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Dr. Paul LaPointe, Associate
B.A., Magna Cum Laude in Geology, Amherst College, 1974.
M.S., Geology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976.
Ph.D., Mining Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980.
Since 1992, Dr. La Pointe has been responsible for the management and technical
direction of reservoir engineering and characterization projects for domestic
and international petroleum companies. Projects have included geological analysis,
reservoir characterization and flow simulation for fractured reservoirs in Europe,
Canada and the United States. Objectives of these simulations include gas delivery,
ultimate field recovery, field design and production strategies. Dr. La Pointe
has served as an invited industry expert to review methodology for the U.S.
Geological Survey’s congressionally- mandated National Petroleum Resource
Assessment. In addition, he has performed technical analyses for a variety of
hazardous waste-related projects in the U.S. and abroad in which flow through
rock fracture systems in a prominent concern. He is a co- teacher of workshops
and short courses in fractal geometry and geostatistics for the American Association
of Petroleum Geologist, the Geological Society of America, the International
Society for Rock Mechanics and for private companies in the petroleum and nuclear
waste industries, and has taught Golder Associates’ workshops on fractured
rock mass characterization and flow modeling to major integrate oil and gas
companies at their facilities in North America and Europe. He has been an author
or co-author of papers and monographs in reservoir geology and engineering,
and session organizer and chairman for national technical society meetings in
the petroleum industry.
Selected Publications
La Pointe, P. R. (1997). Flow compartmentalization and effective permeability
in 3D fractal fracture networks. Int. J. Rock Mech and Min Sci. Vol. 34, No.
3-4.
La Pointe, P. R., P. C. Wallmann and S. Follin (1996). Continuum modeling
of rock masses: Is it useful? in proceedings EUROCK `96, Sept. 2-5, 1996, Turino,
Italy. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 343-350.
Barton, C. C. and P. R. La Pointe (1995). Fractals in Petroleum Geology
and Earth Processes. ISBN 0-306-44868-8, Plenum Press, NY, 317 p.
Barton, C. C. and P. R. La Pointe (1995). Fractals in the Earth Sciences.
ISBN 0-306-44865-3, Plenum Press, NY, 265 p.
Withjack, M. O., Q. T. Islam and P. R. La Pointe (1995). Normal faults
and their hanging-wall deformation: An experimental study. Bull. American Assoc.
Petrol. Geol., v. 79, no. 1, 1-18.
La Pointe, P. R. (1993). Pattern Analysis and Simulation of Joint Patterns
for Rock Engineering. Chapter 10, Comprehensive Rock Engineering, J. A. Hudson,
ed., Pergamon Press, Oxford.
La Pointe, P. R., P. C. Wallmann and W. S. Dershowitz (1993). Stochastic
estimation of fracture size from simulated sampling. Int. Jour. Rock Mech.,
Min. Sci. and Geomech. Abstr. v. 30, 1611-1617.
La Pointe, P. R. and J. A. Hudson (1985). Characterization and Interpretation
of Rock Mass Joint Patterns. Special Paper 199, Geological Society of America
Book Series.
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