Tessa Sorensen joined the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines in the fall of 2021. She has a BS in Geological Engineering (2003) and an MP in Petroleum Reservoir Systems (2005) from Colorado School of Mines. She specializes in drilling engineering, workover design, operational execution, and well abandonment.

Professor Sorensen has 18 years of experience in the petroleum industry, including wellsite and field geology, reservoir surveillance, field-level facilities engineering, with a specialty in drilling, completion, and workover design.  She has experience with fields on all major continents, in more than a dozen countries and eleven US states. Her work includes both offshore and onshore wells, deepwater and isolated assets, and toxic and hazardous operations (HPHT, sour, acid, NORM).

Tessa has been public speaking since high school and taught petroleum engineering courses at ExxonMobil for 12 years.  She has instructed a wide range of upstream engineering topics across the globe, including: drilling engineering, completions design, workover design, well control, drillstring mechanics, tubular design, well data management, facilities engineering, and reservoir surveillance.  She has a broad background in advanced tubular design, high pressure design, sour applications, and workover/re-entry operations.  She is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Drilling Engineers, and International Association of Drilling Contractors.

Rob Lowe is the Survey Operations Manager for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management. Rob has been instrumental in implementing the use of magnetometers and UAS for the specific purpose of locating hard to find Idle and Orphan wells. He has been with the Department for 14 years and is a Registered Professional Surveyor in the State of Ohio. Rob received his bachelor’s of science in Geomatic Engineering with a specific interest in satellite Geodesy from the Ohio State University.

Jason Simmerman is the Engineering Manager for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, Orphan Well Program. Jason has served in the this role for the previous five years. During that time the Orphan Well Program has grown from a $1 million plugging budget to a $25 million plugging budget. Prior to that Jason spent three years working in the Division’s Horizontal Well Pad and Waste Facilities Programs. Jason has a total of fourteen years with the Department of Natural Resources and five more years of work experience in the private sector completing civil engineering projects. Jason earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Ohio University along with his surveying certificate. Jason has been a registered professional engineer in Ohio since 2008.

Todd Boesiger currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Energy Resources, Research and Technology Committee (ERRT)for the IOGCC and as theDeputy Director of the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commissionsince 2019.  In the 15 years prior to his position at the commission, Todd worked as a geologist and Biostratigrapher in exploration, development and appraisal projects in basins around the world for Hess Corporation, BP America and Ellington Geological Associates.