Paul Knox

Professional Summary

December 7, 2004

Business address: The University of Texas at Austin

Bureau of Economic Geology

University Station, Box X

Austin, Texas 78713-8924

(512) 471-7721

E-mail address:

Academic Background

Ph.D., in progress, Geology, The University of Texas at Austin,

B.S. Geology, California State University at Long Beach, 1980

M.S. Geology, California State University at Long Beach, 1989

Areas of Expertise

  1. Clastic depositional environments and high-frequency sequence stratigraphy.
  2. Subsurface reservoir characterization—integrating well log, core, and seismic data.
  3. Shale seal characterization.

Professional Work Experience

A. Present Position: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (November 1992 - Present).

Developing improved methods of integrated geologic and engineering analysis for locating remaining oil and gas in mature reservoirs in Central Europe and the Texas Gulf Coast; characterizing subsurface sites for greenhouse gas sequestration; evaluating quaternary depositional systems on a part of the Louisiana shelf in support of multicomponent seismic study; determining top and fault seals for gas reservoirs, offshore Louisiana.

B. Development Geologist, Unocal Corporation (1991 - 1992).

Managing acreage evaluation team; conducting geologic studies to locate remaining reserves in mature oil and gas fields; designing development program for fractured shale reservoir.

C. Exploration Geologist, Unocal Corporation (1990 - 1991).

Conducting geologic investigation of acreage prospective for oil exploration; predicting fluid compositions in potential reservoir zones based on capacity of known seals.

D. Development Geologist, Unocal Corporation (1989 - 1990).

Conducting geologic investigation of mature oil field in preparation for fieldwide redevelopment.

E. Research Technician, Unocal Corporation (1986 - 1989).

Conducting geologic studies of subsurface reservoirs to determine physical architecture and potential for formation damage; coordinating activities of five research laboratories; conducting core interpretation workshops.

Professional Societies

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Austin Geological Society

International Association of Sedimentologists

San Joaquin Geological Society

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)

Publications

Reports, Monographs, Brochures, Pamphlets, Bulletins

Knox, P. R., White, W. G., Holtz, M. H., and Paine, J. G., 1998, Reservoir characterization advisor—fluvial-deltaic systems: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology 6 diskettes + 35-p. text.

Guidebooks

Walker, J. L., and Knox, P. R., 1994, Zilker Park walking tour guidebook: a recreational visit to the Edwards Limestone: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 48 p., plus 2 maps and brochure in pocket.

Articles

Hovorka, S. D., and Knox, P. R., 2003, Frio brine sequestration pilot in the Texas Gulf Coast, in Gale, J., and Kaya, Y., Greenouse gas control technologies: Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, October 1–4, Kyoto, Japan: New York, Pergamon, p. 583–587.

Hovorka, S. D., and Knox, P. R., 2003, Frio Brine Sequestration Pilot in the Texas Gulf Coast, in Gale, J., and Kaya, Y., eds., Greenhouse gas control technologies: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Volume I : Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 583–587.

Holtz, M. H., Lake, L. W., Zeng, Hongliu, Knox, Paul, and DeAngelo, Mike, 2003, 3-D geocellular modeling of Gulf Coast Miocene water-drive gas reservoirs—example from Starfak field, Louisiana, in Proceedings, Third Annual E-EXITEP, Veracruz, Mexico: CIPM, 12 p.

Knox, P. R., Hovorka, S. D., and Oldenburg, C. M., 2002, Potential new uses for old gas fields: sequestration of carbon dioxide: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 52, p. 563–571.

Knox, P. R., and Hovorka, S. D., 2001, Geological sequestration of greenhouse gases: opportunities for industry academe research partnerships: Houston Geological Society Bulletin, v. 43, no. 5, p. 26–33.

Hovorka, S. D., Doughty, C. A., Knox, P. R., Green, C. T., Preuss, K., and Benson, S. M., 2001, Evaluation of brine-bearing sands of the Frio Formation, Upper Texas Gulf Coast for geologic sequestration of CO2, in Proceedings, First National Conference on Carbon Sequestration, May 14–17, Washington, D.C., sponsored by National Energy Technology Laboratory, 13 p., 7 figs, on CD.

Fouad, Khaled, and Knox, P. R., 2001, Neural network analysis of 3-D seismic data delineates slope- to basin-floor fan bodies in a high-frequency falling-stage systems tract, Matzen Field, Austria (abs.), in Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, OTC 2001 Proceedings CD, Paper No. 13160, 10 p.

Knox, P. R., and Barton, M. D., 1999, Predicting interwell heterogeneity in fluvial-deltaic reservoirs: effects of progressive architecture variation through a depositional cycle from outcrop and subsurface observations, in Schatzinger, R., and Jordan, J., eds., Reservoir characterization—recent advances: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 71, p. 57–72.

Knox, P. R., 1997, Application of outcrop analogs to fluvial-deltaic reservoirs II: example from Gulf of Mexico reservoirs, Frio Formation, South Texas, in Shanley, K. W., and Perkins, B. F., eds., Shallow marine and nonmarine reservoirs: sequence stratigraphy, reservoir architecture and production characteristics: Gulf Coast Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation, Eighteenth Annual Research Conference, p. 127–138.

