Professor
Alejandro Escalona Varela { "honorific-suffix": "Professor", "fn": "Alejandro Escalona Varela", "tel": "Telefon: 5183 2259", "email": "alejandro.escalona@uis.no" }

Interest in basin evolution of continental margins, tectonics, regional to reservoir scale analysis to define petroleum systems, sequence/seismic stratigraphy, all using Landmark and Petrel based workstations and interpretations of both 2D and 3D seismic data integrated with well and core data, GIS Arc/Info database management and visualization techniques.

1. Rossland, A., Escalona, A. and R. Rolfsen, 2013, Permian-recent tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Mandal High, Central graben, North Sea. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 97, p. 923-957.
2. Escalona, A. and Y. Wenxiu, 2013, Impact of low-angle subduction in petroleum systems along the Leeward Antilles island arc emergent gas trend, northern South America, First Break, v. 31, p. 55-65.
3. Escalona, A. and Y. Wenxiu, 2013, Subsidence controls on foreland basin development of northwest offshore Cuba, southeastern Gulf of Mexico. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 97, p. 1-25.
4. Bingham, L., Zurita-Milla, R. and A. Escalona, 2012, Geographic information system-based fuzzy-logic analysis for petroleum exploration with case study of northern South America. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 96, p. 2121-2142.
5. Bingham, L., and A. Escalona, 2011, Creating a unified geological database: the need for a global standard: First Break, v. 29, p. 41-48.
6. Kroehler, M., Mann, P., Escalona, A. and Christeson, G., 2011, Late Cretaceous-Miocene diachronous onset of backthrusting along the South Caribbean deformed belt and its importance for understanding processes of arc collision and crustal growth: Tectonics. doi:10.1029/2011TC002918
7. Yang, W. and A. Escalona, 2011, Basin modeling and source rock evaluation in the Guyana basin: First Break, V. 29 October, p. 40-69.
8. Escalona, A., Fjeldskaar, W. and Grunnaleite, I., 2011, Basin modelling along emergent island arcs and oblique convergent margins ? impact of petroleum systems, SE Caribbean case: First Break, v. 29 September V. 29 September, p. 77-87.
9. Yang, W. And Escalona, A., 2011, Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Guyana basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v.95, p. 1339-1368.
10. Escalona, A. and Mann, P., 2011, Tectonics, basin subsidence mechanisms, and paleogeography of the Caribbean-South American plate boundary zone: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 8-39.

• Caribbean Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons: This project is in collaboration with Dr. Paul Mann at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin. The main goal of the project is to compile all the available digital seismic and published data in a regional basis - particularly offshore Venezuela, Colombia and Trinidad - to create an integrated geologic synthesis of tectonosequences, depositional systems, major structures, petroleum geology, paleogeographic maps, and quantitative plate reconstructions for a better understanding of the hydrocarbon systems in the region.
• Lower Creataceous clastic wedges - an under-explored play in the Arctic (LoCRA): The main goal is to improve the basin configuration and fill of the Lower Cretaceous basins in the high Arctic as input to prediction of coarse grained siliciclastic wedges as plays. LoCrA is a consortium managed by UiS (Pi: Alejandro Escalona) and UNIS (Snorre Olauseen) in cooperation with other universities from USA, Denmark and Russian, and supported by 14 companies and the Norwegian petroleum Directorate.
  
• Characterization of fault zones using seismic data: The fundamental objective of this project is to evaluate to what extent 3D seismic data can be used to map fault envelopes and yield information about their internal structure. The project leader is Associate Professor Nestor Cardozo
  

2013 -         Professor in Petroleum Geology at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway. Head of the Petroleum Geosciences section

2007-2012  Associate professor in Petroleum Geology at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Stavanger, Norway. Head of the Petroleum Geosciences section and academic responsible for the Petroleum Geosciences Engineering bachelor and Master program

2007-2011  Researcher at the International research Institute of Stavanger

2004-2006     Postdoctoral researcher, Ins. for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin. Technical leader in the CBTH consortium

2000-2003     Teacher and research assistant, Ins. for Geophysics, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin

1999               Lecturer at the Department of Geology, Mines and Geophysics, Univ.

                        Central de Venezuela

1997-1999     Lecturer at the Department of Geodesy, Univ. del Zulia

1995- 1999    Seismic interpreter-production geoscientist, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.