Jim Farnsworth is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience. Prior to joining Cobalt, Jim was at BP, where he served in various capacities since 1983, and since 2002 was Vice President of World-Wide Exploration and Technology. In this role, he was responsible for BP's global exploration strategy and execution. Prior positions at BP include: VP of North America Exploration; VP of Gulf of Mexico Exploration; and Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Production Manager. Mr. Farnsworth earned his B.S. in Geology from Indiana University and his M.S. in Geophysics from W. Michigan University. Cobalt International Energy, L.P. is a private oil and gas exploration and production company focusing on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and offshore West Africa. The company was formed in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Cobalt currently holds a working interest in 225 leases in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Blocks 9 and 21 offshore Angola, and in the Diaba License offshore Gabon. Cobalt’s financial sponsors include Goldman Sachs, Carlyle/Riverstone, First Reserve Corporation, KERN Partners, and Management. For more information on Cobalt, please visit www.cobaltintl.com

Francisco Ortigosa received his MSc. in Geophysics from the University of Barcelona. After three years of research, Francisco has dedicated 16 years to the petroleum industry holding geophysics related positions in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Egypt and currently in USA. He is Worldwide Manager Geophysical Operations and Subsurface Imaging for Repsol-YPF. Francisco has authored or coauthored numerous technical papers presented in International Conferences. Francisco is affiliated with the SEG, EAEG, AAPG and AGGEP.

Mr. Cusack currently serves as the Haynesville Shale Project Manager and has most recently served as Petrohawk’s Exploration Manager for the Gulf Coast Division. He was instrumental in the growth of the region from initial investment in 2004 to its sale in 2007. Mr. Cusack has over 25 years of exploration and exploitation experience having worked in various positions for 3TEC Energy, Cockrell Oil, Amerada Hess, Tenneco Oil, and Gulf Oil. He holds an engineering geology degree from Texas A&M University. Petrohawk Energy Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, production, exploration and development of oil and gas, with properties concentrated in North Louisiana (Haynesville Shale, Elm Grove field and Terryville field), Arkansas (Fayetteville Shale), East Texas, South Texas (Eagle Ford Shale), Oklahoma and the Permian basin

Michael R. (Mike) Koch, is the General Manager of Strategy Development for Chevron’s Corporation Business Development. In this capacity he is responsible for developing and facilitating Chevron’s global grow strategy. Raised in Illinois, Mike has 30 years of experience in exploration & production, strategic planning and commercial activities in Chevron's upstream sector. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Illinois State University in 1976 and a Masters in Geology from Northern Illinois University in 1978. Following graduation, Mike joined Chevron in New Orleans and held positions of increasing responsibility in various E&P positions related to Chevron's upstream operations in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1984, Mike was placed on corporate loan to Maersk Olie og Gas in Copenhagen, Denmark working on exploration/appraisal and field development projects in the Danish sector of the North Sea. In 1986 he moved to Chevron's London offices as an Exploration Advisor on UK bid rounds. In 1989 he returned to the United States to Chevron's Middle East New Venture group. From 1991 to 1995 he worked in Lagos, Nigeria where his responsibilities included exploration, appraisal and development projects in Chevron's Niger Delta concessions. Strategic planning and analysis experience was gained through assignments in Chevron's New Ventures Strategic Business Unit and in the Company’s Corporate Strategic Planning department in San Francisco. In 1999, Mike joined the Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Group in the capacity of Upstream Advisor. There he was involved in several large-scale international property acquisitions and a major company purchase. In mid 2000 Mike was selected as the Manager of Tengizchevroil's Reservoir Management Group in Atyrau, Kazakhstan and held that post until July 2006 when he returned to the California lead Chevron’s International exploration efforts. In January 2008 Mike was appointed General Manager, Strategy Development for Corporate Business Development.

Iman Hill is Senior Vice President, Santos Basin, BG Group, having assumed this position in March 2008. Previously, beginning in 2005, she served the company as General Manager, Developments. In a career that has spanned more than 20 years, Iman started in the industry with BP and served for 10 years in a variety of petroleum engineering disciplines, including working on a North Sea platform. She then became Chief Petroleum Engineer for Monument Oil and Gas, where she was responsible for redeveloping a 400-well field in Turkmenistan. Iman was hired by Shell in 1997, becoming Principal Reservoir Engineer in Malaysia and then taking a series of managerial positions in The Hague, which included having responsibilities for Middle Eastern activities and, later, serving as Leader of Shell’s Global Exploration and Development Planning Unit. Subsequently, she was Senior Regional Adviser for Africa to the Chairman of the Shell Group and to the Exploration and Production Chief Executive Officer. Iman then was named General Manager of Shell Egypt and Chairwoman for all Shell companies in Egypt, including gas and power and the downstream retail operations in Shell Marketing. She joined BG in 2005. Iman holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Aberdeen University.

Terry Engelder's (Penn State B.S., 1968; Yale M.S., 1972; Texas A&M, Ph.D., 1973) research focus covers a range of subjects encompassing structural geology, rock mechanics and tectonophysics. His Ph.D. and early post doctoral work involved experiments on the frictional properties of rocks as they pertain to fault zone development and earthquake mechanics. While at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory he developed several techniques for determining in situ stress through strain relaxation of rocks and hydraulic fracture. This work was compiled in Terry's research monograph, "Stress Regimes in the Lithosphere". Presently, he has both field and lab studies on the development of rock fractures and joints. His research in the development of joints in sedimentary basins includes both theoretical work on natural hydraulic fracturing as well as field work in such mountain ranges as the Appalachians, the Coast Ranges of California, the Apennines of Italy, the Salt Range of Pakistan, and the Rocky Mountains. Other research interests include the tectonics of foreland fold-thrust belts with particular focus on the Appalachian Mountains. He has documented one of the world's best exposed petroleum geosystems during his work on outcrops of the Appalachian Basin. For the past decade Terry has organized a consortium of oil companies to support his work on the development of abnormal pressure and seals in the important petroleum producing basins of the world. Major academic honors include a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to study in Australia in 1984 and the Wilson Distinguished Teaching Award at Penn State in 1992.

Clarke Turner is the Director of Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center and Manager of the Teapot Dome Oilfield. As the Department of Energy’s Regional Oil and Gas Manager he also was E&P Manager of a Colorado western slope gas field. In 2002, Clarke was selected to be the Secretary of Energy's representative on Iraq oil planning and policy task force. He later led a team into Iraq to assist the Iraqi Oil Company in rebuilding efforts. He has experience in a broad spectrum of the petroleum industry including: gas development and production operations; Primary, secondary and enhanced oil production operations; refining; wholesale and retail refined product storage and distribution; and energy research and development. Besides the Unites States and Iraq, Clarke has worked in Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, South Korea, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. He earned his B.S. Degree in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1981.

