Richard M. Bateman

Richard M. Bateman was educated in the UK, obtaining his MA degree in Natural Science-Physics from Oxford University. He began his career in the oil industry in South America as a field engineer for Schlumberger. He worked with wireline logging operations in many US and South American field locations living through the analog to digital evolution and later spent three years at the Schlumberger Doll Research Center in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He subsequently joined Amoco International Oil Company (now BP) and traveled extensively throughout the world from their Chicago headquarters, finding oil and gas and teaching others how to do so. He has also held posts as Chief Petrophysicist of Halliburton Logging Services, Engineering Manager for Bridas (now Pan American Energy) and as Regional Manager for Gaffney Cline & Associates’ Latin American operations, based in Buenos Aires. Bateman has been a course writer and instructor in well log interpretation and petrophysics for the Tulsa Amoco Training Center, IHRDC and PetroSkills/OGCI. He has authored four books and multiple technical papers and patents. He is a Life Member of SPE and a Perpetual Honorary Member of the SPWLA. Although recently retired as an Associate Professor with the Petroleum Engineering Department of Texas Tech University, where he taught Formation Evaluation and Petrophysics, he is active in consulting and technical authoring.