Patrick Gordon
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Geologist
Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy
Tulsa
03.2015 - Current
- Prepared and analyzed materials for commercial clients and projects across U.S. and overseas from AHS main office in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Contribute to analyzing work on materials that include the Anadarko (OK), Permian (TX) SCOOP/STACK (OK).
- Determined lithology of materials from large or individual clients that would aid in determining analysis.
- Maintained machinery and building equipment to ensure efficient work environment while developing innovative methods for improved results.
- Traveled to well logging sites to collect samples for analysis and interpretation using AHS technology.
- Often working on logistics to support AHS’s needs that support conferences, maintenance and equipment, and supplies that are in demand.
Education
Professional Science Master’s - Geoscience
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK05-2027
Bachelor of Science - Geology, Petroleum Emphasis
Oklahoma State University
Tulsa, Oklahoma05-2018
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts
Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, Oklahoma12-2012
Skills
- Data analysis
- Equipment maintenance
- Sample collection
- Team collaboration
- Technical communication
- Problem solving
- Mineral exploration
- Field sampling techniques
- Geochemical Well logging
- Sedimentology
- Geochemistry
- Rock mechanics
- Core analysis
- Petroleum geology
- Stratigraphy
- Mass spectrometry
Publications
- Smith, M. P., C. M. Smith, T. M. Smith, P. S. Gordon, Using Cuttings Volatiles to Assess Reservoirs’ Viability for Long Term CO2 Sequestration, GeoGulf Transactions, 01/01/20, 311–313
- Smith, C.M.; D. Mercer, D.; Smith, T.M.; Liaw, V.; Gordon, P.S. and Smith, M.P. A Volatiles Analysis Case Study Evaluating the Petroleum System, Pay Zones, Seals, Chemical Compartments, and Potential Pays Zones from a Gulf of Mexico Well in the Main Pass Field Using Legacy, Oil Based Mud, and PDC Bit Cuttings, with Tie Ins to Wireline and Seismic Data. GeoGulf Transactions, 2021, 71, 265–279.
- Christopher Smith, Timothy Smith, Patrick Gordon, Michael Smith, Volatiles Analysis of Cuttings from Eagle Road Oil’s Eisenhower 7-22N-4E Mississippian Lime lateral in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, to Assist in Developing and Defining a New Oil Play, 01/01/21, 63
- A. Leavitt, M.P. Smith, O. Djordjevic, J. Sinclair, R. Brito, C.M. Smith, P.S. Gordon, T. M. Smith, J. Hustedt, Evaluating the STACK and SCOOP Rock and Petroleum System History: Combined Rocks Volatiles and Petrolphysics Data of Cored Wells Across the Anadarko, 01/01/21
- Smith, C.M.; Pool, S.; Dinterman, P.; Moore, J.; Vance, T.; Smith, T.M.; Gordon, P.S.; and Smith, M.P. Evaluating The Liquids Potential And Distribution Of West Virginia’s Marcellus Liquids Fairway. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) Technical Paper, 2021, # 5540. doi:10.15530/urtec-2021-5540.
- Smith, M.P.; Leavitt, A.; Djordjevic, O.; Sinclair, J.; Brito, R.; Smith, C.M.; Gordon, P.S.; Smith, T.M. and Hustedt, J. Evaluating the STACK and SCOOP Rock and Petroleum System History: Combined Rock Volatiles and Petrophysics Data of Cored Wells Across the Anadarko. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) Technical Paper, 2021, #5571, doi:10.15530/urtec-2021-5571.
- Michael, P. Smith, William Ampomah, Luke Martin, Timothy Smith, Patrick Gordon, Christopher Smith, Evaluating Faults, Fractures, Migration Pathways, Reservoirs and Seals for CCS Risk Assessments in San Juan Basin Using Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy of Cuttings and Cores from Legacy Oil Wells and a New CCS Monitoring Well, 01/01/22
- Smith, C.M.; Smith, M.P.; Gordon, P.S.; Smith, T.M.; Flynn, J.; Priddell, T.; and Yurkowski, M. Rock Volatiles Analyses of the B.A. Saskatchewan Landing Core — Detailed Fluid, Reservoir, and Cap Rock Insights from the C1-C10 Hydrocarbons, Organic Acids, CO2, Formation Water, Helium, Various Sulfur Gases, and Mechanical Strength: Implications for Helium System Analysis. 29th Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, Dr. Don Kent Core Workshop Volume, Saskatchewan Geological Society, 2022, Special Pub. No. 27, 1-9.
