Dale Fitz

2024 Distinguished Alumni

B.S. Chemistry '70

 Dale Fitz earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from OSU in 1970 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1975 under the mentorship of future Nobel Prize winner Dr. Rudolph Marcus.

From 1976-1977, Dale was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Plack Institut für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto from 1977-1978. He then became a visiting assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Houston, where he conducted research with Don Kouri on approximate quantum mechanical methods for studying scattering of small molecular systems.

Dale joined Exxon Production Research Company in 1981 and did research on nuclear logging tool response and interpreting logs run in shaly sands. He worked for Esso Production Malaysia in the mid ’90s doing formation evaluation field studies and cased-hole log interpretation. He later worked for ExxonMobil Exploration Company, where he was involved in running world record breaking production logs in extra-long-reach wells at Sakhalin, and also worked at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company for over four years.

Since his retirement in 2015, Dale has been contracted by Petroskills to redevelop and teach production logging courses and has also taught special advanced cased-hole nuclear logging courses for them. Dale has recently been doing contract production log interpretation work for several other companies as well.  
Dale’s most recent publication, “Evolution of Cased-hole Nuclear Surveillance Logging Through Time” was published in the July/August 2023 issue of “Petrophysics.”