GIS Specialist and GeoDatabase Manager

Aimed to get more experience in the Oil and Gas exploration studies with my proficiency.

1999-Present: TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Ankara, TURKEY
Geologist, GIS Specialist
„X Studied in the TPAO Data Bank Project using Landmark / Petrobank solution. Responsible for data preparation, management and loading cultural data into Petrobank.
„X Head of the GIS team for Exploration Information System during project design, data integration and quality control stages.
„X Organized the digitization of 1:500,000, 1:250,000, 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 scaled geological maps of TPAO Exploration Group and importing them into Geographical Information Systems, management of spatial data.
„X Prepared the new seismic navigation data before updating the seismic database
„X Served projects of the exploration group during spatial data manipulation.
1998-1999: BUREAU of ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, Austin, Texas, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
„X Well logs interpretation of Block9 Project using StratWorks in Midland, Texas
„X Experienced database management in Landmark workstations for well log data.

1994-1996: SELCUK UNIVERSITY, Konya, TURKEY
Research and Teaching Assistant
„X Thought in laboratory classes of general geology courses and assisted in summer field applications

„X M.A. in Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 1997-1999, (Master report subject: Petroleum Geological Database Management)
„X B.Sc. in Department of Geological Engineering, University of Selcuk, Konya, TURKEY, 1989-1993

•Hyperteach ?VGeology, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing applications with ENVI
•Petrobank: Cutural, archive and well data loading
•Technical end user ?V Petrobank MDS and Power Explorer
•Intro to GeoFrame CPS-3
•Intro to Geophysics
•GeoFrame G and G Integrated Workflow and Interpretation-Charisma
•Advance Landmark Zmap
•Introduction to Oracle
•GeoData Management; Landmark
•Well Log Analysis and Formation Evaluation
•Applied Subsurface Mapping

Publications:
• VUR, C.T., 2006, Tablet PC based Geographical Information System Applications in Geological Field Mapping, 15. GIS for Oil and Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, Published in Proceedings.
• VUR, C.T., KANSU, E., KARATAS C., 2005, Structure of Exploration Information System (ARBIS) and its integration, 15th International Petroleum and Natural Gas Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey.
• KANSU, E., VUR, C.T. and KURUCU, B., 2004, Heads-up Digitization of Geological Maps Using an independent user interface and converting into GIS. 20. International ISPRS Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, Published in Proceedings WG IV/7.

Professional Memberships:
• Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists.
• TEMA-The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion.