OilTracers Expands Petroleum Systems Staff

OilTracers LLC is proud to announce that Kate S. Weissenburger has joined the team of OilTracers LLC earth scientists as a Senior Petroleum Systems Analyst.

Prior to joining OilTracers LLC, Kate worked 22 years at ConocoPhillips and 3 years as an independent consultant. For nearly 20 years, she has specialized in the development and application of methods for the identification and reduction of exploration and development risk factors on projects in diverse worldwide locations.

Kate's analytical focus is organic geochemistry, multi-dimensional geochemical basin modeling and surface geochemistry. Her expertise includes integration of organic geochemistry with PVT, flow assurance and petrophysical data in reservoir characterization studies, database design/organization, and oil, gas and source rock characterization and correlation (from bulk property and molecular attributes and 2D and 3D forward modeling of hydrocarbon generation, expulsion and migration using state-of-the-art PetroMod and MPath modeling software). Her other specialty areas include play- and prospect-specific hydrocarbon fluid inversion studies, hydrocarbon source rock evaluation and prediction and risk analysis of petroleum systems elements. In addition to numerous company reports, she is a senior or co-author of 17 articles on petroleum geochemistry, basin modeling, and hydrocarbon surface geochemistry surveys. Kate was the 1991 recipient of the A.A.P.G. Jules Braunstein Best Poster Award for her paper "Caveats and pitfalls in surface light hydrocarbon surveying. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 73, 692." Her detailed CV can be viewed here.

Kate may be contacted at weissenburger@oiltracers.com.

About OilTracers LLC

OilTracers LLC is a petroleum consulting company that specializes in integration of geochemical, geological, and engineering data to solve various petroleum exploration, development, and production problems. In addition, OilTracers LLC owns and operates the two premier petroleum geochemistry web sites (www.oiltracers.com and www.gaschem.com) The databases on these web sites, such as OilRef (a database of >14,000 petroleum geochemistry citations), the Oil Sample Library (a listing of >33,500 oil geological samples owned by various laboratories), and the Petroleum Geochemistry Dictionary provide answers to more than 5,000 inquiries a month. OilTracers LLC is organized very much like a law firm, with our various scientists having complementary areas of expertise. OilTracers LLC is not a laboratory. We do no analyses. We only interpret data. All oil analyses are contracted to one of several laboratories we use around the world. These laboratories then transfer the data electronically to OilTracers for interpretation.