About UsJohn Lorenz and Scott Cooper formed FractureStudies to provide information, support and solutions to the energy industry and research organizations. We utilize our 40+ years of combined international experience in fracture analysis to achieve our mission of providing timely analyses of your fractured reservoir system. John C. Lorenz - Certified Petroleum GeologistI earned my undergraduate degree, majoring in geology and anthropology, from Oberlin College in 1972, after which my wife dragged me off to Morocco to teach English and learn Arabic with the Peace Corps. In Morocco, I ran into a group of geologists from the University of South Carolina, and hooked up with them to do an M.Sc. on a Moroccan Triassic rift basin. I worked for the USGS in Louisiana and New Mexico from 1975 to 1977, which drove me back to school, where I worked on the Nubian Sandstone in Libya and Cretaceous strata in Montana and earned a PhD from Princeton University in 1981. I joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1981 to be the geologist for the tight gas Multiwell Experiment in the Piceance basin, where I invented the internet and discovered natural fractures. I worked for Sandia Labs from 1981 to 2007, doing fractured-reservoir studies in exotic places such as Alaska, Algeria, and Texas. During that time, I was conned into being the AAPG Elected Editor from 2001-2004. I left Sandia in March of 2007 to work as a consultant. More recently I served as president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists from 7/1/09 to 6/30/10. As president, I supported the advancement of the geosciences and their applications to hydrocarbon-related problems. My published papers on natural and induced fractures in reservoirs range geographically from the Lisburne Limestone in Alaska to the Spraberry Formation in Texas to the Nubian Sandstone in Libya. These papers and presentations have been awarded the AAPG Levorsen and Jules Braunstein awards. I have worked closely with the oil and gas industry on problems involving reservoir dimensions and in situ permeability, gaining extensive hands-on experience with core analysis and fieldwork which provides regular doses of reality. I have led field trips, presented core workshops, and taught short courses for the industry-oriented geological community. My work has been practical, aimed at improving the understanding of fractured reservoirs and permeability in order to enhance fluid extraction. I have also addressed the problems of determining the dimensions of reservoirs deposited in fluvial environments, and ferried new-purchase aircraft across the US in both directions. John C. Lorenz: Resume (downloadable pdf format)Education
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Contact Mailing Address: Scott P. CooperI was raised in the Black Hills of South Dakota and had an early career in tourism, aquaculture (specifically raising rainbow trout) and ranching. I obtained a B.Sc. in geology from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1997 with an undergraduate thesis/study of rhyolite dikes within the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota. Obtained a M.S. in geology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) with a thesis topic of “Deformation within a Basement-Cored Anticline: Teapot Dome, Wyoming”. My thesis advisor was Dr. Laurel Goodwin. Dr. John Lorenz at Sandia National Laboratories provided invaluable support throughout my graduate work and provided an opportunity to start at Sandia Labs as a student intern. I advanced to be a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and worked on a variety of projects related to outcrop and subsurface fracture studies, CO2 sequestration, geothermal energy, and other resource and national security related issues. In the summer of 2008, I took a leap of faith and left the relative safety of Sandia to start my own consulting company. Since then I have had fun working with Dr. Lorenz and industry personnel on naturally fractured reservoir systems. I have two sons, Sean and Ryan. Like most - if not all husbands, I have a wife who is significantly smarter than I am; Karen has a Ph.D. in biomedical science and toxicology and works at the University of New Mexico. I am a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America and currently live in the mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Scott P. Cooper: Resume (downloadable pdf format)Education
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Fractures provide preferential flow pathways and cause leakage around dams.
John Lorenz putting natural fractures into a local and regional framework under the blazing sun and wondering if it is lunchtime yet.
Which of these fractures (if any) are important for your reservoir?