Instructors
Edman, Janell, is an industry recognized expert in interpreting gas, oil, and source rock geochemical data to solve exploration and production problems for oil industry clients. She has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Geophysics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Geology from The University of Wyoming. Dr. Edman has over 25 years of industry experience in both domestic and international exploration and production including 10 years at Marathon's Petroleum Technology Center, over 10 years as a consulting geochemist, and 5 years of prospect generation work at Mobil. Dr. Edman was also the recipient of the Jules Braunstein Award for Best Poster Session at a National AAPG Meeting and has 46 published papers and abstracts. TOP
Elshahawi, Hani, is currently global Deepwater Technology Advisor for Shell International E&P in Houston. Previously, he led FEAST, Shell's Fluid Evaluation and Sampling Technologies centre of excellence, responsible for the planning, execution and analysis of formation testing and fluid sampling operations. He has over 25 years of oil industry experience with both service and operating companies in over ten countries around the world. He has held various positions in interpretation, consulting, operations, marketing, and technology development. He holds several patents and has authored over a hundred technical papers in various areas of petroleum engineering and the geosciences. He has been active with the SPE and the SPWLA. He was the 2009-2010 president of the SPWLA and is a former distinguished lecturer for both SPE and SPWLA. TOP
Esteban, Mateu, recently joined Repsol YPF, Madrid, Spain, and was formerly a consulting geologist for Carbonates Int'l (Mallorca office), with 25 years of concentration in depositional facies, diagenesis and reservoir properties of Tertiary carbonates worldwide. Mateu worked previously for ERICO P.I. in London, Amoco Production in Tulsa, and at the University of Barcelona. He has been invited to become an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer for the third time. His studies on Miocene Carbonates of the Mediterranean and Almeria started in 1975. TOP
Fitch, Peter, is with the Dept. of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College in London. His main research interests focus on the characterization of carbonate rock through their sedimentological and petrophysical properties, and how these influence fluid flow in terms in hydrocarbon reservoirs. His current research uses outcrop analogue models to investigate which features (or heterogeneities) are important controls on fluid flow through carbonate rocks at different scales; looking to identify what geological and physical property heterogeneities should be captured in subsurface reservoir models. TOP
Forté, Robin, heads Forté Productions in Dallas, TX, a seminar company providing education to the petroleum industry. With more than 30 years in the oil and gas business, Robin is a career landman and is still active in exploration and production. He served ten years as Executive Vice President of the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL) after seven years as AAPL Education Director where he compiled, wrote and edited the Certified Professional Landman exam review. Robin was a company landman for 12 years after wartime service as a Vietnam jet fighter pilot. He is a visiting professor in the Energy Management Program in the Collins College of Business. TOP
Franseen, Evan K., has been at the University of Kansas since 1989, where currently he holds a joint appointment as a Professor in the Department of Geology and Section Chief of the Stratigraphic Research Section at the Kansas Geological Survey. He received his BS (1981), MS (1985), and Ph.D. (1988), all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Evan specializes in sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and diagenesis of carbonate and mixed carbonate/ siliciclastic systems. His emphasis is on integrated approaches utilizing outcrop and subsurface data, high-resolution and conventional seismic methods, ground-penetrating radar, paleomagnetic methods, biostratigraphy, petrography, and geochemical techniques to better discern global, regional, and local variables that control carbonate depositional systems and reservoir architecture. Evan has worked on a variety of reservoir and reservoir analog systems including Permian carbonates in the Delaware Basin; Ordovician carbonate reservoirs, Mississippian carbonate and chert reservoirs, Pennsylvanian carbonate reservoirs and outcrop analogs in Kansas; Miocene and Pliocene carbonate-siliciclastic systems in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; and Miocene-Pliocene carbonate systems in the western Mediterranean with an emphasis in Spain since 1984. TOP
