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A NOTE FROM THE
CHEVRON CENTER OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE (CORE)

ZANE JOBE, DIRECTOR

Visit CoRE on the web at https://core.mines.edu,. For more information, please contact Zane Jobe, CoRE Director at
zanejobe@mines.edu.

Recent News:

CoRE’s most recent graduate Evan Gross (M.S., pictured at right work-
ing on his thesis in eolian rocks in Utah that are a Ballymore analog) just
started a full-time position with Chevron in Houston - congrats to Evan!

Luke Pettinga (Ph.D.) successfully defended his thesis on October 2,
and starts a job with EOG in November – congrats to Luke!

CoRE and Chevron have a monthly Webex to talk about CoRE’s research
projects - please email Zane Jobe (zanejobe@mines.edu) or Fabien
Laugier to join in!

CoRE Research Summary: CoRE has been a Chevron-supported re-
search group at Mines since 2004 and is currently directed by Zane Jobe.
25 students have graduated from CoRE, and 16 have been hired by Chev-
ron! Currently, CoRE has 12 researchers, including 4 sponsored graduate
students and several other graduate students who are CoRE-affiliated,
but not funded by CoRE. Our current research themes include strati-
graphic architecture and scaling relationships for reservoir connec-
tivity prediction and EUR variance, sediment dispersal patterns for
reservoir presence and quality predictions, and machine learning
for facies prediction. We work closely with Chevron researchers Fa-
bien Laugier, Morgan Sullivan, Ash Harris, and many others to customize research projects so that they have immediate
business impact for Chevron assets. We try to get out in the field as much as possible to collect datasets for Chevron, and
we spent more than 80 staff-days in the field in 2019, including 30 days in a new field area in the Cloridorme Formation,
Quebec! 2020 fieldwork and travel for Chevron visits and meetings has been hampered by COVID, but we are all safe and
working from home!

Current students and staff: Luke Pettinga (Ph.D.) will graduate in Fall
2020, and Kaci Kus (M.S., pictured at left) will graduate in Spring 2021 –
both students have done fantastic work and we are very proud of them! Clark
Gilbert (Ph.D.), Thomas Martin (Ph.D.), Chance Seckinger (M.S.), Hanaga
Simabrata (M.S.), Ross Meyer (CoRE data scientist), Pengfei Hou (CoRE
stats guru), and Mary Carr (CoRE program manager) are all hard at work on
their projects.