Member Spotlight

Meet our new SPE-MIT chairperson



Lu Yang


Lu Yang is a fourth-year PhD student in Chemical Engineering, with a minor in business administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Lu obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Peking University in China. Lu has worked as a technical consultant at General Mills and Merck & Co., where she made key contributions to a variety of projects involving process optimization and numerical simulations. She is actively involved with energy communities on and off campus, and is currently the president of the SPE chapter at MIT. Lu's research at MIT focuses on the modeling and visualization of multiphase flow on the microscale, and she has a keen interest in the oil and gas industry.

Harold Leslie

Harold David Leslie (Microseismic Matters LLC)

 

Harold David Leslie (MicroSeismic Matters LLC) Member since 1987

David Leslie is an independent researcher/consultant working through MBO Partners and through MicroSeismic Matters LLC which he established after retiring from Schlumberger in the U.K. in July 2011. Over the course of a long career with Schlumberger he worked largely in sonic and microseismic R&E, holding engineering positions in Houston, Texas, and Fuchinobe, Japan, and research positions in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Cambridge, England. He started his career as a Junior Field Engineer at Schlumberger Offshore Services in Houston, and also worked in Interpretation Development at ATL Marketing  in Montrouge, France. Prior to joining Schlumberger David worked as a research assistant at the Woods Hole

 

Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He received the degrees of BSEE from Princeton University in 1969, MS from MIT, and Ocean Engineer from MIT and WHOI in 1978. He has co-authored patents in the areas of cement evaluation, sonic tool design and microseismic processing. Since retiring and returning to the USA David has remained active in SEG, EAGE and SPE, serving occasionally and voluntarily as a paper reviewer and an attendee of conferences and workshops. His principle focus remains induced seismicity, but he is using his “considerably freer time” to more widely explore topics related to energy and environment


Gordon Richardson

Gordon Richardson (TechRich Consulting) – Member since 2010


 


      
  

Gordon Richardson has been active in the design, development, and evaluation of electronic systems, instrumentation, and drill-string components to advance the state-of-the-art in drilling for oil and gas for more than 38 years. He is the founder and principal of TechRich Consulting, which has provided technical and business consulting services to industrial clients since 2001. Previously, Mr. Richardson was on the professional staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., where he was a Director of the Technology and Innovation Management and the Global Energy Practices. During his 22 years with the firm, his consulting work focused on the impact of new technologies in industrial markets, management of multidisciplinary product development projects, finding and assessing new technologies for acquisition or license, and technology (or R & D) planning. Before joining Arthur D. Little, Inc., Mr. Richardson was Chief Engineer for Eastman Whipstock, Inc. His educational background includes a B.A. from Amherst College, graduate work in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, and completion of the M.I.T. Program for Senior Executives at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.


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