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L. Rike
Jim Rike has spent 48 years in the Petroleum Industry,
including 22 years with Exxon (Humble) followed by 26 years as a worldwide
consultant and trainer. He has worked in drilling, production, unitization,
reservoir analysis, completion and workover design, development engineering, and
training in locations all over the United States, onshore and offshore, Canada,
Central and South America, Africa, Middle East, North Sea and Far East.
Rike played a key role in the development of new completion
concepts, directional perforators, sand control, coiled tubing rigs, well
control in drilling and workover, concentric tubing workover and completion
operations, and advanced offshore completion practices. He has authored patents
and papers on these new developments, as well as cementing, perforating,
wireline operations, workover economics, and worldwide industry practices.
Jim graduated from Texas A&M in 1948 and is a Registered
Professional Engineer in Louisiana and Texas. He was a member or Chairman of the
Well Completions Committee for the Society of Petroleum Engineers for 18 years.
He was a member of the Organizational Committee for the Formation Damage
Symposiums initiated in 1974. He served as SPE "Distinguished
Lecturer" in 1973. He was Chairman of the Well Completions Reprint
Committee. Jim received the SPE 1990 Production Engineering Award for
outstanding achievement and contribution to that area. Jim was selected for a
Citizen Ambassador program to visit the Soviet Union in 1990, to help the
transition to free market industrialization while protecting the environment.
Jim
was awarded the Todd Medal for technological achievement; he has been designated
a Distinguished Member by SPE. Most recently, he
was elected an Honorary Member of SPE/AIME, the highest award by the SPE and
reserved to less than 1/10th of one percent of the Membership. In
2009, a Plaque was installed in the Offshore Museum Rig in
Galveston
,
Texas
, identifying Jim as "Offshore Technology Pioneer.”
As a consultant, Rike has been retained by major and
independent producing companies (domestic and foreign), drilling contractors,
workover contractors, service companies, universities, and professional
organizations. Jim is well-known for his seminars with managers, engineers, and
field supervisors on well completion and workover practices, reservoir
engineering, surface production facilities, and other production areas. In
addition to industry-wide seminars, Jim conducts in-house training courses for
Amoco, Shell, Schlumberger, Union, Phillips, Mobil, BJ Hughes, British
Petroleum, Texaco, Exxon, Hunt, Chevron, Government Agencies, TOTAL, YPFB,
Petrobras, Ecopetrol, PTI (Nigeria), ADMA-OPCO and ADCO (Abu Dhabi), ONGC
(India), and GUPCO (Egypt), among others.
Jim Rike has demonstrated an unusual ability to structure
seminars and short courses so that participants can build their own conclusions
on good basic technology, solid logic, and thoroughly demonstrated results.
Critique sheets from his seminars are filled with remarks such as, "I never
understood how all this tied together until now!" or "It is remarkable
how many myths and misconceptions I’ve had straightened out!" and
"Jim proves more with fourth grade arithmetic than I ever imagined could be
shown with higher math!" It is always a big surprise to see Jim mix
experienced engineers, research personnel, young engineering graduates, and
field supervisors in the same seminar and have them all remark on how much they
learned. The underlying theme seems to be "practical and
straightforward."
Dr. Philip Johnson
Phil Johnson has 20 years experience in the solid mechanics/laser/uranium
isotope separation/petroleum industries. He has done research with Air Force
Intelligence, Union Carbide, and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
He has solved practical petroleum engineering problems with ARCO, NMIMT and PTP
(Santa Fe Drilling Research).
Dr. Johnson has 3 patents and 55 publications to his credit. He has a DOE
National Award for Energy Innovation, Fellowships from SPE, John M. Kelly and
API, and a letter of commendation for his work for the United States Army. He
belongs to the honorary fraternities of Tau Beta Pi and Phi Eta Sigma. He gets
highest compliments for teaching the practical aspects of drilling, artificial
lift, surface facilities and operations, and systems analysis.
Dr. Eric S. Carlson
Eric Carlson is a petroleum engineer with specialties in oil reservoir
management, pressure transient analysis and fractured reservoir assessment. Dr.
Carlson is a Research Associate for the U.S. Department of Energy, a reservoir
engineering advisor for the U.S. Naval Petroleum Reserve, and a reservoir
engineering consultant, along with extensive teaching obligations.
