Speakers (24)
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Charles Cusack
VP, Exploration
Petrohawk Energy
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Mr. Cusack currently serves as the Haynesville Shale Project Manager and has most recently served as Petrohawk’s Exploration Manager for the Gulf Coast Division. He was instrumental in the growth of the region from initial investment in 2004 to its sale in 2007. Mr. Cusack has over 25 years of exploration and exploitation experience having worked in various positions for 3TEC Energy, Cockrell Oil, Amerada Hess, Tenneco Oil, and Gulf Oil. He holds ...more
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Jim Raney
Director of Engineering & Technology
Anadarko Petroleum Corp
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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is among the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the world, with 2.28 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BBOE) of proved reserves at year-end 2008.
Anadarko's portfolio of assets encompasses premier positions in 10 major U.S. onshore natural gas resource plays. The company also is the largest independent deepwater producer in the Gulf of Mexico, and has production and/ ...more
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Clarke Turner
Director, Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center
U.S. Department of Energy
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Clarke Turner is the Director of Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center and Manager of the Teapot Dome Oilfield. As the Department of Energy’s Regional Oil and Gas Manager he also was E&P Manager of a Colorado western slope gas field. In 2002, Clarke was selected to be the Secretary of Energy's representative on Iraq oil planning and policy task force. He later led a team into Iraq to assist the Iraqi Oil Company in rebuilding efforts. He has ex ...more
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Nehal Patwa
Director, International Sales & Operations & Upstream Practice
Siemens Energy
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Mr. Patwa is the Director of the International Sales and Operations for the Engineering Consulting Business Unit within the Siemens Oil & Gas Division in Houston. Mr Patwa has oversight responsibilities over the strategic expansion of the business and operations globally. In addition, Mr. Patwa manages the Upstream Consulting Practice within the business unit, that is involved with the conceptual and front-end engineering design of facilities f ...more
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Mike Koch
GM, Global Strategy Development, Corporate Business Development
Chevron
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Michael R. (Mike) Koch, is the General Manager of Strategy Development for Chevron’s Corporation Business Development. In this capacity he is responsible for developing and facilitating Chevron’s global growth strategy.
Raised in Illinois, Mike has 31 years of experience in exploration & production, strategic planning and commercial activities in Chevron's upstream sector. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Illinois S ...more
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Iman Hill
SVP, Brasil E&P
BG Group
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Iman Hill is Senior Vice President, Brasil E&P, BG Group, having assumed this position in March 2008.
Previously, beginning in 2005, she served the company as General Manager, Developments.
In a career that has spanned more than 20 years, Iman started in the industry with BP and served for 10 years
in a variety of petroleum engineering disciplines, including working on a North Sea platform. She then became
Chief Petroleum Engineer for ...more
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Mark R. Williams
VP, Exploration & Development
Whiting Petroleum Corporation
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Mark R. Williams is Vice President of Exploration and Development at Whiting Petroleum Corporation where he manages the company’s upstream activity and capital budget. His mission is the development of oil resource plays through integration of geoscience, technology and economics.He has twenty-four years of experience in the oil and gas industry and his areas of primary technical expertise are in sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation and ...more
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Robert Spitzer
VP, Exploration - Canada
Apache Corporation
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Robert Spitzer is VP Exploration at Apache Canada Ltd. Rob graduated from McMaster University in 1981. He spent 18 years at Shell Canada Ltd. in both exploration and development roles. Rob joined Apache Canada in 1999 and was part of the Ladyfern discovery in 2000.
He led the exploratory and development drilling program at Apache from 2000 to 2007 and has led Apache’s Horn River Basin activity since 2001. In late 2007, Rob with cooperation ...more
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Dr Vincent Saubestre
Head, R&D and Technology Division Canada
TOTAL E&P Company
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Upon completing his MS and PhD at the University of California in 1990, Vincent Saubestre joined Total as an R&D engineer. Two years ago, Vincent was assigned to structure Total’s Research Center dedicated to oil sands, returning to Calgary after more than 40 years.
The common thread underpinning Vincent’s career with Total has been to take on new challenges of increasing complexity in a variety of cultural environments around the world: resea ...more
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Karim Essemiani
Business and Marketing Manager
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies
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Karim Essemiani is the Business and Marketing manager of Oil and Gas division of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America. Mr Essemiani has about 10 years experience in the design of industrial process and waste water technologies, with core expertise in refineries and onshore produced water. Mr Essemiani has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is the co-inventor of Veolia’s proprietary technolog ...more
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Stephen Harvey
Director of the Office of Oil & Gas
Energy Information Administration
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Stephen Harvey has been a career member of the SES since 2002 with experience in high-profile public management, public sector operations, and consulting relating to electric and natural gas markets, regulation and enforcement as well as expertise in executive-level leadership and technological innovation. He has approximately 25 years experience in the energy industry successfully managing major analysis programs, assuring their quality, and d ...more
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David Burnett
Director of Technology GPRI, Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering
Texas A&M University
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David Burnett serves as the Director of Technology for the Global Petroleum Research Institute. As Director of Technology he monitors research trends and needs, identifies key industrial contacts, as well as solicits research project proposals. He also serves on the GPRI Executive Committee and Technology Coordination Team. He also serves as Research Coordinator for the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.
