Oil & Gas Exploration Project Department

Oil & Gas Exploration Project is designed to walk students through the entire hydrocarbon exploration workflow, from basin analysis through drilling and appraisal. Students practice play-fairway analysis and seismic-attribute/DHI detection, and quantitatively assess resource potential through basin and petroleum-systems modeling. Working through projects that calculate the success probability of wildcat-drilling and formation-testing scenarios, graduates develop the risk-assessment skills exploration decision-making demands.

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⭐ Drake

Chair

💡 Petroleum Exploration & Production

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 12

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1903–1988

Hollis Dow Hedberg

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern stratigraphic nomenclature standards and a pioneer of basin-scale petroleum geology

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1913–1996

Laurence L. Sloss

Researcher

💡 Founded the concept of craton-scale, unconformity-bounded sequences ("Sloss sequences", 1963), the direct precursor to seismic/sequence stratigraphy

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1918–2005

John Hunt

Researcher

💡 Author of the standard textbook "Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology", foundational figure of organic petroleum geochemistry

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1899–1983

Alfred E. Treibs

Researcher

💡 Father of organic geochemistry; discovered porphyrins (chlorophyll derivatives) in petroleum, proving oil's biological origin (1934)

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1856–1935

Edward L. Doheny

Researcher

💡 Pioneering California oil wildcatter who discovered the Los Angeles City Oil Field (1892) and built a major early exploration company

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1701–1761

Thomas Bayes

Researcher

💡 Founder of Bayesian probability, providing the rule for updating probability estimates given new evidence (published posthumously 1763)

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1931–2017

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Researcher

💡 Extended M. King Hubbert's depletion-curve methodology to global frontier basin and undiscovered resource forecasting

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1885–1951

Hans Cloos

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of experimental and field tectonics, developed methods for analyzing fault and fold structural geometry

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1919–2013

George P. Mitchell

Researcher

💡 Father of shale gas fracking; pioneered the Barnett Shale slickwater hydraulic fracturing technique

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1925–2018

Robert L. Folk

Researcher

💡 Developed the standard petrographic classification systems for carbonate and clastic sedimentary rocks

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1917–1971

Leonard Jimmie Savage

Researcher

💡 Founder of subjective expected utility theory ("The Foundations of Statistics", 1954)

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1890–1962

Ronald Fisher

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern statistical estimation theory, including maximum likelihood estimation (1922)