MEET THE INSTRUCTORS
PETROSKILLS INSTRUCTORS
Mr. Kadir Abdul
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Mr. Ian Allahar
He has provided professional technical training to engineers and supervisors involved in the oil and gas business for more than 7 years. His experiences in the oilfield, which includes rig operations, product engineering and managing sales and operational support on a regional level, has allowed him to attain a wide variety of skill sets from which he can draw upon. During his career he has developed and managed several high profile off-shore operational projects; as well as, accelerated technical training programs. He has published and presented papers at SPE conferences and holds a patent for a down hole drilling tool. Academically, he has attained a BSc. in Geology & Chemistry from the University of Toronto, an MSc. in Petroleum Engineering (2003) from the University of the West Indies and most recently a Master's in Business Administration (2009) form the Henley School of Management. |
Ralph Allen
He has structured his career around working in a wide variety of play types and areas. This adaptability to change has been a key element in continued employment, as the upstream industry is quite volatile in areas such as pricing, regulatory and industry focus. In addition, most startup junior oils have a 2 to 3 year life cycle built into their exit strategy or Get to a 1000 Bopd in 1000 days. The Shale Resource plays that this class will teach is a game changing evolution of the upstream industry, and he is honored to be involved in teaching aspects of it. His Career focus has been on plays with a significant impact, ranging from conventional oil and gas to unconventional tight siltstone/shale plays. He is experienced in Acquisitions and Divestitures and has developed sophisticated proprietary software to evaluate same. He is also involved in applications for process patents in Heavy Oil with regard to reduction of tailings ponds in Tar Sand Processing. He received a B.Sc. (Hon) from Dalhousie University in Halifax N.S and a post graduate diploma from the University of Saskatchewan both in Geology. Mr. Allen also practiced his diplomatic and conflict resolution skills as a Little League Umpire. |
Dr. Rosalind Archer
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Mr. Andrew Arkinstall
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Mr. Stephen Walter Asbury
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Dr. Frank Ashford
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Mr. Stanley L. Atnipp
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Dr. JJ Azar
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Jonathan Backhouse
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Dr. Asnul Bahar
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Mr. James Baldwin
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Mr. Richard Dean Ball
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Dr. Omar Barkat
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Mr. Garry Barnes
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Mr. Michael Barnes
He is a registered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was awarded the Wainwright Prize by the RICS for summa cum laude on professional and technical examinations. He also served as Chairman of the Americas Petroleum Survey Group (APSG), and in 2009, was presented with a Distinguished Service Award by the APSG for his 10 years of outstanding service to the organization. He attended the University of East London, completing Geodesy, Land Law and Geographic Information Systems Courses. In addition, he was educated at the UK School of Military Survey, where he graduated the Advanced Surveying and Mapping Course and was awarded a Technical Diploma. He also completed the Military Engineering Course at UK Royal Engineers, was qualified as Combat Engineer and was awarded Green Beret by the Royal Marines in 1976. |
Mr. Paul M. Barry
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Mr. Peter Bartok
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Jim Beasley
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Mr. Michael R. Berry
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Dr. Robert C. Bever
From 1997 to 2007 he headed the Economic Evaluation group in Saudi Aramcos Corporate Planning Department. Since then he has been an instructor with PetroSkills in the business and economics aspects of the petroleum industry. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Sciences from Purdue University, an M.S. in Mathematics from Northeastern University and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Krannert School at Purdue University. |
Mr. Chris F. Bird
Within BP's Human Resources Learning and Organisational Development function, he spent 6 years developing an understanding of how learning occurs in terms of the interplay of people, roles, systems and processes. He actively worked on the development and delivery of L&OD tools and resources and enrolled others in their value and use. He has recognized skills in the areas of: performance management, business awareness, strategic thinking, innovation, people development, engagement and enrolment, operational excellence, networking and partnering. He received a B.S. (Honors) in geology and geophysics from Liverpool University. |
Mr. Gary Blackburn
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Mr. James Bobo
Bobo is actively involved in society-level efforts related to continuing education, licensure and professional development, along with the technical advisory boards for several universities. He earned his BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa. |
Robert Bombardieri
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Mr. Mark Bothamley
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Mr. John C. Bourdon
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Mr. Justin Bourgeois
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Mr. Robert E. Boyd
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Dr. Steven E. Boyer
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Mr. J. Ford Brett
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Luis Javier Brito-Pino
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Mr. Larry K. Britt
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Mr. Joseph (Jos) Buntinx
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Dr. John Burrell
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Mr. Jim D. Cain
For the 6 years following the formation of Cain & Barnes, L.P., he has been key to a number of industry initiatives, including Project Management for the multi-year, thirteen E&P company Joint Industry Project, and many other projects holding focus on various aspects of Geospatial Data Management and/or related Market Assessments for various companies. Since 1995, he has been a key member of the Geodesy Subcommittee of the Geomatics Committee, Oil and Gas Producers. In 2008, he was honored by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers along with Roger Lott and Roel Nicolai in recognition for their dedicated work on the creation, development and public release of the European Petroleum Survey Group database. He has served as Chairman of the Americas Petroleum Survey Group, he continues as a member of the Strategic & Technical Advisory Committee and was presented with a Meritorious Service Award for his long time service to the organization. He also received ExxonMobil's Outstanding Instructor award for his geodetic training for them in 2008. He received an M.S. in Physical Oceanography and a B.S. in Meteorology from Texas A&M University. |
