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2020 SPE Distinguished Members

Established in 1983, Distinguished Membership recognizes SPE members who achieve distinction deemed worthy of special recognition. This award acknowledges members who have attained eminence in the industry or the academic community, or who have made significant contributions to SPE. A member is automatically elected if they are a recipient of the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, John Franklin Carll Award, Lester C. Uren Award, DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal, Public Service Award, the Distinguished Service Award, past president of SPE or AIME or an SPE-AIME Honorary Member. Abdulaziz Al-Majed is an Luiz Amado has 25+ years adjunct professor in the of experience in the oil & Department of Petroleum gas industry. He is currently Engineering at King Fahd working for BHP Petroleum University of Petroleum in as a Principal and Minerals, Dhahran. Reservoir Engineer in the Prior to that he was the Chairman of the E&A Group, where he contributes to prospect Department and Director of the Center for maturation and appraisal strategies. Prior to Petroleum and Minerals, Research Institute at that, he held senior positions with universities, KFUPM. He received his Ph.D. degree from the service/software companies, operating and non- University of Southern California, MS degree operating companies. Luiz holds a BS in Civil from Stanford University, and BS degree from Engineering from Federal Fluminense (), King Fahd University of Petroleum and MS in from Campinas Minerals, all in Petroleum Engineering. His State University (Brazil) and PhD from industrial experience includes working for brief Montanuniversitaet Leoben (Austria). periods for in the reservoir, production, drilling and workover departments. Subhash Ayirala is improved/enhanced oil Eissa Al-Safran is a professor recovery (IOR/EOR) specialist of petroleum engineering and is currently leading the and former vice dean for SmartWater flooding team at research and academic Saudi Aramco’s EXPEC affairs at the College of Advanced Research Center, Dhahran, Saudi Engineering and Petroleum Arabia, as focus area champion. He has more at Kuwait University. Al-Safran is the founder and than 15 years’ experience in oil & gas industry. director of the Kuwait University Petroleum He played a major role in the successful Production Research Projects and cofounder and execution of SmartWater flooding multiscale associate director of the NMT Production and research program besides unraveling the Drilling research consortium. He earned BSc. importance of injection water chemistry in the (1995), MSc. (1999), and PhD (2003) degrees in EOR portfolio to develop several novel hybrid PE, and a MSc. degree in mathematics and recovery technologies. Prior to joining Saudi science education (2003), all from The University Aramco, Subhash worked as Reservoir Engineer of Tulsa (TU). Al-Safran worked as a reservoir in Shell International Exploration & Production, engineer, and production engineering Houston, TX, USA. Subhash holds both MS and consultant in Kuwait Oil Company. Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Rubén Caligari is a professor Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, of Petroleum Engineering at USA. He also holds B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Instituto Tecnologico de Chemical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara , instructor of University, Tirupati, and Indian Institute of technical courses, and Technology, Kharagpur, India, respectively. participates in Industry and Government initiatives on Pavel Bedrikovetsky is Energy Education. He has more than 40 years’ Professor of Petroleum experience in engineering and operations in E&P Engineering at the University and retired as Sr. Technical Advisor in of Adelaide. Prior to joining unconventional resources for . In his the University of Adelaide in professional career he was Manager of 2008, during 1991-1994 Knowledge Management for Petrobras Pavel was a Visiting Professor at Delft University and Manager of Engineering for of Technology and at Imperial College of Science Pecom Energia leading multidisciplinary teams in and Technology. During 1994-2008 he was a project evaluations, field developing and mature senior staff consultant to Petrobras (Brazil). His fields revitalizations in Argentina and several expertise and research covers waterflood, Latin American countries. He earned a formation damage and EOR. Pavel has authors Petroleum Engineering degree from Universidad authored a seminal book on reservoir Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. engineering and EOR, and 250 technical papers in international high-impact journals and SPE. He Carlos A. Chalbaud works holds BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics, as