Barry Katz is a Chevron Fellow and team leader for hydrocarbon charge in Chevron’s Energy Technology Company. He received his B.S. in geology from Brooklyn College in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the University of Miami in 1979 in marine geology and geophysics.
- 1979: Ph.D., marine geology and geophysics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.
- 1974: B.S., geology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Chevron
- 2007-Present: Senior research consultant, Chevron, Houston
- 2001-07: Research consultant, Chevron, Houston
- 1997-2001: Research consultant, Texaco, Bellaire, Texas
- 1993-97: Senior research associate, Texaco, Houston
- 1990-93: Research associate, Texaco, Houston
- 1987-90: Senior research geologist, Texaco, Houston
- 1984-87: Research geologist, Texaco, Houston
- 1979-84: Senior geologist, Texaco, Bellaire, Texas
- B.J. Katz and F. Lin, 2014. Lacustrine basin unconventional resource plays: Key differences. Marine and Petroleum Geology 56, 255-265.
- B.J. Katz, 2011. Microbial processes and natural gas accumulations. The Open Geology Journal 5, 75-83.
- B.J. Katz, 2010. Geologic and geochemical controls on oil quality. Boletin de la Asociacion Mexicana de Geologos Petroleros, A.C. 55, 9-21.
- T. Cool, B. Katz, T. Dinges, D. Reimers and R. Flesher, 2008. Hydrocarbon source rock assessment and revised biostratigraphy of DSDP Site 369A, offshore northest African Margin. Journal of Petroleum Geology 31, 117-134.
- B. Katz and V.D. Robison, 2006. Oil quality in deepwater settings – concerns, perceptions, observations and reality. AAPG Bulletin 90, 909-920.
- B.J. Katz, 2006. Significance of ODP results on deepwater hydrocarbon exploration – Eastern equatorial Atlantic region. Journal of African Earth Science 46, 331-345.
- B.J. Katz and R.C. Haack, 2006. Hydrocarbon charge in Niger Delta petroleum systems. Journal of Mining and Geology 42, 1-14.
- B.J. Katz, 2005. Controlling factors on source rock development – A review of productivity, preservation and sedimentation rate. In N. Harris (ed.), Deposition of Organic Carbon-Rich Sediments: Models, Mechanism and Consequences. SEPM Special Publication 82, 7-16.
- B.J. Katz, A. Narimanov and R. Husinzadeh, 2002. Significance of microbial processes in gases of the South Caspian basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology 19, 783-796.
- B.J. Katz, 2001. Lacustrine basin exploration – current thoughts. Journal of Paleolimnology 26, 161-179.
- Seventy-five peer-reviewed publications and more than 120 presentations on the applications of geochemistry to petroleum exploration. These works have address