ANDREW ARKINSTALL
Is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner (CMIOSH) with over ten years of experience in all fields of occupational safety. He works in many counties as the Head of Occupational Safety and Health Training with PetroSkills HSE partner Corporate Risk Systems Limited (CRS)., He is the course leader for the PetroSkills HS-70 ‘Accredited Health and Safety Practitioner’ course. He holds the NEBOSH Diploma and CIEH food hygiene qualifications.
STEPHEN ASBURY
Is a Director of Corporate Risk Systems Limited and has worked in more than 40 countries on 6 continents. He is the best-selling and widely published author of internationally-published risk management titles, and a highly-experienced HSE practitioner. He is a Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner, a Chartered Environmentalist, and a Professional Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers with over 25 years risk management experience.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Council of Management of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), and the Chair of the IOSH Professional Committee. He was awarded MBA with Distinction, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (1995).
STANLEY ATNIPP
Is an experienced oil and gas professional specializing in drilling engineering, operations, and supervision of field operations, which includes extensive office and field supervisory experience. He has a proven track record of reducing safety incidents through personal dedication and working with all personnel involved. He is proficient in casing and well design, operations management, and field operations as well and has a technical expertise that includes proficiency in use of TDAS, PERC, DIMS, and hydraulics programs. He received a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.
DR. ASNUL BAHAR
Has been developing and implementing new techniques for reservoir field studies and related fields for 10 years. For 4 years he has been taught courses relating to Geostatistics for integrated reservoir modeling. He is proficient in using commercial software (PETREL) and in customizing C++ software for reservoir modeling, and has performed flow simulation study using an ECLIPSE flow simulator. He has been coordinating the operation of various on-going consulting studies and projects, including: Reservoir Rock Type Modeling, Stochastic Property Modeling, Fracture Integration and History Matching, Fracture Modeling and Integration into Reservoir Model, UAE Reservoir Evaluation, Integrated Reservoir Characterization and Flow Simulation, and more. He has an M.S. Ph.D. in Petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia.
RICHARD BALL
Is Head of Environment for Corporate Risk Systems Limited with 12 years risk management experience gained working both in consultancy, public and private sectors.. He leads the PetroSkills Environmental Practitioner / Applied Learning course and delivers on all the HSE management programs. He is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner, and a Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, He has a wide range of experienced in auditing and development of management systems in health, safety and environmental fields. He is co- author of 'Corporate Social Responsibility - A Practical Guide for Practitioners' to be published by IOSH Publishing in 2008.
DR. OMAR BARKAT
Is Executive Director for Upstream Operations with PetroProTech and has been a training specialist and technical consultant for PetroSkills since 1997.
He has over 24 years of combined industrial and academic experience in North Africa, Europe and the USA. He has been an active international Oil and Gas Consulting Engineer since 1993 involved in projects related to surface production operations, petroleum fluid dynamics, oil and gas systems performance optimization, oil and gas treating and processing and equipment design. From 1980-95, he worked on several oil and gas production technical issues and led research and development projects in areas such as: cement slurries, hydraulic fracturing fluids, proppant transport, emulsions, drilling muds, formation damage, cutting transport, H2S/CO2 corrosion, fluid flow and rheology, drag and pour point reducing agents and petroleum processing.
He has successfully delivered short courses, seminars and lectures in a variety of oil and gas topics throughout the world. He was an associate professor at the University of Tulsa, and a professor at McNeese State University. He is a member of several international societies including SPE, AIChE, ACS and ASEE, and a member of the National Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi.
He is the author of numerous technical publications, the recipient of several professorship, research, teaching and merit awards and listed in the Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He received a Chemical Engineering State Diploma from the National Polytechnique School of Algiers, an M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Tulsa.
