Pioneer Natural Resources is a large independent exploration and production company focused on delivering competitive and sustainable results. Pioneer responsibly produces oil and gas resources to help meet the world's energy demands as it provides opportunities for growth and enrichment to employees, business partners and the communities in which the Company operates. With a long-lived foundation of onshore U.S. properties providing stability and steady growth, Pioneer is pursuing several emerging resource plays in the Lower 48. In Alaska, the Company is the first independent to produce oil on the North Slope with its Oooguruk project. Pioneer also has operations in Tunisia and South Africa.

Jon has been recently appointed to manage the newly acquired upstream interests in EXCO Resources. Prior to moving to Houston, Jon was based in Trinidad for two years as Deputy Asset General Manager and before that in Egypt for five years as Vice President for the upstream business. Jon has been with BG Group for 18 years. Jon received a MEng with distinction from Leeds University in Fuel and Energy Engineering in 1988.

ConocoPhillips became a top-three natural gas producer in Canada with the 2006 acquisition of Burlington Resources. The acquisition more than doubled the company’s reserves, wells and production in the region. Company operations are primarily located in Alberta and British Columbia, with some production in Saskatchewan. ConocoPhillips also owns a number of gas processing plants in the region. The focus areas include Deep Basin, Rimbey/O'Chiese, Central, Southern Plains, Foothills, Northern Plains and Kaybob/Edson.

Don Robinson currently serves as Vice President, Drilling for Range Resources where he is responsible for the company's operations in the Permian Basin. Don spent the first 19 years of his career with Mobil in domestic assignments in Alaska, California, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming and international assignments in Peru, Venezuela and Indonesia. Besides drilling engineering he also spent five years as an onsite rig supervisor. Since leaving Mobil in 2000, Don has worked for GeoMechanics Intl, Ocean Energy, Kerr McGee and Westport Oil and Gas before joining Range Resources in 2004. Don is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a BS in Petroleum Engineering, a registered Petroleum Engineer and a member of AADE and SPE.

Upon completing his MS and PhD at the University of California in 1990, Vincent Saubestre joined Total as an R&D engineer. Two years ago, Vincent was assigned to structure Total’s Research Center dedicated to oil sands, returning to Calgary after more than 40 years. The common thread underpinning Vincent’s career with Total has been to take on new challenges of increasing complexity in a variety of cultural environments around the world: research and engineering in France, offshore operations in Norway, production in Congo, and business development as Deputy Chief Representative in the U.A.E. In November 2007, Vincent moved to Calgary from Argentina, one of Total’s largest producing affiliate, where he held in succession the positions of HSE Manager and Senior VP Operations. A product of both the North American and European education systems, Vincent is a graduate of École Polytechnique (1982) and of the École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (1984) in Paris. When not working on finding new ways to develop sustainable oil sands technology (his day job), Vincent captains and manages The Voyageurs, Total Canada’s hockey team, in the wee hours of the night. Total is a leading multinational energy company with 96,950 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world. Total’s oil and natural gas production, of 2.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2008, is underpinned by a widely diversified asset portfolio of proved reserves of 10.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent* and of proved and probable reserves of 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent**. The Group has exploration and production activities in more than 40 countries and produces oil and gas in 30 countries. Our E&P employees, who are constantly analyzing sedimentary basins around the world, demonstrate our ethical commitment, expertise and performance in every aspect of the business, from license acquisition to site restoration.

Mark R. Williams is Vice President of Exploration and Development at Whiting Petroleum Corporation where he manages the company’s upstream activity and capital budget. His mission is the development of oil resource plays through integration of geoscience, technology and economics.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.

Dr. Susan Smith Nash, Principal Investigator, has been involved in the development and administration of online courses and programs since the early 1990s. She has made a point to share her experience as well as her research through her websites, weblogs and podcasts. Her background is interdisciplinary, with a Ph.D. in English, M.A. in English, post-graduate courses in economics and instructional design, B.S. in Geology. In addition to developing and teaching courses in writing, leadership, and literature, Dr. Nash has developed content for writing courses for web-based and mobile delivery. She is the recipient of collaboration and innovation awards for her work in developing innovative and high-quality online and hybrid programs that take advantage of the latest technologies, Ground-floor online program development for the University of Oklahoma and has developed curriculum and programs for e-learning (including mobile learning) for Florida Community College Jacksonville, the Literature Institute, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and Excelsior College. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Nash has developed instructional content for textbooks, audio books (educational mp3 downloads), simulations and serious games, video (downloadable educational video clips). Content includes Spanish and English language materials. Having held administrative positions at Excelsior College and the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Nash is currently Director of Education and Professional Development at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has made presentations at prominent national conferences. Dr. Nash is involved with research into the best ways to use new techniques and technologies (Web 2.0, etc), for effective e-learning (and training).

