Petroleum Technology Transfer Council


CENTRAL & EASTERN gULF Region

About The Region

PTTC’s Central/Eastern Gulf Region serves the domestic E&P industry in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi  and Florida. A university/geological survey leads outreach in each area. There are also volunteers who serve on Producer Advisory Groups (PAGs). Responsibilities of the PAG volunteers are to listen to industry in their sphere of influence, focusing on what industry is interested in and wants to learn more about. Members then use this insight to guide regional activities – what topics for workshops, where workshops should be held, potential partners for cooperative efforts, etc.

Ernie Mancini, University of Alabama, leads the program in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Karl Kaufmann, Valioso Petroleum Company, Flowood, MS, currently leads the PAG volunteers for the Eastern Gulf area.

MS/AL/FL Outreach Ernie Mancini Ph 205.348.4319 emancini@geo.ua.edu

MS/AL/FL PAG Chairman Karl Kaufmann Ph 601.936.3601

KARL KAUFMANN owner and President, founded Jackson, Mississippi-based Valioso Petroleum Company in 1988. He is an active oil and gas explorationist in the onshore Gulf of Mexico. Mr Kaufmann received a BS in Geophysics from Texas A&M University. He is active in SEG, Mississippi Geological Society, the Jackson Geophysical Society and has been involved in PTTC's Eastern Gulf Region for years, where he now serves as Chairman of the Producer Advisory Group.

DR. ERNEST MANCINI is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences and Director of the Center of Sedimentary Basin Studies at the University of Alabama. He teaches graduate courses in sedimentary basin analysis, petroleum system, and sequence stratigraphy and conducts research in petroleum reservoir characterization and modeling.

Prior to joining the University of Alabama in 1976, he was a petroleum exploration geologist with Cities Service Company in Denver. He served as the State Geologist and Oil and Gas Supervisor for Alabama from 1982-1996. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology form Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, Master of Science degree in zoology form Southern Illinois University, and a doctor of philosophy degree in geology form Texas A&M University.

Don Goddard, LSU Center for Energy Studies, leads activities in Louisiana. Joe Jacobs, Gas Masters of America, Inc., Monroe, LA, currently leads the PAG volunteers in Louisiana.

Louisiana Outreach Don Goddard Ph 225.578.4538 dgodda1@lsu.edu

Louisiana PAG Chairman Joe Jacobs Ph 601.936.3601

DR. DON GODDARD Don Goddard began his geological career in 1965 with Gulf Oil Co. (MeneGrande) in Eastern Venezuela. After working as an exploration and then production geologists he became Manager of Geological Operations for Maraven Oil Company in Western Venezuela’s Maracaibo region. He moved to the USA with his family in 1990 and has been in Baton Rouge ever since. Today, he is an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University’s Center for Energy Studies (CES) where he serves as the Interim Director of DOE’s Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC). He’s also involved in petroleum geological research in Gulf Coast sedimentary basins and in their mature oil and gas fields. Dr. Goddard obtained a B.S. degree in geology from Florida State University in 1965. He then studied at the University of London where he obtained Master of Science and Ph.D degrees in marine geology and geophysics. He also has a geological engineering degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Dr. Goddard is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Baton Rouge Geological Society (BRGS), the Venezuelan Geological Society (SVG), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

JOE JACOBS is the President of Gas Masters of America Inc. This Company operates approximately 200 shallow wells, associated pipe lines, compressor stations, and gathering facilities in North LA.

Mr. Jacobs serves as current chairman of the Producers Advisor Group of the Central Gulf Region of the PTTC. He is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Independent Oil and Gas Association, Vice Chair of the University of Louisiana at Monroe-steering committee- annual fund, and President of the MOG Industrial Supply, Sterlington La.  (Industrial & oilfield Supplies).

Mr. Jacobs received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Northeast Louisiana University in 1978, and an MBA degree from University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2000.