Qiming Li

CEO

Oliden

Dr. Qiming Li is the CEO of Oliden Technology. His work has been instrumental to the development of some of the leading technologies in Downhole Measurement in the oilfield service industry. Dr. Li co-founded Oliden Technology in 2011 after a successful 15-year career in product development and management at SLB, where he co-invented, developed, and commercialized the latest generation resistivity and reservoir steering tool, real-time wellbore images, and intelligent interpretation of logging-while-drilling propagation resistivity products. He led a project that developed the industry’s first deep directional resistivity boundary mapping tool, for which he won the SLB Chairman Award in 2005. Prior to joining SLB, Dr. Li conducted fundamental physics research at MIT and the US DOE Laboratory after obtaining his Ph.D. in Physics from Iowa State University. He also served as a Research Professor at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering in 2011. Dr. Li holds 36 US patents and has more than 80 scientific and technical publications in physics research and formation evaluation. He was a SPWLA Distinguished Speaker, and his contributions to the field have been recognized with awards from OTC, World Oil, and Hart Energy.