Mr. LaPrade joined Petrobank in April 2008 as Vice President Operations. Previously, Mr. LaPrade was President and Chief Executive Officer of Mirage Energy Ltd. from October 2006 to February 2008; Prior thereto, Vice President Operations of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. from July 2002 until September 2006; Prior thereto, Manager Operations of Barrington Petroleum Ltd. from May 2001 until September 2001; Prior thereto, Vice President Operations of Petrorep Energy Resources Ltd. from June 1991 to May 2000. Mr. LaPrade is a Professional Engineer with over 30 years experience in the oil and gas business.

Devon Energy Corporation is a leading independent natural gas and oil exploration and production company. Devon's operations are focused onshore in the United States and Canada. We also own natural gas pipelines and treatment facilities in many of our producing areas, making us one of North America's larger processors of natural gas liquids. The company's portfolio of gas and oil properties provides stable, environmentally responsible production and a platform for future growth. The company's production mix is about two-thirds natural gas and one-third oil and natural gas liquids, such as propane, butane and ethane. Devon produces over 2.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day, about 3 percent of all the gas consumed in North America. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Devon is a Fortune 500 company and is included in the S&P 500 Index. Its common shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DVN.

John Felmy is Chief Economist of API. He is responsible for overseeing economic, statistical and policy analysis of the Institute. He has over twenty-five years experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis. He received Bachelors and Masters in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Maryland. John is a member of several professional associations including the American Economics Association, the National Association for Business Economics and the International Association for Energy Economics.

John joined MGM Energy Corp in 2007 as Vice President of Exploration and is currently responsible for a multidisciplinary team that is working on exploration, delineation and operations of conventional and unconventional resources in the Central Mackenzie Corridor and the Mackenzie Delta Region of Canada, north of the Arctic Circle. John graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1981 and is a Professional Geologist registered in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. John is a Past President of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, an honorary member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologist, a two-term Councilor for the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologist and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and member of the Board of Geoscientists Canada.

Jon Noad graduated from Imperial College, London in 1985, and then worked as a mining geologist in South Africa. He returned to the UK in 1990 and joined BT as their marine geologist, responsible for analysing subsea cable routes. He also completed an MSc in Sedimentology at night school, with his thesis on the fluvial sequence stratigraphy of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta. He then returned to London University full time in 1995 to complete a PhD on the Sedimentary Evolution of eastern Borneo, where he developed a love of fossil mangroves and hot chilies. He was recruited by Shell in 1998, and worked mainly on Middle Eastern exploration before moving to Shell Canada in 2006. Here he worked as a senior exploration geologist in the Basin Centred Gas team in Calgary, and also actively ran field trips and was involved in recruiting. He joined Murphy Oil in 2010 as Exploration Manager, Canada. Outside the office he loves running, skiing, playing soccer and hiking.

Headquartered in Laramie, Wyoming, Trihydro provides environmental consulting, engineering and surveying, air quality and process management, information technology, sustainable business solutions, and water and natural resource services to public and private clients. From its initial startup as a two-person firm in 1984, Trihydro has grown into a successful organization of over 270 employees with 13 offices and support staff nationwide. We believe our people are our greatest asset and are very proud to have been named one of America’s Safest Companies for 2009 by EHS Today, The Magazine for Environment, Health and Safety Leaders (http://ehstoday.com). Additionally, Trihydro was ranked 139 of the top 200 environmental firms in the U.S. by Engineering News Record (ENR) in 2009 and as Wyoming’s Largest Engineering Firm by the Wyoming Business Journal for five consecutive years.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is among the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the world, with 2.28 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BBOE) of proved reserves at year-end 2008. Anadarko's portfolio of assets encompasses premier positions in 10 major U.S. onshore natural gas resource plays. The company also is the largest independent deepwater producer in the Gulf of Mexico, and has production and/or exploration in Alaska, Algeria, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mozambique and West Africa. Anadarko has assembled a robust portfolio of assets that combines a large inventory of lower-risk, predictable development opportunities in the U.S. onshore with higher-impact projects worldwide. Anadarko's exploration program also is active in the U.S. onshore, with more than 1 million acres in emerging shales, such as the Marcellus and Haynesville, and other exploration plays.

