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Richardson (Pitch) Allen - Senior Engineer

Phone: 801-581-7574
Fax: 801-585-3540

Email: pallen@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise:

  • Structure
  • GIS
  • Tectonics
Regional and Basin Experience:

  • South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia)
  • Red Sea
  • Studies on Unconventional oil and gas (North America, Europe, North Africa)
  • Bacterial Gas (Global)
Education:

  • 1983 Ph.D. in Geology, Columbia University, New York
  • 1978 M.A. M.Phil. in Geology, Columbia University, New York
  • 1975 B.A. in Geology, Columbia College, New York
Memberships:

  • Geological Society of America
  • American Geophysical Union
Honors/Awards:

  • 1975-1981 Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University
  • 1986 Co-Recipient of the Jules Braunstein Memorial Award for the best AAPG poster presentation at the 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, New Orleans
  • 1974 Awarded USGS summer field assistant position through National Association of Geology Teachers/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Program
Publications:

  • Segall, M. P., Murphy, R. K., McPherson, S., Neese, D. G., Nemcok, M., Allen, R. and Chidsey, T. C., Jr., 2003, Modern and antecedent topography; focussing agents for reservoir sands; central and western Scotian Basin: Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 12, p. 154.
  • Nemcok, M., Shafer, C., Allen, R.B., Segall, M.P., Hermeston, S., Sawyer, R.K., Christensen, C., 2003. Morocco-Nova Scotia-Georges Bank Margins Basins Project. Energy & Geoscience Institute Technical Report
  • Allen, R. B., 2004, Atlantic margins basins project - Phase I: Equatorial margins. Conversion of GIS - ArcView 3 to ArcGIS 8. EGI Technical Report
  • Segall, M.P., Platon, E., Allen, R., Francu, J., Nemcok, M., Shafer, C., Jarvie, C., Ekart, D., Erickson, J., Abrams, M., 2004. North Bahamas Continental Margin Evolution. Energy & Geoscience Institute Technical Report
  • Murphy, R. K., McPherson, S., Segall, M. P., Nemcok, M., Abrams, M. A., Allen, R. B., 2003, Clastic sediment distribution and dispersal in the deepwater Scotian margin: Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 35, no. 3, p. 24.
  • Abrams, M. A. and Allen, R. B., 2005, Source rock catalog for US onshore basins: Phase I and Phase II, EGI Technical Report
  • Allen, R. B., 2005, The hydrocarbon potential of Central Northern Montana, the foreland north of Augusta. EGI Technical Report
  • Nemcok, M., Segall, M. P., et al., 2004, Atlantic margins basins project - Phase I: Equatorial margins. EGI Technical Report
  • Segall, M.P., Allen, R.B., Abrams, M.A., and O. Abou-Ismail, 2001. Seafloor stability of the Argentine continental margin – considerations for offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, p. A182.
  • Abrams, M. A., Nemcok, M., Allen, R., Shaw, K. and Potter, R. W., II, 2005, Identification of key petroleum system risks in Grandview Hills NWT exploration play: Annual Meeting Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists.