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Harris Cander
BP America, Houston, Texas
Harris Cander works in BP America’s Exploration and Technology Group and has focused the past few years on global and domestic exploration for unconventional resources. Since joining BP (Amoco) in 1991, Harris has worked in a variety of international and domestic exploration, production, and commercial roles as well as carbon dioxide sequestration projects.
Harris is the current co-chairman of the AAPG Unconventional Research Group and a past co-chairman of the AAPG Carbonates Research Group. He has published on unconventional resources, over pressure and hydrocarbon occurrence in offshore Trinidad, exploration in central Europe, and carbonate diagenesis. His talk on carbonate porosity evolution won the award for best presentation at the 1992 SEPM annual meeting. Harris received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and MBA from Rice University in 2002. He lives in West University Place, Texas, with his wife, Chris, and children, Sasha and Joshua.