R. Taylor Vactor Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Carbon capture, utilization and storage

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Support contractor to the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)Modeling, assessment, and evaluation for:•Carbon capture, transport and storage•Oil and gas

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

•Evaluate mineral and royalty interest deals in oily US basins•Determine rock quality and potential risk to aid in valuation

Austin, Texas

•Perform unconventional petrophysical analysis. •Acquisition/Divestiture geology for oily US basins.•Basins include: Permian (Delaware & Midland), STACK/SCOOP/Merge, Powder River Basin, DJ, and Williston.

Houston, Texas

•Create and maintain field development plans for Appalachian Basin asset in ArcGIS. Plays include: Marcellus Shale and Utica/Point Pleasant.•Plan wellbore/pad layouts in collaboration with colleagues in engineering and geology; including well orientations, spacings, and lateral lengths, to optimally develop the field and maximize NPV. •Determine drilling targets within pay formations based on petrophysical analysis, to increase productivity of wells.•Evaluate secondary target horizons to increase reserves portfolio.•Coordinate with fellow members of Subsurface team to determine data acquisition strategy for asset.•Work with Geologists, Engineers, and Regulatory to create prognoses, directional drilling plans, and permit prospects.

Pittsburgh, Pa

•Planning and development of WV Marcellus assets during tenure as WV Marcellus lead geologist.•Determined high-graded areas and well locations by mapping parameters such as net pay/porosity, GIP, TOC, Ro, structure, and production to greatly increase probability of success. •Geosteered horizontal wells using Gamma Ray LWD and Terra Vu software to increase time in pay zone and maximize production. •Prepared drilling prognoses to define the location of formations, gas, oil, water, geohazards, and pay zones, as well as determined structure and well trajectory.•Oversaw and managed field employees to ensure standards were met and results were achieved.

Pittsburgh, Pa

•Completed mapping projects focused in Eastern KY to improve regional geological understanding.•Mapped porosity trends in carbonate reservoirs to locate potential prospect areas for horizontal drilling.•Created structure map of prominent marker bed to aid in creation of drilling prognoses and to locate areas of favorable structure likely to yield better results.•Interpreted geophysical well logs, correlated cross-sections, determined net pay, net porosity, and phi-H by hand or by using Geographix Prizm, if possible.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geology

Activities and Societies: Sigma Gamma Epsilon - National Honors Society of Earth Sciences; University of Pittsburgh Geology Club

Master'S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General