Natural Fractures

Alfred Lacazette

	PROFESSIONAL RESUME



	Contact	1302 Waugh Drive Suite 637 Houston, Texas 77019 U.S.A. telephone: +1-713-503-0543 fax: +1-281-754-4821 email: Alfred_Lacazette@NaturalFractures.com alternate email: Lacazette@yahoo.com



	Education	Ph.D., Geoscience, The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), 1991. Advisor: Terry Engelder

		M.S., Geology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1986. Advisor: Nicholas Rast (deceased)

		B.S., Geology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1979.



	Professional	Reservoir Development Committee - American Association of Petroleum Geologists Member - January 2002 to present. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Associate editor - 1997 to 2003 (two terms). Compilation editor - 1998 to 2001.



	Languages	Native English speaker. Fluently speak/read technical/business Spanish.



	Summary	Over seventeen years experience in structural geology, tectonics, and fractured reservoir analysis beginning with doctoral work at Penn State with Terry Engelder on industry-funded (Texaco, GRI) projects in natural rock fracture mechanics, subsurface fracture population statistics, and two Appalachian fractured natural-gas reservoirs. Subsequently worked for five years at Texaco's E&P lab as the company's fractured reservoir consultant where I worked on numerous domestic and international projects, particularly in South America and Asia. While at Texaco I initiated, negotiated the contract for, and sold a joint venture between Texaco and Western Atlas to develop improved software for image log interpretation, subsurface fracture quantification, and subsurface structural interpretation from borehole data. Left Texaco in '96 to pursue that software project and other opportunities at Western Atlas. Experience at Western Atlas included R&D in image log quality control, advanced image log technologies, development of innovative algorithms to characterize subsurface fracture populations from borehole data, teaching structural image log analysis and consulting work, primarily in Venezuela and Argentina. Texaco and Western corporate contact for several academic research projects, including the Stanford Rock Fracture project. After Western worked as a consultant for Golder Associates on fractured reservoir projects and software development. Independent consultant since '99 and maintain affiliations with various companies including: Subsurface Consultants, Core Labs, Terrasciences, and Golder. Seismic interpretation has progressively become my primary focus since going independent. Since 2003 have engaged in cooperative academic research with the Allied Geophysical Lab at the University of Houston on applications of newly developed seismic attributes.



	Teaching	My teaching experience includes: Quantitative and qualitative structural interpretation methodologies for seismic data at various PEMEX offices in Mexico, 2001-2003. Fractured Reservoirs segment of the AAPG school E&P Technologies: Applications and Methods at the national AAPG meeting in 2001 and 2002. Various industrial structural image log interpretation and fractured reservoir schools from 1 day to 1 week in length. Various university teaching experience including introductory geology (Gelogy 101) and laboratory sections of various classes, including upper-level undergraduate classes and two field schools. Some examples of training materials that I have produced are posted in the Technical area of this website.
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