Larissa Walker

Larissa Walker, SPE, is technical lead at Shell. She graduated with honors from the University of Waterloo in 2005 with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in geological engineering and began a career with Shell as a petrophysicist in Calgary. She has 20 years of energy industry experience, covering a wide spectrum of unconventional resources including deep, sour gas carbonates; tight sand and shale plays across North and South America; and coal seam gas in Eastern Australia. Walker is a chartered engineer with Engineers Australia and an associate fellow with the Institute of Managers and Leaders in Australia and New Zealand. In her current role, she is responsible for the front-end development for Shell in Queensland’s Bowen Basin Permian tight gas sand assets. Walker is a member of the JPT Editorial Review Board and can be reached at larissa.walker@shell.com.