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Victoria Barth, [email protected]
Issue 5 Fall 2016
TCU ENERGY INSTITUTE NewsletterStudents
2Our Energy Club Members complete a robust member-ship drive, and attend the Davis Speaker Series and networking event.
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Research
3New Hunter Enis Endowed Chair Dr. Richard Denne hits the ground running.
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Larry Brogdon took students from his “Prospect to Production” class to see a mod-ern, clean-burning natural gas electrical generating facility in Midlothian. This 1500 megawatt facility can provide electricity to a million homes. The plant superintendent discuses the very low emissions and 100% water recycling operations with students.
Our TCU Energy Institute Board Members:
Larry Brogdon, Chair/Four SevensRoss Matthews, President/Sinclair Oil & GasCraig Adams, President/Newark E&P OperatingBarry Davis, President/EnLink Midstream Andree Griffin, Vice Pres., Geology & Geophysics/XTO EnergyMarty Searcy, Managing Member/Four SevensSteve Wentworth, Chief Landman/EOG ResourcesRich Eichler, President/Hart Energy Publishing LPDavid Trice, Exploration Manager/EOG ResourcesLarry Dale, President, Dale Resources Marvin Gearhart, CEO/Gearhart CompanyPete Vermillion, Chesapeake EnergyEd Ireland, Director/BSEEC, PPP TCU EMBATrevor D. Rees-Jones, President/Chief Oil & GasGreg Bird, President/Jetta Operating CompanyMike Redmond, ConsultantBen Nivens, VP Engineering/Charger ResourcesW. Byron Dunn, Principal/Tubular Synergy GroupTim Schildt, Principal/XYR Oil & GasGordon Roberts, Jetta OperatingCasey Patterson, Terrace EnergyPaun Peters, Western ProductionFloyd “Bo” Henk, Chief Geologist/Pioneer Natural ResourcesSteve Neuse, VP of Engineering/Bass Enterprises Production CompanyGeorge M Young Jr., Collins and Young, LLCJohn Breyer, Marathon OilBen Voigt, Bonanza Operating CompanyJustin LaPoten, BADR InvestmentsJeffery (Scott) Baum, Consultant,Washington D.C.Dan Jarvie, President, Worldwide Geochemistry
Community
An enormously ambitious undertaking has begun: to educate our middle school and high school Texas stu-dents on energy.
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Our mission: To create, promote, and teach cutting-edge energy, energy management, and energy-related technology.
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Students
Our energy minor students comprise our TCU Energy Club. Here they are very suc-cessfully signing up their fel-low students this fall.
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FALL ENERGY CLUB ACTION
Starting this fall, the TCU Energy Club board, under the leadership of Veronica Merrill, began efforts to refresh the mem-bership. The group has also taken on the design of their new club t shirts, which will be ready shortly. Energy Club members will be joining our fall speaker series, the Kenneth W. Davis, Jr. Leaders in Energy se-ries, where dozens of industry people will be gathered for a networking night.
The 2016-2017 student officers are:
Caroline Shaub [email protected] Morgan [email protected]. Tufts [email protected] Doumbia [email protected]. Geeslin [email protected] Wood [email protected]
Many thanks for their dedicated service!
FALL ENERGY SPEAKER
To continue the Year of Energy here at TCU, we invited Robert Bryce, author of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper to join us at the Ken Davis Energy Series. Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His articles have appeared in dozens of pub-lications. He lives in Austin.
Thanks to the Ken Davis Jr. Leaders in Energy Series, hundreds of TCU students, both undergraduate students as well as current and potential graduate students earning their specialized Energy MBAs joined industry leaders at the Networking session prior to the dinner and Bryce pre-sentation. Bryce autographed his book for students and many others, and lingered to talk to all those interested in further con-versation on the role of technology in en-ergy’s future.
“The biggest and most influential environ-mental groups routinely preach a message of doom. They regularly claim, for instance, that technology is dangerous and that in-dustrial development must be stopped in
order to the save the planet. However, the painful paradox is that they are aiming to stop many of the innovations that are helping to improve the environment and raise the living standards of millions of people. They are also promoting energy policies that would be ruinous for the en-vironment they say they want to protect.” - Robert Bryce
A huge thank you goes to Frank Iannelli and Stephen O’Neal for getting the mov-ers and shakers to attend, and to the TCU Energy MBA Program team for sponsor-ing the networking reception.
Author Robert Bryce
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Evidence of a resurging inter-est in the TCU Energy Club: an impressive surge in mem-bership.
New Hunter Enis Endowed Chair Dr. Richard Denne jump starts his focus on new research.
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Richard A. Denne, PhD.