DR. COLIN BARKER
Has over 30 years experience in organic geochemistry including being a consultant to Amoco, Conoco, and with the Organic Geochemistry Group at Exxon Production Research in Houston, Texas. He is the McMan Professor (Emeritus) and a past Chairman of the Geosciences Department at the University of Tulsa. He is a research consultant in Sante Fe, New Mexico. He has been associate editor of both the AAPG Bulletin and Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, a chairman of the Organic Geochemistry Division of the Geochemical Society, and AAPG’s Visiting Geologist Program. He received AAPG’s Matson Award twice and was an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer. He is the author of Organic Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploration and Thermal Modeling of Petroleum Generation: Theory and Applications. He received a B.A.
in Chemistry, a D. Phil. in Geology from Oxford and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
MICHAEL BARNES
Is co-owner of Cain & Barnes, L.P., experts in geomatics, geospatial data management, geodetics and cartography, navigation and positioning, land surveying and hydrography, and mapping sciences and has 32 years of experience in the profession. Prior to founding the consultancy, he held a range of executive, technical, and marketing appointments with Thales Geosolutions (formerly Racal Survey) for 14 years. He also worked for GPS Survey Services managing worldwide projects for 5 years, and has over 11 years experience as a surveying engineer and mapmaker for British Military Survey. He has published on petroleum geomatics topics, served in leadership roles of industry groups, and has testified as an expert witness. He is a registered member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was awarded the Wainwright Prize by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
for summa cum laude on professional and technical examinations. He also served as Chairman of the Americas Petroleum Survey Group (APSG), and in 2009, was presented with a “Distinguished Service Award” by the APSG for his 10 years of outstanding service to the organization. He attended the University of East London, completing Geodesy, Land Law and Geographic Information Systems Courses. In addition, he was educated at the UK School of Military Survey, where he graduated the Advanced Surveying and Mapping Course and was awarded a Technical Diploma. He also completed the Military Engineering Course at UK Royal Engineers, was qualified as Combat Engineer and was awarded Green Beret by the Royal Marines in 1976.
PAUL M. BARRY
Is a petroleum engineering consultant specializing in production technology, project management, and oil and gas evaluation. Mr. Barry has over 34 years of international upstream oil and gas production and reservoir engineering and management experience resident in South America, SE Asia, the Middle East, and, the North Sea in addition to US operations experience.
He has been a PetroSkills instructor since 2002 and recently was based in Dubai, U.A.E., from 2004-2007 developing PetroSkills regional business. Mr.
Barry has served as an officer in the Jakarta and Dubai SPE sections and has been active on various SPE committees. He holds a B.S.C.E. from the University Of Notre Dame and an M.S.C.E. from Marquette University, and, is a registered Professional Engineer in Colorado, USA.
RICHARD M. BATEMAN
He has proven professionalism in consulting, management and executive energy roles. He acquired worldwide balanced experience with Amoco’s up-stream operations, with large independents (Bridas/Pan American Energy and CGC) and with consulting, research and service sectors of the oil and gas industry (Schlumberger, Halliburton & Gaffney, Cline & Associates). He is an established energy authority having published multiple technical papers, articles, patents and books and taught courses worldwide on subsurface formation evaluation topics. He has acted as a team leader/manager for reserve assessments, producing property valuations, has over 40 years worldwide balanced experience with major oil company up-stream operations, large independents and with consulting, research and service sectors of the oil and gas industry as Chief Petrophysicist, team leader/manager for reserve assessments, producing property valuations, development of hydrocarbon reserves and production optimization. Apart from his technical abilities he is known for his skills with people motivation, total quality management implementation and inter-company mergers. His foreign language skills accompany expat experiences in South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Pacific Rim. He is an active member of SPWLA, SPE, and AIME; SPWLA Distinguished Speaker & Past Director, and author of numerous patents, technical & management publications and four books. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Natural Science/Physics from Oxford University.
CHRIS BIRD
Has completed 23 years of international experience as a geoscientist and manager with BP Exploration & Production and has built a successful track record of building partnerships and managing multi-disciplinary teams to explore for oil & gas. In 1993, he was awarded ‘BP Explorer of the Year’ for leading the discovery of the 1 billion barrel West of Shetland oil province. In his current consultancy role, he has been project managing a strategic review of the hydrocarbon potential of the world’s deep-water basins.
Within BP’s Human Resources Learning and Organisational Development function, he spent 6 years developing an understanding of how learning occurs in terms of the interplay of people, roles, systems and processes. He actively worked on the development and delivery of L&OD tools and resources and enrolled others in their value and use. He has recognized skills in the areas of: performance management, business awareness, strategic thinking, innovation, people development, engagement and enrolment, operational excellence, networking and partnering. He received a B.S.
