Melissa Evans is the lead petrophysicist with Battelle Carbon Services, the commercial arm of Battelle, the world’s largest independent nonprofit applied science and technology organization. She offers subsurface studies from Phase I evaluations to stratigraphic test wells for carbon storage potential. 

Prior to working for Battelle, she spent much of her career as an oil and gas reserves petrophysicist with DeGolyer & Mac Naughton where she was a tight and fractured rock specialist, primarily in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She also worked for Schlumberger where she developed a Geomechanics department in the Midland Basin, using acoustic theory to determine rock fracturing, stress regimes, and completion strategies. 

Melissa earned a B.S. in Geoscience from the University of Iowa in 1999.  She is a registered member of the Society for Professional Well Log Analysists, Association for Women in Science, and the AAPG. Melissa resides in Mason City. 

Research Interests: 

Application of acoustic and image log data for characterization of natural fracture networks in tight carbonates, international exploration