Kevin T Biddle, Ph.D. Summary

Chairman of the Board, The I2M Corporation

Houston, Texas USA
Email: kevin.biddle@rice.edu

Education

University of California at Santa Cruz, 1969 – 1973
Crown College
Bachelor of Science in Earth Sciences
Awarded Departmental Honors in Earth Sciences

Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1974 – 1979
Master of Arts in Geology, 1976
Ph.D. in Geology, 1979
Doherty Fellow

Activities & Honors

• Member – Board of Earth Sciences Advisory Committee, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2016 – 2022
• Member – Dean’s Advisory Board, Keith Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University, 2016 – 2022
• Certified Texas Master Naturalist, Coastal Prairie Chapter, 2021
• Member – Dean’s Advisory Board, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Houston, 2006 – 2011
• Member – National Research Council Committee on the Preservation of Geoscience Data and Collections, 2000 – 2002
• Member – Development Committee, Geological Society of America Foundation, 1999 – 2001
• 1998 Distinguished Service Award from The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Elected Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1996
• Member – Geological Society of America Publications Committee, 1996 – 1999
• Co-Chairman – International Symposium on Oil/Gas Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering, Chengdu, China, August 1995
• Member – US National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences Panel Geodynamics of Sedimentary Basins, 1995
• Member – US National Research Council Geodynamics Committee, 1994 – 1996
• 1994 Wallace Pratt Award – from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for the best paper in the 1992 AAPG Bulletin
• Elected editor of AAPG Bulletin, 1993 – 1995, 1995 – 1997 (also member of AAPG Executive Committee, 1993-1997)
• 1993 Robert H. Dott Sr. Memorial Award from The American Association of Petroleum Geologists for the best Special Publication in 1991
• Member – Advisory Board, Petroleum Research Fund, 1992-1995
• Member – Journal Editorial Board, Geology (1983 -1991), Basin Research (1991 – 1997), Marine and Petroleum Geology (1992 – 1993)
• Representative-at-large, Joint Technical Program Committee, Geological Society of America, 1991-1993
• Editor, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Active-Margin Basins volume, Petroleum Basins series, AAPG Memoir 52, 1991
• Guest editor (with Dr. W. Schlager), The record of sea-level fluctuation, special issue of Sedimentary Geology, 1991
• AAPG distinguished lecturer, 1990, “Basin evolution along an active transform margin – the Los Angeles Basin”
• Co-convener (with W. Schlager), symposium on the record of sea-level fluctuations, 28th International Geological Congress, Washington D.C., July 1989
• Member, AAPG program subcommittee, 1988 – 1990 Offshore Technology Conference, co-chairman 1989, 1990
• Certified petroleum geologist #3446 – AAPG Division of Professional Affairs (inactive)
• Associate editor, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 1986 -1994
• Member, US National Science Foundation ad-hoc review group of Deep Observation and Sampling of the Earth’s Crust, Inc. (DOSECC, Inc.), 1985
• Alumnus of the year, 1985, Board of Earth Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz
• Editor (with Dr. N. Christie-Blick), SEPM Special Publication 37 – Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation, 1985
• Convener, 1984 SEPM Research Symposium on strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation
• Member, Research Committee, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 1983-1985
• Houston Geological Society Outstanding Student Award, 1978
• Awarded departmental honors in Earth Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1973

Career Summary

Adjunct Professor, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environment, and Planetary Sciences
2014 – 2023
Teaching classes in concepts and techniques for managing risk and uncertainty in geoscience predictions and basic petroleum geoscience. Working with and advising students interested in industry careers.

Faculty Scholar, Center for Energy Studies, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, 2020
One-year appointment. Research on energy minerals.

Exploration Director, ExxonMobil International Ltd.
2011 – 2014
Responsible for exploration programs in Europe, Russia, and the Caspian region. Member of the UK leadership council. Located in London with a staff of 105 and a budget of $560 M.

