Heimo Anton

Heimo Anton is a Petroleum Engineer with over 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry, working at international companies and joint ventures including RWE Dea and DEMINEX in UK, Norway, Egypt and Germany. During his career he was involved in the planning and supervision of all petroleum engineering activities during field development, the management of integrated development and reservoir studies, the design and negotiation of unit redetermination procedures and their coordination, the design of company guidelines for estimating and classifying reserves, the evaluation of corporate acquisition projects, and the performance of peer reviews of multidisciplinary projects. He is currently a member of the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee (OGRC) of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He is lecturer for Reservoir Management at the Mining University Leoben in Austria and also author of several papers and publications in the field of reservoir engineering. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the Mining University in Leoben.

Rod Batycky

Rod Batycky is co-founder of Streamsim Technologies Inc., a company that develops commercial streamline-based reservoir simulators for the petroleum industry. Prior to forming Streamsim, he received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering from Stanford University where he was also awarded the Cedrick K. Ferguson Medal for outstanding SPE publication by an author under the age of 33. Previously he worked as a reservoir engineer with Shell Canada, and obtained a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Calgary. He is currently involved in R&D and commercialisation of new technologies for streamline-based flow simulation, including large-scale reservoir modelling, assessing uncertainty, and assisted history matching.

Reidar Bratvold

Reidar Bratvold is a Professor of Petroleum Investment & Decision Analysis at the University of Stavanger, Norway where he is teaching and supervising graduate students doing research in decision analysis, uncertainty assessment, risk management, and investment analysis. Before joining the University of Stavanger, Reidar was a professor and discipline head of petroleum engineering & management at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he still retains a position as adjunct professor. He has also been Vice President of Landmark Graphics, General Manager of Smedvig Technologies Software Solutions (now Roxar), Senior Scientist with IBM and a reservoir engineer with Statoil. Reidar spent his early working years as a roughneck and roustabout in the North Sea. Reidar is a member of the Stanford University Petroleum Investment Committee as well as a board member of several companies. Twice invited to serve as SPE Distinguished Lecturer, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events. He has published numerous papers on topics such as investment modelling, decision-making, stochastic reservoir modelling, fuzzy logic, and reservoir management. Reidar is the co-author of two upcoming books: Decision-Making and Uncertainty Management and Analyzing and Managing Risky Investments. Reidar holds a Ph.D. degree in petroleum engineering and a M.Sc. degree in mathematics both from Stanford University, an M.Sc. degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, and a B.Sc. degree from University of Stavanger, Norway. He also has extensive executive education from INSEAD, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Reidar is an elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Mike Carlson

Mike Carlson founded Applied Reservoir Engineering & Evaluation, Ltd., a petroleum engineering consulting firm specialising in reservoir engineering, numerical simulation, and economic evaluations. He has more than 25 years experience in the petroleum industry, working for such corporations as AMOCO Canada Petroleum Company Ltd. and Canadian Hunter. He has taught various short courses in the use of production and exploitation simulation software for such companies as Scientific Software-Intercomp and McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd. He has authored more than 15 different technical papers and is a member of SPE, APEGGA, the Canadian Well Logging Society, and the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. He has served as Technical Program Committee Chairman for the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum (CIM), Director of the National Board of the Petroleum Society of CIM, and was on the Industry Advisory Committee for the University of Regina Petroleum Engineering. His most recent publication is a reference work titled ‘Practical Reservoir Simulation’ (2004, PennWell Corp).

John Collinson

John Collinson is a geologist with over 40 years experience in stratigraphy and sedimentology, over half of it applied to the hydrocarbon industry. He brings to hydrocarbon-related problems a deep and wide experience of a wide range of clastic and carbonate depositional environments, stratigraphic ages and geographic locations. For the past 20 years he has applied this experience as a consultant to the hydrocarbon industry in the North Sea and worldwide on projects ranging from reservoir to basin wide scale. John has a wide and deep understanding of both clastic and carbonate depositional settings and reservoirs generally, based on extensive field and subsurface experience and has published in the areas of fluvial, deltaic, aeolian, glacial, carbonate and deep-water deposition. He has high-level descriptive and interpretative skills in logging core and integrating a wide spectrum of petrophysical log and petrographic data, in conjunction with facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis at scales from the basin to the small-scale field setting. He is also skilled in the integration of data to document basin-fill evolution or the building of detailed reservoir models and has developed innovative software for the probabilistic modelling and analysis of connectivity and related reservoir properties in channelised reservoir systems. He has vast experience in project co-ordination of a wide range of multi-disciplinary studies and is the author and editor of numerous multi-client and proprietary reports; author of numerous papers and of major sedimentological text books; editor of ‘Sedimentology’ and of several multi-author volumes. John is also known as a presenter of courses to industry, in the field, laboratory and lecture room, including courses to single companies, to licence groups and as open courses (Sedimentary Research Associates; J.A.P.E.C. Course in Deep-water Depositional Environments). In addition to his consultant, author and editor roles, John is also External Examiner for numerous Ph.D. students in UK and overseas and currently External Examiner for M.Sc. in Petroleum Geology at Imperial College London, in addition being an Honorary Professor of Keele University.

Edward Cox

Edward Cox has almost 40 years of worldwide experience in geophysics. For the past 16 years he has been Director of ECCO Exploration, running a successful technical consultancy business with a large personal network of experienced consultants for all aspects of exploration geophysics and technical training, working with companies in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Far East, North and West Africa, and the UK. Now based in Dubai, for the past three years Ted has been Chief Geophysicist and advisor to Transeuro Energy Corporation, steering the company’s geophysical exploration operations in Canada, Armenia, Ukraine and Papua New Guinea as well as leading their international interpretation team. Before founding ECCO Exploration, he was Chief Geophysicist at Robertson Research, in charge of contracts related to petroleum, minerals and engineering geophysics. Prior to this, he gained varied international petroleum interpretation and management experience as a hydrocarbon finder with Marathon Oil, and Seiscom Delta and Seismograph Service Limited in data acquisition and processing. He has conducted work in many different geological settings around the world requiring both structural and stratigraphic knowledge, and using both traditional and workstationbased interpretation methods. Ted has been heavily involved in the development and presentation of numerous training courses and workshops, including subjects such as integrated sequence stratigraphy, petroleum exploration and basin analysis, seismic data acquisition and processing, basic seismic interpretation, prospect evaluation and exploration team management.

Mark Deakin

Mark Deakin is an experienced and innovative mainstream petrophysical consultant, author and enthusiastic tutor in petrophysics. He holds a Ph.D. in ‘Integrated Petrophysics’ from London's Imperial College, is an ex Amoco petrophysicist, and has 25 years experience, including 12 as a lecturer, independent consultant and director of his own consulting company. He has performed over 40 detailed reservoir studies, primarily in Southeast Asia’s difficult carbonates and stacked ‘low-contrast-pay’ reservoirs and chooses to work frequently in operations to keep abreast of new LWD, coring and wireline technology. Deakin’s holistic approach brings each field's development uncertainties into sharp focus and then systematically reduces them by a cost-benefit ranked plan of action. Innovative integration and clear, practical recommendations typically result in improved simulation input and increased reserves, at low cost. Soon after his petrophysics Ph.D. Deakin authored the first public petrophysical data integration course. He has continually evolved and chaired this and other courses, publicly and in-house, through OGCI, HOT and independently. Mark is a long standing member of the SPWLA.

Dragutin Domitrović

Dragutin Domitrović holds the position of Reservoir Engineering Manager at INANaftaplin, Croatia. During his professional career in the petroleum industry, which now exceeds 15 years, he has held various engineering and management positions in PVT/ EOR/core analysis laboratories, reservoir simulation and reservoir engineering, and has continously been involved in EOR-related activities of INA. Currently he supervises reservoir engineering aspects of CO2, flooding two mature oil fields in Croatia. He graduated in Petroleum Engineering from University of Zagreb, where he was working as Assistant Lecturer from 1996 – 2003 in addition to his industry career.

Jeffrey J. Dravis

Jeffrey Dravis is a carbonate geologist and owner of Dravis Geological Services, which conducts exploration and reservoir development projects in the U.S., Canada and overseas. He specializes in unraveling the controls on diagenesis and porosity evolution in carbonate sequences that aid in exploiting carbonate reservoirs. Jeff applies innovative petrographic techniques to relate rock-based observations to well and seismic data, helping clients better define their subsurface plays and prospects. More recently, he was involved with the new and surprising oil discovery in the Cretaceous Glen Rose of southwest Texas, the Cretaceous James Limestone around the northern U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and Devonian limestone and dolostone plays in western Canada. He also has worked carbonate sequences in Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America, as well as the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the Gulf of Mexico. Jeff also is president of Dravis Interests, Inc., through which he conducts applied carbonate training seminars for the industry. Since 1987, he has presented over 115 in-house and field carbonate seminars for industry clients, including dozens of field seminars on Caicos Platform in the southern Bahamas. Jeff received his B.Sc. (Geology) from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, his M.Sc. (Marine Geology) from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Ph D (Geology) from Rice University, Houston. He worked for Exxon Production Research Company in Houston for eight years, before becoming a full-time consultant over 17 years ago. Since 1987, Jeff has been an adjunct professor at Rice, where he teaches part-time and mentors students.

Gioia Falcone

Gioia Falcone is an Assistant Professor in Petroleum Engineering and Holder of the Chevron Faculty Fellowship at Texas A&M University. She holds a ‘Laurea Cum Laude’ in Environmental-Petroleum Engineering from the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome, an M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. Prior to joining Texas A&M, she worked with ENI-Agip, Enterprise Oil UK, Shell E&P UK and TOTAL E&P UK, covering both offshore and onshore assignments. She has served on the SPE ATCE Technical Programme Committee and, on several occasions, on the SPE ATCE Well Operations Subcommittee. She is a Technical Editor for the SPE Projects, Facilities & Construction Journal, a Member of the SPE R&D Technical Section and a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Scientific Journals International. She is the 2008 recipient of the SPE Young Professional Paper Certificate (technical discipline of Projects, Facilities, and Construction). Her book ‘Multiphase Flow Metering, 54’ (Falcone, Hewitt and Alimonti) was published in 2009 by Elsevier.

Rudolf K. Fruhwirth

Rudolf K. Fruhwirth is the founder of NGS – Neuro Genetic Solutions Ltd., providing artificial intelligence solutions to the oil and gas industry. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Mining University of Leoben, Austria. He has more than 20 years experience as the leading geoscientist and field engineer in a major Austrian research company. He is author of numerous publications, and assistant professor for computational intelligence and computer tomography at the University of Leoben. He has developed cVision, the first fully automatic neural network tool and heads the research and development department with NGS.

Leonhard Ganzer

Leonhard J. Ganzer has been recently appointed Professor of Reservoir Engineering at TU Clausthal. Previously, he was Professor of Reservoir Engineering at the Mining University Leoben. He held the position Technical Director of SST Simulation Software Technology GmbH, worked for HOT Engineering GmbH and reservoir Characterisation and Research Inc. in several technical and software devel opment related positions and served in the Leoben, Houston and Denver offices. He holds a Ph.D. in Reservoir Engineering and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from the Mining University Leoben and the Colorado School of Mines, USA. He has 13 years of experience in the petroleum industry and academia, with key qualifications in reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation and software development. His primary interests are compositional and fractured reservoir simulation, hydrocarbon fluid phase behaviour and multiphase flow in porous media. He is also an experienced instructor in reservoir engineering and simulation topics and author of several SPE papers.

Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison is co-founder and director of Soluzioni Idrocarburi s.r.l., a company that provides technical consultancy and in-house training courses for the petroleum industry. He received his M.Sc. degree in petroleum engineering from Imperial College and an Executive MBA from Cranfield School of Management. Bob is an academic visitor at Imperial College having previously been external lecturer on production logging and petroleum economics. Bob has worked in the oil and gas industry since 1979, gaining broad technical and commercial experience around the world, with a strong reservoir engineering and petrophysics background. After many years with British Gas and Enterprise Oil, he became a freelance consultant advisor to many oil and gas companies around the world, in particular, start-ups and newly formed ventures. Bob specialises in prospect evaluation, due diligence and asset screening, including data rooms, volumetric audits, analytical reservoir modelling, production profile generation and scoping economics. He is an experienced analyst of well deliverability, field performance, open hole and cased hole logs and has spent a number of years in offshore well operations including logging, testing and completions. He is the editor and author of several textbooks, including bestseller, ‘Russian-Style Formation Evaluation’, he is a member of the SPE Editorial Committee of the Journal of Petroleum Technology, and writes and reviews numerous articles and papers in the oil and gas industry.

Richard Heenan

Richard Heenan currently has a drilling and completions consulting practice based in Calgary, Alberta. He has thirty years of experience in the upstream petroleum industry in a variety of technical and managerial positions. This includes supervision of both on and offshore operations, in Canada and overseas. Job assignments have included field supervision of drilling and service rigs, testimony as an expert witness in well control, preparation of Arctic offshore drilling and development scenarios, and US Department of Justice Anti-Trust presentations. He holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering Degree from McGill University in Montreal and is a member of APEGGA, SPE and the Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers (CADE). He has published papers and articles through CADE and SPE, as well as several commercial publications.

Tim Herrett

Tim Herrett is founder and owner of Tim Herrett Ltd., a company that provides consultancy services to the upstream oil industry. Tim holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology from Portsmouth University, UK. He has been a wellsite / operations geologist for 25 years and has great expertise in wellsite data management. Tim is author and presenter of renowned industry training courses worldwide on subjects including Petroleum Geology for Non Geologists, Wellsite Geology, Operations Geology, Formation Pressures, and Wellsite Data Management. He has worked for a number of operators including Exxon, Mobil, Deminex, Amerada Hess, Statoil, Fina and Conoco. He currently works for BP as a senior wellsite geologist and projects geologist specialising in pressure evaluation on HTHP wells and also lectures part time in wellsite / operations geology and wellsite data management on the Petroleum Geoscience Masters Degree at Manchester University. Previously, he provided major operations and wellsite support for ExxonMobil in Norway and Houston (USA) and has written operations and wellsite geology procedures manuals for ExxonMobil Exploration, Development and Production companies. Tim further designed and developed software for wellsite and office use which are now commercially used in the industry, and he held the position of Technical Director of Cambrian Consultants with responsibilities for Training, Computing and Software Products.

Todd Hoffman

Todd Hoffman is president and founder of drc consulting, a reservoir engineering consulting firm specialising in petroleum geostatistics, reservoir modelling, flow simulation and history matching. Previously, he was a petroleum engineering professor at Montana Tech, where he was teaching classes in reservoir engineering, reservoir characterisation, reservoir simulation and thermal recovery. He has over 12 years of combined experience in academia and industry. He has been a reservoir engineer for companies such as Anadarko and Chevron and has built and worked on reservoir models for more than 20 fields in Montana, Kansas, the North Sea, offshore West Africa, and many other places. He is especially interested in history matching and ensuring data consistency while history matching. Todd received his Ph.D. and his M.Sc. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University and his B.Sc. in petroleum engineering from Montana Tech.

Toby Kayes

Toby Kayes is a Principal Geomechanics Specialist and Team Leader with Helix RDS (Aberdeen). He has 16 years of industry experience in all areas of Petroleum Geomechanics including drilling optimisation, wellbore stability, pore pressure prediction, stress sensitive reservoir modelling, hydraulic fracturing and sand management. This is based on sound soil and rock mechanics experience gained as a Civil Engineer working for Arup before joining the Petroleum industry. Toby has also worked as a log analyst and wireline engineer for Schlumberger in operational and R&D roles specialising in Petroleum Geomechanics. He is currently a member of the SPE steering committee for the Sand Management Forum in Aberdeen and is also a member of the External Advisory Board for the Centre of Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience at the University of Leeds. Toby is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer and Member of the Energy Institute.

John Keasberry

John Keasberry graduated in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Leiden. He joined the United Nations in Ethiopia in 1975, carrying out geophysical surveys for oil, gas, groundwater and minerals. He moved to Placid Oil in 1979 to work as a seismic interpreter and to McKinlay Smith in 1981 to work as a geoscientist. In 1983 he founded his first consultancy in London, carrying out interpretation and evaluation projects in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. In 1985 he joined Nedlloyd Energy as exploration manager, being responsible for Nedlloyd’s portfolio in the Netherlands, UK, Egypt, Ecuador and Indonesia. When Nedlloyd was sold to DSM in 1992 he became an independent consultant again. From 1997 to 2005 he was employed by Shell’s Learning Centre as a course director and lecturer. Today his vast and versatile experience of more than 30 years in a broad field of geoscience aspects is put to use in his consulting partnership with his wife.

Abbas Khaksar

Abbas Khaksar is a principal geomechanics specialist with Helix RDS (London). He has 17 years of industry and R&D experience in rock mechanics and petrophysics with strong knowledge of reservoir geomechanics. In the past 10 years, Abbas has worked extensively in petroleum geomechanics consultancy and has been involved in more than 80 consulting projects in many areas of geomechanics. He has more than 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference presentations in areas of reservoir geomechanics and rock physics. Abbas joined Helix RDS in 2005 and before that (2000-2005) he was with Geomechanics International (GMI) as a petrophysicist, geomechanics specialist and Manager-consulting services in Asia Pacific. From 1998 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Adelaide, working on rock physics related issues of abnormal pore pressure prediction and CO2 sequestration.

