IOR2018 NEWSVolume 8, Number 2, 2018

April 14-18, 2018, Tulsa, Oklahoma

STRONG PROGRAM, FLURRY OF ACTIVITIES MARK BUSIEST SPE IOR CONFERENCE YETThe current (21st) edition of the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference—scheduled for April 14–18, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, promises to be the busiest one yet.

In addition to a stellar line-up of speakers, a strong roster of exhibits, and a jam-packed technical program featuring the world’s most cutting-edge research in IOR and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), the conference organizers are kicking off an unprecedent-ed wave of new fun events and celebrations. Consequently, the conference is stepping “off campus” as it never has before.

In short, conference organizers are going all out to acquaint delegates with the dynamic “new Tulsa” that is blossoming within the downtown IDL (Inner Disposal Loop). If anyone had the perception that Downtown Tulsa was a sleepy, uneventful place, that view will surely be discarded after this conference’s slate of activities and functions.

New activitiesOne new feature is a special tour of Tulsa aboard the Urban Trolley bus that provides participants an intimate look at the rich history of the city that for decades was the Oil Capital of the World (see related article, p. 6).

Additionally, the student chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Mid-Continent section, which is the official host of SPE IOR 2018, has organized an IOR Student Day on Sunday, April 15, at the University of Tulsa, featuring an unprecedented array of activities and knowledge-sharing for students. Student delegates from TU and from other nearby university petroleum engi-neering schools will also be involved (see related article, p. 7).

Finally, the conference planning committee has gone all out to involve SPE IOR delegates in the myriad slate of fun activities and dining and entertainment spots popping up in the dynamic, burgeoning scene that is downtown Tulsa—including special discounts and other deals just for attendees and free transportation to and from the hotel to these venues aboard a dedicated party bus! (See details in a special bonus SPE IOR 2018 Visitor’s Issue of the newsletter, being published just days before the confer-ence, to keep up with the latest information.)

Keeping with Chairman Cole’s themeThis flurry of activity is in keeping with the theme of “Acceptance, Perseverance, and Disruption Enhance Future IOR” that conference Chairman E. Lance Cole set when he took over the job of leading the conference organization: “Life is not all work, and disruptive think-ing can occur even during play. Downtown Tulsa is experiencing disruptive changes—it’s not the sleepy place you may remember.

“It may prove difficult, but we are working hard to develop a program and schedule to provide a time window and opportunity to go ‘play’ and be ‘disruptive’ (in your thinking, that is).“

Another form of disruptive thinking can be found in Cole’s leadership itself. It is the first time an official with a professional society other than SPE has been selected to ramrod this important SPE conference. It echoes Cole’s own job at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, where it is his mission as Inter-Society Collaboration Manager to lead SEG’s efforts to collaborate with other professional societies for major technical conferences and workshops. He works with geoscientists worldwide, supporting volunteers as they develop workshops and conferences.

As if to underscore that kind of industry “cross-pollination,” the plenary session that kicks off the conference includes another first: the participation of a pure geoscientist, Shauna Oppert of Chevron.

E.Lance Cole

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Traditional featuresOf course, SPE IOR 2018 has assembled another powerhouse lineup of conference sessions and special events in keeping with the traditions that have made this the top conference worldwide in the area of IOR/EOR. The heart of the conference, as always, is the technical program, and the content and presenters represent the best the industry has to offer.

The technical program covers 37 sessions spread over 17 tracks, offering 137 papers and alternates plus 13 posters during April 16–18, 2018. Paper categories include: Viscous & heavy oil, conformance, chemical EOR, foams, reservoir character-ization & simulation of tight oil, unconventional oil EOR, reservoir management, polymer, gas management, low salinity, WAG, ASP, field monitoring surveillance, nanotech, new & combined technologies, field case histories, and Best of Stavanger (this is a selection of papers from Improved Oil Recovery 2017, hosted by the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers and the National IOR Centre of Norway at Stavanger, Norway, April 24–27, 2017.)

