With speakers from various disciplines and professions, the SPE Distinguished Lecturer program focuses on the hottest trends, tools, and technology in E&P around the globe. View the complete 2018-2019 Distinguished Lecturer schedule at www.spe.org/dl/schedule.php.
2. ROBERTO F. AGUILERA
Research Fellow
Curtin University
The Exceptional Price
Performance of Oil:
Explanations and
Prospects
3. COSAN AYAN
Reservoir Engineering Advisor
Schlumberger (ret.)
Reservoir and Fluid
Characterization with
Formation Testers:
Reducing Asset Uncertainties
4. KRESO KURT BUTULA
Reservoir Management Advisor
Schlumberger
The Unfulfilled Expectation of
Horizontal Wells with Multistage
Fracture Completions in
Conventional Reservoirs:
A Solution
5. RAJAN CHOKSHI
Artificial Lift & Production Optimizer
Accutant Solutions
Real-Time Data
Acquisition & Analysis
for Enhanced Production
6. TORSTEN CLEMENS
Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor
OMV Upstream
EOR from Micro-Scale
to Field Implementation:
Example of Polymer
Injection
12. CHARLES HINRICHSEN
Chemical Treatment Specialist (ret)
Controlling Scale Deposition:
Advances in Using
Technology to Preserve
Production in the Oil Field
14. ISMARULLIZAM MOHD ISMAIL
Subsurface Engineering Manager
Tendeka
Autonomous Inflow
Control Device:
Principle, Prediction & Reality
15. MEDHAT (Med) KAMAL
Emeritus Fellow
Chevron
Conventional & Unconventional
Reservoirs:
What is In and Out in Today's
Pressure and Rate
Transient Analysis
20. SRIKANTA MISHRA
Institute Fellow / Chief Scientist (Energy)
Battelle Memorial Institute
Big Data Analytics:
What Can It Do for Petroleum
Engineers & Geoscientists?
22. KAREN OLSON
Director of Technologies
Southwestern Energy Company
Freshwater Neutral:
Managing Water Use and
Giving Back to the Environment
23. CHARLES POPE
Completions Technology Supervisor
Devon Energy
Stop, Drop and Circulate:
An Engineered Approach to
Coiled Tubing Intervention
in Horizontal Wells
24. HANK RAWLINS
Technical Director
eProcess Technologies
Enhanced Production
Through Surface Facilities
Sand Management
25. MARTIN RYLANCE
Global Senior Advisor for Hydraulic
Fracturing & Stimulation
BP Russia
The "Fracts" of Life
(Common Failure Mechanisms
Associated with Fracturing)
Vice President, Wells
BP Russia
27. SZEZANA SEVIC
Process Chemistry Specialist
PM Lucan Enterprises
How to Develop a
Management System to Avoid
Inorganic Scale Problems
28. GEORGE STOSUR
Oil and Gas Research & Development
U.S. Department of Energy (ret.)
Global Climate Change Wars
and Fossil Energy:
Current and Future Realities
30. HOLDER THERN
Technical Lead, NMR Research
Baker Hughes - a GE company
NMR Logging While Drilling:
From Concept to Reality
31. MARK VAN DOMELEN
Vice President of Technology
Downhole Chemical Solutions
Developing the Next Generation
of Completion Engineers
32. JJ XIAO
Petroleum Engineering Constultant
Saudi Aramco
Enhancing Production with
Electric Submersible Pumps:
Challenges and Solutions
33. DING ZHU
Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Texas A&M University
Using Downhole Fiber Optic
Temperature Sensing
Technology to Monitor,
Control and Improve Well
Performance