Speaker Information
John Sinclair
Vice President of Exploration for AMVEST Gas Resources, a privately held E&P company based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has 14 years’ experience in the petroleum industry, with expertise in coalbed methane and tight gas sands exploration and development. He holds a BS and a MS degree in geology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Michael J. Miller
Mr. Michael J. (Mike) Miller is employed by the Energy & Mineral
Resources Division of Marshall Miller & Associates, a multi-service geological
and engineering firm with 200 employees, headquartered in Bluefield, Virginia.
The company offers geophysical logging, field handling and laboratory desorption
of coal cores, and a geological and engineering staff with extensive coalbed
methane experience.
Mr. Miller holds a B.S. degree in physics (St. Bonaventure University) and a M.S. degree in petroleum engineering (The University of Tulsa), and is a registered professional engineer. He has more than 23 years of engineering and operations management experience with major and independent oil and gas companies. Since 1988, he has been involved in all phases of coalbed methane projects, including prospect evaluation, exploration, field development, completions, and gathering systems design. Mr. Miller has also worked with deep gas plays, Devonian shales, tight sands, and waterflood and enhanced oil recovery projects. He has considerable experience in the Arkoma, Central Appalachian, Cherokee, Michigan, and Permian Basins.
Doug Wight Vice President, Corporate Development
Mr. Wight is a senior exploration geologist with 27 years
of oil and gas experience in the petroleum industry. He has extensive exploration
experience in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana and
South America. He attended the United States Naval Academy as an ocean engineer
and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Geology. Among
his duties as head of Corporate Development for CDX Gas is responsibility
for the formation of joint ventures and coordination of new acquisitions
and divestitures. Mr. Wight also leads CDX’s unconventional reservoir
exploration efforts. He joined CDX in October 1999.
Simon Testa - Geologist, TICORA Geosciences, Inc.
Mr. Testa is a geologist specializing in the evaluation of coal and shale gas reservoir resource and production potential. He has experience in performing unconventional gas reservoir simulations using GEM TM and characterizing unconventional reservoir resources. Mr. Testa has worked on comprehensive testing programs for over 50 unconventional well programs, ranging from commercial exploration and development to extensive research projects. He has numerous publications including the joint authorship of six GRI “frontier coal and shale gas reservoirs” topical reports and technical papers. Mr. Testa earned a B.S., Summa Cum Laude, and a M.Phil. in Geology from Cardiff University (Wales, UK) and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists.
Publications:
2004 |
Testa, S. M., Hoffman, C. F., & Mavor, M. J. 2004. Reservoir Property Analysis, Kerr-McGee Corporation Wells, Laramie Formation, Denver-Julesburg Basin: Gas Technology Institute, GRI-04/0056, Des Plaines, Illinois |
2004 |
Testa, S. M., Hoffman, C. F., & Mavor, M. J. 2004. Reservoir Property Analysis, VPR ST-21, Raton and Vermejo Formations, Raton Basin: Gas Technology Institute, GRI-04/0058, Des Plaines, Illinois |
2004 |
Testa, S. M., Hoffman, C. F., & Mavor, M. J. 2004. Reservoir Property Analysis, Mangels 24-2SD, Woodford Shale, Cherokee Basin: Gas Technology Institute, GRI-04/0060, Des Plaines, Illinois |
2004 |
Testa, S. M., Hoffman, C. F., & Mavor, M. J. 2004. Reservoir Property Analysis, El Paso Production Company Wells Kansas City, Marmaton, & Cherokee Groups, Forest City Basin: Gas Technology Institute, GRI-04/0179, Des Plaines, Illinois |
2003 |
Testa, S. M., Hoffman, C. F., & Mavor, M. J. 2003. Reservoir Property Analysis, Pappy Draw Federal 4-1, Wasatch & Fort Union Formations, Great Divide Basin: Gas Technology Institute, GRI-03/0198, Des Plaines, Illinois |
Phillip Rullman, Manager Gas Management, Southern Star Pipeline
Manager Gas Management-Customer Service & Business Development, has been responsible for the
Southern Star, headquartered in
Michael L. Stephens, Drilling Specialties Company
Mike is a cementing materials expert with 24+ years experience in the petroleum industry specializing in well construction. He is currently employed at Drilling Specialties Company (DSCo) a division of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (CPChem). CPChem is a partnership between ConocoPhillips Petroleum Company and ChevronTexaco Oil Corp. Mike is a member of the specialty chemicals group and currently holds the position of World Wide Cement Accounts Manager. He is responsible for the development, manufacture, marketing, and application of linear polymers for the modification of cement slurry properties.
