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Raymond Levey - Director

Phone: 801-585-3826
Fax: 801-585-3540

Email: rlevey@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise:

  • Unconventional Resource Assessment
  • Petroleum Systems Analysis
  • Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
Regional and Basin Experience:

  • North American
  • South American
  • Global Overviews
Education:

  • 1981 Ph.D. in Geology, University of South Carolina
  • 1977 M.Sc. in Geology, University of South Carolina
  • 1974 B.A. in Geology, State University of New York, College at Fredonia
Memberships:

  • Utah Geologic Association
  • AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist AAPG No.3867
  • State of Texas Geoscientist License No. 2711
  • State of Utah - Professional Geologist License 5234452-2250
Honors/Awards:

  • Member, Research Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1994 to 2000
  • Chairman, Field Trip Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 1988
  • Founding member of Texas Oil and Gas Forum 1996.
  • SEPM Vice Chairman for 2003 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Chairman, Audio-Visual and Speakers Assistance Committee, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Austin, Texas, 1994.
  • Session Co-convenor, SEPM/AAPG: Depositional Systems from Reservoirs to Basins, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1999.
  • U.S. Department of Energy Secretary - Secretary of Energy Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee (URTAC) - 2007
  • Session Co-convenor, SEG/AAPG: 3-D and Time-Lapse Reservoir Characterization, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1998
  • Lead scientific delegation to Tripoli, Libya to assist U.S. Department of State to evaluate re-deployment opportunities for Libyan weapons scientists to energy industry - 2005
Publications:

  • Levey, R. A., and Sippel, M. A., 1997, Determination of Well Spacing for Maximum Efficiency in Fluvial Gas Reservoirs Using Geostatistical Evaluation and Forward Stochastic Modeling: Proceedings SPE annual meeting 1997 San Antonio, Texas SPE paper 38915
  • Levey, R. A., 2002, Research Institutes -- Answering Industry's Call for Applied Research Applications; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Session: The Future of Petroleum R&D; Houston, Texas.
  • Levey, R. A., Tyler, Noel, Hardage, B. A., Carr, D. L., Ruthven, C. L., Lancaster, David, Elphick, Robert, and Ballard, J. R., 1994, Secondary natural gas recovery: targeted technology applications for infield reserve growth in Mid-continent sandstone: In Focus—Tight Gas Sands, v. 10, no. 1, p. 39–42.
  • Levey, R. A., Smith, P., Deo, M.D., Keiter, R., Lemmon, M., 2007, North American Unconventional Oil Resources: Electronic Access to Technical, Legal, Environmental and Economic Issues -- American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Session: Alternative Energy Resources: Promises and Pitfalls; Long Beach, California.