Gamble, Roberta, Director for Frost & Sullivan’s North American Energy and Power Systems Practice, San Antonio, TX, manages the content, consulting, and client interaction for markets including power generation, renewables and alternatives, transmission and distribution, and power supplies. She works closely with major energy-related companies – including equipment manufacturers, service providers, financial institutes, and utilities – to guide the direction of the group. Through networking, industry conference and on-site client presentations, and by integrating Sales and other Frost & Sullivan groups, Gamble directs energy research, focuses content on the pressing energy issues of the day, and ensures that Frost & Sullivan subscriptions are valuable and relevant to each client. She also manages consulting projects and customized client research. Learn more ... TOP
Goldstein, Robert H. (Bob), is the Haas Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Kansas. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Geology at Kansas since 1985. He received the BS in 1979 from Juniata College and received the MS in 1981 and Ph.D. in 1986, both from the University of Wisconsin. Bob’s research specialties include sequence stratigraphy of carbonates, diagenesis, and fluid-inclusion research. Current research focuses on the following: (1) sea-level, paleotopographic, oceanographic, and climate controls on depositional sequence architecture of the Spanish Miocene; (2) modeling reservoir-analog architecture in deep-water and shallow water carbonates; (3) predicting porosity in reservoirs from new conceptual models of carbonate diagenesis; (4) effect of hydrothermal fluids on carbonate and sandstone reservoir rocks; (5) origin and distribution of early and late dolomite; (6) new fluid inclusion techniques for constraining thermal evolution of sedimentary systems; and (6) new fluid inclusion techniques for evaluating history of fluid composition. Currently, he and his students are working on a variety of projects dealing with upstream fossil fuel energy supply including both conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources. TOP
Graham, Stephan, is W.J. and M.L. Crook Professor in Stanford University’s School of Earth Sciences, where he also serves as Associate Dean and co-Director of the Stanford Project on Deep-water Depositional Systems. He holds an A.B. degree from Indiana University and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in geology from Stanford University. Dr. Graham’s research focuses on the tectonics and fill patterns of sedimentary basins and their petroleum resources, especially basins associated with convergent continental margins and collisional orogens; as well as the characteristics and evolution of deep-water clastic depositional systems. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Dr. Graham held positions in the Exploration and the Production Departments of Chevron, as well as Exxon Production Research Company. He is a recipient of AAPG’s Sproule Award and Grover Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award. TOP
Green, Richard, began his career in New Orleans, Louisiana with Shell Oil Company in 1973 after graduating from Kansas State University with a BS degree in geology. After working as a production engineer and development geologist in a number of Gulf Coast onshore and offshore fields, he accepted a position with DeGolyer and MacNaughton Consultants in Dallas Texas in 1978. At D&M he prepared volumetric reserve estimates on numerous Gulf Coast oil and gas fields prior to leaving the firm in 1980. Mr. Green worked for several Dallas independent oil companies prior to co-founding Dallas Petroleum Partners, a private oil company in 1986 where he explored and operated in several states and offshore Louisiana. He then joined Netherland Sewell Consultants in 1994 as a Vice-President-Geology and gained extensive international experience in West Africa, Russia and South America as well as multiple domestic basins. He co-founded LaRoche Petroleum Consultants in 1998 and performed numerous reserve, geologic and field studies both domestically and internationally until his resignation in 2006 to accept the president and CEO position at Saxon Oil Company in Dallas, TX. Mr. Green resigned from Saxon in 2010 to relocate to Missouri and resume his career as an independent consultant. TOP
Grieser, Bill, has been employed with Halliburton for 34 years as an engineer, focused on well completion design and reservoir evaluation. He is presently a member of Halliburton’s technology group in Oklahoma City, responsible for completion practice oversight of unconventional resources in the midcontinent. Other duties include mentorship and guidance of international engineers and projects involving unconventional development outside the US. Bill is a graduate of Missouri School of Mines. (1975 BS Nuclear, 1978 BS Mechanical Engineering). He holds a Professional engineering license PE in Oklahoma and Texas, and is an active member of OSPE, SPE, API, and AAPG.TOP