Cameron A. Snow

Phone: 650-396-9876
Email: cameron.snow@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

2014-Present Manager, NA New Ventures  Apache Corporation
Manager for North American onshore exploration and new ventures group.

  • Develop and execute company’s exploration strategy for unconventional and tight conventional oil and gas prospects.
  • Lead group of geoscience, engineering and land professionals to identify and capture new exploration opportunities.
  • Screen and evaluate targets with respect to both technical and commercial viability.


2012-2014 Sr. Geologist; Team Lead Apache Corporation
Senior geologist and team lead for Worldwide Basin Analysis group.
  • Manage group composed of geoscience and engineering professionals and technicians to develop basin-scale structural and stratigraphic frameworks for all operating basins in company portfolio.
  • Perform regional geological, petrophysical, and engineering studies focused on generating new exploration opportunities.
  • Provide technical expertise for operating regions on exploration and development projects.
  • Serve as technical liaison for net asset valuation projects across the company. 

2009-2012 Sr. Geologist Khalda Petroleum, J.V.
Development geoscientist for an Apache Corporation joint venture with EGPC.
  • Served as lead geologist for several producing oil and gas fields with daily production of over 50,000 BOPD and 150 MMscf/day.
  • Generated multiple drilling and workover opportunities through interpretation of 3D seismic, geologic, and production data.
  • Developed 3D geologic models for use in development planning, volumetric assessments, and reservoir simulation.
  • Provided oversight of geologic operations while drilling and logging wells.

2008 Petrophysicist II Apache Energia Argentina
Lead petrophysicist in Apache Energia Argentina office.
  • Performed all operational petrophysics, including development of core acquisition and logging programs. 
  • Led efforts to identify and develop bypassed opportunities in operated fields and in potential acquisition targets.
  • Collaborated with project geoscientists and engineers to aid in mapping key reservoir properties.

2006-2008 Petrophysicist I Apache Corporation
Petrophysicist in Exploration and Production Technology group.
  • Consulted with project geologists and engineers to assess new wells and to optimize field development.
  • Provided interpretations of reservoir storage properties, flow potential, and fluid types utilizing well log, core, seismic, and production data.
  • Developed 3D geologic models focused on describing reservoir properties and production potential.
  • Areas worked include onshore and offshore United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia.

2004 Geoscience Intern Apache Corporation
Geoscience intern in Apache’s Central Region business unit.
  • Determined subsurface sandstone distribution using well log data in the Anadarko basin in central and western Oklahoma
  • Performed structural interpretation of carbonate reef plays using 3-D seismic and well data.
EDUCATION

2006 Ph.D., Geology Stanford University
Thesis:  On the Jurassic tectonic evolution of California
Advisor:  W. Gary Ernst

2002 M.S., Geology Utah State University
Thesis:  Geology of the Cuesta Ridge ophiolite remnant near San Luis Obispo, California:  Evidence for the tectonic setting and origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite
Advisor:  John W. Shervais

1999 B.S., Geology N.C. State University

SOFTWARE
High Level Knowledge
Petrel
Geographix
Interactive Petrophysics
MatLab
MS Office Suite

Moderate Knowledge
Petra
Daedalus
Fast RTA (Harmony)

SHORT COURSES
2006 Introduction to Petrophysics and Log Analysis
2007 Introduction to 3D Seismic Survey Design
2007 Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping Methods
2007 Carbonate Reservoir Architecture & Applied Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy
2007 Mapping Workflow with Introduction to Geocellular Modeling
2007 Geological Evaluation & Interpretation of 3D Seismic using Visualization Techniques
2007 Continental Shallow Marine Clastic Reservoir Systems
2007 Advances in Fracture Diagnostics for Fractured and Horizontal Wells
2008 Recent Depositional & Stratigraphic Analogues for Fluvial and Shallow Marine Reservoirs
2008 Tight Gas Reservoir Completions
2010 Structural Geology for Petroleum Exploration
2011 Structure and Fault Systems in Hydrocarbon Exploration
2013 Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Reservoir Architecture or Paralic Deposits
2013 SMU-Cox School of Business Executive Leadership Program

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union

PUBLICATIONS
2014
Snow, C.A., and Shervais, J.W., in press, The Cuesta Ridge Ophiolite, San Luis Obisop, CA: Implications for the origin of the CRO: GSA Special paper.
2010
Snow, C.A., Ernst, W.G., Wakabayashi, J., and Wooden, J., 2010, Detrital zircon evidence for progressive underthrusting in Franciscan metagraywackes, west-central California: GSA Bulletin, v. 122, no. 1-2, p. 282-291.
2008
Snow, C.A., and Ernst, W.G., 2008, Detrital Zircon Constraints on Sediment Distribution and Provenance of the Mariposa Formation, central Sierra Nevada Foothills, California, in Wright, J.E., and Shervais, J.W., eds., Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths: A Tribute to Cliff Hopson:  GSA Special Paper 438, p. 311-330.

Ernst, W.G., Snow, C.A., and Scherer, H.H., 2008, Contrasting early and late Mesozoic petrotectonic evolution of northern California: GSA Bulletin, v. 120, p. 179-194.

