About David Tabet

Treasurer

David Tabet, P.G.

Geological Survey of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

David E. Tabet, P.G. serves as the EMD Treasurer (2011-2013). He has been a member of the AAPG since 1982, and a member of the Utah Geological Association since 1992, which he served as Treasurer in 1994 and President in 2006.

Tabet is the Manager of the Energy and Minerals Program for the Utah Geological Survey, which he joined in 1992, and conducts research on coal and coalbed gas deposits. Previously, he worked as a coal geologist for the ARCO Coal Company, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, and for clients as a consultant. His principal publications are as follows:

• Tabet, D.E., Frost, S.J. and Kottlowski, F.E., 1977, Cost to mine coal in New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Open-File Report 78.
• Tabet, D.E., 1977, Reclamation of coal surface-mined lands in New Mexico: in New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources 50th Annual Report, 1976-77, pp. 81-85.
• Tabet, D.E. and Frost, S.J., 1978, Coal fields and mines of New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Resource Map 10, map and text.
• Tabet, D.E. and Frost, S.J., 1978, Environmental factors of Menefee coals, Torreon Wash area, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Open-File Report 102.
• Tabet, D.E., 1979, Coal geology of the Jornada del Muerto, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Circular 168.
• Tabet, D.E. and Frost, S.J., 1979, Coal geology of the Torreon Wash area, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Geologic Map 49, text and map (1:24,000).
• Tabet, D.E., 1979, Summary of the geology of the Engle coal field: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Open-File Report 115.
• Tabet, D.E., 1981, Geology and coal resources of the Pinehaven Quadrangle: New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Open-File Report 154, text and map (1:24,000).
• Tabet, D.E., Frost, S.J., and Kottlowski, F.E., 1985, Depositional environments of Menefee Formation coal, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: in Neuvieme Congres International De Stratigraphie et De Geologie Du Carbonifiere, May 1979, Compte Rendu, volume 4, p. 321-378.
• Tabet, D.E. 1991, A study of the basal Mesaverde sandstone as a guide for coalbed methane exploration, Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming: in Manydeeds, S.A., editor, Coal-bed Methane Potential of the Wind River Indian Reservation: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Energy and Mineral Resources, December 1991, pp. 10-32.
• Tabet, D.E, Hucka, B.P., and Sommer, S.N., 1995, The resinite resources of selected coal seams of the Book Cliffs and Wasatch Plateau coal fields of central Utah: Utah Geological Survey Report of Investigations 225, 19 p.
• Tabet, D.E, Hucka, B.P., and Sommer, S.N., 1995, Maps of total Ferron coal, depth to the top, and vitrinite reflectance for the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale, central Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 329, 3 plates, 1:250,000.
• Gloyn, R.W., Morgan, C.D., Tabet, D.E., Blackett, R.E., Tripp, B.T., and Lowe, M.V., 1995, Mineral, energy, and ground-water resources of San Juan County, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Special Study 86, 23. p., 15 plates, (1:500,000).
• Hucka, B.P., Sommer, S.N., and Tabet, D.E., 1997, Petrographic and physical characteristics of Utah coals: Utah Geological Survey Circular 94, 15 p., 10 appendices, 1 diskette.
• Tabet, D.E, and Quick, J.C., 1999, Extension of the Hams Fork Coal Region, Summit County, Utah - Potential for Coalbed Gas, in, Spangler, L.E., and Allen, C.J., editors, Geology of northern Utah and vicinity: Utah Geological Association Guidebook 27, p. 257-266.
• Tabet, D.E., Quick, J.C., Hucka, B.P., and Hanson, J.A., 1999, The available coal resources for nine 7.5 minute quadrangles in the northern Wasatch Plateau coalfield, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Circular 100, 46 p.
• Tabet, D E., 2000, Coal resources of the Henry Mountains coalfield, Chapter R, in Kirschbaum, M.A., Roberts, L.N.R., and Biewick, L.R.H., Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau – Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625-B, 2 CD-ROM, p R1-R25.
• Montgomery, S.L., Tabet, D.E., and Barker, C.E., 2001, Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone – Major coalbed methane play in central Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 85, v. 85, no. 2, p. 199-219.
• Gloyn, Robert W., Tabet, D.E., Tripp, B.T., Bishop, C.E., Morgan, C.D., Gwynn, J.W., and Blackett, R.E., 2003. Energy, mineral, and ground-water resources of Carbon and Emery counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Bulletin 132, 162 p., 14 plates.
• Quick, J.C., Tabet, D.E., Hucka, B.P., and Wakefield, S.I., 2004, The available coal resources for eight 7.5-minute quadrangle in southern Emery coalfield, Emery and Sevier counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Special Study 112, 37 p.
• Quick, J. C., Tabet, D.E., Hucka, B.P., and Wakefield, S.I., 2005 The available coal resource for nine 7.5-minute quadrangles in the southern Wasatch Plateau coalfield, Emery, Sanpete, and Sevier counties, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Special Study 114, 1 CD-ROM.
• Bon, R.L., Quick, J.C., Hucka, B.P., Wakefield, S.I, and Tabet, D.E., 2006, The available coal resource for eight 7.5-minute quadrangles in the Alton Coalfield, Kane County, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Special Study 118, 1 CD-ROM.
• Vanden Berg, M.D., Dyni, J.R., and Tabet, D.E., 2006, Utah oil shale database: Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 469, 2 CD-ROM.
• Tabet, D.E., Quick, J.C., and Hucka, B.P., 2008, Distribution, amount, and maturity of coal resources of most of the Sego coalfield, Utah, in Longman, M.W., and Morgan, C.D., editors, Hydrocarbon systems and Production in the Uinta Basin, Utah: Utah Geological Association and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Guidebook 37, p. 339-361.
• Tabet, D.E., Hucka, B.P., Quick, J.C., and Wakefield, S.I., 2009, Available coal resource for the Salina Canyon and southwestern part of the Wasatch Plateau coal fields, Sevier County, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Special Study 129, 1 CD-ROM.

He holds B.S.(1972) and M.S.(1974) degrees in geology from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.B.A.(1989) from the University of Colorado, Denver.