Knox, P. R., 1997, Reserve growth potential of West Fulton Beach field, Aransas County, Texas, in Major, R. P., ed., Oil and gas on Texas State Lands: an assessment of the resource and characterization of type reservoirs: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 241, p. 63–72.

Knox, P. R., and Barton, M. D., 1997, Predicting interwell heterogeneity in fluvial-deltaic reservoirs: outcrop observations and applications of progressive facies variation through a depositional cycle, in Proceedings, Fourth International Reservoir Characterization Technical Conference, Houston: U.S. Department of Energy, BDM-Oklahoma, Inc., and American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 411–442.

Knox, P. R., White, W. G., Holtz, M. H., and Paine, J. G., 1997, A software guide to integrated reservoir characterization and prioritization: The Class Act, v. 3/1, winter, p. 6–7.

Knox, P. R., 1996, Integrated characterization yields targeted infill and recompletion opportunities: The Class Act, v. 2/3, summer, p. 1–2.

Knox, P. R., and McRae, L. E., 1995, Application of sequence stratigraphy to the prioritization of incremental growth opportunities in mature reservoirs: an example from Frio fluvial-deltaic sandstones, T–C–B field, South Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 45, p. 341–350.

Knox, P. R., 1994, Architecture, internal heterogeneity, and resulting drainage efficiency of upper Oligocene Frio Formation inner-shelf sandstone reservoirs in West Fulton Beach field, Aransas County, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 44, p. 337-345. Also in Corpus Christi Geological Society Bulletin, November 1994, p. 15–23.

Knox, P. R., 1993, West Fulton Beach field, in State lands energy resource optimization project: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for the Office of the Governor of Texas under contract no. OERPA-7, p. 18–19.

Abstracts

Knox, P. R., 2003, Stratigraphic hierarchy of flooding-event shales and possible controls on seal quality (abs.): Austin Geological Society Newsletter, v. 37, no. 6, p. 9.

Knox, P. R., Doughty, C. A., and Hovorka, S. D., 2003, Impacts of buoyancy and pressure gradient of field-scale geological sequestration of CO2 in saline formations (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official Program, v. 12, p. A94.

Hovorka, S. D., Knox, P. R., Holtz, M. H., Yeh, J. S., Fouad, Khaled, and Sakurai, Shinichi, 2003, Tapping the potential for large volume sequestration—update on the Frio brine pilot project (abs.), in Briefing book: Second Annual Conference on Carbon Sequestration: developing & validating the technology base to reduce carbon intensity, Alexandria, Virginia, May 5–9, unpaginated.

Holtz, M. H., Zeng, Hongliu, Knox, P. R., and De Angelo, Michael, 2002, Assigning petrophysical properties in gas reservoir 3-D geocellular modeling, by integrating geophysics, geology, and reservoir engineering (abs.), in SPWLA European Symposium Transactions, September 4–6, London: Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, Paper F2C, unpaginated.

Hovorka, S. D., Knox, P. R., Holtz, M. H., Yeh, J. S., Fouad, Khaled, and Sakurai, Shinichi, 2002, Sequestration pilot site in the Texas Gulf Coast, USA (abs.): Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Paper No. 135-10, http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_44374.htm.

Knox, P. R., 2001, Depositional facies and high-frequency architecture of the transgressive Matzen Sandstone, Vienna Basin, Austria (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official Program, v. 10, p. A107.

Knox, P. R., 2001, Not all shales are created equal: a cautionary note for fault-seal analysis (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official Program, v. 10, p. A107.

Knox, P. R., Von Lunen, E., and Finley, R. J., 1999, Shelf-to-basin transition: architecture of Miocene falling-stage deltaic to basinal reservoirs, Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria (abs.), in AAPG Annual Convention official program: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. A74.

Von Lunen, E., Light, Malcolm, and Knox, P. R., 1999, Fault patterns and compartmentalization in the Badenian sequence, Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria (abs.), in AAPG Annual Convention official program: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. A143.

Finley, R. J., Knox, P. R., Von Lunen, E., and Mercer, M., 1998, Unrecognized compartmentalization resulting from clinoform geometries in high-frequency genetic sequences: falling-stage Miocene deltaic sandstones, Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria (abs.), in Bridges to discovery: extended abstracts, volume 1, AAPG Annual Convention: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, p. A199.

Knox, P. R., Holtz, M. H., Mercer, M., and Finley, R. J., 1998, Identifying facies-controlled preferential pathways of water encroachment: integrated characterization of Miocene deltaic reservoirs, Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria (abs.), in Bridges to discovery: extended abstracts, volume 2, AAPG Annual Convention: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, p. A370.

Von Lunen, E., Knox, P. R., Baltas, P., Holtz, M. H., and Finley, R. J., 1998, Identification of subtle compartmentalizing faults in a strike-slip regime: 3-D seismic and production analysis of Miocene reservoirs, Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria (abs.): in Bridges to discovery: extended abstracts, volume 2, AAPG Annual Convention: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. A675.

