OilTracers LLC is proud to announce that Brooks A. Patterson has
joined the team of OilTracers LLC earth scientists. Brooks has more
than 29 years of petroleum industry experience with ChevronTexaco,
which included supervision of Chevron's state-of-the-art laboratory
in Lagos, Nigeria (1998 - 2002). The laboratory successfully
resolved exploration, reservoir geochemistry, and environmental
problems with high-quality analysis of rocks, oils, and waters and
interpretation of data. During his years at Chevron, Brooks' work
involved operation of state-of-the-art geochemistry
instrumentation, development of hardware and technical
methodologies, and interpretation of source rock, oil, gas, and
water data. While working for Chevron Oil Field Research Company,
Brooks participated in the field trial of the Rock-Eval pyrolysis
instrument and consulted with the developers of the
US-designed-and-built Rock-Eval II instrument. He also participated
in the development of Chevron's oil fingerprinting techniques and
software, which put Chevron in the lead in reservoir geochemistry.
As a geochemist, he has completed numerous source rock and
reservoir geochemistry studies of Congo, Angola, Nigeria, United
Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and US oil fields. He
carried out numerous allocation studies in the San Joaquin Valley,
California providing accurate data in steam flood monitoring of
commingled Antelope and Belridge diatomite reservoirs. Brooks
received his B.A. degree (Earth Science, 1977) from California
State University Fullerton and M.S. degree (Geology, 1984) from
University of California at Riverside. His detailed CV
can be viewed here. Brooks Patterson can be contacted at patterson@oiltracers.com.
About OilTracers
OilTracers 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 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 is organized very much like a law firm, with our various
scientists having complementary areas of expertise. OilTracers 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.