Business Development Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, and DSc in Reservoir Manager for Storengy, a Engineering, all from Gubkin Oil-Gas subsidiary of Engie Group. University. His main responsibilities are in the Americas on natural Hernán Buijs is Wintershall gas, geothermal energy and Dea biogas. Prior to this position he worked in various Subject-Matter Expert. He technical and managerial roles in Oil and Gas has worked on multiple Exploration and Production for over 12 years projects across South based in and the UK. Carlos was a America, Europe, North member of the Board of Directors of the Society Sea, Middle East and of Petroleum Engineering from 2013 to 2016, in Regions. He developed and taught numerous which he represented the North Sea region. He custom-made courses on hydraulic fracturing has served as member of the Board of the SPE and reservoir characterization as university Section and the France Section, The professor, invited speaker or company in-house Editorial Board of The Way Ahead and in several matter expert. He earned an Industrial other volunteer roles. He is a recipient of the SPE Engineering and a Petroleum Engineering degree Young Member Outstanding Service Award and at the Institute of Technology of Buenos Aires, the London Section Award. He holds a B.Sc. in Argentina. Hernán is a 2020 recipient of the SPE Chemical Engineer from Simon Bolivar Distinguished Service Award. University, a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering, both from IFP-School, and an MBA from IE Business School. Carlos is a 2020 recipient of the SPE Distinguished Service Award. George V. Chilingar(ian) is Wattenberg Completions Manager. Graduating Professor Emeritus of from Montana State University in 1980 with a Petroleum, Civil and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Environmental Engineering degree, Mike started his 40-year oil industry at the University of career as a Field Engineer for Southern California (USC), Services. Mike went on to become the Rocky Los Angeles, California. He Mountain Technology Manager where he led a received his BS and MS Degrees in Petroleum multi-disciplined team focused on Engineering at the University of Southern unconventional resources completions and California (USC) in 1949 and 1950, respectively. optimization. Mike is a registered professional While he was working on his Ph.D. in Geology at Petroleum Engineer in Colorado. Mike is a 2020 USC, he spent four years in the U.S. Air Force, recipient of the SPE Distinguished Service Award where he made a scientific breakthrough in jet John Ely started his career fuel and was given the position of Chief of the Petroleum and Chemicals Laboratory at Wright with Halliburton Co., in Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. By 1956 he was 1965, working as a awarded a Ph.D. in Geology with the minor in technician for the Analytical Petroleum Engineering. After his term serving in group while completing his the US Air Force, he returned to USC as a college work. He graduated member of the School of Engineering faculty. For from Oklahoma State University in 1968 with a over 60 years, Professor George V. Chilingar B.A. in chemistry. On returning to Halliburton, taught various courses in Petroleum Mr. Ely served as chemist and senior chemist in fracturing research before transferring to Engineering, , and International Operations. Ely joined Nowsco Environmental Engineering at USC. Services in 1980 as Engineering Manager. His Torsten Clemens is a Senior responsibilities included overseeing chemical Reservoir Engineering and mechanical research and coordinating Adviser with OMV training for field engineers. In 1985, John joined Upstream where he works S.A. Holditch and Associates as Vice-President of on EOR, field Stimulation Technology. John with three redevelopment planning partners founded Ely & Associates, Inc. This and digitalization. company provides a blend of practical and Previously, he spent 8 years with Shell technical expertise on well completion, developing advanced recovery methods and stimulation fluids and equipment, and reservoir looking into fractured reservoirs. Torsten analysis. In addition to fracturing expertise John published more than 90 technical papers, has been deeply involved with treatment and amongst them two best papers. Clemens recycling of fracturing fluids. John holds more received the SPE Regional Award for Reservoir than 80 patents and publications, including two Description and Dynamics and he was an SPE editions of a book titled "Stimulation Treatment Distinguished Lecturer. He obtained a MS and Handbook/ An Engineer's Guide to Quality PhD degrees from University of Tuebingen on Control". John is the recipient of the 2020 SPE hydrogeology for reactive transport modelling. John Franklin Carll Award.