Mr. Wood has over 30 years experience in the environmental industry related to hazardous waste, environmental sustainability, and environmental business development, including environmental spill response on land and water. He has taught courses with the National Spill Control School nationally and internationally, and has provided Haz-Mat and spill response training to well over 2500 students. He has worked internationally in Mexico, Canada, Korea, Ecuador, UK, Puerto Rico, Iraq and Afghanistan, among others. Mr. Wood participated in one of the very first credited courses from the National Spill Control School as part of his bachelor degree program in Biology at what was then Corpus Christi State University in 1979 [now Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi]. He also attended local Del Mar College, and has completed graduate coursework in Environmental Policy and Management from the American Military University. Mr. Wood comes to TAMUCC from SpecPro Inc. in San Antonio where he supported corporate environmental projects at various military and government sites across the country. He comes with an accomplished resume in developing and marketing environmental businesses. Wood says he looks forward to re-establishing the National Spill Control School as a leader in the field. In order to be better prepared to deal with environmental disasters like that currently ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico, he plans to develop new teaching methods and closer relationships with industry and government leaders so that the Spill School produces today’s leaders in spill prevention and control. The National Spill Control School, was established in 1977 and was named as a consulting, training, and research resource for the National Response Team in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. The NSCS offers specialized hands-on OSHA mandated training for professionals and workers in the Oil Spill, HAZMAT, and Emergency Management industries as well as others in exploration, production, and transportation who deal with spill prevention, planning, and response. The NSCS is located on the beautiful " Island University" campus in Corpus Christi Bay. On the Texas Gulf Coast, the NSCS is known for its mild weathered, year-round hands-on training location at various land and water sites.

Southwestern Energy Company is a growing independent energy company primarily engaged in natural gas and crude oil exploration, development and production within the United States. We are also focused on creating and capturing additional value through our natural gas gathering and marketing businesses, which we refer to as Midstream Services. Exploration and Production - Our primary business is the exploration for and production of natural gas within the United States, with our current operations being principally focused on development of the unconventional gas reservoir located on the Arkansas side of the Arkoma Basin, which we refer to as the Fayetteville Shale play. We are also actively engaged in exploration and production activities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Pennsylvania. We primarily conduct our exploration and production operations through our wholly-owned subsidiaries, SEECO, Inc. and Southwestern Energy Production Company, or SEPCO. SEECO has historically operated exclusively in Arkansas. It holds a large base of both developed and undeveloped gas reserves in Arkansas and conducts the drilling programs for the Fayetteville Shale play and the conventional drilling program in the Arkansas part of the Arkoma Basin. SEPCO conducts development drilling and exploration programs in the Oklahoma portion of the Arkoma Basin, Texas, and Pennsylvania. DeSoto Drilling, Inc., or DDI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SEPCO, operates drilling rigs in the Fayetteville Shale play and in East Texas.

Mr Gilmore has than 25 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.

GTI is a not-for-profit Research and Development (R&D) organization. For more than 65 years, we have been the leader in the development and deployment of technology solutions that contribute to a secure, abundant, and affordable energy future. As such, we provide economic value to the energy industry and its customers, while supporting government in achieving policy objectives. To date, GTI programs have resulted in nearly 500 products, 750 licenses, and more than 1,200 associated patents.

Mr Mourtada joined Pcubed in 2003 and currently heads the energy practice focused on delivering value to customer through program & portfolio management. Walid has worked with major global energy organizations on diverse projects from optimizing multi-billion dollar project portfolios, to streamlining global initiatives that maximize value while minimizing business disruptions. Walid joined the management consulting field in 1999 after earning his Masters in Engineering from the University of Michigan, through the course of his career his focus has been on capital intensive industries such as manufacturing, automotive, construction and energy, where he leveraged his experience to deliver on business critical and turn around initiatives for several of the top 10 fortune 500 companies.

