Fred Wang

Professional Summary

May 2, 2014

Business address: The University of Texas at Austin

Bureau of Economic Geology

University Station, Box X

Austin, Texas 78713-8924

(512) 471-7358

E-mail address:

Academic Background

B.S. Mining Engineering, Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 1974

M.S. Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979

Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, 1986

Areas of Expertise

  1. Assessment of shale and unconventional resources.
  2. Production enhancement for mature fields.
  3. Reservoir characterization.
  4. Enhanced oil recovery.

Professional Work Experience

A. Present Position: Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (September 2001 - Present).

Key controls of production from shale resources. Developing production strategies for maximizing production from the East Texas Oil Field. Characterization of Pampo field in Campos Basin, Brazil, and SACROC and Fullerton Clearfork units in Texas. Subsurface and outcrop studies on carbonate reservoirs in West Texas and New Mexico.

B. Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (November 2000 - August 2001).

Investigation of the effect of hydrocarbon production on subsidence and fault activation of coastal Southeast Texas. Consultant on projects on in-situ combustion, 3-D modeling and reservoir simulation. Quality control of wireline logs and petrophysical evaluation.

C. Senior Petroleum Engineer, PGS Reservoir, (U.S.), Inc. (1998 - November 2000).

Reservoir studies on deep-water fields in GOM and North Sea, sandstone fields in Venezuela, Mexico and Russia.

D. Senior Petroleum Engineer / Consultant, Scientific Software-InterComp, Inc. (1997 - 1998).

Software enhancements and training and consulting on domestic and international field studies.

E. Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (1988 - 1997).

Integrated reservoir characterization studies of oil and gas fields in U.S. and Venezuela. Major responsibilities included petrophysical analysis, engineering evaluation, 3-D modeling, geostatistical analysis and 3-D modeling, and reservoir simulation.

Professional Societies

Society of Petroleum Engineers

Awards and Honorary Societies

Wallace E. Pratt Award for best AAPG Bulletin article published in calendar year 2009 FY2010-2011 9/23/2010 best paper" FY2010-2011 9/23/2010 best paper, 2010

First Place, Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS), 59th Annual Convention, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2009

Publications

Reports, Monographs, Brochures, Pamphlets, Bulletins

Ambrose, W. A., Mendez, Milton, Akhter, M. S., Fisher, R. S., Alvarez, Regulo, Wang, F. P., Skolnakorn, J., and Baghai, Nina, 1998, Geologic controls on reservoir architecture and hydrocarbon distribution in Miocene shoreface, fluvial, and deltaic deposits in the Mioceno Norte Area, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 252, 61 p.

Wang, F. P., and Lucia, F. J., 1993, Comparison of empirical models for calculating the vuggy porosity and cementation exponent of carbonates from log responses: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Geological Circular 93-4, 27 p.

Scanlon, B. R., Wang, F. P., and Richter, B. C., 1991, Field studies and numerical modeling of unsaturated flow in the Chihuahuan Desert, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 199, 56 p.

Chapters/Sections

Wang, F. P., Hammes, Ursula, Reed, R. M., Zhang, T., and Tang, X., 2013, Chapter 10: Petrophysical and mechanical properties of organic-rich shales and their influences on fluid flow, in Critical Assessment of Shale Resource Plays,Chatellier, J.-Y.and D. Jarvie, eds.: AAPG Memoir 103, p. 167–186.

Wang, F. P., and Lucia, F. J., 2012, Reservoir modeling and simulation of the Fullerton Clear Fork reservoir, Andrews County, Texas, in S. C. Ruppel, ed., Anatomy of a giant carbonate reservoir: Fullerton Clear Fork (Lower Permian) field, Permian Basin, Texas: Studies in Geology 63, p. 111–143.

Articles

Peer Reviewed

Wang, F. P., and Lucia, F. J., 2012, Reservoir modeling and simulation of the Fullerton Clear Fork reservoir, Andrews County, Texas, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a giant carbonate reservoir: Fullerton Clear Fork field, Permian Basin, Texas: AAPG Studies in Geology 63 and Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 276, p. 111–143.