Wolfram Kleinitz

Wolfram Kleinitz holds a M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. In Petroleum Engineering from the University of Clausthal. He recently retired from Gaz de France, where he was the Head of the Production Chemistry Department of Gaz de France Production Exploration Deutschland GmbH since 1992. He continues his profession as a consultant in production chemistry (CONPROCHEM). He joined Preussag Energie, now Gaz de France, in 1971 and worked as a chemical engineer before he became responsible for all chemical aspects in oil and gas production and storage (salt caverns as well as storages in porous media) in 1978. Amongst others he focused his interests on water treatment and control, sulphate reducing bacteria, scale formation, organic precipitates, stimulation and injectivity of Produced Water Re-Injection (PWRI) projects. In 2004, he became responsible for all R&D activities in GDFPEG and GDF-DOP (Paris). He is the recipient of the 2007 SPE Regional European Award on Production Operation. He served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2000-2001 and 2006-2007 and is now member of the DL commitee.

Leo Lourdes

Leo Lourdes is a certified corporate trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). He has coached and mentored his clients in streamlining their communication and defining and implementing their success strategies. He is known for his insight when it comes to creating unique solutions to ongoing problems for organisations. His ability to preserve what works and has stood the test of time, alongside embracing ideas that are forward looking and growth focused, makes him a useful consultant trainer to any company. His passion is in encouraging individuals and organisations to use both creativity and pragmatic thinking as part of their growth.

Tony Loy

Tony Loy has graduated from Liverpool University with a B.Sc. degree in 1979. He gained employment as an exploration geologist working in Africa and Europe for several years. In 1983 upon completion of his Master’s degree at Sheffield University, Tony was employed in the University’s Geology Department as a consultant biostratigrapher. During his time working at the University he completed his Doctorate, working on it part-time whilst fully employed by the Industrial Palynology Unit, which he went on to manage after several years. In addition to his consultancy work, Tony was also involved in lecturing at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and also the mentoring of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. In 1997 Tony formed his own geological consultancy offering stratigraphic, biostratigraphic and data management services as his main areas of expertise, and he has been actively involved with this service ever since. He has also written and presented scientific papers to international conferences, as well as being the author of several geological field guides. During his 30 years in the hydrocarbon industry Tony has worked for many of the major players including Shell, BP, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Statoil and Elf, as well as many smaller companies. More recently he has been providing tutoring and training services to the geoscientists of the national oil company of Venezuela, PDVSA.

Daulat D. Mamora

Daulat D. Mamora is the Rob L. Adams professor in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. His main research interests are waterflooding, thermal EOR, gas injection and recycling, and reservoir engineering in general. Prior to joining academia in 1993, Dr. Mamora worked internationally for 15 years as a petroleum engineer with Royal Dutch/Shell in Malaysia, Holland and Nigeria, and rose to the position of reservoir engineering manager. He conducts training courses and consults for international oil companies. He holds a B.Sc. Honors degree in applied physics from University of Malaya, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.

Jeremy Mant

Jeremy Mant has worked in the automotive products, steel making and drinks industries for over twenty years. More recently he has worked as an independent management and training consultant in the areas of financial management, business planning, logistics, costing, inventory management, demand forecasting, supply chain management, supplier development, computer modelling, and computer training and applications development. His clients include manufacturing companies, professional association, service organisations, consultancies, and training organisations. He has undertaken training assignments in Syria, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Angola.

John Matthews

John Matthews is an experienced and highly adaptable management trainer with a strong financial background and a proven track record in a variety of industries. Commercially aware and results driven with business process re-engineering skills, John can take a strategic overview and has the skills to prepare business plans, budgets, forecasts and targets for Senior Management to tight deadlines. John is also experienced in reviewing and assessing commercial and financial systems and processes, recommending and implementing upgrades, enhancements and cost savings. He can drive major change through strong project management, team building, issue resolution and problem-solving skills.

Mark A. Miller

Mark A. Miller, Ph.D., PE served on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering for over 18 years. While teaching at UT Austin, He conducted research and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in reservoir engineering, natural gas engineering, reservoir simulation, naturally fractured reservoirs, petrophysics, petroleum fluid properties, and thermal oil recovery. He received several awards for teaching excellence. His consulting work has included a variety of projects and continuing education courses for many industrial firms, including Schlumberger, IBM, Tenneco Oil, Amerada Hess, ARCO, Chevron, Sonat, MCN Corp., CALTEX, Texaco, Shell, Japan Vietnam Petroleum Co., Vietnam Petroleum Institute, Tecpetrol, EOG Resources, Rosneft, and PEMEX. From 2002 to 2006, Mark served as Senior Reservoir Engineer for Object Reservoir, a reservoir modelling technology company. He is a co-author of the SPE’s Handbook chapter on Natural Gas Engineering.

Bob Mott

Robert Mott holds a MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from London University. He has expertise in all aspects of reservoir simulation, including black oil, compositional and thermal simulation. His detailed knowledge of PVT analysis and equation of state modelling for petroleum reservoir fluids, and his specialist knowledge of gas condensate reservoir engineering issues, including phase behaviour, recovery mechanisms, relative permeability, well deliverability and numerical simulation, designated him to be a SPE Distinguished Lecturer for 2000-2001. Since 2000 he is an independent consultant on gas condensate reservoir engineering, simulation and decision risk management. Previously he has worked for AEA Technology as project manager in gas condensate reservoir engineering and where he also managed projects for UK government and operating companies covering reservoir simulation, PVT modelling, software development and decision risk management. He has lectured and presented several workshops on reservoir engineering and reservoir simulation. He is also an experienced developer of reservoir engineering software, including reservoir simulation and PVT modelling.

Roger L. Nutt

Roger L. Nutt is a petrophysical consultant. He has nearly 40 years experience in the oil and gas industry; eight years with Schlumberger as a wireline engineer and manager; and much of the remainder with major oil companies as a senior petrophysicist and manager of formation evaluation. He is an active petrophysical consultant and an instructor for industry courses. His extensive knowledge of open and cased hole log interpretation, reservoir monitoring and oilfield practice has been gained in North Africa, the US Gulf Coast, MidWest and Rocky Mountains, the Western Canada Basin, the North Sea, the Middle East and CIS. He is the author of several papers on cement bond logging, time lapse reservoir monitoring, and casing corrosion, and has made presentations to several technical conferences. Mr. Nutt is a member of the Institute of Physics and a Chartered Physicist. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics (with Geology and Electrical Engineering) from the Royal Victoria University of Manchester.

Khalil Rahman

Khalil Rahman is a Senior Geomechanics Specialist with Helix RDS (Perth). He has extensive experience from 20 years of academic teaching, research and industry consultancy. During his time in Geomechanics and Petroleum engineering he has taught a wide range of engineering subjects, published over 60 journals and conference papers, presented speeches and short courses and served in the editorial boards of international journals and the SPE Western Australia section. Before joining Helix RDS Khalil was a Senior Lecturer and Course Director in the School of Oil and Gas Engineering in the University of Western Australia. Khalil is a recognised expert in hydraulic fracture treatment optimisation and has developed his own fracture modelling code.

Jonathan Redfern

Jonathan Redfern obtained a B.Sc. from the University of London (Chelsea College) and Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. He has 20 years experience within the oil industry and academia. He is currently the Director of Petroleum Studies at the University of Manchester, where he teaches a number of Masters level courses, and leads the North Africa Research Group (NARG). This large research group is undertaking regional scale geological studies across North Africa, supported by a group of leading oil companies. Before returning to academia, he was a petroleum geologist with Fina and Amerada Hess for 12 years, working in the UK, North Africa (Libya) and S.E. Asia. He has experience of working on, and managing, both new ventures and operated license projects, and undertook active research on a number of regional geology projects in North Africa and S.E. Asia. As well as teaching and supervising Ph.D. research projects, he undertakes consulting work for leading companies in the region, involving basin modelling, regional geological studies / fieldwork and petroleum system analysis. He has been teaching in-house courses for a number of years for companies and academia. He has published a number of papers on petroleum systems, basin modelling, North African regional geology and sedimentology. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), a member of the AAPG and also the PESGB, IAS, EAGE. He is on the editorial board of the AAPG Bulletin and the Journal of Petroleum Geology.

Brian Russell

Brian Russell is Vice President of Hampson-Russell, a geoscience software company that was co-founded in 1987 by Brian Russell and Dan Hampson. In 2002, Hampson- Russell was acquired by Veritas DGC Inc. Exploration Services (VES), and offers software and on-site training in the areas of seismic inversion, AVO, multi-component seismic analysis, and time-lapse seismic analysis from their offices in Calgary, Houston, London, Perth, and Dubai. Brian holds a B.Sc. in geophysics from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, a M.Sc. in geophysics from Durham University, U.K., and is currently completing a Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has over twenty-seven years of experience in the areas of seismic interpretation, research and training with petroleum companies and geophysical contractors, and has given courses throughout the world on advanced geophysical technology. Brian was President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) during 1999-2000.