Mr. Jerry Calvert
He served on API committee 10 (presently sub-committee 10) on Well cements since 1967 and was chairperson form 1988 to 1990. He is presently active on API Sub Committee 10 Well Cements and ISO Work Group 2 on Well Cements. He is a 35-year plus member of SPE and authored or co-authored over 20 SPE papers. He also served on the JPT editorial committee. He is presently serving on a joint API/MMS committee to write a series of documents to cover cementing practices in the Gulf of Mexico. He received a B. S. in Chemistry from Northeastern State University at Tahlequah, OK. |
Mr. John M. Campbell Specialist
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Mr. Richard S. Carden
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Mr. Paul Carmody
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Mr. Keith C. Carr
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Stephen Carr
Stephen has extensive experience in data management, geological and geophysical workflow development, training, application support and consultancy in the oil and gas industry. As a provider of first level support and user community skills development, Stephen has worked in the design, planning, implementation, configuration, population and testing of petrotechnical applications and data management environments for a wide range of oil and gas companies. He is an acknowledged expert on the development and delivery of workflows and education based on his understanding and experiences working directly with a variety of worldwide teams. Stephen leads Venture Information Managements skills development Academy, working with the Director of Consultancy to consolidate and disseminate knowledge and best practice, enhancing the skills and competencies of Ventures own consultants. Stephen holds a BSc in Geology from Royal Holloway, University of London. |
Mr. Ajey Chandra
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Dr. Andrew Chen
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Mr. Satinder Chopra
His research interests focus on techniques that are aimed at characterization of reservoirs. He has published 5 books and more than 140 papers and abstracts and likes to make presentations at any beckoning opportunity. His work and presentations have won several awards, the most notable ones being the CSEG Meritorious Service Award (2005), SEG Best Poster Award (2007), CSEG Best Luncheon Talk award (2007) and several others. He is a member of SEG, CSEG, CSPG, EAGE, AAPG, CHOA (Canadian Heavy Oil Association), APEGGA (Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta) and TBPG (Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists). Mr. Chopra holds a Masters of Philosophy in Physics (1978) and a Masters of Science in Physics (1976). |
Mr. Alexandre Chwetzoff
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Mr. Stewart Clarke
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Jimmy Clary
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Mr. Peter J Cockcroft
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Mr. Gerald R. Coulter
He has chaired and served on numerous SPE committees and was a SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1992-1993 and 1999-2000). He founded the Completion Engineering Association, served as its first chairman and continues to be involved in the CEA. He has authored numerous technical papers and patents and has taught well completions related schools throughout the world. He is a registered professional engineer and received a B.S. in Geology and a B.A. in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University and an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. |
Mr. Mick Crabtree
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Mr. Pierre Crevier
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Dr. Bryan T. Cronin
He runs training courses for Industry (class and field) such as G&G; Foundation for Engineers; and Asset Team Integration in the Alps, Pyrenees, Western Ireland, SE Spain, California, and Turkey, whilst supporting his own field research campaigns. He is an instructor for Petroskills since 2005, where he runs Sandstone Reservoirs and Turbidite Sandstones. He lectures at The Robert Gordon University, where he is a module co-ordinator for the annual throughput of 100+ students on the Masters engineering programs. He also runs industry courses through RGU overseas. He is involved in geological consultancy, from peer-assist, data room visits, core description and interpretation projects, seismic interpretation and workshops, in the North Sea, North, Central and West Africa, the Bay of Bengal, SE Asia, South America and the former Soviet Union. Professor Cronin was awarded the William Smith Fund by the Geological Society, London, in 2007 as part of the society's bicentenary celebrations. This prestigious award was due to his work on interaction between academia and the Industry, as well as his international standing in his fields of research. His list of 40+ publications in mainstream peer-reviewed journals is extensive, from outcrop, modern deep floor systems and the subsurface. He received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Geology from the National University of Ireland, Cork and a Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Card |
John Curry
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Mr. Ralph Dartez
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Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta
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Dr. Mojdeh Delshad
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Ken Delve
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Mr. Kris Digre
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Mr. John F. Dillon
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Dr. Iskander R. Diyashev
Prior to his current job, he served as a Chief Engineer for Sibneft, one of the largest integrated oil companies in Russia with a daily production of 700,000 BOPD. In his career he worked in R&D, consulting, service and production sides of the business both in Russia and Internationally. Prior to his work with Sibneft, he was one of the key Schlumberger specialists to start the horizontal drilling project in Noyabrsk Western Siberia. He is a member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and serves on the Board of Directors of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE International), and on the Boards of private service and engineering firms. He authored about 30 technical papers. He received a Ph.D. Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, and advanced degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. |
