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Bruce Hart
ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas
Bruce Hart is currently Director of the Shale, Seal and Pressure Systems Group at ConocoPhillips in Houston. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from McMaster University, a Master’s Degree from the Université du Québec à Rimouski, and a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He pursued a career in research at the Geological Survey of Canada, Penn State, The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and McGill University prior to joining ConocoPhillips in August 2008.
Bruce began his geoscience career as a clastic sedimentologist, but eventually found himself examining stratigraphy with 3-D seismic data. Subsequently, he and his students integrated 3-D seismic, log, outcrop, core, production and other data types to address a range of structural and stratigraphic problems from Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic clastic and carbonate reservoirs from various parts of the globe. Most of that work has been documented in over 50 peer-reviewed publications that cover topics such as seismic attribute analyses, hydrothermal dolomites, fractured tight-gas sandstones, sequence stratigraphy, pore-pressure prediction, and the sedimentology of shoreface conglomerates.
He has taught courses and workshops on 3-D seismic interpretation for industry professionals in Cairo, Calgary, Copenhagen, Houston, Kuala Lumpur, London, New Orleans, The Hague, Vienna, and elsewhere. His current work focuses on the relationships between shale depositional processes and hydrocarbon seals, source rocks, and pressure systems.