He has worked for both Marathon Oil and Amoco Production Companies in reservoir
engineering, reservoir management, and field maintenance. Carlson has experience
in the design, implementation and surveillance of secondary recovery projects in
Wyoming, Alabama and Louisiana. He performs research in the areas of numerical
analysis, general reservoir engineering, well test analysis and reservoir
characterization. He is particularly noted for his expertise in diagnosing and
evaluating the effects of reservoir heterogeneities, such as fractures, on oil
and gas reservoir recovery performance. Dr. Carlson has been an instructor for
numerous petroleum engineering courses, including reservoir engineering, well
test analysis, and reservoir simulation. He has also taught secondary recovery
methods to Indonesian petroleum engineers. Dr. Carlson received B.S., M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Wyoming. He is a
member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Dr. Charles Haynes
Haynes has 28 years experience in mineral-related industrial, teaching,
consulting and research activities. Among other accomplishments, he rose to the
position of President of an independent oil and gas firm with 2500 wells, 130
employees, and an associated service company. Charles did original and novel
work in directional drilling, automatic swabbing, and quality control training.
He also worked for Shell and taught at the University of Alabama.
Charles has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mining Engineering, capped by a Ph.D.
degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas. He is a member of
several honorary societies as well as SPE. He has published many papers and
manuals. Haynes is a Registered Professional Engineer in Alabama.
Dr. Gerald M. Knapp
A specialist in predictive and preventive maintenance, Knapp has been involved
in numerous projects related to automated machine diagnostics; computer-aided
process planning; manufacturing system design and performance evaluation;
statistical process control and in-process control; artificial intelligence and
neural network applications in manufacturing. He is currently leading a joint
venture research project to study the use of neural network technologies for
real-time detection and control of dangerous well kick fluids. With a dozen
publications to his credit, Gerry has taught at LSU and worked as a consultant
to Caterpillar, MMS, Mobil, National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research,
and General Motors.
Knapp obtained both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from
State University of New York (Buffalo) and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
from The University of Iowa. He is a member of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Operations Research
Society of America and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Ralph S. Johnson, Jr.
A professional engineer with broad-based experience in materials engineering and
corrosion control, Ralph has a proven record of success solving complex field
problems in technologically driven organizations. He has extensive experience
directing projects in applied research and providing materials engineering and
corrosion control consultation for Fortune 200 companies. Over the past 25
years, Johnson has held senior technical and management positions with Mead
Corporation, British Petroleum, Aramco, and Bechtel. He lead the startup and
development of a corporate materials engineering department, responsible for
failure analysis; materials property determinations; welder qualifications
testing; construction materials selection; and conducting non-destructive
examinations on plant equipment.
Johnson obtained both a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics and an M.S. in Nuclear
and Reactor Physics from the University of Akron. He earned his Ph.D. in
Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Michigan.
A Registered Professional Engineer in California, Ralph is also licensed in
Corrosion Engineering, Quality Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering. He is
an active member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers and the
American Society for Materials International.
Dr. Zaki Bassiouni
Professional Petroleum Engineer since 1964, Zaki joined the Louisiana State
University in 1977, where he is currently Chairman of the Department of
Petroleum Engineering. He also served on the petroleum engineering faculty at
Marietta College in Ohio and Cairo University in Egypt.
He has worked for the French Petroleum Institute, Marathon Oil Company, and
Chevron Oil Company. His experience includes well logging, petrophysics,
reservoir engineering, property evaluation and alternate sources of energy.
Bassiouni received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt;
a diploma in Geophysics from the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Petrole et des
Moteurs, Paris, France and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Lille,
France. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, a member of the
Society of Petroleum Engineers, and a member of the Society of Professional Well
Log Analysts.
Dr. Charles Wright
Charles has been working in the oilfields of the world since 1948, providing
consultation, technical service, and training. He has covered Latin America,
North Africa, North Sea and the Middle East and has lectured in the Graduate
School at USC. His publications on water treatment, scale and corrosion are
utilized as reference worldwide. He established the first really effective
corrosion control program in Saudi Arabia.
Wright has a Ph.D. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Bedford University.
Pepperdine awarded him the Distinguished Diploma of Honor in 1982. He is active
in SPE, NACE, ASTM, receiving numerous honors during his career. He is a
Registered Consulting Engineer and a Registered Corrosion Engineer in
California. NACE has given him the title Accredited Corrosion Specialist.
Dr. Samuel P. Ellison
Sam Ellison has over 40 years experience as geologist and teacher. He holds
degrees from the University of Kansas City and the University of Missouri. Dr.
Ellison has taught at Missouri School of Mines and the University of Texas,
rising to the position of Chairman of the Department and Dean of the College of
Natural Sciences. He has acted as petroleum geological consultant to independent
oil producers, University Lands, Shell, Exxon, Basin Resources, Alpine
Resources, Petro-Cap, Dresser and several law firms.
