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Daniel E. "Dan"
Daniel E. "Dan" Schwartz
Manager of Technology, Strategic Business Development, New Ventures, and Innovation
Aera Energy LLC, Bakersfield, California

 

 
Meet Dan Schwartz, 2016 Candidate for AAPG Vice President-Sections
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Meet Dan Schwartz, 2016 Candidate for AAPG Vice President-Sections
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Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for an AAPG Office
By Dan Schwartz

The AAPG is the premier petroleum geoscience organization in the world. I am truly honored to have been nominated for the position of vice president-Sections.

AAPG Sections are a geographical slice of the U.S. petroleum business and are often the first place that geoscientists connect with AAPG. The Sections help to coordinate multi-society activities, provide educational and financial support, and interface with AAPG headquarters. To ensure success at all levels, the vice president-Sections must actively engage with association leadership, Sections, AAPG leadership and staff to give voice to Sections and association issues, and to communicate Executive Committee recommendations back to the Sections. The vice president-Sections also must ensure AAPG products (e.g. GTW, forums, courses and certifications) are being actively distributed, and are relevant to Section members.

During my 35-plus years at Shell, and recently at Aera, I have had jobs in research, exploration, development, production, finance and new business development. I’ve had the privilege to work with exceptional colleagues in the United States, Brazil, UK, Netherlands, Cameroon, Nigeria, Morocco, Malaysia and India. I quickly realized that my success can be only measured by the success of the people with whom I work. As chief geologist for Shell Oil, it was my responsibility to ensure that staff was fully capable, using the right tools and following the right procedures. A blended portfolio of on-the-job and targeted technical training courses was critical to achieving these goals. I am fortunate to have had leadership positions where I was able to ensure that cross discipline teams were well equipped to deal with global challenges through participation in multi-disciplinary training like that from AAPG.

I was fortunate to have mentors in my career, learning technical and business skills from Rufus LeBlanc and Mike Forrest, and many of my contemporaries. The industry, however, has changed – many corporate training and research centers have closed or down-sized. This is an area of opportunity for AAPG and the Sections to step in, providing training and resources for our developing geoscientists. I’ve helped to address some of these needs in leadership roles for the Pacific Section, where we’ve grown our scholarship, IBA, Student Chapter and YP programs to revitalize interest in the AAPG. We are documenting and sharing best practices across all the Sections to improve local AAPG operations. I’ve also engaged at the domestic and global scale to improve educational programs via the AAPG Education Committee, and built strong industry-academic ties in the UK and in California.

I would continue to expand these efforts as AAPG vice president-Sections. AAPG has the opportunity to be an indispensable resource for petroleum geoscientists, and building strong ties between national, the Sections, and the membership is required to achieve this goal.

Academic Degrees

  • 1978: Ph.D., geology, University of Texas, Dallas
  • 1974: B.S., geology, University of California, Berkeley

Experience

  • 2014-Present: Manager-strategic business development, new ventures, innovation, Aera Energy, Bakersfield, Calif.
  • 2009-14: Manager-exploration and appraisal, Aera Energy (Shell Secondment), Bakersfield, Calif.
  • 2005-09: Chief petroleum engineer and regional exploration consultant, Shell International E&P, Houston
  • 2003-05: Chief geologist, Shell EP Americas, Houston
  • 2001-03: Manager-basin evaluation team, Shell International E&P, Houston
  • 1999-01: Exploration manager-deepwater Morocco, Shell International E&P, Houston
  • 1998-99: Director, Shell Capital Inc., Houston
  • 1996-98: Head of business positioning, Shell EP International Ventures, Houston
  • 1992-96: Head of production-geology and geophysics, Shell UK E&P, Aberdeen, Scotland
  • 1985-92: Division petroleum and geological engineer, Shell Western E&P, Bakersfield, Calif.
  • 1982-85: Supervisor-geological engineering research, Shell Development Co., Houston
  • 1978-82: Research geologist, Shell Development Co., Houston
  • 1976-77: Intern, Mobil Field Research, Plano, Texas

 

AAPG Activities

  • Joined AAPG 1996
  • Member EMD
  • 1991: General chair, PS-AAPG Annual Convention in Bakersfield, Calif.
  • 2009-11: Member Technical Advisory Committee, AAPG
  • 2011-13: Committee vice chair, Technical Advisory Committee, AAPG
  • 2012-15: Pacific Section liaison, Education Committee AAPG
  • 2012-Present: PS-AAPG Scholarship Committee co-chair
  • 2012-13: President-elect, Pacific Section AAPG
  • 2013-14: President, Pacific Section AAPG
  • 2014-15: Past president, Pacific Section AAPG
  • 2014: Technical co-chair, Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Symposium, Calgary, Canada (sponsored by CSPG and AAPG)

