MEET THE INSTRUCTORS

PETROSKILLS INSTRUCTORS

Mr. Kadir Abdul Mr. Kadir Abdul KADIR ABDUL is an instructor with SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is experienced in training and instructing electrical technicians and in developing training programs. Kadir has performed as a Design Engineer in electrical and mechanical systems. He has a Ph.D. in Power Systems and Machines from Southampton University in Southampton, England.	Mr. Ian Allahar Mr. Ian Allahar IAN ALLAHAR is a Petroleum Engineer with more than 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He specializes in several operations involved in well bore construction including drilling, well intervention and remedial operations. 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 Ralph Allen RALPH ALLEN, B.Sc. (Hon), P. Geo. has 14 years consulting experience out of a total of 35 years experience. He generates, finds funding for, and executes oil and gas prospects in a variety of corporate settings from multi-nationals (Amoco) to aggressive small private entities. 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 Dr. Rosalind Archer DR. ROSALIND ARCHER is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She is an accomplished technical writer, collaborator and editor with over 25 articles published in the last five years. Dr. Archer has taught courses on Well Testing, Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Simulation and PVT Analysis for industrial clients including Chevron/Schlumberger, Chevron, China, ONGC, Petronas, Yukos Petroleum, PTT Exploration and Schlumberger. She has performed technical work for Todd Energy, Shell Todd Oil Services, Austrial Pacific Energy, Greymouth Petroleum, Mighty River Power, Genesis Energy, Scott Hawkins (USA) and Sigma Energy (USA). She has received several awards including the Supreme Excellence in teaching Award within the Faculty of Engineering. She received a PhD and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University and a BE degree in Engineering Science from the University of Auckland.	Mr. Andrew Arkinstall Mr. Andrew Arkinstall ANDREW ARKINSTALL is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner (CMIOSH) with over twelve years of experience in all fields of occupational safety and worker protection. Working internationally in Europe, the US and Asia, Andrew is the Head of Occupational Safety and Health Training with PetroSkills' HSE partner, Corporate Risk Systems Limited. In addition, he is course leader for the PetroSkills HS-70 Accredited Health and Safety Practitioner' mentored program. Andrew has significant experience in auditing HSE management systems and has been delivering technical auditor training to the petrochemical industry for the last five years. He holds the NEBOSH Diploma, General and Construction qualifications and CIEH food hygiene qualifications.	Mr. Stephen Walter Asbury Mr. Stephen Walter Asbury STEPHEN ASBURY is the best-selling author of ~50 internationally-published safety and risk management books and journal articles, and an HSE practitioner with almost 30 years' experience gained from consulting, auditing and training assignments in over 50 countries on six continents. Awarded the IOSH President's Distinguished Service Award in 2010, he is the PetroSkills course director for health, safety and HSE management programs. He is a Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner, a Chartered Environmentalist, and a Professional Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Chairman of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health Professional Ethics Committee, Stephen is Managing Director of Corporate Risk Systems Limited www.crsrisk.com. He was awarded ILEX Law (1986); MBA with Distinction, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (1995); and is presently studying for his PhD.
Dr. Frank Ashford Dr. Frank Ashford DR. FRANK ASHFORD has 40 years experience in oil and gas producing facilities. Dr. Ashford joined with John M. Campbell & Company in 1988; he provides instruction fluently in either Spanish or English. Previous to joining John M. Campbell & Company, Dr. Ashford was a Professor at Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, where he taught various courses in Natural Gas Engineering Technology. He has authored technical articles published in World Oil, JPT, SPE, Intevep Pub., PDVSA, Pacific Oil World, AAPG, SPELAC, and GPA. He holds a B.S., a M.S. and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.	Mr. Stanley L. Atnipp Mr. Stanley L. Atnipp STANLEY ATNIPP is an experienced oil and gas professional specializing in drilling engineering, operations, and supervision of field operations, which includes extensive office and field supervisory experience. He has a proven track record of reducing safety incidents through personal dedication and working with all personnel involved. He is proficient in casing and well design, operations management, and field operations and has technical expertise that includes proficiency in the use of TDAS, PERC, DIMS, and hydraulics programs. He received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.	Dr. JJ Azar Dr. JJ Azar DR. JJ AZAR is a professor emeritus of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa. His career with the University spanned over 38 years during which time he was Director of the University of Tulsa Drilling Research Projects and served as acting chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department in 2001. As a Director of drilling research, he is accredited with building one of the world's most comprehensive drilling programs in the Department of Petroleum Engineering. He is the author and/or coauthor of five textbooks and over sixty publications in refereed technical journals. He coauthored Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Volume II and Encyclopedia of Energy. He was inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in Washington D.C. in 2004 and received the 1998 SPE Drilling Engineering Award and the 1997 SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty. He is a registered professional engineer and SPE Distinguished Member. Dr. Azar received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, a M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical/Structural Engineering all from the University of Oklahoma.
Jonathan Backhouse Jonathan Backhouse JONATHAN BACKHOUSE is an occupational safety and health practitioner and highly-qualified instructor with Corporate Risk Systems Limited. He has over ten years' experience in HSE training and course development, following his career in catering management and engineering management. Jonathan was awarded a Cert.Ed and a BA (Honours) in education and training from Sunderland University UK, and an MA in professional practice in the context of education from Northumbria University UK. He holds a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety; and he is a Fellow of the Institute for Learning (IfL), a Graduate of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), and an Associate of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).	Dr. Asnul Bahar Dr. Asnul Bahar DR. ASNUL BAHAR is the Principal Consultant on Petroleum Engineering for Kelkar and Associates, Inc., based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. His specialization is in the area of Integrated Reservoir Modeling and Flow Simulation study. He has earned more than 20 years of international working experience in the oil industry including teaching short industrial courses for the last 9 years. He has developed and implemented new techniques for integrating geological, geophysical, petrophysical and engineering data for various reservoir field studies. He is proficient in using commercial reservoir modeling software (e.g., PETREL) and flow simulation (e.g., ECLIPSE). He is also charged with the development of CONNECT software, a PETREL plug-in for Upscaling Utility using OCEAN Platform based on the C# language. He received an M.S.and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia.	Mr. James Baldwin Mr. James Baldwin JAMES BALDWIN has spent much of his technical career developing and recommending practical responses to reservoir engineering development projects. He has been involved in many worldwide and domestic reservoir development and exploitation projects working with or leading multi-discipline teams on integrated development studies and exploration activities. He is technologically focused with a wide range of experience, excellent communication skills and a proven track record as a committed team player providing mentoring in training and technology transfer. He is highly competent in a large range of reservoir simulation software packages and has experience in project economics and reserves determinations all over the world. His areas of expertise range from field development, and management of mature fields to sub-surface consulting with his most recent experience focused on the development and revitalization of mature fields and CO2 enhanced oil recovery. He received a BE in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt and an MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Mr. Richard Dean Ball Mr. Richard Dean Ball RICHARD BALL is a dynamic and highly experienced HSE practitioner. He leads the PetroSkills environmental program, is the custodian of the environmental sector competence map, and delivers on all of the HSE programs. He is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner, and a Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (MIEMA). Richard is Head of Environment for Corporate Risk Systems Limited with over 15 years risk management experience gained working in consultancy, public and private sectors. He has a wide range of experience in auditing and developing management systems for health, safety and environment. He is the author of Do the Right Thing The Practical, Jargon Free guide to Corporate Social Responsibility published by IOSH, Environmental Principals and Best Practice published by CIEH and "Environmental Management" published by CIEH. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Safety and Health.	Dr. Omar Barkat Dr. Omar Barkat DR. OMAR BARKAT is a registered and licensed Professional Engineer and the Executive Director for Upstream Operations with PetroProTech. He has been a training specialist and technical consultant for OGCI-Petroskills since 1997. He has over 28 years of combined industrial and academic experience in the USA, North Africa and Europe. He has been an active international Oil and Gas Consulting Engineer since 1993 involved in projects related to surface production operations, upstream facilities, field development, oil and gas production systems performance optimization, equipment selection and petroleum fluids treating and processing. He is the author of numerous technical publications, the recipient of several professorship, research, teaching and merit awards and listed in the Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He received a Chemical Engineering State Diploma from the National Polytechnique School of Algiers, an M.S. and a Ph.D from the University of Tulsa.	Mr. Garry Barnes Mr. Garry Barnes GARRY BARNES is a Senior HSE instructor with Corporate Risk Systems Limited where he designs and delivers occupational health and safety training courses, including the NEBOSH General, Construction and Fire Safety and Risk Management certificate classes. He has over ten years experience working with HSE management systems and has specialist skills in incident investigation and disability access auditing. He has extensive experience implementing HSE management systems including BS OHSAS 18001 and HSG65. Garry is widely experienced in leading and mentoring HSE workshop sessions, and he has worked with PetroSkills with clients in Europe and the Far East. His professional qualifications include a diploma in Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental Management as well as post graduate qualifications in Access and Inclusive Design.
Mr. Michael Barnes Mr. Michael Barnes MICHAEL BARNES is co-owner of Cain & Barnes, L.P., experts in geomatics, geospatial data management, geodetics and cartography, navigation and positioning, land surveying and hydrography, and mapping sciences and has 34 years of experience in the profession. Prior to founding the consultancy, he held a range of executive, technical, and marketing appointments with Thales Geosolutions (formerly Racal Survey) for 14 years. He also worked for GPS Survey Services managing worldwide projects for 5 years, and has over 11 years experience as a surveying engineer and mapmaker for British Military Survey. He has published on petroleum geomatics topics, served in leadership roles of industry groups, and has testified as an expert witness. Much traveled, he has lived, worked, or vacationed in 77 countries. 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 Mr. Paul M. Barry PAUL BARRY is a petroleum engineering consultant specializing in production technology, well completions, project management, and oil and gas evaluations. Mr. Barry has over 39 years of international upstream oil and gas production and reservoir engineering and management experience resident in South America, SE Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and the North Sea in addition to US operations experience. He has been a PetroSkills instructor since 2002. Mr. Barry has served as an officer in the Jakarta and Dubai SPE sections and has been active on various SPE committees. He holds a B.S.C.E. from the University Of Notre Dame and an M.S.C.E. from Marquette University, and, is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, USA.	Mr. Peter Bartok Mr. Peter Bartok PETER BARTOK is a Petroleum Exploration Consultant with research interests in complex salt tectonics and Regional Gulf of Mexico Tectonics and Williston Basin as well as the application rock physics to exploration. His experience with BP include Project Management for Latin America and US Chief Onshore Geologist as well as research investigations related to high sensitivity aeromagnetics in Europe, Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. He also performed studies on the Role of CO2 and Diagenesis in the Sub-Salt of the Southern North Sea. He has evaluated prospects in over 40 basins of the world in Latin America, Europe, China and West Africa. He defined the exploration technique that led to the discovery of the Pinda carbonates in Angola. Mr. Bartok received a Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the State University of New York. He has worked as a geophysicist for 20 years.
Jim Beasley Jim Beasley MR. JAMES BEASLEY has over 40 years of experience in project management, engineering, and construction management of pipeline systems and military facilities. Mr. Beasley joined Butler Associates, Inc., the predecessor company of Willbros Engineers (U.S.), LLC, in 1973 as a Project Manager. He was named Vice President and Manager of Projects in 1981. In 1984, Mr. Beasley became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and in 1986 was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer, a position he held until August 2003. In 2001, Mr. Beasley was given additional responsibilities as Senior Vice President of Willbros USA, Inc., the parent company of Willbros Engineers (U.S.), LLC. Mr. Beasley is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon and a former member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Project Management Institute. He received M.S. and B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri.	Mr. Michael R. Berry Mr. Michael R. Berry MICHAEL R. BERRY has been an independent Petroleum Engineering Consultant for the past four years. He is an experienced registered petroleum engineer with a background in electric submersible pumps, downhole instrumentation, multiphase flow simulation, drilling and production operations. His experience includes 20 years with Texaco/Getty and 8 years with Wood Group ESP. He holds 12 patents and is a Licensed Professional Engineer. He received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Oklahoma.	Dr. Robert C. Bever Dr. Robert C. Bever DR. ROBERT C. BEVER is an economist with demonstrated strengths in business analysis and strategic thinking. He has advised oil and natural gas industry corporate managements for over thirty years in support of their economic and planning objectives. He has been associated with international, independent and national oil companies with varied emphasis upstream, downstream and related businesses 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 Mr. Chris F. Bird CHRIS BIRD has completed 23 years of international experience as a geoscientist and manager with BP Exploration & Production and has built a successful track record of building partnerships and managing multi-disciplinary teams to explore for oil & gas. In 1993, he was awarded BP Explorer of the Year' for leading the discovery of the 1 billion barrel West of Shetland oil province. In his current consultancy role, he has been project managing a strategic review of the hydrocarbon potential of the world's deep-water basins. 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 Mr. Gary Blackburn Mr. Gary Blackburn is President of John M. Campbell Consulting. He has over 40 years of experience in engineering and management ofoil and gas developments.During his 27 years with Shell Oil Company, hemanageddrilling, production and construction engineering and operations in the Gulf of Mexico,Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas andAlaska. While working in ABB's Floating Production System's Division, Garyled engineering teams designing deepwater systems, naval architecture, structural, topside facilities, drilling systemsand floating system hulls. After an assignment as the ABB's Project Manager for ExxonMobil's Kizomba A TLP, he was assigned as ABB's Vice President - Project Execution.In this role,he was responsible for oversight of ongoing projects and development of new processes for EPC projectexecution. After leaving ABB, Gary provided consulting services for drilling systems selection and producing operations management to several major operators.	Mr. James Bobo Mr. James Bobo JAMES E. BOBO currently works part-time for ConocoPhillips as a Principal Drilling Engineer and for PetroSkills as the Well Construction Discipline Manager. Bobo has served in various management and project leadership roles in drilling, production, gas processing, gas gathering and information systems throughout the basins in the lower 48 states. In addition, he has served in key facilitator roles for well control operations in Papua New Guinea, Nova Scotia and high-pressure/high-temperature operations throughout the lower 48 states. 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 Robert Bombardieri Mr. Robert Bombardieri has almost 30 years' in the oil and gas industry. His expertise is the use of process engineering to optimize operating facilities economics via addressing availability, product recovery and bottleneck issues. As such, Robert has tested, identified, designed, project managed and lead implementation of numerous molecular sieve, NGL recovery, sulfur recovery and debottleneck projects in several countries. He also has had roles in operations, business development and management. Mr. Bombardieri co-authored a paper on molecular sieve dehydration that was selected 'Best Paper Award' at the 2008 Gas Processor's Association annual convention and was published in the Oil and Gas Journal. He has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an M.B.A. from Tulane University.	Mr. Mark Bothamley Mr. Mark Bothamley MR. MARK BOTHAMLEY (markb@jmcampbell.com) is Chief Engineer with John M. Campbell & Company in Norman, Oklahoma. His experience covers the areas of design, operation, troubleshooting and optimization of offshore and onshore oil and gas production and treating facilities. Prior to joining JMC he was with BP/Amoco for 24 years, in several locations around the world. Mr. Bothamley is a past chairman of the SPE Facilities Subcommittee and a former member of the GPSA Data Book Editorial Review Board. Mr. Bothamley holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and a Diploma in Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.	Mr. John C. Bourdon Mr. John C. Bourdon MR. JOHN C. BOURDON is the President of John M. Campbell & Company. He has more than twenty-nine years experience in hydrocarbon processing and specializes in sulfur recovery processes for the petroleum refining industry. Mr. Bourdon has been involved in the development of several sulfur-related technologies and mechanical innovations, has authored several papers and made presentations worldwide. He has experience with several E&C firms including extensive start-up and troubleshooting activities. He consults for both North American and international clients. He is a registered professional engineer and member of Chi Epsilon Sigma Honor Society. Mr. Bourdon is fluent in English and Spanish. Mr. Bourdon has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and advanced degrees in other fields.
Mr. Justin Bourgeois Mr. Justin Bourgeois JUSTIN G.BOURGEOIS is a Sr. Technical Instructor at Halliburton teaching multiple drilling fluids courses and IADC well control. He has a drilling fluids engineering background at Halliburton where he worked in diverse locations. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana and is currently working on his MBA at Southwest University at Kenner, Louisiana.	Mr. Robert E. Boyd Mr. Robert E. Boyd ROBERT E. BOYD has over 30 years experience in the fields of venture capital, corporate finance accounting, risk management, international finance, strategic business planning, and domestic/international banking where he has advised companies on over $1 billion in transactions. He is founder and President of Boston Street Advisors, Inc., where he has successfully advised on and negotiated several transactions including serving on a team that restructured over $500 million of corporate debt for a major multi-national diversified energy concern, and has been the exclusive advisor for the financing and sale of mid-market companies across a variety of industries. He has served as an adjunct professor of Finance, Strategic Management and International Trade and Accounting for several Universities. He graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Oklahoma and a Certified Global Management Accountant.. He holds a series 65 securities license. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from Phillips University, and a M.B.A. from the University of Tulsa.	Dr. Steven E. Boyer Dr. Steven E. Boyer DR. STEVEN BOYER has a wide range of industry experience that includes: minerals exploration, structural studies, thrust belt oil field development, structural field schools, and consulting for several major oil companies. He has worked in a variety of complex structural terrains, including thrust belts of North America (US & Canadian Rockies, Appalachians, Brooks Range), the Basin & Range extensional province, and inversion tectonics of the Indonesian back-arc region. His principal research interests are the interpretation and description of complex fold structures, the use of geometry to deduce relative timing of structures, and the role of structural kinematics on the timing of hydrocarbon generation, migration and entrapment. He has published 13 refereed papers and two papers in books on thrust belts. He received the Best Paper Award from the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America, and was named Distinguished Lecturer by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1992-1993. He received a B.S. in geology from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. J. Ford Brett Mr. J. Ford Brett J. FORD BRETT is a recognized worldwide as a leader in the area of Petroleum Project Management and has spoken professionally and conducted scores of seminars in over 32 countries on five continents. His technical background and work experience qualify him as an expert in the area process and project performance, and petroleum training. ? He has received many honors, including the 2000 Crosby Medallion for Global Competitiveness by the American Society for Competitiveness for its work in global competitiveness through quality in knowledge management, best practices transfer, and operations improvement. For his work on improved drilling techniques he was honored in 1996 with a nomination for the National Medal of Technology, the US Government's highest technology award. He has authored or co-authored over 30 technical publications, a book titled Organizational Learning the 24 Keys to High Performance, and has been granted over 28 U.S. and International patents - including several patents relating to elimination of Drill Bit Whirl (which the Oil and Gas Journal Listed as one of the 100 most significant developments in the history of the petroleum industry). ? He is registered Professional Engineer and a certified Project Management Professional. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and physics from Duke University (where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa), an M.S.E. from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Oklahoma State University.	Luis Javier Brito-Pino Luis Javier Brito-Pino Mr. Luis Brito-Pino has more than 19 years of experience working for the Oil Refining, Gas & Petrochemical Industries, and also for the Engineering & Design firms for those same sectors. During that time, he has held several technical engineering and mid-level management positions, including Optimization & Planning Superintendent for one of the Venezuelan Orinoco Belt Extra Heavy Oil Upgraders (SINCOR). Mr. Brito has lived and worked in Caracas, Maracaibo, Puerto La Cruz (Venezuela), Puebla (Mexico), Madrid (Spain) and recently in Adelaide (Australia). He is currently based in Whyalla (South Australia, Australia), where he works for an Australian company within the Oil & Gas sector. Mr. Brito earned a Master of Science degree in Oil Refining, Gas & Petrochemical from the Institute Francois du Petrol (IFP) and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, Venezuela.	Mr. Larry K. Britt Mr. Larry K. Britt LARRY K. BRITT is an engineering consultant with NSI Fracturing and President of Britt Rock Mechanics Laboratory at the University of Tulsa. Since joining NSI in early 1999, he has specialized in the development and application of tools for the post appraisal of hydraulic fracturing stimulations. His experience includes the optimization, design, and execution of fracture stimulations and integrated field studies throughout the world. Prior to joining NSI he worked for Amoco Production Company for nearly twenty years. During the last six years with Amoco, he was fracturing team leader at Amoco's Technology Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was charged with managing the development and application of fracturing technology for Amoco's worldwide operations. He is the co-author of the SPE book Design and Appraisal of Hydraulic Fractures. He has authored over thirty technical papers on reservoir management, pressure transient analysis, hydraulic fracturing, and horizontal well completion and stimulations. He has a B.S. in Geological Engineering and a Professional Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology where he is an adjunct professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department and a member of both the Petroleum and Engineering Advisory Boards.
Mr. Joseph (Jos) Buntinx Mr. Joseph (Jos) Buntinx JOSEPH (JOS) BUNTINX started his career in the drilling industry in 1982. He established BJ Training, a division of BJ Plan bvba in 1993 as a consulting service company doing drilling consultancy work for NIRAS and Geological Consultancy Services in Belgium and auditing a drilling project for Crysoar, UK. He has performed Directional Drilling training for Shell, EDS, Gas de France and Neddrill (Noble) in the Netherlands as well as drilling courses for Maersk in Denmark, Crosco in Croatia and ADCO in Abu Dhabi. His education includes Humanities at St. Jan Berchmanscollege, Genk, Belgium; Architecture and Civil Engineering at P.H.I.A., Hasselt, Belgium; Drilling Engineering at the Institut Franais du Ptrle, Paris, France and Financial Management., V.E.V., in Antwerp, Belgium. He speaks and writes French, English and Dutch fluently and speaks and writes German well.	Dr. John Burrell Dr. John Burrell DR. JOHN BURRELL is a petroleum consultant in London, England. He worked for 21 years with BP as a seismic researcher, interpreter and later as an oil and gas field subsurface manager. He developed BP's one-dimensional synthetic seismic modeling package and provided 1-D and 2-D modeling support to the North Sea explorationists. He worked on AVO modeling in the North Slope of Alaska, China and the North Sea and as a project geophysicist on the Clyde, Beatrice, Thistle, Don and Magnus Fields in the North Sea, laying the foundation for the acquisition of 4-D seismic data over Magnus. He worked extensively on two phases of development of the Bruce gas condensate field both as a geophysicist and in subsurface operations. He received a B.S. in Geology, an M.S. in Geophysics, a Ph.D. in Marine Geophysics, from the University of Birmingham and a B.A. in Mathematics from Open University in Milton Keynes, England.	Mr. Jim D. Cain Mr. Jim D. Cain JIM CAIN is co-owner of Cain & Barnes, L.P., the geomatics experts group based in Houston since 2004. He has been active in the E&P industry since 1973. His primary strengths in Geomatics, Geodesy, GPS and offshore surveying stem from many years of responsibility for international surveying operations, sales and operation of hydrographic surveys, shallow hazards surveys, precise positioning services, as well as sophisticated GPS equipment and high accuracy positioning. These surveys and sales were in 30 countries on 6 continents. These efforts continued for Thales GeoSolutions as Vice President, International Marketing, for projects in Africa. 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 Mr. Jerry Calvert D.G. (JERRY) CALVERT worked with DX-Sunray Oil, Dowell, and Mobil during his 40 plus years in the oil industry. He remained active working with API, SPE, ISO TC67 WC2, and as a consultant in the areas of cementing and lost circulation. He worked in both up-stream and down-stream operations and spent the last 35 years in the area of well cementing. 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 Mr. John M. Campbell Specialist	Mr. Richard S. Carden Mr. Richard S. Carden RICHARD S. CARDEN has taught drilling, horizontal drilling and underbalanced drilling seminars in the United States and internationally for more than 20 years. He has authored numerous technical papers on directional drilling and underbalanced drilling. He was a contributing author to the "Underbalanced Drilling Manual " published by GRI. He worked for Grace, Shursen, Moore and Associates (GSM) as a drilling completion consultant both domestically and overseas. While at GSM he was a wellsite consultant drilling and completing wells in the field; including: geothermal wells, deep/high-pressure gas wells, air drilled wells, directional wells, and horizontal wells. He also worked as a Drilling and Production Engineer for Marathon Oil Company in the Rocky Mountain region. He earned a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology in 1977.
Mr. Paul Carmody Mr. Paul Carmody Mr. Paul A. Carmody has more than 34 years of experience in the petroleum industry. During his 32 years with Hess Corporation and its predecessor, Amerada Hess Corporation, Mr. Carmody has been involved in nearly all aspects of oil and gas engineering from the reservoir sand face through the outlet of gas plants. He is a registered Professional Engineer in North Dakota where his experience includes Bakken oil development, production engineering, pipelines, and compressor station installations. West Texas experience includes CO2 EOR flood gas gathering, CO2 pipelines, and gas plant engineering. His gas plant experience includes three expansions of a CO2 Gas plant, cryogenic gas plants, and lean oil plant processes where he has supplies process and design engineering services. He has served as a board member of the CO2 Conference in Midland. Mr. Carmody graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.	Mr. Keith C. Carr Mr. Keith C. Carr KEITH C. CARR is an Oil and Gas professional with nearly 30 years of diverse industry experience in both technical and managerial roles. He has been a formal instructor for 5 years and has held many mentoring roles throughout his career. His technical experience is well-rounded and includes extensive production operations, well and facility optimization, reservoir analysis, project management, supervision of office and field staff, union negotiations, structural reorganization, asset acquisition and disposition, contract negotiations, operating and capital budgeting. He received a diploma in Petroleum Technology, Operations from the Sourthern Alberta Institute of Technology.	Stephen Carr 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 Mr. Ajey Chandra MR. AJEY CHANDRA is a principal in the Houston office of Purvin & Gertz. He joined the firm in 1998 after working for Amoco for 12 years in gas processing and gas transportation. Prior to joining Purvin & Gertz, Ajey was responsible for all facets of a 2.4 Bcfd gas processing facility in the United Kingdom. Since joining Purvin & Gertz, Ajey has worked on a variety of assignments in the areas of market analysis, forecasting, gas processing and transportation costs. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an M.B.A from the University of Houston.	Dr. Andrew Chen Dr. Andrew Chen ANDREW CHEN has worked with Shell Canada, BP Canada, AJM Petroleum Consultants, Schlumberger Canada, and also as an international consultant, with over 20 years of oil industry professional experience. His main interest and practice include classic reservoir engineering applications, field case studies, resource and reserve evaluations, formation testing and interpretations. In recent years, he has dedicated time working on unconventional resources, such as light tight oil, tight gas and liquid rich shale, from early screening, business development, exploration activities, asset appraisals, and development planning. He holds a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from University of Manitoba, a member of SPE, and a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Alberta, Canada.	Mr. Satinder Chopra Mr. Satinder Chopra SATINDER CHOPRA, M.Sc., M.Phil. (Physics) has 27 years experience as a geophysicist specializing in processing, reprocessing, special processing and interactive interpretation of seismic data. He has rich experience in processing various types of data like VSP, well log data, seismic data, etc, as well as excellent communication skills, as evidenced by the several presentations and talks delivered and books, reports, and papers written. 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 Mr. Alexandre Chwetzoff ALEXANDRE CHWETZOFF has over 35 years experience in engineering applications most of which was devoted to a major oil company in various management level positions. He has extensive experience in exploration, business development, strategic planning, training development and management of multi-disciplinary conceptual teams. He is fluent in French, English and Russian and is knowledgeable in German. He received a Master of Engineering in Marine and Construction Engineering from Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Techniques Avances (ENSTA) in Paris.	Mr. Stewart Clarke Mr. Stewart Clarke STEWART CLARKE is an occupational health and safety practitioner employed with Corporate Risk Systems Limited. He has over twenty years' experience in training, personnel development and mentoring at all levels within a wide range of organizations. He is a Chartered Member (CMIOSH) of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health with a background in engineering and teaching. Stewart was formerly a principal tutor at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health in the Division of Epidemiology and Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at The University of Manchester. Stewart's technical expertise includes mentoring and assessing NVQ OS&H Diploma candidates (PetroSkills mentored program HS70), investigating loss events, and providing instruction on NEBOSH, IOSH and CIEH externally-certified courses.	Jimmy Clary Jimmy Clary
Mr. Peter J Cockcroft Mr. Peter J Cockcroft PETER COCKCROFT has a proven track record for successfully managing international energy businesses in various countries. This includes entrepreneurial project identification, management and implementation (including financing), both in the petroleum and power sector. His last twenty years have been mostly in management and board roles. He has been Country Manager in six different countries, and was responsible for the first combined gas field/power project ever developed in Asia. With his experience in the natural gas sector, he has been asked to by Governments and companies to get involved in the unconventional gas sector. During the past few years, he has been a Board member of six new E and P companies, including two in the Middle East (Kuwait Energy, Sky Petroleum), and three in Australia (Baraka Petroleum, Australian Oil Company, Nuenergy), and others in India and Indonesia. He has a reputation for having extremely high-level contacts worldwide, and is often consulted by host governments on international negotiations and energy policy.	Mr. Gerald R. Coulter Mr. Gerald R. Coulter GERALD R. COULTER is a consulting petroleum engineer and President of Coulter Energy International in Gainesville, Texas, which he started in 1994. He is actively involved in consulting and technology transfer of well completion technology, production operations technology, formation damage, and well stimulation technology. His prior industry experience includes 12 years with Oryx Energy Company working in the area of well completions, chief completion engineer, manager of drilling and completions technology, and manager of the offshore Gulf of Mexico drilling, completion, marine facilities, and environmental/regulatory group. Previously, he was with Halliburton Services for 16 years as a stimulation research and application engineer and group leader in Duncan, Oklahoma, and technical advisor in London, England. 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 Mr. Mick Crabtree MR. MICK CRABTREE has spent the last eight years running industrial workshops throughout the world in the fields of: Process Control and Instrumentation; Data Communications; Fieldbus; Emergency Shut-down Systems; Project Management; On-Line Analysis; and Technical Writing and Communications. He has trained over 5,000 engineers, technicians and scientists. Mr Crabtree formerly trained in aircraft instrumentation and guided missiles in the Royal Air Force, having completed his service career seconded to the Ministry of Defense and he was responsible for ensuring the reliability, maintainability and functional usefulness of specific equipment entering the RAF. He is the former editor and managing editor of Pulse magazine, South Africa's leading monthly journal dedicated to the general electronic and process control instrumentation industries. He has written and published six technical handbooks on industrial process control. Mr. Crabtree holds a M.Sc. (Research) in Industrial Flow Measurement and an HNC in Electrical Engineering (with distinctions).
Mr. Pierre Crevier Mr. Pierre Crevier Mr. Pierre P. Crevier worked in operations, design and business development functions across Canada prior to joining Saudi Aramco in 1992. As a member of the Upstream Process Engineering Division in Dhahran he provides process consultancy to the company's gas plants and refineries. Over the last 15 years he has led the company's efforts in addressing chronic Claus catalyst deactivation caused by aromatic contaminants. Mr. Crevier earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1980 and 1987 respectively.	Dr. Bryan T. Cronin Dr. Bryan T. Cronin PROFESSOR BRYAN CRONIN is a geologist with 23 years of technical experience with turbidites at outcrop, on the sea floor and in the subsurface. He has been involved in education and training for 16 years with masters and PhD students and industry professionals. He has been a consultant since 2005. 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 John Curry Mr. John Curry is a recognized authority on the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, pressure vessel design, fabrication and metallurgy. He founded and was President of Gulfex, Inc. for more than 37 years. This firm is a major producer of pressure vessels for the refining, natural gas, oil production and petrochemical industries. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer on Section VIII, Div.1 of the Code teaching engineers worldwide on pressure vessels. He consults in the field of upgrading and rerating existing pressure vessels for new service. He continues to be a volunteer for the Boy Scouts of America promoting high adventure programs for older scouts. He has been teaching Biblical History for over 25 years. After completing his mechanical engineering training, he completed an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent two years in night school studying metallurgy at Rice University.
Mr. Ralph Dartez Mr. Ralph Dartez MR. RALPH DARTEZ has over 30 years of engineering and management experience. He has led engineering, construction, operating and field development and management teams in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska Cook Inlet and UK North Sea for Marathon Oil Company. Mr. Dartez was Marathon Oil Company's Gulf of Mexico Region Manager during the mid 1990s at the time a number of deepwater fields were discovered and developed including Troika (2700' water depth), Oyster (1000' wd), Arnold (1700' wd), Petronius (1800' wd) and Camden Hills (7100'wd). He has experience with drilling and completions, design, construction and reservoir management of deepwater and particularly sub-sea developments.	Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta Dr. Akhil Datta-Gupta DR. AKHIL DATTA-GUPTA is Professor and holder of the LeSuer endowed chair in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He worked for BP Exploration/Research and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the recipient of the 2009 John Franklin Carll Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers for distinguished contribution in the application of engineering principles to petroleum development and recovery. Prior to that, he received the 2003 Lester C. Uren Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for significant technical contributions in petroleum reservoir characterization and streamline-based flow simulation. Dr. Datta-Gupta is a SPE Distinguished Member (2001), Distinguished Lecturer (1999-2000), Distinguished Author (2000), and was selected as an outstanding Technical Editor (1996). He also received the SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Certificate twice (2000 and 2006) and the AIME Rossitter W. Raymond Award (1992). He is co-author of the SPE textbook Streamline Simulation: Theory and Practice.' He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin.	Dr. Mojdeh Delshad Dr. Mojdeh Delshad DR. MOJDEH DELSHAD is Research Professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her experience and research are in the areas of enhanced oil recovery (EOR), CO2 sequestration, reservoir engineering, modeling surfactant and polymer flow in porous media, and reservoir simulation of advanced EOR processes. She has approximately 90 technical papers in these areas. She is in charge of UTCHEM (The University of Texas chemical flooding oil reservoir simulator) development and user support. She is an associate editor for the SPE Journal of Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering and a member of SPE Book Committee. She received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Sharif University in Tehran and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ken Delve Ken Delve KEN DELVE has fulfilled roles as Principal Consultant and Chief Instructor with an international training Company, has been a Director of Aviation and Strategic Development with a leading specialist publisher, and has 20-years in Government service. He is also an established author (35 books and numerous articles) and lecturer. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of competency-based training, from analysis and determination of competency frameworks, to the design of training courses and validation of training. As Global Manager of PetroSkills Competency Management solutions, he was involved in the implementation of the PetroSkills Alliance Competency Maps and Profiles. He is Course Director and instructor for the PetroSkills 'Improving Communications Quality' course. In his current role he is responsible for PetroSkills business across the greater Middle East region, and remains a principal consultant in the competency and L&D areas. He has a BA Honors degree in Ancient History and Archeology.	Mr. Kris Digre Mr. Kris Digre MR. KRIS A. DIGRE has over 36 years of experience working in locations around the world. He has designed or been involved with the design of offshore structures located off the coast of West Africa, Alaska, Australia, Brazil, Borneo, California, China, Egypt, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. He has been involved in the technical specification development and/or installation of all of deepwater Tension Leg Platforms (TLP) and a Floating Production System (FPS) in the Gulf of Mexico and an FPSO offshore Nigeria. Mr. Digre remains active in retirement providing advice to E&P project groups on various Nigeria FPSO projects. Mr. Digre is a graduate (BSCE) of Illinois Institute of Technology and a Licensed Professional Engineer in New Jersey, Louisiana, Texas and California.	Mr. John F. Dillon Mr. John F. Dillon JOHN F. DILLON has over 28 years of industry experience working for major companies such as ConocoPhillips and BP, as well as consulting experience in geoscience, organizational excellence and staff development. He has worked the entire exploration-development disposal chain, from early basin analysis, through development, to end of field life farm-outs. His experience has spanned a wide range of play types, rock types, and environments of deposition and his development experience has taken him to the North Sea, Dubai, West Coast Africa, and Alaska. His exploration efforts have been in Angola, Congo, Libya, Niger, and the Western US. He brings experience to the room beyond the science itself, including: the management of personnel associated with the science, project development from conception through to high level approval, as well as years of experience in "how can we get things done" and "why is this important". He has been deeply involved with the creation and refinement of learning and staff development programs since 1990. He received a B.S. from Marietta College, and a M.S. from the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Iskander R. Diyashev Dr. Iskander R. Diyashev DR. ISKANDER DIYASHEV is a General Director for NRK-Technology, which is an engineering and consulting company based in Moscow with operations in Russia and Ukraine. He is responsible for the planning of field development, reserves evaluation and addition, planning of the exploration activities, as well as engineering and technology. 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 Mr. William Dokianos Mr. William (Bill) Dokianos has over 35 years' experience, primarily in Mechanical and Process Engineering. His experience includes assignments in operations, project execution, technical support and engineering management; both onshore and offshore. Mr. Dokianos has been involved in analyzing and solving poor platform up time for both shallow water and deep water platforms. Activities included process control changes due to stacked separator vessels, revising safe charts, operating settings and reconfiguration of pipeline export pumps. He managed a subsea tieback project in which the platform modifications included high pressure vessel redesign, dehydrator expansion, adding vapor recovery units, restaging high pressure and intermediate gas compressors and modifying bulk oil process design. His pipeline experiences include responsibility for DOT compliance activities and reporting, the development and implemtation of federal risk programs and smart pigging, pipeline construction and control center management. Mr. Dokianos holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He is a Professional Engineer in Louisiana and New Mexico and holds a General and Commercial Contractor License in New Mexico.	Mr. Christopher Dougherty Mr. Christopher Dougherty CHRISTOPHER DOUGHERTY spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy as an engineer with responsibility for fuel and logistics, diving, breathing apparatus and fire fighting, Chris left to become a civilian instructor of mechanical and electrical theory. Developing a safety career since 1998, Chris is a specialist occupational safety and health course leader with Corporate Risk Systems Limited. He has considerable experience in the petrochemical, marine and food industries and holds a Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health. His training specialisms include HSE management, construction and demolition safety, confined space entry (Sabre Contour 2000 and Drager Plus), risk assessment and failure recovery procedures. His recent clients include Baker Hughes, Chevron, and Conoco Phillips in the North Sea, where he was the program leader for a two-year programme developing the HSE competencies of team leaders, operators and contractors.
Ms. Kerry Jane Edwards Ms. Kerry Jane Edwards KERRY EDWARDS is the lead instructor for the PetroSkills Health classes, with over twenty years' HSE experience. She is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and a Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management. Kerry's prior career was spent in paramedic nursing, specialising in intensive care and major trauma. In 1992, she joined an international manufacturing group as Health and Safety Manager. In 1997, she was awarded a Recognition Award for her achievements. After five years, she moved into accident research and investigation, where she used her biomechanics and medical knowledge to aid research into vehicle safety and future vehicle design. She presented her research into Pedestrian Biomechanics and Lower Limb Injury Inter-relationships at the IRCOBI Conference in Barcelona in 1999. Kerry was awarded BSc in Occupational Health and Safety by Wolverhampton University and Birmingham University Medical Institute. Latterly, Kerry has worked as an OH&S consultant and accredited trainer with Corporate Risk Systems Limited. She has worked with PetroSkills members in Europe and the USA. She is a Lead Auditor for OSHAS 18001, a NEBOSH instructor and examiner, as well as providing vocational mentoring and assessment to individual professionals.	Mr. Greg Ernster Mr. Greg Ernster GREG ERNSTER is a Vice President with MHA Petroleum Consultants LLC, a Denver based petroleum engineering consulting firm. He has over 30 years of petroleum engineering experience with particular emphasis in reservoir simulation, reserve assessment, economic evaluations, field development planning, miscible flooding, gas and gas condensate reservoir engineering. Recent projects entail simulation and field development of offshore Nigerian oil fields. Prior to joining MHA, he was the Offshore Exploitation Manager for Santos in Australia. He has also held various reservoir engineering and management positions with Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO) in Houston, Los Angeles, Dubai, and Dallas. His final position with ARCO was as Engineering & Geoscience Manager for the Rourde el Baguel miscible flood project in Algeria. He is a registered Petroleum Engineer, and received a B.Sc. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1981.	Mr. Robert Fanning Mr. Robert Fanning MR. ROBERT FANNING has held various Process Engineering and Management positions in his 26 years with Mobil. Mr. Fanning's background includes general oilfield facilities, water flood facilities, CO2 flood facilities, NGL recovery, and LNG. Mr. Fanning was on the Board of the Permian Basin Chapter of the GPA for several years and is a past President of the chapter. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wyoming and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
Mr. John R Farina Mr. John R Farina JOHN R. FARINA has 43 years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry with major oil companies, a small exploration and production consulting company and as an independent consultant. He has worked on completion, stimulation and workover recommendations for exploration and exploitation programs, both nationally and internationally. Projects have ranged from shallow, thermal recovery fields to deep over-pressured gas. He was a Supervisor for workover and well completions group at Shell Oil Company, and was employed by Sneider and Meckel Associates as Production Manager and Senior Consultant. Currently, he consults for projects to evaluate and design completion and stimulation procedures for unconventional gas reservoirs. He received a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from West Virginia University.	Wolfgang Foerg Wolfgang Foerg Mr. Wolfgang Foerg has over 20 years' experience in plant system design, control system design and selection, procurement, engineering management, and installation and commissioning of vendor proprietary equipment. His experience includes assignments as project engineer, rotating equipment specialist, lead engineer for major EPC contractors, as well as experience in construction, module design, commissioning and startup of plants. The types of plants include air separation plants, gas plants, gas storage facilities, power generation, MTBE plants, refinery wastewater treatment facilities, phenol plants, polypropylene plants, crude oil treating facilities and crude oil pipelines, LNG/NGL liquefaction plants, and LNG receiving terminals. Specific equipment experience includes gas turbines, steam turbines, cryogenic expanders, centrifugal compressors, reciprocating compressors, centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, polymer extruders, refrigeration systems, diesel engines, motors, generators, dryers, chemical injection systems, cooling towers, boilers, and loading arms. Mr. Foerg holds a M.S., Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a B.S., Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Wyoming, Colorado, Alberta, and Texas and is a CCHEST Safety Trained Supervisor (STS).	Michael Forsthoffer Michael Forsthoffer
Mr. William (Bill) E. Forsthoffer Mr. William (Bill) E. Forsthoffer William (Bill) E. Forsthoffer joined with John M. Campbell & Company to deliver the Pumps and Compressors course. Mr. Forsthoffer has over 30 years of pumps and compressors experience including establishing his own company, Forsthoffer Associates, Inc., whose objective is “The Optimization of Rotating Equipment Safety and Reliability through Understanding and Vendor-User Communication.” Mr. Forsthoffer holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Detroit, Michigan.	Mr. Alan Foster Mr. Alan Foster MR. ALAN FOSTER spent 25 years with Petrolite Corporation and Baker Petrolite involved in oilfield and refinery operational problems and their resolution by chemical treatment programs. Mr. Foster has developed and taught courses on oilfield water treatment and oilfield corrosion control since 1978. Other courses included oil demulsification, paraffin and asphaltenes, oilfield microbiology (and MIC) and refinery technology. He was also qualified by the original training company in its field to teach their project management course. He has been a Chartered Chemist and Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry for over 25 years and was also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Mr. Foster received his B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Portsmouth Polytechnic (UK) and his MBA from Leeds University. He is based in the United Kingdom.	Mr. Eric A. Foster Mr. Eric A. Foster ERIC A. FOSTER, P. Geol., is a Geoscience Advisor/Instructor with PetroSkills based in Houston with 36 years of operations and management experience in the oil and gas industry. His background includes all aspects of formation evaluation and the application of software to geological and drilling engineering data acquisition and interpretation. He has acted as a technical advisor /consultant on projects throughout the world, and has extensive experience in the design and delivery of training programs. Previously, he was with Landmark responsible for managing Geoscience and Engineering consultants, representing Geological, Geophysical and Petrophysical software applications and services for global operations. He was an instructor of petroleum technology at Mount Royal College and SAIT in Calgary and in-house for Amoco. 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 Ms. Laura S. Foulk LAURA S. FOULK has over 25 years of business, customer service, geologic, interpretation, engineering, management, and sales experience in the oil and gas industry. After holding multiple positions at Schlumberger and Marathon Oil, she created Integrated GeoSolutions, Inc. to provide wellbore image interpretation and processing on image data from all vendors, and has been the company's President since 2001. She specializes in reservoir characterization through integrating dipmeter and image data with core data, petrophysical data, seismic data, production data and engineering data, thus providing a better understanding of reservoir performance and potential. 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 Ronald Frend Mr. Ron Frend has almost forty years of engineering, consulting and management experience starting his career with Shell Tankers (UK) as an engineer officer cadet through to chief engineer, then taking up a maintenance engineering position in Oman rising to a senior management position in Shell International (Middle East) before opening an engineering consultancy in 1989. His entire career has been concerned with practical applications of maintenance, operations and engineering. Ron is experienced in a variety of engineering and maintenance analytical techniques as well as possessing management skills suitable to an engineering consultancy and a large multi-national corporation. Highlights of Ron's career include centrifugal compressor optimization of surge control systems, introduction of enveloped demodulation vibration analysis techniques and development of a methodology to calculate U and R values based on infrared thermal imaging measurements. Ron is currently based in Blackpool, England where he is managing director of his own consultancy. He is a registered engineer with a M.Sc. from Huddersfield University in England as well as being a certified Chief Engineer Officer (marine).	Mr. Paul S. Gardner Mr. Paul S. Gardner PAUL S. GARDNER has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in a number of capacities within research and operational organizations. He is an instructor for sessions associated with Petrophysics and Well Log Analysis. His expertise spans most aspects of petrophysics and reservoir characterization, and he has carried out, or been part of a team completing numerous projects in a variety of geologic environments. He was the founder of the petrophysical organization at Marathon's Petroleum Technology Center. He has also held a number of management positions associated with reservoir characterization, petrophysics, and technology integration. 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 Terry N. Gardner DR. TERRY N. GARDNER is a mechanical engineer who spent over 35 years with Exxon and BP working to advance deepwater technology. He led research on deepwater riser VIV; development of a high-current Riser Centralizer System, which was installed in the GoM; development of one of the earliest TLPs, which was installed in the Norwegian North Sea; and numerous riser and production platform innovations for deepwater. He has taught undergraduate engineering at Cornell and Rice and leads tours about oil and gas technology in the Houston Museum of Natural Science. He received a PhD from UCLA and an MS and BME from Cornell in Engineering Mechanics.	Mr. David A. Gemmill Mr. David A. Gemmill DAVID A. GEMMILL is an instructor at SAIT MacPhail School of Energy where he instructs students in Power Engineering Technology, Industrial Instrumentation, Chemical Engineering, Building Operations and Chemical Process Operations. His major areas of expertise include Engineering Science, Plant Processes, Unit Operations, Energy Management, Gas Processing and Safety. He has conducted energy audits and acted as coordinator and instructor in the Mobil Equatorial Guinea Industry training program. David has a B.Ed. in Education and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.	Dr. Ali Ghalambor Dr. Ali Ghalambor DR. ALI GHALAMBOR (now retired) was the American Petroleum Institute Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Director of Energy Institute at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has more than 32 years of industrial and academic experience. He has served as a consultant to many petroleum production and service companies as well as governmental agencies, professional organizations, and the United Nations. 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 Josh Gilad Mr. Y. (Josh) Gilad, P.E., has forty years of domestic and international experience in the engineering, analysis, inspection, troubleshooting, forensic investigation and expert witness for marine liquid bulk terminals for oil (crude, products) and gas (LNG, LPG), cargo handling and storage facilities, prime movers, piping and pipelines. His experience includes pipeline flow and hydraulic transient analysis, pipe stress analysis, pipeline on-bottom stability, pipeline integrity & fitness for service assessment. Throughout his years with Brown & Root (now KBR), Han-Padron Associates (now CH2M-Hill), and as an independent consultant, Mr. Gilad has been involved in the design and installation of numerous single point mooring (SPM) systems and other offshore petroleum terminals, fixed-berth and offshore cargo transfer systems, oil and gas pipelines, Pipeline End Manifolds (PLEMs), pig launching/receiving and oil storage facilities. Mr. Gilad holds a BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the Technion, Haifa and is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of TX, NY and CA. He is one of the original authors of the California State MOTEMS, and presently a member of PIANC working group, WG153, that is developing recommendations for the design of marine oil terminals.	Mr. Jeremy (Jerry) J. Gilbert Mr. Jeremy (Jerry) J. Gilbert JERRY GILBERT had a distinguished career for over 36 years with BP Exploration, working in a wide variety of reservoir and petroleum engineering posts at technical and management levels. After starting in BP's Research Center, he then worked in Libya, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi before spending ten years in Iran as a Lead Reservoir Engineer and Planning Manager. He returned to the UK in 1979 as Petroleum Engineering Manager for all of BP's UKCS and UK Onshore fields. Following a period in San Francisco as Vice President of Production, responsible for Alaskan and Californian fields, he transferred to Wytch Farm, Europe's largest onshore field as Deputy Development Director. In the late 1980s he became BP's Chief Petroleum Engineer with functional responsibility for all of BP's petroleum engineering. Before retiring from BP, he spent a number of years in Alaska as an advisor on equity negotiation and field operational integrity. He was deeply committed to the professional development of BP's petroleum engineers throughout his career. He has served on boards at IMM as well as IP, and was Chairman of the major London Section for the SPE. He was also closely involved with furthering industrial-academic relationships, participating in industrial advisory boards at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), Imperial College (London), Robert Gordon's University (Aberdeen) and University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He received a Moderatorship in Mathematics, with First Class Honors, B.A. from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. .	Dr. J. Robert Gochnour Dr. J. Robert Gochnour DR. J. ROBERT GOCHNOUR is a Manager in Advanced Reservoir Simulation Development for BP's Exploration and Production Technology in Houston. He has over 33 years of oil and gas industry and technology experience. Most recently he was the Subsurface Resource Manager and Subsurface Development and Deployment representative in charge of the management of critical skills, technical recruiting and strategic staffing for BP's subsurface technology. He sits on BP's Houston Challenge Network board and is a mentor to many BP reservoir and petroleum engineers. Previously he was Program Manager for the Excellence in Performance Predictions subsurface R&D program. Prior to that, he led the Reservoir Performance Prediction Network and was a main technical contact for vendors who provided reservoir simulation technology to BP. 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 Mr. Curtis Golike CURTIS L. GOLIKE is an Independent Petroleum Engineering consultant operating out of Colorado. He has 32 years experience working for three oil and gas companies. His most recent operating position was with Lundin Petroleum as director of Operations managing three of their four operated assets in Russia. His specific contributions were in the areas of revitalizing old fields, remote and start up operations, petroleum economics, and introducing new technologies internationally in reservoir management. His personal skills are in team development and forming international cross cultural teams of professionals to manage specific projects. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Texas and Colorado and a member of SPE service from 2003-2006 as the Nizhnevartovsk, Siberia section chair. He received a Bachelors Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and an Executive MBA from UCLA Business School.	Dr. G. Michael Grammer Dr. G. Michael Grammer Dr. G. Michael Grammer is a Full Professor and the Chesapeake Energy Chair of Petroleum Geology at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Grammer received his PhD in 1991 at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and has 20+ years of industry-related experience in carbonate reservoirs, sequence stratigraphy and carbonate reservoir characterization. His current research interests involve the various aspects of high resolution sequence stratigraphy and its application to carbonate reservoir characterization, 3-D modeling and petrophysical characterization. He has been an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer (2002-2003) and has led several AAPG field courses, including AAPG's modern carbonate course entitled "Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Distribution in a Modern Carbonate Platform, Bahamas" which he co-led for 14 years. Dr. Grammer has published extensively on carbonate reservoir characterization issues, including as lead editor of AAPG Memoir 80 "Integration of Outcrop and Modern Analogs in Reservoir Modeling" which won AAPG's Robert H. Dott Sr. Memorial Award for best special publication in 2006. Dr. Grammer's industry-related experience includes senior research positions with Texaco and ChevronTexaco where he functioned as an internal consultant and instructor on carbonate reservoir characterization issues in various parts of the world, most notably with super-giant fields in Kazakhstan. Dr. Grammer has consulted, presented short courses and led field trips for numerous multi-national companies.	Dr. James W. Granath Dr. James W. Granath DR. JAMES W. GRANATH is a consulting structural geologist who has worked in academia as well as the minerals and petroleum industries. His expertise lies in structural analysis, seismic interpretation, integration of the two, fracture analysis, regional synthesis, and prospect and play evaluation. In 1999 he opened a consulting practice focused on structural geology and tectonics as applied to exploration problems, interrupted only by brief periods of work with Forest Oil and Midland Valley Exploration in Denver. Prior to 1999, he taught at SUNY Stony Brook and spent 18 years in Conoco in research, international exploration, and new ventures. He is a member of AAPG, AGU, GSA, and RMAG, and is a certified petroleum geologist (#5512). He is the author of numerous research papers and co-edited several multi-author compendia.. He received his PhD from Monash University in Australia, and a BS and MS from of University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Mr. W. Gordon Graves Mr. W. Gordon Graves W. GORDON GRAVES is an independent petroleum consultant who specializes in Heavy Oil Development and Produced Water issues. He has 24 years of engineering and management experience in the petroleum industry. He worked with Getty Oil and Texaco for 21 years; his assignments included projects at Research and Technology centers, in heavy oil field operations at the Kern River Field in California, Caltex Pacific Indonesia's operations in Sumatra, and as Upstream Engineering Manager for the development of the Hamaca Project in the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela. While with CPI, he worked on waterfloods and new thermal recovery projects. As a technical leader, he led support for Texaco's Heavy Oil operations around the world and supervised a portfolio for Water Shut-off projects. Under his leadership the Water Shut-off team won many awards including the Texaco Technology Innovation Award and Hart's/PEI Meritorious Engineering Award. 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 Dr. Ton Grimberg DR. TON J.T. GRIMBERG is an Instructor/Coach for Shell's introductory course for graduates. He teaches Geology, Geophysics, Petrophysics and some aspects of Reservoir Engineering. His Shell career spanned 25 years in such fields as Petrophysics, Reservoir Engineering, Rock Mechanics, etc. He developed a range of qualities such as strategy development, planning, negotiating, personnel management, organizational development, change management, commercial techniques and economic planning. He received a certification and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Amsterdam.	Dr. Richard H. Groshong Dr. Richard H. Groshong DR. RICHARD H. GROSHONG, JR. is a structural geologist who heads 3-D Structure Research. Previously, he worked 10 years in the Cities Service Oil Co. research laboratory and 20 years as professor at the University of Alabama. He has published numerous papers on rock deformation, structural balancing, restoring, and modeling in the AAPG Bulletin, Journal of Structural Geology, Tectonics, Tectonophysics, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, and the Transactions of the GCAGS, among others. He has been associate editor for Geology and Tectonophysics, Chairman of the Structure & Tectonics division of the Geological Society of America; a visiting professor at the Universite de Lausanne and at the University of Petroleum in Beijing, and an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer. He wrote the book, "3-D Structural Geology", won the Best Paper Awards at the 1995 International Unconventional Gas Symposium and at the 1998 and 1999 meetings of the GCAGS. He received a B.S. from Bucknell University, an M.A. from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
Mr. Mark S. Hackler Mr. Mark S. Hackler MARK HACKLER is currently serving as the Vice President, Technical Services for The Frontline Group. His technical background and more than 25 years of work experience qualify him as an expert in the areas drilling project management, project planning and engineering practices. He has served in roles from a Project Drilling Engineer to a Project Manager. He has delivered over 50 well construction training courses and over 300 operational drilling workshops. He has managed full implementations of corporate well construction and planning processes and has additional experience in well planning, operations and post analysis and improvement efforts for numerous projects abroad. His most recent experience has included well planning and operational support for both conventional and horizontal drilling programs. He has been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers since 1983 and is also a member of the Project Management Institute. He received a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering & Technology from Oklahoma State University.	Gerard Hageman Gerard Hageman Mr. Gerard Hageman is based in The Hague (The Netherlands), where he settled recently after 33 years in the downstream oil and gas business (including LNG). He started his career with the Gulf Oil refinery in The Netherlands as a process engineer, after which he joined Shell for 29 years. During his career Mr. Hageman has worked in numerous countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Denmark and, of course, The Netherlands. He has been responsible for Process Engineering, Design, Operation, Start-up, Process Safety (Integrity), Interface management, Change processes, Competency assurance and Training. He holds a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Twente University in The Netherlands.	Mr. David Hairston Mr. David Hairston Mr. David Hairston has over 40 years of experience in project management, engineering and design, material logistics, and construction management for oil and gas facilities. Project experience includes pipeline transportation and production facilities, both onshore and offshore. Worldwide project and construction management experience at all levels includes grass-roots gathering, processing, and pipeline systems with a capital cost of over USD$ 2.5 billions. Specialized technical expertise includes river and special obstacle crossings using open-cut, bridging and directional drilling methods; offshore construction and logistics planning. Mr. Hairston has been published in ASCE Magazine, Proceedings of Marine Technology, Proceedings of several industry Pipeline Conferences, and the Oil and Gas Journal. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Civil Engineering for the University of Houston and is a Registered Professional Engineer in several U.S. states.
Mr. Andrew S. Harper Mr. Andrew S. Harper ANDREW HARPER is a petroleum geologist with 32 years of international exploration and development experience, including 21 years with ARCO. He has experience in the North Sea, the Middle East, China, Indonesia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, as well as the US Rocky Mts. and the Alaska North Slope. Since 2001, he has worked with MI Energy Corp on three oil field development projects located onshore NE China. He received a B.A. in Geology from Williams College and an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California.	Dr. W. Greg Hazlett Dr. W. Greg Hazlett DR. W. GREG HAZLETT is Vice President of OGCI/PetroSkills where he designs competency-based training programs, evaluates course materials and instructors, teaches training courses, and consults on technical issues. Prior to joining OGCI, he was Vice President of a consulting firm, where he was in charge of the petroleum and geological engineering consulting group. He specializes in performing reservoir characterization, engineering and simulation studies. Studies include deep-water Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields, a granite gas reservoir offshore India, and steamfloods in California. Dr. Hazlett has also worked for Mobil as a drilling engineer, and for Texaco as a steamflood project manager in Colombia, and as a reservoir and simulation engineer in both research and Kuwait operations. 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 Mr. Norman W. Hein NORMAN W. HEIN, JR., P.E. is an accomplished problem-solver with demonstrated knowledge and experience in oil and gas operations and engineering. He is highly competent, innovator with project management, materials selection, welding, inspection, alliance management, and quality management systems expertise. He has excellent verbal and written communication skills, including distinguished publications, training and standardization proficiency. He is a promoter of change and teamwork developing and implementing best practices applicable to artificial lift, field and well optimization, and corrosion control. He received an M.S. degree in Materials Science, along with his B. S. in Metallurgy / Minor in Manufacturing from the University of Illinois.
Mr. Richard S Henry Mr. Richard S Henry RICHARD HENRY has ten years management experience of multi-disciplinary teams including construction projects, JIT manufacturing, and (petroleum) field audits. He has sixteen years reservoir engineering experience including simulation, field management and reserves determination, and thirty years experience in programming, software engineering, and information technology. He holds a Bachelors of Science Industrial Engineering and a Masters of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.	Mr. Doug Hildenbrand Mr. Doug Hildenbrand DOUG HILDENBRAND has over 20 years experience developing operating and maintenance plans and procedures. He has the demonstrated ability to develop concise, easy to follow equipement operating and maintenance procedures which are derived from interpreting blueprints, schematics and complex technical manuals. Having more than 11 years in the classroom teaching a variety of subjects to his class participants combined with extensive tools experience enables him to effectively communicate a thorough understanding of subject matter in a way that his participants can understand, while finding his classes both enjoyable and informative. He has performed 'Needs Analysis' studies and developed procedures, documentation, curriculum and assessment tools for many specialized courses to fit the specific needs of business and industry clients. He researched and authored 30 instructional modules to be used in the Alberta Millwright Apprenticeship Trade according to objectives set out by Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training.	Dr. A. Daniel Hill Dr. A. Daniel Hill DR. A. D. HILL is Professor, holder of the Robert L. Whiting Endowed Chair, and Associate Department Head of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. Previously, he taught for twenty-two years at The University of Texas at Austin after spending five years in industry. He is the author of the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) monograph, "Production Logging: Theoretical and Interpretive Elements", co-author of the textbook, "Petroleum Production Systems", co-author of an SPE book, "Multilateral Wells", and author of over 130 technical papers and five patents. He has been a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Lecturer, has served on numerous SPE committees and was founding chairman of the Austin SPE Section. He was named a Distinguished Member of SPE in 1999 and received the SPE Production and Operations Award in 2008. He currently serves on the SPE Editorial Review Committee and is Chairman for the Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference. Professor Hill is an expert in the areas of production engineering, well completion, well stimulation, production logging, and complex well performance (horizontal and multilateral wells), and has presented lectures and courses and consulted on these topics throughout the world. He received a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, all in chemical engineering.
Mr. Ron Hinn Mr. Ron Hinn RON HINN is the Vice President of Training for PetroSkills. He is a people oriented technical manager, possessing strong leadership and communication skills. A registered professional engineer, Ron's 30 year career has spanned numerous roles including staff engineering, engineering supervision, corporate knowledge management and professional staffing and competency development. He recently completed a two year term as a Petroleum Engineering adjunct faculty, at the University of Tulsa. An active supporter of engineering accreditation activities since 1993, Ron has held the position of Secretary of the Board of Directors of ABET since 2009. Ron received a B.S. degree from the University of Tulsa in petroleum engineering.	Bob Hlozek Bob Hlozek Mr. Bob Hlozek, P.E. has over 40 years of technical experience in the Oil & Gas, Refining, Petrochemicals, and Specialty Chemicals industries. Mr. Hlozek has a varied work background that includes process engineering, design and equipment sizing, research, product development, plant startups, economic evaluations, technical management, operations, sales and marketing support, and business development. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M and completed some graduate studies toward an MBA at the University of Delaware. Mr. Hlozek has authored 10 technical articles, is a member of AIChE, Houston Chapter AIChE, Houston GPA, Texas Professional Engineering Society, Texas A&M Clubs and has served as Chairman and Officer for several local technical and university chapters.	Mr. Brian A. Hodgson Mr. Brian A. Hodgson BRIAN A. HODGSON has 32 years of international and domestic, onshore and offshore experience in oil and gas operations problem solving. He maintained full responsibility for corrosion control, material selection, produced fluid treatment, chemical treatment programs and pressure vessel and piping inspection programs. He supervised a group of culturally diverse personnel which included both company and contractor personnel. He is active in the National Association of Corrosion Engineers local and national activities and technical committees. He received an ACS Certified B.S. Chemistry degree with high honors from The California State University at Fullerton and has extensive continuing education in corrosion control, pressure vessel inspection, material selection, produced water treatment, protective coatings and petroleum production and reservoir engineering.
Mr. William (Bill) D. Holmes Mr. William (Bill) D. Holmes WILLIAM D. (BILL) HOLMES has over 35 years of Petroleum Engineering and Operations experience with Marathon Oil Company and as a consultant. During this time he has participated in a number of leading edge technology projects around the world. He is proficient in artificial lift selection and design as well as Nodal analysis. His experience includes gas well deliquification, inflow performance analysis and field production optimization. Well failure analysis, well completions, wireline operations and polymer water shut off treatments are also within his skillset. Bill has served on the steering committees for the Gas Well Deliquification Workshop as well as the Rod Pump Workshop. He has a B.S. in petroleum engineering from Texas Tech University.	Mr. Glenn Hood Mr. Glenn Hood GLENN HOOD is an Operations Instructor at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where he not only prepares lessons, but also assists with evaluating and updating course materials. He collaborates with lab technicians to develop practical training exercises for learners. He provides counsel and guidance to those in his classes. He has a diversified background that includes various industrial operations positions. He has a 3rd Class Power Engineering Certificate of Competency.	Frank Hopf Frank Hopf MR. FRANK HOPF has 35 years of experience in engineering and management of energy transportation and distribution facilities for crude oil, refined products, petrochemicals and LNG. He also has seven years pursuing a Ph.D. in geography where he conducted research in engineering geomorphology, GIS and remote sensing, hazard analysis, and the relationship of science and public policy development. During his 31 years with Shell Oil Company and affiliated companies, he managed engineering, construction and operations for pipelines and terminals in the Gulf of Mexico,Texas, Wyoming, Montana, California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Louisiana and Washington. He also served on the board of directors of several major joint interest pipeline systems. Mr. Hopf concluded his career with Shell in the implementation of an SAP based supply chain management system for the pipeline organization. He accepted a graduate assistantship to pursue a Ph.D. in geography, completing his dissertation on the risk of levee failures in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and the impacts of the assessment of risk on public policy formation. He also studied engineering geomorphology, fluvial and coastal geomorphology, and GIS/remote sensing applications to the energy transportation and distribution industries. He has taught large courses (excess of 300 students) at Texas A&M University. Mr. Hopf was awarded his Ph.D. in December of 2011. He is a registered Civil Engineer in Texas.
Mr. Timothy L. Hower Mr. Timothy L. Hower MR. TIMOTHY HOWERis President of MHA Petroleum Consultants Inc, a Denver-based petroleum consulting firm. He has over 21 years petroleum engineering experience and has conducted technical studies on 6 continents. His recent assignments include serving as Acting Exploitation Manager for the Offshore Australia Business Unit of Santos Ltd. in Adelaide, and in-house consultant for the Shell affiliate NAM located in the Netherlands. Previously, he was the Engineering Manager for Enron Oil and Gas Company and Senior Manager of Exploration and Production Studies with the former Intera Petroleum Division (now Schlumberger Holditch Reservoir Technologies). 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 Mr. Robert A. Hubbard MR. ROBERT A. HUBBARD is a training consultant with John M. Campbell & Company. He is based in Norman, Oklahoma with over 30 years experience in oil and gas facilities. Mr. Hubbard specializes in gas dehydration and economic evaluation. Mr. Hubbard joined John M. Campbell & Company in 1980; within the company organization he has held the positions of Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, President and Chief Financial Officer. He now provides consulting and training services worldwide. Previous to John M. Campbell & Company he held various engineering and management positions at Texaco Inc. from 1972 to 1980. Mr. Hubbard is a member of SPE, AIChE, and GPSA, he has chaired the SPE Facility Engineering Committee and is a member of the European GPA Management Committee. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University, and an MBA from Tulane University.	Mr. William E. Hughes Mr. William E. Hughes WILLIAM HUGHES is a practicing lawyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who has handled a wide variety of cases involving oil and gas related matters. He has studied in France and lived in Morocco and received a Fulbright scholarship to teach U.S. and comparative law at the University of Tunis during the 2000-2001 academic year. He teaches courses at the University of Tulsa, including courses in comparative and international law, European Union law, banking law, U.S. Constitutional law, and an introduction to the U.S. law and legal system for non-U.S. lawyers and graduate students. He is a graduate of Harvard University Law School.
Dr. Chun Huh Dr. Chun Huh DR. CHUN HUH is a well-recognized expert in process modeling, EOR simulator development, and the use of simulation for process design and scale-up for surfactant flooding, polymer flooding, miscible and foam flooding, and heavy oil recovery from unconsolidated sands. He joined the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering of UT-Austin as a Research Professor after working for many years as an Engineering Advisor at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. in Houston, participating and making key contributions in all areas of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Currently, at UT-Austin, he is actively involved in all aspects of EOR research, collaborating with a number of professors. He received a B.S. degree from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota both in chemical engineering.	Mr. Frank Jarrett Mr. Frank Jarrett MR. FRANK JARRETT has over 34 years of experience in the natural gas processing industry. His background covers design and optimization of natural gas liquids recovery, LNG processing, nitrogen rejection and recovery of helium from natural gas, acid gas removal, product distillation, dehydration, relief system design and evaluation, and plant utilities systems. He specializes in process modeling using HYSYS. He is a registered professional Engineer in the state of Colorado and has served on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Gas Processors Association. Mr. Jarrett received a B.S. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.	Mr. Glenn Jelinski Mr. Glenn Jelinski GLENN JELINSKI is a Professional Engineer with diverse experience in the upstream oil and gas industry with a strong focus on completions with exposure to drilling, production and facilities. His experience includes horizontal, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing completion design, conventional land and offshore completions, HPHT and critical sour gas completions as well as multilateral wells, intelligent well systems, artificial lift, sand control, tubing and casing design. SAGD and thermal completion techniques including in-flow control are also included in his areas of expertise. He received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Calgary.
Mr. Alfred R. Jennings Mr. Alfred R. Jennings ALFRED R. JENNINGS, JR. is a well stimulation consultant with Enhanced Well Stimulation, Inc., located in Athens, Texas. He actively provides well stimulation consulting services throughout the world.Prior to establishing Enhanced Well Stimulation, Inc, he worked for Mobil R&D Corporation/Mobil E&P Services, Inc.where he was involved in various applications of well stimulation throughout Mobil's worldwide operations. Prior to Mobil, he worked 15 years for Halliburton Services in all aspects of hydraulic fracturing research and field applications.He is a registered Professional Engineer and has authored or co-authored 95 US patents pertaining to applications and techniques for well stimulation.He is widely published and has served on numerous SPE Committees. He received a B.S. Degree in Chemistry and an M.S. Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.	Robin Jentz Robin Jentz Mr. Robin Jentz has 38 years of oil and gas processing experience. His work has included most process areas of oil and gas production, including design and testing of low dewpoint glycol dehydration units, analysis of flare and relief systems using dynamic simulation programs, retrofitting gas/liquid separators to increase capacity and eliminate entrainment, and upgrading oil dehydrators. Mr. Jentz has worked for both operating and engineering contracting companies. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Alaska and Washington. Mr. Jentz received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from California State University Long Beach in 1974.	Mr. Stephen Jewell Mr. Stephen Jewell STEPHEN JEWELL is an independent oil and gas consultant and advisor with 30 years experience in the upstream sector. He was previously the Managing Director and co-founder of Xodus Subsurface Ltd, the Wells and Subsurface company within the Xodus Group of technical consultants. He was also Chief Operating Officer and a founding shareholder of Composite Energy Limited, a European Unconventional Gas company, growing the company from seed capital of $500k to an ultimate sale value of over $60million in 5 years. He has over 16 years experience with Amerada Hess starting as petroleum engineer and progressing to Acting General Manager of its North Sea Operations Base. He received a B Eng (Honours) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sheffield and speaks Norwegian and French.
Dr. Russell T Johns Dr. Russell T Johns DR. RUSSELL T. JOHNS is Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, where he holds the Victor and Anna Mae Beghini Faculty Fellowship. Prior to his current position, he served on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2010. He also has nine years of industrial experience as a petrophysical engineer with Shell Oil and as a consulting engineer for Colenco Power Consulting in Baden, Switzerland. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from Stanford. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery, unconventional gas engineering, theory of gas injection processes, multiphase flow in porous media, and well testing. In these areas he has published over 160 technical papers, reports, and books. Dr. Johns received the SPE Ferguson medal in 1993 for his research on the combined condensing/vaporizing gas-drive process. He also received the Faculty Excellence award in 1997, the Young Faculty award from the University of Texas in 2000, and the departmental teaching award in 2004. He served as Co-Executive Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering journal from 2002 2004. In 2009, he was awarded the SPE Distinguished Member award. He is currently an Associate Editor for the SPE Journal and director of the gas flooding consortium and co-director of the unconventional natural resources consortium at Penn State University.	Dr. Howard D. Johnson Dr. Howard D. Johnson DR. HOWARD D. JOHNSON is a Shell Professor of Petroleum Geology at the Imperial College London. His extensive experience in the Petroleum Geology industry includes research, exploration and production geology, sedimentology and petroleum engineering. He also has wide experience in delivering technical courses, including Development Geology, Sedimentology, Reservoir Characterization and Modelling and Basin Analysis. He consulted for many companies such as BP, ExxonMobil, Shell and PETRONAS. His involvement within the industry goes on to include many technical publications, membership several professional bodies, such as SPE, AAPG, and PESGB, and participation on several societal and industry committees. 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 Mr. Jack R. Jones DR. JACK R. JONES has over 24 years of Reservoir Engineering experience with BP/Amoco and BP. His areas of expertise include Pressure Transient Analysis, Gas and Gas Condensate Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Management, Numerical Modeling and Numerical Methods. He served as a bp Global technical Advisor on Gas Reservoir Engineering with obligations to enhance bp's external technical reputation, improving internal organizational capability and broad information sharing. He received Amoco Performance Awards in 1992, 1993 and 1994; and was honored by the BP Professional Recognition Program in 2002. He received a B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering all from the University of Tulsa.
Mr. Morgan L. Jones Mr. Morgan L. Jones MORGAN L. JONES began his engineering career in West Texas with Amoco as a field petroleum engineer later transferring to Amoco International in Trinidad W.I. engaged in the offshore point Radix/Teak exploratory-development program. In 1973 he joined Phillips Petroleum Company in Gt. Yarmouth as Sr. Drilling Engineer-UK and was named Sr. Drilling Engineer in 1976 on the Worldwide Deepwater SEA GAP project engaged in worldwide exploration programs with the Discoverer Seven Seas. In 1978 he transferred to Norway as Drilling Engineering Director-Greater Ekofisk Operations and later became Chief Offshore Engineer-Greater Ekofisk, overseeing all offshore engineering operations. In 1980 he was named Technical Director for Phillips Alaska-Prudhoe Bay group. In 1983 he was transferred to the panhandle of Texas as Regional Engineering Manager of Drilling, Production, Process and Reservoir Engineering operations and was named Manager of Drilling Eastern Division-GOM in Houston in 1985. In 1992 he was appointed Drilling Manager USA-Alaska and in 1995 he was named Manager of Drilling Worldwide D&P. 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 Dr. Satish K. Kalra DR. SATISH K. KALRA is a petroleum engineer with over 25 years of management, operations, teaching, research, and consulting experience with national and private oil companies. As an Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, he taught graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. He also worked for the University of Texas at Austin. His career includes assignments with ONGC (National Oil Company of India), ARCO Offshore (now BP), BJ Services, Agio Oil and Gas, Schlumberger / Holditch, Miller and Lents and SKAL-TEX Corporation. He is widely published in technical literature and was the Chairman of the National SPE Committee on Monographs. His technical expertise includes the design and supervision of production and well completion operations, formation damage and sand control, reservoir management, technology transfer and contract negotiations. He actively participated in several technology transfer agreements with various Indian, Chinese, and Russian companies. He is fluent in English, Russian and several Indian languages. Recently he was nominated as a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences US Section. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the Gubkin Oil Institute, Moscow, Russia and a degree in law from Gujarat University, India.	Mr. E. John Keasberry Mr. E. John Keasberry JOHN KEASBERRY is an exploration geologist and partner in J&M GeoScience Services. In a 30 year career span he worked as such in Ethiopia, the UK, Ireland, Canada, the US, Turkey, the Middle East, the Far East, Ecuador, Norway and the Netherlands, with multiple companies including Placid, Barrick Petroleum, Santa Fe, Statoil, Unocal, Shell, and numerous small independents as an employee or consultant. He has been involved in the exploration and development phases of the petroleum development, from new ventures and asset acquisition, seismic interpretation, basin analysis, appraisal to farm-out and production. 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 Mr. William Keeter MR. BILL KEETER is a training consultant with John M Campbell and Company. Has had over fifteen years of experience as a maintenance professional. He has successfully implemented maintenance improvement programs in both small and medium-sized manufacturing and production facilities. Mr. Keeter’s experience includes maintenance leadership positions in the U.S. military, the nuclear industry, chemicals, paper converting, and plastic film manufacturing. He has provided training and reliability consulting services to process industries in the United States and the Mid-East. He has developed competency maps for Maintenance Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Engineering in the Petroleum Industry. Mr. Keeter holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Coker College and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina. He is a member of the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals.	Dr. Mohan G. Kelkar Dr. Mohan G. Kelkar DR. MOHAN G. KELKAR is a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His main research interests include reservoir characterization, production optimization, and risk analysis. He is involved in several research projects, which are partially funded by various national and international oil companies, the US Department of Energy, and Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and Technology. 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 Mr. Albin K. Kerekes ALBIN K. KEREKES is a consulting geophysicist and president, CEO of Liberty Seismic Consultants Inc., a Texas Corporation since 1995. His career started with Schlumberger in Colombia as an electronic maintenance engineer. Later he was appointed head of the Geology and Mining Division for the Institute of Nuclear Affairs in Bogot, Colombia. His involvement in applied seismology started in Canada with Pan American Petroleum Corporation and continued with Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas as a geophysicist. He also worked in Algeria for Teledyne as a Party Chief in one of the Algeo/Sonatrach seismic crews. Later he was employed as operations manager for Petty Engineering Company in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. He worked extensively in Canada, South America, North Africa and the Middle East in data acquisition, processing and interpretation before joining ARCO International Oil and Gas. Prior to his current position he was senior staff geophysicist for ARCO International Oil and Gas Company in charge of designing and establishing seismic field acquisition strategies and parameters for both off and onshore seismic surveys worldwide. A graduate of the Eotvos Lorand Geophysical Institute in Budapest, Hungary, he received a degree in Applied Geophysics.
Ms. Bibi C. Kerekes Ms. Bibi C. Kerekes BIBI C. KEREKES is a consulting geophysicist, co-founder, and Vice President of Liberty Seismic Consultants Inc., a Texas Corporation since 1995. She designs seismic strategies, field tests as well as quality controls procedures for seismic surveys. She has been actively involved in the seismic strategy study and design of field tests for Arco International Oil & Gas Co., in the Arguni prospect, Iriyan Jaya, Indonesia and the repeatability study in the Algerian Sahara region. She worked on seismic field acquisition projects for Pluspetrol S.A., and Anadarko Algeria Corporation in their seismic field acquisition ventures in Algeria and Marathon Oil Company and Pluspetrol in the desert regions of Tunisia. Her current research interest is in the application of end-fire marine seismic source arrays. She is also a technical paper reviewer for the Journal of Geophysics, an SEG publication. She received an engineering degree in geophysics from Ankara University, Turkey.	Mr. Arshad Khan Mr. Arshad Khan ARSHAD KHAN is a Consulting Reservoir Engineer with 47 years of oil industry experience. He is a Certified Petroleum Engineer and a registered PE, with a very strong Reservoir Engineering and Economics background. He has been involved in all aspects of petroleum engineering, drilling, production, reservoir management, acquisitions and divestitures, reserves and investment evaluations. He received an M.S. and a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.	Mr. Aaron Klein Mr. Aaron Klein AARON L. KLEIN is based in Houston, Texas, and is the Vice President Operations of PetrEX International, Inc. His training credentials with PetrEX include Leadership and Performance Skills Workshops, RigSMARTS Rig Crew Competency Training, Well Planning and Design, Train Wreck Avoidance, and more. Before joining PetrEX International, Inc. in 2005, he worked as a Drilling Foreman and Drilling Engineer for several major operators. Mr. Klein holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Mr. Stanley W. Kleinsteiber Mr. Stanley W. Kleinsteiber STANLEY KLEINSTEIBER is a Senior Petroleum Engineer with MHA Petroleum Consultants Inc., a Denver-based petroleum consulting firm. He has over 24 years of petroleum engineering experience. He has performed reservoir engineering studies in numerous US basins, Canada and Australia, as well as co-developed an in-house gas reservoir engineering course for clients such as BP, Japan National Oil Company (Tokyo), and EGPC (Cairo). . He also directs continued development of MHA's GAS3D reservoir simulator and software for production decline type curve analysis. His professional experience includes: work related to exploration well testing in the Mediterranean Ocean offshore Israel, performing field development studies for coalbed methane reservoirs in the Bowen Basin of eastern Australia, and conducting well test analyses for exploration wells in Hungary. 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 Dr. Thijs Koeling DR. THIJS KOELING was Managing Director of Exploration and Production (EP) with many years of international experience gained on postings to several countries during a 25-year career with Shell. He has a broad knowledge of and experience with E&P and gas activities (research, project evaluation, economics, appraisal drilling, planning, natural-gas policy, contract negotiations, team leadership and general management). He has vast experience with leading people from different cultural backgrounds. He received a Master's degree for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics and a Doctorate degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Groningen.	Mr. Dale Kraus Mr. Dale Kraus MR. DALE KRAUS has twenty-eight years of progressive responsibility from staff to management positions within the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Mr. Kraus has obtained sound basis in Facility/Processing Engineering and Field Operations in Oil and Gas Production. He is also the President of D. Kraus Oil & Gas Consulting Corp. Mr. Kraus is a member of A.P.P.E.G.A and the Canadian Gas Processors Association. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.
Mr. Dale Kunz Mr. Dale Kunz DALE KUNZ is President of Winterhawk Marketing Services Ltd., a privately held Canadian company providing risk-analysis, training, marketing, business development, forecasting and other consulting services to the upstream E&P and services sector of the Canadian and American petroleum industry. He has international experience in Egypt, Russia, Kuwait and Iran. His teaching experience includes five years as the Program Coordinator of Petroleum Engineering Technology at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. In addition to his consulting work, as President of Winterhawk Technologies Inc., Dale has designed and patented a number of downhole devices for oil and gas wells. He has two patents issued and another six pending. He has licensed downhole technologies to Schlumberger and Baker Hughes and has several new devices in the development phase. He received a First Class Power Engineering Certificate of Competency in 1983 from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).	Dr. Larry W. Lake Dr. Larry W. Lake LARRY W. LAKE is a professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He frequently conducts industrial and professional society short courses in enhanced oil recovery and reservoir characterization. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 technical papers, four textbooks and the editor of three bound volumes. Previously, he worked for Shell Development Company in Houston, Texas and was chairman of the department from 1989 to 1997. Formerly, he held the Shell Distinguished Chair and the W.A. (Tex) Moncrief, Jr. Centennial Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering. Currently, he holds the W.A. (Monty) Moncrief Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), as well as on several of its committees. He has received many awards/recognitions including: the 1996 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal of the AIME, the Degoyer Distinguished Service Award in 2002, the 1999-2000 Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Research Award and The University of Texas and the SPE/DOE Symposium IOR Pioneer Award in 2000. He received the SPE distinguished Service award in 2000, was named an SPE Honorary Member in 2006 and has twice been an SPE distinguished lecturer. In 2001, was chosen as a member of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers Dream Team. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineers, and received a B.S.E and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively.	Dr. James F. Lea Dr. James F. Lea DR. JAMES F. LEA, JR. is an instructor of industry courses and is involved in industry production and artificial lift related projects. He was a professor and Chairman of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University for six years until 2005. He spent 20 years with Amoco Corporation and was involved in consulting on flowing/lifting wells, testing, and research on lift methods, creating new computer programs for lifted and flowing wells, teaching production schools and monitoring JIPs on pipeline flow, artificial lift, erosion, corrosion, and others. 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 Mr. Christopher D. Lennon Chris Lennon is a director of Stone Falcon Corporate and Legal Consulting Ltd. The company specializes in the provision of consultancy, professional training and academic teaching within the area of Project Management. Chris works internationally and targets the Special Projects consultant application within the Project Management domain. He has a wide and varied experience across a number of market segments, ranging from the oil and gas industry to retail and distribution. He has instructed MSc. Level courses in Project Management both at The Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. He has experience instructing in the fields of Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Business Innovation, Creativity, Negotiation and Alternate Dispute Resolution. Chris has written and delivered MSc. Level material on oil and gas programmes in Mergers and Acquisitions. He holds an MBA and a LLB from the University of Aberdeen, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (DipICArb) and the Freedom of the City of London. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and is a licensed PRINCE 2 practitioner.	Mr. Larry Lens Mr. Larry Lens LARRY F. LENS has over 33 years of experience in the petroleum industry working for Amoco, BP and now PetroSkills. Starting as a working Geologist in the Texas Gulf Coast and West Texas regions, he later expanded into the international arena working Gabon and Congo after which he became Amoco's Regional Geologist for Africa and the Middle East. He was Amoco's Country Manager in Ghana in the late 1980's, Consulting Geologist in New Orleans, and then Chief Geologist for Amoco's Worldwide Exploration Group. Larry later transferred to Denver to build a new exploration team supporting Amoco's North American gas strategy and later returned to the international arena working Angola. 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 Dr. D. Andy Link DR. D. ANDY LINK is an active consultant and instructor in Houston, Texas. His domestic and international oil industry experience spans more than 28 years, covering areas in North, South, and Central America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His field experience extends from Alaska to Antarctica and South Africa. His teaching experience includes 24 years with OGCI/PetroSkills as well as lecturer positions at Northern Illinois University, Northeastern Illinois University, and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He is co-author of "Exploration Methods for Sandstone" and received a Ph.D. in Geology from Northwestern University.
Mr. Robert (Bob) G. Lippincott Mr. Robert (Bob) G. Lippincott BOB LIPPINCOTT is an Employee Development Consultant with extensive oil and gas exploration and production experience which includes technical training, petrophysical and petroleum engineering. He is well versed and knowledgeable on current tools and technology and is an experienced course director and lecturer for Petrophysical and basic Petroleum Engineering training. As a consultant, he is able to bring an unbiased analysis of training needs as well as develop a program to effectively meet those needs. Bob is skilled at delivering technical training across cultural and geographic groups. He has a B.S./M.E. from Mississippi State and an MBA from the University of New Orleans.	Mr. John Logel Mr. John Logel JOHN LOGEL is an independent consultant and mentor, He consults on QI and geoscience technology to reduce exploration risk. Previously John was Chief Geoscientist North Sea for Talisman Energy Norge/UK in Aberdeen Scotland, leading them in the application of value adding geoscience technology to improve prospect quality and prior to that he was the Lead Geophysicist Norge and Senior Geoscience Advisor for North American Operations in Calgary, AB. working on geophysical problems throughout Canada and the new ventures organization. His primary responsibility was the technical development, mentoring and advancement of technology application for the exploration and exploitation of unconventional and conventional reservoirs in Canada. Prior to Talisman, John held several technical management and advising positions with Anadarko Canada, and Petro-Canada in Calgary and before that worked 19 years for Mobil in numerous assignments in Europe and North America. He has over 30 years of experience in the industry and has worked on several giant, world class oil and gas fields throughout the world. John's interests are in reservoir prediction and characterization from seismic data, understanding and quantifying risk. His latest emphasis has been in the adaptation of geophysical techniques to better understand, predict and exploit unconventional reservoirs effectively. He enthusiastically teaches and loves to develop technology and encourage professional growth. He is a member of SEG, CSEG, APEGGA, and AAPG. He has held several positions with the CSEG and the SEG, on technical committees, curriculum committee for the doodletrain, several session chair positions at the conventions and positions on the International showcase. He has authored or co-authored over 50 professional papers. He teaches professional development courses for Petroskills in Basic Geophysics and AVO, Inversion and Attributes, is a professional Geophysicist and received a B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Iowa.	Mr. Alain Louis Mr. Alain Louis ALAIN LOUIS is a Senior Geoscience and Petroleum Engineer with more than 35 years international experience, both in oil and service companies. His expertise lies with the field proactive monitoring (Digital Oilfield), reservoir and well performance, formation evaluation, reservoir characterization, along with the associated R&D activities. His recent contributions have led to the design and numerous implementations of collaborative tools of field performance monitoring and optimization (reservoir, artificial lift, plant maintenance,..), carried in TOTAL E&P assets of Angola, Gabon, Congo, Qatar, Argentina,.. 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 Mr. Ronald Louth RONALD LOUTH is a Technical College Instructor and Training Coordinator with 14 years teaching and program development experience. He is a First Class Power Engineer with 23 years experience in the operations and maintenance of gas plants, oil production facilities and refinery and was Chief Steam Engineer at three plant locations. He is experienced in plant turnaround planning and coordination, new facility and LNG plant commissioning and startup and plant operating staff and contract personnel supervision. He also has performed hands on training of plant operation personnel with development of operator training programs and operation manuals as training aids. He received an Alberta First Class Power Engineer Qualification in 1987, a University of Alberta Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education in 1995 and attended several other workshops and certified training programs.	Mr. Perry Lovelace Mr. Perry Lovelace Mr. Perry Lovelace, CMRP, specializes in Maintenance and Project Management, Leadership and Competency-based Training and has over 25 years experience in industrial training and consulting. His work in competency-based workforce development is known worldwide. In addition to M&O, his participative leadership seminars have provided team-building skills to hundreds of supervisors and team leaders. He has dedicated his career to providing high quality learning experiences, keeping in tune with the changing economic and technological environment, especially as applied to long-term facilities management and organizational development. He has assisted many organizations through on-site consultation and training. Clients include industrial and utility organizations of different types and sizes in the United States, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Nigeria, Angola, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Trinidad/Tobago, Austria, Romania, UK, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico. An engaging and popular speaker/facilitator, Mr. Lovelace continually receives high marks from participants. A certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) by the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Mr. Lovelace also holds a B.S. in Science Education and an M.S. in Botany from the University of Oklahoma, with pre-doctoral studies in Plant Ecology at the University of California.	Dr. Catalina M. Luneburg Dr. Catalina M. Luneburg DR. CATALINA M. LUNEBURG is a Structural Geologist with experience in academic research/teaching and consultancy in exploration industry. Currently, she works as a senior consulting geologist for GeoLogic Systems in Boulder, CO; previously she was with Midland Valley Exploration in Golden, CO. Her current expertise lies in balancing and restoration of cross sections in a wide range of tectonic regimes, 3D modeling and volume estimation of potential hydrocarbon reservoirs, and risk assessment. Prior to her consulting work, she gained 10 years of experience in academic research and teaching in the US. She authored numerous research papers and edited several books specializing on topics of how structures, fabrics and textures relate to 3D regional kinematics in complex tectonic settings worldwide. In 2002 she convened a GSA Penrose Conference where innovative approaches to 3D development of fabrics, strain and structures were discussed. She received a PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as one of John Ramsay's last students, and a Diploma from LMU Munich, Germany.
Mr. Ken Lunsford Mr. Ken Lunsford Mr. Ken Lunsford has more than 34 years experience in engineering and management of oil, gas, chemicals and plastics developments. During his 32 years with ConocoPhillips he has led development teams on projects in the United States, Norway, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. His diverse engineering and project management background includes liquefied natural gas projects, sour gas plants, oil, gas and petrochemical pipelines, engineered plastics processes and materials handling, batch sulphur chemical processes, and pilot plants. Additionally, he was corporate project controls manager for Phillips Petroleum with responsibility for developing business processes and training for asset development, value improving practices, project controls, contracting strategy, risk management, reviews & assists and joint venture non-operated project assurance. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.	Dr. Heloise Lynn Dr. Heloise Lynn DR. HELOISE LYNN has worked 34 years on oil and gas reflection seismic data- within oil companies, academia, and as a consultant. For over 25 years she has worked as a consultant for her own company, Lynn Incorporated, serving the industry on multi-component, multi-azimuth, and/or anisotropic field data projects. She has extensive experience in using VSP multi-component data in conjunction with 3D multi-azimuth multi-component surveys. Passive seismic monitoring data, acquired during hydro-frac'ing, also are used in various of her projects. During the last 10 years, she has worked 18 different 3D PP wide-azimuth field data surveys and/or 3D multicomponent surveys. As the lead geophysicist assigned to the project, she acquired, processed, and interpreted for seismic anisotropy, in order to learn fracture azimuth, fracture density, and in-situ stress state. Her oil company experience includes seismic and other geophysics work within companies such as Amoco, and Texaco. She received a PhD in Geophysics and M.S. in Exploration Geophysics from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Geology-Math from Bowdoin College.	Dr. Walter S. Lynn Dr. Walter S. Lynn DR. WALTER S. LYNN has over 33 years experience in the oil and gas industry specializing in seismic data processing and software development. During the 1980's, he worked with the R&D Department at Western Geophysical helping to solve acquisition and data processing problems associated with the explosive growth of 3D seismic exploration. During the 1990's, Walt oversaw the technical development for a large seismic contractor and later took over as President of PGS Data Processing. After leaving PGS in 2002, Walt has returned to his true passions - applied geophysical research and teaching. His multi-faceted experience over his career has involved him in geophysical problems in areas throughout the world. For the past decade, he has concentrated on the geophysical challenges associated with unconventional reservoir. He received a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University, an M.S. in Geophysics from Oregon State University and an A.B. in Geology and Geophysics from Princeton.
Ms. Shelly MacKenzie Ms. Shelly MacKenzie SHELLY MacKENZIE is the owner of MacKenzie Safety where she instructs safety training and provides consulting services, inspections, investigations and audit services. She is also a safety instructor and program developer at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where she is co-chair of the MacPhail School of Energy Safety Committee. Clients of MacKenzie Safety are oil and gas companies ranging from upstream service companies to drilling rigs. Additional clients include manufacturing and the Whistler Sports Legacy Society. Shelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Safety and Health from Southern Columbia University.	Mr. Donald S. Macpherson Mr. Donald S. Macpherson DONALD MACPHERSON has been involved in all aspects of geophysical data acquisition, processing and interpretation. He had a long career with Mobil Oil company working in Calgary, Dallas, New Orleans and London. Throughout his career, he has participated in teaching courses in the technical aspects of geophysics and has always had a keen interest in bringing clarity and understanding of the tools of the trade to people that become involved in using and interpreting seismic data. He was the manager of the Mobil's Training Department in Dallas as well as the principle lecturer in the geophysical courses. He received a MSc. in Geophysics and Isotope Geochemistry from the University of Alberta.	Mr. Harvey Malino Mr. Harvey Malino MR. HARVEY MALINO is an Instructor/Consultant for the John M. Campbell Company. He has more than 35 years of experience in the Chemical and Hydrocarbon Processing Industries. During his 28 years with Union Carbide Corporation/UOP, he held both technical and commercial positions. These included: Molecular Sieve Technical Manager- Design and Field Service; Licensing Manager for the Ethylene Oxide business; Area Sales and Marketing Manager for Southeast Asia; Business Manager for the Gas Processing Business Group; and, World Wide Sales Manager for the Gas Processing Business Group. Mr. Malino has lived and worked in New Hampshire, Maine, New York, Singapore and Chicago. He is currently based in Sullivans Island, South Carolina where he is President of his own consulting business. Mr. Malino is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New Hampshire. He is a Senior Member of the Advisory Board of the Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference in Norman, OK. Mr. Malino earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York; and, an M.B.A from Pace University in New York.
Mr. Stephen E. Malkewicz Mr. Stephen E. Malkewicz STEPHEN E. MALKEWICZ is a Registered Professional Engineer and is an independent consultant with 37 years of petroleum engineering experience. He co-founded MHA Petroleum Consultants in 1994. Most recently he was the manager of engineering for Resolute Natural Resources and helped to grow that company from start up to over 10,000 BOPD of production. Previous experience includes work throughout 4 continents in reservoir analysis and simulation, field development optimization, underground gas storage, secondary and tertiary recovery, artificial lift, well testing, property evaluations and production forecasting, well stimulation, drill stem testing, property acquisition and management, expert witness and court testimony. Prior to the formation of MHA, he developed and taught courses related to reservoir engineering, well test analysis, uncertainty analysis and production engineering as President of Jerry R. Bergeson and Associates. He has also held the positions of Vice President of U.S. operations for Intera Petroleum Division (now part of Schlumberger), and a staff reservoir engineer and production engineer for Tenneco Oil Company and Sun Oil Company. He is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. He received his B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.	Dr. Andrea Mangiavacchi Dr. Andrea Mangiavacchi Dr. Andrea Mangiavacchi is currently involved in international deep-water offshore projects on behalf of major oil and gas operators. He is also an active member of work groups involved in the development of US and international standards for offshore structures. After an early academic career with the University of Rome, Italy and with Rice University in Houston, Andrea joined Brown & Root (today KBR), where over the next 25 years he was involved in a number of major international offshore oil and gas projects (Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, South America, West Africa, Asia-Pacific). He also held a number of corporate positions in the area of deep water technology, fixed and floating offshore structures, and engineering systems. Andrea has extensive experience in conceptual field development projects, structural analysis and design, hydrodynamics, naval architecture, Computer Aided Engineering and Design. Andrea holds a M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Rome. He has authored or co-authored over 30 technical papers, and holds two patents.	Mr. John Martinez Mr. John Martinez JOHN MARTINEZ has 38 years experience in oilfield production technology with a specialty in facility revision and artificial lift operations, with extensive expertise in gas lift. For 27 years he has been the Production Consultant for Production Associates and previously was associated with Exxon (now ExxonMobil). This includes work in well deliverability, transient pressure testing, downhole equipment evaluation and selection. He also has surface facility design experience including multiphase pipelines, separation, metering, compression, dehydration, water treatment and disposal, and pumps. He has served in key positions for projects completed in 11 countries on 4 continents in which he applied state-of-the-art technology for improvements to artificial lift and production methods. He has been responsible for the development of nodal analysis techniques for the design of gas and oil wells. He is a writer of API recommended practices, serving as co-author of API Gas Lift Manual, API RP 11V7 Repair, Testing, and Setting Gas Lift Valves, and API RP 11V8 Gas Lift System Design and Performance Prediction. In addition, he has written SPE papers and Gas Lift Workshop presentations. 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 Dr. Mark A. McCaffrey DR. MARK A. McCAFFREY specializes in the integration of geochemical, geological and engineering data to solve petroleum exploration and development problems. Previously, he spent 10 years at Chevron and Arco working on these issues. 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 Mr. William (Bill) McKee WILLIAM E. MCKEE II has spoken professionally and conducted scores of seminars, short courses, and workshops in over 15 countries on five continents. His technical background and experience qualify him as a leader in the areas of Drilling Fluids Technology, Communication Skills and Leadership Management. In 1974, for his work in the early development and application of Oil Base Drilling Fluids for Brazil's offshore operations, his employer, International Minerals and Chemicals Drilling Fluids Division, Inc. presented him with an Outstanding Service Award. He has received many honors and recognition in the fields of Crisis and Conflict Management, and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution by his industry peers, the State of New Mexico, the Navajo Indian Nation, the City of Farmington, NM, the American Association of Christian Counselors, the International Association of Forensic Counselors, and the Association of Pastoral Addictions Counselors. He is a U.S.M.C. veteran of the Viet Nam era. In 1967, the Commander of the Marine Corps Air Station at Yuma, AZ recognized him as Marine of the Year. After having worked with many families devastated by the mid 1980's early 1990's Petroleum industry economic down turn, he was recognized by the APAC in 1994 as having attained Ph.D. level skills in Crisis Counseling and Conflict Management and was presented an Honorary Doctorate. He received B.A. Accounting degree from Arizona Western College and an R. Ed. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminar.	Mr. Steve McKeever Mr. Steve McKeever STEVE MCKEEVER is a practicing drilling engineer, currently working for a major exploration and production company. In his career he has worked as a roughneck, a driller, a tool pusher, an instructor at a roughneck school, a drilling equipment salesman, a completion tool hand, a civil engineer, a drilling engineer, and a drilling superintendent. His engineering assignments have included planning and operational support for extended reach multi-lateral wells, high rate horizontal gas wells and deepwater offshore exploration wells. Currently working in Perth, Australia, most of his career has been in Alaska. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Film Studies from Dartmouth College.
Dr. Howard L. McKinzie Dr. Howard L. McKinzie DR. HOWARD L. MCKINZIE is a petroleum consultant from Sugar Land, Texas. His prior industry experience includes 21 years with Texaco, Inc. and Getty Oil Company in numerous areas of production and completions engineering. Specific specialties include sand control, downhole oil/water separation, compact surface oil/water separation, artificial lift with progressive cavity pumps, formation damage, water shutoff, drag reduction techniques for fluid flow, and well stimulation by acidizing and fracturing. He also worked in the area of surface well logging, and was one of the co-developers of QGM (Qualitative Gas Measurement) and QFT (Qualitative Fluorescence Technique). Prior to joining Getty, he was employed by GTE Labs in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he worked primarily in the areas of catalyst development research and developing photo-catalytic techniques. 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 Mr. Jeffrey S. McMullan JEFFREY S. MCMULLAN has over 30 years broad career growth in the upstream oil and gas business including engineering assignments in drilling, well completions and production as well as operations supervisory, management and executive positions. He has also worked in employee selection, training and development for technical, administrative and operations personnel and is experienced in building highly successful organizations from the ground up. Jeff received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University.	Yuv Raj Mehra Yuv Raj Mehra MR. Yuv Mehra has 40 years of invaluable, hands-on practical, process engineering experience related to processing of hydrocarbons (natural gas, refining and petrochemicals) from the standpoints of major owner/operating as well as E&C companies. Mr. Mehra is an inventor (28 U.S. Patents) and a licensed professional engineer (California & Texas). He retired from Saudi Aramco in December 2011 as Gas and Light-ends Process Engineering Consultant in the Process & Control Systems Department. During 200304, Mr. Mehra contributed to Saudi Aramco as General Supervisor for the Upstream Process Engineering Division. He is an Alumnus of the Saudi Aramco Leadership Forum. He chaired the development of Section 14 - Refrigeration for the GPSA Engineering Data Book. Mr. Mehra holds a B.E. from IIT Roorkee and an M.S. from UCLA, both in Chemical Engineering.He focuses on identifying value-oriented opportunities, effectively communicating and following through assignments to conclusion. He has demonstrated his vast process engineering knowledge of the entire hydrocarbon value chain: oil & gas production - processing - refining - petrochemicals. His results-oriented effectiveness in process optimization, front-end engineering, project evaluations, troubleshooting, development of engineering standards, expert witnessing, assessment of intellectual property including marketability, development and offering topical courses, and integration of refining & petrochemicals is recognized industry wide.
MHA Petroleum Consul MHA Petroleum Consul MHA Petroleum Consultants was incorporated in 1994 to provide a broad range of services from single-well valuations to fully integrated field studies. Their highly-trained professionals have assisted clients in maximizing the performance of reservoirs worldwide. The typical MHA professional has 20 years in the industry—15 of those providing consulting services—and is professionally registered. Find more information at www.mhausa.com 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 Mr. Abdelmeged Marouf Mohamed ABDELMEGED MAROUF MOHAMED is a registered consulting engineer with over 43 years of diversified experience in oil and gas production engineering, artificial lift and facilities design. He was a resident manager for a Dallas based engineering company implementing major US AID gas injection project in Egypt. For 7 years he supervised the design and implementation of a major production facility in Abu Dhabi. He has conducted several production facility studies and artificial lift evaluations for various oil and gas producing companies. He instructed several courses in petroleum production engineering and facilities design in Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Algeria as well as Arabian Gulf countries. He recejved a B.Sc. degree in petroleum engineering at Cairo University.	Dr. Kishore K. Mohanty Dr. Kishore K. Mohanty DR. KISHORE MOHANTY is the H.B. Harkins Professor of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His work experience includes 18 years of teaching at the University of Houston and 10 years of industrial research at the Exploration and Production Research Division, Atlantic Richfield Co. in Plano, Texas. He has many publications covering such topics as Transport in Porous Materials; Surfactant, Colloid and Interface Science; and Oil Recovery Enhancement Techniques. He received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelors of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Mr. Carl Thomas Montgomery Mr. Carl Thomas Montgomery MR. CARL T. MONTGOMERY is recognized in the industry as one of the most active individuals in the area of well stimulation and completion technologies. He has extensive experience in the techniques, products and engineering practices of hydrocarbon well stimulation, sand control and completion practices. He has helped set the standard for well stimulation within the industry and worked with others to pioneer non-conventional techniques for the design and implementation of stimulation of oil and gas wells. He is a very effective mentor and educator to professionals not familiar with well stimulation. 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 Dr. Clyde H. Moore DR. CLYDE H. MOORE has over 42 years experience in all aspects of the geology of sedimentary rocks including the sequence stratigraphic analysis of carbonates and siliciclastics in both outcrop and subsurface. He is a consulting geologist, an Emeritus Professor of Geology at Louisiana State University, and a research professor at Colorado School of Mines. He was a research geologist with Shell Development Company in Houston performing extensive research on both carbonates and clastics. He has researched modern sedimentary environments of carbonates and siliciclastics and has extensive experience in studies of the diagenesis of carbonates. In particular, he is recognized as a leading authority on the evolution of porosity in carbonate rock sequences. He has worked on sedimentary sequences in North America, Europe, Middle East and China. 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 Mr. Hector C. Moreno HECTOR C. MORENO is a Senior Instructor with Halliburton Baroid Fluid Services. As a Chemical Engineer he has been involved in the manufacturing, distribution and product application of drilling fluids. After being a supervisor of Schlumberger Mud Logging operations in Southern Argentina, he worked as a Core Analyst and built with Core Laboratories International -and using CoreLAB equipment- the first complete Core Analysis facility in Latin America to serve most of the area from the city of Bogot, Colombia. He developed better analytical techniques for precious and semiprecious metals from mining samples with the University of Buenos Aires in a joint project with the Latin American branch of Falconbridge. He worked as a fluids engineer in SE Asia, Europe, and Latin America before becoming engaged in the trade of nonmetallic minerals and supplier of imported commodities such as barite and bentonite for distinguished operators and fluids companies in Texas and Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mr. John Morgan Mr. John Morgan MR. D. JOHN MORGAN is based in Denver, Colorado, and is Executive Vice President of John M. Campbell & Company with over 30 years experience in the design, startup and troubleshooting of oil and gas facilities. He has published extensively on sour gas treating, sulfur recovery, CO2 treating, materials of construction, LNG training, and cryogenic gas processing. He consults for both North American and international clients in the gas processing industry. He performs training in LNG facilities, oil and gas production facilities, and gas plants around the world. He is very active in industry activities including membership of the Editorial Review Board of the Gas Processors Supplier's Association, the Program Advisory Committee of the Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference, and had served as Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Mr. Morgan has many years of experience training non-native English speakers. He holds a B.Sc. (Honors) in Chemical Engineering from London University; and an M.E. in Chemical & Refinery Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, USA.	Mr. James D Morse Mr. James D Morse JAMES D. MORSE is President and co-founder of Computational Geology, Inc., which provides dip analysis and related services to the E&P industry using its Geodes software. Geodes implements modern techniques in dip analysis including SCAT and a method (based on dip isogons) for converting the results of SCAT dip analyses into cross sections and structure maps. He has been author or co-author on several papers dealing with using dip analysis to markedly improve structural interpretations. James graduated with a B.A. in Geology from the University of Vermont and received his M.S. in Geology from Texas A & M University.	Mr. Ted Mortenson Mr. Ted Mortenson THEODORE (TED) ALLEN MORTENSON is owner and president of TAM Technical Services Inc. which provides a full range of service and support for oil and gas and industrial sector maintenance departments. He has spent several years as an instructor at technical/vocational institutions in Canada and abroad. He has over 30 years experience in the fields of instrumentation, electrical and electronics including experience on international projects in South East Asia and 10 years recent work experience in the Middle East. He has an MBA in Educational Management from the University of Leicester and Electronic Engineering Diploma from the Saskatchewan Technical Institute. He holds a Canadian Red Seal Interprovincial Journeyman certification in Industrial Instrumentation.
Dr. Mahmood Moshfeghian Dr. Mahmood Moshfeghian Dr. Mahmood Moshfeghian is a Senior Research Engineer and is the author of most Campbell Tips of the Month and develops technical software for JMC. He has 35 years teaching experience in universities (Oklahoma State University, University of Shiraz, University of Sydney and University of Qatar) as well as for oil and gas industries. Dr. Moshfeghian joined JMC in 1990 as a part time consultant and then as full time instructor/consultant in 2005. Previous to joining JMC, Dr. Moshfeghian was a Senior Research Scientist at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University. Dr. Moshfeghian is a senior member of AIChE and has published more than 120 technical papers on thermodynamic properties and Process Engineering. Dr. Moshfeghian has presented invited papers in international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Oil, Gas, and Coal Technology. He holds a B.S. (74), an M.S. (75) and a Ph.D. (78) in Chemical Engineering, all from Oklahoma State University.	Mr. Larry Moyer Mr. Larry Moyer LARRY R. MOYER has over 30 years experience in all facets of the exploration, land and production phases of the oil and gas industry. He has extensive experience developing integrated geological, geophysical and engineering interpretations for use in exploration, field development and producing property evaluation, including geological and geophysical field and well-site supervision. He also has experience with coal, oil shale and hydrology projects. 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 Dr. David R. Muerdter DR. DAVID R. MUERDTER is a geophysical consultant specializing in seismic modeling, illumination studies, and the conversion of seismic time to depth. He is president of LuminTerra LLC in Seattle, Washington. 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 Mr. David Patrick Murphy DAVID PATRICK MURPHY retired from Shell Exploration and Production after almost 35 years of engineering and operational experience, with emphasis on petrophysical engineering and technical learning. For over 16 years he was formation evaluation lecturer in the University of Houston Petroleum Engineering Graduate Program. He received the Outstanding Lecturer award from the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering twice. He is widely published including multiple articles in World Oil and contributions to Carbonate Reservoir Characterization: A Geological-Engineering Analysis, Part II (Elsevier 1996). He has been a judge for Hart's E&P annual Meritorious Engineering Awards and an industry advisor for Oilfield Review. 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 Mr. Manickavasakan Nadar MANICKAVASAKAN (MANICKAM) S. NADAR is a consultant Principal Petroleum engineer with 25 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry and 6 years in petrochemical process operations. With a strong background in Production Technology, Well Operations, Well Completions & Workovers, Artificial Lift, Asset Modeling and Optimization, he has specialized in artificial lift technologies, well and system designs, analysis, trouble-shooting, reliability and production enhancement. He has made significant contribution in the design, operation, surveillance and optimization of large volume gas lifted and ESP wells. He has worked for major international operating companies and handled various responsibilities in production engineering and operations, onshore and offshore. In the service sector, he has delivered many challenging well and network modeling and optimization projects that helped clients achieve substantial increases in production, operation efficiency and cost savings. 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 Dr. Charles (Chuck) H. Neuman DR. CHARLES H. NEUMAN is a consultant on development and refinement of computer programs that aid in the interpretation of cased-hole logs since 1999. He worked for Chevron Oil Field Research Company, specializing in development of logging methods to measure oil in place for 21 years. He then spent 12 years working in Chevron operating companies as a formation evaluation specialist, emphasizing application and development of through-casing logging methods. 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 Mr. Ralph Neumann Mr. Ralph Neumann has gained experience in Oil and Gas Production, Natural Gas Processing, Specialty Fractionation, and Pipelines and Gathering Systems throughout his extensive career. Responsibilities have included the development of conceptual and detailed designs, multi-discipline project supervision, economic feasibility studies, consulting, and a variety of field services including pre-commissioning, startup, training, and troubleshooting. He has also been responsible for project development, management of engineering (including safety and environmental), and management of field operations for a large midstream natural gas processing company. Most recently, he has been involved in the implementation of several shale gas and tight gas facility development projects. He has authored and presented technical papers to the AIChE (dynamic simulation), the Gas Processors Association (nitrogen rejection facilities, gas plant operations management, gas and NGL treating), and the Laurance Reid Gas Conditioning Conference (dehydration and amine treating). Mr. Neumann received his baccalaureate and master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas.	Mr. John Robert (Bob) Nichol Mr. John Robert (Bob) Nichol JOHN ROBERT (BOB) NICHOL is President of the recently founded Petrobob Consulting Limited, located in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada. He provides Petroleum Engineering consulting services to the Government of Alberta, Department of Energy and is a sessional lecturer in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Alberta at Edmonton. He has over 30 years experience in a broad spectrum of Petroleum Engineering roles including field operations, reservoir engineering and engineering research. Bob received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.Eng. degree in Mineral Engineering both from the University of Alberta.	Mr. Tim Nieman Mr. Tim Nieman TIM NIEMAN is President of Decision Applications, Inc., a San Francisco area based decision analysis consulting firm. His firm performs decision and risk analysis for various organizations facing complex decision problems. His recent oil and gas consulting work includes risk analysis of pipeline routing; risk analysis for deepwater flow assurance; portfolio analysis for budgeting E&P R&D portfolios; and development of methods for assessing new basin entry opportunities. Other recent work includes development of remediation and reuse strategies for impaired properties, including former refineries and pipelines; numerous projects for the Yucca Mountain proposed nuclear waste repository; work on mountain top coal mining, unconventional oil and gas drilling, basin-wide water management and climate change issues; and cancer causation modeling for national health organizations. 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 Mr. Mike Noel-Smith MIKE NOEL-SMITH is an experienced, energetic and highly adaptable management professional with a proven track record of success within corporate, military, B2B environments and International Sports teams. He has strong leadership skills with experience of driving a business forward, managing risk and diverse teams worldwide. He is results orientated and focused on delivering full life cycle projects particularly in the management skills of Leadership, Team Development, Coaching, Analysis, Evaluation, Assessment and Training. He is an excellent communicator who is able to build relationships at all levels both internally and externally, nationally and internationally. Over the past 7 years, Mike has worked in the Gulf region of the Middle East, living for 5 of those in the United Arab Emirates where he designed a leadership assessment centre, recruited and trained 70 staff members before implementing a process, which ultimately assessed over 12,000 Government officials, military officials and civilian companies.	Ronnie Norvell Ronnie Norvell RONNIE NORVELL, Director of Instructional Design and Quality, joined PetroSkills in January, 2009. Prior to joining PetroSkills, Ronnie served as a Sr. Consultant and frequent appointments as Director of Continuing Excellence with the Saudi Aramco E&P Continuing Excellence Department. Prior to joining Saudi Aramco in 1998, Ronnie Norvell was the President and Managing Partner of Management Paradigms, a U.S. based consulting firm specializing in management and leadership development. Over the past forty years he has provided senior management consulting to a large spectrum of U.S. and foreign industries, managed the training functions of two major corporations, and served as a college administrator and instructor. 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 Dr. Phillip K. Notz DR. PHIL NOTZ has worked in the petroleum industry for 31 years, specifically Flow Assurance work for 23 years. Currently, he is an international consultant for flow assurance. He worked for Chevron (Texaco) for 24 years before joining the Offshore Engineering/Construction Firms, Doris Inc and Technip USA. As the Flow Assurance Manager for Technip, he provided support and oversight to a variety of flow assurance projects, including Thunder Horse, Tahiti and Cascade-Chinook. He was the Flow Assurance Lead Engineer for the ExxonMobil Kizomba B Conceptual Design, FEED, and Detail Design as well as the Chevron Lobito-Tomboco and Tombua-Landana Conceptual Design and FEED projects, to mention a few. He was Texaco's chief flow assurance engineer and served as co-chair for the DeepStar Flow Assurance Committee for two years, and also served on the Gas Processors Association research committee. He was the Texaco expert for gas hydrates and is recognized internationally in that area. His consulting projects involve hydrate mitigation and plug remediation as well as peer reviews for flow assurance in offshore production developments. 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 Mr. Kyle O'Leary KYLE O'LEARY is a consulting drilling engineer based in Houston, Texas where he runs Kyle O'Leary Resources. Prior to starting his company in 2008, Kyle worked at PetrEX International, Orion Drilling Company and BP America. He successfully worked his way up from Drilling Engineer to Drilling and Completions Foreman then to Drilling Manager. His background includes Well Planning, Drilling, Completions and Workovers and he has taken that experience and moved into the consulting and training field. He holds a B.S. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.	Mr. Jack Z. Orr Mr. Jack Z. Orr JACK ORR has over 36 years experience working in the oil industry in core analysis, special core analysis, PVT, well testing, on-site sampling of cores and reservoir fluids, as well as on-site Chromatography and formation brine analysis and training. He has worked for clients in over twenty countries worldwide, including countries surrounding the North Sea, United States of America, North Africa, countries in the Mediterranean area and in the Middle East and Far East. He holds an Honours Degree in Earth Sciences and has been teaching in-house Core Analysis courses for seven years.	Mr. William K. Ott Mr. William K. Ott WILLIAM K. OTT is an independent petroleum consultant and is the founder of Well Completion Technology, an international engineering consulting and petroleum industry training firm established in 1986. Before consulting and teaching, he was division engineer for Halliburton's Far East region based in Singapore and a research field coordinator for Halliburton in Oklahoma. He works regularly with and on wells requiring various well completions techniques, principally in East Asia. He has conducted technical petroleum industry courses worldwide and written numerous technical papers relating to well completion and workover operations. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, and a 25-year member of SPE. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri.
Dr. Jim M. Peden Dr. Jim M. Peden DR. J. M. PEDEN is Professor of Well Technology at the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University of Technology in Perth Western Australia; a Principal Technologist for Advanced Well Technologies Pty and also Managing Director of PITAC Ltd. in Edinburgh, Scotland. Previously, at Heriot Watt University, he was the Shell UK Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the department from 1982 until 1991. In 1991, he founded the Horizontal Well Technology Unit. His specialties are focused primarily on production technology but he also teaches courses in reservoir and drilling related topics and was a visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford University. He was employed by Shell in both the Middle East and the North Sea and has consulted internationally for the majority of major operating and service companies in areas such as horizontal wells, sand control, multilaterals and other aspects of well design and troubleshooting. 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 Mr. Maximiliaan (Max) Peeters MAXIMILIAAN PEETERS is a professor of Petrophysics and Borehole Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines, and director of the Center for Petrophysics. He has 38 years of experience in the oil industry, mainly with Royal Dutch Shell, and as a consultant. He is a member of the SPWLA, EAGE, SEG, founding member of DPS, vice-president of the Denver Well Logging Society, and assistant-editor of the Petroleum Geoscience and Geophysical Prospecting Journals. He has received the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from the SPWLA and the Technical Advancement Award from the Colorado School of Mines. He received his degree in Physics from Delft Technical University.	Dr. David Pelton Dr. David Pelton DR. DAVID PELTON is an instructor and Instructor Development Specialist for PetroSkills and has been a professional communicator for over 35 years. He holds degrees from Cornell University, The New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of Cincinnati, and has performed for and spoken to audiences in the United States, Central and Western Europe, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, The Ukraine, Africa, The Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He has taught at major colleges and universities and has been an active seminar/workshop facilitator for petroleum and non-petroleum businesses in California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia and in Canada, England, Holland, Ireland, Wales, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Benin, Nigeria, The United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and Singapore. Today he is a member of numerous training institutes and societies and enjoys a national and international reputation as a communications consultant, lecturer, trainer, and coach. He received degrees from Cornell University, The New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Cincinnati.
Mr. Dennis Perry Mr. Dennis Perry MR. DENNIS PERRY has been working in the automation, electrical and instrumentation design business for many years. His work experience includes working in the aerospace industry as an analog circuit designer, working in the electronic instrument manufacturing business as production engineering manager, and working for a major oil and gas company as a division automation supervisor and later as a staff engineer in the central, Upstream Technology group. He has also worked for an instrument manufacturer as service manager and for an engineering construction company as an instrument/electrical engineer. Mr. Perry published a paper on Multiphase measurement fall 1998 SPE, co-authored a paper for ASME/ETCE 2000 on value of well test accuracy, presented at the Acadiana Flow measurement workshop, and co-authored a paper on heavy oil multiphase measurement with Intevep of Venezuela. Mr. Perry graduated from Louisiana Tech with a BS degree in Electrical Engineering.	Mr. Roberto Peveraro Mr. Roberto Peveraro ROBERTO PEVERARO is a petroleum geoscience and engineering consultant with over 38 years experience in the oil industry, including senior technical management positions in formation evaluation, rock physics and borehole geophysics. Before founding Petrocomp Consulting, Ltd., he worked at Schlumberger and BNOC BRITOIL BP, where he held various senior level executive positions. 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 Dr. John D. Pigott JOHN D. PIGOTT is an internationally recognized energy expert with more than twenty five years experience in worldwide hydrocarbon exploration-exploitation. He has been an Advisor to Foreign Energy Ministries, an Exploration Consultation for Oil Companies Worldwide, and a University Professor. He has worked in many different areas including: Concession design, corporate management evaluation and reorganization, regulator advisement and technical advisement. He integrated geological and geophysical data into predictive, comprehensive basin models for hydrocarbon exploration on 5 continents. He designed and implemented geologically targeted 2D-3D seismic acquisition, processing, and interpretation for field development in South East Asia, North Sea, Central America, and the Gulf Coast. He received a B.S. in Geology, a B.A. in Zoology (cum laude) and an M.A. in Geology from The University of Texas and a Ph.D. in Geology from Northwestern University.
Jason Pingenot Jason Pingenot Mr. Jason Pingenot has over 18 years of experience in planning, design, engineering, management, and commissioning for a wide range of natural gas installations; including wellhead controls, gathering systems, compressor stations, processing plants, metering facilities, and truck loading stations for projects around the globe. In the course of his career he has served the industry as a drafting instructor, engineering consultant, and led an EI&C technical team at Encana Oil & Gas (USA) to execute capital projects and develop technical and safety standards. Currently, Mr. Pingenot is the Vice President of Engineering and EI&C Manager at GWD Design & Engineering based in Denver, Colorado, with a field services office in North Dakota. Mr. Pingenot is a registered professional engineer in the state of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.	Mr. William (Bill) E. Powell Mr. William (Bill) E. Powell W.E. "BILL" POWELL is an oil and gas professional with over 30 years of experience in field operations, technical sales, marketing, and management with autonomous operations and profit and loss responsibility. He served as Vice President of Marketing for S.A. Holditch & Associates Inc, a well-known petroleum consultancy where he played a key role in building the brand equity that was the basis of the successful acquisition by Schlumberger in 1997. His most recent assignment with Schlumberger was as North America Business Development Manager for Data & Consulting Services where he has maintained close relationships with numerous major and independent operating companies. 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 Gerard Prendergast Mr. Gerard A. Prendergast, B.Sc. (Hons), F.Inst.L.M., DipSysPrac (Open), is the Founder and Managing Director of Abacus Learning Systems Ltd. He is currently an Instructor Developer and Learning Advisor to John M Campbell & Company. Mr. Prendergast is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management in the UK. He concentrates on the open and flexible learning aspects of education and training, especially the delivery of training using Computer Mediated Communication - CMC - and Computer Supported Cooperative Learning CSCL. He has trained Educators and Instructors from many Universities, and from industry and commerce worldwide in online Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Techniques. He has been visiting tutor on the 'Online Education and Training' Course run by the Institute of Education, London University, and for the British Open University's 'Teaching & Learning On-Line' course, for a number of years. In 2002, Mr. Prendergast was a contributor to an Online Trainers course run by the Northern Illinois University, USA. He has been an Advisor to The Management Institute, University of Ulster on Online Learning, and has carried out consultancy for the British Inland Revenue service in ways to deliver training by Computer Mediated Communication. He has undertaken various workshops on e-Learning throughout Germany and also at The Croatian Academic and Research Network.
Dr. Dennis Prezbindowski Dr. Dennis Prezbindowski DR. DENNIS R. PREZBINDOWSKI is a Consulting Stratigrapher, Sedimentologist and Petrologist, with over 30 years of worldwide, academic, industrial and business experience in the exploration and development of carbonate and mixed carbonate/clastic oil and gas reservoirs. He is a project leader for large multi-company reservoir characterization and development projects responsible for project planning, reservoir quality, evaluations, depositional diagenetic and sequence stratigraphic model development, equity determinations, report writing and presentations. Dr. Prezbindowski has an M.S. in Geology from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Geology from The University of Texas. He is both a Certified Petroleum Geologist (#4399) and a Certified Professional Geologist (#7682).	Jay Rajani Jay Rajani Mr. Jay Rajani worked in Amsterdam, The Hague and London for Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies for 33 years. He started his career in the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam where he was involved, in the development of refinery burners/furnaces. He later moved to Separation Technology. He worked on the development of conventional as well as membrane based gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separators. From 1987 to 2005, he worked in the Gas/Liquid Treating and Sulphur Processes department as Principal Technologist with special responsibilities as a Group Leader in the Adsorption and Catalytic Conversion Section. His last position was as a Lead Process Engineer with Qatargas 3&4 LNG Project (first with EPC contractor in Japan and then in Ras Laffan in Qatar). The last three years of the project involvement was in the construction, commissioning and start-up of the 7.8 mtpy LNG trains. Jay is now an independent consultant on Gas Technology with SBM Offshore in the Netherlands. He holds B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of London and Diploma in Management Studies from University of Coventry.	Mr. Francis Rambaransingh Mr. Francis Rambaransingh H. FRANCIS RAMBARANSINGH is a Production Operations Engineering Consultant presently consulting to Prince Resources Corporation on reserves determination and Canadian oil and gas production regulations. His expertise is in onshore and offshore artificial lift, well stimulation, production operations, supervision, engineering systems upgrades, process improvements and modifications and production optimization. He has more than 15 years of work and training assignments in Trinidad, Kuwait, Libya, Kazakhstan and Canada where he presently resides. He has proven strengths in motivating and training multi-level and multi-cultural staff using a team oriented approach. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calgary and presently sits on the Board of Directors of several technical and petroleum corporations in Canada.
Mr. Erich Ramon Ramp Mr. Erich Ramon Ramp ERICH R. RAMP is the President and Managing Director of Ramp & Associates International, a Minnesota based Petroleum Industry consulting company. Erich had more than thirty years of Industry experience with Phillips Petroleum Company and ConocoPhillips prior to forming Ramp and Associates International. During that period he held a number of international and domestic positions involving project management and assessment, asset management, prospect generation and evaluation, reservoir characterization, technology transfer, team management, operations, risking, budgeting and planning, training and personnel appraisal. He has been a consultant-instructor for PetroSkills since 2008 with emphasis teaching Petroleum Project Management and Prospect and Play Assessment. Erich received an M.S. degree in Geology from Iowa State University and B.A. degree in Geology from the University of Minnesota-Morris. Erich is an AAPG Certified Geologist, member of AAPG's DPA and DEG, and is a registered Professional Geologist in Texas.	Mr. Jack Ranucci Mr. Jack Ranucci JACK RANUCCI is an instructor at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology for over 15 years in the Manufacturing and Automation Department. He develops and delivers to private industry updated and advanced training to their personnel both at SAIT and on site internationally. He is a Journeyman Millwright with I.P. Standing and has written Individual Learning Modules for SAIT that are delivered worldwide. He has performed all facets of his Millwright trade throughout western and central Canada. He has performed overhaul and maintenance on reciprocating and rotary equipment as well as maintenance on auxiliary equipment such as lubrication systems, centrifugal/positive displacement pumps, and hydraulic controls. He has a Business Administration diploma from Mount Royal College.	Dr. Clifford L. Redus Dr. Clifford L. Redus DR. CLIFF REDUS is an independent petroleum engineering consultant who specializes in production system optimization and subsea flow assurance. Prior to starting his consulting business, he was an Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa. He has 35 years of petroleum industry experience, both in production research and field operations in the area of multiphase flow. His primary areas of interest are multiphase flow in well bores, flow lines and production equipment, multiphase meters and pumps, computational fluid mechanics, advance separation technology and paraffin and hydrate deposition in production flow lines and wells. He was in a supervisory capacity in production related industrial research for the last 10 years with Texaco's Upstream Technology Department in Houston Texas, with the last four years as Director of Texaco's live oil multiphase flows loop in Humble Texas. At Tulsa University, he was actively engaged in teaching, research in multiphase flow, and as executive director of Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects. He received a B.S. in Mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in Kingsville, Texas, an MS. and Ph.D., from the University of Houston, both in Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Gary W. Reid Dr. Gary W. Reid DR. GARY WM. REID has industry experience that includes extensive project management, training and development, reservoir and drilling engineering, and environmental evaluations and acquisitions. His major strengths include development and teaching drilling and reservoir engineering, international onshore and offshore drilling/reservoir engineering experience; international integrated team project management as well as problem resolution in the disciplines of drilling and reservoir engineering. His experience covers operational aspects of a project from geology to drilling. He received a Ph.D. from Mississippi State University, an M.S. from the University of Wyoming and a B.S. from Texas A&M all in petroleum engineering.	Mr. William J. Renner Mr. William J. Renner WILLIAM J. RENNER is highly motivated and results oriented in plant management and process engineering with twenty five years of proven experience in the Petro-Chemical Industry. His major strengths are problem solving, reliability and variance reduction. He is proficient in empowered team structure and traditionally managed organizations. He is a dedicated professional committed to excellence and continuous improvement with strong leadership and organizational skills for enhanced team performance and challenging individuals to excel. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and received a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas.	John Riggs John Riggs Mr. John Riggs is based in England where he served 30 years in the Police Service retiring in 2005 as a Chief Inspector. In the latter part of his career he became the head of training for England and Wales specialising in the training of trainers. Graduating from the University of Hull with a Masters Degree in Education (MEd -Training and Evaluation) he has a passion for the development of Trainers and Instructors. A Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and a qualified coach he has recently been appointed as a Progression Mentor' for the Prince's Trust. He has represented the British High Commission and the British Council training trainers and Instructors in South Africa, Uganda and The Gambia. The skills he learnt during this period of his career have proved invaluable in his role as a Regional Director for Africa and Asia Venture' helping young adults to volunteer in schools and communities abroad. He is currently a governor at a large school in his hometown in Harrogate where he is responsible for school and community communication. During the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics he was delighted to be part of the Games Maker Team' as a team leader in the Olympic Park. In March 2012 he joined the Instructor development team and is excited by his role of coaching and developing staff in their role as John M Campbell Instructors.
Dr. Grant E. Robertson Dr. Grant E. Robertson DR. GRANT ROBERTSON is a petroleum engineering consultant in Houston, Texas. He has worked in the oil and gas industry since 1974 for Chevron, British Petroleum, Ryder Scott and Anadarko in California, Saudi Arabia and Texas. He has held various high-level technical and management positions. His work has been very diversified covering oil and gas reservoirs, onshore and offshore properties, primary, secondary and tertiary operations, and reservoir exploration and development projects. His responsibilities have been in reservoir engineering and reservoir simulation, but he has also done production engineering and exploratory well testing. He has significant experience in preparing and conducting schools and workshops and has been an SPE Short Course instructor since 2000. He has published technical papers in refereed journals and has written many internal publications. He has been an active member of SPE since 1975 and has held numerous positions within different SPE organizations. He received a B.S. degree in Engineering Science and a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He also received a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.	Dr. Leon H. Robinson Dr. Leon H. Robinson LEON ROBINSON had a 39 year career at Exxon and made contributions in many technology areas such as: mud cleaners, explosive drilling, drilling data telemetry, subsurface rock mechanics, and drilling and hydraulic optimization techniques, tertiary oil recovery, on-site drilling workshops, world-wide drilling fluid seminars and rig site consultation. Throughout his last 25 years with Exxon, he delivered annual lectures at in-house Drilling Engineering Schools on various topics. Since retiring from Exxon Production Research in 1992, Dr. Robinson has remained active working with the SPE, API, AADE, IADC, and consulting on drilling activities. He has received 34 US patents, 23 International patents, the 1981 IADC Special Recognition Award, the 1986 SPE Drilling Engineering Award, several Exxon lecturer awards, the 1999 AADE Meritorious Service Award, the 2004 SPE Legion of Honor Award, the 2006 API Service Award, in 2006 was inducted into the AADE Hall of Fame, in Sept. 2008, one of the first five recognized by SPE as a Drilling Legend. Currently, he is a consultant, Chairman of the IADC Technical Publications Committee writing the encyclopedia of drilling, Chairman of an API task group involved with API RP 13C, member of API task groups addressing issues with drilling fluids and hydraulics, and on the AADE Conference planning committee. He was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946, received a B.S. and a M.S. in Physics from Clemson University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from N.C. State University.	George Rodenbusch George Rodenbusch Dr. George Rodenbusch has more than 32 years of experience in the engineering and management of deepwater offshore oil and gas developments. He started his career working in R&D where he developed tools for the estimation of loads on offshore platforms induced by wind, wave and current during severe storms. He then joined a Marine Systems Engineering group, which was formed to develop concepts for the development of deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico. He has led the global analysis group supporting the design of the Auger Tension Leg Platform that would move the record water depth for offshore production from 410m to 870m. In addition to design activities, he spent several years working on various technical problems involving hydrodynamic and hydroelastic design of offshore platforms. He has provided development planning support to operating companies around the globe in selecting systems for the development of deepwater offshore fields. He spent several years as an Engineering Manager supervising a group responsible for the design of floating systems, risers, mooring systems and foundations for deepwater development systems worldwide. He was active in the API Offshore Structures subcommittee, which established and maintained key standards for offshore engineering, chairing that group for several years. He was appointed as a Global Technical Expert in Offshore Structure Engineering in recognition of technical expertise and global contribution and was later named the Global Discipline Head for Offshore Engineering. He holds a BS and MME in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and a PhD in Oceanographic Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and is a member of ASME.
Mr. Gerry H. Ross Mr. Gerry H. Ross GERRY ROSS is a PetroSkills Vice President and instructor. He has more than 35 years formation evaluation and rock based Petrophysics experience as well as participating in Oil & Gas operations from exploration through production. While with Core Lab he provided training to both majors and independents on a worldwide basis. During this time he was also the instructor and co-coordinator of an extensive internal Petrophysics applications program. This multi-year program focused on the applications of rock and fluid data in log analysis, formation evaluation, reservoir engineering & production. He also worked with major research centers and universities globally to provide reservoir conditions instrumentation for reservoir engineering, reservoir description and formation damage research. His international oil & gas knowledge was developed though extended assignments in South America, Asia, the North Sea and the USA. He is a member of the SPE, SPWLA, PESGB, SEAPEX and a past president of the Aberdeen Chapter of the SPWLA. He received a B.Sc. in Geology from Bedford College, London University.	Alan Royer Alan Royer Mr. Alan P. Royer has more than 27 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry working in the upstream and midstream sectors. During the past 27 years Mr. Royer has held operational, technical and managerial positions. During the first 12 years of his career he worked as an operator for Chevron Canada Resources in their gas processing facilities, and oil/gas gathering systems, located in Northern Alberta. In mid 1990 Mr. Royer left Chevron to attend the University of Alberta where he earned a B.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering. Later in his career, Mr. Royer spent over 12 years in the Middle East. Initially he worked in Yemen with Canadian Nexen Ltd. where he was responsible for the engineering design of various facilities, including all commissioning and start-up activities. He spent his last 8 years in the Middle East working in Qatar where he held a number of operational and engineering roles supporting the construction and start-up of the LNG Mega Trains, which have a combined production capacity of 77 million tonnes per annum. Mr. Royer is currently based in Calgary, Alberta, where he runs his own consulting business providing Facilities Engineering services to local industry. Mr. Royer is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta, along with being an active member of Project Management Institute since 2005.	Mr. Robert Sadowski Mr. Robert Sadowski ROBERT (ROB) SADOWSKI Is an instructor at SAIT Polytechnic with a solid background as a team leader and tradesman. His is experienced in both the Millwright and Machinist programs as well as in the development of new initiatives, partnerships and programs for numerous SAIT industry partners including Exxonmobil, Tenaris-Prudential, The Calgary Catholic Immigration Society and others. He is the recipient of two Instructor Excellence Awards and is also active in both internal and community volunteer programs.
Mr. William Sambrook Mr. William Sambrook WILLIAM (BILL) SAMBROOK is a Certified Power Engineering Technologist with an impressive 30+ year record within the oil and gas industries. His experience includes project management, training co-ordination, refining operations, field and plant production operations, drilling, maintenance, and safety performance merits setting quality standards and goals, ensuring environmental compliance and safety adherence, and resolving industry technical training needs. 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 Dr. Kent Saugier DR. KENT SAUGIER is a hands-on scientific, technology and business professional with twenty-five years experience in upstream oil and gas, offshore technology, economics, economic modeling, international petroleum contracts, project management, software applications and technology including design, licensing and commercialization. He has domestic and international experience, excellent presentation skills and strong customer awareness. He received both a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California	Dr. Helmy Sayyouh Dr. Helmy Sayyouh DR. HELMY SAYYOUH is the professor of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering at Cairo University, Egypt. He was the chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department, and an active member in the Faculty Council at Cairo University, the Research Center Council and the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Engineering Sciences at King Saud University (Elsevier publications). Since 1986, he has been a Consultant Engineer in the areas of petroleum reservoir engineering, enhanced oil recovery, and reservoir simulation. 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 Dr. Donald D. Schmidt DR. DON SCHMIDT was directly involved with drilling fluids research and supervised research in all aspects of drilling technology during his 30-year career working for Amoco Production Company and Dowell, as well as the Dow Chemical Company. He prepared and presented training courses in drilling fluids technology while at Amoco and also gave courses on various management topics. Since retirement, Don has consulted in the Drilling and Construction industries on drilling fluid technology. He is a former Chairman of API Committee 13 on Drilling Fluids specifications and test methods. His industry awards include the American Petroleum Institute Citation for Service Award and recognition as co-author of the best paper in Drilling Engineering in 1995. He received a Bachelor's degree from Wabash College and a Ph.D. in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry from Oregon State University.	Mr. Richard H. Schroeder Mr. Richard H. Schroeder RICHARD SCHROEDER is founder and President of RHS Management, specializing in technical and management consulting for the petroleum industry. He has more than 40 years of experience in engineering, international operations, management and teaching experience in all phases of exploration, production, research and corporate development. He specializes in reservoir management, production optimization, drilling, operations, completion and workover capabilities, personnel development, communications and multi-discipline team building. His professional experience includes: 9 years in engineering, research and supervision with Exxon; 8 years as Senior Vice President with May Petroleum, an independent drilling fund company; 8 years as President of Rosewood Resources, a privately-owned international integrated oil company; and 7 years as President/Vice Chairman/Consultant of Harken Energy Corp., an international exploration company. He has authored articles and manuals on various phases of petroleum engineering and personnel management. He is a member of API, SPE, IPAA, and TIPRO, is a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, and has various outstanding lecturer awards. He received a B.S. in Engineering Science and an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.	Mr. John Schuyler Mr. John Schuyler JOHN SCHUYLER, CAM, CCE, CMA, CMC, CPIM, PMP and PE, is a decision analyst, evaluation engineer, and investor. He founded his consulting practice, Decision Precision, in 1988. He has over 37 years of experience in analysis, consulting, training and management, primarily in the energy industry. His focus has been in feasibility analysis, appraisals, corporate planning, and evaluation software. He has presented over 290 courses in 34 countries since 1989. 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 Mr. John C. Scruton-Wilson JOHN C. SCRUTON-WILSON is a founding faculty member of the BP Financial University responsible for developing and delivering finance and economic evaluation training throughout the BP organization. His leadership in negotiation was displayed by developing a consensus position with ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips in agreements for the Alaska Gas Pipeline as well as shaping $20 billion of Federal Loan guarantees and tax benefits for the pipeline. He is experienced in project finance having completed agreements with the International Finance Corporation to finance a chemical plant expansion in Brazil and with Citibank to provide loans for gasoline retailers. He has established himself as a leader in the Oil and Gas Industry by holding various management/leadership positions during his career. He has an M.A. in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, an M.S. in agricultural economics (major in marketing) from Cornell University and an M.B.A. in finance and international studies from the University of Chicago.	Dr. Richard D. Seba Dr. Richard D. Seba DR. RICHARD D. SEBA is a petroleum engineering consultant in New Orleans, Louisiana. During 28 years of employment by Shell Oil Company in locations around the world, he held staff and management positions in research, reservoir engineering, and E&P and corporate economics. He has taught reservoir engineering and petroleum economics at Tulane University, Stanford University, University of New Orleans, for SPE and Shell. For the past 27 years, he has taught courses in petroleum economics, risk and uncertainty, and international E&P contracts for Shell and OGCI. He is an SPE Distinguished Author, has served SPE as chairman of the Distinguished Lecturers Committee, chairman of the Economics Award Committee, chairman of the Textbook Committee, and as a member of the Speakers Bureau. He is a member of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists and is a registered professional engineer. He is the author of Economics of Worldwide Petroleum Production (3rd Edition, 2008). He received B.S. and M.P.E. degrees from Oklahoma University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas, all in petroleum engineering.	Dr. John P. Seidle Dr. John P. Seidle DR. JOHN SEIDLE is a Vice President and Senior Reservoir Engineer with MHA Petroleum Consultants, a Denver based petroleum consulting firm. He has more than 25 years experience in unconventional gas reservoirs, primarily coalbed methane. His coalbed methane experience includes exploration, development, production optimization, and enhanced recovery projects in the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Poland, South Africa, Colombia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Mexico, China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. He has also performed reservoir engineering studies and reserve evaluations for gas shales and conventional gas and oil projects throughout the USA. He has taught an industry coalbed methane course for over a decade. He has co-authored 21 technical papers, a monograph chapter and holds 6 patents. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Wyoming and a member of SPE, SPEE, and CIM. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Dr. Subhash N. Shah Dr. Subhash N. Shah DR. SUBHASH N. SHAH is the Stephenson Chair Professor and Director of the Well Construction Technology Center at the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. He has a distinguished career in the Oil and Gas (O&G) industry for over 35 years 18 years in industry predominantly with Halliburton Energy Services and 17 years in academia. He enjoys teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels and supervises students' research leading to masters and doctoral degrees in petroleum engineering (PE). He directs a well-established center to conduct PE research and collaborates with several industry partners. He travels world-wide to deliver lectures and to provide consulting services to the O&G industry. He has authored over 250 technical papers in more than 20 international journals. His areas of expertise include onshore/offshore drilling, stimulation, well completions, and the emerging technologies of horizontal wells and coiled tubing. He is a Chairman of ISO 13503 Procedure for Friction Pressure Measurements, and serves on the Editorial Boards of SPE since 1984, Petroleum Science since 2006 and International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology since 2006. He has been well-recognized by his peers and is a recipient of numerous industry and academic awards. He has a B.S. from the M.S. University of Baroda as well as an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, all in Chemical Engineering. He is a registered licensed professional engineer.	Dr. Mukul M. Sharma Dr. Mukul M. Sharma DR. MUKUL M. SHARMA is Professor and Chairman of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests include natural gas engineering, injection water management, formation damage and petrophysics. He has published more than 200 journal articles and conference proceedings and has four patents. 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 Mr. John Sheffield MR. JOHN A. SHEFFIELD was a Senior Manager with M W Kellogg Ltd. a major UK E&C Company for more than 18 years during which time he managed the Process Engineering Department, Project Manager for development of LNG projects for export and import terminals and Commercial Vice President with responsibilities for key clients and projects. He helped develop projects for LNG facilities in the UK, China, Norway, Egypt, Germany and Australia and the development of LNG offshore technology for the Azure Project an EU funded project. With John M Campbell & Co. John is an Instructor/Consultant presenting short courses on the LNG business and technologies around the world. He also practices as a consultant, assisting companies with development of both LNG export and reception terminals and is currently active on several LNG projects in Europe and Far East Asia. Mr. Sheffield graduated from UC London with a degree in Chemical Engineering. He has served on the Management Committee of the European GPA for more than 16 years and chairs the GPA Europe LNG working party. He has presented papers at Gastech, GPA Europe and at the SMI LNG conferences dealing with LNG terminals, floating LNG developments and small scale LNG facilities.
Mr. Jerald L. Shursen Mr. Jerald L. Shursen JERALD L. SHURSEN is a consulting engineer who has extensive HPHT experience with more than 25 wells below 20,000 feet. He has visited more than 70 countries and worked in 26 countries with special emphasis on pressure control and drilling optimization. He is very strong in mentorship of young engineers and training of petroleum professionals. He has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma University.	Mr. Stanford A. Siemens Mr. Stanford A. Siemens STANFORD SIEMENS has 28 years of reservoir engineering, petroleum engineering, project management and upstream operations and general management experience with Phillips Petroleum Company (now ConocoPhillips). As Engineering and Construction Manager for Phillips Europe-Africa, Mr. Siemens was responsible for Phillips? portfolio of major North Sea field development projects. He has also worked with multi-disciplined drilling, well completion, workover, asset development and other petroleum project teams in his upstream operations and country manager roles. His experience is worldwide, including assignments in Norway, the U.K., the U.S. and the Ivory Coast. Mr. Siemens has personal experience with the concepts taught in the Petroleum Projects Management course. He was the executive sponsor for the development and operation of Phillips? global well drilling and organizational learning process. He also led the team that developed Phillips? initial upstream asset development process. Following his retirement in 2000 his main interests in addition to teaching PetroSkills? Petroleum Project Management course are conflict resolution in organizations and mentoring small businesses and entrepreneurs. Stan has B.S. degrees from KSU in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration. He also holds a post-graduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution from Missouri State U.	Mr. Les Skinner Mr. Les Skinner LES SKINNER has been a drilling and well control engineer for over 40 years. He has worked for both major operators and independents in a variety of locations worldwide. He has been a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas continuously since 1978. Les is a member of SPE, AADE, DEA, AIChE, TSPE and NSPE. He served on the SPE committee to revise Drilling Engineering Textbook (the Red Book), worked on the API RP 65-2 committee and currently the committee revising API RP 90 Part 1. He is also a member of the IADC Technical Publications Committee currently writing a Coiled Tubing Operations Manual. He received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University in early-1972.
Dr. Robert A. Skopec Dr. Robert A. Skopec DR. ROBERT A. SKOPEC is an independent consultant for Petrophysical Applications International, Inc., specializing in formation evaluation, coring, core analysis, rock mechanics, formation damage assessment, reservoir modeling, and laboratory instrument design. He has spent over 35 years in the industry, principally in core and log analysis in various technical and managerial positions for Diamond Shamrock, Sohio, Gearhart Industries, Oryx Energy (Sun E & P), and Texaco. He has served as President of the Society of Core Analysts (SCA) and on the Board of Directors of The Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) and Logging Characterization Consortium (LCC). He has served as Associate Editor of the Log Analyst (petrophysics) and has chaired numerous technical committees for SCA, SPWLA, and API, and served as a member of the SPWLA and SCA technical committees. He has been an SPE, SPWLA, and SPE/AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, served as Executive Editor of SPE Formation Evaluation and SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journals, and as an Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Petrophysics in the Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He received a B.S. in geology and an M.S. in geosciences from Kent State University and a Ph.D. in petrophysics, rock mechanics and petroleum geology from the U of Aberdeen, Scotland.	Dr. George Slater Dr. George Slater DR. GEORGE E. SLATER is an instructor/consultant with over 45 years experience as an engineer and professor. In addition to creating software systems used worldwide to integrate engineering and geological data, he has worked in various management positions as a reservoir engineer, and taught at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored a number of papers on Reservoir Simulation and engineering problems, and is a 46-year member of the Society of Professional Engineers of AIME. He received a B.A. in Arts & Letters with M.S. and PhD degrees in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.	Dr. John S. Sneider Dr. John S. Sneider DR. JOHN S. SNEIDER is President of Sneider Exploration, Inc., an exploration/exploitation consulting service that conducts studies around the world, but with a focus in Latin America, China, North Africa and the United States. He is also involved with industry training with more than 18 years experience in: Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, the North Sea, Switzerland, Korea, China, the Gulf Coast, Alaska, and the Permian Basin. 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 Kindra Marie Snow-McGregor Mrs. Kindra Snow-McGregor has a master's degree in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, and over 15 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. Particular areas of expertise include: gas treating (amine and dehydration), gas processing, LPG / condensate recovery from gas, NGL fractionation and storage, process optimization, sulfur handling, and process safety. Prior to joining John M Campbell & Company in 2008, she has served in management and lead process engineering roles in the oil and gas engineering, procurement and construction business. She has managed and served on significant projects in the industry for clients such as BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, QatarGas and XTO. She has been actively involved in industry groups for many years, such as the Gas Processors Association, and the Rocky Mountain Gas Processors Association (RMGPA). Currently she is on the GPA Technical Research Committee, Sub-Group 2. She has published seven technical papers at international conferences, and is a co-inventor on two technology patents in the gas processing industry.	Dr. Carl Sondergeld Dr. Carl Sondergeld DR. CARL H. SONDERGELD is Professor and Curtis Mewbourne Chair, Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He has over 12 years in the field of education and over 19 years with Amoco as a Special Research Associate working in rock physics. He has developed course manuals, newsletters, web pages and two software packages: Rock Properties Database and Analysis System and Unified Rock Modeling Software. He has published over 75 papers on various subjects and he is principal or co-author on 14 patents. He received a Ph.D. in geophysics from Cornell University and both an M.A. and B.A. in geology from Queens College of the City of New York.	Kenneth Sourisseau Kenneth Sourisseau Mr. Ken Sourisseau has 34 years of experience with Shell.Assignments have been in front end development, process design, project engineering, operations technical support, and operations management primarily in the areas of sour gas and insitu heavy oil recovery.Mr. Sourisseau has worked throughout Alberta, in Abu Dhabi, and the Netherlands.He has authored a number of technical papers for international conferences, provided training for Shell in numerous countries, and has taught Gas Processing at the University of Calgary.He earned B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Universities of Saskatchewan (76) and Minnesota (78) respectively.He is a registered professional engineer in Alberta.
PetroSkills Specialist PetroSkills Specialist	Dr. John P. Spivey Dr. John P. Spivey DR. JOHN P. SPIVEY has over 20 years experience in the petroleum industry, with interests in pressure transient analysis, production data analysis, reservoir engineering, continuing education, and software development. From 1984 to 1990, he worked for SoftSearch, Inc. (later Dwights EnergyData) developing petroleum economics and engineering software. 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 Dr. Dwight Sukup DR. DWIGHT V. SUKUP is President of Sukup Geophysical Consulting, a geophysical consulting firm consulting mainly in wave field imaging and wide azimuth seismic data acquisition technologies. He established Sukup Geophysical Consulting in 2002 after retiring from a 23-year career at Texaco and then Chevron. While at Texaco, he worked in the exploration and production technology divisions. He has an extensive background and over 30 years experience in geophysical technologies including: the development and software implementation of wave field modeling and imaging technologies, novel wide azimuth data acquisition and processing methods, multi-component data acquisition and processing, computer parallel processing. He also spent 5 years at the University of South Dakota teaching graduate level Mathematics and Computer Science courses. 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 Mr. Marc Summers MARCUS A. (MARC) SUMMERS has over 30 years of oilfield experience and over 15 years of hands on training experience. He joined PetroSkills in 2008 and is currently V.P. of Accelerated Development Programs. For eleven years prior to that, he founded and ran PetrEX International, Inc. In 1980, he began working as a drilling engineer for Amoco for fifteen years in various locations around the world. His background includes operations, technical support, and drilling research functions. Since 1986 he has written a number of papers presented at SPE/IADC conferences and several articles published in Petroleum Engineer International, American Oil and Gas Reporter, etc. He received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma.	Dr. John Sumner Dr. John Sumner DR. JOHN SUMNER started Sumner Geophysics in 2003 after retiring from ExxonMobil. While at Exxon, he developed techniques in seismic interpretation, seismic modeling, and the direct identification of hydrocarbons. He taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz and at Lehigh University prior to joining the Exxon Production Research Company in 1977. He received a Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University in 1971.	Mr. Ian Stuart Sutton Mr. Ian Stuart Sutton IAN S. SUTTON is a chemical engineer with over 30 years of design and operating experience in the process industries. He specializes in risk management, technical safety and process safety management. He works on the design of large, integrated process facilities, including offshore platforms, and provides consulting services to senior management on the implementation, effectiveness and cost of process safety and risk management programs. He has worked in a wide variety of industries including refining, petrochemicals and minerals processing. For the last seven years he has worked primarily in the offshore oil and gas industry, with a focus on the safe design and operation of large, deepwater platforms. 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 Dr. Tom J. Temples Dr. TOM J. TEMPLES is a consulting geologist and geophysicist with over 30 years experience in geology, geophysics, health and safety relating to both the petroleum and environmental industry. He is an adjunct professor at Clemson University and was formerly a Research Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina. He has extensive experience in subsurface mapping, seismic stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation, petroleum geology, and geophysics. He is a former Vice President and Exploration Manager of independent oil producers where he was responsible for exploration and generation of prospects for drilling as well as the risk assessment and budget preparation. Prior to this he was Senior Geotechnical Advisor to the Department of Energy and served in various capacities with Texaco. He received a B.S. from Clemson University, a M.S. from University of Georgia and a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina.	Mr. David TenHoor Mr. David TenHoor MR. DAVID A. TENHOOR, CPIM has been consulting and teaching APICS (The Association for Operations Management) CPIM certification courses since 2005. He has taught in many different industries from chemical processing to discrete manufacturing. Companies include BASF, National Oilwell Varco, Halliburton, ExxonMobil Chemical and Cameron. David brings a well-rounded package of industry experience to PetroSkills/JMC. He has held positions in Inventory Control, Manufacturing Management, Strategic Sourcing and Transportation/Distribution Management. He also has experience in Finance and Product Development. David received his undergraduate degree in Geology from Hope College in Holland, Michigan and an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University. He is a member of the Houston Chapter of APICS and served two terms on the Board of Directors as Treasurer.	Dr. Lawrence W. Teufel Dr. Lawrence W. Teufel DR. LAWRENCE W. TEUFEL is a consultant focusing on naturally fractured reservoirs and petroleum-related rock mechanics projects. He was formerly the Professor of Petroleum Engineering and held the Langdon Taylor Chair at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology until he retired in 2011. He had a 20-year tenure at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was the principal investigator of several cooperative U.S. Department of Energy/industry projects working in the areas of hydraulic fracturing in tight-gas reservoirs, geologic characterization and fluid-flow simulation of naturally fractured reservoirs, and petroleum-related rock-mechanics studies on reservoir compaction and subsidence. 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 Dr. E. C. Thomas DR. ESTES C. THOMAS served Shell Oil Company in various assignments for 32 years and retired as a Petrophysical Engineering Advisor. He formed Bayou Petrophysics in 1999 and currently consults part-time and provides technical training in shaly sand analysis and other areas of Petrophysics, and serves the SPE and SPWLA as a technical editor in various assignments. His professional career interests and publications have spanned many topics including development of revolutionary core analysis methods for handling and measuring the petrophysical properties of unconsolidated sands; pioneering the use of SEM techniques to study the pore structure and pore wall geometry and physical chemistry of shaly sands; empirical verification of the Waxman-Smits model for interpretation of resistivity behavior in homogeneous oil-bearing shaly sands; empirical quantification of the relationship between membrane potential and cation exchange capacity in shaly sands; development of models to interpret wireline logs and predict performance in laminated shaly sands. His most recent research interests involve methods to improve the performance of wireline formation sampling tools. He has received numerous awards and has presented many keynote addresses for the SPE and SPWLA. In 2004 E.C. was presented SPWLA's highest award, the Gold Medal for Technical Achievement. He received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University, performed Post Doctorate studies in Physical Chemistry at Princeton University, and received a B.S. in Chemistry from Louisiana State University.	Dr. John (Jack) B. Thomas Dr. John (Jack) B. Thomas Dr. John B. (Jack) Thomas has more than 45 years of diverse work experiences in which he has conducted or worked on hydrocarbon projects in most of the active petroleum-bearing basins of the world. He is recognized as an expert in reservoir characterization of conventional and unconventional reservoirs including those in "tight" gas, coalbed methane, all types of siliclastic and carbonate reservoirs. He has presented seminars in more than 26 nations on aspects of these topics. Currently he is Petroskills Petrophysics Discipline Manager and course instructor. 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 Buck Titsworth Mr. Buck Titsworth has over 40 years experience with major international operating and service companies in worldwide oil and gas production/process engineering, project execution, and business planning. Specific experience includes: upstream projects (Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait); oil & gas pipeline and production facilities projects (South America, the Far East, FSU, Austral-Asia); FPSO/mobile system development projects (Canada, Asia-Pacific, West Africa); refining projects (USA and eastern Europe); and global business/strategic planning for the engineering and construction industry. Assignments have included establishing joint ventures and/or new offices in Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, Australia, Canada, and Holland. Mr. Titsworth has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, and is a registered professional engineer in four states.
Mr. P. Kyle Travis Mr. P. Kyle Travis KYLE TRAVIS is a Petroleum Engineer with 32 years of diversified experience in the oil and gas industry. He has a proven track record of effectively building oil and gas companies from infancy to significance. His experience includes managing oil and gas companies from the initial formulation of a business plan and establishment of goals through the execution of such. He has built and supervised a staff of experienced oil and gas professionals, evaluated drilling prospects, acquired producing properties, managed the operations of drilling and the production of oil and gas properties. He is experienced in all phases of petroleum engineering including economics, drilling, log analysis, completion, production and reservoir. He has a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.	Mr. Herman Vacca Mr. Herman Vacca HERMAN VACCA is a Senior Petrophysicist with extensive global experience including open hole and cased-hole formation evaluation, specializing in new technology applications. He is especially adept in working with teams to integrate formation evaluation results with local and regional projects. He is dedicated to total concept analyses in search for commercial new, old and bypassed pay. His expertise includes: Advanced Log Interpretation Completion Operations & Evaluations Unconventional Resources Education, Tutoring & Mentoring Teamwork Customer Service Technical Writing Herman has a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and an MBA from Texas A&M University.??	Mr. Hector Hugo Vargas Mr. Hector Hugo Vargas MR. HUGO VARGAS has more than 33 years of active experience in oil fields. He provided professional technical training to engineers and supervisors as a Senior Technical Instructor for 5 years. He worked in office and field positions with both a major Service Oil Co. and also with a Major Oil Co. His experience includes execution, supervision and management with well testing, down hole tools, data acquisition, completions, cementing, fracturing, stimulations and workover in general. He has coordinated testing operations at well sites with authority over all service companies at rig and rig-less environments, both land and offshore including deep water. While coordinating completion and testing phases, he became familiar with Electric wire line, Coil Tubing and Slick line operations. He has a high level of understanding of workover operations, costs and technical issues, with emphasis in testing. He has authored applications in Visual Basic for hydraulic calculations, risk assessment, financials and for training purposes. He is IWCF certified and received a B.S. in Chemistry and is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese and communicates in French.
Paul Verrill Paul Verrill MR. PAUL VERRILL has over 25 years' experience working in the chemicals, petrochemicals, hydrocarbon processing and power sectors with the last 15 years predominantly in gas processing and gas and liquid pipelines. He has held a number of technical and senior management positions including Mechanical and Piping Designer, Machinery Engineer, Project Manager, Engineering and Maintenance Manager and other Senior Plant and Business Management roles. He has worked for a number of international operating and engineering companies including ICI, Rolls Royce and Enron Engineering & Construction, working on projects around the world. His experience includes piping and mechanical equipment design, rotating equipment engineering, project management, gas processing project development including FEED study management and operations and turnaround management. For the previous 3 years Mr. Verrill has been working in the senior management team of an 800mmscfd gas processing facility which has been developing the onshore assets for a new UK gas field. In 2011 Mr. Verrill started working with JM Campbell as an Instructor in addition to providing project development and asset management services through his own consultancy company. Mr. Verrill is based in Yorkshire, England and graduated with a B.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering from Newcastle University in the UK and he is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.	Dr. William J. Wade Dr. William J. Wade DR. WILLIAM J. WADE is President of Applied Tomographics Inc., a research and development operation specializing in down-sizing and up-powering CT scanners for future industrial applications. Formerly, he was President of LSS International, performing core analysis and CT-scanning in Trinidad, Nigeria, and Houston. His other professional experience includes positions at Champlin Petroleum Company and the Tennessee Division of Geology. He taught on carbonate depositional systems, sequence stratigraphy, carbonate petrography, physical geology, and marine geology at Louisiana State University, Montgomery College and Vanderbilt University. Currently, he is co-writing a book on carbonate reservoirs. 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 Mr. Robert M. Wagner ROBERT M. WAGNER has over 30 years of reservoir engineering experience with three oil companies, and a leading engineering consulting firm. His areas of expertise include: reservoir engineering, integrated reservoir studies, field development studies, reserve determinations, SEC reserve documentation and compliance, and economic evaluations. He has routinely worked with geologists and geophysicists on projects that require integration of various types of data to optimize results and achieve project goals. He also has vast experience with multiple applications of traditional reservoir engineering techniques as well as aspects of reservoir engineering. 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 Dr. David (Dave) Waldren DR. DAVE WALDREN joined the embryonic British National Oil Corporation in 1977, after 7 years of postdoctoral research in high-energy particle physics. In 1979, he was employed by Intercomp as a reservoir engineer working on simulator development and reservoir studies. In 1983, he became Technical Director of International Petroleum Engineering Consultants Ltd. and a technical expert for the Asian Development Bank. Since 1988, he has been an independent consultant as well as a professor in petroleum engineering at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He has wide experience using a variety of commercial reservoir modeling systems. During his career he has worked on oil and gas fields in 31 countries on 6 continents. 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 Stuart Watson	Mr. Andy Weavill Mr. Andy Weavill ANDREW WEAVILL is a suitably qualified Performance Consultant, and Learning and Development professional who is passionate about helping individuals, teams and organizations learn, grow and perform to their maximum potential. Andrew uses an enthusiastic, inspirational and facilitative approach that helps create a stimulating and motivating environment that brings out the best in people. Consultancy and Training skills are complemented by a broad base of General Management and Operational experience gained within the Private Sector, encompassing full P&L and strategic responsibility, including leading companies through significant periods of change. He received a B.Ed. (Hons) Degree from the University of London.
Mr. Robert (Bob) V. Westermark Mr. Robert (Bob) V. Westermark ROBERT (BOB) V. WESTERMARK is a registered engineer with international and domestic experience who has worked both on and offshore including underbalanced, horizontal, multilateral, coalbed methane, and geothermal drilling wells operations. As a team leader, he has run successful drilling and completion alliances and partnering programs. He has also managed a research drilling test facility. Currently, he is Operations Manager for Seismic Recovery LLC, which is developing with DOE funding, an innovative petroleum technology for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery based on downhole vibration stimulation. 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 Dr. Brian Williams Dr. Brian Williams is the Emeritus Professor of Petroleum Geology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and currently the Adjunct Professor in Petroleum Geoscience in the University College Cork, Ireland, and at the University of Manchester. He has over 40 years experience in academia, specializing in Applied Silicicilastic Sedimentology and Hydrogeology. Brian obtained his BSc, PhD and DSc degrees from the University of Wales, and undertook his Post-Doctoral research at the University of Ottawa. He commenced his full-time academic career in the early 70's at the University of Bristol, moving to the Chair of Petroleum Geology at Aberdeen in 1988. During this period he was visiting Professor at West Virginia University and TU Delft, Holland. 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 Mr. Peter Williams MR. PETER WILLIAMS has over 35 years of industrial experience, most of which were in oil and gas processing. His experience includes plant process engineering, operations supervision, project development and business case definition, project technical support, plant engineering management, andinternal consulting, primarily with Saudi Aramco. Canadian experience includes plant engineering in phosphorus production, heavy water, and bitumen upgrading, and project engineering. He also has experience with benchmarking, implementation of a safety management system, and the application of lean Six Sigma methods to engineering management. He has Masters' degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Economics, is a Professional Engineer in Alberta and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Mr. Ronn Williamson Mr. Ronn Williamson Mr. Ronn E. Williamson, C.P.M., CFPIM is Technical Training Director of John M. Campbell & Co. He has been consulting and instructing in the field of supply chain management for more than fifteen years. During this time, he has delivered significant value to more than fifty, cross-industry organizations around the world. He has provided education programs internationally to hundreds of people in procurement, logistics and materials management. In 2005, he joined the PetroSkills/John M. Campbell team to develop a competency-based training tool with linked industry course offerings for Procurement/Supply Chain Management (PSCM) professionals in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Williamson gained his supply management expertise during twenty-three years of operational and management roles for a major equipment OEM company. For five years, he had executive responsibility for purchasing and transportation at Thermo King Corporation, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric and a billion-dollar global business. He received an undergraduate degree (BME) in engineering and a master of business administration degree (MBA) from the University of Minnesota. Mr. Williamson has been a member and past chapter president, of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), is a member of and frequent presenter for the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and is a member of the International Association for Commercial Contract Management (IACCM). He is also certified at the Fellow Level by APICS and has a lifetime certification from ISM.	Mr. Scott J. Wilson Mr. Scott J. Wilson SCOTT J. WILSON has 25 years of varying oil and gas experience spanning all major petroleum producing regions in the world. He is a Vice President with Ryder Scott Company, L.P., with offices in Houston, Denver and Calgary. Prior to joining Ryder Scott, he was a Principal Engineer with the Atlantic Richfield Company, advising on well performance issues. He has taught over 100 sessions on NODAL analysis, gas reservoir engineering, production forecasting, and advanced reservoir engineering. He coordinated the development of several Windows based NODAL and Decline programs, two of which are the primary tools used at the Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk oil fields. 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 Mr. Larry Wolfson MR. LARRY WOLFSON has 34 years experience in planning and supervising well construction, including ERD, slim-hole and sub-sea wells. He received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from California State University Northridge, a M.S. in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa and he is a registered petroleum engineer in California.
Mr. Richard G. Wright Mr. Richard G. Wright RICHARD G. (DICK) WRIGHT has over 25 years of worldwide oil field experience, including management and implementation of directional drilling services and also has over 6 years experience training. His oilfield management experience includes resident positions in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. His areas of specialty include drilling operations technical training and drilling team leadership training. He is fluent in Spanish and is widely traveled in Central and South America. He received a B.S. in pre-veterinary medicine from New Mexico State University and an M.B.A. in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.	Mr. Wes Wright Mr. Wes Wright MR. WES WRIGHT has 25 years experience in oil and gas producing facilities. Mr. Wright began teaching with John M Campbell in 2004 where he has been delivering courses in CO2 Surface Facilities, Oil and Gas Processing and Operator Training world-wide. Prior to joining John M Campbell, Mr. Wright was the lead on-site engineer at the Weyburn CO2 Miscible flood where he was closely involved in the development, design, construction, start-up and operations. Through the 1980's, Mr. Wright performed contract research at the University of Calgary in Enhanced Oil Recovery and was a consultant on a wide range of sweet and sour oil and gas projects throughout Western Canada. Mr. Wright graduated in 1983 with a BSc in Engineering from the University of Calgary. He is a Professional Engineer in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada and is a member of the SPE. He has been published in the ASME-OMAE, the CSCE and the IAHR.	Mr. Clyde Young Mr. Clyde Young MR. CLYDE YOUNG has over thirty years of diverse experience in operations and maintenance of production and processing facilities. This includes significant experience in operations and development of management systems for gas processing and water/wastewater treatment facilities. This includes operating procedure development, training program development, compliance auditing, vulnerability assessment, emergency planning and mechanical integrity program development. Mr. Young provides many of our clients with PHA services, compliance audits and Hazards Reviews. Mr. Young has presented at the Mary K. O'Connor Process Safety Symposium and written several papers that have been published in various industry publications. Mr. Young holds a B.S. in Social Sciences from the University of Wyoming- Laramie Wyoming.
Dr. Ding Zhu Dr. Ding Zhu DR. DING ZHU is Associate Professor and holder of the W. D. Von Gonten Faculty Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. Her main research areas include general production engineering, well stimulation, and complex well performance. She is an author of more than one hundred technical papers and a co-author of the SPE book, Multilateral Wells. She has been a chairperson and a committee member for many Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) conferences and events, and a technical editor for SPE Production and Facilities Journal and Journal for Natural Gas Science and Engineering. She received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Beijing University of Science and Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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