Sam is active in all important geological associations. He has several teaching
awards, Distinguished Service-AAPG, and has several honorary life memberships in
honor of his achievements. He knows how to find petroleum with geology, and he
knows how to teach others how to do so.
Dr. Michael Gondouin
Mike Gondouin has over 30 years experience in the areas of gas processing,
surface facilities, reservoir engineering, and log interpretation in the U.S.
and Europe. He has taught many Industry seminars while at Schlumberger and
Geopetrole, and was an instructor at the NATO School of Petroleum Engineering in
Milan, Italy. For many years, Mike has been involved in the Prudhoe Bay project
as Sohio’s manager of reservoir planning, chief technical advisor, manager of
formation evaluation and EOR facilities, and most recently, senior gas
consultant.
Cheryl Collarini
Collarini has over 20 years of experience in all areas of petroleum production
and development, with an accent in later years on reservoir management and
determining economic strategies. She worked 11 years for Mobil, rising to
Reservoir Engineering Supervisor and has spent the last 5 years in consulting
assignments in reservoir, management and economics.
Cheryl has an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of New Orleans. She has worked in
structural design, well production, surface facilities, economic strategy
development, reservoir engineering and advanced economics. Collarini has been a
leader in SPE and API Chapters, as well as organizations for career women. She
is a Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana.
Dr. Francis S. Manning
Frank Manning is professor of Chemical Engineering and Adjunct Professor of
Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa, and previously taught at
Carnegie-Mellon University. He holds the following degrees: B. Eng. (Hons) from
McGill and A.M., M.S.E., and Ph.D. from Princeton.
Frank is author of a book on thermoproperties of hydrocarbon gases and over 70
publications, primarily in thermodynamics, kinetics, industrial pollution
control and petroleum processing. He has always sought practical applications
for his engineering expertise and has extensive consulting experience with St.
Joe Minerals, Westinghouse, Bureau of Mines, Maloney-Crawford, AWARE, Amoco and
Rike. Frank’s honors include Barbados Scholar (1951); University School at
McGill (1953-55); R.W. Hunt Silver Medal AIM (1969); Who’s Who in America
(1972); Who’s Who in Engineering (1976); Andre Wilkins Memorial Award, Tulsa
Section AIChE (1983); and Tau Beta Pi Teaching Excellence Award (1986). Frank is
a Registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Dr. Andrew K. Wojtanowicz
Andy Wojtanowicz has over 25 years experience in field operations, teaching and
research associated with oil and gas. Dr. Wojtanowicz spent several years as a
drilling fluids technologist with International NL Petroleum Services, out of
London and Madrid, on land and offshore oilfield operations in Europe and
Africa, where he gained expertise in drilling fluids treatment, handling and
disposal. He was internationally recognized when he became an expert of the
United Nations Technical Assistance Program in 1983. He also worked with the
United Nations team of drilling engineering experts in Africa for several years.
Andy’s research and academic activity includes 7 years at the Technical
University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow, Poland; 2 years at the New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology and 4 years at Louisiana State University.
His research has covered drilling and completion fluids, mechanical stability of
bore holes, drilling bit modeling and optimization, and directional well casing
design. He has authored and co-authored 41 research papers and two books.
M.R. Gadallah
Mr. Gadallah has over 25 years experience in geologic and geophysical data
acquisition, analysis and interpretation on a worldwide basis working in Alaska,
South America, Mexico, all over the United States, Indonesia and the Middle
East. He has been Chief Geophysicist, Technical Manager and Data Processing
Center Manager for major international seismic and geologic service companies.
Mr. Gadallah has a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Cairo
and an M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Tulsa. He is a well-established
authority on the use of geologic and geophysical data.
Dr. Robert W. Nicholson
Bob Nicholson has over 20 years of worldwide experience in the areas of drilling
technology (including directional drilling), blowout prevention and control,
drilling fluids (including high temperature problems), specialized casing
design, cementing and well completions.
Bob has B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana State University and the
University of Tulsa. He has taught seminars and written papers on drilling,
completion, geothermal and testing problems. He spent 9 years with Sinclair and
Chevron in research and engineering work before he became manager of operations
for Republic Geothermal and subsequently became a consultant. The author of 25
technical papers (one voted outstanding), he is active in SPE and is a
Registered Professional Engineer in California, Kansas and Louisiana.
