Robert K.

Robert K. Merrill

Catheart Energy, Sugar Land, Texas

 

Academic Degrees

  • 1974 – Ph.D., Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
  • 1970 – M.S. Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
  • 1967 – B.A. Geology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Experience

  • 2005-18 – Catheart Energy Inc., Sugar Land, Texas
  • 2000-05 – Samson Companies, Technical Manager of Geology, Tulsa
  • 1997-2000 – Spirit Energy Division of Unocal Corporation, Chief Geologist, Sugar Land, Texas
  • 1989-97 – Unocal Corporation Exploration Geologist, Oklahoma City and Sugar Land, Texas
  • 1987-89 – Exploration Geologist, Oxy USA, Oklahoma City
  • 1974-87 – Exploration Geologist, Cities Service Oil and Gas Corp. Tulsa and Denver
  • 1973-74 – Instructor of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
  • 1969-73 – Stratigrapher and Consultant, American Stratigraphic Company, Denver

AAPG Activities

  • 2017 – Giant Fields of the decade 2000-2010: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Memoir 113. 322p. Merrill, R. K., and Sternbach, C.A.
  • 2013 – Integrated 3D modeling of structural controls and permeability distribution in the Patua Geothermal Field, Hazen, NV:  Proc. 38th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, Univ., 12 p. Peterson, Neil, Combs, J., Bjelm, L, Garg, S., Kohl, B., Goranson, C., Merrill, R., van de Kamp, P., and Lamb, A.
  • 2004 – An international perspective on entry into hydrocarbon-producing basins of Eastern Australia, PESA Eastern Australian Basins Symposiums II., Adelaide, p. 35 – 40. Merrill, R.K., Trujillo, S.K., Simpson, S.D. and Wall, R.M.
  • 1991 – Source and Migration Processes and Techniques for Evaluation:  Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, Handbook of Petroleum Geology, 213 p. Merrill, R. K., ed.
  • 1984 – Development of the landscape of east-central Arizona, in Smiley, T.L., et al., eds., Landscapes of Arizona, The Geological Story:  Univ. Press of America Inc., p. 137-149. Merrill, R.K.
  • 1977 – Late Cenozoic Geology of the White Mountains, Ariz.:  Ariz. Bur. of Geology and Mineral Technology Spec. Paper No. 1, 65p. Merrill, R.K., and Péwé, T.L.
  • 1972 – Late Quaternary glacial chronology of the White Mountains, Ariz.:  Jour. Geology, v. 80, no., 4, p. 493-501. Merrill, R.K., and Péwé, T.L.,
  • 1971 – The Sheep Crossing Formation:  A late Cenozoic epiclastic formation in ea

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