MSc) - Cum Laude (Honours, highest grade), Experimental Physics

Memberships/Fellowships

• Member of various faculty committees (1970-1977)
• Organiser: Workshop Blended Learning, Paris 2004
• Organiser: Force Seminar, Properties of Shales, Stavanger, 2006
• Organiser: Workshop Shales, Berlin 2008
• Organiser: Workshop Shales, Nice 2010

Research Interests

Rock Physics (shales)

Publications

Kanitpanyacharoen, W., H.-R. Wenk, F. Kets, C. Lehr, and R. Wirth (2011), Texture and anisotropy analysis of Qusaiba shales, Geophysical Prospecting, 59(3), 536-556.