Vice President, New Opportunities, ExxonMobil Exploration Company
2010 – 2011
Responsible for identification and development of new exploration opportunities worldwide. Member Compensation and Executive Development Committee. Staff of 280 and a budget of $250 M.

Director and Vice President, ExxonMobil Development Company
2008 – 2010
Responsible for subsurface geoscience in field development projects worldwide. Vice Chairman – Reserves Committee. Staff of 180 and a budget of $50 M.

Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa, ExxonMobil Exploration Company
2004 – 2008
Responsible for the design, management, and execution of the company’s exploration program in Africa. Staff of 120 and a budget of over $500 M.

Vice President, Asia/Pacific Region, ExxonMobil Exploration Company
2003 – 2004
Responsible for the design, management, and execution of the company’s exploration program in the Asia/Pacific region. Staff of 60 and a budget of $80 M.

Vice President, South America, ExxonMobil Exploration Company
2002 – 2003
Responsible for the company’s exploration program in South America. Staff of 40 and a budget of $120 M.

Upstream Exploration Advisor, ExxonMobil Corporation
2000 – 2002
Advisor to the Upstream Director and Corporate Senior Vice President at ExxonMobil corporate headquarters in Irving, TX. Key interface between corporate management and upstream operating companies. Duties as assigned.

Research Geologist to Ventures/Operations Manager
1978 – 2000
Various positions of increasing responsibility with Exxon in research, exploration, supervision, and management, worldwide.

Physical Science Technician, United States Geological Survey
1973 – 1974

Selected Publications:

• Campbell, M. D., H. M Wise, B. Handley, and K. T. Biddle, 2025, “In-Situ Uranium Recovery in Texas and Beyond: Myth vs, Fact,” in NAPE Magazine, Summer Issue, (PDF version).
• Campbell, M. D., H. M Wise, B. Handley, and K. T. Biddle, 2025, “Dispelling Myths: The Safety, Economics, and Future of In-Situ Uranium Recovery in Texas and Beyond,” I2M Corporation White Paper, March (here).
• Campbell, M. D., Biddle, K. T., Wielchowsky, C. C., Gregory, R. T., Lee, R. E., Conca, J. L.. and M. David Campbell, 2021, A new meteor crater, old uranium, thorium & REE mineralization, and a new roll-front uranium district … All in Eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska?, Extended Abstract (here) for AAPG MAGE 2021 Virtual Conference, September 28, 2021 – 3:40 PM Track 9, and PDF of Presentation (here).
• Chen, C., Lee, C-T. A., Tang, M., Biddle, K., and Sun, W., 2020, Lithium systematics in global arc magmas and implications for exploration: Nature Communications, https:/doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19106-z, 8 p.
• Biddle, K. T., Schlager, W., Rudolph, K. W., and Bush, T. L., 1991, Seismic model of a progradational carbonate platform, Picco di Vallandro, Dolomite Alps, northern Italy: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76, p. 14-30.
• Uliana, M. A., Biddle, K. T., Cerdan, J., 1989, Mesozoic extension and the formation of Argentine sedimentary basins, in Tankard, A. J., and Balkwill, H. R. (eds.), Extensional tectonics and stratigraphy of the North Atlantic margins: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 46, p. 599-614.
• Christie-Blick, N., and Biddle, K. T., 1985, Deformation and basin formation along strike-slip faults, in Biddle, K. T. and Christie-Blick, N. (eds.), Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 37, p. 1-34.
• Biddle, K. T., 1984, Triassic sea level and the Ladinian-Carnian Stage boundary: Nature, v. 308, n. 5960, p.631-633.
• Campbell, M. D. and Biddle, K. T., 1977, Frontier uranium exploration in the South-Central U.S., Chapter 1: Frontier Areas and Exploration Techniques, in Geology of Alternate Energy Resources: Houston Geological Society, pp. 3-44. (here).
• Rudolph, K., Paez, R., and Biddle, K., in prep, Incorporating geoscience uncertainty into economic evaluations: concepts and examples.