Manika Prasad received her B.S. (1978) from St. Xavier's College, Bombay, India and an M.S. (1983) from University of Kiel, Germany in geology, Ph.D. (1990) in geophysics from University of Kiel, Germany. Manika's Ph.D. work focused on attenuation, energy loss mechanisms and velocity dispersion in dry and fluid saturated sands. After graduation Manika worked as a fellow at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Bombay, India and as a visiting scientist for five years in the Mineral Physics Group at the University of Hawaii on seismic and microstructural properties of reservoir rocks. A major emphasis of Manika's work at Hawaii was on Acoustic Microscopy of rocks and ceramic composites. Manika has worked at the Stanford Rockphysics and Borehole group from 1996 - 2004, CSM Geophysics Department from 2004 - 2007. Since 2007, Manika is an Associate Professor at the Petroleum Engineering Department at CSM. A large part of Manika's work is on clays, shales, unconsolidated sands, poorly and well consolidated sandstones and chalks, and impedance microstructure in rocks and glasses.

David Burnett serves as the Director of Technology for the Global Petroleum Research Institute. As Director of Technology he monitors research trends and needs, identifies key industrial contacts, as well as solicits research project proposals. He also serves on the GPRI Executive Committee and Technology Coordination Team. He also serves as Research Coordinator for the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.

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.

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.

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.

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 growth strategy. Raised in Illinois, Mike has 31 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 the Chevron/Texaco merger. 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 California to lead Chevron’s International exploration efforts. In January 2008 Mike was appointed General Manager, Strategy Development for Corporate Business Development. Mike was born in April 1954.

Iman Hill is Senior Vice President, Brasil E&P, 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.

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

Upon completing his MS and PhD at the University of California in 1990, Vincent Saubestre joined Total as an R&D engineer. Two years ago, Vincent was assigned to structure Total’s Research Center dedicated to oil sands, returning to Calgary after more than 40 years. The common thread underpinning Vincent’s career with Total has been to take on new challenges of increasing complexity in a variety of cultural environments around the world: research and engineering in France, offshore operations in Norway, production in Congo, and business development as Deputy Chief Representative in the U.A.E. In November 2007, Vincent moved to Calgary from Argentina, one of Total’s largest producing affiliate, where he held in succession the positions of HSE Manager and Senior VP Operations. A product of both the North American and European education systems, Vincent is a graduate of École Polytechnique (1982) and of the École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (1984) in Paris. When not working on finding new ways to develop sustainable oil sands technology (his day job), Vincent captains and manages The Voyageurs, Total Canada’s hockey team, in the wee hours of the night. Total is a leading multinational energy company with 96,950 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world. Total’s oil and natural gas production, of 2.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2008, is underpinned by a widely diversified asset portfolio of proved reserves of 10.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent* and of proved and probable reserves of 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent**. The Group has exploration and production activities in more than 40 countries and produces oil and gas in 30 countries. Our E&P employees, who are constantly analyzing sedimentary basins around the world, demonstrate our ethical commitment, expertise and performance in every aspect of the business, from license acquisition to site restoration.

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.

Mark R. Williams is Vice President of Exploration and Development at Whiting Petroleum Corporation where he manages the company’s upstream activity and capital budget. His mission is the development of oil resource plays through integration of geoscience, technology and economics.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.

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 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.

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.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is among the largest independent oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the world, with 2.28 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BBOE) of proved reserves at year-end 2008. Anadarko's portfolio of assets encompasses premier positions in 10 major U.S. onshore natural gas resource plays. The company also is the largest independent deepwater producer in the Gulf of Mexico, and has production and/or exploration in Alaska, Algeria, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Mozambique and West Africa. Anadarko has assembled a robust portfolio of assets that combines a large inventory of lower-risk, predictable development opportunities in the U.S. onshore with higher-impact projects worldwide. Anadarko's exploration program also is active in the U.S. onshore, with more than 1 million acres in emerging shales, such as the Marcellus and Haynesville, and other exploration plays.

