Henry Posamentier

Henry W. Posamentier is a Senior Geological Consultant with Chevron Energy Technology Company. He serves as a worldwide consultant to exploration teams focusing on lithofacies prediction risk issues. Prior to joining Chevron in 2007, he was with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation where he served as Chief Geologist. Earlier he was with the Atlantic Richfield Co. (1991-2000), Exxon Production Research Co. and Esso Resources Canada, Ltd. (1979-1991), and at Rider University, Assistant Professor of Geology (1974-1979).

Posamentier's research interests have been in the fields of sequence stratigraphy and depositional systems analysis, where he has published widely. Most recently, he has employed an interdisciplinary approach to the predication of lithofacies distribution through time and space by integrating stratigraphy, geomorphology, and depositional systems analysis, using 3D seismic visualization integrated with borehole data. In 1971-1972, Henry Posamentier was a Fulbright Fellow to Austria. He has served as an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer to the United States (1991-1992), an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer to the former Soviet Union (1996-1997), an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer to the Middle East (1998-1999), and an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer to Europe (2005-2006). Most recently (2008) he was awarded the Pettijohn Medal for excellence in sedimentology from the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM).