Research Interests
Integrated geologic and oil and gas engineering reservoir characterization
Reserve and resource evaluation, risking, and economics
Petrophysical analysis
CO2 sequestration
 
Mark H. Holtz is a experienced geologist and reservoir engineer with over 20 years of reservoir characterization experience at the Bureau. His expertise in reservoir characterization focuses on integration of geology and engineering in both carbonate and sandstone oil and gas reservoirs and multiphase flow within reservoirs. He received the West Texas Geological Society Distinguished Service award and has authored or co-authored 14 University of Texas Monographs, 68 papers and 63 abstracts on reservoir characterization. Mark's engineering skills have been broadly applied to primary, secondary and Tertiary oil and gas projects throughout Texas, the Vienna, Australian Cooper, and Eromanga Basins, and basins in Venezuela, Argentina, and Mexico. He has taught over 20 short courses in the form of in-house oil company courses, public continuing education, and DOE technology transfer courses in Australia, Argentina, US, Mexico and Venezuela. He served as a reservoir engineering technical editor for the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was secretary for the Austin chapter for the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He served as a reservoir engineering technical editor and was the secretary of the Austin chapter for the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
 
Education

M.S. Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005

B.S. Geology-Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, 1983

B.S. Engineering Science, Petroleum Option, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987

 
Professional History  

Lab Analyst, Geomorphology Laboratory, Geography Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1981–1983

Geologic Field Assistant, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, August 1983

Geological Consultant, Wisconsin Geologic Survey, Madison, Wisconsin, 1983–1985

 
 
Selected Publications

Holtz, M. H., Nance, Peter, and Finley, R. J., 2001, Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through underground CO2 sequestration in Texas oil reservoirs: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Environmental Geoscience Journal, September, unpaginated.

Holtz, M. H., 2002, Residual gas saturation to aquifer influx: a calculation method for 3-D computer reservoir model construction: Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE Paper No. 75502, 5 p.

Holtz, M. H., and Hamilton, D. S., 1998, Reservoir characterization: methodology to identify reserve growth potential, in SPE International Petroleum Conference & Exhibition in Mexico, Proceedings: Society of Petroleum Engineers, p. 473–485.

Holtz, M. H., and McRae, L. E., 1995, Identification and assessment of remaining oil resources in the Frio fluvial/deltaic sandstone play, South Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 227, 52 p.
 
Committees  

Reservoir engineering technical editor, Society of Petroleum Engineers

Secretary, Austin chapter, Society of Petroleum Engineers

 		 
   
Awards
Distinguished Service Award, West Texas Geological Society, Midland, Texas, May 22, 2003

Best Poster Award, 2002 SPWLA (Society of Professional Well Log Analysts) 43rd Annual Symposium, Oiso, Japan, June 2–5, 2002

Best Poster Award, Second Place, The Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, 47th Annual Meeting, 1997

Best Paper Award, Third Place, The Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, 44th Annual Meeting, 1994
 
Contact

Mark H. Holtz
Research Associate
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-475-9525
 
Professional Summary (Word format)
July 2005