Mr. William Dokianos
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Mr. Christopher Dougherty
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Ms. Kerry Jane Edwards
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Mr. Greg Ernster
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Mr. Robert Fanning
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Mr. John R Farina
He received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from West Virginia University. |
Wolfgang Foerg
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Michael Forsthoffer
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Mr. William (Bill) E. Forsthoffer
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Mr. Alan Foster
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Mr. Eric A. Foster
He is a registered Professional Geologist and is a member of APEGGA, AAPG, SPE and SPWLA. He served as Publications Chairman and on symposium committees for the CWLS, co-authored the paper on computer data formats (LAS) and has compiled numerous technical papers and training courses. He is a certified tutor for online learning and received a B.Sc (Hons). in Geology, from the University of London. |
Ms. Laura S. Foulk
Her teaching experience includes courses in wellbore image theory and applications, and wellbore anisotropy measurements at Colorado School of Mines, Stanford University, and for internal clients. She also taught new hire and continuing education internal seminars for Marathon. She has numerous technical publications and her society affiliations include SPWLA, DWLS, AAPG, RMAG, and SEPM. She received an M.S. in Geology from Colorado School of Mines and a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Geology from Duke University. |
Ronald Frend
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Mr. Paul S. Gardner
He has served in a number of capacities associated with technology identification and advancement including the Board of Directors for the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, the Technology Screening Committee for the Houston Technology Center, and he was a member of the Rice Alliance for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Geology from Colorado State University, is a member of SPWLA and SPE, and is a registered Professional Geoscientist in the State of Texas. |
Terry N. Gardner
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Mr. David A. Gemmill
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Dr. Ali Ghalambor
He has authored or co-authored ten books and manuals and more than one hundred sixty technical articles published in various journals and conference proceedings. He has delivered numerous invited technical presentations and courses in Drilling & Well Completion worldwide. He has received many awards including distinguished achievement award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, Production and Operations Award, Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Member Award by the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He served as a Commissioner on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He has held many positions in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) including Director of the Central and Southeastern North America Region on the SPE Board of Directors, and Chairman of the SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control. He received a Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, an M.S. and a B.S. from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. |
Josh Gilad
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Mr. Jeremy (Jerry) J. Gilbert
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Dr. J. Robert Gochnour
He has been associated with the research, development, and application of reservoir simulators, reservoir engineering, and production technology throughout his career with Gulf Oil Corporation, Chevron, Scientific Software-Intercomp and Tigress. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Tau Beta Pi. He taught over 200 industry short courses as well as graduate petroleum engineering courses at the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia University. He was named a Centennial Fellow of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University in 1996. He received a B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. |
Mr. Curtis Golike
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Dr. G. Michael Grammer
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Dr. James W. Granath
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Mr. W. Gordon Graves
He has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on the subject of new applications in handling high water production. He has published several SPE papers and is one of the principal authors of "World Oil Mature Oil & Gas Wells: Downhole Remediation Handbook". He received a B. A. in Physics from Olivet Nazarene University. |
Dr. Ton Grimberg
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Dr. Richard H. Groshong
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Mr. Mark S. Hackler
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Gerard Hageman
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Mr. David Hairston
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Mr. Andrew S. Harper
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Dr. W. Greg Hazlett
He was a Lecturer at Texas A&M University and an Associate Professor at New Mexico Tech, and has published on petroleum engineering topics, served as SPE coordinator for the Reservoir, Gas Technology, and Fluid Mechanics and Oil Recovery Processes committees, and has testified as an expert witness. Dr. Hazlett has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas. |
Mr. Norman W. Hein
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Mr. Richard S Henry
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Mr. Doug Hildenbrand
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Dr. A. Daniel Hill
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Mr. Ron Hinn
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Bob Hlozek
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Mr. Brian A. Hodgson
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Mr. William (Bill) D. Holmes
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Mr. Glenn Hood
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Frank Hopf
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Mr. Timothy L. Hower
He co-authored, Managing Water-Drive Gas Reservoirs, a textbook published by the Gas Research Institute, and has been directly involved in the development and instruction of MHA's technical courses for BP Amoco. He was the Chairman of the Denver SPE section for 2001/2002 and received the SPE Henry Mattson Technical Service Award for innovative contributions in the field of engineering of gas reservoirs. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in petroleum engineering from Penn State University. |
Mr. Robert A. Hubbard
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Mr. William E. Hughes
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Dr. Chun Huh
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Mr. Frank Jarrett
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Mr. Glenn Jelinski
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Mr. Alfred R. Jennings
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Robin Jentz
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Mr. Stephen Jewell
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Dr. Russell T Johns
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Dr. Howard D. Johnson
He received a B.S. in Geology from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in Geology with focus on Sedimentology from the University of Oxford. He spent a few years as a research fellow at the University of Leiden and the University of East Anglia where he was involved in sedimentology research. |
Mr. Jack R. Jones
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Mr. Morgan L. Jones
Mr. Jones has authored articles on planning/design drilling organizations, improvements and wellsite supervision through process management. He chaired and facilitated the Phillips Petroleum Company OLS- MAXWELL process. He served on numerous SPE, API, AADE and IADC committees. As worldwide Drilling Manager he facilitated under-balance drilling operations, deep multi-lateral drilling and offshore extended reach drilling operations. Mr. Jones received a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. |
Dr. Satish K. Kalra
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Mr. E. John Keasberry
During a 7-year stretch with Nedlloyd Energy as Manager Exploration and New Ventures he was involved extensively in asset evaluation, acquisition and farm-ins. From 1997 through 2004 he was employed by Shell as a Course Director responsible for their integrated subsurface course covering the main subsurface disciplines from geology to production technology and developing geoscience courses. His lecturing experience is mainly in petroleum-, wellsite- and operations geology, but also covers petrophysics, reservoir and well engineering. He has conducted numerous geological and integrated field courses, most recently in Belgium and Germany. He received a B.Sc in Geology and a M.Sc. in Geology and Applied Geophysics from the University of Leiden, Netherlands. |
Mr. William Keeter
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Dr. Mohan G. Kelkar
He has taught various short courses for many oil companies in Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Nigeria, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Scotland, India, Denmark and across the United States. He has been a consultant to many oil companies, as well as to the United Nations. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay, an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa. |
Mr. Albin K. Kerekes
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Ms. Bibi C. Kerekes
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Mr. Arshad Khan
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Mr. Aaron Klein
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Mr. Stanley W. Kleinsteiber
Prior to joining MHA, he held various reservoir engineering positions with Amoco Production Company where he helped developed the initial plan of depletion for fields in Wyoming and Utah using compositional numerical simulation. His specific contributions were in the areas of fluid property characterization, well testing and simulation studies for various development options. He has authored or co-authored papers dealing with production decline type curve analysis, CO2 flooding, and depletion of a rich gas condensate reservoir by nitrogen injection. He received a B.S. in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1978. |
Dr. Thijs Koeling
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Mr. Dale Kraus
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Mr. Dale Kunz
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Dr. Larry W. Lake
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Dr. James F. Lea
He is on the API and SPE committees for electrical submersible pumps, gas lift, and artificial lift systems, and is a member of the panel for the ESP roundtable. He has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer two times and has presented and organized numerous conferences for artificial lift. He played a major role in organizing the Denver Gas Well De-Watering forum, which is continuing after multiple successful occurrences. He has authored or co-authored: the book "Deliquification of Gas Wells" (Elesevier), the chapter of the new SPE productions Handbook on Artificial Lift Selection and other book chapters, as well as over 65 technical papers and articles on artificial lift systems. He received the SPE Production Engineering Award in 1996 and was the recipient of the 1990 J. C. Slonneger Award from SWPSC, Lubbock, Texas, given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of petroleum engineering. He is a Registered PE in Texas, has 9 US patents, and received a BSME and MSME in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas and a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University. |
Mr. Christopher D. Lennon
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Mr. Larry Lens
After Angola, Larry became the Technical Learning and Development Manager for the BP E&P group globally. He began work on the Training and Education strategy which was a part of BP's commitment to gain entry into Libya. He worked in Tripoli, Libya with a dual focus on BP's Training & Education commitment to the National Oil Corporation of Libya as well as the internal focus on training and development within BP. After retiring from BP in late 2009, Mr. Lens took on a leading role in developing the PetroSkills Accelerated Development Programs across all of the E&P Disciplines, having seen this as a need in the Oil and Gas Industry. He has an M.S. degree from the University of Georgia and a B.S. degree from the University of Michigan both in Geology. |
Dr. D. Andy Link
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Mr. Robert (Bob) G. Lippincott
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Mr. John Logel
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Mr. Alain Louis
His expertise includes technical training within TOTAL and ELF in Petroleum Engineering, in particular in focusing well data acquisition to better serve a field (re)development plan, justify the program of this data and anticipate fallback solutions. He has generated collaboration projects in this area between ELF, TOTAL and ENI for several years. He has held various international positions overseas in Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering. With ELF, from 1990, he delivered internally the first Logging Operations Manual for witnesses; he developed and instructed the training course, dedicated to wellsite geologists and petroleum engineers, in planning and executing operations of LWD and wireline logging, along with the associated QC. From 1974 to 1979, he was a field engineer and field service manager with Schlumberger in various countries of Africa and Middle East. He has authored numerous presentations and publications at SPE ATCE, ATW, and EAGE Conferences. He received a Master of Sciences from ECAM Engineering School, Lyon, France in 1973 and a Degree from IFP in 1979 (French Petroleum Institute). He is fluent in English, Italian, French (mother tongue), and gets by in German. |
