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Click one of the instructor names below to view their bio. Roy D. Adams, Ph.D.Roy Adams entered the petroleum industry in 1979 and has worked in the oil patch ever since, with the exception of two sojourns: One to earn his Ph.D. in geology at MIT and the other to teach for a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Tennessee Technological University. Roy is a petroleum geologist, sequence stratigrapher, and sedimentologist with a broad professional background that includes exploration, exploitation, consulting, research, and training experience in the petroleum industry; university research and teaching; and state and federal government positions. His domestic work experience includes the Western Interior of the U.S., the Gulf Coast, and West Texas, and his international work experience includes India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, West Africa and Brazil, the Caspian region, Pakistan, the Canadian Arctic, and Venezuela. Roy has worked for Exxon, the Utah Geological Survey, the Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, Saudi Aramco, and now runs his own consulting business, A & R Resources LLC. In addition to a Ph.D. in geology, Roy earned a B.S. from the University of California at Riverside (1974) and a M.A. from Rice University (1979), both in geology. He has also been adjunct faculty at the University of Utah and at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. His publications include papers and presentations on siliciclastic and carbonate sequence stratigraphy, depositional facies, and reservoirs and reservoir analogs. Roy is active in AAPG, the Utah Geological Association, and the Association for Women Geoscientists and has held volunteer positions in each. Sia AgahSia Agah is a petroleum geologist and an Associate with SCA in Houston. He holds a M.A. in Petroleum Geology from the University of London. Sia was with the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) in Tehran for 13 years, working as a geologist, a wellsite geologist, a senior geologist, and a geological advisor until 1979, when he joined Conoco. With Conoco until 1997, as Senior Geologist, Chief Geologist, Exploration Manager, and new ventures Vice President; he worked respectively in Houston, Tunisia, Angola, and the UAE (Dubai). After early retirement in 1997, Sia moved to UMC/Ocean Energy to set up and manage their South Asia - Middle East Exploration Department and manage seven exploration blocks in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Yemen. Sia has an extensive knowledge of the petroleum geology of the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa, and Offshore West Africa, and Brazil. He will be teaching Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping and related courses for SCA. John M. Armentrout, Ph.D.John M. Armentrout, Ph.D. is a sequence stratigraphy expert. He is an Affiliated Professor of Geology at the University of Washington and is a consultant based in Portland, Oregon. John has worked for 25 years in the petroleum industry, participating on interpretation teams studying more than 28 basins worldwide, and has done fieldwork in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Korea, China, Trinidad, and Vietnam. He has published on sequence stratigraphy, gravity-flow sands, 3D seismic analysis, biostratigraphy, and petroleum systems. He earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Washington. Joseph L. BrewtonJoseph L. Brewton is the Chief Geologist at SCA. He manages and conducts a variety of geological/geophysical studies, evaluates prospects and properties, and is involved in the technical training of petroleum industry personnel. He has co-authored sections of the Environmental Geologic Atlas of the Texas Coastal Zone and co-authored the textbook, Quick Look Techniques for Prospect Evaluation. Over a 21-year period, prior to joining SCA, Joe worked for several majors and independents: including Conoco, Tenneco, Aminoil, Union Texas, Coalinga, and Stone Oil. Joe has worked in Southeast Asia, China, Dubai, South America, and other areas. He completed his B.S. and M.A. degrees in Geology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. He is a member of GSA, AAPG, LGS, and GCAGS. David L. ConnollyDavid L. Connolly is currently dGB-USA's (www.dgb-group.com) Chief Geologist. David has over 20 years of industry experience in various aspects of petroleum geology and geophysics. Formerly with ChevronTexaco, he has worked a variety of international and national exploration assignments. Most recently he has primary focus has been developing applications for The ChimneyCube worldwide, including those in Nigeria, South Africa, South America, Gulf of Mexico and various onshore areas. He has been one of the main architects of "Chimney Catalogue" which documents the relationship between chimneys and seal/charge risk. He also has experience in source rock expulsion, petroleum migration and phase, reservoir characterization, sequence stratigraphy, integrated seal analysis, and 3d visualization. He has been an invited speaker to the AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on "Near-Surface Hydrocarbon Migration: Mechanisms and Seepage Rates" and a contributor to the Geological Society Memoir 29 on 3D Seismic Technology, Application to the Exploration of Sedimentary Basins. He also has presented or coauthored several papers at many AAPG, SEG and other society meetings. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University, with a degree in Geology. James A. Helwig, Ph.D.James A. Helwig, Ph.D. is a Structural Geological Associate with SCA. Jim has more than 30 years industry experience working with major and independent companies. His specialities range from regional structural analysis to the analysis of specific fields. Jim is responsible for conducting structural geology and balancing studies in complex extensional, compressional, and strike-slip tectonic areas. He undertakes worldwide exploration and development studies and also serves as a structural advisor and instructor. Jim has worked in Venezuela, China, Argentina, Oman, Central Europe, and the North Sea. He has published over 26 papers at the national conventions of the AAPG and GSA. He was the recipient of several awards including the Distinguished Service Award in 1990 from the AAPG and the 1980 President’s Award, from ARCO Oil and Gas Company. He served as Visiting Fellow at the Austrian National Research Council and Visiting Scientist at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Jim received his B.S in Engineering Geology from Saint Louis University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Geology from Columbia University in 1967. He is a member of AAPG, GSA, the Dallas Geological Society, and the Nature Conservancy. Brian Lock, Ph.D.Brian Lock, Ph.D. teaches several courses for SCA and has been involved with the company since it was founded. He is currently Professor of Geology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he is also Head of the Department of Geology and Acting Director of the Energy Institute. He has held many professional positions in organizations, including President of the Lafayette Geological Society, President and Convention General Chairman of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Vice President of the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM, and Program Chairman for the Gulf Coast Exploration and Development Meeting of the SEG. He was the first recipient of the GCAGS Outstanding Educator Award and has also won awards for his technical papers. He has published close to one hundred articles. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. Robert Merrill, Ph.D.Robert Merrill, Ph.D. has over thirty years of industry experience where he has worked for American Stratigraphic Company, Cities Service Company, Occidental, Unocal and Samson in various domestic and international exploration and staff positions. In these positions he has explored a variety of basins, including extensional basins, fold and thrust belts and foreland basins both from a regional context as well as prospect generation. Countries in which he has exploration as well as acquisition experience outside North America include Argentina, Brazil and Colombia in South America, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in Southeast Asia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan in Central Asia, the North Sea, and Central Europe. He has experience generating and evaluating prospects in both conventional and unconventional clastic reservoirs, including fractured reservoirs and tight gas sands as well as carbonates. In his positions he participated or was responsible for implementing probabilistic methods to prospect evaluation and reserves estimation and using this information for comprehensive portfolio management. He has been involved with evaluating and optimizing the geological and geophysical workflow to reduce cycle time from the origination of an idea to prospect drilling. He has taught in-house courses on a range of subjects including structural geology, basin analysis and plate tectonics and geology for engineers. He has served as Secretary and President of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, is active in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists where he co-edited the Giant Fields of the Decade 1990 - 2000 and edited Source and Migration Processes and Techniques for Evaluation and was the Technical Program Coordinator for the 2006 AAPG Annual Meeting in Houston. He is currently a Director of the Houston Geological Society. He has also published papers in subjects as diverse as risk analysis, deep, overpressured gas in the Green River Basin and origin and migration of oils, Wyoming/Utah/Idaho Overthrust belt. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a Chartered Geologist with the Geological Society and has served on committees for the American Geological Institute. Dr. Merrill has his Ph.D. and M.S. from Arizona State University and his B.A. in Geology from Colby College. Shankar Mitra, Ph.D.Shankar Mitra, Ph.D. holds the Monnett Chair and Professorship of Energy Resources at the University of Oklahoma. He spent 19 years at ARCO Research and Exploration as Senior and Principal Research Geologist, Director of Structural Geology, Manager of Geological Research, Exploration Director, and Senior Exploration Research Advisor. His primary interests are in the development of structural concepts and methods, and their application to exploration and production problems. He is a recipient of the AAPG’s Wallace Pratt and Cam Sproule Best Paper awards and served as Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin for nine years. He obtained his Ph.D. in structural geology from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. Roger M. Slatt, Ph.D.Roger M. Slatt, Ph.D. is the Director of the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma. He was formerly Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, and Director of the Rocky Mountain Region Petroleum Technology Transfer Council. Roger taught geology for eight years at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Arizona State University. He then spent 14 years in the petroleum industry with Cities Service Research, ARCO Research, and ARCO International Oil and Gas Company, before joining the Colorado School of Mines. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alaska in 1970. James J. Smolen, Ph.D.James J. Smolen, Ph.D. has over thirty years experience in cased hole well logging, applications, related research, and training. He began in the oil industry (1970) with Schlumberger and since 1980 has been an officer and director of Petroleum Computing, Inc., and an international consultant and trainer of cased hole logging. Dr. Smolen has numerous publications to his credit, including the 1996 PennWell text, Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation. He was a distinguished Lecturer for both the SPE and the SPWLA. Dr. Smolen holds a B.S. from Northwestern University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Daniel J. TearpockDaniel J. Tearpock is Chairman, CEO and Founder of SCA. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of this international petrom consultancy and training company. As a working geoscientist, he generated numerous exploration and exploitation prospects, either as the sole generator or as part of an organized team, resulting in a total potential reserve exposure of over 100 MMGEBS. The largest exploration discovery of 250 BCF of gas in the offshore Gulf of Mexico in 1988, and the largest exploitation discovery of 4,500,000 BO in the offshore Gulf of Mexico in 1980. Dan has published numerous articles and co-authored two graduate-level, industry textbooks entitled, Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping and Quick Look Techniques for Prospect Evaluation. Dan has authored publications in the areas of geothermal energy, structural geology, shared earth modeling, project management, and petroleum subsurface mapping. He has also conducted and supervised numerous exploration and development studies in various basins around the world. Dan also serves as an expert witness for the Louisiana Department of Conservation. He received his B.A. in Geology from Bloomsburg University and his M.A. in Geology from Temple University. Dan is a Certified Petroleum Geologist and a member of AAPG, SPE, SEG, NOGS, LGS, HGS, GCAGS, and IPA. Hal F. MillerMr. Hal F. Miller, Senior Vice President of Operations for Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC, is responsible for the administration and coordination of SCA’s global operations and for guiding the company’s strategic direction. Prior to joining SCA in 2004 as Vice President of Operations, Hal spent a total of 26 years working at Conoco and ConocoPhillips. During that time he held a variety of positions including operations, exploration, and human resource management at the business unit level, and corporate level skills management for the geoscience and reservoir engineering disciplines. Hal received his undergraduate degree in 1974 from Williams College in Massachusetts and his M.S. in Geology from the University of Colorado in 1979. Mangat R. Thapar, Ph.D.Mangat R. Thapar, Ph.D. has more than 30 years of international experience in exploration geophysics which includes teaching undergraduate/graduate courses in at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, Oklahoma State University, OK, and University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He worked for Phillips Petroleum, CITGO, and Occidental Petroleum for 15 years in R&D, developing new techniques for seismic data processing, modeling and interpretation. Dr. Thapar has conducted considerable research in direct hydrocarbon detection using seismic attributes in many areas around the globe. Dr. Thapar is an author of numerous publications in exploration geophysics. He holds B.S. (Hons) and M.S. degrees in Applied Geophysics from the Indian School of Mines, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He has worked as a geophysical consultant for 21 years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is President of International Geophysical Company Inc, and Geophysical Research and Training Institute. Dr. Thapar is actively involved in research in seismic data acquisition, processing 2-D and 3-D, AVO and Seismic Attributes. His current research interests are in developing tools for teaching exploration geophysics using Excel, Mathcad, and Digital Signal Processing software. He is also designing and assembling experiments in his laboratory for hands-on learning in seismic exploration. Thomas R. WittickThomas R. Wittick is President of Lindon Exploration Company, which he founded in 1984. He has previous experience with oil companies, seismic contractors, and consulting firms, where he served as Division Exploration Manager, Division Geophysicist, Consulting Geophysicist, and Seismic Processing Center Manager. One of his principal functions has been the cost-effective application of geological, geophysical, and engineering technology to various exploration and development situations. He holds a M.S. from Kansas State University. Tom has presented papers at several SEG conventions and the Offshore Technology Conference, and has published in the Journal of Petroleum Technology. William D. McCain Jr., Ph.D.William D. McCain Jr., Ph.D. is Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. He obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University, and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously he was Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer of S. A. Holditch & Associates in College Station, Texas. He was Professor and Head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Mississippi State University and worked as a consulting petroleum engineer with Cawley, Gillespie & Associates in Fort Worth. He has supervised and worked on hundreds of reservoir studies in his consulting career. He authored a large number of publications in the petroleum engineering literature mostly dealing with reservoir engineering, has patents, and wrote two editions of "The Properties of Petroleum Fluids" a widely used petroleum engineering textbook. Selim S. Shaker, Ph.D.
Selim S. Shaker, Ph.D. is Director of and Consulting Geologist for Geopressure Analysis Services (G.A.S.) in Dr. Shaker has over 30 years of experience in the oil industry. His recent work has been focused on the Shelf and Deep Water of the After retiring from Phillips Petroleum Company in 2000, after 20 years of service, he established G.A.S. The company’s primary services focus on geopressure prediction and assessment based on compartmentalization and geopressure modeling. Building the geological foundation for pore pressure prediction is his exclusive specialty. Dr. Shaker’s numerous published papers and industry presentations deal with pore pressure predictions, geopressure compartmentalization, seal integrity, hydrocarbon trapping, geological modeling, etc. (list attached). He is an active member of AAPG, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Houston Geological Society (HGS), Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH), Geological Modeling Society of Houston (GMSH) and AADE (American Association of Drilling Engineers). Charles G. StoneCharles G. Stone has been a geologist with the Arkansas Geological Commission for over 40 years and has dealt with the structure, stratigraphy, sedimentology, economic, and environmental geology in the Ouachita Mountains and Arkoma Basin of Arkansas. Charles’ recent activities include geological mapping of 178 ½ minute quadrangles for the COGEOMAP program and geochemistry of rocks in west-central Arkansas. Charles is co-editor of the AAPG Memoir 72/SEPM Spec. Publ. 68, Fine Grained Turbidite Systems, 2000. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in geology from the University of Arkansas. Fred Aminzadeh, Ph.D.Fred Aminzadeh, Ph.D. is president and Robert E. Maute, Ph.D.Robert E. Maute, Ph.D. is an independent consultant specializing in petrophysics and well log interpretation. Robert has over 25 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry, primarily with Mobil Oil Company (1977-1995) where he held various positions in Applied Petrophysics as well as in Research and Development. Robert received his B.S. degree in Physics from Lamar University and went on to attend The Ohio State University, where he received his M.S. and his Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics. He is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts. Robert has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Mathematics and Physics at Ohio State University and the Distinguished Speaker Award from SPWLA. He has authored numerous publications and patents relating to applied petrophysics. Timothy R. McGinleyTimothy R. McGinley is the President of McGinley and Associates, Inc. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas with 25 years of domestic and international integrated formation evaluation experience. Through the integration of wireline logs, core data, well tests, drill samples, and production data, Tim has added millions of BOE and saved clients millions of dollars in completion costs. Tim invented new analysis techniques in South America to interpret horizontal well data. He is skilled with neural networks for seismic work as well as having over 20 years of teaching experience at major universities, conventions, and seminars. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Arizona. Roger D. ShewRoger D. Shew is a Geological Consultant and Instructor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNC-W). He spent 20 years with Shell Oil in the positions of Development Geology in New Orleans, E&P Research at the Bellaire Research Center in Houston, and as a full time Geology Instructor and Curriculum Director in Houston. His emphasis has been on reservoir characterization, particularly of deepwater and deltaic depositional systems, with studies of sedimentology. He has a B.A. in Earth Sciences from the University of North Carolina (1976), and a M.S. in Geology from the University of North Carolina (1979). David AbbottA consulting economic geologist and a Certified Professional Geologist. Prior to becoming a consultant in 1996, he spent 21 years as a geologist for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). He has authored a number of papers and given numerous speeches on the interplay between geology and the securities laws, particularly those relating to the definition of reserves, and on other aspects of professional geological practice. He compiles a monthly column, “Professional Ethics & Practices,” for the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He serves as AIPG’s Ethics Committee Chairman and received AIPG’s Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award in 1998. He received an A.B. in earth sciences from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in geology from the Colorado School of Mines.
