The Search for New Exploration Plays
Julie recently gave a fantastic talk at a Houston Geological Society conference so please enjoy this video! Currently only available through YouTube HERE.
Source Rock as a Reservoir, a personal odyssey
In 1965, G. T. Philippi, a Shell geochemist, published a remarkable paper “On the depth, time, and mechanism of petroleum generation”. Philippi made the novel proposal that petroleum was generated from organic matter in sediments that had been buried deeply enough to be exposed to warmer earth temperatures, converting the organic matter, with heat and…
Origin of Petroleum
Origin of Petroleum In common English usage, the terms “oil and gas” refer to petroleum and its associated gases. Petroleum, literally “rock oil”, is a mixture of hundreds of types of hydrocarbon molecules, formed by the thermal decomposition of organic matter that has been buried to significant depths and temperatures in the earth. Living organisms…
Making Money In The Oil And Gas Business
In 2014, with a 95% success rate on new shale oil wells, a clear hint of lurking problems could already be seen when drilling costs caused pay-outs to stretch to 3+ years, …with oil at $100 barrel. Drillers could tolerate such slow returns of investment, only because “money people” were providing abundant long-term drilling loans…
The Search for New Exploration Plays: When Only the Best Will Do
Julie Garvin, President of Roxanna Oil, was invited to speak at the Dallas SIPES, Oklahoma City Geological Society, and Tulsa Geological Society luncheons in October and November, 2015. She will also be presenting her talk, entitled, “The Search for New Exploration Plays: When Only the Best will Do” at the Houston Geological Society on January…
Shale Gas Plays
Download the Brochure HERE. About Gas Shale Plays Roxanna Associates, the consulting arm of Roxanna, has been heavily involved in analyzing and selecting shale gas plays for major clients for many years. The Associates have guided clients to attractive investments in about one million acres of leaseholds. Roxanna Associates has a policy of co-investing in…
Roxanna Chairman Publishes New Paper “Thinking Like Oil”
During the AAPG Midcontent Meeting in Wichita, Kansas, Marlan Downey discussed how too much of the technical work purporting to guide exploration for petroleum is trivial, redundant, and has little useful to offer towards finding new oil and gas accumulations. What follows are the notes for his speech as well as a link to download the presentation. …
Problems & Opportunities Making Money – Part 2
In part 1 of our series, we look at the problems and the opportunities in making money 1) as a land company, 2) by purchasing other companies, 3) by purchasing assets. Now let’s look at re-development work for groups lacking financial muscle or technical expertise.