Dr. Lloyd R. Heinze, senior faculty member, undergraduate advisor, graduate faculty member, and department chair, has been serving on the petroleum engineering faculty since 1991. Prior to arriving at Tech, Lloyd lectured on the petroleum faculty at the University of Missouri-Rolla for seven years (1984-1991). He teaches sophomore drilling engineering, junior drilling engineering & rheology laboratory, senior special problems seminar, and graduate advanced drilling techniques. Dr. Heinze, a registered petroleum engineering in Texas and Wyoming, has more than 35 years of experience in petroleum drilling and production engineering. His industry experience includes independent, major and military at Woods Petroleum Corporation, Gulf Oil Company and the USAF. Lloyd is executive director of the Southwestern Petroleum Short Course (SWPSC) now in its 53rd year. Heinze is the principal investigator of the Artificial Lift Energy Optimization Consortium (ALEOC) and coordinator of the department's rheology lab. He also serves as the under graduate advisor and faculty advisor of Pi Epsilon Tau A member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE), Dr. Heinze has authored over 100 presentations, technical papers, and textbooks. He serves as SPE Technical Editor, Section Director, ABET program evaluator, and numerous program committees.

Scott W. Tinker is Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, the State Geologist of Texas, Director of the Advanced Energy Consortium, and a Professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Scott spent 17 years working in the oil and gas industry in exploration, production and research prior to coming to UT in 2000. Scott is President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Past President of the Association of American State Geologists. Tinker was a Distinguished Lecturer for the AAPG (’97), Society of Petroleum Engineers (‘02), and Distinguished Ethics Lecturer for the AAPG (’06-’07) and he won best paper awards in the AAPG Bulletin and Journal of Sedimentary Research. He holds appointments on the National Petroleum Council, National Research Council Board of Energy and Environmental Systems, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and serves on several private, professional, and academic boards. His passion is building bridges between academia, industry and government. Tinker’s degrees are from the University of Colorado, the University of Michigan, and Trinity University.

The American Exploration & Production Council is a national trade association representing 25 of the largest US independent natural gas and crude oil exploration and production companies. AXPC member companies include: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Apache Corporation; Bill Barrett Corporation; BHP Billiton Petroleum; Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation; Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Devon Energy Corporation; El Paso Production Company; Energen Resources Corporation; EOG Resources; Forest Oil Corporation; HighMount Exploration & Production; Linn Energy; Newfield Exploration Company; Noble Energy; Occidental Oil & Gas Corporation; Pioneer Natural Resources Company; Plains Exploration and Production Company; Questar Exploration & Production Company; Seneca Resources Corporation; Southwestern Energy Company; St. Mary Land & Exploration Company; Ultra Petroleum Corp.; The Williams Companies; XTO Energy Company

Dr Amado is a Senior Reservoir Engineer at Petrobras America in Houston, Texas. He has over 15 years of experience in Reservoir Engineering in Exploration and Development Projects in GOM, Southern North Sea (UK) and West Africa. Previously he worked for Shell EP international and Schlumberger Geoquest Reservoir Technologies, where he had assignments in Mexico, UK, Brazil and USA. He has participated in several committees for the SPE, chairing technical sessions, coordinating conference committees and working as a Techincal Editor of the SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation Journal. Dr Amado holds a PhD from University of Leoben in Austria and MSc from Unicamp in Brazil, both in Petroleum/Reservoir Engineering. Dr Amado has worked as a consultant for CSIRO in Australia for the Genesis 2000 project and was an associate professor at State University of North Fluminense, in Macae, Campos Basin, Brazil.

Mark R. Williams joined Whiting Petroleum in December 1983 as Exploration Geologist, becoming Vice President of Exploration and Development in December 1999. He has twenty-four years of experience in the oil and gas industry and his areas of primary technical expertise are in sequence stratigraphy, seismic interpretation and petroleum economics. Mr. Williams is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines with a Master’s Degree in geology and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in geology from the University of Utah.

Robert Spitzer is VP Exploration at Apache Canada Ltd. Rob graduated from McMaster University in 1981. He spent 18 years at Shell Canada Ltd. in both exploration and development roles. Rob joined Apache Canada in 1999 and was part of the Ladyfern discovery in 2000. He led the exploratory and development drilling program at Apache from 2000 to 2007 and has led Apache’s Horn River Basin activity since 2001. In late 2007, Rob with cooperation from key Horn River Shale industry peers formed the Horn River Basin Gas Producers Group which he now chairs. In 2008, Rob became responsible for the Apache New Ventures program aimed solely at finding large gas and oil accumulations in Canada.

The Advanced Energy Consortium will facilitate pre-competitive research in micro- and nanotechnology materials and sensors that have the potential to create a positive and disruptive change in the recovery of petroleum and gas from new and existing reservoirs. The consortium's primary goal is to develop intelligent subsurface micro and nanosensors that can be injected into oil and gas reservoirs to help characterize the space in three dimensions and improve the recovery of existing and new hydrocarbon resources. By leveraging existing surface infrastructure, the technology will minimize environmental impact. The consortium also believes that there is near term potential to increase the recovery rate in existing reservoirs by exploiting the unique chemical and physical properties of materials at the nano scale. AEC members currently include: Baker Hughes, BP, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, Petrobras, Schlumberger, Shell and Total

Before joining Landmark, Usher was senior corporate vice president, services, at Paradigm. Usher has 23 years of experience in the upstream exploration and production (E&P) industry. He has general management experience in geophysical services and associated technology development, characterized by building successful organizations, either incrementally or in turnaround situations, while staying in touch with technology and customers. Usher earned a geology and geophysics degree from Yale University. He spent 17 years with Western Geophysical, starting in field operations and assuming the positions of vice president, data processing; and vice president, technology. In 2000, he moved to PGS as president of its global data processing division, overseeing operations and software development. He joined Paradigm in 2003 to develop its services business. At Landmark, Usher is enjoying the tremendous breadth of technology as well as the depth of talent and energy for success within the Technology organization.

John has 20 years of experience defining, creating and delivering comprehensive, integrated business and automation solutions for the process industries, backed up by 17 years of wide-ranging experience in plant operations, marketing, project commissioning, instrumentation design and manufacturing information systems functions. Since joining Invensys Process Systems’ Foxboro division in 1998, he has focused on hydrocarbons upstream processing sector, particularly on LNG liquefaction, shipping and regasification enterprises, around the world. Previously he served as a Senior Principal at The M. W. Kellogg Company (now KBR) and held numerous positions at the Monsanto Company.

