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Noel Tyler Noel Tyler joined the Bureau of Economic Geology staff as a research scientist associate in 1981. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa, in 1976 and 1978, respectively, and a doctorate from Colorado State University in 1981.
In 1985 Tyler was promoted to a research scientist position. He worked on the reservoir characterization project, which focused on mapping and interpreting the facies architecture of major clastic reservoirs in Texas. One of the goals of the project was to identify potential areas of reservoirs that were good targets for strategic infill drilling to reach stratigraphically trapped oil. In 1987 Tyler was made the Bureau’s program director in charge of oil resources. In 1989 he became director of the new State Lands Energy Resources Optimization(SLERO) project. He led a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers |
from five universities in the SLERO research effort. The project focused on three major activities: a play analysis and resource assessment, reservoir characterization, and advanced extraction technology. It was completed in August 1993. Tyler was promoted to an associate director position in 1992, and in 1994 he became the seventh director of the Bureau. Also in 1994, Tyler received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Forestry and Natural Resources at Colorado State University. In 1998–99, Tyler toured as an International Distinguished Lecturer sponsored by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation. Tyler taught popular industry short courses in reservoir characterization and teamed up with Bill Fisher to teach a graduate course in reservoir geology and advanced recovery in the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. He also supervised graduate students completing doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Under Tyler’s direction in 1995 the Bureau conducted reservoir characterization and related research studies in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. In addition to expanding the Bureau’s international research during his tenure as director, Tyler broadened the Bureau’s industrial associate programs, helping to establish the Exploration Geophysics Laboratory in 1997 and the Fracture Research and Application Consortium, a collaborative effort within the University, in 1998. Both of these programs continue to thrive. Tyler stepped down as director in 1999 and focused his attention on international research before leaving the University to pursue a career in consulting in the private sector. At the request of the University administration, William L. Fisher stepped in to serve as interim director until a new director was hired. |
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