Mike Eberhard was COO John Etherington spent 32 and EVP for SRC Energy. years with Mobil Oil in USA, Mike joined SRC in August , Indonesia and the 2015 after working for U.K. before establishing an Anadarko Petroleum for independent consulting four years as the practice in in 2000. He served on the trainee on a semi-submersible off Eastern Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Oil and Gas Canada. He later became the project engineer Reserves Committee with primary responsibility on the first multiplex BOP control system for for drafting the 2007 Petroleum Resources operations in 6,000 ft of water. He moved into Management System (PRMS). He was a major operations as a field technician progressing to contributor to the subsequent 2011 SPE North Sea Division Manager for Anadrill after the Petroleum Reserves Classification Guidance, the purchase and the creation of 2019 SPE Estimating and Auditing Standards for Sedco Forex. He joined VARCO, now National Reserves document, and the 2018 PRMS update. Oilwell Varco, as a project manager and later He holds a BSc and MSc degrees in Geology from managed a team building a supervisory control Western University in London, Ontario and the system for offshore and land rigs. In 2004 he was University of Alberta in Edmonton. the product champion of a controller used to drill a test well in Texas by a remote driller in England Tore Fjågesund is the – believed to be the first Transatlantic remote Founder and current drilling operation. He retired in 2015 as Director Managing Director of of Advanced Drilling Technology. Fred holds an Wellbarrier, a Norwegian MBA in Marketing and a MA in International company that was acquired Management from the University of Texas at by Schlumberger in 2018. He Dallas. His undergraduate degree is a Bachelor started his career in Saudi Arabia working with of Science in Electrical Engineering from Flopetrol, later to become Schlumberger Well Southern Methodist University. Testing. He worked as a consultant for Norsk Hydro, Statoil/ and Lundin working with William Haskett is the Intelligent Completions and setting up internal Managing Director of the Drilling and Well Management systems. He has Haskett Consulting 40 years of experience working with Drilling & International companies in Wells where he has spent more than 20 years Canada and the United working with well barriers and well integrity. He States. He was previously has co-authored two revisions of the Norsok D- Chairman and Senior Principal for Energy 010 standard “Well Integrity in Drilling and Well Strategy at Decision Strategies (2000-2015), and Operations”. His engagement in well integrity Senior Exploration Advisor for Unocal Worldwide led to the inauguration of the Wellbarrier New Ventures (1980-2000). Having spent 40 company and the provision of a digital well years in the energy, infrastructure development, barrier and well integrity solution now widely LNG, and mining industries he provides strategy, used by Operating companies around the world training, and project decision support to as part of solutions to safeguard oil and gas well countries, companies, and teams worldwide. He activities. Fjågesund hold degrees in mechanical holds a B.Sc. degree in Geology from McMaster engineering from Telemark University College University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and an and in petroleum engineering from MBA with concentrations in Finance and University College in . Organizational Development from the Haskanye Business School at the University of Calgary, Fred Florence is the Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Bill is also a Decision president of Rig Operations, Professional, a Certified , LLC providing consulting and and a Licensed Paramedic. Bill is recipient of the training services mainly for 2020 Public Service Award. automation and controls related to drilling operations. He entered the industry in 1973 with the drilling contractor SEDCO as an engineer Phaneendra Kondapi is 25-year membership. Mr. Koperna continues to currently serving as the support the SPE National Capital Section, holding Assistant Dean of several elected positions between 1998 to Engineering Programs at present. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in University of Houston and as Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering awarded a Professor Subsea from West Virginia University in 1992 and 1994, Engineering. He is the Founding Director of respectively. George is a recipient of the 2020 Engineering Programs at UH Katy campus and SPE Distinguished Service Award. served also as Director of Subsea Engineering. Previously, he was the Director of Subsea Marcelo Laprea-Bigott is a Engineering and Professor of Practice at Texas Professor of Engineering A&M University. Phaneendra is also an affiliate Practice at the Petroleum Engineering Department faculty at Colorado School of Mines. Phaneendra and Program Manager, gave over 50 technical presentations and invited talks at various international conferences and Cooperative Agreement, universities, over 50 industry presentations and DOE, A&M University- has organized/chaired over 50 technical Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory- sessions/meetings. He also has published over Stanford University-INPEX Eagle Ford, LLC. at 25 articles in various journals and magazines. Texas A&M University in College Station. Has Phaneendra has received his Ph.D. from been involved in teaching and research at Tennessee Technological University and B.S. and different Universities as Professor of Petroleum M.S. from Andhra University, all in Chemical Engineering at Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, visiting Adjunct Professor at Texas Engineering A&M and visiting Adjunct Professor at University George J. Koperna Jr. is of Tulsa. In the private sector, served as founder, Advanced Resources principal owner and President of SIMUPET, C.A., International’s Vice a Petroleum Engineering Consulting firm and President of Engineering. Consorcio Lamar C.A., an integrated oil field He has held numerous tubulars management company. President of volunteer positions within S.A. Holditch-Venezuela and the Business the SPE, including serving on the International Development Manager for HRT – Schlumberger Board of Directors as the Northeastern North OFS. Marcelo holds a Ms. Sc. and Doctor of American Regional Director (2006-2009), Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering from Texas chairing its Audit Committee from 2007-2009. A&M University and Petroleum Engineering Mr. Koperna has also participated in the SPE degree from Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela. Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee (2004-2006), the SPE Reservoir Award Shouxiang (Mark) Ma is a Committee (2016-2017) and as its Chairperson in Senior 2018, the Reservoir Technical Director Advisory Consultant overseeing research, technology, and Committee (2015-2018), and as an Officer in the professional development Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration Board/Technical Section from at Reservoir Description 2012-2019, chairing it from 2015-2017. Division, Saudi Aramco. Additionally, he has spent the last 8 years as Mark was Supervisor of Petrophysical Support & SPE’s representative to A.I.M.E. on the Hoover Study Unit, Petrophysics Advisor at Upstream Board of Award and has chaired or participated Professional Development Center, and lead on program committees for numerous SPE petrophysicist for logging operations at Saudi technical meetings, fora, and workshops over his Aramco since 2000. Ma worked at Exxon Production Research Company, Wyoming Western Research Institute, New Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), and as an Petroleum Recovery Research Center, and independent natural gas producer as a Managing Yangtze University. He started the LinkedIn Member and principal of K. Stewart Energy group Learning and Practicing Petrophysics Group and K. Stewart Petroleum Corp. He holds Together with more than 1000 members and co- a BS degree with distinction in Petroleum manage another bigger group Petrophysics and Engineering and an MS degree in Engineering Core Analysis with more than 5000 members Management, both from Stanford University, Mark holds a BS degree from China Petroleum and is a registered professional engineer in University, and MS and PhD degrees from New Oklahoma. Mexico Tech, all in petroleum engineering. Evren M. Ozbayoglu is R. Keith MacLeod is a currently a “Chapman retired petroleum engineer Endowed Wellspring from Sproule, a worldwide Professor” at The independent petroleum University of Tulsa (TU), consulting firm Petroleum Engineering headquartered in Calgary, Department (PE), and the Canada. His career spans 40 Executive Director of The University of Tulsa, years, starting as a junior engineer and Drilling Research Projects (TUDRP). He joined the progressing to the position of Chief Executive Faculty of the TU-PE Department in August 2009. Officer and Chairman of the Board, prior to his He was previously a full-time faculty and retirement in 2014. In this position he was department co-chair at Middle East Technical responsible for overseeing Sproule’s Canadian, University – Petroleum and Natural Gas U.S., International, Unconventional and Project Engineering (METU-PETE). Ozbayoglu has more Management