Dr. Gary Kinsland
Gary Kinsland has practiced Geology and Geophysics since 1974 after receiving
B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics and Geology from the University of
Rochester. Dr. Kinsland has taught and practiced at Rochester, Arizona State
University and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He has been named Sigma
Xi Outstanding Researcher and has been given the A.I. Leverson Award from AAPG.
Gary is affiliated with four geological and geophysical societies. He has 34
publications to his credit, as well as numerous presentations at Industry and
Government meetings. He has served on National Science Foundation and Department
of Energy panels.
Dr. H. Gordon Harris
Gordon Harris has over 20 years in the Industry, with special emphasis on
enhanced oil recovery, coalbed methane production, oil shale, tar sands,
synfuels and process simulation and design. Gordon obtained his degrees at the
University of Texas and University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Harris is associate director of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute at the
University of Wyoming, where is Professor in the Department of Petroleum
Engineering. In addition to teaching, Gordon has worked with American Matrix
Reserves, Keplinger, Resources Refining, Laramie Energy Technology, Dupont and
Texaco. Harris has some 29 publications to his credit, is Tau Beta Pi and is a
Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana.
Dr. Bruce Ball
Bruce Ball has over 20 years experience in the areas of metallurgy, failure
analysis, materials testing and refractory materials. He is a Certified Weld
Inspector, Weld Inspector Supervisor and Tackle Inspector (all in Canada) and
has performed similar functions with respect to propane cylinders and aircraft
worthiness.
Ball has worked with Westergard Motors, R.M. Handy and Associates, and Ball
Associates in the areas of materials selection and testing or other aspects of
metallurgy. He has been published eleven times. He has been an expert witness in
the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, in all of which he
is registered as a Professional Engineer. He is a Fellow with the Canada Society
for Non-Destructive Testing.
Robert Bartlett
Bob Bartlett has 15 years experience of the most practical kind, being co-owner
for 10 years of a welding and machine shop specializing in the design and
fabrication of ASME Code vessels.
Bartlett has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University and an M.S.
in Metallurgical Engineering from Ohio State University. He is active in ASME,
ASTM, AWS (welding) and NACE. His practice has included assignments in stress
analysis, vibration, corrosion, hydraulic systems, bearings, lubrication,
boilers, welding, metallurgy, procedure certification, and non-destructive
testing. Bob is a Registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana.
Dr. M.P. Sharma
Sharma has over 20 years experience in the Industry with Shell, McDermott,
Indian Institute of Technology, University of Wyoming, Life Systems, Case
Western Reserve University and Washington State University. He has worked
problems in multi-phase flow, surface facilities, horizontal wells, drilling,
steam flooding and transport phenomena.
Sharma has been honored by Sigma Xi, Pi Epsilon Tau and student engineers for
his outstanding contributions to the Industry and excellence in teaching. He has
served on many national and local committees of the Industry, including several
publication and textbook review units. Sharma is a prolific author and
contributor to technical literature.
Charles P. Coan, CPE
Charlie Coan has over 30 years experience in maintenance planning, supervision,
follow-up and training. He became an expert in the area with 20 years in the
United States Navy in working with the deep submergence vehicles Sea Cliff and
Turtle. He has been a maintenance consultant in the Petroleum Industry since
1979.
Coan developed, scheduled, implemented and administered the precise preventive
maintenance program necessary for ocean floor completions with shirt-sleeve
access through diving capsules. His work was a necessary part in certification,
license renewal and approval by all regulatory agencies. Charlie is aware of
every unusual environment that critically affects maintenance. He writes
manuals, demonstrates techniques and trains the personnel.
Gary Reid
Gary has over 25 years experience in the oilfield, learning from 20 years of
practical hands-on training before he acquired B.S. and M.S. degrees in
Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech and the University of Wyoming. Reid has
worked in drilling, reservoir and computer applications, having started as a
roughneck in Canada. He knows oil and gas literally from the ground up.
Dr. William P. Manning
Bill Manning has over 30 years experience, including 13 years as a product
engineer and sales manager with CE-Natco, working with and designing separators,
glycol units, heater treaters, sulfur recovery units, LACT and other surface
facilities. He has 15 patents and numerous Industry publications and has been
Adjunct Professor at the University of Tulsa for 20 years. Bill has a Ph.D. in
Chemical Engineering from McGill University.
Dr. Julius P. Langlinais
Julius Langlinais has over 20 years experience in solving problems in the
petroleum industry. He has worked as Production Engineer, Reservoir Engineer and
Drilling Engineer for Continental and Superior Oil Company, as well as teaching
and research at USL and LSU in Louisiana and the University of Tampa in Florida.
