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SUMMARY:HGS Scholarship Night
DESCRIPTION:HGS Scholarship Night\n \n February 9\, 2026\n \n 
 Norris Conference center\n \n Chasing the Fusselma
 n: A Personal Reflection on the Journey from Oilfi
 eld Mystery to Unraveling the Sequence Stratigraph
 y of a Giant Silurian Reservoir\n \n Speaker: Andr
 ew P.&nbsp\; Roark\, Development Geologist\, Chevr
 on\, Houston\n \n &nbsp\;\n \n Abstract\n \n In th
 is age of cheap information\, accurate knowledge o
 f earth history remains costly.&nbsp\; Last April\
 , I fell off a cliff in southern New Mexico and ne
 arly died while studying the Silurian Fusselman Fo
 rmation.&nbsp\; The fall capped a years-long pursu
 it of an explanation for anomalous well performanc
 e in the Permian Basin.&nbsp\; Now\, I have some a
 nswers.&nbsp\; In this talk I discuss what we have
  learned.&nbsp\; I show how detailed outcrop measu
 rements intended to investigate unusual well log b
 ehavior have revealed a previously-hidden record o
 f Silurian glacioeustasy in homogeneous\, highly a
 ltered carbonate rocks.&nbsp\; This work for the f
 irst time enables a confident\, high-resolution st
 ratigraphic framework for the Fusselman Formation 
 and may facilitate future mapping of individual de
 positional sequences in the subsurface.&nbsp\; The
  story&#39\;s arc - from oilfield questions to sci
 entific knowledge - illustrates the value of oil a
 nd gas data in furthering humanity&#39\;s understa
 nding of deep time and our own origins.&nbsp\;\n \
 n However\, I have more to share than technical le
 arnings\; I also have an improbable survival story
 .&nbsp\; I review how I fell off a cliff alone\, h
 ow I woke up after hours of unconsciousness to cal
 l for help\, and how I was ultimately rescued in a
 n Army Blackhawk.\n \n &nbsp\;\n \n Speaker: Andre
 w P.&nbsp\; Roark\, Development Geologist\, Chevro
 n\, Houston\n \n \n \n Bio\n \n Andrew Roark is cu
 rrently a development geologist focused on the nor
 thern Delaware Basin.&nbsp\; He has worked a varie
 ty of roles in multiple basins since starting with
  Chevron in 2015 and has been based in both Midlan
 d and Houston.&nbsp\; He earned a B.S. in Geology 
 from the University of Alabama and a M.S. in Geolo
 gy from Texas A&amp\;M University.&nbsp\; He leads
  multiple recurring field trips for Chevron and fo
 r West Texas Geological Society covering the Permi
 an Basin and surrounding areas.&nbsp\; He spends m
 ost of his vacation time studying the Silurian sec
 tion in west Texas and southeast New Mexico.\n \n 
 &nbsp\;\n \n Thank you To Our Sponsors\n \n \n \n 
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LOCATION:Norris Conference Center\n 816 Town & Country Blvd
 .\, Suite 210\n Houston\, TX 77024\n United States
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URL:https://www.hgs.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2677
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