Ron
Nelson
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Ronald
A. Nelson
Author
Ron
Nelson has worked the majority of his 26 year professional career with
Amoco; now BP Amoco. He currently works as a structural geologist and
is a senior member of the company-wide Structural Geology and Geomechanics
Network. Ron has worked as a specialist and manager in all the major technical
organizations within his company, including a 4 year period on Amoco's
Prospect Quality Team, assigning technical risk to all of Amoco's drilling
prospects and acreage capture world-wide. He has been an AAPG Distinguished
Lecturer twice, an SPE Distinguished Author, and author of a textbook
entitled "Geologic Analysis of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs".
I have three Geological Degrees emphasizing different subject areas; paleontology, igneous and trace element geochemistry, structural geology and rock mechanics. Since graduate school, my research has been applied in nature and all within the oil and gas industry. Major topic areas include; use of surfactants in hydraulic fracturing, evaluation and prediction of subsurface stresses, rock mechanics related to shallow deformation, rock fracture, natural deformation mechanisms, evaluation of fractured reservoirs, regional tectonics, trap geometries in hydrocarbon traps, technical risk assessment in hydrocarbon prospects, and structural styles in rifts, wrench terrain, and in fold and thrust belts. The majority of my published work has been in fractured reservoirs (including one textbook), fault patterns and fault propagation geometries in rifts, and in laboratory simulation of subsurface stress effects. I specialize in applying a mix of geometric, kinematic and dynamic approaches to solving structural problems. I do this by utilizing deformation experiments, physical and numerical modeling , detailed outcrop studies, and subsurface control from well and seismic data to arrive at integrated solutions that are consistent with engineering and geophysical data sets. Biography Outline.