Heidi Leathers-Miller
Heidi is a petroleum engineer in the U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Program, providing estimated ultimate recoveries of oil and gas wells in resource assessments.
Heidi has been with the U.S. Geological Survey since 2014. She previously worked at the Office of Natural Resources Revenue from 2008 to 2014. Prior to that, she worked at a private oil and gas company. She received her MS in Mineral Economics from Colorado School of Mines in 2011 and her BS in Petroleum Engineering, also from Mines, in 2008.
Professional Experience
USGS from 2014 to the present
Office of Natural Resources Revenue from 2008 to 2014
Education and Certifications
MS in Mineral Economics from Colorado School of Mines
BS in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines
Science and Products
Estimated Ultimate Recoveries of Oil Wells in the Eagle Ford Group and Associated Cenomanian–Turonian Strata, U.S. Gulf Coast, Texas, 2018
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in postsalt reservoirs of the West-Central Coastal Province of Africa, 2022
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in presalt reservoirs of the West-Central Coastal Province of Africa, 2022
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean conventional resources of 12.1 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of gas in presalt reservoirs within the West-Central Coastal Province of Africa.
Assessment of undiscovered continuous oil and gas resources in Upper Cretaceous marine shales of the Raton Basin-Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico, 2022
Assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional oil and gas resources in the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation, U.S. Gulf Coast, 2022
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in the offshore Salt Basin area of Morocco, 2021
Assessment of coalbed gas resources in the Raton Basin-Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico, 2022
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the Bakken Formation of northwest Montana, 2022
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of the Barents Sea area, 2021
Assessment of continuous oil and gas resources in the Lower Saxony Basin of Germany, 2020
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of the Senegal Basin Province of northwest Africa, 2021
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in Mesozoic total petroleum systems of the Central European Basin system, 2019
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of the Volga-Ural Basin and Timan-Pechora Basin Provinces of Russia, 2020
Science and Products
Estimated Ultimate Recoveries of Oil Wells in the Eagle Ford Group and Associated Cenomanian–Turonian Strata, U.S. Gulf Coast, Texas, 2018
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in postsalt reservoirs of the West-Central Coastal Province of Africa, 2022
Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources in presalt reservoirs of the West-Central Coastal Province of Africa, 2022
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean conventional resources of 12.1 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of gas in presalt reservoirs within the West-Central Coastal Province of Africa.