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Ron Broadhead

Recent Presentations

  1. The offshore Mancos play in the San Juan Basin: Productive carrier beds in the Mancos petroleum system, presented nto the University of Cincinnati Geology Colloquium, April 22, 2022.
  2. Helium in New Mexico. Podcast conversation covering some of my work on helium resources. This conversation (April 28, 2021), with Maureen Stonehouse of Calgary, Alberta is posted on Maureen's website and may be accessed at Stone's Notes.
  3. Helium - Relationships to Other Reservoir Gases and Implications for Exploration as Demonstrated by New Mexico Gases, presented to American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Conference and Exhibition (virtual meeting), October 1, 2020, interactive panel discussion (invited presentation).
  4. The Permian Basin oil boom: History and where it's going, February 26, 2020, presented to Socorro NM Rotary Club.
  5. The Mancos Shale in the southeastern San Juan Basin: a play limited by structure and associated thermal maturity: Presented to American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Cheyenne WY, September 17, 2019.
  6. The Mancos Shale in the Albuquerque Basin: an oil play limited by structure and thermal maturation. Presented to American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Cheyenne WY, September 18, 2019.
  7. Helium: Properties, Uses, Geology of accumulations and relationship to other gases in the reservoir. Presented to Albuquerque Geological Society, February 6, 2019 (invited).
  8. Petroleum geology of the southeast end of the San Juan Basin: Rejuvenarion from shale. Presented to Roswell Geological Society, October 9, 2018.
  9. Petroleum geology of New Mexico: An overview and recent developments . Presented to Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, Annual Convention, Santa Fe NM, June 12, 2018.
  10. Relationship of helium and CO2 to other gases in New Mexico reservoirs. Presented to American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City UT, May 20-23, 2018 (invited).
  11. Mancos core from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Core display presented at American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City UT, May 20-23, 2018 (invited).
  12. The Upper Mancos Shale in the San Juan Basin: Three oil and gas plays, conventional and unconventional. Poster presented to American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Conference and Exhibition, Salt Lake City UT, May 20-23, 2018.
  13. Helium: Geology of accumulations and relationship to other gases in the reservoir. Presented to New Mexico Landmen's Association, Roswell NM, November 15, 2017 (invited).
  14. Oil & natural gas activities at New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources. Presented to Water and Natural Resources Committee of the New Mexico State Legislature, Socorro NM, October 12, 2017.
  15. Helium: Geology of accumulations and relationship to other natural gases in the reservoir. Presented to Roswell Geological Society, Roswell NM, March 2017 (invited).
  16. Helium: Geology of accumulations and relationship to other natural gases in the reservoir. Presented to AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop, Houston TX, October 2016 (invited).
  17. Carbon dioxide and helium gases in New Mexico: Distribution and and relation to other gases in the reservoir. Presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver CO, September 2016 (invited).
  18. Petroleum geology of Mora County. Presented to Mora County Commission, February 23, 2016.
  19. What are hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling? Presentation made in conjunction with F. David Martin, New Mexico Secretary of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources at Annual Meeting of New Mexico Rural Water Association, April 2015.