Ron Cramer is a Senior Advisor with Shell, Houston in the area of oil field automation and production systems. Cramer has 30 years experience with Shell International in upstream oil field operations and production systems. He also worked for 10 years as a Chemical Engineer for Union Carbide and Polysar in downstream research and process areas. Mr. Cramer is a graduate Chemical Engineer with the University of Strathclyde.

Blair Lekstrom was appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources on January 19, 2009. He previously served as Minister of Community Development, appointed on June 23, 2008, with responsibilities for local government, community development and regional economic and rural development. He was first elected in the 2001 provincial general election in the riding of Peace River South, and was re-elected for a second term in the 2005 general election. Blair currently sits on the Legislative Review Committee, Cabinet Committee on Climate Action, Cabinet Committee on New Relationship Coordination, the Government Caucus Committee on Natural Resources and Economy, and the Environment and Land Use Committee. He has served as the Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development, chaired the Legislative Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services (2001, 2002, 2005 and 2006) and served on the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Agriculture Policy Development Committee, the Legislative Review Committee and the Government Caucus Committee on the Economy. He has also served as the chair of the Legislative Committee to review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the BC Offshore Oil and Gas Committee. He has been a member of the Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, the Select Standing Committee on Health, the Northern Caucus Committee, the Cabinet Committee on Agenda and Priorities, and the Legislative Committee on the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform. Before becoming an MLA, Blair was serving his second term as mayor of the City of Dawson Creek. He was first elected mayor in 1996, after serving for three years as a councillor.

Dr. Manika Prasad is an Associate Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. She was previously a research associate in the Geophysics Department at both Stanford University and the Colorado School of Mines. Manika's expertise is in petrophysics. Her main areas of interest include experimental studies of fluid and rock properties and imaging reservoirs properties at different scales. She is particularly interested in properties of unconventional reservoirs and in combining recovery with CO2 sequestration. She holds a B.Sc. (Honors) in Geology from Bombay University in India and Diplom (= MS) in Geology and Ph.D. in Geophysics fro the University of Kiel in Germany.

Mark Wey, the founder of MW Global Soluttions, LLC, is a multi-disciplined, international executive with a history of successfully resolving strategic business issues. He attended Purdue University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting, with a minor in Psychology. Starting as a CPA in a Fortune 50 company, he redirected his career into technology and consulting in the mid-nineties. His extensive financial and technology experience is instrumental in the design of financial systems, along with their associated business design. His broad knowledge base includes over fifteen years of experience working with multiple ERP systems. He has designed systems and processes for multiple industries in over thirty locations around the world. Industries served include oil and gas, manufacturing, health care, construction, leasing, professional services, technology, transportation, and human capital management. Utilizing practical, hands on experience is the key driver in his firm’s approach to delivering the creative solutions the firm provides.

Stephen R. Brand is senior vice president, Technology, for ConocoPhillips. Brand began his career with Phillips Petroleum Company in 1976 as a geologist for exploration and production (E&P). In 1980, he transferred to Denver as a geologist for the minerals group. He became supervisor of North America E&P in Houston in 1982. In 1989, he transferred to Bartlesville, Okla., as a staff director for E&P and held that position until 1992. Beginning in 1995, he served as Canada region manager of North American E&P. He was also president of Phillips Petroleum Resources, Ltd. and served as E&P business development manager. In 1998, he was named general manager, Australia division. Following the ConocoPhillips merger in 2002, Brand became president, Australasia, then in 2005 was named vice president, exploration and business development, Exploration and Production. He assumed his current role in October 2007. Brand was born in 1949 in Owatonna, Minn. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1971 with a bachelor of science degree in geology. He received a master of science degree in geology in 1973 and a doctorate in 1976, both from Purdue University.

Scott Heck was appointed senior vice president of Exploration and Production Technology for Hess Corporation in April 2007. In this role, Heck directs the company’s technology organization, applying the latest technical innovations to further the company’s Exploration and Production around the globe. Previously Heck was senior vice president of Production where he was responsible for Hess Corporation’s production operations in the United States and West Africa. Heck began his career with Hess in 1989 as an engineer in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequently held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, operations, and management in the Exploration and Production organization. Prior to joining the company, he was employed as an engineer at Tenneco and Arco Oil and Gas. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from Marietta College in Ohio. Hess Corporation, with headquarters in New York, is a global integrated energy company engaged in the exploration, production, purchase, transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas, as well as the production and sale of refined petroleum products. More information on Hess Corporation is available at www.hess.com.

Steven B. Hinchman is executive vice president of Technology and Services for Marathon Oil Corporation and serves as a member of Marathon's Executive Committee. He joined Marathon in 1980. He was previously senior vice president of Worldwide Production from January 2002. In September 2000, Mr. Hinchman was appointed senior vice president of Production Operations. He joined the Company as a field engineer and subsequently held a number of technical, staff and managerial positions of increasing responsibility in the Company's domestic and international exploration and production organizations. Mr. Hinchman received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and a master's degree in the same field of study from the Colorado School of Mines in 1987. Mr. Hinchman is a member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association. In 2005, he received the distinguished Penn State Alumni Fellow Award. He is a Visiting Committee Member of the Petroleum Engineering Department of the Colorado School of Mines and a member of the board of directors of the Sam Houston Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a member of the Industrial and Professional Advisory Council of the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

Wishart is the Climate Change Advisor to the President and CEO of Nexen Inc. In that capacity he works with the Board and senior management of Nexen to develop strategic and tactical responses to regulatory and market challenges associated with the evolving political, social and economic aspects of domestic and international climate-related developments. Wishart has almost 40 years experience, augmented by working in more than 50 countries, with a wide range of safety, environmental and regulatory issues associated with oil and gas exploration, development and transportation. He has worked for Nexen for the past 10 years; he was previously with Petro-Canada during the early development of the Terra Nova field and before that with Halliburton in West Africa. Mr. Robson has spent the past 25 years working in the oil and gas sector where he held increasingly senior environmental and safety positions while working in Canada and 50 international locations on exploration, development and transportation projects including offshore developments in Nigeria, Australia, the UK sector of the North Sea as well as Hibernia and Terra Nova off the coast of Newfoundland. He currently represents Nexen on several national and international industry associations, the International Emissions Trading Association and ICO2N, the Integrated CO2 Network, which is an initiative that is investigating the options available to Canadian industry and government to make carbon capture and storage a viable option for significant carbon emissions from various energy production operations and other industrial processes. Mr. Robson has attended many of the UNFCCC meetings, representing industry on the Canadian delegation at CoP 8 in Delhi.