Mr. Ronald Louth
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Mr. Perry Lovelace
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Dr. Catalina M. Luneburg
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Mr. Ken Lunsford
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Dr. Heloise Lynn
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Dr. Walter S. Lynn
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Ms. Shelly MacKenzie
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Mr. Donald S. Macpherson
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Mr. Harvey Malino
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Mr. Stephen E. Malkewicz
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Dr. Andrea Mangiavacchi
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Mr. John Martinez
He is active in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Petroleum Division, Society of Petroleum Engineers, National Association of Corrosion Engineers, American Petroleum Institute Gas Lift Equipment Task Group, and the ASME/API/ISO Gas Lift Workshop. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas. He received an M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas. |
Dr. Mark A. McCaffrey
He was the 2006-2008 Chairman of the Organic Geochemistry Division of the Geochemical Society, and a 2001-2002 Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He was the 1995 recipient of the Pieter Schenck Award from the European Association of Organic Geochemists for outstanding work on biomarkers in relation to paleoenvironmental studies and petroleum exploration. In 1998, he received (with project co-workers) the Arco Award of Excellence for developing a new charge and migration model for the Brookian petroleum system, allowing improved charge risk assessment for prospects on the Central North Slope of Alaska. He is a senior or co-author of 30 articles on petroleum exploration, reservoir management, oil biodegradation, hazardous waste remediation, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and marine chemistry. He is a California Registered Geologist, a Texas Professional Geoscientist and an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist. Dr. McCaffrey received a B.A. degree from Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors in Geological Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Joint Program. |
Mr. William (Bill) McKee
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Mr. Steve McKeever
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Dr. Howard L. McKinzie
He was the Chairman of the Completion Engineering Association in 1991-1992, after being Vice Chairman in 1989-1990. He was a member of the research team that received the Special Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation from Petroleum Engineer International (1999). He was also a member of another team that received the Hearst Newspapers Energy Award for Technology in 1998. He has twice received Texaco's Corporate Technology Innovation Award and holds numerous patents in several of the above areas. He held a post-doctoral appointment in Chemistry at Brown University, and subsequently taught engineering several more years at Brown. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from Central Oklahoma University, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Arizona State University. |
Mr. Jeffrey S. McMullan
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Yuv Raj Mehra
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MHA Petroleum Consul
MHA professionals currently instructing for PetroSkills include: Greg Ernster Jerry Gilbert Timothy Hower Gregory Hueni Stanley Kleinsteiber Kenneth Schuessler John Seidle Daniel Stright |
Mr. Abdelmeged Marouf Mohamed
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Dr. Kishore K. Mohanty
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Mr. Carl Thomas Montgomery
During his career he taught over 80 schools and forums on the design, execution and evaluation of formation damage and well stimulation technologies. These schools were taught in the USA, Indonesia, North Sea, Middle East and South America. He has lived and worked in the Middle East, Far East, South America and North America and has designed and operationally conducted well treatments in over 40 countries around the world. He received his degreee in biochemistry from Ball State University. |
Dr. Clyde H. Moore
He was the Continuing Education Committee chairman a Distinguished Lecturer and short course lecturer and field seminar leader for AAPG and received the AAPG Distinguished Educator award in 2001. He is the editor of Geology of Carbonate Porosity, and co-editor of the highly acclaimed AAPG Memoir 33, Carbonate Depositional Environments and Jurassic of the Gulf Rim. He is the author of the books "Carbonate Diagenesis and Porosity" and "Carbonate Reservoirs", as well as numerous articles in international journals. He received a B.S. in Geology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin. |
Mr. Hector C. Moreno
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Mr. John Morgan
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Mr. James D Morse
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Mr. Ted Mortenson
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Dr. Mahmood Moshfeghian
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Mr. Larry Moyer
He has experience with all aspects of managing operated and non-operated oil and gas properties with emphasis in accounting, Joint Operating Agreements, oil and gas sales contracts/marketing, AFE's, revenue audits, gas balancing audits, permitting, and filing of regulatory reports. He has successfully sold prospects to both industry and non-industry partners to fund drilling wells and producing property acquisitions. He received a B.A. in accounting from Western State College, and a M.S. in Geology from University of Colorado. |
Dr. David R. Muerdter
He began his petroleum career with Amoco in New Orleans in 1982 where he processed seismic data, developed and mapped prospects, and became a specialist in VSPs and seismic modeling. In 1988 he joined Sierra Geophysics in Seattle as geophysical specialist focusing on consulting, demonstrating, and training in the use of geophysical and geological software. He became Regional Training Advisor in the Sierra Singapore Office in 1991. In 1994, he launched his own consulting business, which later led to employment as a Research Geophysicist with Diamond (later Emerald) Geoscience Research Corporation. He innovated workflows to raytrace complex salt structures to determine seismic distortion and subsalt illumination. He continues to teach and consult worldwide and has worked on numerous equity studies. He has authored or co-authored numerous professional publications and co-taught a Seismic Exploration class at University of Washington. He is a member of SEG and AAPG and early in his career he spent three years in Malaysia as a teacher and geologist in the U.S. Peace Corps. He received a Ph.D. in Geological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. |
Mr. David Patrick Murphy
He is a member of the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He has taught numerous SPWLA short courses. SPE committee memberships have included Education and Professionalism Committee and Measurement While Drilling Reprint Editorial Committee. Murphy is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Petroleum Engineering. He received a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. |
Mr. Manickavasakan Nadar
A university topper and gold medalist, he holds a B Sc degree in Chemistry from Madurai University, India and a degree in Chemical Engineering from Institution of Engineers (India). With several SPE papers and text book publications to his credit, he has conducted many workshops, training seminars and short courses for SPE and other organizations. |
Dr. Charles (Chuck) H. Neuman
He has made many technical presentations through the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Annalists (SPWLA). He received the SPWLA Technical Achievement Award in 1998. He taught a course in well logging at the University of Southern California for many years and participated in many in-house logging schools presented by Chevron. He received degrees in physics from Caltech and the University of Illinois and did postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside. |
Mr. Ralph Neumann
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Mr. John Robert (Bob) Nichol
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Mr. Tim Nieman
Mr. Nieman was formerly Senior Decision Analyst for Geomatrix Consultants, an Oakland based geological and environmental consulting firm. Prior to that, he was Director of Operations for Lumina Decision Systems, a decision analysis consulting and software firm. And prior to that, he spent 14 years with Amoco as a geophysicist, economist, and risk and portfolio analyst. He has a B.S. in geology and an M.S. in geophysics from Michigan State University, and an MBA from Rice University. |
Mr. Mike Noel-Smith
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Ronnie Norvell
Ronnie has served on the Board of Directors of three international organizations including the American Society for Training and Development and PetroSkills. He has also served on the continuing education faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas and on the adjunct faculty of Amber University's MBA program. Ronnie has authored numerous publications, designed and conducted a variety of programs targeted at enhancing management and employee productivity. He co-authored The Internal Outplacement Handbook and A Trainer's Guide to Performance Appraisal. His peers have recognized him on numerous occasions. The American Society for Training and Development recognized Ronnie in 1997 for his contributions to the profession by awarding him with one of their highest honors, the "Torch" award. The Dallas Chapter of ASTD recognized him as the "Professional of the Year" in 1989 and his alma Marta; Texas A&M University at Commerce, selected him as a "Distinguished Alumni" in 1990. |
Dr. Phillip K. Notz
He has taught courses in Flow Assurance, Reservoir Fluid Properties, Reservoir Engineering, CO2 Flooding and Tertiary Oil Recovery for Texaco operations personnel and has presented papers at OTC and authored papers on flow assurance and gas hydrates. He received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Michigan State University. |
Mr. Kyle O'Leary
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Mr. Jack Z. Orr
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Mr. William K. Ott
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Dr. Jim M. Peden
His principal areas of expertise are in well completion design; formation damage; sand control; and, horizontal and multilateral wells. He has published over 100 technical papers, two textbooks, and contributed to numerous conferences as a keynote speaker. He has been an active member of SPE, holding a number of posts including Chairman of the Aberdeen Section in 1986/87. In 1999/2000 he was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on the subject of multilateral wells. He received a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, an M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University. |
Mr. Maximiliaan (Max) Peeters
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Dr. David Pelton
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Mr. Dennis Perry
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Mr. Roberto Peveraro
In addition to having extensive technical authorship and publications, he is a senior member in IEEE, SEG, SPE, and SPWLA, a Recipient of SPWLA 2002 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for Significant Technical Contributions in Formation Evaluation, and a Founder member of European Association of Petroleum Geoscientists and Engineers. He received both graduate and postgraduate degrees in Engineering Physics, and Applied Physics and Geophysics from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. |
Dr. John D. Pigott
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Jason Pingenot
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Mr. William (Bill) E. Powell
Over the course of his career, Bill has taught short courses and seminars on a variety of technical and business topics and managed a series of regional industry seminars to identify and address technical issues that impact business performance in oil and gas plays of local interest. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and Houston Producers Forum. He serves on the Unconventional Gas International Conference and Exhibition Advisory Board. He received a B.S. degree in Physics from Lamar University and an M.S. degree in Physics from Florida State University. |
Gerard Prendergast
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Dr. Dennis Prezbindowski
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Jay Rajani
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Mr. Francis Rambaransingh
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Mr. Erich Ramon Ramp
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Mr. Jack Ranucci
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Dr. Clifford L. Redus
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Dr. Gary W. Reid
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Mr. William J. Renner
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John Riggs
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Dr. Grant E. Robertson
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Dr. Leon H. Robinson
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George Rodenbusch
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Mr. Gerry H. Ross
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Alan Royer
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Mr. Robert Sadowski
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Mr. William Sambrook
He is an international Training Professional, with expertise in the design, delivery and program coordination of performance managed instructor-led classroom and on the job training programs. Communicative and intuitive, able to lead and inspire multi-national teams and build an empowered culture that encourages knowledge-sharing and consensus management. He received a Power Engineering Technologist diploma from SAIT. |
Dr. Kent Saugier
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Dr. Helmy Sayyouh
In 1998, 2001 and 2006 he was awarded the distinguished prize of post-graduate studies supervision from the CAPCU-Cairo University. In 1998 and 2008 he was awarded an appreciation certificate for the significant contributions to the engineering profession. He has taught petroleum engineering courses at, King Saud University, and Cairo University. He was offered a visiting professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department, the University of New South Wales at Australia. Dr. Helmy Sayyouh has been involved in many consulting projects with SANCST (Saudi Arabia), Bin Ali Oil Corporation (Libya), General Petroleum Company (Egypt) and Giesum Oil Company (Egypt). He has supervised tens of Ph.D. and M.Sc students and has published more than 120 technical papers at international conferences and bulletins. His biography appeared in the 16th Edition 1999, of the Who's Who in the World. He has a B.Sc.and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering with a Ph.D. from Penn State in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering as well as a Post Doctorate Fellowship from West Virginia. |
Dr. Donald D. Schmidt
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Mr. Richard H. Schroeder
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Mr. John Schuyler
He was vice president and petroleum engineer with Security Pacific National Bank, planning and evaluation analyst at Cities Service Oil Co., manager of business systems for Cities Service's Petrochemicals Division, and senior management consultant with a national accounting firm. He is a member of eight professional organizations and is an author and speaker on modern analysis practices. He is the revision author of Decision Analysis for Petroleum Exploration, 2nd Ed., author of Risk and Decision Analysis in Projects, 2nd Ed., and has written over 40 articles, papers and handbook chapters. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mineral-engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado. His Web site is http://www.maxvalue.com. |
Mr. John C. Scruton-Wilson
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Dr. Richard D. Seba
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Dr. John P. Seidle
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Dr. Subhash N. Shah
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Dr. Mukul M. Sharma
Among his many awards, he is the recipient of the 1998 SPE Formation Evaluation Award, the 2002 Lester C. Uren Award, and the 2004 SPE Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award. He served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2002 and has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals including the SPE Journal. He has a bachelor of technology in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical and petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California. |
Mr. John Sheffield
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Mr. Jerald L. Shursen
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Mr. Stanford A. Siemens
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Mr. Les Skinner
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Dr. Robert A. Skopec
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Dr. George Slater
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Dr. John S. Sneider
From 1994 to the present, he has been a partner in PetroTech Associates, providing exploration/exploitation with analysis and evaluation of reservoir, seal and flow barrier rock types. From 1989 to 1990 he was a consultant for Green Hill Petroleum, Inc., in East Texas, and previously was a geologist with Shell Oil, Inc., in South Texas. While working on his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics at Rice University, he spent 18 months in the Elf Acquitaine Paris office working various sequence stratigraphy projects focusing in the North Sea. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Geology from Texas A&M and a Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Rice University. |
Kindra Marie Snow-McGregor
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Dr. Carl Sondergeld
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Kenneth Sourisseau
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PetroSkills Specialist
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Dr. John P. Spivey
In 1990, he joined S.A. Holditch & Associates (SAH), which was purchased by Schlumberger (SLB) in 1997. While at SAH/SLB he conducted reservoir simulation, gas storage, and tight gas application studies and taught industry short courses in well testing and production data analysis. He actively participated in on-going development of SABRE, SAH numerical reservoir simulator, and in research in techniques for production data analysis for gas wells. He also designed and developed PROMAT, an analytical production data analysis and forecasting program, and WELLTEST, an interactive pressure transient test analysis program. In 2004, he started his own reservoir engineering consulting company, Phoenix Reservoir Engineering, and software development company, Phoenix Reservoir Software, LLC, which provides PMTx, a software package for analyzing production and production log data and forecasting future performance for multilayer low permeability reservoirs. Since 1992, he has served as Visiting Assistant Professor or Adjunct Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in gas reservoir engineering and pressure transient analysis, and serving on several graduate student committees. He is the editor of the SPE Reprint Series Vol. 52, Gas Reservoir Engineering, and Vol. 57, Pressure Transient Testing, and coauthor of SPE Textbook Series Vol. 9, Pressure Transient Testing and has published numerous papers and articles in industry journals and trade publications. He received a B.S. Physics from Abilene Christian University, a M.S. in Physics from the University of Washington, a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. |
Dr. Dwight Sukup
He entered the United State Army where he was a Distinguished Military Graduate of The US Army Field Artillery Officer Candidate Class 1968A and later served as the commander of a US Army Reserve Armored Company. He received a M.S. and Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska. |
Mr. Marc Summers
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Dr. John Sumner
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Mr. Ian Stuart Sutton