Mr. Michael Saucier is currently the Regional Supervisor for Field Operations, Minerals Management Service (MMS), Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, U.S. Department of the Interior, in New Orleans, Louisiana. As Regional Supervisor, Mr. Saucier oversees a staff of 170 engineers, technicians, inspectors and administrative support who are responsible for safe and environmentally responsible oil and gas operations throughout the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. Mr. Saucier began his career with MMS in 1984 as a Staff Engineer in the Houma District Office. He has held several engineer and supervisory positions in his 25 year career with MMS, most recently as Deputy Regional Supervisor for District Operations in the Field Operations Office. He was promoted to his current position in July 2008. Mr. Saucier received a BS Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University in May 1984. The Minerals Management Service (MMS), a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is the Federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS). The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $8 billion per year in revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on Federal and Indian lands. The program is national in scope and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. The MMS is comprised of two major programs: Offshore Energy and Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management. The Offshore program, which manages the mineral resources on the OCS, is comprised of three regions: Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The Minerals Revenue Management program is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but operationally based in Denver, Colorado.

Mr. Thompson is the founder and CEO of CapeDC Advisors, LLC, a private lobbying and business advisory firm based in Washington, DC. In this capacity he focuses on lobbying and general business advisory work for companies and individuals primarily in the energy, water and environmental sectors. In addition, Mr. Thompson serves on the Board of Advisors of Waveland Capital Group of Irvine, California. Waveland, through certain of its portfolio companies, has extensive investments in the E&P and oil and gas service company sectors. Mr. Thompson also serves as President of The American Exploration & Production Council (AXCP), a client of CapeDC Advisors, LLC. AXPC is a Washington, DC based trade association whose membership is composed of 25 of America’s leading independent exploration and production companies, all but two of which are publicly held. The association’s Board of Directors is composed of the CEO’s of its member companies. As its President, Mr. Thompson lobbies on behalf of AXPC’s membership on a limited number of issues critical to the exploration and production sector of the energy industry in the US. The membership roster and various issues in which AXPC is interested and on which it lobbies the US Senate, House of Representatives as well as the Administration can be found on the website at www.axpc.us. Mr. Thompson has served in senior management as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of two NYSE-listed independent exploration and production companies, Forest Oil Corporation and SandRidge Energy, Inc. He has testified before the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on issues relating to natural gas supply and pricing. He also has extensive international transactional and government affairs experience, having represented clients in dealing with various national and provincial governments in South Africa as well as in transactions in the UK, Italy and Canada. Mr. Thompson has been a Senior Counsel for the firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a 270-person Denver-based firm, with offices in, among other cities, Washington, DC. He has also served as Chief of Staff for Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) when the Senator was in the House of Representatives. Mr. Thompson is a native Oklahoman and received his Bachelor of Science in Economics for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Russ is leader of the Shell’s global EP GameChanger team and is based in Houston, Texas. GameChanger is a Shell-created program that invests in people to help mature their breakthrough ideas to proof-of-concept. A career “Shell guy,” he spent his early years exploring for and producing oil and gas around the world, then later on such things as business planning, strategy, scenarios, and technology venturing. He was raised in Omaha, and enjoys reading, cycling and being a hockey fan. A great invention is timely and unique but needs fostering to develop and succeed in the marketplace. GameChanger helps move ideas to reality by sponsoring entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into a product that can be introduced to the marketplace. Specifically, we look for innovative ideas that address a demand or significant problem in the energy industry and have the potential to change the game. Ideas can range from new oil exploration techniques to improved production tools, or even new forms of energy. In GameChanger we are particularly interested in novel ideas across the energy system – from new sources of energy to improving efficiency or reducing the environmental impact of existing sources. Areas of focus are: Increasing energy production; Carbon management; Energy conversion, storage and distribution; Fuelling transportation

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.

Stephen Harvey has been a career member of the SES since 2002 with experience in high-profile public management, public sector operations, and consulting relating to electric and natural gas markets, regulation and enforcement as well as expertise in executive-level leadership and technological innovation. He has approximately 25 years experience in the energy industry successfully managing major analysis programs, assuring their quality, and disseminating their outputs. In 1983, Steve began his career in the energy industry at the Interstate Natural Gas Association where he served as an analyst. He was then employed at Enron Corporation, where he held positions of increasing responsibility, and rose to the position of Vice President, Physical Risk Management, Enron Capital and Trade Resources. In 1993, Steve was named President at NJR Energy, where he restructured the company's oil and gas production subsidiaries and negotiated a multi-million dollar limited partnership investment in a technologically sophisticated natural gas storage program with four other energy company investors. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Senior Vice President at Columbia Energy Services. He negotiated the company's only major energy trading acquisition, the purchase of Penn/Union from Pennzoil, and led its business integration, increasing annual revenues by $2 billion. Since 2002, Steve has served as Director of Energy Market Oversight, in the Office of Enforcement at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). He has spent the last five years managing FERC's natural gas and electricity market monitoring and analysis efforts. In his position at FERC, he led a 40-employee division that monitored and analyzed hundreds of regional, national, and international energy (and related) markets daily, including natural gas, electricity, coal, oil and emissions. With respect to his educational background, Steve received degrees from: Guilford College, B.S., Physics and Political Science, 1982; Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, M.P.P., 1985