Jürgen H. Schön

Jürgen H. Schön is consultant and Honorary Professor at the Mining University, Leoben. Previously, he was a senior geophysicist and Scientific Leader of the Geophysical Institute of the Joanneum Research (Leoben, Austria), held the chair for Well Logging and Petrophysics at Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany, 1980-1991) and was a visiting professor at the Colorado School of Mines in 1993. He published more than 80 technical papers and holds 2 US-patents; in 1996 he published his textbook „Physical Properties of Rocks - Fundamentals and Principles of Petrophysics‘ (Handbook of Geophysical Exploration, vol. 18, Pergamon Press). He is member of the SPWLA and EAGE. In 2005 he received the award for Distinguished Technical Achievement (SPWLA).

Janet Stevenson

Janet Stevenson is an experienced consultant, trainer and facilitator with a background gained from six years as a senior consultant for GBS Training Ltd and five years with SmithKline Beecham in Central HRD.  She has a passion for developing people and helping them grow.  She designs and delivers open and in-company courses, workshops, coaching, and one-to-one training.  Her strengths include creativity, flexibility, a sense of humour and the ability to meet deadlines.  She speaks fluent French and has gained great working experience in Europe as well as from abroad including countries like Kuwait, Mauritius, etc. She has also published various articles like ‘The Main Event’ about organising major conferences and events, published in Executive PA magazine, and ‘A Day in the Life of an E-learner’ published by Training Journal. Her ongoing projects include open programmes for women (Springboard), train the trainer, time management, stress management, minute taking and report writing.

Jess Stiles

Jess H. Stiles is an independent consultant involved with reservoir engineering and management problems in major fields in the UK and the Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. He graduated from Texas A&M with High Honors in Petroleum Engineering before joining Humble Oil Company’s East Texas Division. He transferred to Exxon’s overseas organisation in 1970, and held reservoir engineering positions in Libya and Malaysia. He moved to London in 1977 with Esso where he was involved with the evaluation, development and management of major North Sea fields, gaining a keen interest in all aspects of fluid displacement processes and reservoir characterisation, particularly in permeability distribution and relative permeabilities. When he left the company in 1992 he had reached the position of Senior Technical Advisor, an executive position on Exxon’s Professional Ladder.

Roger Suthren

Roger Suthren obtained a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. from Keele University, UK. His Ph.D. and post-doctoral studies concerned the sedimentology and volcanology of Ordovician volcaniclastic sequences. He has 30 years experience in University teaching and research, and has been a consultant for the petroleum industry, which included teaching short courses and petrographical projects on volcanic reservoir rocks. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Geology at the University of Derby, where he teaches undergraduate courses in sedimentology, stratigraphy, volcanology and global hazards. He has extensive field experience of modern and ancient volcanic terrains in Europe, North America and the Pacific. He has taught for over 20 years on M.Sc. courses in Petroleum Geoscience, and currently contributes to the postgraduate courses in Applied Petroleum Geoscience at Derby. He has published papers on various aspects of volcanology, sedimentology and geoscience education, and has fast experience in developing online resources for geoscience teaching. He also has a keen interest in geoscience education for the general public and frequently leads field trips and runs short courses for adult education groups and amateur geological societies. Roger is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, and of the Geological Society of America.

Marco Thiele

Marco Thiele is president of StreamSim Technologies, Inc., a software company he cofounded with Dr. Rod Batycky and Prof. Martin Blunt specialising in reservoir simulation technology based on streamlines. Previously, he was an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University teaching graduate-level courses on Reservoir Simulation, Thermodynamics of Phase Behavior, and Applied Mathematics in Reservoir Engineering. His research at Stanford focused on streamline-based flow simulation, uncertainty in reservoir forecasting, and integrated reservoir management. He received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and his Masters and Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and 1986 respectively. He was a keynote speaker at the 6th International Forum on Reservoir Simulation in 2002, he is the recipient of the 1996 SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, winner of 1994 International SPE Student Paper Contest, and a 1991 distinguished SPE speaker invited by the SPE Adriatic Section. He is a technical editor for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal.

