Kim Butler

Houston, Texas Area United States

Global Geology Manager at Southwestern Energy

I have over 35 years of extensive technical experience in North America and internationally. My body of work has included frontier exploration and field development in structured tight reservoirs using horizontal and directional drilling. My expertise ranges from basin evaluation, structure and tectonics techniques, shallow to deep water depositional systems, source rock geochemistry and reservoir characteristics. I was the lead exploration geologist for the 1985 Tenneco discovery for the San Francisco field (200 MMBO) in Colombia's Upper Magdalena Valley. The prospect was directly developed using my Ph.D. dissertation field work. For the last 13 years, I have had direct technica...