Roger M. Slatt is currently the Gungoll Family Chair Professor in Petroleum Geology and Geophysics at University of Oklahoma. He was Director of the School of Geology and Geophysics and Eberly Family Chair Professor at University of Oklahoma from 2000-2006. He formerly was Head of the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines (1992-2000) and Director of the Rocky Mountain Region Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (1995-2000). After receiving his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Alaska, he taught geology for 8 years at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Arizona State University. He then spent 14 years in the petroleum industry with Cities Service Research, ARCO Research, and ARCO International Oil and Gas. Co. before joining Colorado School of Mines in 1992. He has published over 90 papers and abstracts, and has made numerous presentations on the subjects of petroleum geology, reservoir geology, seismic and sequence stratigraphy, shallow marine and turbidite depositional systems, geology of shale, glacial and Pleistocene-Quaternary geology, and geochemical exploration. He sits on various professional society committees, has organized technical conferences for American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and teaches short courses for industry and AAPG on the "Introduction to the petroleum geology of deep-water (turbidite) depositional systems" and on "Principles of geologic reservoir characterization". He also offers a global, web-based course on Introduction to geologic reservoir characterization" to people from many different countries. He has taught his two courses in many places in the U.S., as well as in many countries, including Colombia, Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, and England. In 1996 he received the AAPG Distinguished Service Award. In 1999 he was the Esso Australia Distinguished Lecturer in Petroleum Geology. In 2001-2, he was an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, giving a presentation titled "Outcrop/behind outcrop characterization of deepwater (turbidite) petroleum reservoir analogs: why and how". In 2002-3, he offered the same presentation as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2003. In 2003, he was awarded with AAPG Honorary Membership. In 2006 he received the AAPG Grover Murray Distinguished Educator Award.

Jennifer L. Miskimins is an Associate Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden, Colorado, USA. Dr. Miskimins holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering. Prior to joining CSM, she worked for Marathon Oil Company in a variety of locations. Dr. Miskimins is the founder and Director of the Fracturing, Acidizing, Stimulation Technology (FAST) Consortium at CSM. She is also the Director of the new Unconventional Natural Gas Institute (UNGI) at the Colorado School of Mines. She teaches a variety of courses including completions and stimulation classes, geologic field camps, and petroleum economics courses at CSM and as industry short courses. She is a member of SPE, SPWLA, AAPG, Sigma Xi, and ASEE and currently serves as the Executive Editor for the SPE Production & Operations Journal

Steve Whittaker is the Senior Project Manager at the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Regina, Canada where he oversees the management of all research programs, including the IEA GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project, JIVE, Aquistore and the EOR Program. He comes to the PTRC from Canadian Capital Energy Corporation, a Saskatchewan-based oil exploration company. Prior to this Steve was a Senior Research Geologist for the Geological Survey of Saskatchewan, and has also worked as an independent consultant and researcher at Queen’s and McGill universities. Steve is a registered professional geologist, and has a Ph. D. in Geology. PTRC is a not-for-profit research and development organization with offices and laboratories in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1998 by Natural Resources Canada, Saskatchewan Industry and Resources, Saskatchewan Research Council and the University of Regina, with support from the western Canadian oil and gas industry.

David Burnett serves as the Director of Technology for the Global Petroleum Research Institute. As Director of Technology he monitors research trends and needs, identifies key industrial contacts, as well as solicits research project proposals. He also serves on the GPRI Executive Committee and Technology Coordination Team. He also serves as Research Coordinator for the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering.