Gerhard Thonhauser

Gerhard Thonhauser is Professor for Drilling Engineering at the Mining University of Leoben. He services the petroleum industry with drilling data management and engineering services through Thonhauser Data Engineering (TDE). He holds a degree from the Mining University Leoben and Colorado School of Mines and received his Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the Mining University in Leoben, Austria. Prior to the foundation of TDE he worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the CSIRO, Australia in the development of drilling software solutions. He was involved in extended reach drilling projects in Northern Germany. Currently he is involved in several research projects to improve learning and knowledge management in drilling organisations. He has published several papers on fluid dynamics and cuttings transport.

Juan J. Tovar

Juan J. Tovar is a founding member and director of IESL. A mechanical engineer from the UCV in Venezuela he has worked for Schlumberger Dowell in Libya, UAE, Algeria, Norway and the UK in operations, technical and management positions for 10 years. While at Schlumberger, he returned to University in Edinburgh to get a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt working on sand production and associated completion problems. He spent two years in Italy where he was R & D and technical services manager for Italog, a subsidiary of the Geoservices group. In 1993 he returned to the UK to found IESL with Jeff Callander and implement joint ideas for innovation and technologies that were shared since their time in the field. He has participated in many projects particularly in the North Sea, Venezuela, Peru and West Africa for sand face completion design, sand control, gas storage and wellbore stability. From 2003 to 2006 he was the technical director of the US subsidiary of IESL based in Houston where he started the development of the market for the Americas. He returned to the UK to be the Group Operations Director. Has published over 20 papers on completion technology, geomechanics, sand production prediction and wellbore stability, areas where he has extensive experience and continues to work regularly. Holder of 6 patents in well completion equipment and developer of 3 commercial courses in well completion, perforating and sand management, he has presented over 50 in-house courses worldwide and recently concluded a program for Petroleos de Venezuela as part of their 2006 – 2008 training program. Since 1999 Juan is an Associate Lecturer at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland where he has contributed to the development of the online Master Degree programs and lectures on well design and completion engineering subjects.

Mythili Venkateshwaran

Mythili Venkateshwaran is an energetic, motivated, and multi-skilled learning and development/training strategies professional. She has 24 years’ experience in the planning and implementation of complete learning strategies and training delivery covering Human Resources, Personal & Professional Development and General Management for a variety of organisations. Her international exposure and experience outside the UK includes India, UAE and Singapore. Areas of expertise: Human Resources, Personal & Professional Development & General Management.

John Wallin

John Wallin is a graduate electro-mechanical engineer and chartered management consultant. Following an early career in development engineering and management on avionics systems, he negotiated a change to management consultancy. During the past twenty-five years he has developed his consultancy expertise to chartered standard with a majority of time spent on business development & Human Resources related projects. During the 1980s & 1990s he held appointments as managing director, managing partner and commercial director in three substantial consultancy and training organisations. In the early 1990s he transferred his business base to Malta where he carried out numerous HR projects in the Central Bank, Employment and Training Corporation and Planning Authority.

Tim Watts

Tim Watts has over 30 years professional experience in exploration and production geology, drilling engineering and field supervision. After graduating from Keel University, he started working as a mineral exploration geologist in Western Australia before joining Exploration Logging in 1980 as a pressure engineer and wellsite /operations/production geologist, working in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In 1987 he branched out on his own as an independent consultant, a role which he still fulfils now, although for the last nine years he has consulted almost exclusively for BP as a production geologist, based in their Aberdeen offices. His geological operational and production knowledge covers a broad area and includes, but is not limited to, geo-pressure, rock mechanics, hydrodynamics, project generation and project management. He has also spent some time as a lecturer at Sheffield University where he tutored courses in wireline logging and basic petrophysics. In addition, he has also authored and presented scientific papers to international conferences.

Curtis H. Whitson

Curtis H. Whitson is Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics at the University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim. He teaches courses on petroleum phase behaviour, well performance, enhanced oil recovery, and gas reservoir engineering. His areas of research include equations of state, heptanes-plus characterisation, gas condensate reservoirs, gas injection EOR and well performance behaviour of layered systems. He has co-authored the book ‘Well Performance’ (2nd Ed. Prentice-Hall, 1991), as well as being primary author of the ‘Phase Behaviour’ monograph for the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He heads the company PERA a/s which provides specialist consulting in compositionally-sensitive reservoir processes. He is also the author of PVTx, a comprehensive EOS-based PVT program used by numerous oil companies worldwide, recently acquired by Roxar ASA.