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Click one of the instructor names below to view their bio. 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. 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. 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. Fred Aminzadeh, Ph.D.Fred Aminzadeh, Ph.D. is president and
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. Alan CherryAlan Cherry has been associated with SCA since 2005. He is currently SCA’s Senior Geologists. His integrated skill set includes strong 2D and 3D geophysical interpretation, field development, reservoir engineering, formation evaluation, economic assessment, reserves evaluation, drilling, completion, and production operations. Mr. Cherry is exceptional in exploration prospect generation and screening experience. He has conducted numerous integrated field studies and is highly proficient in the use of multiple geologic and seismic interpretation tools. Mr. Cherry has over 26 years of industry experience. His areas of expertise include Offshore GOM, Texas Gulf Coast, South Louisiana, East Texas, Permian, Uinta - Piceance, Williston, North Slope, Cook Inlet, and onshore California. Internationally he has worked projects in Ukraine, Russia, Indonesia, North Sea, Senegal, Nigeria, Gabon, Tanzania, Morocco, Somalia, Iran, Qatar, Thailand, South China Sea, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina, and Colombia. Alan received his BS in Geology at State University of New York and did his graduate studies at the University of Houston and Wright State University. He is a Licensed Professional Geologist in Texas and a Certified Professional Geologist in Indiana. 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. Dr. Steve CosseyDr. Steve Cossey has 31 years of global E & P experience with a specialty and expertise in deepwater clastics. He has explored in frontier areas of the United States, as well as China, Dubai, East Africa, Guyana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Spain and Tunisia. Steve has also worked on numerous Gulf of Mexico lease sales, prospects, developments and farm-ins. In 1990, he helped start a deepwater research program at BP Research in Sunbury, UK. Many E&P companies use his deepwater field, reservoir and outcrop databases and attend his classroom and field seminars. Dr. Cossey is skilled in interpreting deepwater sequences and creating sequence stratigraphic and depositional models from core, well and seismic data. He has worked with over 100 companies that are exploring the deepwater globally and is fairly fluent in Spanish and French. Steve earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of South Caroline, Columbia. 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. Michael J. EconomidesA chemical and petroleum engineer and an expert on energy geopolitics he holds a number of positions such as professor at the Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Chairman of the Board of XGAS, a natural gas firm (www.xgas.us) and Managing Partner of Dr. Michael J. Economides Consultants, Inc. with a wide range of industrial consulting, including major retainers by several Fortune 500 companies and national oil companies, Editor-in-Chief of Energy Tribune (www.energytribune.com) a newsletter in the energy and related industries and activities and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, published by Elsevier. Technically, he casts a commanding figure in petroleum and natural gas reservoir and production engineering. With 15 textbooks and almost 300 journal papers and articles, his works are referenced by almost all practitioners in the field. In the relatively recent past he has served as Senior Technical Advisor to China’s CNOOC and subsidiary COSL, to ENI, Italy’s main petroleum multinational company and for more than 5 years to Yukos and Sibneft, Russia’s major petroleum companies. During 1997 and 1998 Economides was in Venezuela as the Senior Advisor on Production Technology for PDVSA, the national oil company of Venezuela. Following his 2000 best seller The Color Of Oil and a large number of publications in international magazines, he is considered by many as the premier world expert on the geopolitics of energy, giving about 50 speeches per year to groups from many large professional societies, organizations and corporations. He is a frequent guest on national and international media, appearing on CNBC, Fox News, Canada’s Business News Network, BBC World Service and many local stations throughout the world. He writes for the editorial pages of major newspapers and internet news organizations. His latest wide appeal books are From Soviet to Putin and Back: The Dominance of Energy in Today’s Russia (www.soviettoputin.com) and Energy: China’s Choke Point. 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. 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. 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. Donald E. Lanman, P.E.Donald E. Lanman has been associated with SCA since 1998. He is currently SCA’s Chief Petroleum Engineer responsible for oversight on all engineering work performed by SCA. He supervises the implementation of drilling, production, operations and reservoir engineering projects worldwide. The range of projects includes acquisition evaluations, data review, divestiture package preparation, field studies, prospect evaluations, project economics, project reviews for assessing future work in fields or prospects, well log, petrophysical and production evaluations and technical support on litigation cases. Mr. Lanman has more than forty years of experience in domestic and international petroleum engineering and management. His experience includes: reservoir engineering, operations, drilling and managerial experience in both exploration and production. He has conducted numerous detailed field evaluations, property evaluations for acquisition and divestiture and economic evaluations. Projects cover all major domestic basins as well as many projects located throughout the world. He has worked as a geologist and petrophysicist in addition to being an experienced engineer. Don received his Professional Engineer degree from the Colorado School of Mines and is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, Louisiana, Texas and Wyoming. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA). 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. D. Bradford Macurda Jr. Ph.D.D. Bradford Macurda, Jr. is a well-known geologist throughout the United States and internationally. His area of expertise is the application of stratigraphic and sedimentologic principles to the analysis of seismic data, using workstations and paper seismic sections. He has trained many interpreters world-wide. Dr. Macurda has evaluated numerous interpretation projects for companies located in more than 40 countries. His training and consulting efforts encourage creative thinking by the participants, and the application of new ideas and technology to interpretation problems. Dr. Macurda received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was a professor in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Michigan. He taught a broad spectrum of soft rock courses and conducted research in paleontology, stratigraphy, and marine biology, which included extensive SCUBA diving, saturation diving, and submersible investigations. He was employed by Exxon Production Research Company utilizing seismic stratigraphy techniques on domestic and international exploration research projects. He is a member of the AAAS, AAPG, AGU, GSA, EAEG, EAPG, SEPM, The Geological Society, CSPG, PS, PA, Sigma Xi, and several regional professional technical societies. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Robert K. Olson, Ph.D.Dr. Olson completed his Ph.D. at the University of Tulsa where he studied geology with a focused on organic geochemistry. He began his career in 1980 with Amoco Production Co. at their Tulsa research facility. There he worked in both the organic geochemistry research and technical service groups on the evaluation of shale source rocks and regional oil studies. In 1987 he transferred to Amoco’s International New Ventures Group where he continued consulting on the evaluation of source rocks and oils. In 1994 Dr. Olson left Amoco to work with Dan Jarvie at Humble Instruments and Services. From there he moved to Occidental Petroleum and later Baseline Laboratory. During his time with Baseline he began to work on the evaluation of shale gas projects and in 2006 joined Kerogen Resources- a start-up company that specialized in the exploitation of both gas and oil from shale reservoirs. There Dr. Olson developed expertise in the evaluation of shale reservoirs. Since leaving Kerogen in 2008 he has been sought to teach short courses on shale gas evaluation and has consulted on both domestic and international shale exploitation projects. Rick Sarg, Ph.DRick Sarg is a geoscience consultant who specializes in stratigraphy and seismic interpretation with an emphasis on carbonates, applied to both exploration and production problems. Sarg has 33 years of experience in the petroleum industry including research, staff, and management positions with Exxon, Mobil, and ExxonMobil. Sarg concluded his career at ExxonMobil as Stratigraphy Coordinator for the Upstream Companies. He has conducted research in the seismic and sequence stratigraphy of carbonates. He has hands-on experience in exploration and production of both clastics and carbonates in North America, offshore West Africa, Indonesia, the North Sea, the Middle East, Kazakhstan, Australia, and Argentina, and has conducted numerous stratigraphy short courses, and led field trips for both industry and academia. He has authored and co-authored 30 publications and edited three volumes on carbonate stratigraphy, SEPM Special Publication 44 (1987), AAPG Memoirs 57 (1993), and 81 (2004). He has served as an associate editor for AAPG, and is a GSA Fellow and active member of AAPG and SEPM. Sarg received the SEPM Excellence of Presentation Award at the 1984 mid-year meeting. He has served in a number of positions for both the national SEPM and the Permian Basin Section of SEPM, and has recently completed a term as SEPM President. Sarg received his BS and MS degrees in geology from the University of Pittsburgh, and his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Rodney SchulzRodney Schulz, a recent ConocoPhillips retiree as well as the president and founder of Schulz Consulting, has held finance and engineering positions for both major and independent oil and gas companies. More specifically, Schulz held reservoir engineering positions in five different regions of North America for ConocoPhillips as well as being the finance member on the leadership team for the Grand Isle field, a Gulf of Mexico development with 52 platforms.
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. Selim S. Shaker, Ph.D.
Selim S. Shaker, Ph.D is Director of and Consulting Geologist for Geopressure Analysis Services Inc. (G.A.S). He received a B.Sc. (honor) in Applied Geology, M.Sc and Ph.D.in Geology from Assiut University, Egypt. He also received a diploma in Hydrogeology (1975) from Prague University (UNESCO).
With over 30 years in the oil industry, he started his career in Egypt as well-site, stratigrapher and structural geologist. During his 20 years of domestic service with Phillips Petroleum, his main function as Exploration Geologist was prospects generation in offshore the Gulf of Mexico and onshore Coastal areas. He discovered and developed more than 200 MMBOE, and also evaluated several exploration projects in NW Australia, Libya, Algeria, N. Sea and China.