He has solved problems in compression, gas lift, workovers, economics, reservoir
performance, logging, drilling, pressure detection and water disposal.
Julius has performed consulting work in drilling systems analysis, energy
inventions and training for Superior, Tenneco, Petrobras (Brazil), US Bureau of
Standards and INA-NAFTAPLIN (Yugoslavia). Dr. Langlinais is a Registered
Professional Engineer (Petroleum) in Louisiana and is active in SPE, Sigma Pi
Sigma (Physics), Kappa Mu Epsilon (Math) and Phi Kappa Phi. He has some 25
publications and papers to his credit.
Dr. Ryen Caenn
Since 1970, Ryen has worked and consulted in the petroleum industry, heavily
concentrated in the development, application and control of drilling and
completion fluids. Throughout his career, he has emphasized the application of
research and development technology to field operations, drilling, workovers,
completion fluid technology, enhanced oil recovery methods, geothermal
operations and chemical tracer studies. He is currently actively involved in
developing microcomputer applications to integrate field and office petroleum
operations.
Dr. Robert M. Satchwell
Rob Satchwell has over 10 years experience in the Industry, concentrating on
drilling, rock mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, core analysis and
computer applications. He has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum
Engineering from Montana Tech and the University of Wyoming. Satchwell has
worked for Cenex Exploration, MAPCO, and Thermogenics (geothermal company), as
well as the two universities where he taught and conducted research. He has been
honored by Tau Beta Pi, Pi Epsilon Tau and Sigma Xi, along with scholarships and
support from Amoco, IADC, Amoco Foundation and Sigma Xi Research.
Dr. Norman Hyne
Norman Hyne is a Certified Petroleum Geologist and Professor at the University
of Tulsa, where he has received several awards for teaching excellence. He also
consults regularly on geological and petroleum matters, while authoring numerous
articles and books.
James E. Curzon
Jim Curzon brings over 35 years experience to his expertise in project
management, waterflooding, subsidence investigation and repair, and water
treatment. He graduated in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines
in 1953 and spent 32 years with Phillips Petroleum before becoming a consultant.
Curzon has worked in the areas of reservoir production, unitization, development
and enhanced oil recovery before he advanced to major product management in the
North Sea area. He is a member of SPE and a Registered Professional Engineer in
Oklahoma.
Dr. Farouk M. Allam
Farouk has practiced Petroleum Engineering in the Industry since 1971, with
heavy emphasis on Reservoir Engineering in the U.S., North Sea and Middle East,
including reservoir studies for the Abu Dhabi government. He has developed
computer programs in reservoir, drilling and production engineering, as well as
in oil and gas property valuation. He developed a family of computer models to
simulate and optimize the action of the cutting structure and the hydraulics of
different types of bits. He was responsible for the engineering design and
development of Strata-Pax drag type bits.
Allam has a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, an
M.S. in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering from Imperial College in London, and a
B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Suez Canal University, Egypt. He has authored
several publications and is a member of SPE.
Erwin King
Erwin has over 35 years experience in the field of formation evaluation. He
worked three years for Schlumberger as field engineer in Texas, Arkansas and
Louisiana. He was a staff log analyst for ARCO until his retirement in 1984.
With ARCO, he was responsible for the training of several log analysts, both at
the well site and in the classroom. He has authored several papers on formation
evaluation and was president of SPWLA in 1980. He is now involved in log
consulting work. King is a graduate of UTEP (1948), with a B.S. in Geology.
Clarence Dunbar
Clarence Dunbar has spent over 30 years specializing in electric submersible
pumps, including drilling, production, design, troubleshooting, marketing and
engineering. He worked six years with Reda Oil Company before transferring to
Reda Pumps, where he remained until his retirement as Senior Applications
Engineer. He has been responsible for numerous training programs within the
Industry, designed to provide maximum coverage of all the various areas of ESP
selection, operation and field service.
Clarence received his formal education in Petroleum Engineering at Texarkana
College and the University of Tulsa.
Jack Bayless
Jack has over 30 years experience in the Industry concentrated in drilling,
thermal oil recovery and research and development for blowout prevention. Prior
to becoming a consultant, Jack spent most of his career with Exxon as a
production and drilling troubleshooter and advancing the technology of blowout
prevention. He became especially valuable for floating drilling problems and
blowout prevention equipment selection.
Bayless has a degree in Chemical Engineering. He holds five patents, has written
several papers and has taught seminars worldwide. He is Tau Beta Pi and a life
member of SPE.
