David Katz Email & Phone Number

Golden, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Instructor for Modern and Ancient Carbonate Field and Classroom Schools
• Chevron Field School: Stratigraphy and Depositional Environment Seminar of Modern-Pleistocene age Carbonates, Caicos Platform, Northeastern Caribbean, 2006-2010 (Co-lead with Arthur Saller)
• Industry and Consortium Field School: Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Chemostratigraphy, and Diagenesis of a Shallow to Basinal Carbonate Ramp, the Mississippian Madison Limestone, Northern U.S. Rockies.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Integration of Petrophysical Rock Typing with Predictive Diagenesis and Sequence Stratigraphy Tengiz Field, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan, 2010-Present
• Improved capabilities of distributing petrophysical properties in reservoir models using carbonate diagenesis o Diagenesis is strongly linked to the expression of petrophysical properties in logs, which in turn is.
• Petrophysical Modeling of Carbonate Diagenesis and Evolution of Complex Pore Networkso Pore Architecture Models (PAMs) were created and document the evolution of petrophysical properties (porosity and permeability).

San Francisco Bay Area

• Geohazard Mitigation of Early Water ProductionDeveloping Tools for Carbonate Assets, 2012-Present
• Application of isotope tracers to identify water migration pathways and sourceso Forecasting field performance is critical to facility design and hazard preparedness. However, field performance and forecasting is not a.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Integrated Diagenetic and Sequence Stratigraphic Characterization of Carbonate Basin, Slope, and Platform EnvironmentsTengiz Field, Precaspian Basin Kazakhstan, 2011-Present
• Reservoir property distribution is controlled by two fundamental factors, diagenesis and the original depositional framework; this work is focused on developing workflows and characterization guidelines for acquisition.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Integrated Chronostratigraphic Methods for Reservoir Modeling and Sequence Stratigraphic Applications Canning Basin, Lennard Shelf, Western Australia and Tengiz Field, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan, 2010-Present
• Integration of biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and chemostratigraphy including stable isotope and trace element stratigraphy based on the simple concept that integrated correlation constraints of all tools will.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Primary Mentor and PhD Committee Member for Two Chevron InternsIntern Projects focused on Integrated Chronostratigraphy and Diagenesis, 2012-Present
• Development of stable carbon isotopes as chronostratigraphic tools to outcrops of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia. This tool enabled the first ever correlations through Fammenian age slope and basin.
• Identification and characterization of early and late diagenetic products from platform –to-slope and basin depositional environments, Tengiz Field, Kazakhstan. This work was used to extract rules and constraints for.
• Computer based process modeling of meteoric diagenetic products, Tengiz Field, Kazakhstan. We used the software Carb 3D+ to model the spatial and temporal patterns of early diagenesis and its overprint on the primary.

Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

San Francisco Bay Area

• Reservoir Characterization and Geomodeling Karachaganak Field, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan, 2007-2010
• Integration of subsurface and outcrop datasets for reservoir modeling including well logs and image logs, petrography, geochemistry, core, outcrops, biostratigraphy, seismic, and absolute age dating to distribute the.
• Application of the Multiple Point Statistics Reservoir Modeling Tool to honor outcrop observations of geographically broad depositional facies changes between depositional regions in order to improve property.
• Statistical interpretation of simulation results to determine the impact of primary geological features on well productivityo Results: Improved reservoir modeling identified drilling geohazards which ultimately lead to.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Exploration Characterization of Middle East Jurassic Carbonate RampsMarat Formation, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait, 2007-2008
• Diagenetic and sequence stratigraphic characterization of cores and logs performed to deliver an exploration scale integrated sequence stratigraphic and diagenetic model to KOC
• Reservoir property distribution is strongly linked to the distribution of bitumen and carbonate cements. This information was used to rank future exploration wells.

Phd, Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy, Diagenesis, And Geochemistry

Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory-Research findings were presented orally and in hard copy to our petroleum industry sponsors (2002 to.

Msc, Geology/Earth Science, General

Master’s Thesis - Earliest Diagenesis of Calcareous Red and Green Algae, San Blas Archipelago, Panama, and Caicos Platform, Northeastern.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Geology/Earth Science, General