Mike holds a B.S. degree in mathematics, engineering physics, and industrial technology from Northeastern State University. He also holds a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Mike is the author of 34 US and foreign patents in area of well cementing. He has been a member of the American Petroleum Institute for the past 19 years and is the ConocoPhillips representative for cementing. Mike has extensive experienced in onshore and offshore design of cementing fluids for oil and gas wells worldwide, i.e. North and South America, Europe, the North Sea, Middle East, Southeast Asia, China, and the former Soviet Union.
Vello A. Kuuskraa, Advanced Resources International, Inc., vkuuskraa@adv-res.com
Mr. Vello A. Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources, has
over 30 years of experience
in energy resources development, technology and economics. He is a recognized
expert
on the technologies of coalbed methane recovery and enhanced oil recovery
and their
adaptation for CO2 sequestration. For example, he was the 1986/87 Society
of Petroleum
Engineers Distinguished Lecturer and served as lead expert on Natural Gas
and Coalbed
Methane on the Secretary of Energy's Trade Missions to China, India and South
Africa. He
has published over 150 technical papers, reports and presentations on energy
resources.
He is a recent recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Mr. Kuuskraa
holds an M.B.A.,
Operations Research/Industrial Management, from the University of Pennsylvania,
The
Wharton Graduate School, 1965 and a B.S., Applied Mathematics/ Economics;
North
Carolina State University, 1963.
Andrew R. Scott, Altuda Consultants
Andrew R. Scott has more than 14 years of coalbed methane experience and has published more than 70 senior author papers and abstracts. He has received more than a dozen awards for his research efforts from a variety of geological organizations including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geological Society of America, International Coalbed Methane Symposium, and the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (Mountain Geologist Journal). Prior to starting Altuda Energy Corporation, Mr. Scott held a position of Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on a wide variety of research projects and served as Program Director of Domestic Energy Research. Andrew also served as Director for the Texas Region Petroleum Technology Transfer Council and, recently, President of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Dr. Eric Maidla, Slider LLC
Dr. Eric Maidla is the founder and partner of Slider LLC that specializes in automated directional drilling technologies. He was Vice President of Business Development for Noble from 2001 to 2004. Prior to that he worked in Australia for 7 years as the head of the Drilling group for CSIRO an Australian Government Research Organization.
Among his major accomplishments are: Founded the Petroleum Engineering Department at the State University of Campinas in Brazil in 1988. Started the Genesis project for CSIRO in Drilling Data Management. Conceived, Managed and Developed the Slider directional drilling technology for Noble.
Jim is CMG’s Managing Director for software sales and support in the
USA and in the GCC countries in the Middle East. He has 30 years of industry
experience, primarily in reservoir and production engineering related positions
with the services and software segments of the E&P industry, since graduating
from Penn State with BS and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering in ’71
and ’74. Jim has been directly involved with some of the industry’s
leading advances over the years, including closed chamber and surface pressure
readout Drill Stem Testing, Pressure Transient Testing and NODAL Analysis
technology, Stimulation Treatment design & monitoring techniques, production
surveillance software (The Production Analyst), and most recently, improvements
to the workflow used to build, run and analyze reservoir flow simulation
models.