Snow, C.A., Metcalf, J., McWilliams, M., and Bird, D., 2008, Constraints on timing and tectonics of Au-mineralization in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, CA from 40Ar/39Ar radiometric dating of mariposite: International Geology Review, v. 50, no. 6, p. 513-518.

Ernst, W.G., Snow, C.A., and Scherer, H.H., 2008, Mesozoic transpression, transtension, subduction, and metallogenesis in northern and central California: Terra Nova, no. 20, p. 394-413.

Ernst, W.G., Snow, C.A., and Scherer, H.H., 2008, Mesozoic transpression, transtension, subduction, and metallogenesis in northern and central California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No.1, p. 46.
2007
Snow, C.A.,  Wakabayashi, J., and Ernst, W.G., 2007, SHRIMP-based depositional ages of Franciscan Complex metragraywackes , San Francisco Bay Area, western California: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, no. 6, p. 454.

Snow, C.A., 2007, Petrotectonic evolution and melt modeling of the Peñon Blanco Arc, central Sierra Nevada Foothills, California: GSA Bulletin, v119 p. 1014-1023.

Scherer, H., Snow, C.A., and Ernst, W.G., 2007, Geologic-Petrochemical Comparison of Early Mesozoic Oceanic Terranes: Western Paleozoic and Triassic Belt, Klamath Mountains, and Jura-Triassic Arc Belt, Sierran Foothills, GSA Special Publication 410.
2006
Snow, C.A., and Scherer, H.H., 2006, Terranes of the western Sierra Nevada Foothills metamorphic belt, California:  A critical review, International Geology Review, v. 48, p. 46-62.

Snow, C.A., 2006, A re-evaluation of tectonic discrimination diagrams and a new probabilistic approach using large geochemical databases:  Moving beyond binary and ternary plots, JGR Solid Earth, v. 111, B06206, doi:10.1029/2005JB003799.

Shragge, J.C., and Snow, C.A., 2006, Bayesian geochemical discrimination of mafic volcanic rocks: American Journal of Science, v. 306, p. 191-209.

Snow, C.A., and Ernst, W.G., 2006, Detrital zircon constraints on sediment distribution and provenance of the Mariposa Formation, central Sierra Nevada Foothills, CA: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 5, p. 36.

Ernst, W.G., Snow, C.A., and Scherer, H.H., 2006, Contrasting petrotectonic evolution of northern California accretionary terranes: GSA Abstracts with Programs, V. 38, no. 7, p. 207.
2005
Snow, C.A., and Ernst, W.G., 2005, New Geochemical and Geochronologic Data from the Peñon Blanco Arc and Mariposa Formation, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California:  Abstracts with Programs, GSA, v. 37, no. 37.

Snow, C.A. and Shragge, J.C., 2005, Two New Methods for Geochemical Discrimination of Mafic-Intermediate Volcanic Rocks:  A Proof of Concept Study using data from the Sierra Nevada Foothills and Klamath Mountains, California: EOS Transactions AGU, 86(52) Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract IN21A-1170.

Shragge, J.C., and Snow, C.A., 2005, Two New Methods for Geochemical Discrimination of Mafic-Intermediate Volcanic Rocks:  Moving Beyond binary and ternary diagrams systems: EOS Transactions AGU, 86(52) Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract IN21A-1169.
2004
Shervais, J.W., Kimbrough, D.L., Renne, P., Hanan, B.B., Murchey, B., Snow, C.A., Zoglman-Schuman, M.M., and Beaman, J., 2004, Multi-stage origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite, California: Implications for the life cycle of supra-subduction zone ophiolites: International Geology Review, v. 46, p. 289-315.

Snow, C.A., 2004, Implications of new geochemical and field data from the Peñon Blanco Arc, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California: Abstracts with programs, GSA, v. 36 no. 5, p512.
2003
Snow, C.A., and Shervais, J.W., 2003, Contrasting volcanic styles in the Cuesta Ridge ophiolite remnant; evidence for SSZ formation and ridge collision: Abstracts with programs, GSA, v. 35, no. 4, p79.
2002
Snow, C.A., Geology of the Cuesta Ridge Ophiolite Remnant near San Luis Obispo, California:  Evidence for the Tectonic Setting and Origin of the Coast Range Ophiolite, M.S. thesis, Utah State University, 2002, 150p.

Snow, C.A., and Shervais, J.W., 2002, Cuesta Ridge ophiolite; new field and geochemical evidence for origin and evolution of the Coast Range Ophiolite, California: Abstracts with programs, GSA, v. 34, no. 5, p23.

Snow, C.A., and Shervais, J.W., 2002, Late stage MORB volcanism at the Cuesta Ridge ophiolite remnant:  Evidence for ridge collision or back-arc basin spreading?: American Geophysical Union, EOS v. 83, V52A-1277.
2001
Shervais, J.W., and Snow, C.A., 2001, Plagioclase dissolution in the Lunar Magma Ocean:  A new model for the origin of Lunar Ferroan Anorthosites and the Rapid Growth of Highlands Crust, in Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIII, Abstract #1029, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston.