Xiaoyun Li is a specialist within hydrate control and Flow Assurance and is currently employed at Equinor ASA in Norway. Prior to working at Equinor, she was a research scientist at Sintef in Trondheim, Norway. She has worked on most of the hydrate related issues including hydrate equilibrium and thermodynamic inhibitors, low dosage hydrate inhibitors (KHI & AA), natural hydrate formation kinetics and transportability for various crude oil systems, plugging risk assessment for under-inhibited fluid systems, risk based hydrate management and hydrate plug properties, safety and remediation techniques. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Physical Chemistry, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.

Rogério Leite is a senior flow assurance advisor at Petrobras, currently based in the company's corporate area of artificial lift and flow assurance. He holds a bachelor's degree in Control and Automation Engineering from UFSC in 2003, a master's degree in Fluid Mechanics from UFRJ in 2015, and a postgraduate degree in Data Science from PUC-RIO in 2020.

Rogério has been working at Petrobras for 19 years, always in the field of artificial lift and flow assurance. He has 16 years’ experience in deep water Campos Basin operations.

Since 2021, Rogério is responsible for leading Petrobras’ flow assurance team. His main activities are to provide technical support for the business units, to write guidelines for operations and for new design projects, and to follow-up research projects at CENPES R&D Center.

Doug Turner is the Principal Flow Assurance Engineer on Hydrate Management for ExxonMobil. He completed his Masters and PhD at the Colorado School of Mines Center for Hydrate Research in 2005. He has worked at ExxonMobil for 17 years, during which time he conducted extensive research studies on hydrate blockage formation, led development projects for Canada East offshore arctic fields, and supported numerous hydrate remediation activities globally. In today’s role, he acts as advisor to the company on hydrate management, with aspects of new hydrate technology development, hydrate strategy planning for new projects, remediation of worldwide hydrate issues, and mentoring of coworkers. 

Dr Morgan has over 35 years engineering experience, with more than 30 being spent working in the oil and gas business. She realized that she was a convert to flow assurance roughly 20 years ago and has been promoting the subject ever since. She has worked in the UK, Europe, USA, Africa and Asia-Pacific and is now the Chief Flow Assurance Engineer for Woodside Energy Ltd., based in Perth, Western Australia. Julie has a PhD, MEng and MA in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.

With over 35 years of Training and Development experience, Sean is a true learning development specialist with a passion for learning and living life!

In February 2022 Sean was named Chief Learning Leader and is responsible for developing people through relevant learning and development opportunities that support cultural transformation. He leads the Baker Hughes leadership learning and development strategy, partnering closely with the CHRO, CoE’s , and business segments to ensure an integrated development approach, including executive leadership. He also oversees the curation and delivery of Talent Development programs, including IMPACT, ASPIRE, CULTIVATE, and Ascend.

Sean joined Baker Hughes Global Learning Team in 2018 in the role of Learning Transformation Leader. Prior to joining Baker Hughes in 2018, he was the President of ConleyGlobal, where he was sought after globally to work with Businesses, Leaders, Teams and Individuals to solve their Learning & Development needs.

Prior to launching ConleyGlobal, Sean worked with NBCUniversal for over twelve years. During his time with NBCUniversal, he held many positions including Director of Staffing and Recruitment, Director Global Learning & Organizational Development and Director of Employee Development. Sean has a true Global mindset having worked in over 45 countries on six continents.

While at NBC Universal, Sean was based in London for over 5 years. During this time he was responsible for all aspects of Learning for NBC Universal’s Global population.

Before working for NBC Universal, he was the training manager for The Disneyland Resort and Disney’s California Adventure Theme Parks and Director of Guest Services for Marie Callender’s Restaurants.

Sean is self-published and released his first book “Martini” in 2016 and is now working on two books, “The Big Idea Generator: A freakishly fast and easy way to generate fresh ideas” and “Passionate Hookers: (yes, you read that correctly), A guide on Presenting with Passion”. Both are expected to be released in 2023/24.

Indira Saripally is a Reservoir Engineer Advisor at Occidental Oil & Gas Co. (Oxy) with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She has worked in many roles in the Reservoir Engineering domain – from reservoir management to international business development, as well as specialized technical roles such as simulation modeling in fields with secondary and tertiary recovery mechanisms using CO2 injection. She has worked in both US-domestic energy sector, and in the Middle East. She is presently based in Houston. In her current role she manages fields in deep water Gulf of Mexico. Indira’s technical interests include reservoir surveillance and field development planning.  