Rob Morgan is Chief Operating Officer, Upstream for Harvest Energy Trust. He is a professional engineer with over 23 years of technical, operations and management experience in the Candain oil and gas industry. He was most recently Vice President Operations and Corporate Development at Viking Energy Royalty Trust which merged with Harvest Energy Trust February 3, 2006. Prior to joining Viking in 2004, he was a member of the management team of Petrovera Resources, holding positions of Vice President Corporate Development, and Vice President Engineering. From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Morgan held management and senior technical positions at Pan Canadian Petroleum Limited and CS Resources Limited, and technical and field operations positions with Murphy Oil Company Ltd. Mr. Morgan is a member of APEGGA and the Petroleum Society of CIM.

R. Tim Bradley is President of CO2, for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP). He joined the company in April 2000 and is responsible for all aspects of CO2 marketing, engineering and production operations. CO2 (carbon dioxide) is used in enhanced oil recovery projects. With more than 900 miles of pipelines, Kinder Morgan CO2 Company is the nation's leading transporter and marketer of carbon dioxide for use in secondary oil recovery projects. Mr. Bradley has more than 25 years of experience in oil and gas field development and operations utilizing primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery technologies throughout the continental United States and offshore Gulf of Mexico. Prior to joining Kinder Morgan, he served as President of Shell CO2 Company, Ltd. Mr. Bradley holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla. In addition, he is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

As Vice President of E&P Technology, Dave is currently globally accountable for BP’s fieldofthefuture® Programme which has a specific focus on projects and workflows which deliver high value from visualization and analysis of real time and near real time data to manage and optimize performance of BP’s hydrocarbon assets and systems. Dave is a Director of Energistics, a not for profit standards body, and co-chair for the 2010 SPE Intelligent Energy Conference. His executive leadership and operational management skills have been built on strong scientific and technical foundations in the Earth Sciences. Completing his Geology and Geophysics PhD in 1990, in 1993 Dave made the transition from post doctoral research at Cambridge University, to a “hands-on” Geologist and then Reservoir Engineer in BP. Dave has worked across the entire value chain from frontier exploration in Vietnam, through implementation of new developments and operations of producing assets in the North Sea, to reactivation of old fields in Venezuela. In 2000, while leading a program to implement web enabled transactional HR (e-HR) for 100,000 employees across the BP Group he helped propel Exult Inc. from a small start-up company to a significant flotation on the NASDAQ. In 2001, Dave was made General Manager accountable for New Developments in the North Sea. From 2002 to the end of 2006, he was Vice President for the Bruce, Keith and Rhum production assets and then Vice President of Strategy for BP North Sea. From early 2007 to mid 2008 Dave was CIO for BP Exploration & Production, leading an IT team of more than 600 staff & contractors operating across 20 countries, contacting and enabling every aspect of the E&P business.

Stephen P. Thurston (Steve) is Vice President of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company (CNAEP) in charge of the Deepwater Exploration and Projects Strategic Business Unit (DWEP). DWEP is responsible for all of Chevron’s exploration and project development work in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Thurston is a native of Denver, Colorado. He earned a bachelor’s degree in geology in 1979 from the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1982 he earned a master’s degree in geology, with a thesis involving extensive field geology in Alaska, also from the University of Washington. He joined Chevron in 1982 in Concord, California as a development geologist working on onshore and offshore oil and gas fields. In 1984 Thurston began various California exploration assignments, including economic evaluations, and by 1988 was named Exploration District Supervisor for all of California’s Coastal Basins. In 1990 Thurston transferred to New Orleans as Division Geologist and subsequently was Exploration Supervisor for the Gulf of Mexico Shelf from 1991 through 1996. In this period Thurston also participated on the design team for Chevron's Upstream Project Management Process and the supervised the exploration team responsible for the discovery of the Viosca Knoll carbonate trend. In 1997 he coordinated Business Planning for Gulf of Mexico Business Unit, and in December 1997 was named Profit Center Manager for the Eastern Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. In March 1999 he was named General Manager of Global Procurement for CNAEP responsible for implementing the new Global Procurement initiative within Chevron. In February 2000 he went to Rio de Janeiro as Brazil Country Manager for Chevron responsible for all upstream activities in Brazil until July 2005. In August 2005 he was named General Manager of Strategic Planning for Chevron Corporation responsible for Chevron’s planning and strategy formulation efforts until December 31, 2007. Mr. Thurston was born in December 1957. He is married with two children and his interests include alpine climbing, trekking and photography.

Francisco Ortigosa received his MSc. in Geophysics from the University of Barcelona. After three years of research, Francisco has dedicated 16 years to the petroleum industry holding geophysics related positions in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Egypt and currently in USA. He is Worldwide Manager Geophysical Operations and Subsurface Imaging for Repsol-YPF. Francisco has authored or coauthored numerous technical papers presented in International Conferences. Francisco is affiliated with the SEG, EAEG, AAPG and AGGEP.

Rob Saltiel is Executive Vice President, Performance, for Transocean Inc. Mr. Saltiel, who joined the company in 2003, previously held the positions of Senior Vice President of North and South America Business Unit and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Planning. Prior to joining Transocean, he served as Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Nabors Industries and began his career as a process engineer for ExxonMobil. He later joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant to energy clients in the upstream, downstream and oil services segments. Mr. Saltiel holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mike Bahorich became Apache Corporation’s Executive Vice President, Exploration and Production Technology in 2000. He joined the company in 1996 as chief geophysicist. He was later promoted to Vice President of Exploration Technology. Prior to joining Apache, Bahorich was with Amoco, where he spent his first decade involved in prospect generation and development. He then spent three years with Amoco Research in scientific and management positions where he invented two geophysical concepts that are now widely used in the industry. He later became a resource exploration manager in the company’s mid-continent operations. A graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia, he received his master’s degree in geophysics from Virginia Tech. He currently serves on advisory boards at Stanford, Yale, and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. In 1998, Bahorich received the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and was president of the organization in 2003. He holds eight patents.

James E. Sigmon serves as Chairman of the Board of TXCO Resources Inc. He was elected Chairman in December 2006 and has been a Director of TXCO since July 1984. He has served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer since February 1985. He served as a Director of ExproFuels Inc. through November 1998. As an engineer, Mr. Sigmon has been active for more than 30 years in the exploration and development of oil and gas properties. Prior to joining the Company, he served in the management of a private oil and gas exploration company active in drilling wells in South Texas.

Jack Stark has served as Senior Vice President of Exploration with Continental Resources, Inc., for over ten years. He joined the Company in June 1992 as Vice President of Exploration and served on the Board of Directors through May 2008. Prior to joining Continental Resources, Inc., Mr. Stark was Exploration Manager for the Western Mid-Continent Region for Pacific Enterprises and held positions with Cities Service Company and Texas Oil and Gas. Mr. Stark holds a masters degree in Geology from Colorado State University and is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Houston Geological Society and the Oklahoma City Geological Society.

Mr. Fackrell was appointed President of Denali – the Alaska Gas Pipeline in June 2008. Denali is a 50:50 joint venture between BP and ConocoPhillips. Prior to his appointment to Denali, he was serving as the Senior Vice President of BP Exploration (Alaska) with accountability for managing BP operations on the North Slope of Alaska. Mr. Fackrell has 33 years of experience in the oil and gas business around the world. Prior to moving to Alaska in 2006 he served as the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Abu Dhabi Marine Operation Company, a large joint venture operating all of the offshore concessions on behalf of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, BP, Total and the Japan Oil Development Company in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. He has worked throughout the US in a variety of senior roles and has held senior level positions in Egypt and Trinidad as well. Mr. Fackrell graduated with a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1975.

Peter Hartley is the George and Cynthia Mitchell chair and a professor of economics at Rice University. He is also a Rice scholar of energy economics for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and a member of the governing Council of the US Association for Energy Economics. Hartley has worked for almost 30 years on energy economics issues, focusing originally on electricity, but including also work on natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear and renewables. He wrote on reform of the electricity supply industry in Australia throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and advised the government of Victoria when it completed the acclaimed privatization and reform of the electricity industry in that state in 1989. Hartley has published many academic and policy papers and books on energy and environmental issues. Apart from energy and environmental economics, Hartley has also published research on theoretical and applied issues in money and banking, business cycles and international finance. In 1974, he completed an honors degree at the Australian National University, majoring in mathematics. He worked for the Priorities Review Staff, and later the Economic Division, of the Prime Minister’s Department in the Australian government while completing a master’s degree in economics at the Australian National University in 1977. Hartley obtained a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago in 1980. He came to Rice as an Associate Professor of Economics in 1986 after serving as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University from 1980-86. He has consulting experience with firms in the energy and infrastructure development sectors, government organizations and think tanks.

Susan Howes is Horizons Manager, in the Organizational Capability group, at Chevron. Howes is formerly Learning and Organizational Development Manager at Anadarko. She has had various engineering assignments in Denver and Houston, including responsibilities in recruiting and career development for engineers, managing acquisition and divestment projects, economic evaluation, reservoir studies and reservoir simulation of conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Susan has a BS in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. She is the 2007 Regional Director representing the Gulf Coast Region on the SPEI board, and has served as Chair and several other positions on the Gulf Coast Section board. Susan received the 1997 SPE Young Member Outstanding Service Award, the 2003 SPE Distinguished Member Award, and the 2005 SPE International Distinguished Service Award.

Kevin Banks moved to Alaska in 1982 and worked for the Minerals Management Service as an economist in the Social and Economic Studies Program. In this position, he led the agency’s economic research program and directed several engineering assessments of the technologies required to develop the oil and gas resources of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf. In 1991, Mr. Banks came to the Division of Oil and Gas as its sole petroleum economist. He presided over the establishment of the Commercial Section and was responsible for managing the State of Alaska’s royalty in-kind program, implementing the royalty modification statutes and other oil and gas incentives, and administrating the many royalty settlement agreements between the state and its lessees. Mr. Banks has a B.S. in economics/philosophy from Loyola University Los Angeles, and an M.A. in economics from Washington State University.

Jeff Walker is the Regional Supervisor for Field Operations with the Minerals Management Service (MMS), Alaska Region. He has been with the MMS program in Alaska for 30 years. He is responsible for managing the MMS post lease safety and pollution prevention programs for exploration and development activities. His responsibilities include technical and regulatory review of exploration plans, development and production plans, oil spill contingency plans, pipelines, platform verification, production safety systems and production measurement. He also manages the Alaska Region inspection, compliance and enforcement programs. In addition to being involved with over 80 exploratory wells drilled in the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) since 1978, he was responsible for the approval of the Northstar development project, the first OCS development project in Alaska and the Liberty development project which is scheduled to go into production in 2011. He has a B.S. in geological engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

GENE L. AMES, III is a petroleum geologist and the General Manager for The Nordan Trust, a San Antonio, Texas based independent oil and gas producer established in 1969. Prior to joining The Nordan Trust, Ames was an oil and gas prospect generator, causing the discovery of significant petroleum reserves in the Gulf Coast, Permian, Anadarko and Arkoma Basins of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Ames also has an extensive background in producing property operations and upstream exploration and production petroleum technology. Mr. Ames received B.S. degrees in Geology and Business Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He has served on various boards and in leadership roles in several industry oriented organizations including the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, the Texas Independent Producer and Royalty Owners Association, the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission and the South Texas Geological Society. Ames is currently the Chairman of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, a national non-profit organization which has played a significant role in the transfer of applied technology throughout the domestic E&P industry. He has also recently been reappointed by the Department of Energy to serve on the Unconventional Resources Technical Advisory Committee – which provides oversight and technical advice to the Secretary regarding Federal government involvement in research and development spending related to the Energy Act of 2005.

David B Burnett is a member of the faculty of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University and the Director of Technology for the Global Petroleum Research Institute. Burnett coordinates the Department’s research programs and serves as the coordinator of the A&M oil field produced water desalination program. He has extensive experience in technology related to low impact O&G operations in environmentally sensitive areas and leads the government-industry research effort to develop environmentally friendly drilling systems. Mr. Burnett has been at the University since 1995 and head of GPRI since 1998. GPRI is a collaboration of major and independent oil and gas companies performing joint venture research projects in drilling and completion, facilities and production engineering, and environmental areas.

Karen Harbert, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, formulates the Institute's policy proposals and helps to direct its programs, operations, and outreach initiatives. She assists General James L. Jones in advancing the Institute's mission with policymakers and the public. Prior to her work at the Institute, Ms. Harbert was the Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy and also the Vice Chairman of the 27 member country International Energy Agency. She was the primary advisor to the Secretary of Energy on domestic and international energy and climate issues, new policy initiatives and implementation of national policy. She was also a member of DOE's Executive Board which approved the annual budget request as well as the Credit Review Board which analyzes applications for DOE's $39 billion loan guarantee facility for advanced clean energy technology projects. Previously, she was the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development with primary responsibility for foreign assistance programs in South America and the Caribbean. Ms. Harbert had oversight of 1,000 employees and programs totaling more than $800 million in 11 countries. In the private sector, Ms. Harbert worked for a developer of international infrastructure and power projects valued at more than $9 billion in dozens of countries. She also coordinated efforts to open new markets and sectors for the corporation.