G.R. Rooney
Rooney has over 25 years experience in well testing and production. He has
designed, built and installed H2S safety systems on drill-ships, semis,
platforms and land rigs, as well as various production facilities. He is a
leading authority on H2S well testing and has developed the training necessary
to assure safe H2S operations.
Dr. Andrew J. Wilson
Andy Wilson has over 20 years experience with Phillips Petroleum, Black and
Beatch Consultants, CE Natco, Radco, Oklahoma State University and the
University of Tulsa in the areas of process engineering, energy conservation,
refining, mechanical design, fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, water
treatment and computer application.
Dr. Wilson has done research in vapor pressure changes, demineralization,
numerical analysis, vacuum degasification, oil recovery, cooling towers,
evaporation, salt vaporization and ion exchange modeling. Andy has degrees in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri and Oklahoma State. He is a
Registered Professional Engineer in Missouri and Oklahoma.
Dr. Jeffrey Allen Nunn
Jeffrey Nunn has solved problems, made studies, taught and written papers in the
area of Geology and Geophysics for over 10 years. He has investigated local
microseismicity, subsidence in the Arctic, geologic data processing, tectonic,
thermal and subsidence history in Brazil, deep geothermal resources, altimeter
data in geodynamic studies, thermal mechanical evolution in specific areas,
tectonic evolution in California, solute-driven fluid flow and fluid migration
adjacent to salt domes. Dr. Nunn is a tireless investigator, having participated
in some 60 publications over the past 10 years. Dr. Nunn has B.A., M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from Amherst College and Northwestern University. He participates
actively in GSA, AGU and AAPG.
James K. Hallenburg
Jim Hallenburg has over 40 years experience, with special concentration in
logging and electric wireline operations. He spent 18 years with Schlumberger in
research and engineering, including design and instrumentation for high
temperatures and high pressures. He was Project Engineer for several new logging
systems. He did similar work for the Mohole Project (Brown & Root).
Jim worked several years for the wireline division of Western Company, then
formed his own Data Line Company and progressed into geophysical engineering and
research. He lectures as Adjunct Professor at the University of Tulsa.
Hallenburg has written several books and numerous papers on logging, formation
evaluation and geophysics. He has several patents in the area. He graduated from
Northwestern University in Physics and is active in most engineering, well
logging, geological and geophysical societies. He is a Registered Geophysicist
in California.
Dr. Trond B. Jensen
Trond has over 10 years experience in the Industry, concentrating on multi-phase
flow, thermal hydraulics, mathematical modeling, fractured reservoirs and
enhanced oil recovery. He has worked for Harris Enterprises and the University
of Wyoming, where he has received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum
Engineering. Jensen is a diligent student of maximizing productivity by means of
computer science. He has developed a number of special programs to facilitate
this goal in his areas of interest. Trond has 13 papers published and actively
pursues SPE activities.
Bob Gerold
Bob is an expert in communications, negotiations and conflict resolution. As a
spokesman for the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce in the 80’s, he represented
business interests before governmental bodies and worked extensively with the
petro-chemical plants along the Mississippi River. As a consultant, he has
studied the way people negotiate in the new buying process. Bob has worked for
Chrysler, Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Freeport Chemical, Shell Oil, IBM, AT&T,
South Central Bell, American Heart Association, American Banking Association,
American Institute of Architects, Dean Witter, Merrill Lynch, Premier Bank of
Louisiana and many others.
He has been an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau, Vice President for
AMI/St. Jude Medical Center, a regional manager with the New Orleans Chamber of
Commerce and an independent consultant. Additionally, he has lectured at Tulane
University, Loyola University, the University of New Orleans and Louisiana State
University. Bob is past president of the National Speakers Association, New
Orleans Chapter and a member of the American Society of Training and
Development. Bob’s programs are based on extensive training from such varied
sources as Rational Management Theory, Institute for Organizational Management,
Transactional Analysis, Psychodrama, Gestalt, Neuro Linguistic Programming,
Management by Objectives, the Massey materials, The Forum and related programs.
His programs create a win/win paradigm for the participants and those they
touch. He believes that effective communication is the key to personal and
organizational success. Bob Gerold is a powerful, dynamic and entertaining
trainer and speaker.
Dr. H. Bruce Brummel, P.E.
