Joint SGS/SGA Technical Luncheon for February 9th, 2012
Title: The Eagle Ford 'Shale' - Outcrop Studies Related to the Oil and Gas Potential of a Major Unconventional Reservoir
Speaker: Dr. Brian Lock
Professor of Geology at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Over twenty-eight hundred drilling permits for the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas play were approved in 2011 alone, and the recent interest continues to grow. Outcrops in Val Verde and Terrell counties, West Texas, provide spectacular opportunities to see the source/reservoir rock in detail. Faculty and students from the University of Louisiana have been involved in detailed studies, and field trips have been run in conjunction with professional societies and with a number of petroleum companies to provide personnel with a better understanding of the play. In this talk, the outcrop sedimentology and stratigraphy will be described and results of petrographic and reservoir property analysis will be discussed.
Joint SGS/SGA Technical Luncheon for February 9th, 2012
Title: The Eagle Ford 'Shale' - Outcrop Studies Related to the Oil and Gas Potential of a Major Unconventional Reservoir
Speaker: Dr. Brian Lock
Professor of Geology at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Dr. Lock has his degrees from Cambridge University, and worked briefly with a team of Cambridge consultants on the petroleum geology of the Svalbard Islands (Arctic Norway) for Norske Fina, before taking an academic position with Rhodes University in South Africa. He joined the faculty of the University of Louisiana (then USL) in 1977, and spent 15 months working for GeoConsultants International (Ram Saxena's company) in Metairie in 1985-6. He was recognized by AAPG as a Distinguished Educator in 2006, and by the GCAGS in 1991. As a consultant, he has taught industry courses in Mexico, Nigeria, Myanmar, India and Indonesia. For nearly 20 years, he was geological consultant to the two biggest salt mines in South Louisiana. He has led field trips to the Eagle Ford outcrops for Shell, Chesapeake, and ConocoPhillips as well as STGS, LGS and GCAGS.