Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 9th
8:30am – 10:00 am US Central Time
Panel discussion: What services companies and academia are developing/improving?
Host - Camilo Gelvez, BP
Hani Elshahawi (Moderator)
Hani Elshahawi is founder and managing director of NoviDigiTech LLC which partners with innovators, academics, startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and customers to create impact and drive growth through integration, collaboration, digitalization, and education. He previously spent 18 years at Shell as digitalization lead for Deepwater technologies, GameChanger, technology advisor and capabilities manager, and leader of Shell’s Fluid Evaluation and Sampling Technologies center of excellence. Prior to Shell, Hani spent 15 years with Schlumberger in various positions across Africa, Asia, North America, and globally spanning operations, marketing, consulting, and technology development. Hani has received multiple energy industry awards and has authored over 150 technical publications and several patents. He was the 2009-2010 President of the SPWLA and a distinguished lecturer for both societies.
Panelist:
Carlos Torres-Verdin (UT)
Carlos Torres-Verdín received a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Geophysics
from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, a M.Sc. degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in
Engineering Geoscience from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991.
During 1991-1997, he held the position of Research Scientist with
Schlumberger-Doll Research. From 1997-1999, he was Reservoir Specialist and
Technology Champion with YPF (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Since 1999, he has been
affiliated with the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering of the
University of Texas at Austin, where he is currently Full Professor, holds the
Brian James Jennings Memorial Endowed Chair in Petroleum and Geosystems
Engineering, and conducts research on borehole geophysics, formation
evaluation, petrophysics, well logging, and integrated reservoir description.
Dr. Torres-Verdín is the founder and director of the Research Consortium on
Formation Evaluation at the University of Texas at Austin, which has been in
operation for 21 years and is currently sponsored by 20 companies. He has
published over 230 refereed journal papers and over 230 conference papers, and
is author of 6 patents, has served as Guest Editor for Radio Science, invited
Associate Editor for Interpretation (SEG), Associate Editor for the Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, SPE Journal, and Petrophysics (SPWLA),
and chair of the editorial board of The Leading Edge (SEG), and is currently
Assistant Editor for Geophysics Dr. Torres-Verdín is recipient of the 2020
Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal from the SEG, 2019
Anthony Lucas Gold Medal from the SPE, 2017 Conrad Schlumberger Award
from the EAGE, 2014 Gold Medal for Technical Achievement from the SPWLA, 2008
Formation Evaluation Award from the SPE, 2006 Distinguished Technical
Achievement Award from the SPWLA, Distinguished Member of the SPE, and Honorary
Member of the SEG. He also received the 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007 Best Paper
Awards in Petrophysics by the SPWLA, the 2006 and 2014 Best Presentation Awards
and the 2007 Best Poster Award by the SPWLA, and was designated Distinguished
Technical Speaker during 2006-2007 and 2013-2014 by the SPWLA. Dr.
Torres-Verdín has supervised 34 PhD and 46 Master’s students, conducted
numerous industry training courses, co-chaired several technical workshops and
conference sessions, and has served as member of multiple SPE, SPWLA, and SEG
committees in the past. The internet link http://sites.utexas.edu/carlostorresverdin/
provides a historical and detailed record of the publication, technical
projects, training courses, and research projects undertaken by Dr.
Torres-Verdín.
Oliver Mullins (SLB)
Dr. Oliver C. Mullins is a Schlumberger Fellow and member, U.S.
National Academy of Engineering. He is leading the new discipline, “reservoir
fluid geodynamics” (RFG), which accounts for fluid compositional redistribution
and phase change during and post charge over geologic time. RFG is focused on
reservoir evaluation and utilizes Downhole Fluid Analysis which he initiated
and asphaltene thermodynamics which his team developed. He wrote 2 books,
coauthored ~300 other publications and coinvented 138 allowed US patents with
24,000 citations on google scholar. He has received six international awards
four organizations (ACS, SPE, SPWLA, ADIPEC) including the highest technical
award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the 2021 Anthony F. Lucas Gold
Medal.
Wade Samec (HAL)
Wade Samec, Halliburton Wireline and Perforating, is the manager of Halliburton’s
Geoscience & Production North America Center of Excellence. Wade began his career in the Gulf of Mexico
in 1995 as a wireline field engineer with a focus on Formation Testing. Wade subsequently held positions in wireline
sales management, product management, and operations management in Mexico,
Venezuela, Canada, and the US. He holds
a Bachelor of Science degree from the department of Materials Science and
Materials Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995).
Chris Jones (HAL)
Christopher Jones has
over 20 years’ experience in the petroleum industry with expertise in organic,
aqueous and rock geochemistry, petroleum phase behavior (PVT) and formation
testing and sampling. He has directly managed commercial geochemistry
laboratories, research optics laboratories and research PVT laboratories in the
US and South America. He currently manages Halliburton’s sensor physics
research department overseeing formation testing, nuclear, electromagnetic,
acoustic, NMR, digital rock and associated petrophysics disciplines for
wireline and LWD. Christopher has a Master's of Science in Physical Chemistry
specializing in laser spectroscopy and thermodynamics, and PhD specializing in
chemistry data science. He has a combination of 60 publications and presentations
and has been issued over 160 US patents. He is currently serving as a SPE
distinguished lecturer on the topic of formation testing digital sampling.
Annup Hunur (BKR)
Anup Hunnur is a Global Advisor for Formation testing and sampling in Baker Hughes
Company in Houston. In this role, he provides technical support, mentoring and
trainings in all aspects related to testing and sampling. He has been with the
company for 15 years and has experience working around the world. Anup holds a
MS degree in Petroleum Engineering from University of Oklahoma, U.S.A. and BE
in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University, India.
Adnan Khan (BKR)
Adnan Khan is currently Formation Sampling and Testing Product Manager,
based in Houston. His current responsibilities include the strategic oversight
and direction of the formation testing and sampling business, leading the
overall pursuit of business and growth objectives. Prior to this role,
Adnan served as the Product Line Manager for Brunei and Malaysia
Wireline. Adnan brings 16 years of experience in oil & gas working in
different positions across Middle East and Asia Pacific as Technical Manager,
Service Delivery Manager, Ops Manager, Product line Manager and lately Product
Manager.
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