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Charles Kerans

Principal Investigator

20 years experience in carbonate systems and sequence stratigraphy of Precambrian to Cretaceous age, including West Texas, Arctic Canada, northern Australia, Tunisia, and the Middle East.

ckerans@mail.utexas.edu; 512-471-4282

Jerry Lucia

Principal Investigator

31 years experience with Shell Oil in geology and geological engineering, 17 years at the Bureau of Economic Geology, studying methods of integrating geological and engineering data.

jerry.lucia@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-7367

Xavier Janson
Carbonate Stratigrapher
Ph.D. in Marine Geology and Geophysics from the University of Miami (2002). 5 years experience in carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, seismic signature and petrophysics of carbonate rocks, seismic modeling from outcrop, and carbonate modern depositional environment.
xavier.janson@beg.utexas.edu; 512-475-9524
Jerome Bellian
Geological Visualization Specialist
4 years experience with ExxonMobil as a deep-water and visualization specialist focused on using outcrop data to better understand sub-seismic reservoir continuity and geometry. 2 years experience at the Bureau of Economic Geology using LIDAR data to build mixed siliciclastic and carbonate reservoir models.
jerome.bellian@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-8920
Christopher Zahm

Structural Geologist

5 years experience with ConocoPhillips Technology working fractured reservoirs within worldwide portfolio with emphasis on fracture characterization, geomodeling, and flow modeling within discrete fracture networks..

chris.zahm@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-3159
Associate Staff
Fred Wang

Reservoir Engineer

2 years experience with PGS Reservoir, 2 years experience with Scientific Software-InterComp, 15 years with the Bureau of Economic Geology, specializing in integrated reservoir studies, seismic-data-guided 3-D modeling, and reservoir simulation.
fred.wang@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-7358
Hongliu Zeng
Research Scientist
3 years experience with Texaco, 7 years with the Bureau of Economic Geology, specializing in 3-D seismic processing, interpretation, modeling, and inversion.
hongliu.zeng@beg.utexas.edu; 512-475-6382

Updated November 2007