Indira has a Master’s degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s degree, from Indian Institute of Technology. She is actively engaged in Stanford’s Alumni Mentoring program and Outreach Programs. She has been involved with regional SPE chapters since 2005. She is currently a technical reviewer for SPE Peer-Reviewed Journal. She is also the technical editor of the SPE publication, ‘The Way Ahead’.

Luis is a highly motivated licensed Professional Engineer with a 15-year year career in the Oil and Gas industry. His experience with notable companies has endowed him with considerable expertise in materials R&D for downhole equipment. He possesses a solid foundation in materials engineering, managing projects from the initial design phase through to thorough laboratory and on-site testing. Skilled at navigating intricate technical challenges, Luis excels in process troubleshooting, optimization, and maintaining rigorous quality controls. His strong background in material testing, failure analysis, and application assessment is a testament to his ability to address complex issues with precision and insight. With a deep understanding of both scientific principles and technology, Luis thrives in multidisciplinary teams, consistently delivering engineering solutions that propel applications and operations forward. His proactive nature and decisive actions are matched by a commitment to continual learning and innovation, always seeking to expand beyond traditional industry confines to discover and develop new solutions. This dedication, paired with his ability to draw on diverse experiences and collaborate effectively, reveals a professional drive that's both humble and technically adept.

Jose Ernesto Jaua is seasoned professional with more than 20 years of global experience in the Oil and Gas industry, he has held numerous strategic management roles in operations, planning, sales and marketing. He is a Mechanical Engineer graduated from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela and is currently in the last phase of obtaining his Master’s degree in Management from Harvard School of Continuing Education in Cambridge, MA.

Mehdi Matt Honarpour is the CEO and President of the Honarpour Technology Company, HTC, LLC. He currently provides consulting and integrated training for Energy companies. Previously, he was the Principal Reservoir Engineer at BHP, the Global Reservoir Engineering Advisor at Hess Corporation, and a Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor at ExxonMobil. He has an extensive experience in reservoir characterization and reservoir engineering and their impact on reservoir system performance. He has contributed extensively to the science and practice of rock-fluid characterization, integration of core analysis data, wireline log and well test data for conventional sandstone, naturally fractured carbonates and Unconventional reservoirs. He has done an extensive work in the characterization of recovery mechanisms including chemical, gas injection/ gravity drainage, low salinity waterflood and MEOR. He was the coordinator of the laboratory study of CO2/ H2S storage, CS&UST in Arab C aquifer. He has coordinated work in viscous oil, light oil, volatile oil, gas-condensate, and dry gas reservoirs.  Matt has an expertise in static and dynamic characterization deep water GoM sandstone formations. He has worked on giant gas, gas-condensate and oil reservoirs around the world, Dr. Honarpour has several years of teaching and mentoring experience in both academia and in the petroleum industry. He has served as project manager of large multidisciplinary projects. He has been an active member of SPE over the past 50 years. Dr. Honarpour contributed to the development of the API Subcommittee on Core Analysis, RP-40, published in 1998. He has published 3 books and many SPE, AAPG, SPWLA technical papers and presentations.

Denis Klemin is a Digital Rock Domain Champion at SLB in Houston, USA. He joined SLB in 2005. The first part of his career concentrated on reservoir simulation, problems of oil, gas and gas-condensate flow behavior and sampling, numerical and analytical modeling of oil recovery. The latter part of his career has been focused on the reservoir characterization, managing and executing digital rock analysis RCA, SCAL and EOR projects. He has published in technical journals, holds patents for various innovations. Klemin holds a MSc degree in computer science and applied math and a PhD degree in geophysics. He is a member of the SPE Reservoir Technical Discipline Advisory Committee and its sub-committee Core Analysis.

Zoya Heidari is an Associate Professor in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Zoya has contributed extensively to the science of rock-fluid characterization and Formation Evaluation through integration of multi-scale formation data. Zoya   has received many awards, including the 2023 SPE International Formation Evaluation Award, the 2021 SPWLA Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, the 2020 SPWLA Young Professional Technical Award, the 2019 EAGE Arie van Weelden Award, the 2019 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award, the 2019 SPE Distinguished Membership Award, and the 2017 SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Medal. Zoya has published more than 220 papers in peer-reviewed   journals   and   conference   proceedings.   She has served as a member of the SPE reservoir advisory committee and as an executive editor for the SPE Journal since 2022, and as an Associate Editor for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Journal and Geophysics Journal. 