In addition, SPE IOR 2018 features:

• An extensive array of exhibits featuring cutting-edge technologies and know-how, with catered food and refreshments on the exhibit floor.

• A plenary session featuring a panel of 5 top industry executives—“gurus” in their respective areas of IOR and EOR who are on the knife’s edge of the latest technology advances in this critical oil and gas industry sector.

• A first-day luncheon with a keynote address by the 2019 President-Elect of SPE and top Saudi Aramco executive, Sami Al-Nuaim.

• A weekend of 7 continuing education short courses related to IOR and EOR. • Luncheon featuring the Pioneer Awards, celebrating great careers in EOR/IOR.• Evening social events: Beer n’ Brats, with live entertainment and door prizes.• A weekend area geology field trip with the renowned Dr. Norman J. Hyne.

The conference promises to be a powerful combination of the traditional robust offerings of the biennial SPE IOR conference and a whole new slate of exciting “off-campus” activities that promise to enlighten as well as entertain.

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SPE PRESIDENT-ELECT AL-NUAIM HEADS DYNAMIC SPEAKER LIST AT IORThe 21st edition of the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, to be held at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 14–18, 2018, features a dynamic group of speakers: the President-Elect of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and five experts in the fields of IOR and EOR who are focused on the three major EOR methods, unconventional resources, and—in a first—the geosciences as they relate to IOR/EOR.

Keynote speakerSami Al-Nuaim is the 2019 President-Elect of SPE. He has been with Saudi Aramco for 30 years, where he has worked in reservoir engineering, production engineering, research and development, and at the upstream computer center.

He currently serves as manager, Petroleum Engineering Application Services, where he has full responsibility for providing technical information technology support to all upstream operations, including exploration, drilling, production, reservoir engineering, and facility design. A current area of focus is reservoir simulation of giga cells and giga models using Saudi Aramco’s GigaPOWERS simulator.

Al-Nuaim has a long history of service to SPE and is currently a member of the SPE Middle East Board of Directors. He has won several local, regional, and international awards, includ-ing the SPE Regional Service Award for the Middle East in 2010 and the SPE Distinguished Service Award and SPE Distinguished Member in 2011. He currently serves on the society’s DeGolyer, Rand, & McConnell Awards Committee and the 2017 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Executive Advisory Committee.

He has published a number of technical papers, holds several patents related to well performance, and teaches petroleum engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Al-Nuaim serves on the petroleum engineering departments’ advisory boards at KFUPM and King Saud University. He is a key figure in the Saudi and Middle Eastern ener-gy and media sectors, having published more than 300 articles on oil and gas and energy in Saudi newspapers.

Al-Nuaim obtained BS and MS degrees from KFUPM, and a PhD degree from the University of Texas at Austin, all in petro-leum engineering. He completed the Wharton Executive Management program at the University of Pennsylvania and the Advanced Asian Business and Culture Program from the Center for Global Business Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

April 16 plenary: IOR Now & Envisioning TomorrowThe SPE IOR Conference plenary session kicks off the 2½ day technical program at the Cox Business Center. It is scheduled for 8:30–10:00 a.m; its opening coincides with the opening of the exhibit floor. The technical program start-up follows at 10:30 p.m.

“In this plenary session, leading thinkers in different aspects of enhanced oil recovery share their thoughts on the IOR jour-ney and what the future may look like in their subject area,” said E. Lance Cole, SPE IOR 2018 General Chairman.

Those subject areas include CO2/gas injection, thermal, chemical, unconventional resources, and geosciences.

He describes the plenary format as incorporating interaction between panelists and between panelists and the audience.

“Feeding off each other’s insights, and thought-provoking interaction with attendees, one will get a vision for the IOR/EOR future,” Cole explained. “Be a part of that vision.”

The plenary will be moderated by IOR Pioneer and University of Texas Prof. Larry Lake, “himself being a venerable contrib-utor to advancing EOR,” he added.

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Cole also emphasized the major innovation in the plenary panel: adding a geoscientist thought leader—Chevron’s Shauna Oppert.

