Reservoir Technology Symposium 2020

Michelle joined BHP in 2017 and is currently Head of Innovation enabling growth across the Petroleum Portfolio including Exploration, Appraisal, Projects and Producing assets. Michelle has over 20 years of industry experience, working in technical and leadership roles of increasing complexity and scale including management of exploration portfolio in South America, West Africa for Hess and more recently as the Head of Gulf of Mexico exploration for BHP. With a deep technical background in quantitative geophysics, Michelle has also held a number of global functional support roles leading geophysical teams delivering business support, technical assurance, innovation and people development across the petroleum value chain at both Hess and BHP. She holds a BA(Hons) in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Science in Petroleum Geology from the Institut Francais du Petrole.

James Hacker holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. He has 25 years of experience with ExxonMobil. The first half of his career focused primarily on research and technology development, field pilots and development projects for heavy oil, tight gas, shale gas and EOR/IOR. The second half of his career, he was the Reservoir Manager for various development projects and producing assets in the US, Canada, Africa, Russia, Norway, UK, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Argentina. For his entire career, James has been a strong advocate for technology development and application throughout the reservoir lifecycle. In April 2018, he was appointed Chief Reservoir Engineer.

Tom joined Talos Energy in 2018 following the merger with Stone Energy and is currently the Director of Asset Development. In this role, he is responsible for development activities in Talos’ Gulf of Mexico producing assets. Prior to his current position, Tom held the position of VP, Exploration with Stone Energy where he was responsible for Stone’s exploration, development and business development functions. Tom also served as the VP, Corporate Development with responsibility for corporate planning, reserve reporting, and marketing. Tom has over 35 years of experience spanning broad managerial, reservoir engineering and financial disciplines. Tom began his career as a reservoir engineer with ARCO and Vastar after graduating from LSU with a B.S. and M.S. in Petroleum Engineering. He also holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Tulane University.

Vasili is a co-founder and CEO of Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD) - a technology company engaged in development of integrated simulation solutions for reservoir engineers and geologists. He has a PhD in Physics from SMU, Dallas and he spent 6 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as Postdoctoral Fellow in High Energy Physics. He was an assistant scientist at Brookhaven National Lab and was a part of Team USA at CERN ATLAS experiment. He was the Head of Production Monitoring at Yukos Exploration and Production.

Trevor Ingle is a Senior Completions Engineer in corporate Subsurface Engineering Team at Devon Energy. He currently supports the Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, and STACK asset teams on various subsurface topics with focus on completion design and development strategy. Current responsibilities include understanding depletion impacts and developing mitigation strategies, completion design optimization, leading diagnostic projects, as well as advancing sealed wellbore pressure monitoring and integrated subsurface workflows. He has 7 years of service with Devon Energy and holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. 

Linfeng Bi has been a Reservoir Engineer for ExxonMobil for 11 years. He has worked wide variety of assignments including research and application of gridding and scale-up, development of next generation of reservoir modeling and simulation software, and assisted history matching technologies. He also provided reservoir simulation support to various assets in Middle East, Angola and Russia. For the past 3 years, he has been working on the Arkutun-Dagi field responsible for coordinating reservoir surveillance activities, generating new drill well opportunities, and optimizing the reservoir depletion plan.

Bulent Izgec is a senior engineering advisor at Hess Corporation in Houston. His experiences include reservoir/ production engineering & geomechanics. In his current role he serves as a technical authority for injector well performance management, ramp-up/ drawdown optimization for producers & integrated production/ injection  modeling. He has taught numerous classes on production/ reservoir engineering & real-time surveillance/ performance optimization all around the world for the last 15 years. He holds a BS degree in geophysics, MS & PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A & M.

Jean-Paul van Gestel has been working for BP for the last 20 years. His current role is as Adviser Geophysical Integration.  As a value‐focused geophysicist, his technical goal is to ensure all seismic activity has a direct impact on the business objectives. He brings industry experience from several regions (GoM shelf, Brazil exploration, Netherlands, Norway, and GoM production) and functions as integrated geophysicist and seismic analyst. His strengths are:

* Strong technical geophysical background with experience in acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation; both internally and externally recognized as having a leading role in 4D seismic.

* Proven integrator with a track record of business case delivery and integration across functions both within the seismic community and the greater asset.

* Recognized coach and instructor with a long history of mentoring to summer interns, challengers and new hires.

He was the first author of the publication on integration of LoFS data that won “The Leading Edge” best paper award in 2008.  He and his colleagues won the Bonarelli award for best oral presentation at the 2009 EAGE meeting.  He was on the EAGE distinguished lecture program in 2010.  He received his M. Sc. degree in Geophysics from the Delft University of Technology in 1996 and his Ph. D. in Geophysics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000.  He is a member of SEG and EAGE.

Mark Coalmer has more than 25 years of engineering, project management, operations, management, and business development experience in upstream oil and gas, including unconventional, primary, gas injection, waterflooding, steam flooding, CO2 EOR, natural gas production, and gas processing.

He is currently serving as the CCUS Projects Director for OGCI Climate Investments LLP, where he is leading the technical team working on identifying and investing in climate-improving projects worldwide, with emphasis on carbon capture, utilization, and storage. Climate Investments is a >$1B fund created by the 13-member Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.