Ogiesoba, O. C., Wright, W., Wang, F. P., Popini, M. V., Franco, M. P., Lourenco, A. T., and da Silva, G. B. D., 2011, Seismic conditioning and attenuation of high-angle coherent noise in a mixed carbonate and siliciclastic setting, Campos Basin, offshore Brazil: a case study: Geophysics, v. 76, no. 5, p. B199‬‒B212.

Wang, F. P., 2010, Engineering characterization of East Texas oil field: north and south pilot studies, in Hentz, T. F., ed., Sequence stratigraphy, depositional facies, and reservoir attributes of the Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Group, East Texas field: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations No. 274, p. 95–114.

Ambrose, W. A., Hentz, T. F., Bonnaffe, F., Loucks, R. G., Brown, L. F., Jr., and Wang, F. P., 2009, Sequence stratigraphic controls on complex reservoir architecture of highstand fluvial-dominated deltaic and lowstand valley-fill deposits in the Woodbine Group, East Texas field: regional and local perspectives: AAPG Bulletin, v. 93, p. 231–269.

Wang, F. P., Lucia, F. J., and Kerans, Charles, ed., 1998, Modeling dolomitized carbonate-ramp reservoirs: a case history of the Seminole San Andres unit—Part 1, petrophysical and geologic characterizations: Geophysics, v. 63, no. 6, p. 1866–1875.

Wang, F. P., Dai, J., and Kerans, Charles, 1998, Modeling dolomitized carbonate-ramp reservoirs: a case study of the Seminole San Andres unit—Part II, seismic modeling, reservoir geostatistics, and reservoir simulation: Geophysics, v. 63, no. 6, p. 1876–1884.

Ambrose, W. A., Mendez, Milton, Akhter, M. S., Wang, F. P., and Alvarez, Regulo, 1998, Geologic controls on remaining oil in Miocene fluvial and shoreface reservoirs in the Mioceno Norte Area, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 4, p. 363–376.

Wang, F. P., 1997, Effects of fluid movement and sealing property of faults on developing the mature Lagunillas field, VLA-6/9/21 area, Block I, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Paper No. 38707, 10 p.

Lucia, F. J., Kerans, Charles, and Wang, F. P., 1995, Fluid-flow characterization of dolomitized carbonate-ramp reservoirs: San Andres Formation (Permian) of Seminole field and Algerita Escarpment, Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico, in Stoudt, E. L., and Harris, P. M., eds., Hydrocarbon reservoir characterization: geologic framework and flow unit modeling: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), SEPM Short Course No. 34, p. 129–153.

Wang, F. P., Lucia, F. J., and Kerans, Charles, 1994, Critical scales, upscaling, and modeling of shallow-water carbonate reservoirs: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Paper No. SPE 27715, p. 765–773.

Scanlon, B. R., Richter, B. C., Wang, F. P., and Mullican, W. F., III, 1990, Analysis of unsaturated flow related to low-level radioactive waste disposal, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas, in Kreitler, C. W., and Sharp, J. M., Jr., eds., Hydrogeology of Trans-Pecos, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Guidebook 25, p. 105–112.

Al-Khafaji, A., Wang, F. P., Castanier, L. M., and Brigham, W. E., 1982, Steam/surfactant systems at reservoir conditions: Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE Paper No. 10777.

Non-Peer-Reviewed

Wang, F. P., and Hammes, Ursula, 2010, Effects of petrophysical factors on Haynesville fluid flow and production: World Oil, June 2010, p. D-82.D79.

Hovorka, S. D., Choi, J. -W., Meckel, T. A., Treviño, R. H., Zeng, H., Kordi, M., Wang, F. P., and Nicot, J. -P., 2009, Comparing carbon sequestration in an oil reservoir to sequestration in a brine formation—field study, in Energy Procedia (v. 1, no. 1), Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies GHGT9, November 16–20, Washington D.C., p. 2051–2056.

