Chapter 5

Formation Fluid Pressure and Its Application

by
Edward A. Beaumont and Forrest Fiedler

Edward A. Beaumont

Edward A. (Ted) Beaumont is an independent petroleum geologist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He holds a BS in geology from the University of New Mexico and an MS in geology from the University of Kansas. Currently, he is generating drilling prospects in Texas, Oklahoma, and the Rocky Mountains. His previous professional experience was as a sedimentologist in basin analysis with Cities Service Oil Company and as Science Director for AAPG. Ted is coeditor of the Treatise of Petroleum Geology. He has lectured on creative exploration techniques in the U.S., China, and Australia and has received the Distinguished Service Award and Award of Special Recognition from AAPG.

Forrest Fiedler

Forrest Fiedler earned his Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in geology from Lehigh University in 1957 and his Master of Science in geology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1967. He worked as a mine geologist in Canada and assistant state highway geologist in Virginia before moving to the oil industry. Fiedler's petroleum experience was entirely with Amoco (and its predecessors). Throughout his career, he worked on projects throughout the world in positions ranging from geologist and formation evaluator to research supervisor and regional reservoir engineering supervisor. He retired in 1989 as an engineering associate.