“Her bio confirms that she will bring a unique perspective to the ‘integrated’ modeling/characterization discussion—a subject integral to any IOR/EOR project,” he noted.

Lake: ModeratorLarry W. Lake is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Sharon and Shahid Ullah Chair.

Lake is a specialist in reservoir engineering and geochemistry. His work in quantifying the effects of geochemical interactions and flow variability for resource recovery is now widely applied.

He has authored four textbooks, edited three books, and published more than 100 technical articles and reports. He earned his BS and PhD degrees from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively.

Lake has twice been designated an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and member of the SPE Board of Directors, and he won the SPE IOR Pioneer Award in 2000. Other accolades include the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal (AIME) and the Degolyer Distinguished Service Award.

McConnell: CO2/gas injectionCharles D. McConnell is Executive Director of Rice University’s Energy and Environment Initiative, a university-wide effort to address the diverse issues associated with energy and the environment. The initiative is designed to partner with industry and external stakeholders to position Rice as an impartial broker that combines technology and policy to create a sustainable energy platform in resource utilization and environmental stewardship.

A 35-year veteran of the energy industry, McConnell joined Rice in August 2013 after serv-ing 2 years as the Assistant Secretary of Energy at the US Department of Energy.

At DOE, McConnell was responsible for the strategic policy leadership, budgets, project management, and research and development of the department's coal, oil and gas, and advanced technologies programs, as well as for the operations and management of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Prior to joining DOE, McConnell served as Vice-President of Carbon Management at Battelle Energy Technology in Columbus, Ohio, and also spent 31 years with Praxair, Inc.

McConnell has held a number of board positions, including chairmanships of the Gasification Technologies Council and the Clean Carbon Technology Foundation of Texas. McConnell holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University (1977) and an MBA in finance from Cleveland State University (1984).

Pope: ChemicalDr. Gary A. Pope is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Texaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He joined the UT faculty in 1977 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Pope is a specialist in reservoir engineering, with a special focus on EOR. His teaching and research are in the areas of enhanced oil recovery, reservoir engineering, natural gas engineering, geological storage of CO2 and groundwater remediation.

Pope holds a BS degree from Oklahoma State University and a PhD degree from Rice University, both in chemical engineering.

Larry Lake

Chuck McConnell

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He has authored or co-authored more than 300 technical papers and 7 books, including one on EOR, and is an inventor with 24 patents.

His awards include SPE Honorary Member Award, AIME Environmental Conservation Distinguished Service Award, SPE IOR Pioneer Award, SPE/AIME Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, SPE John Franklin Carll Award, SPE Distinguished Achievement Award, SPE Distinguished Member Award, and SPE Reservoir Engineering Award.

Mehta: ThermalDr. S.A. (Raj) Mehta is a professor of oil and gas engineering and Director of International Programs at the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has spent his entire academic career providing teaching and leadership in petroleum engineering educa-tion with a focus on EOR, both at the university and in training programs worldwide.

Dr. Mehta has long been an advocate for air injection-based oil recovery processes. Additionally, he has worked with the In Situ Combustion Research Group at the university since 1986, serving as co-director since 1991.

He has authored more than 300 papers, reports, and patents on in situ combustion; was named the Schulich School’s “Petroleum Engineering Professor of the Year;” and was award-ed the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty. Mehta also served on the SPE Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee and in 2008 received the SPE Rocky Mountain Section Regional Service Award.

Additionally, he is a consultant on IOR and drilling and completion safety and is co-founder and director of Hot-Tec Energy Inc., a Calgary firm focused mainly on EOR/IOR processes and oil field safety.

Mehta holds BEng and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and a PhD with specialization in oil sands combustion technology from the University of Calgary.

Harju: Unconventional resourcesJohn Harju is Vice-President for Strategic Partnerships at the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), where he leads efforts to build and grow dynamic working rela-tionships with industry, government, and research entities globally in support of the EERC’s mission to provide practical, pioneering solutions to the world’s energy and environmental challenges.

