PLENARY SESSION

Kicking off the IOR 2010 Plenary Session will be a presentation by Dr. Behrooz Fattahi, 2010 SPE president and one of the oil industry’s leading authorities on enhanced oil recovery.

Dr. Behrooz Fattahi

Dr. Behrooz Fattahi is the Heavy Oil Development Coordinator at Aera Energy LLC, a California exploration and production company jointly owned by affiliates of Shell and ExxonMobil. He began his industry career in 1977 at the Oil Service Company (OSCO) of Iran/Shell International and worked as a Reservoir Engineer, Reservoir Engineering Manager, and Team leader for OSCO/Shell International, Shell Western E&P, Shell Offshore, and Shell affiliate CalResources. Prior to joining the petroleum industry, he conducted research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation and taught courses in fluid dynamics and solid mechanics at Iowa State University. He is a past member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and American Association of University Professors.

Dr. Fattahi is the 2010 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He served on the Board of the Directors of SPE as the Director of the Western North America Region (2004–2006) and was the Chairman of the SPE Continuing Education Committee (1999–2001), Chairman of the San Joaquin Valley SPE Section (2001–2002), and a member of SPE President’s Learning Initiatives Task Force (2002). He also served as the Executive Editor of the SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Journal from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Fattahi holds a PhD in aerospace engineering and a PhD in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University.

Rounding out the Plenary Session will be a presentation by Bob Tippee, editor of the Oil & Gas Journal and an award-winning veteran oil and gas journalist and commentator.

 Bob Tippee

Bob Tippee is Editor of Oil & Gas Journal, a weekly trade magazine, and its web site, Oil & Gas Journal Online. Since joining the Journal in Tulsa in 1977, he has written on all aspects of the international petroleum industry, with special interest in economics, energy policy, geophysics, and the Middle East. His work for the magazine has won awards from the American Business Press, New York Society of Business Press Editors, Association of Petroleum Writers, International Association for Energy Economics, and International Association of Energy Advocates. Tippee became the Journal’s chief editor in January 1999. He also was Editor-in-Chief of the 1997 through 2001 editions of the Journal’s annual affiliate, International Petroleum Encyclopedia.

Tippee is the director of three PennWell Petroleum Group conferences and has written or cowritten several books on the oil and gas industry. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Tulsa and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force for four years.

ALL-CONVENTION LUNCHEON
FEATURED SPEAKER

In addition to a strong plenary session, Dr. Scott Tinker, director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas, will deliver a special address at the symposium’s All-Convention Luncheon on April 26, 2010. Dr. Tinker is one of the most dynamic and sought-after speakers on energy issues. He is the guiding voice and on-air narrator for an exciting new feature-length film documentary, “The Bridge,” created to educate the public about the transition from fossil fuels to alternative energies: How long it will take; what it will look like; what choices will make this transition a smooth and gradual success; and which good intentions could have the opposite effect. More information about “The Bridge” can be found at http://foundation.aapg.org/thebridge
fund.cfm.

Dr. Scott Tinker

Scott W. Tinker is Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, the State Geologist of Texas, Director of the Advanced Energy Consortium, and a Professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He spent 17 years working in the oil and gas industry in exploration, production, and research prior to coming to UT in 2000. He is President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Past President of the Association of American State Geologists. Tinker was a Distinguished Lecturer for the AAPG (1997), Society of Petroleum Engineers (2002), and Distinguished Ethics Lecturer for the AAPG (2006-2007), and he won best paper awards in the AAPG Bulletin and Journal of Sedimentary Research. He holds appointments on the National Petroleum Council, National Research Council Board of Energy and Environmental Systems, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, and serves on several private, professional, and academic boards. His passion is building bridges between academia, industry, and government.

Tinker holds a BS in geology and business administration from Trinity University, an MS in geological sciences from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in geological sciences from the University of Colorado.