Adjunct Professor
Peter McCabe

Biography

Research interests include:

• unconventional resources: shale gas/oil, tight gas and coal seam gas,
• architecture of sandstone reservoirs for conventional oil and gas,
• sequence stratigraphy of nonmarine strata,
• evolution of major deltaic complexes,
• depositional environments of coal and coal-bearing strata,
• assessment of fossil fuel resources.

Career History

• 2012 - Present:   Professor, Queensland University of Technology
• 2007 - 2012:  Theme Leader, Petroleum and Geothermal Portfolio, CSIRO
• 1987 - 2007:  Research Geologist, US Geological Survey
• 1983 - 1987:  Manager of Coal Geology  and Basin Analysis Sections, Alberta Research Council
• 1980 - 1983:  Research Geologist, Exxon Production Research Co
• 1977 - 1980:  Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• 1975 - 1977:  Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University

Honours and Awards

• 2008 Michel Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer, Geological Society of America
• 2007 – 2008 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Distinguished Lecturer for the Asia Pacific Region (32 lectures and short courses given in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, Thailand, China, S. Korea, and Japan)
• 2000 Paper “Energy resources – Cornucopia or Empty Barrel” from AAPG Bulletin 82, p. 2110- 2134, selected for reprint in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics.
• 1999 Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, for Best Paper in 1997 AAPG Bulletin
• 1996 Certificate of Merit, EMD Division of American Association of Petroleum Geologists  

Selected Publications

McCabe, P.J., 2012, Oil and natural gas: global resources, in Meyers, R.A., ed., Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology: Springer Science & Business Media, 13 pp.

Ryder, R.T., Qiang, J., McCabe, P.J., Nuccio, V.F., and Persits, F., 2012, Shahejie-Shahejie/Guantao/Wumishan and Carboniferous/Permian Coal-Paleozoic total petroleum systems in the Bohaiwan Basin, China: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5010, 89 p.

Gautier, D., McCabe, P.J., Ogden, J., and Demayo, T.N., 2010, Resources, reserves, and consumption of energy: in Graedl, T., and Van der Voet, E., Strüngmann Forum Report, Linkages of Sustainability, MIT Press, p. 323-340.

McCabe, P.J., Ryder, R.T., and Bishop, M.G., 2000, in U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Assessment Team, 2000, U.S. Geological Survey World Petroleum Assessment 2000 – Descriptions and results: USGS Digital Data Series DDS-60.

McCabe, P.J., 1998, Energy resources - Cornucopia or empty barrel?:  American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 82, p. 2110-2134.

Robinson, J.W., and McCabe, P.J., 1997, Sandstone-body and shale-body dimensions in a braided fluvial system: Salt Wash Sandstone Member (Morrison Formation), Garfield County, Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 81, p. 1267-1291.

Shanley, K.W., and McCabe, P.J., 1994, Perspectives on the sequence stratigraphy of continental strata: AAPG Bulletin, v. 78, p. 544-568.

McCabe, P.J., and Shanley, K.W., 1992, Organic control on shoreface stacking patterns: Bogged down in the mire: Geology, v. 20, p. 741-744.

McCabe, P.J., and Parrish, J.T., eds., 1992, Controls on the distribution and quality of Cretaceous coals: Geological Society of America Special Paper 267, 407 p. McCabe, P.J., 1984, Depositional environments of coal and coal-bearing strata, in Rahmani, R.A., and Flores, R.M., eds., Sedimentology of coal and coal-bearing strata:  International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 7, p. 13-42.