John Felmy is Chief Economist of API. He is responsible for overseeing economic, statistical and policy analysis of the Institute. He has over twenty-five years experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis. He received Bachelors and Masters in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Maryland. John is a member of several professional associations including the American Economics Association, the National Association for Business Economics and the International Association for Energy Economics.

Ron Cramer is a Senior Advisor with Shell Global Solution, Houston in the area of oil field automation and production systems. Cramer has 31 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 surveillance and optimization areas. Mr. Cramer is a graduate Chemical Engineer, BSc, Strathclyde University and MSc, Waterloo University. Cramer has published and/or presented 30 papers regarding oil and gas experiences.

Dr. Peter Rowley is the London-based Director of the Natural Resources Practice with Environmental Resources Management (ERM), an international environmental consulting firm. Dr. Rowley has more than 35 years of experience in academic and business settings. In the late 1970’s he was a Fulbright Fellow and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University. He has worked in the environmental consulting industry since 1979 and has been heavily involved in a large range of projects in Asia, the Middle East, Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe where he has lived for the last 17 years. Early in his career Dr. Rowley managed blast furnaces for BHP in Australia and since then has been actively involved in the mining & mineral processing, oil & gas and chemicals industries for over 30 years . During the last decade he has been increasing involved in providing strategic advice in Oil & Gas sectors. Dr. Rowley has extensive technical experience in a wide variety of HSE auditing and compliance assurance , environmental & social impact assessment of new developments , environmental risk assessment and management of existing facilities ; providing strategic advice to and leading major M&A transactions and is the ERM Liason Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He has lectured at The Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge University in the UK on Sustainability in the Global Mining Industry, gave the Keynote address at the Zurich Global Risk Managers Conference on emerging mega risks for industry and has been invited on four occasions over the last 18 months as a keynote speaker on Environmental Risks associated with Natural Resource projects in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is a leading global provider of environmental, health and safety, risk, and social consulting services. We deliver innovative solutions for business and government clients, helping them understand and manage their impacts on the world around them. We have 145 offices in 40 countries and employ over 3,300 staff.

Karim Essemiani is the Business and Marketing manager of Oil and Gas division of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America. Mr Essemiani has about 10 years experience in the design of industrial process and waste water technologies, with core expertise in refineries and onshore produced water. Mr Essemiani has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a MS degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is the co-inventor of Veolia’s proprietary technologies TURBOMIX and CLARIFLO. He has presented about 50 papers on water and wastewater technologies at various technical conferences. Veolia Water is developing specific and sophisticated systems to treat water in order to meet new production techniques for petroleum and natural gas (such as water injection and deep water production), and to comply with ever stricter environmental regulations. Veolia Water's teams, based in Houston (Texas), specialize in the petroleum and gas industries, and for decades have been developing equipment and packages for offshore and onshore production.

With 20 years of experience and know-how related to plant and field automation, Mr Dickson focuses on creating and delivering high value solutions. Mr. Dickson’s career includes interests in measurement, control, and optimization; with current emphasis on business value created by the innovative application of various technologies. In 1991 Mr. Dickson started his career with Foxboro Canada in Edmonton. After a three year assignment in Abu Dhabi as Country Manager for the UAE and Oman Mr. Dickson returned to Edmonton as a Manager in Western Canada for eight years. Mr. Dickson also served as a Director of Sales in Singapore before taking his current assignment as VP/ GM Field Devices in Plano, TX. Previously, Mr Dickson enjoyed a fulfilling position with Durco (now Flowserve) establishing sales operations in Calgary, Alberta. Mr. Dickson graduated from the University of Alberta. Now residing in Prosper, Texas Mr. Dickson enjoys the north Texas weather which is quite conducive to various outdoor sports, hobbies, and exploring on his motorcycle.

Mark Wey is a multi-disciplined, international executive with over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, primarily with Amoco and BP. He has lived or worked in 36 countries on 6 continents, and worked in the upstream, downstream and chemicals businesses. His experience with diverse cultures, business practices and strategic viewpoints was key in the establishment of MW Global Solutions LLC, a boutique consulting company focused on assisting clients in achieving their strategic objectives. The company’s broad knowledge base with people, processes and productivity tools is the underlying foundation instrumental in their success. His firm’s organizational strengths come from their ability to combine software applications, business processes and employee skill sets with overall business acumen to develop a “best fit” business architecture for the client. The company has additional experience in the construction, leasing, manufacturing, healthcare, software, e-commerce and service industries. Mark resides in Austin Texas. In addition to providing business consulting on a global basis and growing his firm, he is currently working on his first book, “Designing Business Architecture”, of which skill development is a key component.

