Completions
Erich Kerr
SM Energy Company
Integrated Geoscience and Engineering To Improve Hydraulic Fracturing and Field Development
Leen Weijers
Liberty Energy
Making Unconventionals Competitive—Minimizing the Cost per Barrel Oil
Martin Rylance
MEDCO Energi and THREE60 Energy Ltd.
Tip Screen-Out (TSO) Fracturing: An Enduring Technology (How We Started, What Has Been Achieved, and Where It Is Going)
Muhammad Arsalan
Saudi Aramco PE&D EXPEC ARC
New Frontiers in Intelligent Completions
Data Science and Engineering Analytics
Aarti Dange Bhat
Emerson
Profitable and Sustainable Production Operations in Oil and Gas With Scalable Digital Transformation Roadmaps
Drilling
Adam Donald
SLB
Insightful Geomechanical Measurements for Converting Existing Hydrocarbon Reservoirs to Carbon Storage
Ashley Johnson
SLB
Characterizing and Mitigating Drilling Dysfunction: High-Frequency Torsional Oscillation (HFTO)
Jonathan Lightfoot
Oxy Oil and Gas Corp.
Recommended Practice for Safe Well Positioning, Separation, and Surveying
Robert A. Estes
Retired—Halliburton, Baker Hughes, SLB
Technology Keystones: Mainstreaming MWD and Rotary Steerables for New HT Geothermal Development
Waldemar Szemat
SLB
Well Construction Transformation for a Digital and Intelligent Future
Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability
Christiaan Luca
Community Wisdom Partners
ESG for Petroleum Engineers—Without the Hot Air (What the International Capital Markets Expect From the Oil and Gas Industry)
Dwayne Purvis
Purvis Energy Advisors
Economic Surprises of Late-Life Production
Management
Behrooz Fattahi
The EnerTrain Institute
A Leadership Approach to Management
Bez Hoxha
CyberWorx Energy
What Does the Energy Transition Actually Mean for the Oil and Gas Industry?
Chee Phuat Tan
PETRONAS Research Sdn. Bhd.
Geomechanical Risks Mitigation—A Must for Safe, Long-Term CO2 Geological Storage
Mike Gunningham
SGS Subsurface Consultancy
Low-Cost, High-Profit Rejuvenation of Mature Fields
Paul Lyford
Santos Ltd.
CO2 Storage Resource Management System—Application and Learnings From World’s First Booking
Projects, Facilities, and Construction
Andy Watt
Woodside Energy
No Longer a Sunk Cost: Innovation and Collaboration for Decommissioning Subsea Infrastructure
Brian Twomey
Reverse Engineering Services Ltd.
Liability Is Forever: Risk Elements in the Implementation of Decommissioning and Well P&A
Steven Allan Canny
Well DecomMISSION: Develop Sustainable Approaches To Decarbonize and Repurpose Wells
Productions and Operations
Courtney Lucente
Tre Altamira Inc.
InSAR for Asset Integrity: How Satellite Data Can Provide Critical Insights for Oil and Gas and CCUS
Juliane Heiland
SLB
Geomechanics for Field Development and Production Management—Experience From Two Decades of Reservoir Geomechanics Studies
Kyle Murray
Murray GeoConsulting LLC
Pathway for Recovering Valuable Elements of Interest From Subsurface Brines and Oilfield Produced Waters
Ryosuke Yokote
Eni Australia Ltd.
Well Dynamic Simulation—Challenging the “Just Do This” Approach
Saketh Mahalingam
ARAMCO Overseas Co.
Multiphase Metering—A Digital Tool for Decarbonization
Santiago Hässig Fonseca
SLB
Coiled Tubing: The Journey Toward Automation and Beyond
Reservoir
Erdal Ozkan
Colorado School of Mines
CO2-EOR and Sequestration: Challenges on Pore Scale
Jorge Acuna
J Acuna Consulting LLC
Fractional Dimension Rate Transient Analysis (FD-RTA): A Key to Unconventional Wells and Complex Fracture Networks
Kåre Langaas
Aker BP
Designing Optimal Wells With Inflow Control Technology
Kourtney Brinkley
Devon Energy Corp. E&P
Redefining Recovery in the Eagle Ford: Refracs and Infill Development Lessons Learned From the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site 1 (HFTS) Phase 3
Marie Van Steene
SLB Saudi Arabia
Logging a Well? It’s About Time! Effect of Time in Logging Data Program Design, Acquisition, Interpretation, and Integration
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