THE ARIANELogiX TEAM
We are an international team of geoscientists, data scientists, mathematicians and software engineers, with decades of experience in delivering highly technical software and a strong focus on user experience, transparency and quality.
Our Core Team
Martin is a geologist with an MSc in Exploration & Reservoirs Geoscience and a PhD in Basin Analysis and Petroleum Systems Modelling. He worked for ten years with Schlumberger, and for seven years as a consultant in petroleum systems analysis, resource assessments and general exploration studies. Martin also held an Honorary Lectureship with Imperial College London until 2022. In 2021, Martin co-founded ArianeLogiX, a Germany-based company creating software solutions for probabilistic risk and resource assessment in the domains of oil and gas, carbon storage and hydrogen prospects.
Martin lives in a small wine village close to Montpellier, Southern France, on the footwall of a regional normal fault. To counterbalance work and related travelling, Martin loves working on his 17th century stone house in the French Cevennes mountains.
Ben worked with Martin in the years 2008 – 2013 with Schlumberger when he lead the software development of a major E&P software suite. They joined forces again in summer 2020 to found ArianeLogiX where Ben deals with all aspects of commercial development and as Software Director.
Arnold Neumaier is professor emeritus at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he held from 1994-2022 the chair for computational mathematics. He gave regularly courses on numerical analysis, optimization, applied statistics, and artificial intelligence.
He is the author of books on finite geometry, interval analysis, numerical analysis, and quantum physics, and of over 200 research papers in pure and applied mathematics, statistics, physics, and chemistry.
Arnold holds a honorary doctoral degree of the University of Szeged, Hungary.
Eva is a geologist with a MSc of Excellence from the University of Aachen (Germany). She has worked as a basin modeler, support engineer for basin modelers and geologic mentor for technical staff, in Germany and the UK. Eva has long experiences in managing software quality assurance projects. She believes quality and open mindedness is the key for a trustworthy customer relationship.
Pierre holds a degree in computer science and networks from the Hautes Écoles de Bruxelles. He has worked for over 20 years as a software engineer in development for major groups such as AbnAmro, SNCF, Yves Rocher and Pages Jaunes. Pierre joined ArianeLogiX in early 2025 as part of its growth to participate in the development of software solutions.
Pierre lives in a small, rustic village in the Cévennes, where he particularly enjoys hiking.
Christian is a Geologist who has had the opportunity to work on a wide range of subjects. He started his career with a PhD in Biostratigraphy in 1983, which allowed him to be responsible for the Stratigraphic Department of TOTAL.Then, he focused on the evaluation of Oil & Gas basins and blocks. Always interested in training and knowledge transfer, he worked as a university lecturer in Angola, and at the FP School, in France. Combining the management of regional synthesis teams with the hiring and training of new talent, he became involved in local content development processes in Nigeria and Angola.
After retiring from Total in 2015, he partnered with the CVA group to create CVA-Academy in 2019, a subsidiary specializing in training and coaching.
Our Advisors
Over the course of 24 years in the oil and gas industry, Christoph worked with leading companies across Europe, focusing on prospect generation and evaluating global opportunities for mergers and acquisitions. He thrived in international environments, contributing to projects that spanned from Norway to Egypt and Brazil to Malaysia. His tenure as Principal Reviewer for exploration prospects at Wintershall Dea represented the culmination of his corporate career. In this capacity, Christoph brought together decades of expertise and a sharp analytical mindset to rigorously assess pre- and post-well evaluations.
Building on this milestone, Christoph founded his own consultancy, where he now applies his nuanced understanding of subsurface complexities to address a wide array of challenges.
Ulrich is a geologist and holds a Diploma (MSc) in Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology from Clausthal Technical University, Germany. He has more than 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry, having worked ten years with Schlumberger, two years as a consultant for ISI International Seismic Interpretation and more than 20 years for Wintershall DEA. He held various technical and managerial positions including Exploration Manager for Wintershall Argentina and Head of Prospect Appraisal, being responsible for the quality control / quality assurance of the worldwide exploration and appraisal portfolio of Wintershall DEA and safeguarding the probabilistic risk and resource assessments.
Since 2023, Ulrich is working as a consultant (MGC-Moeller GeoConsulting) on projects in various fields of geology, e.g. nuclear waste deposits, oil and gas as well as geothermal.
Lukasz is a dedicated petroleum and CCS geoscientist with an MSc in Geoscience. He has extensive experience in petroleum systems and play analysis having explored a variety of geological settings in Australia, Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea and the Middle East. Lukasz has been involved in several successful exploration wells and hydrocarbon discoveries during his 20 years at Santos.
Lukasz enjoys working in a stimulating, challenging environment where he seeks innovative and creative approaches to solve existing problems.
Andreas Busch is Professor in Earth Sciences and co-Director of the Lyell Centre at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. He holds degrees in sedimentology and geology and a PhD in petrophysics.
His research is focusing on topics associated with the Energy Transition, at the interface between geoscience and subsurface engineering. The diverse GeoEnergy Research Group he is leading at the Lyell Centre is composed of geologists, geomechanists, geophysicists, reservoir engineers, hydrologists and geochemists.
