John has provided internal decision support for projects and portfolios at ARCO, BP and ARAMCO. Since 2010 he has consulted for Carnarvon, Chesapeake, Concho, DeGolyer & MacNaughton, Hess, Houston Energy, Hyperdynamic, ION, JHI, Laredo, Marathon, Pakistan Petroleum, and Pearl Petroleum in evaluating their subsurface assets. John was the founding director of the Chevron Center of Research Excellence at Texas A&M. There he spearheaded collaborative, multidisciplinary research projects with geoscientists and petroleum engineers from Chevron and other companies to further understand petroleum systems, sedimentary basins, and unconventional petroleum resources.
Although most of the John’s work is confidential, a few recent open publications are available for open debate and discussion.
Varady, C., Pantano, J., Mcvay, D. A., Diagnostics and Uncertainty Characterization of Tight Liquid Production with Phase Behavior: Insights from Case Study in the Delaware Basin. AAPG ACE 19-22 May 2019 San Antonio, TX
Wright S., Franks, S.G., Pantano, J., Kloska1, M., Wolters, J., Understanding Dynamic Production Contribution from Hydraulically Fractured Middle Bakken and Three Forks Wells in the Williston Basin Using Time-Lapsed Geochemistry URTeC 22‒24 July 2019 Denver, Colorado
Atwah, I., Sweet, S., Knap, A., and Pantano, J., 2019, “Light Hydrocarbons Geochemistry: Insight into Mississippian Crude-Oil Sources from the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, USA”, Geofluids, v 2019 p 15
Varady C. E., Pantano, J., Explaining Well Performance Patterns: Application of Scaled Hydrocarbon Head Potential to Permian, Anadarko Basins and Eagle Ford for Better Resource Assessment and Development, AAPG ACE 23-25 April 2018 Houston, TX
Pantano, J., Petroleum System Analysis for Exploiting Low Permeability Oil and Gas Reservoirs, SPE Unconventional Summit II: Building and Applying the Universal Workflow for Low Permeability Oil and Gas Reservoirs 21-24 August 2017 The Woodlands, Texas
John in addition has two patents (US 9376901 and US 9194199) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and stimulation processes.
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John Pantano
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In his early career, John Pantano focused on numerically determining fluid flow and characterization of source rocks, seals, carrier beds, and reservoirs. He took that knowledge to help characterize and remediate large super fund and industrial impacted ground and surface water systems in the next decade and a half. After working directly for ARCO, BP, and Saudi Aramco, he has consulted for large and small firms in the energy and environmental field. John is passionate about cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions for demanding business ventures.
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