Milly Wright

Milly Wright is co-founder and commercial director at RohmTek in Houston TX. Prior to co-founding RohmTek, Milly was Director of Operations for Chemostrat Inc., Over her 20+ year career Milly has specialized inorganic geochemistry and chemostratigraphic interpretations and correlation. Milly graduated from the University of Leicester with an honors degree in geology in 2000. She then went on to complete an MS in geology at the University of Houston in 2010, with research focused on chemostratigraphic applications to mud rocks in fluvio-deltaic depositional environments in the Ferron Sandstone, Utah. Milly has continued to publish research based around the applications of inorganic whole rock geochemical data to geosciences and to the oil industry and regularly presents papers at local and international conferences. In addition, Milly is an active member of the geological community, currently serving is Gulf Coast Section SEPM president and attending and resenting at numerous conferences annually.

Education & Employment

BSc Geology University of Leicester 2000
MS Geology University of Houston 2010

2007--2022 – Director of Operations and technical lead – Chemostrat Inc. – Houston
2022-present – Co-founder/Commercial Director – RohmTek, Houston

Journal (peer-reviewed) Publications*

James, S. Eldrett, Paul Dobsworth, Steven C Bergman, Milly Wright and Daniel Minisini (2017). Water-mass evolution in the Cretaceous interior seaway of North America and Equatorial Altlantic. Climate of the past. 13, 1-24.

Ellwood, B.B., Wang, W-H., Tomkin, J.H. Ratcliffe, K.T., El Hassani, A., Wright, A.M. (2013). Testing high resolution magnetic susceptibility and gamma radiation methods in the Cenomanian – Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) GSSP and near-by coeval section. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 378, 75-90.

Ratcliffe, K.T. Wright, A.M. and Schmidt, K. (2012). Application of inorganic whole rock geochemistry to shale resource plays an example from the Eagle Ford Shale Formation, Texas. Sedimentary Record, v.10, p. 4-9.

Ratcliffe, K.T., Wright, A.M., Montgomery, P., Palfrey, A., Vonk, A., Vermeulen, J. and Barrett, M. (2010). Application of chemostratigraphy to the Mungaroo Formation, the Gorgon Field, offshore Northwest Australia: APPEA Journal 2010 50th Anniversary Issue, p. 371-388.

Hildred, G.V., Ratcliffe, K.T., Wright, A.M., Zaitlin, B.A., Wray, D.S. (2010) Chemostratigraphic applications to low-accommodation fluvial incised-valley settings; an example from the Lower Mannville Formation of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 80, p. 1032-1045.

Wright, A.M., Ratcliffe, K.T., Zaitlin, B.A. and Wray, D.S. 2010a. The application of chemostratigraphic techniques to distinguish compound incised valleys in low-accommodation incised-valley systems in a foreland-basin setting: an example from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group and Basal Colorado Sandstone (Colorado Group), Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. In: Ratcliffe, K.T. and Zaitlin B.A. (eds) Application of Modern Stratigraphic Techniques: Theory and Case Histories SEPM SP PUB no 94.

Wright, A.M., Ratcliffe, K.T., Spain D. R., 2010b. Application of Inorganic Whole Rock Geochemistry to Shale Resource Plays. CURICP 10, 137946.

Ellwood, B.B., Tomkin, J.H., Ratcliffe, ., K.T., Wright A.M. and A.M. Kafafy (2008). Magnetic Susceptibility and Geochemistry for the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary GSSP with Correlation to Time Equivalent Core. Paleo3, v. 251, p.1-22.

Ratcliffe, K.T., Wright, A.M. Hallsworth, C., Morton, A., Zaitlin, B.A., Potocki, D. and Wray. D.S. (2004). Alternative correlation techniques in the petroleum industry: an example from the (Lower Cretaceous) Basal Quartz, Southern Alberta. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologist, v. 88, p. 1419-1432.

Ratcliffe, K. T., Wright, A.M., Zaitlin, B.A. and Wray, D.S. (2002). Chemostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Basal Quartz in Southern Alberta. Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, v.41, p. 7-11.