Bryant W. Bradley
Senior Petroleum Geologist
Bryant W. Bradley joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2018. Prior to joining D&M, Bradley worked in various roles at Chevron.
Bradley received a bachelor’s degree in geology in 2011 from Washington and Lee University and a master’s degree in geology in 2013 from the University of Oklahoma, where he was a ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholar. Bradley is a Certified Petroleum Geologist and maintains active membership in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Dallas Geological Society, and the Houston Geological Society.
Geographical Experience
- Algeria
- Angola
- Azerbaijan
- Colombia
- Ghana
- Guyana
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Mexico
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Russia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Uzbekistan
Topical Areas of Expertise
- Subsurface mapping
- Sequence stratigraphy
- Seismic interpretation
- Velocity modeling
- Reservoir characterization
- Reservoir modeling
- Risk analysis
- Prospective resources evaluations
Major Projects
Bradley has worked on various worldwide projects with a primary focus on seismic-based structural and stratigraphic modeling, the integrated field development of brownfields and greenfields, prospective resources estimation, and reserves and contingent resources evaluations. He has experience categorizing reserves and resources in accordance with the PRMS and SEC, estimating reservoir volumes using deterministic and probabilistic methods, and quantifying geologic risk associated with undrilled prospects. He has evaluated reservoirs in all types of depositional environments and basins.
As a geologist at Chevron, Bradley integrated various types of geologic, geophysical, engineering, petrophysical, and production data into full-field reservoir models. His skills included subsurface mapping, seismic interpretation and PSDM velocity modeling, core description, reservoir modeling, and prospect identification and maturation. He worked as an asset development geologist for legacy carbonate fields in the Permian Basin, as a deepwater exploration geologist for the Gulf of Mexico, and as an applied reservoir management geologist for producing brownfield assets in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