Jon David Caron is currently serving as a technical advisor for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in their Engineering & Technology department. He has more than 24 years of industry experience with a diversified background ranging from reservoir engineering and economics to fracture stimulation and completions engineering. J.D. currently mentors and provides assistance in critical well completions, fracture stimulation design/execution and production engineering problem solving. Prior to joining Anadarko in 2005, he worked for Total E&P USA, Inc. and Fina Oil & Chemical Company for 21 years. He was the onshore stimulation team leader for Total USA E&P, Inc. and also served as an asset team leader for several multi-disciplined teams focused on developing the Vicksburg reservoirs in South Texas. He has been involved with campaigns in China, Indonesia, Venezuela, Jordan and Brazil where he provided support relative to completions and fracture stimulation. Mr. Caron also has about 10 years of reservoir and completions engineering experience working carbonate waterfloods in West Texas.

Arthur Boykiw is Director of the Oil Sand Information Services organization for Petro-Canada based in Alberta. He has a BSC in Computing Science with 24 years experience in the E&P industry crossing all domains of the business including E&P applications (Land, Geophysics, Geology, Reservoir, Drilling); Operations (Field data capture, Process Controls, Facilities, Engineering, Plant Maintenance); Corporate systems (Production, Revenue, Financial accounting, Supply Chain, EH&S, Tax, Treasury); and Project Engineering (Logistics, Program Management, Engineering Design and Information Management). Arthur has implemented executive dashboard and decisions support solutions as well as integrated application suites and mapping technologies. He is currently Chair of the PPDM Association, an international E&P industry standards body (www.ppdm.org); participant on the IT Workforce Market Pressures Advisory Group with the Government of Alberta Advanced Technology and Education department and is a past member of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) CIO Committee. Previously, Arthur served as Director of IS Enterprise Program Office; North American Natural Gas and East Coast Information Services; and Corporate Information Services for Petro-Canada.

Dr. Candy Albertsson is President of Albertsson Consulting Group, a talent management consultancy that delivers best practice and patent-pending solutions for a variety of talent management challenges, including: building a talent strategy; attracting and retaining talent; identifying and integrating the experiences required for success into the development process; identifying and calibrating key talent; creating an infrastructure for high potential development programs; accelerating high potential talent; identifying the highest quality candidates for top 500 succession plans; and strategically analyzing top 500 succession plans to identify key gaps and issues before a business or talent crisis emerges. Since 1999, we have worked with a range of Global 500 companies in twenty-five countries on four continents including Shell Exploration & Production, Shell Oil Products and Saudi Aramco. Prior to establishing Albertsson Consulting Group, Candy spent ten years with BP where she led the design, development and delivery of an integrated set of talent management processes that have been widely recognized as best practice. Candy held the senior talent management position where she was responsible to the Managing Directors for the Group High Potential Programme (top 300 high potentials worldwide), monthly talent reviews, top 500 succession management, assessment to identify talent worldwide and the supporting strategy and infrastructure to develop world class leadership. Candy has delivered more than 75 keynotes, presentations and workshops at European, American and Middle Eastern conferences and professional meetings and written chapters and articles on talent management issues. Candy holds a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron.

Howard Anderson was appointed to the position of President & COO in August 2008. Previously, he has served as Vice-President Engineering and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Anderson brings more than 28 years of senior management and petroleum engineering experience to Triangle. Most recently, Mr. Anderson was a founder and Vice-President Engineering at Rockyview Energy Inc. (2005 to 2008), a startup E&P company which increased production from under 1,000 BOE/day to over 3,000 BOE/day, including significant coalbed methane development in Alberta. At Pioneer Natural Resources Canada Inc., between 2002 and 2004, Mr. Anderson was Vice-President Engineering & Development, sharing responsibility for the company’s success in deep underbalanced horizontal Foothills drilling, shallow gas infill development, and medium depth exploitation. At Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd. from 1987 to 2002, Mr. Anderson participated in and led teams which established several new high-value areas such as the Brassey miscible oilfield development, Ring-Border gas field, Claresholm gas field, and corporate M&A. Following the acquisition of Canadian Hunter by Burlington Resources in 2001, he continued with Burlington’s New Ventures group, gaining exposure to unconventional gas development from coals and shales. Mr. Anderson started his career at Esso Resources Canada Ltd. in 1979, developing skills in reservoir engineering, resource economics and production operations in a progression of engineering roles. Mr. Anderson received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University at Kingston in 1979.

Terry Engelder's (Penn State B.S., 1968; Yale M.S., 1972; Texas A&M, Ph.D., 1973) research focus covers a range of subjects encompassing structural geology, rock mechanics and tectonophysics. His Ph.D. and early post doctoral work involved experiments on the frictional properties of rocks as they pertain to fault zone development and earthquake mechanics. While at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory he developed several techniques for determining in situ stress through strain relaxation of rocks and hydraulic fracture. This work was compiled in Terry's research monograph, "Stress Regimes in the Lithosphere". Presently, he has both field and lab studies on the development of rock fractures and joints. His research in the development of joints in sedimentary basins includes both theoretical work on natural hydraulic fracturing as well as field work in such mountain ranges as the Appalachians, the Coast Ranges of California, the Apennines of Italy, the Salt Range of Pakistan, and the Rocky Mountains. Other research interests include the tectonics of foreland fold-thrust belts with particular focus on the Appalachian Mountains. He has documented one of the world's best exposed petroleum geosystems during his work on outcrops of the Appalachian Basin. For the past decade Terry has organized a consortium of oil companies to support his work on the development of abnormal pressure and seals in the important petroleum producing basins of the world. Major academic honors include a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to study in Australia in 1984 and the Wilson Distinguished Teaching Award at Penn State in 1992.

Mr. Lytal was elected as Executive Vice President of the General Partner in September 2004. Previously Mr. Lytal served as a Director of GulfTerra Energy Partners, L.P. since 1994 and as its President since 1995, as well as Chief Commercial Officer beginning in 2003. He was also Vice President, El Paso Field Services from 1998 to 2004. Prior to 1995, Mr. Lytal served as Senior Vice President with GulfTerra (then Leviathan) and was previously Vice President of Business Development for American Pipeline Company and for United Gas Pipe Line Company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lytal served in various capacities in the oil and gas exploration and production and gas pipeline industries with Texas Oil and Gas, Inc. and American Pipeline Company. Mr. Lytal holds a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas.