S. Mark Ma is a Senior Consultant at Reservoir Description Division, Saudi Aramco and a SPE Reservoir Advisory Committee- Core Analysis Team member. Before joining Aramco in 2000, Mark worked at Exxon Production Research, Western Research Institute, Petroleum Recovery Research Center and Jianghan Petroleum Institute. Ma received his bachelor’s degree from China Petroleum University, Master’s degree and PhD from New Mexico Tech, all in petroleum engineering. A Petrophysics Journal Associated Editor and a JPT Editor, Mark was SPWLA Regional Director (2018-20) and chaired SPE FE Award Committee, SPE ATCE FE Committee, and IPTC Ed Week Committee. Dr Ma was awarded the 2010 SPE KSA Technical Contribution award, 2019 SPE MENA region FE award, 2020 SPE Distinguished Membership award, 2021 SPWLA Distinguished Service award, and 2022 SPWLA Distinguished Technical Achievement award.

Jules Reed has over 30 years of core analysis experience, is a subject matter expert in his discipline and co-author of the authoritative book, Core Analysis: A Best Practice Guide; V64 in Elsevier’s Developments in Petroleum Science series.

Jules is an expert in most aspects of core analysis, with particular insight on wettability, capillary pressure, and reservoir fluid dynamics, including relative permeability, EOR and CCUS. He was employed (2013-2015) as consultant subject matter expert for one of the UK’s previous research rounds, investigating potential carbon capture storage sites: supporting programme design, overseeing the core analysis study and peer reviewing geomechanics and formation damage analyses.

He is former president of the Society of Core Analysts (SCA), a chapter-at-large of the SPWLA and  is a current member of its Technical Committee involved in peer review of SCA technical papers. He is also a peer reviewer for a number of technical journals, including SPERE, JPSE and IJW. He is a member of the SPE RAC (Reservoir Advisory Committee): core analysis subcommittee.  He is currently employed as Global Technical Manager for Premier Oilfield Group.

A geologist by background, with a Bsc. Hons. Upper 2nd Class in Geology from the University of Liverpool (1981), Craig has 40 years of experience in the core analysis industry. After 18 years working in the lab in a wide variety of roles, Craig joined Helix RDS consultancy in 2002 and went on to found Core Specialist Services in 2010. 

Core Specialist Services are a consultancy specializing in the planning, design and management of core based studies. Craig has manged more than 200 technical projects since founding Core Specialist Services.

Craig served as President of the Society of Core Analysts from 2012-13. 

Craig is a member of the SPE Reservoir Technical Discipline‘s Advisory Committee - Reservoir Technology of the 21ST Century, sub-committee Core Analysis – tasked with charting the future course of the discipline of core analysis. 

Special interests are in new technology – automated core logging, machine learning and artificial intelligence for core data interpretation and core visualization in Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Dr. Avrami Grader main interest is in multi-phase flow in porous media. He was a professor of Petroleum Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering. Dr. Grader’s research focused on two- and three-phase flow in porous media, transient pressure analysis with its effect on well testing and on reservoir engineering water influx problems, and multi-phase flow dynamics in the near wellbore domain including wellbore mechanics. He has been Ingrain’s Chief Scientists for the last seven years, and is heavily involved in all aspects of integrating physical and digital core analysis methods. Grader holds a PhD in petroleum engineering from Stanford Universit.

Yildiray Cinar is a senior reservoir engineer with Saudi Aramco. Previously, he was a senior lecturer at University of New South Wales and a postdoc at Stanford University. He holds a PhD from Claustral Technical University and BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University, all in petroleum engineering. His areas of interest include special core analysis, reservoir management, EOR/EGR and CO2 sequestration in subsurface formations.

Alvaro is a professional with more than fifteen years of experience in the oil and gas service sector working as core analyst for international oil companies. 

He holds a Bachelor in Geology and a MSc degree in Basin analysis and Energy Resources from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, where he got the knowledge in petrology, facies interpretation and stratigraphy to comprehend the different plays studied during his Master thesis focus on offshore Canadian oil fields. 

He also spent two years in France with the IFP Energies Nouvelles team to get a more in deep expertise of Reservoir engineering and laboratory workflows.

Currently, some of his main tasks are the planning and execution of routine (CCA) and special core analysis (SCAL) programs and the analysis of petrophysical properties on core samples, end-trims and fluid characterization; the Interpretation of integrated data processing, data evaluation and quality assurance of the analysis performed and the construction of valuable databases with those results. 

Alvaro has been also working as SCAL expert in Middle East for major operators like Petroleum Development Oman, BP, Shell and OXY. Managing with the clients the projects and coordinating between laboratory and end-users.  

Currently, he is working as Technical Advisor with the amazing cores of the Norwegian Continental Shelf with many operators like AkerBP, Equinor, Total, OMV, Repsol, WintershallDEA, Neptune and Var Energi. 