businesses. Keith has experience than 50 journal articles, more than 100 working on projects in 30 countries spanning 6 conference papers from various proceedings, continents. Keith lectured at the University of and has written 2 book chapters. He has Calgary and presented to industry on oil and gas participated in several joint industrial projects property evaluation and public disclosure serving as PI, co-PI and researcher on projects related matters. He earned his Diploma in related to major topics. He Technology in Mineral Science from the College earned his BSc and MSc from METU, and his PhD of Cape Breton, now Cape Breton University. He degree from The University of Tulsa. earned a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Mining Engineering from Montana College of Mineral Satinder Purewal has been Science and Technology, Butte, Montana. (since 2004) an Honorary Professor of Petroleum C. Michael Ming is the Engineering at Imperial President and Founder of College teaching part of the Ming Energy Partners, LLC. MSc course in Petroleum He retired in 2018 as the VP Engineering. He has over - Executive Liaison for three decades of global Reservoir Engineering Marketing & Technology experience for many large Oil and Gas field for , a GE developments (e.g. Kashagan (Kazakhstan); Company. Formerly, Mike served as the original Buzzard (UK), Oughroud (Algeria), several fields General Manager of General Electric’s Global in Nigeria, etc.). His last senior position in Shell Research O&G Technology Center in Oklahoma was for Reserves Assurance signoff (European City. Mike previously served as the Oklahoma Region) and head of Global Reserves Training. Secretary of Energy under Governor Mary Fallin, Previously, he was director of reservoir the President of the Research Partnership to engineering courses in Shell Learning Centre (Rijswijk). Recently, he provided commercial and Marisela Sanchez-Nagel is technical M&A advice to company boards and currently President of held several board and advisory positions. He is OilField Geomechanics LLC, a recognized experienced leader for reserves a women-owned business assurance, reserves classification (PRMS and focused on petroleum UNFC) and reserves training. With the UNECE, he geomechanics training and is currently Chairman of the Petroleum Work consulting, founded in Group, Member of the Technical Advisory Group 2014. Sanchez-Nagel has nearly 25 years of and a Member of the Expert Group on Resource global industry experience in Geomechanics Management. He is a Fellow of the Institute of applied to Oil and Gas, having worked for Physics, Fellow of the Energy Institute, Member Intevep, the technology arm of PDVSA in of SPEE and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He Venezuela; as President of Global GeoSolutions, holds BSc (Honours), MSc and PhD degrees from an independent geomechanics consulting Imperial College. company in Latin America; for Geomechanics International as a project manager; and as Chandra S. Rai is currently General Manager and President of Itasca Martin Miller Chair Houston from 2007 to 2014. She has worked on Professor in the many geomechanical projects around the world, Mewbourne School of and has presented at numerous geomechanics Petroleum and Geological schools, training courses and invited talks. Engineering at the Sanchez-Nagel holds a PhD. from the University University of Oklahoma. He of Oklahoma in Geological Engineering and served as the director of Mewbourne School of Geomechanics, a Geotechnical Engineering MS Petroleum and Geological Engineering from from Universidad Simon Bolivar and a Mining 2007 to 2019. During his tenure he was Engineering degree from Universidad Central de responsible for modernization of all the Venezuela. undergraduate teaching laboratories, hiring 20 new faculty members, and managing six-fold Subhash Shah is Shell Chair increase in undergraduate enrollment and along Professor and Chief with Prof. Sondergeld started two industrial Mentor in the School of consortia, Experimental Rock Physics and Petroleum Technology, Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs. Pandit Deendayal Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, he Petroleum University was with Amoco Production Company Research (PDPU), India. He is also an Emeritus Professor in Center and with BPAmoco in various technical the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and and management positions. At Amoco he was member and then team leader of the team Geological Engineering (MPGE) at the University responsible for doing R&D in the broad area of of Oklahoma (OU). He retired from OU after rock physics and petrophysics. He was serving 22 years as