Wang, F. P., and Reed, R. M., 2009, Pore networks and fluid flow in gas shales, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Paper No. 1234253-PP, 8 p.

Wang, F. P., and Gale, J. F. W., 2009, Screening criteria for shale gas systems, in Proceedings of GCAGS Annual Meeting, Shreveport, Louisiana, 19 p.

Wang, F. P., and Gale, J. F. W., 2009, Screening criteria for shale-gas systems: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 59, p. 779–794.

Wang, F. P., 2008, Production fairway speed rails in gas shales, in 7th Annual Gas Shale Summit, Dallas, Texas, May 7.

Bonnaffe, Florence, Ambrose, W. A., Hentz, T. F., Wang, F. P., and Loucks, R. G., 2008, Three-dimensional architecture of lowstand incised-valley deposits in the Woodbine Group, northern East Texas Field: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 58, p. 135–141.

Wang, F. P., Ambrose, W. A., Hentz, T. F., Bonnaffe, Florence, and Loucks, R. G., 2008, Engineering and geological characterization of giant East Texas oil field: north and south pilot studies: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Paper No. 115683-PP, 15 p.

Wang, Fred, Ruppel, S. C., Lucia, F. J., Jones, R. H., Kane, J. A., and Zeng, Hongliu, 2007, Full-field modeling of the largest Lower Permian carbonate reservoir in the Permian Basin: Fullerton Clear Fork field, Andrews County, Texas: West Texas Geological Society Bulletin, v. 46, no. 5, p. 4–9.

Ambrose, W. A., Hentz, T. F., Wang, F. P., Bonnaffe, Florence, Loucks, R. G., and Potter, E. C., 2007, Core Workshop: Woodbine Group, East Texas Field, in Ambrose, W. A., and others, Pilot Study of East Texas Field: Geology, Engineering, and Potential Exploitation Workshop: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery and Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Workshop No. SW0017, 21 p.

Lucia, F. J., Ruppel, S. C., Jones, R. H., Kane, J. A., Wang, Fred, and Zeng, Hongliu, 2006, Reservoir characterization of the Fullerton Clear Fork field, Andrews County, Texas, in Slatt, R.M., Rosen, N. C., Bowman, M., Castagna, J., Good, T., Loucks, R., Latimer, R., Scheihing, M., and Smith, R., eds., Reservoir characterization: integrating technology and business practices: Proceedings of the 26th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 651–683.

Wang, Fred, and Lucia, F. J., 2004, Reservoir modeling and simulation of Fullerton Clear Fork field, Andrews County, Texas, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Multidisciplinary imaging of rock properties in carbonate reservoirs for flow-unit targeting: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final technical report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-FC26-01BC15351, p. 219–304.

Wang, F. P., and Nance, H. S., 2002, Effect of hydrocarbon production and reservoir depressurization on subsidence: Port Neches field area, southeast Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 52, p. 975–984.

Wang, F. P., Lucia, F. J., and Kerans, Charles, 1997, Modeling dolomitized carbonate ramp reservoirs: a case study of Seminole San Andres Unit and outcrop analogs: The Leading Edge, September, p. 5.

Wang, F. P., Lucia, F. J., and Kerans, Charles, 1996, Integrated reservoir characterization of a carbonate ramp reservoir: Seminole San Andres Unit, Gaines County, Texas, in Proceedings of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Geology, 1996 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 7-9, Denver, p. 237–250.

Kerans, Charles, Lucia, F. J., and Wang, F. P., 1994, Integration of rock-fabric facies and geostatistical models within a sequence stratigraphic framework: implications of the West Texas experience for recovery in Middle Eastern carbonate ramp reservoirs, in Al-Husseini, M. I., ed., GEO ’94: the Middle East petroleum geosciences, volume II: selected Middle East papers from the Middle East Geoscience Conference: Manama, Bahrain, Gulf PetroLink, p. 579–590.

