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

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