Duncan Junor is a Senior Director at Halliburton Company responsible for strategy, marketing and development for the completions and production division. Mr. Junor also has accountability for driving Digital Asset™ programs and initiatives for all of Halliburton’s upstream products and services including drilling, evaluation, completion and production businesses. Mr. Junor has 23 years of experience in the exploration and production industry, predominantly in the upstream development and midstream production sectors. Mr. Junor completed his undergraduate studies in electrical and electronic engineering and holds a master’s degree in oil and gas engineering, both from the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Gerrit M. Lenderink is currently Head of New Applications and Systems Strategy Rotating Equipment for Siemens Oil & Gas Solutions. In this function mr. Lenderink is responsible for the availability of a competitive, coherent portfolio of rotating equipment based solutions for Upstream and Midstream Oil & Gas within Siemens. Mr. Lenderink began his career with Siemens in 1979 as a compressor product engineer. In his 30 years in the business he assumed various positions at Siemens in Hengelo, The Netherlands. He has been involved in the development and application of various advanced rotating equipment solutions, the latest being STC-ECO, a range of canned, sealless compressor solutions targeted for dirty and hazardous gas application in Oil & Gas. Mr.Lenderink holds a B.Sc degree in mechanical engineer from the Enschede Institute of Technology (1979).

Mr. Patwa is the Director of the International Sales and Operations for the Engineering Consulting Business Unit within the Siemens Oil & Gas Division in Houston. Mr Patwa has oversight responsibilities over the strategic expansion of the business and operations globally. In addition, Mr. Patwa manages the Upstream Consulting Practice within the business unit, that is involved with the conceptual and front-end engineering design of facilities for upstream field developments and midstream assets.

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.

Leland is a mechanical engineer and a serial entrepreneur with six start up companies to his credit. His latest startup, Pumping Solutions Incorporated, is now Smithlift, a wholly owned subsidiary of Smith International. For the past decade, Leland has experienced both success and failure in startup companies have ranging from pumping equipment to ink jet printer ink. Lately, he has been working with other entrepreneurs, advising them on the many issues related to starting a company. Leland has worked with companies both large and small, and has unique insight into what is needed to make the integration of technology from a startup work in the large company environment.

For more than 25 years, Landmark has been providing solutions to E&P challenges through the continuous development and enhancement of our leading high-science software and technology services. With over 350 patent filings since 2001, we recognize that solving your challenges of today, and those of tomorrow, requires constant innovation around everything we do. Our technologies and services span every discipline in our industry and include such market leaders as OpenWorks®, SeisWorks®, GeoProbe®, and AssetPlanner® applications . Landmark understands that you require unique solutions for your unique challenges, and you need a vendor that not only understands this but will also collaborate with you. Our answer is the DecisionSpace® environment. DecisionSpace is an open environment that enables more efficient E&P workflows through the integration of your preferred applications and data within and across domains, from any vendor. It simplifies the adoption of new technologies and workflows, such as next-generation earth modeling, basin scale exploration and production optimization.

For more than 25 years, Landmark has been providing solutions to E&P challenges through the continuous development and enhancement of our leading high-science software and technology services. With over 350 patent filings since 2001, we recognize that solving your challenges of today, and those of tomorrow, requires constant innovation around everything we do. Our technologies and services span every discipline in our industry and include such market leaders as OpenWorks®, SeisWorks®, GeoProbe®, and AssetPlanner® applications . Landmark understands that you require unique solutions for your unique challenges, and you need a vendor that not only understands this but will also collaborate with you. Our answer is the DecisionSpace® environment. DecisionSpace is an open environment that enables more efficient E&P workflows through the integration of your preferred applications and data within and across domains, from any vendor. It simplifies the adoption of new technologies and workflows, such as next-generation earth modeling, basin scale exploration and production optimization.

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

*** The office of Mr. Farnsworth regrets that he will not be able to address this year's E&P Technology Summit in observance of regulatory requirements that postpones all public statements from Cobalt Energy International in the short-term. Mr. Farnsworth hopes to join us for next year's event and wishes everyone a great conference. *** 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