Frank D. Mango, PhD
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Frank Mango received his Ph.D. in 1963 in organic chemistry at Stanford University, and joined Shell Oil Company that year working in metal catalysis, petroleum chemistry and geochemistry. He published a theoretical paper in 1992 (Transition metal catalysis in the generation of petroleum and natural gas) challenging the wide-spread belief that thermal cracking was the source of natural gas. It postulated transition metal catalysis as the source of natural gas. The paper was to generate intense controversy and mark a turning point in his career. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University in 1991, and Research Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering shortly thereafter. He continued research over the next 10 years with consecutive DOE grants (Transition Metal Catalysis in the Generation of Oil and Natural Gas).
Dr. Mango has 40 publications and 9 patents in catalysis and geochemistry, one awarded Best Paper, 1990, by the Geochemical Society, Organic Geochemistry. His presentation “Catalytic Gas in Deltaic Basins” at the AAPG Convention in Long Beach (April, 07) received the “Top 10” Oral Presentations Award. He is currently founder and CEO of Petroleum Habitats, developing new technology associated with natural catalysis in shales and coals, and related to the production of Alpha Gas (US Patents 7,153,688, 7,435,597; US Provisional Patent Application No. 60/757,168 Pending).
Selected Publications by Dr. Mango:
Mango F. D. (1987) An invariance in the isoheptanes of petroleum. Science 237, 514-517.
Mango F. D. (1991) The stability of hydrocarbons under the time-temperature conditions of petroleum genesis. Nature 352, 146-148.
Mango F. D. (1992) Transition metal catalysis in the generation of petroleum and natural gas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 56, 553-555.
Mango F. D., Hightower, J. W., and James, A. T. (1994) Role of transition-metal catalysis in the formation of natural gas. Nature, 368, 536-538.
Mango F. D. (1996) Transition metal catalysis in the generation of natural gas. Organic Geochemistry 24, 977-984.
Mango F. D., and Hightower (1997) The catalytic decomposition of petroleum into natural gas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 24, 5347-5350.
Mango, F. D., (2000) The origin of light hydrocarbons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 1265-1277.
Mango F. D. (2001) Methane concentrations in natural gas: the genetic implications. Organic Geochemistry 32, 1283-1287.
Mango F. D., and Jarvie D.(2006) Catalytic gas in marine shales. AAPG International Conference, Nov., 2006, Perth, Australia, Abstract 106733.
Mango F. D., Jarvie D. (2007) Catalytic gas in deltaic basins. AAPG Conference, April, 2007, Long Beach, CA, Abstract 109548.
Mango F. D., Jarvie D., and Garcia, S. (2008) Low temperature gas generation in marine shales. April, 2008, San Antonio, TX, Abstract 407444.
Mango F. D., and Jarvie D. (2009) Low-temperature gas from marine shales. Geochemical Transactions, 10:3.
Mango F.D., Jarvie D. and Herriman E. (2009) Natural gas at thermodynamic equilibrium Implications for the origin of natural gas. Geochemical Transactions, 10:6.
Mango F.D. and Jarvie D.M. (2009) Low-temperature gas from marine shales: wet gas to dry gas over experimental time. Geochemical Transactions, 10:10.
Mango F.D. and Jarvie D.M. (2010) Metathesis in the generation of low-temperature gas in marine shales. Geochemical Transactions, 11:1.
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