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Dr John Felmy
Chief Economist
American Petroleum Institute
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John Felmy is Chief Economist of API. He is responsible for overseeing economic, statistical and policy analysis of the Institute. He has over twenty-five years experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis. He received Bachelors and Masters in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Maryland.
John is a member of several professional associations including the American Eco ...more
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Dr Roger Slatt
Director, Institute of Reservoir Characterization
University of Oklahoma
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Roger M. Slatt is currently the Gungoll Family Chair Professor in Petroleum Geology and Geophysics at University of Oklahoma. He was Director of the School of Geology and Geophysics and Eberly Family Chair Professor at University of Oklahoma from 2000-2006. He formerly was Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines (1992-2000) and Director of the Rocky Mountain Region Petroleum Technology Transfer Cou ...more
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Dr Steve Whittaker
Senior Project Manager
Petroleum Technology Research Centre
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Steve Whittaker is the Senior Project Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Regina, Canada where he oversees the management of all research programs, including the IEA GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, JIVE, Aquistore and the EOR Program. He comes to the PTRC from Canadian Capital Energy Corporation, a Saskatchewan-based oil exploration company. Prior to this Steve was a Senior Research Geologist for the Ge ...more
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Dr. Peter Rowley
Director, Natural Resources Practice
Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
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Dr. Peter Rowley is the London-based Director of the Natural Resources Practice with Environmental Resources Management (ERM), an international environmental consulting firm. Dr. Rowley has more than 35 years of experience in academic and business settings. In the late 1970’s he was a Fulbright Fellow and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University. He has worked in the environmental consulting industry since 1979 and ...more
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Brian J. Dickson
VP & GM Field Devices
Invensys Process Systems
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With 20 years of experience and know-how related to plant and field automation, Mr Dickson focuses on creating and delivering high value solutions. Mr. Dickson’s career includes interests in measurement, control, and optimization; with current emphasis on business value created by the innovative application of various technologies. In 1991 Mr. Dickson started his career with Foxboro Canada in Edmonton. After a three year assignment in Ab ...more
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Dr. Luiz Amado
Senior Reservoir Engineer
Petrobras
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Dr Amado is a Senior Reservoir Engineer at Petrobras America in Houston, Texas. He has over 15 years of experience in Reservoir Engineering in Exploration and Development Projects in GOM, Southern North Sea (UK) and West Africa. Previously he worked for Shell EP international and Schlumberger Geoquest Reservoir Technologies, where he had assignments in Mexico, UK, Brazil and USA. He has participated in several committees for the SPE, chairing tec ...more
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Francisco Ortigosa
Director of Geophysics E&P
Repsol
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Francisco Ortigosa received his MSc. in Geophysics from the University of Barcelona. After three years of research, Francisco has dedicated 16 years to the petroleum industry holding geophysics related positions in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Egypt and currently in USA. He is Worldwide Manager Geophysical Operations and Subsurface Imaging for Repsol-YPF. Francisco has authored or coauthored numerous technical papers presented ...more
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Gerrit M. Lenderink
Head New Applications and Systems Strategy Rotating Equipment
Siemens Oil & Gas Solutions
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Gerrit M. Lenderink is currently Head of New Applications and Systems Strategy Rotating Equipment for Siemens Oil & Gas Solutions. In this function mr. Lenderink is responsible for the availability of a competitive, coherent portfolio of rotating equipment based solutions for Upstream and Midstream Oil & Gas within Siemens. Mr. Lenderink began his career with Siemens in 1979 as a compressor product engineer. In his 30 years in the busines ...more
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Mark Lochmann
Director of Technology & Services
Halliburton/Landmark Software and Services
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For more than 25 years, Landmark has been providing solutions to E&P challenges through the continuous development and enhancement of our leading high-science software and technology services. With over 350 patent filings since 2001, we recognize that solving your challenges of today, and those of tomorrow, requires constant innovation around everything we do. Our technologies and services span every discipline in our industry and include su ...more
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Michael J. Saucier
Regional Supervisor of Field Operations, Gulf of Mexico
U.S. Department of the Interior - Minerals Management Service
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Mr. Michael Saucier is currently the Regional Supervisor for Field Operations, Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, U.S. Department of the Interior, in New Orleans, Louisiana. As Regional Supervisor, Mr. Saucier oversees a staff of 170 engineers, technicians, inspectors and administrative support who are responsible for safe and environmentally responsible oil and gas operations throughout the G ...more
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Ronald Cramer
Senior Advisor
Shell
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Ron Cramer is a Senior Advisor with Shell Global Solution, Houston in the area of oil field automation and production systems. Cramer has 31 years experience with Shell International in upstream oil field operations and production systems. He also worked for 10 years as a Chemical Engineer for Union Carbide and Polysar in downstream research and process surveillance and optimization areas. Mr. Cramer is a graduate Chemical Engineer, BSc, Str ...more
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Russ Conser
Manager - E&P GameChanger
Shell
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Russ is leader of the Shell’s global EP GameChanger team and is based in Houston, Texas. GameChanger is a Shell-created program that invests in people to help mature their breakthrough ideas to proof-of-concept. A career “Shell guy,” he spent his early years exploring for and producing oil and gas around the world, then later on such things as business planning, strategy, scenarios, and technology venturing. He was raised in ...more
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