The group aims at an improved understanding of the coupled thermo-hydro-chemical-mechanical aspects related to carbon capture and storage (CCS), geothermal heat, and hydrogen storage on the laboratory, field, and modelled reservoir scale.
Andrew is a geochemist and petroleum systems analyst with a B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, M.Sc. in Environmental Chemistry and Ph.D. in Petroleum Geochemistry. He has worked as an analytical chemist, marine scientist, senior research scientist (with Geoscience Australia) and as Principal Petroleum Systems advisor for Woodside Energy (Australia’s largest integrated oil and gas company). The latter included a period of secondment to the Shell International Research Centre. Andrew now runs his own company (Murray Partners PPSA Pty. Ltd), providing consulting and training to a global cohort of exploration and appraisal/development geoscientists.
Andrew lives in Perth where, in his spare time, he likes to indulge his love of aviation in his Vans RV6 light aeroplane.
Jan is an exploration geologist with an MSc and PhD in Structural Geology.
He worked with Shell where he was manager of the Exploration Excellence Team, advisor to senior management on exploration opportunities and Principle Technical Expert for Risk & Volume assessment. After his Shell career, Jan was appointed as professor Regional and Petroleum Geology at the VU university of Amsterdam and the university of Utrecht. He also was visiting professor at the University of Malaya in Malaysia. Through his own consultancy, as of 2010, he conducts courses and provides consultancy.
Jan lives in in the northeast of the Netherlands very close to the giant Groningen gas field . He likes to travel and read about (ancient) history.
Our Story
In late 2019, Martin was tired of his many spreadsheets and started to develop his own code. He lined up simple calculations “from source to trap”, with burial and thermal history, source rock properties and maturity, expulsion masses and migration losses until PVT-controlled trap charge. Then came trap pore volume and seal properties, enabling phase and column height prediction. The concept of the “Ariane Thread” was born, creating the backbone of a prospect evaluation tool, equipped with basic uncertainties and a Monte Carlo simulator.
When various friends and colleagues from the E&P industry showed interest in the Ariane prototype, Martin began to work on turning the idea into a product. At this time his path crossed with Ben’s, who saw the potential immediately. Martin and Ben teamed up to create Ariane, a decision they have never regretted. Early on, Ben created the foundations for a cloud-based platform. At the same time, the concept of Dancing Distribution was developed with Arnold Neumaier (Martin’s father), together with essential input by our first advisor Jan de Jager.
The arrival of Ian Bryant sharpened the strategic vision and things started to get serious. ArianeLogix was founded on April 1st 2021 – very much NOT an April Fool’s Trick! 2021 also saw the first commercial release of Ariane for Oil & Gas, presented by Martin at various conferences: AAPG in Denver, Geological Society of London, NPF Oslo, and EAGE in Amsterdam (finally in person!). Andrew Murray also joined as an advisor, providing valuable feedback on everything related to PVT and fluids, one of the domain cores of Ariane.
With carbon storage becoming a vital part of the energy transition, and in the absence of an effective prospect assessment tool, Martin and Ben decided to invest time into making Ariane fit for CCS screening workflows. Andreas Busch joined the team to strengthen understanding in this new branch of the E&P industry. The very first version of Ariane for Carbon Storage was presented by Martin at the Digital EAGE in Vienna and the following week at the AAPG CCUS conference in Houston. The development team was further strengthened with the advent of Eva as head of quality assurance.
ArianeLogiX’s first big client was a US-based E&P company seeking to establish a corporate-wide database for their international CCS prospect portfolio. This industry collaboration provided funding for more development, as well as a full set of functional requirements and cybersecurity requests. Concurrently, a nascent interest in Natural Hydrogen, again lacking appropriate exploration software, was the trigger for the first version of Ariane for Natural Hydrogen. This new module which further increases the number of successful use cases has been presented by Martin at the Annual EAGE conference in Vienna.
In 2024, Ben created the groundwork for Ariane to shift from a single user, single segment niche product to a corporate-scale platform, with user management and team collaboration, prospect aggregation, further data integration and a variety of uncertainty distributions. This common foundation serves all three Ariane domains - Oil & Gas, Carbon Storage and Natural Hydrogen – and any future extension. This new development allows users to work efficiently on the same data from different part of the world, in a secure environment. After having worked with ArianeLogiX on the client side for several years, Lukasz Krawczynski joined the ArianeLogiX advisory team.
The year began with the arrival of Christian and Pierre to reinforce the core team and accelerate the development of Ariane and further diversify the Ariane functionalities. 2025 will be busy with presentations on all continents, with highlights of the year which are the EAGE in Toulouse, Geological Society Natural Hydrogen conference in London, AAPG IMAGE in Houston, AAPG ICE in Rio. More and more clients are moving towards the Ariane Platform for effective prospect assessments! Ulrich and Chris also joined as advisors, bringing tremendous experience in energy portfolio management.
As an indispensable partner to companies at the forefront of the Energy Transition, ArianeLogiX is committed to supporting E&P companies in effectively managing their assets of diverse commodities. As the demand for energy grows, so will Ariane, building and expanding their capabilities to support explorers and producers of energy and natural resources. Ariane, the preferred E&P Prospect Assessment Platform for the Energy Transition, will unlock new opportunities for growth in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected world.