He represents the EERC regionally, nationally, and internationally in advancing its core research priorities: coal utilization and emissions, carbon management, oil and gas, alterna-tive fuels and renewable energy, and energy/water issues.

He serves on the US Department of Energy’s Unconventional Resources Technology Advisory Committee, which advises the Secretary of Energy on the development and imple-mentation of activities related to unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources; is a member and former chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) Energy Resources, Research, and Technology Committee; and serves on IOGCC’s Carbon Capture and Geological Storage Task Force.

Prior to his current position, Harju was the Associate Director for Research at the EERC. Before joining the EERC, he was Vice-President of Crystal Solutions, LLC, a firm involved in commercial E&P produced water management, regulatory permitting and compliance, and environmental impact monitoring and analysis.

Gary Pope

Raj Mehta

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He worked for Gas Research Institute (now Gas Technology Institute) as principal scientist in Produced Water Management and as program team leader for Soil, Water, and Waste. He also worked at the EERC from 1989 to 1996 in various capacities. Harju is a graduate of the geol-ogy program at the University of North Dakota.

Oppert: GeosciencesShauna Oppert is a geoscientist at Chevron who leads R&D projects that focus on integrating engineering and geoscience data and technologies to improve reservoir management deci-sions. Her current work is on an Integrated Geomechanics team, where she leads efforts to incorporate surveillance data in dynamic and geomechanical assisted history-matching tech-nologies.

Oppert has worked at Chevron for 5 years, in a variety of different production and explora-tion roles. Prior to joining Chevron, she worked at ExxonMobil for 10 years, focusing on production roles in brownfields, using surveillance data for optimization of production and drilling. She also previously worked briefly in geoscience roles for Unocal and Western Geophysical.

Oppert received her BS in geology & geophysics, with a minor in mathematics in 2000 from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and her MS in geophysics from the University of Calgary in 2002.

She is engaged in the Society of Exploration Geophysics Advanced Modeling group, aka SEAM, as the technical committee chair. She leads efforts in this industry-led consortia towards building and simulating integrated models for life-of-field sce-narios that provide benchmarks for existing and new surveillance technologies.

Through this consortium and her role at Chevron, Oppert collaborates with engineers on a daily basis to help achieve leading-edge solutions to reservoir production issues.

SPE IOR 2018 BONUS EVENT: OIL CAPITAL TOUR & DINNERIn yet another event for SPE IOR delegates and their “plus-ones,” the SPE IOR 2018 committee has endorsed a special event involving a historical tour of Tulsa, with a special emphasis on how the city has been shaped by oil.

Dubbed “Tulsa, the Oil Capital of the World Tour & Oklahoma Dinner,” the event was put together by Dr. Norman Hyne, the legendary Tulsa geoscientist who has led the local geolo-gy field trip that has always been a mainstay with of the IOR conference and has written six standard textbooks on the oil and gas industry, with an emphasis on the upstream sector.

Dr. Hyne is the Executive Director of the Tulsa Geoscience Center (www.tulsageoscience-center.org), which offers field trips to Tulsa-area schools to learn about rocks, minerals, fos-sils, and dinosaurs and conduct scout merit badge classes.

The tour and dinner on Monday, April 16, will last from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Participants will board an Old Urban Trolley with a guide at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel.

“During the tour, you will see and hear about the sites that tell the story of Tulsa from its beginning to its present today,” Hyne said.

Those sites include:

• A visit to the Golden Driller, the tallest, free-standing statue in the United States and symbol of the oil capital.

Shauna Oppert

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• A private tour to the top of one of Tulsa’s tallest buildings for a 360-degree view of the city. • A tour among the world-class art deco skyscrapers of downtown Tulsa, built by oilmen who left their imprint across time

with these buildings when oil barons such as Getty, Sinclair, Skelly, and Cosden lived and made oil deals here. On a pri-vate tour, participants will go inside two of these buildings constructed for oilman Waite Phillips and visit his personal tunnel dug out by miners for his safety.

