Mr. Arthur E Berman
Director
Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.
Arthur E. Berman is a geological consultant with thirty-one years of experience in petroleum exploration and production. He is specialist in prospect and play evaluation, reserve assessment, risk evaluation, subsurface geological and geophysical interpretation, and database management.
He is a contributing editor and columnist for World Oil, and writes two monthly columns called "What's New in Exploration" and "Exploration Discoveries". He is also an associate editor of the AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Bulletin. He is a past-editor of the Houston Geological Society (HGS) Bulletin (2004-2005) and past-Vice-President of the HGS (2008-2009).
He has published over 50 articles on geology, technology, and the petroleum industry during the past 10 years. Publication topics include petroleum exploration, oil and gas price trends and cycles, petroleum play evaluation, sequence stratigraphy, coastal subsidence, earthquakes, tsunamis, and petroleum geopolitics. He has published 8 articles on shale gas plays including the Barnett, Haynesville and Fayetteville shales.
During the past several years, he has given technical presentations and keynote addresses to the AAPG; GCSSEPM (Gulf Coast Society for Sedimentary Geology); Houston Geological Society; Houston Geophysical Society; GCAGS (Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies); SIPES (Society of Independent Earth Scientists) Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Corpus Christi chapters; South Texas Geological Society; Association of Engineering & Environmental Geologists; San Antonio Geophysical Society; Ohio Oil and Gas Association; and Argus Americas Crude Oil Summit.
He has an M.S. (Geology) from the Colorado School of Mines and a B.A. (History) from Amherst College.
