Professional Research Interests and Expertise –
- Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology
- Petroleum Systems Analysis
- Unconventional Resource Assessment
Regional and Basin Experience–
- North American
- South American
- Global Overviews
Education –
- 1974 B.A. in Geology, State University of New York, College at Fredonia
- 1977 M.S. in Geology, University of South Carolina
- 1981 Ph.D. in Geology, University of South Carolina
Memberships –
- AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist AAPG No.3867
- State of Texas Geoscientist License No. 2711
- State of Utah - Professional Geologist License 5234452-2250
- Utah Geologic Association
Honors and Awards –
- U.S. Department of Energy Secretary - Secretary of Energy Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee (URTAC) - 2007
- Lead scientific delegation to Tripoli, Libya to assist U.S. Department of State to evaluate re-deployment opportunities for Libyan weapons scientists to energy industry - 2005
- SEPM Vice Chairman for 2003 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Session Co-convenor, SEPM/AAPG: Depositional Systems from Reservoirs to Basins, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1999.
- Session Co-convenor, SEG/AAPG: 3-D and Time-Lapse Reservoir Characterization, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1998.
- Founding member of Texas Oil and Gas Forum 1996.
- Member, Research Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1994 to 2000
- Chairman, Audio-Visual and Speakers Assistance Committee, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Austin, Texas, 1994.
- Chairman, Field Trip Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 1988.
Publications –
Levey, R. A., Smith, P., Deo, M.D., Keiter, R., Lemmon, M., 2007, North American Unconventional Oil Resources: Electronic Access to Technical, Legal, Environmental and Economic Issues -- American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Session: Alternative Energy Resources: Promises and Pitfalls; Long Beach, California.
Levey, R. A., 2002, Research Institutes -- Answering Industry's Call for Applied Research Applications; American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Session: The Future of Petroleum R&D; Houston, Texas.
Levey, R. A., and Sippel, M. A., 1997, Determination of Well Spacing for Maximum Efficiency in Fluvial Gas Reservoirs Using Geostatistical Evaluation and Forward Stochastic Modeling: Proceedings SPE annual meeting 1997 San Antonio, Texas SPE paper 38915
Levey, R. A., Tyler, Noel, Hardage, B. A., Carr, D. L., Ruthven, C. L., Lancaster, David, Elphick, Robert, and Ballard, J. R., 1994, Secondary natural gas recovery: targeted technology applications for infield reserve growth in Mid-continent sandstone: In Focus—Tight Gas Sands, v. 10, no. 1, p. 39–42. |