• A ride through the cathedral district built between 1914 and 1929, when oil and faith funded monuments of prayer that are still vital today. Boston Avenue Methodist Church, considered one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical art deco architecture in the US, will provide a personal tour. The 89-year-old architectural masterpiece is a National Historical Landmark.

• A tour of “Black Gold Row,” blocks of mansions built by the oilmen in the early 1920s.

The tour will end at 7:30 p.m. at the Tulsa Geoscience Center for an Oklahoma BBQ dinner and refreshments (vegetarian meals available).

“The geoscience center has a great drilling rig model and museum-quality exhibits of rocks, minerals, and fossils,” Hyne said. “Everything there is hands-on.”

At the end of the program, at 9:30 p.m., there will be a 9-minute walk back to the nearby downtown DoubleTree Hotel. The tour and dinner are $40 per person.

Because space is limited, said Hyne, it’s best to sign up early. There is an option to sign up for the tour and dinner on the IOR conference registration site—on the agenda page below the field trip.

Of course, Hyne reminds that the Tulsa area geology field trip will be held once again, on Sunday, April 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Participants are asked to assemble at the Doubletree Hotel East Entrance, at 6th Street below the skybridge con-necting the hotel with the Cox Business Center.

TU SPE STUDENT CHAPTER HOSTS AMBITIOUS PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAMThe University of Tulsa’s SPE Student Chapter has assembled an ambitious program for the weekend preceding the main SPE IOR Conference Program. It includes the first of its kind petroleum industry debate competition.

The TU chapter has reached out to other petroleum engineering schools in Oklahoma and adjoining states to participate. Those interested in attending can RSVP at jtg776@utulsa.edu.

On Saturday, April 14, students will check in from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the University of Tulsa’s McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering at 5th Place and Gary Ave. on the TU campus.

From 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the TU SPE Student Chapter will host the Student Mixer at Fuel 66, on the historic Route 66 at 11th Street and Atlanta Ave. Fuel 66 is a relatively new destination hot spot that is a family-friendly bar and food truck court.

Check-in continues at 8 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 15, at the campus, and breakfast will be available.Events include:

• North Campus field trips. With 9 research consortia, TU can be regarded as one of the elite oil and gas research programs in the world.

• Technical workshops on various industry topics highlighting improved oil recovery.• SPE Mid-Continent Student Paper Contest, with presentation by the industry’s leading peers at the PhD and undergradu-

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• An exhibition-style job fair.• A banquet award ceremony, hosted at nearby Reynolds Center, home of the TU Golden Hurricane basketball team.

The debate competition, dubbed Contr{Oil}versy, involves students representing a delegation inside a specific committee an oil- and gas-related topic of emergency.

The pro vs. con debate topics are:

• Drilling in Florida’s Continental Shelf• OPEC Cut of Production

After the second debate, SPE TU students will host a “fireside chat” with SPE President-elect Sami Al-Nuaim from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

That evening, from 7:00 p.m. to 8 p.m., the day’s events will conclude with a banquet, ceremony, and awards program with a keynote address by Shauna Oppert of Chevron and one of the SPE IOR plenary speakers.

The SPE IOR 2018 Planning Com-mittee has organized an unprece-dented slate of fun group activities and free transportation to the hottest venues and vendors in the down-town Tulsa area.

We've hired a "Party Bus" to trans-port IOR delegates to the doorsteps of participating vendors. Special group arrangements have been made, and special offerings and dis-counts will be available.

Look for details in the Tourism issue of this newsletter, coming out this weekend on our mobile app, as well as in email and in print at the regis-tration desk.

HOP ABOARD THE BUS!

JOIN THE PARTY!

