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"It's not about Peak Oil" is the title of Bureau Director Scott Tinker's recent op-ed article printed recently in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, and San Antonio Express-News. Scott's commentary is about the hot topic of "peak oil" and the array of experts who believe that a pending peak in world oil production will soon lead to global economic collapse. "All of this might be entertaining were it another Hollywood film," said |
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Scott, and summarized his discussion by saying that "U.S. energy policies must be aggressive, must focus on efficiency and conservation measures, and should lead the world in a smooth transition to an unconventional-oil, clean-coal, natural-gas, nuclear, and emerging energy-supply future. Our economy and environment will be the prime beneficiaries." Click here for Scott's original full text. 06/27/05 |
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| Bureau Director Scott W. Tinker
presented the Bureau of Economic Geology’s
Alumnus of the Year Award to Charles G. “Chip”
Groat at the annual meeting of the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists in Calgary. Groat worked at the Bureau
from 1968 to 1978, conducting environmental and mineral resources
research in West |
| Chip Groat, left, receiving the
award from BEG Director Scott Tinker. |
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serving as Associate Director. Groat has served as director
of the U.S. Geological Survey
since 1998. He is returning to the Jackson School this month
to head the Center for International
Energy and Environmental Policy, a new public policy
center at The University of Texas at Austin focusing on energy
and the environment. Groat has been a member of the Bureau’s
Advisory Committee since it was formed in 2000. 06/24/06 |
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Angela McDonnell addressing members
of the Deep Shelf Gas Consortium at the Houston Research
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A project review meeting of the Bureau's
Deep Shelf Gas Consortium was
held on June 9, 2005, at the Houston Research Center. Bob
Loucks, Angela McDonnell, Shinichi
Sakurai, Shirley Dutton, and Eric
Potter addressed 39 attendees on the status of the
program and initial results. Topics included |
3-D seismic interpretation,
petrophysics, and reservoir quality of deeply buried sandstones
in Texas State Waters. 6/17/05 |
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| On June 8–9, PTTC Texas
Region teamed up with Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute
and other groups to host the 3rd annual Barnett
Shale Symposium in Farmers Branch. Approximately 200
people from Texas, the U.S., and Canada attended the 2-day
event. Attendees heard excellent presentations from speakers
with backgrounds as diverse |
Bo Henk, Matador
Resources, gave a core miniworkshop during one of the
breaks at the symposium. Barnett core from the Mitchell
T.P. Sims #2 well in Wise County is archived at BEG's
Core Research Center. During the symposium, Bo gave
a presentation titled "Lithofacies
of the Barnett Shale Formation from Outcrop to Subsurface."
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as real estate, investment
strategy, geochemistry, geology, and reservoir management,
along with perspectives from operators themselves. Presentations
included "Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring
in the Barnett Shale" by former BEG scientist Dr.
Joel Le Calvez, Halliburton, and "Shale
Gas Potential of Source Rocks along the Ouachita Thrust Front"
by Dr. Dan Jarvie, Humble Geochemical. 6/13/05
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| Left to right: Members
of Rep. McCaul’s staff Gene Irisari (Deputy Chief of
Staff/Legislative Director) and Victoria Miller (Director
of Field Operations); Dr. Juan Sanchez (UT Vice President
for Research), Representative McCaul, Dr. Scott Tinker, and
Dr. Manthiram. |
| Michael McCaul, U.S.
Congressman for Texas’ 10th District, and members
of his staff were visitors to the Bureau on Friday, June 3,
to hear two presentations on future energy issues. BEG Director
Scott Tinker discussed fossil energy and
related environmental issues, and Dr. Arumugam “Ram”
Manthiram of UT’s Mechanical Engineering Department
discussed fuel cell research. 6/10/05
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Julie Fowler is a new Administrative
Assistant assigned to help researchers on the 2nd floor. She
is a UT graduate with a B.S. degree in history (2004; specializing
in world cultures), and she worked as an administrative assistant
during college. Most recently, Julie was a Travel Advisor
for Great Wall China Adoption, helping families with the travel
and postplacement phases of their adoptions. Welcome, Julie!
6/10/05 |
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| Researcher Paul Sava
has been awarded his third Award of Merit from the Society
of Exploration Geophysicists — the most student-presentation
awards to be given to one person in SEG history. The prestigious
award was bestowed in recognition of the student paper that
Paul presented at the last SEG International Convention titled
"Wavefield Extrapolation in Riemannian
Coordinates." Congratulations, Paul! 6/2/05
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Dennis Campa is a new
Administrative Assistant who will be leading a double life
at the BEG: in the morning he'll be working in the Office
of Publication Sales, and in the afternoon at the Geophysical
Log Facility. Dennis enjoys researching old movies and, more
recently, music, and in his spare time he works as a deejay.
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