JERRY ANDERSON
bio and photo coming soon.
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 MARY
CARR is the Director of the Rocky Mountain Region PTTC and
an Assistant Research Professor at Colorado School of Mines. Over
the past 10 years her focus has been the Brushy Canyon deepwater
sandstone outcrops of West Texas, conducting field work and
producing reservoir models of the outcrops. She has also been
involved in outcrop and subsurface studies of the Tensleep Formation
in the Big Horn and Wind River Basins of Wyoming.
Mary received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Geology from
University of Texas at Arlington. In 1994 she received her Doctorate
from The University of Texas at Austin working with Gary Kocurek on
the Entrada Sandstone of Utah. Mary has authored several papers on
eolian sedimentology, deep water sand deposition and building deep
water sandstone reservoir models.
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 SIGRID
CLIFT serves as Information Geologist at the Bureau. She is
responsible for responding to public requests for
information regarding Texas geology. She actively works
with the Bureau’s K-12 outreach program, plus provides
day-to-day management of the PTTC program for the
region. Beyond serving PTTC’s audience, this role allows
the Bureau to gain insight into the upstream issues that
independents face. She holds a B.S. in Geology from the
University of Texas at Austin.
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 DONALD
A. 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).
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 G.
MICHAEL GRAMMER received his Bachelor’s degree in Geology in 1980
from the University of South Florida, a M.S. degree from Southern
Methodist University in 1983, and his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University
of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. While at
the University of Miami, he was a principal of the Comparative
Sedimentology Laboratory, doing research and teaching on applied
petroleum-related topics. His industry experience includes 10 years with
Texaco, doing reservoir characterization and formation damage
evaluation. Most recently, his position at Texaco (and subsequently
ChevronTexaco) was as a Senior Research Associate, where his duties
included internal technical consulting and support, as well as providing
training in various aspects of carbonate reservoirs. He has been a
chairman for several AAPG and SEPM technical sessions, was an AAPG
Distinguished Lecturer for 2002-2003, and for the last 5 years he has
been a co-leader on AAPG’s field seminar to study modern carbonate
environments in the Bahamas. He has published 23 refereed professional
papers, 12 short course and field seminar notes for industry, and has
over 60 published abstracts. In the fall of 2002, he joined the Faculty
of Western Michigan University as an Associate Professor, specializing
in carbonate sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and petroleum geology.
His research interests continue to be focused on the dynamics of
carbonate platform evolution, early diagenetic processes, and the
evaluation of reservoir architecture in carbonate systems.
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LINDA HARRISON
bio and photo coming soon.
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DR. WILLIAM
B. HARRISON
III
bio and photo coming soon.
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 ROBERT
D. (BOB) KIKER
is a thirty-year veteran of Conoco, retiring in 1994 to
assume the position of Executive Vice President of the Permian Basin
Petroleum Association. He elected to resign that position on February
1, 1998, and formed Robert D. Kiker Inc. to pursue a personal goal as
a consultant in operating and regulatory practices for the oil and gas
industry. In April 1999, Bob was selected to fill the new Permian
Basin Mentor position for the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council–
Texas Region.
For the past two years Bob has worked as a part time Program
Director for the PTTC Texas Region and as a consultant for regulatory
and operating practices. In this new position, Bob Kiker has a
contract with the PTTC Texas Region to assist them in the
administering of petroleum technology transfer primarily to the oil
and gas independents in the Permian. He is a Board member of the
Permian Basin SPE Section, serving as the Chairman of the Awards and
Nominations Committee.
Bob was Executive Vice President for the Permian Basin Petroleum
Association (PBPA) from November 1994 to February 1998. In this
position he was responsible for directing the lobbying efforts of the
1200 member association for both the state and federal levels.
From 1990 to 1994, Bob was with Conoco’s Midland Division as
Manager/ Director of safety, health, environmental and regulatory
affairs. This position was a “pilot” position for Conoco
worldwide. Also during this time Bob served on the Environmental
Technology Program Development Committee for Midland College.
He was a part time Petroleum Technology instructor at the time
and later was an Environmental Technology Instructor also.
Bob
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from
Texas Tech University in 1960,
and an MBA from the University of Houston and Texas A & I
University.
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 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 and Director of the Eastern Gulf Region ofhe Petroleum
Technology Transfer Council. 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 form
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.
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 MR.
DWAYNE MCCUNE
bio coming soon.
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 DR. DOUGLAS PATCHEN
Douglas
Patchen holds dual appointments as Chief Geologist of the West
Virginia Geological and Economic Survey and Director of the Resource
Extraction Division of the National Research Center for Coal and
Energy (NRCCE) at West Virginia University (WVU).
One of his prime responsibilities at NRCCE is to direct the
activities of the Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium
(AONGRC), a partnership among the geological surveys of West Virginia,
Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the departments of Geology &
Geography and Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at WVU.
This consortium serves as the Regional Lead Organization
charged with implementation of the PTTC program in the 7-state
Appalachian region.
The
AONGRC was formed in 1989 to develop a comprehensive research program
to address the immediate and long-range needs of the petroleum
industry in the Appalachian basin.
Since its formation, Patchen has directed research programs in
reservoir characterization and heterogeneity, secondary gas recovery,
coal-mine and coal-bed methane, creating an Appalachian basin gas
atlas, and enhancing DOE’s Total Oil Recovery Information System (TORIS)
data base for the basin. Current
projects include the PTTC program and the newer Preferred Upstream
Management Practices (PUMP) program for DOE.
Patchen
is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists, and served five years on the Advisory Council for that
international group, as well as serving four years as an officer in
the Eastern Section of AAPG.
He currently serves in the House of Delegates and as Eastern
Section Councilor for the Energy Minerals Division.
He was the General Chairman of the 1996 Eastern Section
Technical meeting, and will serve in that same capacity for the 2003
meeting in Pittsburgh, which will be a combined meeting with the
Eastern Region of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
He also is a member of the Potential Gas Committee, and has
served on various task forces and committees for agencies such as DOE,
the Federal Power Commission and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact
Commission, dealing with enhanced recovery, coal-bed methane, Devonian
shale and tight formations.
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BEVERLY SEYLER
bio and photo coming soon.
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 DR.
SCOTT W. TINKER is Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, The
University of Texas at Austin, a major international energy and
environmental research organization. He is the State Geologist of
Texas and a Professor in UT’s Department of Geological Sciences. He
is also a member of the Steering Committee of the new John A. and
Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences.
Before
joining the Bureau in 2000, he was an Advanced Senior Geologist at
Marathon Oil’s Petroleum Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado,
where he designed and managed studies of large oil and gas fields. He
earned a Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Colorado.
He is an expert in energy issues and reservoir characterization of
carbonate systems. A recipient of best paper awards in two major
journals and former AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, he was recently
selected for the 2002 inaugural series of the joint SPE/SEG/AAPG
Distinguished Lecturer program. He is a member of many professional
and honor societies, and is actively involved in several technical and
steering committees. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors at
Trinity University, the American Geological Institute Foundation, and
following a recent appointment by the Lt. Governor of Texas, the Oil
Field Cleanup Advisory Committee.
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 DR.
G. PAUL WILLHITE
bio coming soon.
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