Katharine Moncada is a production engineer and reservoir champion at Schlumberger. She supports multiphase flowmeter implementations for permanent implementations and flowback operations, which focused on optimizing choke management strategies. Her work has included production data analysis to optimize well performance for unconventional plays in U.S and GoM. Prior to join Schlumberger, Ms. Moncada worked as a field engineer, running production logging tools and pressure gauges for a service company in Colombia. She holds a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

Amin joined Belsim Engineering in 2018 after 32 years with Schlumberger, where he held operations and management positions in field operations, strategic marketing, and R&D, and 6 Years of engineering consulting specializing in multiphase, wetgas, VFM, production allocation systems, and Data Validation and Reconciliation modeling.

He is an active member of the API Committee on Production Measurement and Allocation (CPMA), Program Chair of SPE Flow Measurement Technical Section (FMTS), and member of ASME PTC DVR Control and Quality Improvement of Process Data.

Amin has Diplôme De Maîtrise from Université de Nice, a Master of Engineering from Supélec-Paris, and a Master of Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University-Edinburgh. He holds an Executive MBA from the Sloan School of Management-MIT Boston.

Babatunde Anifowose is a university lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years’ work experience in the areas of sustainability and environmental assessment of the oil and gas industry value chain including estimating methane emissions from facilities using models and EFs. He was course director for the MSc Petroleum & Environmental Technology program at Coventry University, UK. He is a member of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Peer Review College. Babatunde was on the board of directors of the SPE Sustainable Development Technical Section (2017–2021) and he was chair of the Engineering Professionalism Committee (2021–2022). Babatunde is a member of the Methane Emissions Management Technical Section and works with its current Program Chair. He holds a diploma in data processing (computer science), BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Lagos, Akoka-Nigeria, and a PhD in environmental science from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr. Judith M. Schicks is the head of the Gas Hydrate Research Group at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam, Germany and holds a professorship for thermodynamics of multiphase systems at the University of Potsdam, Germany. The group's research focuses on understanding the thermodynamics of complex gas hydrates and their application in natural and industrial systems. She received her diploma in chemistry in 1995 and her PhD in applied physical chemistry in 1999 from the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg. In 2013 she habilitated with a thesis on gas hydrates at the University of Potsdam, where she was appointed “Privatdozentin” in 2014 and as Professor at 2021. At the University of Potsdam, she teaches the subjects of environmental chemistry, analytics, and the fundamentals and applications of clathrate hydrates.

Dr. Aziz Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Program at Texas A&M University - Qatar (TAMUQ). Before his appointment at TAMUQ, he was a faculty member at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and an Instructor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Rahman received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2010. Since then, he has been involved in several research collaborations with companies, including Total Energies, Qatargas, Schlumberger, North Oil Company, NEL, Syncrude Canada, GRi Simulations, and Petroleumsoft. During this time, Dr. Rahman secured around $2.5 million in research funding from organizations such as t  Qatar Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Newfoundland Research & Development Corp. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada, and an active member of organizations such as SPE and ASME.

Dr. Sid Misra is an associate professor at Texas A&M University. He is a researcher and educator in the field of subsurface monitoring and forecasting for the exploration and production of subsurface earth resources. He has published two books and developed nine technologies related to machine learning and electromagnetic sensing for energy and earth resource exploration. Misra holds a bachelor's of technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a PhD degree in petroleum and geosystems engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

James Omeke is currently a PhD candidate in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, holding both a master's and bachelor's degree in the same field. With years of hands-on reservoir engineering experience, he is adept at numerical simulations and understands the intricacies of advanced machine learning algorithms. James' current research centers on the synergistic application of data-driven algorithms and physics-based deep learning architectures, aiming to optimize field-scale simulation processes for subsurface Hydrogen Storage, as well as CO2 storage. He is under the supervision of Dr. Misra Siddharth.

For 32 years, he has focused on delivering a broad range of environmental consulting and construction solutions to Oil & Gas and Chemical sector clients throughout the world. He has held senior leadership roles in both operations and commercial functions. He is currently responsible for leading a team of individuals who are focused on delivering a broad suite of environmental, climate and sustainability services to a portfolio of Fortune 50 oil and gas key clients.