AAPG Honors & Awards

  • 2015: A.I. Levorsen Memorial Award, AAPG Pacific Section
  • 2013-14: Certificate of Merit
  • AAPG Pacific Section president
  • 2012-13: Certificate of Appreciation
  • AAPG Pacific Section president-elect

 

Publications
  • Hinman, N.W. and D.E. Schwartz, 1990. Lithology and diagenetic sequences of the Monterey Formation, Molino Field, Offshore Santa Barbara, California: in M.A. Keller and M.K. McGowen (eds.), Miocene and Oligocene petroleum reservoirs of the Santa Maria and Santa Barbara – Ventura Basins, California, A Core Workshop, SEPM core workshop No. 14, San Francisco, pp. 271-336.
  • Rigsby, C.A. and D.E. Schwartz, 1990. Litho-stratigraphic and depositional environments of the Vaqueros Formation, Capitan Field, California: in M.A. Keller and M.K. McGowen (eds.), Miocene and Oligocene petroleum reservoirs of the Santa Maria and Santa Barbara – Ventura Basins, California, A Core Workshop, SEPM core workshop No. 14, San Francisco, pp. 88-138.
  • Schwartz, D.E., 1978. Hydrology and current orientation analysis of a braided-to-meandering transition zone: The Red River in Oklahoma and Texas, USA: in A.D. Miall (ed.), Fluvial Sedimentology; CSPG, Memoir 5, pp. 231-255.
  • Schwartz, D.E., 1978. Sedimentary facies, structures, and grain-size distribution: The Red River in Oklahoma and Texas: in J.E. Boudreaux (ed.), Transactions GCAGS, GCS, and SEPM, New Orleans, v. 28, pp. 473-492.
  • Schwartz, D.E., 1980. Scanning Electron Microscope – Cold Stage: Viewing fluid saturated reservoir rock: SPE 9248, 55th Annual Fall Technical Conference, Dallas.
  • Schwartz, D.E., 1988. Characterizing lithology, petrophysical properties, and depositional setting of the Belridge Diatomite, South Belridge field, Kern County, California: in, S.A. Graham (ed.), Studies of the Geology of the San Joaquin Basin, SEPM Pacific Section Book 60, pp. 281-301.
  • Schwartz, D.E., 2003. Channelized Deep Marine Reservoirs in the Deepwater – Modeling and Recovery. (abs) Pacific Section AAPG-SEPM convention, Long Beach.
  • Schwartz, D.E., 2015. Recent Characterization of the Monterey Formation, San Joaquin Basin, California: (abs) Pacific Section AAPG-SEPM convention, Oxnard.
  • Schwartz, D.E. and I.P. Colburn, 1987. Late Tertiary to Recent chronology of the Los Angeles Basin, Southern California: in, P.J. Fischer, (ed.), Geology of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and San Pedro Bay, AAPG-SEPM Pacific Section volume and guidebook 55, pp. 5-16.
  • Schwartz, D.E. and J.R. Schwalbach, 2012. Evaluation of Monterey Formation core from two wells in the offshore Santa Maria Basin of California, OCS P-0397-2 and OCS P-0409-4: in, J.R. Schwalbach, Richard Behl (eds.), Monterey Formation Seminar and Core Workshop, 2012 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Long Beach, Calif., pp. 151-184.
  • More than 25 peer reviewed publications and presentations, including field trip guides and core workshop notes on fluvial, aeolian and deepwater depositional systems, including conventional and unconventional reservoir facies. Expert on California’s Monterey formation depositional and diagenetic facies, reservoir properties and development potential. I’ve created and taught courses on deepwater clastic systems in California and the North Sea and published work on such varied topics as Scanning Electron Microscope methodologies for analysis of fluid saturated carbonate reservoir rocks from West Texas, and remaining development potential from compartmentalized aeolian reservoirs in the North Sea.

Section 3. Vice President, Section

The Vice President, Sections, when elected earlier than the Vice President, Regions, shall perform the duties of the President in the absence or inability of the President to serve. The Vice President, Sections, when elected earlier than the Vice President, Regions, shall assume the office of President in case of a vacancy for any cause in that office; and shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the President. The Vice President, Sections shall, with his or her other duties, concern himself or herself with the activities of the Association in respect to United States Sections. A Vice President, Sections elected pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of this Article II shall be presumed for the purposes of this Section 3 to have been elected on the date of his or her predecessor’s election.

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