Jim Guion is currently the Vice President of Commercial Development for Enterprise Products. Jim is a registered professional Mechanical Engineer with an MBA and has over 35 years of management experience in the oil and gas industry. During his career, Jim has managed a Project Management Consulting Firm and served in a number of senior management positions with a major independent oil and gas exploration and production company. Most recently, Jim has represented Enterprise as project manager for the Marco Polo TLP development in 4,700 ft and the Independence Hub development in 8,000 ft water depth in the Gulf of Mexico.

Irena Agalliu, Managing Consultant with IHS, is an expert in international energy law and economics, fiscal arrangements worldwide, commercial risk, and other aboveground risk investment-related issues. Based in Houston, Ms. Agalliu works within the Regulatory and Petroleum Economics and Policy Analysis group of IHS. She is the lead legal expert in advising oil-producing governments on drafting petroleum regulations that balance promotional interests and environmental considerations. She is involved in various consulting projects for IHS, working with governments and international oil companies. Prior to joining IHS Ms. Agalliu was Legal Advisor to the National Petroleum Agency of Albania, where she negotiated petroleum agreements on behalf of the government. She also helped draft and develop energy-related legislation and regulations, and was involved in designing the government’s policy on deregulating and privatizing the national oil company. Ms. Agalliu holds an LLM with distinction in Petroleum Law Policy and Economics from the University of Dundee, Scotland; a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center, and an English Language degree from the University of Tirana, Albania.

Mr. John Rodi is currently the Deputy Regional Director for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico Region, in New Orleans, Louisiana. In this capacity, he is a manager of Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic federal offshore programs that include mineral leasing activities, environmental assessment, evaluation of oil and gas reserves and resources, and regulation of industry operations. Mr. Rodi attended Tulane University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1974. He then attended the University of New Orleans where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Economics in 1978. He began his professional federal career in 1974 as a Regional Economist with the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1980, he joined the Department of the Interior’s offshore mineral leasing program as a Staff Economist. Since 1990, he has been continually supervising the MMS federal offshore oil and gas program in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Rodi has directly overseen the successful planning and implementation of over 65 federal offshore lease sales which resulted in over 20,000 lease issuances.

Don Cameron is Vice President of Project Execution for Spectra Energy Transmission’s western Canadian operations. He is responsible for ensuring timely and efficient completion of the company’s expansion capital projects in the region. Previously, Cameron was responsible for the safe, efficient and reliable operations of the company’s NGL Division natural gas liquids system assets, its mainline transmission system assets located in British Columbia and its Alberta Midstream facilities. Prior to that, Cameron had operations and commercial responsibilities for Westcoast Gas Services Inc., one of Spectra Energy’s predecessor companies. Before moving to Westcoast, Cameron worked almost two decades in increasingly more responsible roles for a major oil and gas company on well completions and workovers, heavy oil engineering and operations, facility and process optimization, and pipeline design. Mr. Cameron has an Interprovincial Power Engineering Operating Certificate, a Diploma in Engineering Technology, and graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering. He is married to Brenda Cameron, and has two daughters in university.

Andy Rowe’s career in stimulation, completion and enhanced oil recovery has spanned thirty years. He is a veteran in the industry with well rounded expertise gained from hands on, bottom up experience. Andy is a founder and director and has served as Executive Vice President of Global Business Development, Marketing and Client Relations for Downhole Fluidics, Inc. (DFI), since January 2002. In 2001 Andy represented PerfClean International, Inc., the predecessor of (DFI), successfully negotiating a non-exclusive license agreement with Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (HES), allowing HES to provide services of the DFI, “PerfClean”®, “True Fluidic Oscillator”© patented technology globally. From February 2002 until mid 2004 Andy traveled globally serving the pivotal role for the new technology roll out for HES as the “Halliburton - Pulsonix 200”™, Global Product Champion. In this role he was responsible for initial market penetration, presenting the technology to more than 300 HES client company engineering teams, leading training workshops and liaising between HES management, engineering, business development and operations personnel. His efforts led to successful deployment of the PerfClean®, TFO© technology in more than 40 countries and 25 states and more than 7,500 well treatments. In 1992 Andy founded and is CEO of Bio-Engineering International, Inc and Bio Engineering Services, Inc., engaged in research, development and utilization of environmentally safe micro-organisms useful in microbial improved/enhanced oil/gas recovery, (MIOR/EOR). From 1988 to 1992 Andy pursued business ventures outside the energy business. Andy has also been an avid supporter of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council in assisting independent E&P companies to gain access to new technologies through seminars and workshops. Andy was recently named to the “PTTC top 100” list of independents, individuals it felt could give a very informed response to the U.S. Congress concerning the effectiveness of the DOE’s oil and gas R&D program. He has also participated in U.S. Department of Energy, Technology Transfer Cost Share Programs for independent producers. From 1978 to 1988 he served in various sales, business development and bd/sales management positions with Sii, Smith Mining Tools, Inc., Sii, Smith Energy Services, Inc., Nowsco Services, Inc., and BJ Services, Inc. Andy is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is also a member of the National Ground Water Association, the Mountain States GWA, and Arizona GWA, where he has served as lead analyst and adviser for planning, design and successful implementation of DFI’s technology to increase production and injection of groundwater resources for municipal, power plant, mining and agricultural interests in the desert southwest and California. Andy is a Viet Nam Veteran having served in the United States Navy.

Erik holds a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology (US). During his six years at MARINTEK, he has been involved in various research projects for Oil & Gas companies, in the areas of Integrated Operations within Operations and Maintenance. Erik also has extensive experience from having been contracted to the European Space Agency in the Netherlands where he was involved with logistics management for the International Space Station, as an Increment Payload Manager. Prior to that, he gained hands on experience from the position as Wireline Field Engineer with Schlumberger, Kazakhstan.

Andrew holds a Masters degree in Applied Mechanics from Cranfield University of Technology in UK. During his 2 years at MARINTEK, he has been involved in various research projects for Oil & Gas companies, and now as Research Director is increasingly involved in the wider Shipping and other industry projects MARINTEK undertakes. Prior to that, he gained extensive experience from a 20 year career with Shell International E&P in Holland, Brunei, Norway and Oman. Major projects included Norske Shell’s Draugen project (1987 to 96) and Hydro’s Ormen Lange project (2005-06) plus extensive brown-field developments in Brunei and Oman. He has been involved in all phases of projects; - from concept selection, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, hand-over, to abandonment of on & offshore oil & gas facilities, and has also held engineering function positions in system development, HSE, quality and contract management.

