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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

 
Bob Loucks

Bob Loucks

Principal Investigator

32 years of research, reservoir-characterization, and exploration experience with Texaco, Bureau of Economic Geology, Cities Service, and the ARCO Technology Center, where he worked for 17 years. His research interests include carbonate, siliciclastic, and mudstone sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, diagenesis, and reservoir characterization. Bob has worked in Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Middle East, North Africa, Far East, Alaska, and California.

bob.loucks@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-0366

 

Jerry Lucia

Geological Engineer

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). 12 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
 
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
 
Joseph El-Azzi

Digital Outcrop Specialist

2 years experience at Bureau of Economic Geology, research interests include active and passive remote sensing applications and onsite digital surveying methods to aid in outcrop data collection and modeling

 
 
Mark Olivier Titeux

Postdoctoral Fellow, Geomodeling

Ph.D in geomodeling and numerical modeling apply to salt tectonic from the University of Nancy (France) in the Gocad consortium. Marc Olivier post-doc project funded by ARAMCO involves geomechanical modeling of karst collapses and karst-related fractures, and MPS modeling of paleokarst in collaboration with Dr. Sanjay Srinivasan and Dr. Larry lake from the Petroleum Engineering & Geosystems Engineering Department..

marc-olivier.titeux@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-3361
 
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
 
Stephen Ruppel
Senior Research Scientist
5 years experience with Chevron, More than 25 years with the Bureau of Economic Geology, specializing in carbonate reservoir characterization and carbonate sedimentology and geochemistry
stephen.ruppel@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-2965
 
Laura Zahm
Carbonate geologist
Laura's research interest include Carbonate stratigraphy and depositional systems, Reservoir Characterization,3D Geologic Modeling of carbonate systems, and Petrophysical evaluations
laura.zahm@beg.utexas.edu; 512-471-0318

Updated March, 2010