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IOR 2018 General Chair...............E. Lance ColeEditor.............................................Robert WilliamsPresentation Editor / Graphics........Kristi Davies

SPE IOR 2018 COMMITTEE ROSTERSTEERING COMMITTEE

E. Lance Cole Society of Exploration GeophysicistsDwight Dauben Dauben Int’l Energy Conslts.Betty Felber ConsultantSada Joshi Joshi Technologies International, Inc.Mohan Kelkar The University of TulsaDwight Rychel ConsultantNathan Buchanan SPE Mid-Continent Section ChairmanDane Cantwell KA Energy Partners, LLC

PLANNING COMMITTEETechnical Program Chairman Mark Holtz, ConsultantRegistration Chairman Dwight Rychel, Consultant

Registration Coordinator Kristi Davies, ConsultantComputers/Networking Jon Coursey, Sarco SolutionsFinance Chad Roller, Mid-Con Energy Operating, LLC

Jenna Standridge, Mid-Con Energy Operating, LLCReports Monica Song, Consultant

Publicity/Advertisements Robert Williams, ConsultantWebmaster, Publications, Graphics Kristi Davies, Consultant

Exhibits Doug Storts, Williford CompaniesSponsorships E. Lance Cole, SEG

Exhibits Assistant Marsha Whitney, ConsultantSponsorship Contacting Team Dwight Rychel, ConsultantSponsorship Contacting Team E. Lance Cole, SEGSponsorship Contacting Team Marsha Whitney, ConsultantSponsorship Contacting Team Rob Klenner, GE BakerHughes

Pioneer Awards Dwight Dauben, Dauben Int’l Energy Conslts.Continuing Education Chirag Patel, Joshi Technologies Int’l Inc.Arrangements Doug Norton, Warren American Oil Co.Food/Evening Receptions Buck Walsh, ConsultantGeology Field Trip Norm Hyne, The University of TulsaTU Student Support Mohan Kelkar, The University of TulsaTU Student Chapter Event Sarah Haseley-Shackelford, President SPE Student

ChapterJuan Comella, President-elect SPE Student ChapterMike Stafford, Faculty Adviser to SPE Student Chapter

IOR Administrative Support Kristi Davies, ConsultantSPE Event Administrator Cindy Madding, SPE

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEEVladimir Alvarado University of WyomingFelix Ascanio Shell Intl. E&P BVMatthew Balhoff University of Texas At AustinJulian Barnes ShellEdward Behm Occidental Oil & Gas CorporationDennis Beliveau Banbury HouseRoman Berenblyum Intl Research Inst of StavangerPrem Bikkina Oklahoma State UniversityPaul Bondor BontechDane Cantwell KA Energy Partners, LLCRaymond Choo BP America Inc

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (continued)Torsten Clemens OMVElio Dean Surtek, Inc.Eric Delamaide IFP Technologies Canada Inc.Birol Dindoruk Shell International E&P Co.Varadarajan Dwara-kanath ChevronReza Fassihi BHP BillitonBetty Felber ConsultantTony Gao GE Oil and GasSteve Guillot DenburyCharles Hammond ConsultantCarmen Hinds Ecopetrol Mark Holtz ConsultantJohn Killough Texas A&MSunil Kokal Saudi AramcoDavid Levitt Total Petrochemicals FranceEduardo Manrique Ecopetrol, S.A.Stan McCool University of KansasVanessa Nunez UT Austin BEGWilliam O'Brien Nitec, LLCCarlos Pereira MI3 Petroleum EngineeringJacqueline Roueche Lynxnet, LLCLanny Schoeling Neo Tek Energy IncBor Jier Ben Shiau University of OklahomaArne Skauge Center for Integrated Petroleum ResearchDavid Smith ConocoPhillipsSriram Solairai ConocoPhillipsMarco Thiele Streamsim Technologies, Inc.Ron Wackowski Wackowski Consulting, LLCMark Wilkins Devon Energy CorporationG.Paul Willhite University of KansasAndrew Worthen Exponent

SPE MID-CONTINENT SECTION OFFICERSChairman Nathan BuchananVice-Chairman (Programs) openSecretary David KruegerTreasurer Lisa SullivanDirector Betty FelberDirector Hap PinkertonDirector Al SmithDirector Steve TiptonDirector Buck WalshRegional Director Chris JenkinsPast Chairman Molly Boyd