(Honors) in Geology and Geophysics from Liverpool University.
DR. DEEPANKAR BISWAS
Is the President of SiteLark, an international petroleum engineering consulting and software firm. He has over 15 years of hands-on experience in industry, research laboratory and field operations. His experience spans assignments in Middle-East, Europe, Latin America, Asia and continental USA. He had previous tenures with such companies as Mobil E&P, ONGC, TXU Energy Trading, Blade Energy Partners and DeGolyer and MacNaughton. He developed next-generation reservoir simulator for Mobil Exploration and Production and has performed Integrated Reservoir Studies for major international and domestic fields both at Mobil and DeGolyer and MacNaughton. While at Blade, he pioneered the development of the reservoir based Underbalanced Drilling evaluation methodology and championed its usefulness and application in UBD screening throughout the world. He has published more than 10 archival technical publications and 2 book chapters on real options. He is an active member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, current Education Chairman of SPE Dallas Chapter and has been a technical editor for SPEJ. He is a professional registered engineer in the state of Texas.
He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, a B. Tech in Petroleum Engineering from Indian School of Mines, and a Certificate in Corporate Finance from Southern Methodist University.
DR. KIRK E. BOATRIGHT
Is President and CEO of Engineering Consultants International and Training Consultants International. Formerly, Dr. Boatright was a drilling research Engineer with Exxon, petroleum engineer with Amoco, roustabout with Cities Service (OXY), and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Oklahoma State University. He is also an engineering and training consultant for various major world oil and service companies. Over 13,000 have participated in Dr. Boatright’s courses. Dr. Boatright has extensive experience in drilling, completion, fluid flow, and offshore operations. Kirk is a Registered Professional Engineer and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Petroleum) from Oklahoma State University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Mechanical and Civil Engineering) from the University of Arkansas.
As a drilling research engineer for Exxon, he and George Paff were assigned to study the dynamics of drill bits while drilling at depths of several thousand feet. In the process, the first bottomhole recorder was developed, leading to the first MWD obtained in the industry while actually drilling a well at depth. Kirk personally played back on a strip chart recorder, from magnetic tape, the first MWD recorded in the industry and was the author of multiple priority internal papers and reports on the project. At Northeastern Oklahoma State University, Kirk developed and received state approval for a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics. The Engineering Physics program achieved a national reputation, with students accepted at Master’s level at major universities throughout the
U.S., including MIT, Stanford, Rice, and many others. He was named the
“Outstanding Faculty Member, Northeastern State University” in the first campus-wide vote of students and faculty. At the request of graduates, Kirk developed a course to prepare engineers to take the Engineering Registration Examinations in the U.S. The courses were presented for several years in Dallas, Houston, Denver, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa, and were highly recognized at that time by the State Board of Registration in each of the three states. The success resulted in his founding of Engineering Consultants International and Training Consultants International in 1980.
ROBERT E. BOYD, CPA, MBA
Has over 25 years experience in the fields of venture capital, corporate finance accounting, risk management, international finance, strategic business planning, and domestic/international banking where he has advised companies on over $1 billion in transactions. He is founder and President of Boston Street Advisors, Inc., where he has successfully advised on and negotiated several transactions including serving on a team that restructured over $500 million of corporate debt for a major multi-national diversified energy concern, and has been the exclusive advisor for the financing and sale of mid-market companies across a variety of industries. Prior to forming his own firm, he was in accounting with Gulf Oil and Chevron Corporation, senior financial analyst for Reading and Bates Corporation, Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer for a private manufacturing company, and Manager of Treasury for a NASDAQ multi-national manufacturing company. He has vast international consulting experience as well as having been a consultant for a major regional bank. He has served as an adjunct professor of Finance, Strategic Management and International Trade and Accounting for several Universities. He graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Oklahoma. He holds a series 65 securities license. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from Phillips University, and a M.B.A. from the University of Tulsa.
