Richard Nehring

President
Nehring Associates

Richard Nehring has been President of Nehring Associates since he founded the company in 1983. During this period, he designed the Significant Oil and Gas Fields of the United States Database and its subsequent expansions and directed the initial development and subsequent updates, upgrades, and expansions of the database. Since the initial release of the database in 1985, Mr. Nehring has written more than 20 papers and presentations using the database.

Since 1980, Mr. Nehring has served on numerous professional and scientific committees dealing with oil and gas resource and supply issues, including three National Petroleum Council task groups and four National Research Council Committees. He has been a member of AAPG's Committee on Resource Evaluation since its founding in 1993. Most recently he was Chairman of the AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on Understanding World Oil Resources in November, 2006.

Prior to founding Nehring Associates, Mr. Nehring was project director of fossil fuel supply issues for the Energy Policy Program of The RAND Corporation for ten years. His major studies during this decade covered giant oil fields and world oil resources; the discovery history and size distribution of U.S. oil and gas fields and their implications for ultimate resources; the heavy oil resources of the United States; and Mexico's petroleum and U.S. policy.

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