Thomas C. Halsey, currently Principal, Energy Solutions Group, Enthought, and Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering, Rice University, recently retired from the position of Chief Computational and Data Scientist at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in Spring, Texas. In this role, he exercised technical leadership of modeling physics, applied mathematics, technical software engineering, and high performance computing for ExxonMobil's global hydrocarbon exploration and production research, development, and business activities. Prior to this, he served in a number of research, staff and management roles at ExxonMobil in New Jersey and Texas. Before his ExxonMobil career, he was a postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in the Department of Physics at the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University. He has held visiting positions at CE-Saclay (France), New York University, and Boston University; he has also served on advisory boards at Harvard, Northwestern, Rice, the University of Texas at Austin, and New York University. He has held leadership roles in the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the Society for Petroleum Engineers, for which he is now Chair of the Research and Development Technical Section. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is the author of approximately 100 papers and 5 patents.
Thomas C. Halsey
Shohreh Amini, is a Data Science manager at the Big Data Center of Excellence at Halliburton-Landmark. She joined Landmark in 2016 as a Data Scientist, and in her current role she is leading a multi-disciplinary team of data scientists to deliver data science solutions to the customers, as well as internal organization. She has more than 10 years of experience in application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in various domains of petroleum engineering such as reservoir modeling, production foresting, anomaly detection, proxy modeling, etc. She has previously worked as a reservoir engineer for a National Oil Company, where she was responsible for reservoir modeling and field development studies of an oil field. She holds a master's and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University of Technology in Netherlands and West Virginia University in US, respectively. She has been a SPE member for the last 20 years and has served as a volunteer in multiple roles within SPE.
Shohreh Amini
Paul Joseph is a Program Manager in Intelligent Production Systems at the Center for Technology Innovation of Baker Hughes in Houston, TX. Prior to joining Baker Hughes, he worked as a Product Development Engineer at Sercel Inc and Payload System Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corp in Houston. Paul has over 25 years of experience in the Oil and Gas industry. His professional interests include technology innovation, research and development, engineering, manufacturing and field operations, intelligent completions, enhanced oil recovery and production optimization. Paul has a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University, AL.
Paul Joseph
Dr. Michael Traver currently co-chairs the Transportation Workstream within the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a voluntary, CEO-led oil and gas industry initiative to catalyze meaningful actions on climate change through collaboration and engagement. In this role, he leads a collaborative group of experts from OGCI member companies to identify and progress innovative and impactful ideas and actions that address greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector. He is also a Senior Researcher within Aramco's Transport Technologies R&D Division with responsibilities that include both experimental and strategic analysis of sustainability technologies across the light duty, heavy duty, marine and aviation industries. Prior to joining Aramco, Dr. Traver led all diesel activities as Business Unit Director for Diesel Systems at IAV's North American subsidiary. While in that role, he worked within a global team to launch IAV's first test facility outside of Europe and secured strong business relationships with many premier US-based diesel engine and vehicle manufacturers. Michael holds a Ph.D. and MS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace focus from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Michael Traver
T. S. Ramakrishnan is currently a senior scienti_c advisor at Schlumberger-Doll Research. Prior to this he was a research director and scienti_c advisor responsible for carbon storage, and enhanced and unconventional recovery. He has a B.Tech. (ChE, IIT-Delhi) and a Ph.D. (ChE, IIT-Chicago). He has published papers in the _elds of multicomponent/multiphase ow, formation and well testing, measurement of capillary pressure, relative permeability, and resistivity, array induction logging, carbonate petrophysics, NMR, intelligent completions, nonlinear di_erential equations, capillary dynamics, dissolution driven instabilities, carbon storage, gravity tongues etc. More recently, he has worked on plug and abandonment. His book (coauthored with F. J. Kuchuk and M. Onur) on Formation Testing was published in 2001. Ramakrishnan was a distinguished lecturer of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in 2005-6, elected a distinguished member of SPE in 2003, and received the Formation Evaluation award in 2009. His research papers won the Henri-Doll award of Schlumberger in 1995 and 1997, and the SPWLA best paper award in 1998. His B.Tech. thesis was given the Acharya P.C. Ray national award for the best chemical engineering thesis. In 2012, he was presented the Charles W. Pierce distinguished alumni award at IIT Chicago. He was also elected a distinguished alumnus of IIT Delhi in 2013. He has 74 granted U.S. patents.
T. S. Ramakrishnan
Dr. Bicheng Yan is an assistant professor in Energy Resource and Petroleum Engineering Program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Dr. Yan is a researcher and educator in the area of reservoir simulation and reservoir engineering. At KAUST, he is the PI of the Deep Geo-Energy & Engineering Modeling (DGYM). His research interests include advanced physics-driven numerical simulation and data-driven modeling for fluid flow in porous media, which is commonly involved in the subsurface processes including hydrocarbon recovery, geological carbon storage, geothermal recovery and hydrogen storage. Prior to joining in KAUST, Dr. Yan worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Division in Los Alamos National Laboratory, focusing on deep learning application in CCUS. He also worked in the U.S. oil and gas industry as data scientist, reservoir engineer and reservoir simulation engineer for 4 years. Dr. Yan obtained his B.Sc degree in petroleum engineering from China University of Petroleum (Beijing), and his M.Sc and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station
Dr. Bicheng Yan
Ross Tomson is a high energy entrepreneur and technologist with an exacting focus on delivering both technology and business goals. Mr. Tomson obtained advanced degrees from Rice University and South Texas College of Law, where he obtained degrees and certifications in economics, environmental science, conflict resolution, and law. Ross has originated, managed, and completed numerous technology development projects as Founder and President of Tomson Technologies, the company he started and lead for 10 years. His company directly developed cutting edge chemical technologies for use in the energy industry. His clients and partners include universities, governments, and global super major energy companies. He has successfully shepherded technology from ideation to development to scale up and ultimate commercialization. His next-generation production chemical technologies outperformed and outcompeted global chemical companies, ultimately leading to his company being acquired by a global chemical service company, ChampionX, where he currently serves as Vice President of Technology.
Ross Tomson
Vivek Peraser is a reservoir engineer at BP America Inc working as a reservoir simulation engineer supporting various teams from Gulf of Mexico to Azerbaijan. He joined BP in 2012 in Anchorage Alaska working on the biggest field in North America, the Prudhoe Bay field. After working in Alaska for 7 years in different capacities leading the water flood and enhance oil recovery program, he moved to Houston Texas with BP to bring the reservoir management, waterflood and EOR experience to offshore Gulf of Mexico Fields. He has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Pune University India and a master's degree in petroleum engineering from University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is active in various SPE chapters and associations as a e-mentor, SPE youth career fair advisor for reservoir engineers, and SPE Gulf Coast Section Data Science and Analytics study group program vice chair.
Vivek Peraser