Charles F. Alcocer, Ph.D.Dr. Charles F. Alcocer has more than twenty-five years of domestic and international experience in Academia and the oil and gas industry, especially in the areas of Management, Reservoir Engineering, Production Engineering, Production Optimization, Project Engineering, Oil and Gas Economic Evaluations, and Environmental Engineering. He is very active in consulting and teaching worldwide for the Oil and Gas Industry. Specialized in Engineering Management, Economic Evaluations, Computer applications, Reservoir Mathematical Simulations applied to Oil and Gas Reservoir, Paraffin and Asphaltene deposition prevention and/or control, Formation Damage Prevention and Control, Production Engineering studies and Environmental Engineering applied to wastewater treatment and oil-contaminated soil. Dr. Alcocer is a result and problem-solving oriented engineer and environmentalist. His Doctoral Dissertation and Post-Doctoral Research concerned Nitrogen injection for EOR and EGR. Thus far, he has several publications on Nitrogen injection for EOR and EGR. He is an active inventor. Chrisrtine Ehlig-Economides, Ph.D.Dr. Ehlig-Economides is currently full professor of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University in the Albert B. Stevens endowed chair. Dr. Ehlig-Economides worked for Schlumberger for 20 years in a truly global capacity. She has published more than 50 papers and has authored 2 patents, and has lectured or consulted in more than 30 countries. Dr. Ehlig-Economides is internationally recognized for expertise in reservoir engineering, pressure transient analysis, integrated reservoir characterization, complex well design, and production enhancement. Her professional service includes: Executive Editor of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Formation Evaluation journal 1995-96 ;SPE Distinguished Lecture 1997-98; and numerous posts as chairman or member of SPE committees and task forces. She recently co-chaired a steering committee for the Middle East Colloquium in Petroleum Engineering Education was the Program Chairperson for the 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, and is currently co-chairing an SPE Talent and Retention Workshop on Dual Career Couples in the petroleum industry. She is currently a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on America's Energy Future. Christine Ehlig-Economides received a B.A. degree in math-science from Rice an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Ehlig-Economides has received numerous awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. John R. EtheringtonJohn Etherington is Managing Director of Petroleum Resource Analysts (PRA) International Ltd., a Calgary-based consulting firm advising industry on resources assessment, reserves disclosures, and portfolio management processes. He holds BS and MS degrees in geology and is an Alberta and DPA certified professional geologist. He previously spent 32 years with Mobil Oil in Canada, USA, and international Exploration and Producing assignments including five years in Mobil's central resources audit group. John has conducted resources assment training for both multinational and state-owned oil and gas companies; attendees included over 600 geoscientists and engineers from 30 countries. John served on the SPE Oil and Gas Reserves Committee with primary responsibility for the 2007 Revised Resources Definitions Project; he also coordinated SPE's interface with the United Nations Framework Classification and the International Accounting Standards Board's Extractive Activities projects. He was an SPE Distinguished lecturer in 2005/2006. He has presented papers on resources project and portofolio evaluation issues at AAPG, EAGE and SPE conferences. Creties JenkinsCreties Jenkins is a Vice-President for DeGolyer and MacNaughton in Dallas where he specializes in the characterization and modeling of clastic reservoirs, including coals and shales. He has conducted integrated studies, reserves work, and training for numerous companies in the U.S., Canada, Russia, China, Venezuela, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkmenistan, Algeria, and Libya. Creties began his career with Tenneco Oil in 1986 as a geological engineer and worked as a reservoir engineer, petrophysicist, and production geologist for ARCO from 1988-2000, spending most of that time at ARCO's research and development center. Creties has been active in both SPE and AAPG-he served as a Distinguished Lecturer for SPE, was named an Outstanding Technical Editor for SPE, and currently serves as President-elect of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG. Creties received a M.S. degree in Geology and a B.S. degree in Geological Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines. He is a registered professional engineer and a registered professional geologist in Texas. Douglas McBrideA Senior Petroleum engineering expert with extensive experience in the international sector. Performed and managed numerous evaluations requiring the application of technical analysis from the engineering, petrophysical, financial and geological disciplines. Significant experience in the preparation of reserves certification reports for the U.S. SEC and the UKLA. Conducted project planning and supervised engineers and geologists in performing domestic and international reserves studies, integrated field studies and detailed studies of field-development economics for the upstream sector and financial institutions. Mr. McBride has managed acquisition evaluations valued at $3.5 billion. In addition, he has managed several IPO's in the $1-$2 billion range, as well as several divestment packages of similar value. He has been involved in the evaluation of the SPE/WPC reserve compliance for an African LNG project which was in the $10 billion dollar range. Over 32 years of industry experience includes employment with a major oil company, several large independent oil companies and a leading global engineering consulting company. Broad international familiarity with concentration in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and all regions of the FSU.
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