David ContrerasTelephone: Graduate student seeking an MS Career goal: to become explorationist in the PDVSA with special expertise in structure, tectonics, and subsurface basin analysis. |
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Subject of Thesis: Integration of subsurface, potential fields and outcrop data to define the northern limits of oil and gas fields in the northern Maracaibo basin, Venezuela
Current Education:
Dept. of Geol. Sciences | UT Austin, presently enrolled |
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Academic Supervisor: | Dr. Paul Mann |
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UTIG Supervisor: | Dr. Paul Mann |
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Prior Education:
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Presentations:
Contreras, D., P. Mann, A. Escalona, and M. Nuņez, 2007, Structure, Stratigraphy and Gas Potential of the Northwestern Eocene Maracaibo foreland basin, Western Venezuela, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference, Long Beach, California, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
About David:
David is being supported by PDVSA (National Oil Company of Venezuela) to conduct research on the northern Maracaibo basin. He was formerly employed as an explorationist with PDVSA in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and will return to that position following his graduation.
