Matt Boyce PhD earned a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Arkansas in Geology. While earning his degree's Matt was fortunate enough to observe and learn from the discovery of the second unconventional at SEECO in the early 2000’s from Industry pioneer's and his advisor Dr. Walter Manger. Matt ...
Matt Boyce PhD earned a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Arkansas in Geology. While earning his degree's Matt was fortunate enough to observe and learn from the discovery of the second unconventional at SEECO in the early 2000’s from Industry pioneer's and his advisor Dr. Walter Manger.
Matt decided after the completion of his Master’s degree to pursue a PhD at West Virginia University where he studied under Dr. Tim Carr. While there he worked with Dominion E&P (now CNX) on the initial exploration of the Marcellus in West Virginia. With the contributions from Dominion E&P as well as EQT Matt produced one the first and most widely used documents on the petrophysics and geology of the Marcellus for the area.
After his PhD, Matt was hired by ExxonMobil (XOM) as a part of their petrophysics core group. At XOM, Matt worked several plays on the forefront of the global expansion of unconventionals. He evaluated and operated wells in the following basins in the U.S: Permian, Paradox, Appalachia, Gulf Coast, Unita, Piceance, DJ , L.A., Anadarko, Michigan, Williston, and Sacramento basin’s. He was further tasked with evaluating and operating in multiple international plays such as Vaca Muerta, La Luna, Bowland, Dadas, McCarther Basin, Cooper Basin, Dnieper-Donets basin, Montney, Posidonia, and Baltic basin. He was fortunate enough to work on conventional assets in GOM, offshore California, and the offshore Vietnam Discovery.
In 2013, Matt moved to SWN where he used his dual skill sets in Petrophysics and Geology. His worked continued on finding new opportunities in the Permian, Arkoma, Paradox, Anadarko, Sand Wash and Appalachian basins. While at SWN Matt co-discovered a new patent (US 3005657A1) that greatly enhanced determining unconventional porosity using core NMR. This paper was later followed by a paper through SPE as paper 194484. This paper illustrated proof that unconventionals had 2-3X more in place than prior measured in other core analysis.
In 2018, Matt pursued a new venture that was EPOCH Consulting LLC. He applies his extensive background in petrophysics and geology to unconventional and conventional problems across industry. His clients enjoy the synergy that he applies between geology and petrophysics as well as how to incorporate it to other facets of their business. In 2023, Matt began his next venture as CEO of Organic E&P.
