Breyer, ed., The Eagle Ford Shale: A renaissance in U.S. Scott Staerker, Rand Gardner, Michael Pope, Aris Pramudito, and Matthew Wehner, 2016, Findings from the Eagle Ford outcrops of west Texas and implications to the subsurface of south Texas: in J. Jordan (eds.): The Geologic Society Special Publication 436: The Value of Outcrop Studies in Reducing Subsurface Uncertainty and Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production p.193-206.ĭonovan, Arthur D., T. 2016, Making Outcrops Relevant for an Unconventional Source Rock Play: An example from the Eagle Ford Group of Texas. An organofacies-based Mudstone Classification for Unconventional Tight Rock and Source Rock Plays: URTEC 2715154, July 2017.ĭonovan, A. After retiring from BP in 2016, I joined the Department of Geology and Geophysics at TAMU as a full-time faculty member in 2017, after serving as an adjunct faculty Member since 2008.ĭonovan, A.D., J. I am also very interested in utilizing drone imagery to capture large-scale seismic-scale geometries in outcrops, especially from the cretaceous of the Western interior of the U.S. However, over the past decade, my efforts were focused on: 1) studying unconventional Source and Tight Rock plays around the world, but especially in North America 2) applying sequence stratigraphic concepts to better explain and predict the distributions, thickness variations, and sweet spots of unconventional Source Rock and Tight Rock Reservoirs 3) Bringing outcrops into the 21 st century by collecting and integrating stratigraphic, biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic, petrophysical, and geochemical data in outcrops and using this integrated information to better understand unconventional plays in the adjacent subsurface 4) the Earth’s climate change over geologic time, but especially during the Cretaceous 5) studying the upper cretaceous succession, especially the Woodbine, Eagle Ford and Austin Groups across Texas and 6) understanding the interactions among tectonics, inherited physiography, and stratigraphy. During my career in the oil and gas industry, I had the opportunity to work conventional Non-marine, Marginal-Marine, and Deep-Water Reservoirs in outcrop, as well as the subsurface, from basing around the world. at BP, I served as the sed/strat discipline lead, a member of the Global Exploration Assurance Team, Senior Geoscience Advisor for BP Global Unconventional Efforts, as well as help rebuild their R&D and internal training efforts globally. At ExxonMobil, I had the opportunity to conduct and manage sequence and seismic stratigraphic studies from basin around the world, as well as help to develop and teach numerous courses. I have over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and spent over 15 years at both ExxonMobil and BP. Over the past three decades, I have published numerous articles on the subject, as well as taught sequence stratigraphic courses, and field seminars, for Exxon, BP, GSA, AAPG, SEPM, & THE GEOLOCAL SOCIETY. My PhD research at the Colorado School of Mines in the early 1980’s was one of the pioneering efforts to apply sequence stratigraphic concepts to outcrops and the shallow subsurface. This methodology defines hiatal breaks in the stratigraphic record and allows the understanding of sedimentary strata in terms of both what was originally deposited, as well as what was subsequently preserved. Sequence Stratigraphy is a methodology that defines sequence boundaries (unconformities and their correlative conformities) and the depositional sequences that they bound. My primary research focus is applying Sequence stratigraphic concepts to help to explain and predict the distributions, thickness variations, and sweet spots of unconventional Source Rock and Tight Rock Reservoirs from the basin- to field-scale.
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