Brummel has been successfully working in the construction industry for thirty
years. He has lectured on construction quality in China, Finland and Kuwait and
has participated in projects in Canada, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Ireland and
England. Dr. Brummel is active in the American Society for Quality Control’s
Architectural/Engineering and Construction Division and participates in seminars
presented by the University of Wisconsin and the Association for Project
Managers. He has been working on the $650 million International Terminal at
Chicago’s O’Hare Field. Previously, he was the Construction Manager for
Epstein Construction and has completed numerous large scale projects, such as: a
manufacturing complex for Colgate Palmolive ($100 million); a mixed use
high-rise in Chicago ($350 million); McCormick Place II Expansion in Chicago
($350 million); Cable Beach Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas ($100 million); and a
cogeneration facility in Puerto Rico ($30 million).
Brummel is a senior member of the American Society for Quality Control and the
American Welding Society, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, the China
Quality Association and the Institute of Quality Assurance. He is a Registered
Professional Engineer in Illinois and Indiana. Bruce received his Bachelors in
Mechanical Engineering from Purdue with honors; obtained his MBA from Lake
Forest with honors, and completed his Ph.D. in Construction Management-Quality
at LaSalle University.
Luis Caycedo
Luis Caycedo has over 35 years experience in the international oil and gas
industry, including 4 years with Shell, 29 years with Atlantic Richfield (ARCO),
and the last several years in training and consulting. He has done extensive
work in Holland, Colombia, Venezuela, Indonesia, U.A.E., and the North Sea
countries, rising to the positions of Manager of Petroleum Engineering and
Manager of Operations. Luis speaks English, Spanish, Dutch, and some Indonesian.
He has published papers on Artificial Lift, Dual Completions, Hostile
Environment Metallurgy, and Offshore Early Production Systems. He holds a B.Sc.
degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa.
Caycedo has done extensive work in drilling, completions, artificial lift, high
pressure gas development and production, computerized control and transfer,
reservoir and reserve analysis, workover programs, stimulation, data processing,
economics, facility design, corrosion, transportation and supply efficiency,
waterflooding, pipeline and barge transport, directional control, casing design
and cementing. He has worked in these areas throughout the world, in shallow as
well as deep wells, in hostile environments and offshore as well as onshore. In
rising to management positions, Luis developed a keen sense of personnel
development and acquired high expertise in training, which he now emphasizes as
a consultant.
Mitch Stansloski
Mr. Stansloski has 8 years experience in vibration analysis, including
assignments in nuclear chemical processing plants, piping systems, glass
material handling equipment, monitoring and balancing various rotating and
reciprocating equipment, and management of plant engineering functions in
polymer production. He specializes in Reliability Centered Maintenance and
Vibration Analysis.
Mitch earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio Northern
University and Mississippi State University, respectively.
Bill Adams
William E. Adams has 18 years experience in process, mechanical, structural and
electrical systems for oil and gas facilities. He has extensive experience in
the design of gas compression and related systems. He designed, installed, and
commissioned various production facilities for Tenneco Oil Company, including
22,000 HP of compression equipment and a carbon dioxide facility used for
tertiary oil recovery. He has evaluated, designed and managed gas compression
installations for several other clients in South Louisiana.
Bill acquired much of his practical experience with operation and maintenance of
nuclear power plant systems, compressors, turbines and generators while serving
9 years in the U.S. Navy. He received a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering
from the University of Wyoming in 1975. He is a Registered Professional Engineer
in Louisiana.
James M. Moorehead
Jim Moorehead is a drilling man of 20 years experience, having managed
operations for a large offshore international contractor for 14 of those years.
Jim’s education includes an engineering degree, followed by an MBA at Tulane,
which helped him to manage the world’s largest drillship to establish
operations in countries like China (with no prior similar companies), to achieve
record breaking efficiency in Egypt and to turn around a stagnant losing
operation to become the largest in that country.
Moorehead has managed drilling rigs in Gabon, North Sea, Mediterranean, Brazil,
China, Egypt, Taiwan, Vietnam and Japan. He helped to organize the IADC chapter
in Singapore; he is a Registered Professional Engineer.
Dr. Charles Reith
Charles has practiced in the areas of environmental safety and health for the
past 13 years since finishing his education with a Ph.D. (cum laude) in Ecology
and Environment from the University of New Mexico in 1983. He has worked with
Delphi Research, International Technology Corporation, Jacobs Engineering Group,
DynMcDermott Petroleum Operations and Tulane University, while handling
individual projects in ecological and radiological monitoring, presentations to
governmental bodies, remediation of damage, waste management, compliance
monitoring, risk management, spill reduction programs, and establishing
operating philosophies to accomplish the objectives.
Dr. Reith received the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Award from President
Bush; he has been appointed to key congressional and state advisory committees;
and he has received the Vision Award for successful innovation. He is a
Certified Environmental Professional.
