Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering
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walter ayers

Walter B. Ayers
Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering
3116 TAMU - 401M Richardson Building
College Station, TX 77843-3116
Phone: (979) 458-0721
e-mail: walt.ayers@pe.tamu.edu


Dr. Walter B. Ayers is recognized as an expert in petroleum geology and coalbed methane. Dr. Ayers has consulted, published, and taught industry short courses in the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, India and Venezuela.

Education
  • PhD, Geology, University of Texas-Austin, 1984
  • MS, Geology, West Virginia University, 1971
  • BS, Geology, West Virginia University, 1969

Areas of Specialization
  • Petroleum Geology; integrated studies of conventional and unconventional reservoirs
  • Basin analysis, clastic depositional systems, and related hydrology
  • Mixed carbonate and clastic systems
  • Tertiary depositional systems, Gulf of Mexico, onshore and offshore
  • Coal and coalbed methane exploration and development
  • Depositional framework of coal
  • Industry short courses in geosciences and coalbed methane

 
 

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