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May, Jeffery - Ph.D. Geologist

Registered Consultant

Qualification Summary

Thirteen years experience in technical and managerial positions in oil and gas exploration both domestically and internationally.

Proficient in using the Landmark workstation for regional and reservoirj-scale seismic-stratigraphic evaluations of 2-D and 3-D surveys.

Evauated, as project leader for multidisciplinary teams, regional plays in the south Texas Rosita Delta system and the Nile Delta, Egypt, Which resulted in a successful Discovery and relinquishment of nonprospective acreage.

Acted as company stratigrapher for facies analysis and sequence-stratigraphic interpretation from whole cores and well logs.

Developed method of quantifying fluvio-deltaic reservoirs for geostatistical analysis and reservoir simulation, Tertiary lacustrine basin, Indonesia

Conducted worldwide field work, resulting in new exploration concepts and plays in domestic areas, Washakie/Red Desert basins; Wyoming, San Joaquin, Salinas, and Ventura basins, California; San Juan Basin, New Mexico; Book Cliffs, Utah; and international areas, eastern rift margin, Egypt; eastern rift margin Greenland; and Doninican Republic.

Employment Experience

Marathon Oil Company, Littleton, Colorado - Development Geologist (1976-94)

Geology Intern -Gulf Oil Co., Marathon Oil Co., Amoco Production Co. 1980,79, and 76

Education/Membership

Ph.D. in Geology - Rice University Thesis: Basin-Margin Sedimentation: Eocene La Jolla Group, San Diego County, California 1982

M.S. in Geology - Duke University Thesis: Endolithic Infestation of Carbonate Substrates Above and Below the Sediment/Water Interface 1977

B.S. (Honors) in Geology - Earlham College Thesis: A Textural, Compositional, and Stratigraphic Study of the Maysville and Richmond Shales Near Brookville and Richmond, Indiana

AAPG, GSA, IAS, RMAG, SEPM