After retiring from Phillips in the year 2000, Dr. Shaker established G.A.S. to focus on evaluating the implication of geopressure compartmentalization, seal integrity and salt interaction on leads and prospects on the Shelf and Deep Water of the Gulf of Mexico. Pre and Post drilling risk assessment of a prospect is his specialty. As a pioneering geoscientist, his recent domain is building the geological foundation for pore pressure prediction.
He has been the first to recognize:
-Supra and subsalt geopressure models
-Geopressure transgression and regression due compartmentalization
-The disparity between predicted pore pressure and measured pore pressure.
-Pitfalls of converting PP from psi to ppg mwe in reservoir rocks
-The qualification of centroid phenomenon in the subsurface geopressure.
-His new method of NCT (normal compaction trend) calculation will eliminate a serious mistakes and mishandling of pore pressure prediction modeling.
He is an active member of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), Houston Geological Society (HGS), Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH), Geological Modeling Society of Houston (GMSH) and American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE).
He has published several papers and articles regarding pore pressure predictions and the impact of geological settings on subsurface geopressure profile and risk assessments. 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). Robert 'Bob' ShoupBob Shoup is a certified petroleum geologist with over 30 years experience in basin analysis, regional studies, new play generation, prospect evaluation, field studies and development planning, drilling operations, and project management. Bob began his career at Shell Oil in 1983; followed by four years working for private oil companies before becoming an independent consultant in 2003. He is currently consulting in Bangkok Thailand and in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Over the course of his career he has discovered or helped to discover over 100 MMBOE. Bob is a recognized expert in clastic depositional environments and in syndepositional structural systems. In 1994 he was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in drama for his play Second Alarm. 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. 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. W. Lansing Taylor, PH.D.Dr. Taylor has been a geoscientist for fourteen years, nine years in upstream oil and gas sector with Anadarko Petroleum working both technical and management roles. Development and EOR experience includes Hugoton, Golden Trend, Permian Basin, Ozona, and the Austin Chalk. Exploration experience includes Alaska, North Africa, Middle East, and SE Asia. Subject matter expert in structural geology. His career accomplishments include three discovery wells on the Gulf Coast, one in Alaska, and a new basin entry for Anadarko in Indonesia. Following the merger with Kerr McGee, managed the evaluation of their mid-continent and west Texas fields, and made all G&G presentations for the subsequent divestiture of assets (proceeds ~$2 Billion). Lans is currently working as project advisor and fractured reservoir specialist, including efforts in the Rockies at Greater Natural Buttes in the Uinta Basin, Wattenberg Field in the DJ Basin, and Wamsutter and Sussex fields in Wyoming. Extensive outcrop experience in the Paradox Basin and the Basin and Range. Record of success within Anadarko proves competence in communication, leadership and technical skill. 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. 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. Xiuli Wang Ph.D.Dr. Xiuli Wang is currently the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of XGAS, a natural gas conversions and transportation company in Houston, Texas, specializing in the design, financing, construction and operation of facilities and vessels for the transport of commercial quantities of natural gas using compressed natural gas (CNG) technologies. Before her current position, Dr. Wang spent over seven years with BP in both technology and business units with roles such as reservoir engineer, completion engineer, lead production engineer, and project manager. She became a specialist on oil and natural gas completions, production, and project management, covering the spectrum from upstream to midstream and downstream. Dr. Wang was the lead-author of the Advanced Natural Gas Engineering (ANGE) book and contributing-author of the Modern Fracturing - Enhancing Natural Gas Production book and has numerous technical publications. She was invited to give key-note speeches and serve as chairperson and program committee member at many professional meetings and conferences at the national and international levels. She was featured in articles in Energy Tribune and Parameters. Dr. Wang earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Houston. Prior to her immigration to the United States, she earned a BS degree from Dalian University of Technology and a MS degree from Tsinghua University, followed by six years of work with one of China’s major petroleum companies, Sinopec. In 2007, Dr. Wang was named the Unites States 2007 Asian American Engineer of the Year. James J. Willis, Ph.D.James J. Willis received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from USL in 1989 and 1990, respectively, and his Ph.D. as a National Science Foundation fellow at Baylor University in 1993. From 1994-1996, he studied planetary geology as a NASA-funded postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University. In 1996, he returned to his alma mater, now UL-Lafayette, where he was awarded in 1997 the Hensarling-Chapman Endowed Professorship in Geology. In 2001, he left academia for industry consulting and teaching. He’s been the LGS Editor since 2002. He’s received many grants and contracts, presented numerous talks, and published various papers on a diversity of geoscience topics. As a USL undergraduate he developed a 4D quantitative well bore guidance theory, including the concept of positive versus negative thickness (sign indicating direction of drilling section), that predated availability of key real-time data. As an independent consultant for Baker Hughes for the last three plus years, it’s been particularly exciting to see just how far the reality of LWD technology has since advanced. 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.
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