Stephenson Chair Professor associated with the development of rock and MPGE Director (2000-2002). During his properties database, on-site core tenure at OU, he also served as the Director of characterization system, and rock modeling OU’s Well Construction Technology Center. He software. He obtained BS and MS in Applied has a distinguished career in the oil and gas Geophysics from the Indian School of Mines, and industry that spans over 45 years: 18 years with a PhD in 1977 from the University of Hawaii in Halliburton and 27 years in academics. Shah Geology and Geophysics. holds a B.E. from M.S. University of Baroda, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. from University of New Mexico, USA, all in chemical engineering. Ashok K. Singhal is the decade as a Research Scientist in the Reservoir Principal Consultant with Simulation Research team in Chevron Energy Premier Reservoir Technology Company. Tchelepi joined the Engineering Services Ltd., Stanford faculty in July 2003. Prof. Tchelepi based in Calgary, Canada. served on the Organizing Committee of the SPE He had earlier worked with Symposium (RSS) for more Alberta Research Council/Petroleum Recovery than a decade, and he was Chair of the 2011 RSS. Institute as a Senior Staff Scientist, with Gulf Tchelepi has B.S. and M.S. degrees from King Canada as a Coordinator of Reservoir Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Engineering for Heavy Oil/ (KFUPM), and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford Development, and with Indian Institute of University - all in Petroleum Engineering. Hamdi Technology, Kanpur as an Assistant Professor of is the 2020 recipient of the SPE Robert Earll Chemical Engineering. His work focus has largely McConnell Award. been on . He received a Jun Yao is currently Vice- B.Sc. (Honours) from Indian School of Mines, President of China Dhanbad, an M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton and a Ph.D. from the University of Petroleum University of California, Berkeley, all in (East China), Director of Petroleum Engineering. Center of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media (CMFPM), Junichi Sugiura is the Vice Head of the Chinese Chapter of the International President and co-founder Society for Porous Media (InterPore), Committee of Sanvean Technologies, member of the Academic Degrees Committee of which specializes in the State Council, Chairman of Chinese Society designing, developing and manufacturing innovative for Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Head of “Cheung downhole measurement and control systems Kong Scholars” Innovative Research Team by technology for the oil and gas industry. He was National Ministry of Education, Member of New formerly a Schlumberger Principal Engineer in Century National Talent Project, and Taishan the UK. From 2012 to 2020, Sugiura served as a Scholar Climbing Program of Shandong province. Session Chair and as Drilling/Completions Yao’s research focuses on the modeling and Program Committee chair for the IADC/SPE simulation of multiphase flow in porous media. Drilling Conference and the SPE Annual Technical Yao is the P.I. (Principal Investigator) of several Conference and Exhibition (ATCE). In 2019, he major national projects of China, including served as an SPE ATCE Vice Chair in Calgary, National 863 Program, 973 Program, National Canada, and he is a 2020 SPE ATCE Program Chair Natural Science Foundation, and Major National in Houston, Texas, USA. He holds a BS degree in Oil and Gas projects. He received a BASc, MASc., Electrical Engineering Honors from the and Ph.D., all in Reservoir Engineering from University of Texas at Austin. China University of Petroleum. Hamdi Tchelepi is the Chair of the Energy Resources Engineering (ERE) Department at Stanford University. He worked for a

Anatoly Zolotukhin is a Rectorate adviser and professor at the Russian State Gubkin University (NRU) of Oil and Gas (Moscow, Russia), chaired professor at the Northern Arctic Federal University (Archangelsk, Russia) and Professor Emeritus at the Stavanger University (Norway). He serves as professor at the Gubkin University for over 40 years and at the University of Stavanger for more than 25 years. He is the author of more than 250 professional publications among which 25 monographs and textbooks. Worked for nearly 10 years in Statoil as a project manager and Technical Director (1999-2008). He is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Norwegian Scientific Academy of Polar Research and Senior Vice-President of the . He holds MS in applied mathematics, MS, PhD and Doctor of Science degrees in petroleum engineering.

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