Scanlon, B. R., Richter, B. C., Wang, F. P., and Mullican, W. F., III, 1990, Analysis of unsaturated flow related to low-level radioactive waste disposal, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas, in “Focus ’89” Conference on Nuclear Waste Isolation in the Unsaturated Zone: American Nuclear Society, p. 351–358.

Wang, F. P., and Brigham, W. E., 1986, Heat transfer and frontal movement during steam injection in porous media, in Proceedings of the International Energy Agency Workshop in EOR held in Hanover, West Germany, September 16–19.

Abstracts

Ambrose, W. A., Wang, F. P., and Hentz, T. F., 2011, Oil-recovery strategies in the lower Woodbine Group, East Texas field (abs.): SIPES/SPE/SMU 2011 Dallas E&P Forum, 2 p.

Wang, F. P., 2010, Completion and production trends in Barnett and Haynesville Shales (abs.), in BIT’s 1st World Congress of Hydraulic Fracturing & Acidizing, p. 21.

Wang, F. P., and Hammes, Ursula, 2010, Key petrophysical factors affecting fluid flow in geopressured Haynesville Shale (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention & Exhibition, v. 19, p. 268.

Wang, F. P., 2010, Factors affecting fluid flow and production in gas shales (abs.), in BIT’s 1st World Congress of Hydraulic Fracturing & Acidizing, p. 21–22.

Wang, F. P., 2010, Effects of petrophysical and engineering factors on fluid flow and production in gas shales (abs.), in AAPG/SEG/SPE/SPWLA Hedberg Conference, Critical assessment of shale resource plays, December 5‒10, Austin, Texas.

Bonnaffe, Florence, Ambrose, W. A., Hentz, T. F., Wang, F. P., and Loucks, R. G., 2008, Three-dimensional architecture of lowstand incised-valley deposits in the Woodbine Group, northern East Texas Field (abs.), in Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies.

Ambrose, W. A., Hentz, T. F., Wang, F. P., Bonnaffe, Florence, Loucks, R. G., and Brown, L. F., Jr., 2008, Sequence stratigraphic controls from complex reservoir architecture in fluvial-dominated deltaic and lowstand valley-fill deposits in the Woodbine Group, East Texas field (abs.): AAPG 2008 Annual Convention and Exhibition Abstracts Volume, v. 17, p. 7.

Janson, Xavier, Zeng, Hongliu, Kerans, Charles, Wang, Fred, and Fomel, Sergey, 2007, Using outcrop-based 3D geocellular model as seismic benchmark: prestack seismic modeling of grainstones in Lawyer Canyon (Permian) outcrop, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Abstracts Volume, v. 16, p. 70.

Ruppel, S. C., Loucks, R. G., Wright, W. R., Kane, J. A., and Wang, F. P., 2007, Similarities and contrasts among major Paleozoic shale gas reservoir plays in Texas and New Mexico (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Abstracts Volume, v. 16, p. 120.

Ruppel, S. C., Jones, R. H., Lucia, F. J., Wang, F. P., Zeng, Hongliu, Kane, Jeff, and Jennings, J. W., Jr., 2006, Fundamentals of rock-based reservoir modeling: a case history from the Lower Permian Fullerton field, Permian Basin (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, v. 15, p. 93.

Lucia, F. J., Ruppel, S. C., Jones, R. H., Kane, J. A., Wang, Fred, and Zeng, Hongliu, 2006, Reservoir characterization of the Fullerton Clear Fork field, Andrews County, Texas (abs.), in Slatt, R. M., Rosen, N. C., Bowman, Michael, Castagna, John, Good, Timothy, Loucks, Robert, Latimer, Rebecca, Scheihing, Mark, and Smith, Ru, eds., Reservoir characterization: integrating technology: Proceedings of the 26th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 20.