- Smith, C.M.; Brito, R.; Smith, M.P.; Sinclair, J.; Gordon, P.S.; Smith, T.M. and Leavitt, A.; Comparison of Volatiles Analysis of Cuttings from Woodford and Caney Laterals from the SCOOP Play in Oklahoma. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC) Technical Paper, 2022, # 3724292. doi: 10.15530/urtec-2022-3724292
- Seth Nolan, Reid Edwards, Christopher M. Smith, Caleb Conrad, Timothy Smith, Patrick Gordon, Michael Smith, Evaluating Microbial Activity Across Fault Blocks and Subunits of the Ugnu (N.Slope, Alaska) by Volatiles Analysis of Cuttings and Produced Crude Implications for Completions and Production, 01/01/22
- Michael P. Smith, Christopher Smith, Patrick Gordon, Timothy Smith, Alternating CO2-phobic and CO2-Philic Strata Determined Using Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy: Evaluating CCS Reservoir and Seal Quality, 01/01/22, 18
- Christopher M. Smith, Caleb Conrad, Zachary Spath, Kurt Johnson, Timothy Smith, Patrick S. Gordon, Shuvajit Bhattacharya, Albert Holba, Michael P. Smith, Tar Mapping Using Low Molecular Weight Volatiles Signatures: Case Studies from the Alaskan North Slope, 01/01/22, 15
- Smith, Christopher M., Patrick S. Gordon, Timothy M. Smith, Michael P. Smith, Volatiles Analysis of Cuttings from the FORGE 58-32 Well- “logging” High Temperature Wells, Evaluating Communication Pathways, and Implications for Completions in Enhanced Geothermal System Wells, 07/01/22, 53
- Smith, Christopher M., William Ampomah, Luke Martin, Timothy Smith, Patrick Gordon, Michael Smith, CCUS Risk Evaluation in the San Juan Basin Using Volatiles Stratigraphy – Identification of Fractures and Lateral Migration Pathways and Implications for CO2 Injection and Storage, 07/01/22, 54
- Smith, C.M., W. Ampomah, L. Martin, D. Ulmer-Scholle, T.M. Smith, P.S. Gordon, M. P. Smith, CCS Risk Evaluation in the San Juan Basin Using Rock Volatile Stratigraphy – Identification of Fractures, Lateral, and Vertical Migration Pathways, Modified Rock Properties, and Implications for CO2 Injection Storage, 01/01/23
- Nicolas, M.P.B; Smith, C.M.; and Smith, M.P. Volatiles analysis of drill cuttings to evaluate the helium prospectivity of southwestern Manitoba (parts of NTS 62F2, K3). in Report of Activities 2023, Manitoba Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Natural Resources, Manitoba Geological Survey, 2023, GS2023-11, 93–104.
- Smith, C.M.; Nolan, S.; Edwards, R.; Conrad, C.; Gordon, P.S.; Smith, T.M.; and Smith, M.P. Evaluating Oil Quality and Microbial Activity Across Fault Blocks and Subunits of the Ugnu (N. Slope, Alaska) by Volatiles Analysis of Cuttings and Produced Crude - Implications for Completions and Production. Paper presented at the SPE Western Regional Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2023, SPE-214494-MS. doi: 10.2118/214494-MS
- Smith, C.M.; Smith, M.P.; Gordon, P.S.; Smith, T.M.; and Duncan, E. Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy (AHS) Use of Proprietary Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy (RVS) System to Analyze Cutting Samples of Great Bear Pantheon's Exploration Wells on the North Slope. Paper presented at the SPE Western Regional Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2023, SPE-214493-MS. doi: 10.2118/214493-MS
- Smith, C.M.; Gordon, P.S.; Smith, T.M.; and Smith, M.P.; Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy: Optimize Helium, Hydrogen, Geothermal, Oil/Gas Production and CCS Using Cuttings and Core Volatiles. 84th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition Workshop Programme, 2023, Vol 2023, 1 – 5. doi: 10.3997/2214-4609.2023101617
- Smith, C.M.; Birdwell, J.E.; Smith, T.M.; Gordon, P.S. and Smith, M.P. Relationships between Volatile Compounds and Traditional Source Rock Parameters from Immature and Early Maturity Cretaceous Source Rocks of the Western Interior Seaway; A Comparison of Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy and Rock Eval Pyrolysis (working title). Paper is being drafted for submission to a peer review journal, anticipated submission in mid-late 2024.
Timeline
Geologist
Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy
03.2015 - Current
Professional Science Master’s - Geoscience
Oklahoma State University
Bachelor of Science - Geology, Petroleum Emphasis
Oklahoma State University
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts
Tulsa Community College