Before joining Landmark, Usher was senior corporate vice president, services, at Paradigm. Usher has 23 years of experience in the upstream exploration and production (E&P) industry. He has general management experience in geophysical services and associated technology development, characterized by building successful organizations, either incrementally or in turnaround situations, while staying in touch with technology and customers. Usher earned a geology and geophysics degree from Yale University. He spent 17 years with Western Geophysical, starting in field operations and assuming the positions of vice president, data processing; and vice president, technology. In 2000, he moved to PGS as president of its global data processing division, overseeing operations and software development. He joined Paradigm in 2003 to develop its services business. At Landmark, Usher is enjoying the tremendous breadth of technology as well as the depth of talent and energy for success within the Technology organization.

Dan Themig is manager of Tech Services for Packers Plus Energy Services. He has served in various engineering and technical positions in the U.S. and Canada and has been involved in advanced horizontal and multilateral projects worldwide. He has a B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Oklahoma State University. He is a registered professional engineer and a member of SPE.

Jon A. Hrobsky was appointed Deputy Director of the Minerals Management Service on August 27, 2007. Hrobsky came to MMS from the Secretary of the Interior’s Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs where he served as the deputy director. Prior to coming to the Department he worked as legislative director and senior legislative assistant with two Congressmen from Colorado. His work with the Secretary’s office has included helping MMS in the development of rules and regulations for the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 and the 5 Year Leasing Program for 2007-2012. Hrobsky assists MMS Director Randall Luthi in the administration of programs that ensure the effective management of mineral resources located on the nation’s Outer Continental Shelf — including the environmentally safe exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas — and alternative energy uses. Hrobsky has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.

Doug Bloom is president of Spectra Energy Transmission’s western operations, responsible for three of the company’s western-based divisions: BC Pipeline; BC Field Services; and Empress NGL. Prior to his current role, Bloom served as President of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, a company 77.53 percent owned by Spectra Energy and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bloom joined the company in 1987 as a regulatory affairs supervisor for Westcoast Energy in Vancouver. He held a series of management positions in information technology, regulated businesses and marketing, and was appointed vice president, customer service and marketing in 1994. In 1996, Bloom was appointed vice president of business services, responsible for the company’s engineering and construction, supply chain, information technology, human resources and administrative functions. Following Duke Energy’s acquisition of Westcoast Energy in 2002, Bloom became vice president of business integration, responsible for the assimilation of Westcoast into Duke Energy. He was then named vice president of strategic planning and risk management for Duke Energy Gas Transmission, and in 2003 was appointed president of Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline. Before joining the company, Bloom served as manager of market analysis for Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission in Calgary, and prior to that spent seven years in economic consulting with Columbia Pacific Group in Vancouver, serving energy and transportation clients. Bloom holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics, both from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He has previously served on the board of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the External Advisory Board for the Simon Fraser University Executive MBA program. He has served on the board of the Greater Halifax Partnership, and chaired its Audit Committee. Bloom has been a long-time volunteer with United Way and served in fund-raising capacities in Vancouver and Halifax, chaired the fund-raising campaign for the United Way of the Halifax region in 2004 and currently serves on the board of the United Way of the Halifax region.

***The office of Mr. Luthi apologises and regrets that due to timely Governmental priorities, Mr. Luthi will no longer be able to speak at the summit. However, Mr. John Hrobsky, Deputy Director, will be presenting on behalf of the MMS*** Randall B. Luthi was appointed Director of the Minerals Management Service on July 23, 2007. Luthi, a former speaker of the Wyoming State House of Representatives, is a rancher and attorney in private practice from Freedom, Wyoming. He previously served in the Department of the Interior and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Luthi is a partner in the Luthi and Voyles law firm in Thayne, Wyoming, and manages a cattle ranch in western Wyoming. He was first elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1995, and served as speaker in 2005 and 2006. He served in Washington in career positions as Senior Counselor for Environmental Regulations in NOAA's Office of General Counsel from 1990 to 1993, and as an attorney in the Department of the Interior Office of the Solicitor from 1986 to 1990. Based on his work in the Wyoming legislature, Mr. Luthi developed an understanding of the importance of royalties paid to the federal government by companies producing energy on our public lands and waters. As Majority Leader and Speaker of the Wyoming House, Mr. Luthi was instrumental in formulation of state budgets which relied heavily upon royalties and severance taxes paid by energy companies developing federal leases. In addition, he was a legislative member of the Energy Council, which is an organization comprised of legislative representatives from energy producing states and provinces and private energy-related industries that meets quarterly to learn the latest in developments in energy related technology and to discuss energy policy. In addition, Luthi worked as a legislative assistant in the office of U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming. In this capacity, Luthi provided counsel on legal and legislative issues including oil and gas taxation. Luthi graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in administration of justice, and earned a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1982.

**The office of Jim Farnsworth apologizes as due to unexpected and urgent company business, Jim will not be able to speak at E&P Technology Summit this year** Jim Farnsworth is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience. Prior to joining Cobalt, Jim was at BP, where he served in various capacities since 1983, and since 2002 was Vice President of World-Wide Exploration and Technology. In this role, he was responsible for BP's global exploration strategy and execution. Prior positions at BP include: VP of North America Exploration; VP of Gulf of Mexico Exploration; and Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Production Manager. Mr. Farnsworth earned his B.S. in Geology from Indiana University and his M.S. in Geophysics from W. Michigan University.

***The Office of Minister Neufeld apologises and regrets that due to timely Governmental priorities, the Minister will not be able to speak at this year's E&P Technology Summit.*** Richard Neufeld was appointed Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources on June 16, 2005. He has served as Minister of Energy and Mines since 2001. Mr. Neufeld was energy, mines and northern development critic for the Official Opposition. He sat on the Select Standing Committees on Forests, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, and on Agriculture and Fisheries. He also sat on the Official Opposition Caucus Committee on Transportation. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1991 to represent the riding of Peace River North and was re-elected in 1996, 2001 and 2005. Before entering provincial politics, Mr. Neufeld owned and operated a business in Fort Nelson. He has been involved in the oil and gas industry most of his life. He served on Fort Nelson council from 1978 to 1986, for five of those years as mayor. He has been involved with the Fort Nelson and Fort St. John Chambers of Commerce and Rotary Clubs. Richard and his wife Montana live in Fort St. John and have four grown children.

Nick Carter is the Upstream Recruitment Director for Petroleum People Limited, a global upstream advisory firm delivering enhanced people resourcing strategies to international oil and gas operators. Nick is responsible for overseeing the delivery of bespoke internal and outsourced recruitment solutions which maximize the return on recruitment spending for clients, whilst enabling them to connect with the world's leading oil and gas talent smarter and faster than ever before. Prior to founding Petroleum People, Nick held advisory roles with international upstream operators and senior management positions with recognized executive recruitment companies. Nick holds a BSc from Nottingham University in Business and Quality Management