MAY 2018 LUNCHEON MEETING
Mike Smith
presents
Landing and Characterizing STACK Laterals using AHS’s RVStrat(sm)
11:30 AM Wednesday, May 16, 2018
at the Cascades
4511 Briarwood Road
Tyler, TX 75709
Cost: $20
BIOGRAPHY
Mike Smith
Designed/Built/Programmed All 3 Labs in the World that Use Fluid Inclusion Volatiles and Rock Volatiles for E&P:
Amoco Research FIS Lab 1985-1994:
Outsourced to FIT 1997.
Sold to Schlumberger 2015.
Qualitative MS Analyses
First AHS Lab 1994-today:
Sold to Exxon Research 1999,
Mike still consults as needed.
Qualitative MS Analyses
- Current AHS Lab 2000-2018:
- Unparalleled Capabilities
- Anywhere in the World.
- QUANTITATIVE
- Cryo-Trap MS Analyses
Inventions Include:
- S(oil) Permeability, & Frackability from cuttings
- Multi-Aliquot Cryo-Trap MS System
- FIS: Fluid Inclusion Stratigraphy
- First Mass Spectrometer System for
- Single Fluid Inclusion Analyses
- First Mass Spectrometer System for
- Wellsite Analyses of Drilling Mud Volatiles
- Volatiles Concentrating Syringe for Mud
- Optical Microscope Heating/Freezing Method to Determine API Gravity of Oil Inclusions
- Electron Microprobe focused-beam technique for fine scale microanalyses of Carbonates
- XRF technique for rapid determination of
- micro and macro porosity
BA Geology, Rutgers College, 1977
PhD Geology and Geophysics, U. of Hawaii 1981
Research Associate, University of Tulsa 1981-1984
AMOCO Research, Research Scientist 1984-1994
AMOCO Exploration UK, London 1993-1994
Founded AHS 1994
Sold AHS to ExxonMobil 1999
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. Consultant 1999-2009
“Refounded” AHS 2010
Volunteer for Boy Scouts 1995-now
- 20 Eagle Mentor Pins
- Silver Beaver Award
- United Methodist Church’s Cross & Flame Award
35 Years Fluid Inclusion Volatiles, Mud Volatiles, & Rock Pore Volatiles R&D
30 Patents, US & Foreign
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