VP of Ultra-Deepwater Programs RPSEA James Pappas has held the positions of Global Technology Coordinator, Facilities Engineer in the Deepwater & International Well Engineering & Facilities Division, Deepwater Project Coordinator for Devon Energy in the past, as well as Production Engineer in the Gulf of Mexico Division for Devon, and …
VP of Ultra-Deepwater Programs RPSEA
James Pappas has held the positions of Global Technology Coordinator,
Facilities Engineer in the Deepwater & International Well Engineering & Facilities Division, Deepwater
Project Coordinator for Devon Energy in the past, as well as Production Engineer in the Gulf of Mexico
Division for Devon, and Santa Fe Snyder. He has also held drilling, completions, production, operations,
reservoir, and A&D positions with Fina, UPRC, and Amoco.
James has been involved with the Society of Petroleum Engineers for 33 years. He is both the immediate
past SPE International Production and Operations Technical Director and SPE Technical Programs and
Meetings Committee Chair, and is a former chair of the GCS Scholarship Committee, General Meeting,
Drilling Study Group, and SPE-Gulf Coast Section Board of Directors. He is a member of the GCS
Scholarship and Nominating Committees. He has served on several technical program committees for the
OTC, ATCE, LACPEC, SPE R&D Conference, and the SPE P&O Conference.
He is also the immediate past Private Industry Practice Chair and Executive Committee member of the
Texas Society of Professional Engineers and serves on that body’s Legislative and Governmental Affairs
Committee. James has authored over 70 papers or spoken at conferences and interviews on various
technical and professional topics.
James earned a BS in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Chemistry from the University of Texas at
Austin in 1979. He graduated with a MBA highest honors from the University of Texas at Tyler in 1993.
