Dr. Katherine Bruner
Adjunct Faculty, Geology

Education

Specialty: Petroleum Geology

Ph.D. Geology, West Virginia University, 1991.

M.S. Geology, West Virginia University, 1984.

B.S. Geology, University of South Florida, 1978.

B.S. Human Resources and Education, Minor: Business, West Virginia University

Research

Stat Oil (The Eastern Group), Paleozoic reservoir rocks - West Virginia; field trip (1998).

Columbia Gas Transmission, Gas Storage Division, Charleston, WV.

Subsurface geology and petrophysics of Oriskany gas storage fields (1992 - present). Oriskany sedimentology field trip (1995).

Equitable Resources Exploration Company, Petrology, facies, and diagenesis of the Cypress Sandstone in the Illinois Basin (1991-1992).

Quaker State Corporation and Douglas Oil and Gas Exploration, 1992, Petrology and diagenesis of the Oriskany Sandstone and Oriskany field trip (1992).

West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey. Reservoir heterogeneities and facies analysis of the Big Injun Sandstone (1991-1992). Coalbed methane project (1994).

CNG Development Company and Eastern States Exploration Company, Petrology of Devonian Elk Sandstone reservoirs in Pennsylvania (1990-1991).

CNG Development Company, Oriskany field trip in the Valley and Ridge province. Outcrop to subsurface facies correlations (1990).

Recent Publications

Bruner, K.R., 1998, Hard rock directional drilling: technical challenges and needs for the Appalachian Basin: Ohio Oil and Gas Assoc. Bull., v. 48, no. 2, p. 16-17. Review of workshop conducted by PTTC, SPE, and IOGA-PA.

Bruner, K.R., Smosna, R.A., Martinez-Garcia, E., in review, Facies character and stratigraphic succession of Carboniferous turbidites in northwestern Spain

Smosna, R.A., and Bruner, K.R., in press, Depositional controls over porosity development in lithic sandstones in the Appalachian Basin: reducing exploration risk; Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull.

Smosna, R., and Bruner, K.R., 1997, Braid-delta facies interpreted from cores, Granny Creek Oil Field of West Virginia; Southeastern Geology, v. 37, p. 39-54.

Bruner, K.R., Oldham, A.V., Repine, T.E., Markowski, A.K., and Harper, J.A., 1995, Geological aspects of coalbed methane in the northern Appalachian coal basin, southwestern Pennsylvania and north-central West Virginia: Topical Report GRI -95/0221, Gas Research Institute, Chicago, IL, 72 p.

K.R. Bruner and R. Smosna, Porosity development in Devonian lithic sandstones of the Appalachian foreland basin: Northeastern Geol., v. 16, p. 202-214, 1994.

Patchen, D.G., Bruner, K.R., and Heald, M.T., 1992, Elk Poca field, U.S.A., Appalachian Basin, West Virginia: in Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Atlas of Oil and Gas Fields of the World, compiled by N.H. Foster and E.A. Beaumont, p. 207-230.

Bruner, K.R., and Smosna, R.A., 1989, The movement and stabilization of beach sand on transverse bars, Assateague Island: Jour. Coastal Research, v. 5, p. 593-601.

Bruner, K. R. 1988, Sedimentary facies of the Lower Devonian Oriskany sandstone, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in A walk through the Paleozoic in the Appalachian Basin: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Core Workshop Notes, Eastern Section, Charleston, WV., p. 38-47. 

Bruner, K.B., and Heald, M.T., 1982, Petrology and diagenesis of the Tuscarora Sandstone, West Virginia: Oil and Gas Journal, p. 249.

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