Ammonite Senior Consultant Mary Van Der Loop is the firm’s lead expert for the Permian Basin. On May 20th Mary presented a paper on defining over-pressured “sweet spots” in the Wolfcamp Formation in the central portion of the Delaware Basin at the AAPG annual meeting in San Antonio.   Historic DST, resistivity and mud log data can be used to identify and define areas of over-pressure, where horizontal shale wells will have higher initial production rates and EUR’s. Click here to read the paper abstract, and then click here to see Mary’s presentation.

Bob Merrill on a recent “geothermal field trip” to the lava flows of the Galapagos Islands –(and yes, he was interested in the unique flora and fauna of the islands as well).

Ammonite is honored to announce that Dr. Robert Merrill, Ammonite’s Houston-based Senior Exploration Adviser, has been elected Editor of the Journal of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. This is a tremendous professional achievement, and a volunteer job that will keep Bob on the leading edge of worldwide petroleum technology and exploration. Merrill was co-editor with Charles Sternbach, AAPG Past-President, of AAPG Memoir 113, Giant Fields of the Decade 2000-2010, published in 2017. He has been editor of the Journal of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies.