Wayne Wright is currently plying his expertise in Permian Basin synthesis, focusing on the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous). He has also been involved in integrated reservoir studies, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, basic seismic interpretation, geochemical analysis, and modeling. And he is familiar with regional basin evaluation, in both play fairway mapping and economics. As a teacher, Dr. Wright specialized in techniques and applications of fluid inclusion analysis in petroleum systems, as well as techniques and applications of cathodoluminescence, carbonate petrography, dolomitization, carbonate geochemistry, and fluid flow modeling carbonate core logging. He has reservoir experience in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, South America, and North Africa. He has been part of petrographic and geochemical studies to delineate fluid flow vectors and sites of mineral deposition, as well as predictive and retrospective metallurgy using petrographic and geochemical techniques.

Education

B.Sc. Geology, Beloit Collage, Beloit, Wisconsin, 1992

M.S. Geology, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1997

Ph.D. Geology, University College Dublin, Ireland, 2001

Professional Societies

International Association of Sedimentologists

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Selected Publications

Wright, W. R., Somerville, I. D., Gregg, J. M., Johnson, A. W., and Shelton, K. L., 2004, Irish lower Carboniferous replacement dolomite: isotopic modeling evidence for a diagenetic origin involving low-temperature modified seawater, in Braithwaite, C. J. R., Rizzi, G., and Darke, G., eds., The geometry and petrogenesis of dolomite hydrocarbon reservoirs: Geological Society, London, Special Publication 235, p. 75–97.

Wright, W. R., Somerville, I. D., Gregg, J. M., Johnson, A. W., and Shelton, K. L., 2003, Dolomitization and neomorphism of Irish lower Carboniferous (Early Mississippian) limestones: evidence from petrographic and isotopic data, in Ahr, W., Harris, A. P., Morgan, W. A., and Somerville, I. D., eds., Permo-Carboniferous carbonate platforms and reefs: Society for Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication 78 and AAPG Memoir 83, p. 395–408.

Gregg, J. M., Shelton, K. L., Johnson, A. W., Somerville, I. D., and Wright, W. R., 2001, Dolomitization of the Waulsortian Limestone (lower Carboniferous) in the Irish Midlands: Sedimentology, v. 48, no. 4, p. 745–766.

Johnson, A. W., Shelton, K. L., Gregg, J. M., Somerville, I. D., and Wright, W. R., 2001, Fluid inclusion evidence for the presence of multiple fluids in the Zn-Pb hosting Carboniferous carbonate rocks in the Irish Midlands: with emphasis on type-type base metal and carbonatite-related ore deposits, in Hagne, D., ed., Studies on ore deposits, mineral economics and applied mineralogy: with emphasis on Mississippi valley-type base metal and carbonatite-related ore deposits: Rolla, Missouri, University of Missouri-Rolla Press, p. 1–17.

Wright, W. R., Mariano, A. N., and Hagni, R. D., 2001, Petrology and geochemistry of the Eldor carbonatite complex, Labrador Trough, Quebec, Canada, in Hagne, D., ed., Studies on ore deposits, mineral economics and applied mineralogy: with emphasis on Mississippi valley-type base metal and carbonatite-related ore deposits: Rolla, Missouri, University of Missouri-Rolla Press.

Wright, W. R., Somerville, I. D., Gregg, J. M., Shelton, K. L., and Johnson, A. W., 2001, Application of regional dolomite cement CL (cathodoluminescence) microstratigraphy to the genesis of the Zn-Pb mineralization of the lower Carboniferous rocks, Ireland: similarities to the Southeast Missouri Pb-Zn District? in Hagni, D., ed., Studies on ore deposits, mineral economics and applied mineralogy: with emphasis on Mississippi valley-type base metal and carbonatite-related ore deposits: Rolla, Missouri, University of Missouri-Rolla Press, p. 18–30.

Contact

Wayne Wright
Research Associate
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-0257

Professional Summary (Word)

February 2006