Dr. Aric Danen
Aric Danen has over 18 years experience in the highly diversified field of oil
and gas engineering, from drilling to processing. His accomplishments include
implementing the startups of pilot waterfloods and gas lift operations in the
North Sea, including training of the follow-up personnel, supervising the
installation of production equipment and H2S control equipment offshore, and
designing the first horizontal well waterflood in West Texas and the USA. Aric’s
specialties include international and domestic reservoir evaluation, supervising
drilling and fracturing, optimization with horizontal wells, and developing
software for improved oil and gas field evaluations and reservoir engineering
training.
Danen has served as a consultant or petroleum engineer to Elf Aquitaine, Mobil
Oil A/S, Phillips, Mobil, U.S. Department of Energy, the Norwegian Petroleum
Directorate, and a host of other international organizations, both onshore and
offshore. Aric has worked all over the world, including the USA, South America,
Scandinavia, Russia (CIS), and Siberia. He has recently served as the first
full-time foreign professor at the renowned Gubkin Academy of Oil and Gas in
Moscow, where he teaches western methods of reservoir management and petroleum
engineering. Aric’s publications range from reservoir engineering to
artificial lift to cracking oil. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering and an
M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University. His B.S. is in
Chemical Engineering. Aric is a member of SPE, API, the Russian-American Chamber
of Commerce, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas.
Andy Thomas
Andrew R. Thomas practices primarily in the areas of international and domestic
oil and gas related commercial litigation and transactions. His substantive
areas of experience include farmouts, subleases, leasehold purchase agreements,
joint operating agreements, royalty agreements, obligations to market gas,
duties and standards of care under drilling and other service contracts,
indemnity, insurance, and allocation of risk agreements in drilling contracts,
damage evaluations in oil and gas settings, and general contract law. He was
formerly associated with the law firm of Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann &
Hutchinson. He also has extensive experience in oil and gas exploration and
production, having worked at Shell Offshore as a geophysicist.
Mr. Thomas is a member of the American Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar
Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, American Petroleum Institute,
Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, Society of Exploration
Geophysicists, Southeastern Geophysical Society, the American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, and the Society of Independent Professional Earth
Scientists. He recently published “Texaco v. State of Louisiana: An Analysis
of and Solution to Market Value Litigation,” Oil & Gas Law and Taxation
Review, March 1995. He is listed by Euromoney, Plc in its 1995 “Guide to the
World’s Leading Energy and Resources Lawyers.” Mr. Thomas received his J.D.
from Loyola University, where he was an editor of the Loyola Law Review. He
received both his B.S. in Geology and his M.S. in Geophysics from Kent State
University
Dan Reid
Daniel J. Reid is an international negotiator with 22 years of experience
negotiating domestic and international oil and gas agreements. For the past 10
years, he has been the Manager of Lands and Negotiations for Ampolex (USA),
Inc., with management responsibility for all negotiations and legal issues in
North and South America. He is also a Director for Ampolex companies in Peru,
Venezuela and Colombia. Mr. Reid has extensive commercial experience in areas of
sales and acquisitions of ventures and was an NASD tax advantaged securities
broker/dealer with the Contran Group’s oil and gas division, Crabtree Oil
& Gas Company. He has also managed land groups for such companies as Reserve
Oil & Gas, Texas International Petroleum and Crabtree.
Mr. Reid is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators,
American Association of Professional Landmen, Denver Association of Professional
Landmen, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Australian/American Chamber of
Commerce, Venezuelan/American Chamber of Commerce, Colombian Petroleum Counsel,
InterAmerican Chamber of Commerce, and the Harvard Negotiations Project. Mr.
Reid received his B.A. in Linguistics and Communications from the University of
New Mexico, his MBA from Colorado State University (graduating second in his
class), and received advanced training in negotiations at the Harvard Law School
Negotiations Project.
BILL
ROBERTS
Bill Roberts is a reservoir engineer with broad-based international
experience in reservoir engineering and simulation, well testing,
petrophysics, probabilistic and deterministic reserves estimation,
prospect evaluation and field development, development geology,
acquisition/divestiture planning, negotiation and administration of
supplier and vendor agreements/contracts, budgeting and scheduling,
liaison and negotiation with third-party certifying authorities and
governmental agencies, training. Bill has 25 years experience in
most of the major producing areas in the world, using his expertise
in guiding management decisions on $50 million and larger projects.
Roberts
has a BS in Geology from LSU and has completed some graduate work in
Petroleum Engineering from Tulane University.
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