Bio: 

Richard Denne is the founding chairholder of the Hunter Enis Endowed Chair in Petroleum Geology at Texas Christian University and the former Director of the TCU Energy Institute.  Richard worked as a geologist in the oil and gas industry for over 25 years, working with integrated teams in the exploration and production of deep-water basins across the globe, including the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Brazil, Trinidad, and the North Sea. He has also been heavily involved in unconventional mudstone plays, particularly the Haynesville and Eagle Ford of Texas.  Richard worked at Exxon, Applied Biostratigraphix, and Marathon Oil, where he was the corporate Biostratigraphy Subject Matter Expert with oversight of the application and integration of biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy in unconventional shale, deep-water, and carbonate plays.  His specialty is using biostratigraphy and geochemistry to resolve the sequence stratigraphy, paleoenvironment, and paleoceanography of hydrocarbon reservoirs and source-rocks, with expertise in the…