Trey was elected to the SPE International Board of Directors as the HSSE-SR Technical Director from 2014 to 2017. During his term on the SPE International Board of Directors, Trey chaired the SPE Climate Change Task Force and assisted the Board of Directors in developing the Climate Change Strategy for SPE. In 2017, Trey was elected as Vice Chair of the SPE Gulf Coast Section and completed his term as Chair in August 2019. During his tenure as the SPE Gulf Coast Section Chair, the section board addressed significant challenges and was recognized with the Presidential Award for Outstanding Section. Trey received the SPE Gulf Coast Section, North America Region Award for Distinguished Contribution to Petroleum Engineering in the Area of HSSE-SR (2010). He continues to support numerous SPE activities globally and is a founding collaborator on SPE’s Gaia Sustainability Program. He is a frequent speaker on environmental and sustainability topics.

Josh Etkind is a Shell Upstream Deepwater Digital Opportunity Manager with 23 years of energy industry experience.  He led Shell’s early-stage LNG R&D (2014-18), and prior to that served as DW N. America Decommissioning & Restoration and Abandonment Manager from 2018-20.  Etkind is a Petroleum Engineer by background, a certified Sustainability Practitioner, a Fellow of the Loyola University Institute of Environmental Communications, and attended the University of Cambridge Business and Sustainability Program. He concurrently serves as CEO of Sanitation for All, an International NGO focused on helping disadvantaged communities gain access to the basic human dignity afforded by clean drinking water, toilets and education. Having previously served on the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Board of Directors from 2007-’10, he is the 2021-23 Chair of the award-winning SPE Sustainable Development Technical Section and Chair of the SPE Gaia Sustainability Program.

Cesar Patiño, IEA EOR TCP, is the Chairman – International Energy Agency and a Senior Reservoir Engineer at ECOPETROL Colombia. He has 26 years’ experience, with roles at Wireline, Petrophysics, Technology, EOR and Circular Economy applications. He pioneered Geothermal integration of the subsurface value of current assets to Exploration, with Co-Production alternatives, Methodologies, and Innovative Process. He is leading White Hydrogen as part of the Ecopetrol Strategy, unlocking database information and integrating different disciplines to develop it at Colombia and international assets. He is also developing New methodologies and indicator for Assets within Decarbonization needs : ECOMACC, Abatement cost curve for field development plan with Carbono intensity evaluations.

Tom Yost has held multiple positions within the drilling industry prior to joining National Oilwell Varco in 2001.   His career with NOV began in Offshore Technical Project Engineering and Sales and transitioned to Product Line Management with focus on Drilling equipment and systems. He presently serves as Business and Technology Development Manager where Tom serves as a technology focused “OEM” conduit between the drilling contractor and operator.  Tom is a 1994 graduate of Texas A&M with a Mechanical Engineering degree.

Kevin Scherm has been working for NOV in oil and gas for 18 years, beginning as a mechanical engineer for downhole tools before progressing into more customer facing roles. He has spent the last 10 years working in business development, spending most of his time engaging with Operators about rig technology performance and needs.

Deep Joshi is a Data Scientist at Quantum Capital Group. He has a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. Previously, he joined Corva in 2021 as an intern in 2019 and 2020 and full-time in 2021 as Research Engineer. He has a bachelor's in Petroleum Engineering from PDEU, India and a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Houston. His research focuses on Directional drilling, drilling automation, and data science.

Dr. Gökhan Coskuner has over 30 years of industry experience and is currently involved in leading a project for 1 MM tonne/year CO2 capture from SAGD steam generators, sequestration of CO2 in a deep saline aquifer and the use of CO2 in SAGD operations. He worked previously for Husky Oil as Manager of EOR and New Technology in the Heavy Oil and Gas Department, Asset Manager and Reservoir Engineering and Development Lead in Oil Sands, Team Leader involved in the development and optimization of deep basin tight gas fields, and as Reservoir Engineering Specialist in projects ranging from gas storage to offshore field delineation and development. Prior to joining Husky Oil, he worked at Imperial Oil, Shell Canada and the Petroleum Recovery Institute in various research capacities. He holds a B.Sc. degree from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Alberta, Canada, all in petroleum engineering.

He is the past Chairman of the SPE Canada Regional Awards Committee, the past Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPE Canada and the past Executive Editor of the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology. He was a member of the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology Editorial Review Board from 1990 to 2016, was a director of the Petroleum Society and the general chairman for the 2004 Canadian International Petroleum Conference. He was the recipient of the Petroleum Society’s Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and the Society of Petroleum Engineer's Distinguished Member award in 2013, Outstanding Service Award, A Peer Apart Award in 2014, SPE Calgary Section's Outstanding Service Award in 2019 and SPE Regional Service Award in 2023. He has 37 publications and holds 3 patents.

Matthew Flett is a Senior Reservoir Engineer with Chevron Australia. He is also the SPE CCUS Technical Section Program Chair (Eastern).