SCA Instructors

SCA seeks qualified training instructors to teach public and in-house courses. SCA offers marketing and enrollment tools in-line with industry standards, and a new training facility in our Houston office. Instructors have the opportunity to develop new training options, and to maintain technical skills through involvement in the provision of consulting services when not teaching courses.

Sia Agah

Mr. Agah teaches the following courses:

• Applied Contouring Methods Workshop
• Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping

Jill B. Almaguer, PE, MBA, PMP

Mrs. Almaguer teaches the following course:

• Project Management Professional Exam Prep

Ewerton Araujo, PhD

Dr. Araujo teaches the following courses:

• Geomechanics Aspects of CCS Projects
• Geomechanics for Geothermal Projects

Robert ‘Bob’ Barba

Mr. Barba teaches the following courses:

• “Best Practices” for New Well Fracs and Legacy Well Refracs
• Cased Hole and Production Log Evaluation
• Open Hole and Cased Hole Petrophysical Inputs for Carbon Capture Projects

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Kirk E. Boatright, PhD, PE

Dr. Boatright teaches the following course:

• Basic Petroleum Engineering Practices

Jim Brenneke

Mr. Brenneke teaches the following courses:

• Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control Skills in Subsurface Mapping (QAQC)

Ruben Caligari

Mr. Caligari teaches the following courses:

• Basic Petroleum Operations
• Petroleum Engineering Fundamentals
• Unconventional Oil and Gas

Eric D. Carlson, P.G.

Mr. Carlson teaches the following course:

• Big Bend Field Course

Gary Chapman

Mr. Chapman teaches the following course:

• Daniel J. Tearpock Geoscience Certification Program (Mentor)

Alan Cherry

Mr. Cherry teaches the following courses:

• Mapping Seismic Data Workshop
• Well Tie Workshop

Rajan Chokshi, PhD

Dr. Chokshi teaches the following courses:

• Artificial Lift and Production Optimization Solutions
• Artificial Lift and Real-Time Optimization for Unconventional Assets
• Data Analytics Workflows for Artificial Lift, Production and Facility Engineers

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Scott P. Cooper, MS

Mr. Cooper teaches the following course:

• Effects of Mechanical Stratigraphy and Structure on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (Central Wyoming)

Steve Cossey, PhD

Dr. Cossey teaches the following courses:

• Basin-Floor Fan Systems (South Central Pyrenees, Spain)
• Deepwater Systems, Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees: Application to Hydrocarbon Prospectivity and Unconventional Plays
• High-Continuity Sandy Turbidite System: Application to Hydrocarbon Prospectivity (Haute Provence, SE France)

Birol Dindoruk, PhD

Dr. Dindoruk teaches the following course:

• Geothermal Energy

Dennis Dria, PhD

Dr. Dria teaches the following course:

• In-Well Fiber-Optic Sensing

Christine Ehlig-Economides, PhD

Dr. Ehlig-Economides teaches the following courses:

• Basic Reservoir Engineering for Non-Petroleum Engineers
• Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage – An Engineering Perspective
• Pressure Transient Test Design and Interpretation

Fermin Fernandez-Ibanez, PhD

Dr. Fernandez-Ibanez teaches the following courses:

• Geomechanics Aspects of CCS Projects
• Geomechanics for Geothermal Projects

John T. Foster, PhD

Dr. Foster teaches the following courses:

• Reservoir Geomechanics I
• Reservoir Geomechanics II

James Granath, PhD

Dr. Granath teaches the following course:

• Structural Geology & Tectonics as Applied to Upstream Problem

Laurie Green, MSc, PG

Mrs. Green teaches the following course:

• Principles of Mapping with Petrel©

Ursula Hammes, PhD

Dr. Hammes teaches the following courses:

• Shale Reservoir Core Workshop: Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Assessment of Organic-Rich Mudrocks
• Shale Reservoir Workshop: Analyzing Organic-Rich Mudrocks from Basin to Nano-Scale

Dimitrios Hatzignatiou, PhD

Dr. Hatzignatiou teaches the following courses:

• Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage – An Engineering Perspective
• Fundamentals of CO₂ Sequestration: Mechanisms and Processes

Susan Howes, PE, PHR

Mrs. Howes teaches the following courses:

• Basics of the Petroleum Industry
• Basic Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers
• Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty Management

Jerry Jensen, PhD

Dr. Jensen teaches the following course:

• Managing Mature Oilfields with Capacitance-Resistance Modelling

Peter B. Jones, PhD

Dr. Jones teaches the following course:

• Folds, Faults, and Hydrocarbons in the Southern Canadian Cordillera: Short Course and Field Trip

Shah Kabir

Mr. Kabir teaches the following course:

• Reservoir Management of Unconventional Reservoirs: from Inception to Maturity

John Keasberry

Mr. Keasberry teaches the following course:

• Deepwater Operations Geology and the Technology to Acquire & Evaluate Data During Operations

William N. Krebs, PhD

Dr. Krebs teaches the following course:

• Applied Biostratigraphy in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production

Larry W. Lake, PhD

Dr. Lake teaches the following course:

• Managing Mature Oilfields with Capacitance-Resistance Modelling

W. John Lee, PhD

Dr. Lee teaches the following courses:

• PRMS and SEC Reserves and Resources Regulations
• Production Forecasting for Low Permeability Reservoirs
• Reserves Estimation

William Little, PhD

Dr. Little teaches the following course:

• The Book Cliffs, Utah: A Case Study in Coastal Sequence Stratigraphy

Silviu Livescu, PhD

Dr. Livescu teaches the following course:

• Geothermal Energy

Oscar Lopez-Gamundi, PhD

Dr. Lopez-Gamundi teaches the following courses:

• Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy
• Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to O&G Exploration

John C. Lorenz, PhD

Dr. Lorenz teaches the following course:

• Effects of Mechanical Stratigraphy and Structure on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (Central Wyoming)

Catalina Luneberg, PhD

Dr. Luneburg teaches the following course:

• Structural Geology & Tectonics as Applied to Upstream Problems

D. Nathan Meehan, PhD

Dr. Meehan teaches the following course:

• Energy Transition for Petroleum Professionals

Robert Merrill, PhD

Dr. Merrill teaches the following course:

• Visual Rock Characterization

Hal F. Miller

Mr. Miller teaches the following course:

• Basics of the Petroleum Industry

Jennifer L. Miskimins, PhD

Dr. Miskimins teaches the following course:

• Hydraulic Fracturing: Theory & Application

Siddharth Misra, PhD

Dr. Misra teaches the following course:

• Introduction to Subsurface Machine Learning

Gerrit Nitters

Mr. Nitters teaches the following course:

• Well Stimulation: Practical and Applied

Mark Olson

Mr. Olson teaches the following courses:

• Clastic Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization with Core Workshop
• Modern Depositional Systems as Analogs for Subsurface Characterization

William K. “Bill” Ott, PE

Mr. Ott teaches the following course:

• Cement Evaluation and Repair Workshop

PK Pande, PE

Mr. Pande teaches the following course:

• Navigating CCUS – Gulf Coast Region – Workshop

Jorge Pastor, PhD

Dr. Pastor teaches the following courses:

• Geomechanics Aspects of CCS Projects
• Geomechanics for Geothermal Projects

Kevin Pickering, PhD

Dr. Pickering teaches the following courses:

• Deepwater Systems, Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees: Application to Hydrocarbon Prospectivity and Unconventional Plays
• High-Continuity Sandy Turbidite System: Application to Hydrocarbon Prospectivity (Haute Provence, SE France)

Srini Prasad

Mr. Prasad teaches the following courses:

• Developing Robust Production Forecasts: Do’s and Don’ts
• How to Maximize the Value of Conventional Oil Reservoir Developments: Best Practices

Bradford E. Prather

Mr. Prather teaches the following courses:

• Integrated Deepwater Depositional and Petroleum Systems
• The Practice of Seismic Stratigraphy in Deepwater Settings

Lee A. Richards, PhD, PE

Dr. Richards teaches the following courses:

• Drilling Fluids
• Introduction to Drilling Engineering
• Well Control for Drilling Engineers and Senior Rig Personnel

Leo Roodhart, PhD

Mr. Roodhart teaches the following course:

• Well Stimulation: Practical and Applied

Jon R. Rotzien, PhD

Dr. Rotzien teaches the following course:

• Applied Deep-Water Sedimentology & Stratigraphy

Robello Samuel, PhD

Dr. Samuel teaches the following courses:

• Applied Drilling Engineering Optimization for Drilling Engineers
• Applied Drillstring Mechanics for Drilling Engineers
• Principles and Practices of Mud Motor

Ed Savage

Mr. Savage teaches the following course:

• Economic Evaluation of Petroleum Opportunities

Selim Shaker, PhD

Dr. Shaker teaches the following courses:

• For Safe Drilling: Formation – Fracture Pressure Interpretations and Analysis
• Pore Pressure, Fracture Pressure and Well-Bore Stability
• Seal and Reservoir Pressures Analysis for E&P Prospect’s Risk Assessment

Robert F. Shelley, PE

Mr. Shelley teaches the following course:

• Artificial Neural Systems in Petroleum Engineering

Robert ‘Bob’ Shoup

Mr. Shoup teaches various SCA training courses in the US, Asia-Pacific, European, and Middle Eastern areas. These courses include:

• Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping
• Effective Petroleum Systems Analysis
• Geology-Based Topical Contouring Workshops

View the full catalog of Mr. Shoup’s classes here.

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, PhD

Dr. Sonnenberg teaches the following courses:

• Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage – A Geological Perspective
• Elements of Energy Geology – Basin Analysis & Subsurface Energy Storage
• Elements of Petroleum Geology
• Reservoir Characterization for Mudrock Reservoirs
• Unconventional Resource Plays – Workshop

Subsurface Alliance

Subsurface Alliance teaches the following courses:

• Geomechanics Aspects of CCS Projects
• Geomechanics for Geothermal Projects

W. Lansing Taylor, PhD

Dr. Taylor teaches the following courses:

• Carbonate Reservoirs of the Permian Basin NW Shelf
• Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration and Production
• Structural Styles and Tectono-Stratigraphy for the Mid-Continent
• Structural Styles in Petroleum Exploration and Production

Julia Smith Wellner, PhD

Dr. Wellner teaches the following course:

• Modern Coastal Systems of Texas Field Course (Galveston, Texas)

James J. Willis, PhD

Dr. Willis teaches the following courses:

• Applied Seismic Interpretation Workshop
• Applied Sequence Stratigraphy of Clastic Depositional Systems
• AVO, Inversion and Attributes: Principles and Applications

View the full catalog of Dr. Willis’ classes here.

Lesli J. Wood, PhD

Dr. Wood teaches the following courses:

• Deepwater Jackfork and Atoka Field Course (Arkansas – Oklahoma)
• Deepwater Jackfork Field Course (Arkansas – Oklahoma)
• Reservoir Characterization of Clastic (Sandstone) Reservoirs
• Seismic Geomorphology

Jamie Woolsey

Mrs. Woolsey teaches the following course:

• Geosteering: Best Practices, Pitfalls, & Applied Solutions