Mr. Sutton is widely published, and has given many presentations and seminars on process risk management. He has authored numerous books, of which the most recent are Process Risk and Reliability Management (Elsevier, 2010). and Offshore Safety Management, (Elsevier, 2011). He has an M.A. in Literature from the University of Houston (Clear Lake) and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham, U.K. |
Dr. Tom J. Temples
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Mr. David TenHoor
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Dr. Lawrence W. Teufel
He is an author of over 80 publications. He has received awards from the US National Committee for Rock Mechanics and the Society of Petroleum Engineers and has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He received a B.S. degree in geology from Syracuse University, an M.S. degree in geology from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D. in geology from Texas A&M University. |
Dr. E. C. Thomas
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Dr. John (Jack) B. Thomas
He has authored or co-authored two books on applied and practical petrophysics plus numerous papers on the topic. His academic teaching experiences have been in the areas of petrology, petrophysics, and environmental geology. While the AAPG Geoscience director, he led a tenfold increase in titles published including digital and book releases. He has received honors for work on the local level in the Rocky Mountains, Canada, China, and the Middle East. He was recognized as a Society of Petroleum Engineer's Distinguished Lecturer in 1994-95 traveling Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United States focusing on the importance of rock-log calibration in reservoir characterization. Professional memberships include the AAPG, SPE, SPWLA, TGS, RMAG. He is past leader of the SEPM Clastic Diagenesis Research Group, Sigma Xi (Local), and Sigma Gamma Epsilon. He received B.A. and M.S. degrees from the Miami of Ohio University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. |
Buck Titsworth
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Mr. P. Kyle Travis
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Mr. Herman Vacca
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Mr. Hector Hugo Vargas
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Paul Verrill
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Dr. William J. Wade
In addition to publishing numerous technical papers, he was Associate editor for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. He is a member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geological Society of America, Society for Sedimentary Research, Houston Geological Society, and International Association of Sedimentologists. He received a B.A. and M.S. in geology from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in sedimentology from Louisiana State University. |
Mr. Robert M. Wagner
He has justified and directed capital programs totaling over $300 million for offshore drilling, development programs, large scale infill drilling programs, redevelopment programs in mature fields, and conducted a multitude of oil and gas economic evaluations for use in SEC reports, IPO filings, bank reports, acquisition/divestiture transactions, court testimony, state/federal regulatory applications, pipeline justification, project evaluation, and various other end uses. He has been involved with over $6 billion of completed acquisitions and mergers. He is the author of two schools dealing with SEC reserve reporting compliance and engineering applications in building a compliant case. He received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas, is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas, and is a member of SPE, Tau Beta Pi and Pi Epsilon Tau. |
Dr. David (Dave) Waldren
He has a strong theoretical and research background, which is applied in his consulting activities including advising a major oil company on the day-to-day operational and medium/long term development of an off-shore oil field as well as the estimation of different classes of reserves for SEC requirements. Many of the projects he performed use the VIP and Eclipse simulation systems, he also has many years experience with different commercial reservoir modeling systems and has been actively engaged in studies and/or training using IMEX (CMG), Eclipse and Frontsim (Geoquest), VIP (Landmark), Athos (Beicip Franlab) and MORE (Roxar). He was a SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2001-2002. He has a BSc, BSC Hons and a PhD all in physics from the University of Liverpool, England. |
Stuart Watson
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Mr. Andy Weavill
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Mr. Robert (Bob) V. Westermark
He has authored and co-authored over 17 technical papers and he has been the instructor for numerous in-house courses, ranging from basic drilling classes to casing design and well control. In addition he has taught advanced topics including horizontal drilling and multilateral completions. In this capacity, he communicates clearly with all levels of students, field and office employees, management, third party contractors, and the general public. He received a B.S. degree in petroleum engineering from Montana College of Mineral Sciences and Technology. |
Dr. Brian Williams
Brian's research and consultancy in hydrocarbon reservoir sedimentology commenced in Calgary in the early 80's, and continued with over a decade's involvement in oil and gas basins in S. and W. Australia, the North Sea and Newfoundland. His research has produced over 100 peer review papers and several edited books. He has supervised over 40 PhD students in silicicilastic sedimentology in Wales, Ireland, North Sea, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Oman and Australia; specializing in "Non-Marine Deposystem Analysis", Brian is currently a Freelance Academic and Consultant Petroleum Geologist, acting as an advisor to Shell, E&P (Rijswijk and Aberdeen); leading courses for Nautilus to W. Ireland and Nova Scotia; and is also an Associate of Pan Terra Geoconsultants, Leiden and BNK Petroleum, California. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and Geological Society, London and a member of the AAPG, SEPM, PESA, CSPG and PESGB. |
Mr. Peter Williams
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Mr. Ronn Williamson
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Mr. Scott J. Wilson
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Alaska, Colorado, and Wyoming, a member of SPE and SPEE, has authored several technical papers, and holds two US Patents. He received a B.S. in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Colorado. |
Mr. Larry Wolfson
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Mr. Richard G. Wright
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Mr. Wes Wright
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Mr. Clyde Young
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Dr. Ding Zhu
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