OilTracers LLC is pleased to announce that David K. Baskin and
Brooks A. Patterson have been elected members of the LLC and have
become Equity Partners in the firm. For the last several years,
both David K. Baskin and Brooks A. Patterson have had exclusive
consulting agreements with OilTracers LLC. Their election as
Members and Equity Partners of the firm on January 1, 2006 reflects
the contributions that both scientists have made to the range and
depth of consulting services provided by OilTracers.During 2005, in
support of the exploration efforts of various OilTracers clients,
Brooks Patterson completed numerous comprehensive Petroleum Systems
Evaluations of diverse basins including:
- The North Gulf of Suez
- Basins on the east coast of India
- The Nile delta and the Western Desert of Northern Egypt,
- Several West African basins
During 2005, in support of the exploration efforts of various
OilTracers clients, David K. Baskin performed organic petrography
measurements and interpretations (measurement and interpretation of
vitrinite reflectance data and organic matter depositional
environment) for hundreds of samples from diverse basins throughout
the world. Furthermore, in support of the reservoir management
efforts of various OilTracers clients, in 2005 David Baskin
completed nearly 30 reservoir management projects including
assessments of reservoir continuity and allocation of commingled
production for numerous fields in Alaska, California, Texas, and
Nigeria.
Between them, David K. Baskin and Brooks A. Paterson have more
than 60 years of petroleum industry experience. Their CV's
can be viewed here
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.