Knox, P. R., White, W. G., Holtz, M. H., and Paine, J. G., 1997, The reservoir characterization advisor—fluvial deltaic: software capturing the methodology of integrated characterization (abs.), in AAPG Annual Convention Official Program: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. A62–A63.

Knox, P. R., 1995, Sequence-stratigraphic controls on subsurface fluid movement: an example of selective charging of stacked hydrocarbon reservoirs, West Fulton Beach field, Texas (abs.), in American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official Program: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 51A.

Knox, P. R., and McRae, L. E., 1995, High-resolution sequence stratigraphy: the key to identifying compartment styles in Frio Formation fluvial-deltaic reservoirs, T-C-B field, Jim Wells County, Texas (abs.), in American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official Program: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 51A.

Knox, P. R., 1989, Depositional environments, sequence stratigraphy, and trapping mechanisms of the Fall River Formation in Donkey Creek and Coyote Creek oil fields, Powder River Basin, Wyoming (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 73, p. 1163.

Contract Reports

Hentz, T. F., Wood, L. J., DeAngelo, M. V., Zeng, Hongliu, Holtz, M. H., Dutton, S. P., Chan, Ke-Sheng, Rassi, Claudia, Garcia, Javier, Kim, E. M., Dunlap, D. B., Barba, R. E., and Knox, P. R., 2002, Targeting reserve growth opportunities in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: transferring secondary gas recovery technology to the offshore environment: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, under contract no. DE-FC26-98FT40136DOE, 237 p. + CD-ROM.

Knox, P. R., Fouad, Khaled, Zinke, S., Light, Malcolm, Skolnakorn, J., Shi, S., Von Lunen, E., Yeh, J. S., Finley, R. J., Barba, R. E., Jr., Holtz, M. H., Mercer, M., Handford, R., Martinez, C., Sipahioglu, O., Rassi, Claudia, Hamilton, D. S., Akhter, M. S., Clift, S. J., Dunlap, D. B., Mahoney, M., Treviño, R. H., Bullen, G., Chang, C. Y., Ramberger, R., Fuchs, R., Gstrein, M., Zier, N., Baltas, P., and Jarnik, M., 2000, Optimizing hydrocarbon recovery from the Matzen Field, Vienna Basin, Austria: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for OMV, under agreement no. UTA98-0377, variously paginated.

Hovorka, S. D., Romero, M. L., Treviño, R. H., Warne, A. G., Ambrose, W. A., Knox, P. R., and Tremblay, T. A., 2000, Project evaluation: phase II: optimal geological environments for carbon dioxide disposal in brine-bearing formations (aquifers) in the United States: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, under contract no. DE-AC26-98FT40417, 222 p.

Knox, P. R., De Angelo, Michael, Hamilton, D. S., Ambrose, W. A., Tyler, Roger, and Tyler, Noel, 1999, Hydrocarbon production opportunities defined by sequence stratigraphic analysis and depositional systems characterization, East Guarico Unit, eastern Venezuela: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for Teikoku Oil de Venezuela, C.A., 115 p. + 98 pls.

Knox, P. R., Finley, R. J., Von Lunen, E., Martinez, C., Clift, S. J., Skolnakorn, J., Mahoney, M., Mercer, M., and Dunlap, D. B., 1998, Optimizing hydrocarbon recovery from the Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria: 9th Tortonian, Phase 2a + 2b, geological and geophysical data: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for OMV, Austria, 6 p., 20 pls.

Handford, R., Knox, P. R., Finley, R. J., Von Lunen, E., Skolnakorn, J., Mahoney, M., Dunlap, D. B., Mercer, M., and Fuchs, R., 1998, Optimizing hydrocarbon recovery from the Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria: 16th Tortonian through Aderklaa Conglomerate, Phase 2a + 2b, geological and geophysical data: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for OMV, Austria, 9 p. + 7 figs., 25 pls.

Knox, P. R., Von Lunen, E., Skolnakorn, J., Mahoney, M., Mercer, M., Dunlap, D. B., and Baltas, P., 1998, Optimizing hydrocarbon recovery from the Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria: 8th Tortonian, Phase 2a + 2b, geological and geophysical data: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for OMV, Austria, 4 p., 14 pls.

Finley, R. J., Light, Malcolm, Von Lunen, E., Skolnakorn, J., Mahoney, M., Mercer, M., Knox, P. R., and Dunlap, D. B., 1998, Optimizing hydrocarbon recovery from the Matzen field, Vienna Basin, Austria: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for OMV, Austria, 9 volumes, 100 p.

Knox, P. R., Holtz, M. H., McRae, L. E., Hentz, T. F., Paine, J. G., and Chang, C. Y., 1996, Revitalizing a mature oil play: strategies for finding and producing unrecovered oil in Frio fluvial-deltaic sandstone reservoirs of South Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, Bartlesville Project Office, under contract no. DE-FC22-93BC14959, 178 p.