DR. STEVEN E. BOYER
Has a wide range on industry experience that includes: minerals exploration, structural studies, thrust belt oil field development, structural field schools, and consulting for several major oil companies. He worked in many areas of geologic study such as: undergraduate and graduate studies in central/
southern Appalachian Mountains; petroleum exploration and development in the Utah-Wyoming thrust belt; exploration and regional structural studies throughout North American terrains; seismic interpretation and structural studies in the back-arc region, Kangean Island and vicinity, Indonesia. He has published 13 refereed papers, and two papers in books on thrust belts. He received the Best Paper Award from the Geological Society of America, and was named Distinguished Lecturer by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists from 1992-1993. He received a B.A. in Geology from Bucknell University and a PhD in geology from Johns Hopkins University.
J. FORD BRETT
Is a recognized worldwide as a leader in the area of Petroleum Project Management and has spoken professionally and conducted scores of seminars in over 32 countries on five continents. His technical background and work experience qualify him as an expert in the area process and project performance, and petroleum training. He has received many honors, including the 2000 Crosby Medallion for Global Competitiveness by the American Society for Competitiveness for its work in “global competitiveness through quality in knowledge management, best practices transfer, and operations improvement”. For his work on improved drilling techniques he was honored in 1996 with a nomination for the National Medal of Technology, the US Government’s highest technology award. He has authored or co-authored over 30 technical publications, a book titled “Organizational Learning – the 24 Keys to High Performance”, and has been granted over 28 U.S. and International patents - including several patents relating to elimination of “Drill Bit Whirl” (which the Oil and Gas Journal Listed as one of the 100 most significant developments in the history of the petroleum industry). The Society of Petroleum Engineer’s (SPE) honored him in 1999 as a “Distinguished Lecturer, and by service on the SPE’s Board of Directors 2008 to 2010. He is registered Professional Engineer and a certified Project Management Professional.
DR. JOHN BURRELL
Is a petroleum consultant in London, England. He worked for 21 years with BP as a seismic researcher, interpreter and later as an oil and gas field subsurface manager. He developed BP’s one-dimensional synthetic seismic modeling package and provided 1-D and 2-D modeling support to the North Sea explorationists. He worked on AVO modeling in the North Slope of Alaska, China and the North Sea and as a project geophysicist on the Clyde, Beatrice, Thistle, Don and Magnus Fields in the North Sea, laying the foundation for the acquisition of 4-D seismic data over Magnus. He worked extensively on two phases of development of the Bruce gas condensate field both as a geophysicist and in subsurface operations. For a year he jointly managed the subsurface development of BP’s dry gas fields in the Southern North Sea. He has worked as an instructor for PetroSkills for six years and is a member of the SEG. He received a B.S. in Geology, an M.S. in Geophysics, a Ph.D. in Marine Geophysics, from the University of Birmingham and a B.A. in Mathematics from Open University in Milton Keynes, England.
DR. TED G. BYROM
Has been a consulting engineer since 1974 with extensive experience in drilling and completions design and operations since 1959. In addition to his petroleum-related activities, he has taught graduate courses in finite element methods at Texas A&M University and conducted research at the Aerothermal Loads Branch of NASA Langley Research Center in computational solid mechanics. He served as a technology consultant to Oryx Energy in horizontal drilling and completions, and prior to his consulting career he was a District Drilling Manager with Unocal in Houston and Midland, Texas. He is the author of the recent textbook, Casing & Liners for Drilling and Completion, and co-author of two finite element textbooks. He is a member of SPE, ASME, APS, and is a licensed professional engineer. He is an SPE Distinguished Author, and as a Technical Editor for SPE Drilling & Completion he received an Outstanding Technical Editor Award. Dr. Byrom holds a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering, all from Texas
Has been a consulting engineer since 1974 with extensive experience in drilling and completions design and operations since 1959. In addition to his petroleum-related activities, he has taught graduate courses in finite element methods at Texas A&M University and conducted research at the Aerothermal Loads Branch of NASA Langley Research Center in computational solid mechanics. He served as a technology consultant to Oryx Energy in horizontal drilling and completions, and prior to his consulting career he was a District Drilling Manager with Unocal in Houston and Midland, Texas. He is the author of the recent textbook, Casing & Liners for Drilling and Completion, and co-author of two finite element textbooks. He is a member of SPE, ASME, APS, and is a licensed professional engineer. He is an SPE Distinguished Author, and as a Technical Editor for SPE Drilling & Completion he received an Outstanding Technical Editor Award. Dr. Byrom holds a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering, all from Texas