Daniel M. Jarvie

Biography

 Dan Jarvie is a petroleum systems analyst specializing in assessment of unconventional shale resource systems.  He has studied or been involved in evaluation of both conventional and unconventional petroleum systems around the world including Europe, Africa, Asia (China) and Australia.  His work on these systems includes complete source rock analysis and assessments as well as detailed assessment of gas and oil.  Mr. Jarvie’s work history includes both laboratory analyses and interpretive assessment of these data.  He has published papers on basic source rock characterization, source rock kinetics from open and closed systems for bulk and compositional kinetic parameters, detailed light hydrocarbon analyses, Williston Basin oil and source rock systems, organoporosity-nanopore imaging in association with the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas, identification of bypassed pay zones, catalytic activity, producibility assessment including pre-drill GOR and API gravity estimations, and numerous papers on unconventional shale gas and shale oil/hybrid resource systems. He founded Humble Instruments and Humble Geochemical Services in 1987, which were sold to Weatherford International in 2007.  From 2008 to early 2013, Mr. Jarvie worked as a consultant to industry and taught geochemistry classes relevant to unconventional shale resource systems.  He spent 2009-2010 as visiting scientist at Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) in Rueil-Malmaison, France, where he worked on compositional kinetic modeling with Francoise Behar and shale resource systems in Europe.  From 2013 to 2015 Dan was the Chief Geochemist at EOG Resources, the leading producer of oil in the onshore lower 48 states.  He is also an adjunct professor at Texas Christian University (TCU) and a member of the TCU Energy Institute Advisory Board. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1969-1975 and was assigned communications responsibility for the Commander, Pacific Submarine Fleet, Pt. Loma Naval Station, San Diego primarily on the USS Sperry AS-12, but also with duty at Treasure Island (San Francisco), Norfolk, VA and Charleston, SC.  Mr. Jarvie earned a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame and was mentored in geochemistry by Wallace Dow and Don Baker of Rice University.  He is a member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, West Texas Geological Society, American Chemical Society-Geochemistry Division, Society of Petroleum Engineers, The Society for Organic Petrology, and European Association of Organic Geochemists.  

Research Interest

 Geology & Earth Science