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2012 -2013 Distinguished Lecture Ranking

Please help us select the Distinguished Lecturers for this year.  Choose by "registering" for your top 5 choices in Upcoming Events by January 25th 2012.

2012-13 Lecturers, Topics and Company Affiliations       (10 max, 0 least)
Lecturer Affiliation Topic your points
Bala Gadiyar Schlumberger Advancement in Sand Control Fluid Technology  
Brian Schwanitz Welltec Improved Recovery and Reduced Costs with Intelligent Interventions –Make your Wells intervention “Friendly”   
Bruce Marion Schlumberger Crosswell Seismic: Imaging and Monitoring of the Reservoir  
C. Mark Pearson L Liberty Resources LLC Hydraulic Fracturing of Horizontal Wells – Realizing the Paradigm Shift that has been 30 Years in Development  
Charles E. Fox Kinder Morgan CO2 Co Carbon Capture and Storage SWOT Analysis Will We Implement the CCS Solution?  
Danielle Morel Total Dalia / Camelia 1st World Deep Offshore Polymer Flood Implementation  
Doug Lehr Baker Hughes Best Practices for Multizone Isolation Using Composite Plugs  
Frank Syfan U.S. Silica Company Proper Proppant Selection:  Well Productivity Depends On It!!  
Fraser  Lawson Tullow Ghana Ltd Tullow Ghana -- Deepwater Extended Reach Drilling Experience  
Hamed Soroush Weatherford Oil Tool Non-conventional Geomechanics for Unconventional Resources   
Iberê Nascentes Alves Petrobras  How Smart Is the Intelligent Technology for Simulators  and Field Production Mgmt?  
Jason L. Pitcher Halliburton Sperry Drilling Increasing Production with Better Well Placement in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs - Challenges and Solutions   
Luiz Alberto S. Rocha Petrobras A Methodology to Design Exploratory Wells  
Marina Voskanian California State Lands Com. Heat Mining at The Geysers Geothermal Field Using Reclaimed Waste Water  
Marisela Sanchez-Nagel Itasca Houston Stimulation Optimization of Unconventional Resources - Improved Numerical Modeling from First Physics  
Mehran Pooladi-Darvish Fekete Associates Inc. Geological Storage of CO2 - Reservoir Engineering Considerations  
Mike Choi Conoco Phillips LNG Basics for Petroleum Engineers  
Nnaemeka Ezekwe Devon Energy Corporation Advances in Reservoir Management Technologies  
Olivier Houzé KAPPA Methods and Workflows to Process Dynamic Data in ‘Intelligent Fields’  
Pandar Kumar (PK) Pande Anadarko Petroleum Corp Shale Resource Assessment & Development — Full Life Cycle Integrated Approach  
Patrick (P.T.W.) Hudson Leiden University Developing an Advanced Safety Culture – Non-Compliance and the Just and Fair Culture  
Patrick Leach Decision Strategies Inc. Risk Tolerance and Risk Neutrality (You Can Live with More Risk than You Think)  
Phil Rae InTuition Energy Associates Putting The Energy Industry In Perspective  
Robert P. Sutton Marathon Oil Corporation Understanding Liquid Loading Will Improve Well Performance  
Simon Stromberg Senergy (GB) Limited The Impact of Data Reliability on the Decision Making Process   
Stephen Vickers Baker Hughes What Do We Have to Do to a Drilling Fluid to Maximise Well Productivity?  
Subhash N. Shah The University of Oklahoma Wonderful World of Coiled Tubing  
Tor Austad University of Stavanger “Smart Water” Flooding in Carbonates and Sandstones: A New Chemical Understanding of the EOR-Potential  

Study Groups

Looking for suggestions from our officers and members to start some study groups.  Please send an email to Soraya Betancourt (sbetancourt@slb.com).