Michael Sweet

Mike is a clastic sedimentologist interested in how sedimentary architecture affects subsurface fluid flow. Over the last 30 years Mike has done field work and taught numerous field courses in the Book Cliffs of Utah for ExxonMobil, BP and GSA. He has published extensively on clastic sedimentology and reservoir connectivity. Mike worked for BP as a sedimentologist doing clastic reservoir description projects in the North Sea, North Slope, Gulf of Mexico and Colombia. He later spent 18 years working as a stratigrapher for the ExxonMobil starting in their research lab and then working as the geoscience lead for Angola Production and Geoscience advisor for the Caribbean Basin Exploration Team. He was Editor of the AAPG Bulletin from 2013-2016.