Dr. Richard Denne has already given several talks, since arriving in Fort Worth in the grueling heat of the summer.
After waiting for an office, due to massive renovations in Sid Richardson, Denne be-gan giving talks and constructing his game overall game plan:
September 19, 2016Gulf Coast Association of Geological Soci-eties (GCAGS) Denne and Breyer presented:
“Regional Depositional Episodes of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford and Woodbine Groups of Texas and their Rela-tionship to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2)” September 26, 2016Geological Society of America (GSA) 9/26Denne, Kosanke, and Breyer presented:
“Limestone formation in the organic-rich marls of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford Group of south Texas”
Richard Denne is the Hunter Enis Chair in Petroleum Geology, School of Geology, Energy, and the Environment and shares a joint assignment in the Energy Institute.
CORE LAB RESEARCH
This fall, the TCU Energy Institute Board will be touring the Core Lab, to be brought up to speed about the top notch core re-search being conducted there.
From the beginning, the TCU Shale Core mission has been to provide a profession-al partnership between students, faculty, and leaders in the energy industry through cooperation, mentorship, research, and education.
Since 2008, as the Barnett Shale core be-gan to arrive and be sorted, we worked hard to make it available for study. Pallets and pallets came in at a steady pace to our climate-controlled viewing area. Or-
ganized and managed by Carl Kurtz, Core Lab Technician and TCU Geology grad-uate (class of 2014), the core resources have grown to thousands of feet of core from across our region.
Our current 15,000 square foot location has room for storage of core, viewing of core, and classroom space where aca-demics, students and industry leaders meet and exchange ideas. The Core Lab is open for private viewings, tours, and research on the geology, sedimentology, petrophysics and geochemistry of core samples.
To schedule a viewing, tour, or research opportunity, contact Carl Kurtz at 682-321-3964 or [email protected].
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Research (Left) Dr. Richard Denne attended the annual GSA meeting in the beautiful city of Denver, and presented a talk.
(Above) The American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ The Eagle Ford Shale: A Renaissance in U.S. Oil Produc-tion, which features two articles with Denne as lead author.
(Right) Many interested parties study in our core sample viewing room.
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TCU Energy Institute Helps the Texas Energy Education Project Begin
The Energy Institute’s Dr. Ken Morgan is lead-ing the charge to get energy knowledge into our Texas public school curriculum.
Currently this knowledge is absent, as il-lustrated by our own incoming freshmen’s lack of knowledge and misconceptions about energy, according to Morgan. He began working to correct this in January of 2016. With help from the energy indus-try and other universities, three classroom modules for grades 8-12 have been de-veloped and are in the pilot stage this fall, built to be dropped into the physical sci-ence curriculum and implemented by the Texas Regional Collaborative’s classroom science teacher network.
Earlier this year, the State Board of Educa-tion approved the energy material Dr. Mor-gan and the team assembled for students.
To develop more modules, funds will be sought from the upcoming Texas State Legislature to continue to develop the Tex-as Energy Education Project, coordinated by the Texas Natural Gas Foundation, the State Energy Conservation Office, and the
Texas Regional Collaboratives at the Uni-versity of Texas (the Center for STEM Edu-cation).
To keep interest high, video is integrated into the material, allowing energy experts to discuss real world applications of the energy material, with both live interactive interviews and recorded segments.
This STEM supplement correlates to our Tex-as curriculum requirements, and is a multi-year project. The material is designed to be customizable for other states to utilize.
As a long-time energy educator at the col-lege level, Morgan believes we need to ed-ucate young people in order to allow them to make high quality informed decisions about our state and our country’s energy future. This starts with getting current en-ergy knowledge in the hands of our middle school and high school students.
The three units being piloted are: • Energy Resources• Energy Efficiency Economics• Energy in Your State
“By spring, we should start to have feed-back from this fall’s pilot,” says Morgan.
(At right), Dr. Robert Perrons from Queensland Universi-ty of Technology, Australia, tasting a little of the local cuisine on a break from sharing his cutting edge views on energy technol-ogy with energy and busi-ness students alike. “You sure wear a lot of purple here,” he exclaimed.
Community (Below) Dr. Ed Ireland, faculty lead for the TCU Energy MBA program, and his wife Carolyn partici-pated in this fall’s Convocation ceremony, attended by faculty, students and various members of the greater Frog Community.
(Above) CREATING VIDEO CONTENT: Dr. Ken Morgan expounds on his strong belief that supporting STEM education on energy is crucial to our young students, community and our future. The Texas Energy Education Project’s topics include Energy Resources, Efficiency, and State En-ergy Issues, as well as Teacher/Researcher roles.
(Above) The project’s goal: connecting energy to every classroom.
