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Plenary Session
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Monday, 21 April 9 a.m. to Noon, Salon I
Bill
Cobb
2008 SPE President
Bill Cobb, 2008 SPE president, heads William M. Cobb & Associates, Inc., a
petroleum consulting firm based in Dallas, Tex., that specializes in
waterflooding, fluid injection, field studies, reserves evaluation and
certification, and reservoir management.
Cobb’s 35 years of experience in the petroleum industry includes research,
staff, and district positions for ARCO Oil & Gas. He also headed oil and gas
operations for Cornell Oil Co., an independent oil and gas company.
Cobb taught reservoir engineering at Mississippi State University, where he now
serves on the Dean’s Development Council. He is currently an adjunct professor
of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University.
Before his nomination as 2008 SPE president, Cobb served as SPE vice-president
of finance and on many SPE committees, including the Reservoir Engineering
Program Committee, Publications Review Committee, and Distinguished Author
Series Committee, and as chairman of the Formation Evaluation Committee. He
chaired the committee that recommended opening an SPE office in the Middle East
and served on the SPE Fund Raising Committee in support of the SPE.org
initiative. He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 1995. In 1999, he received
the SPE Reservoir Engineering Award.
Cobb has served in numerous leadership positions at the section level, including
program chairman and general chairman for the Hydrocarbon Economics and
Evaluation Symposium sponsored by the Dallas Section.
In addition to publishing technical papers, he has made more than 50 technical
presentations to SPE sections throughout the world.
He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Mississippi State University and a Ph.D
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Hu
Wenrui
Vice-President
PetroChina
Hu Wenrui is the vice-president of PetroChina for oil and gas field development
and production, a position he has held since 2005.
He has 35 years of experience in China’s oil and gas industry and is an expert
in field development and production.
Hu has held many positions in China’s petroleum industry, including general
manager of PetroChina E&P Co. (2002-2005); president of Changqing Oilfield Co.,
PetroChina (1999-2002); executive vice-president and president of Changqing
Petroleum Exploration Bureau (1989-1999); and director of Unit 2 in Changqing
Petroleum Exploration Bureau. |
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Rafael
Sandrea
President
IPC Petroleum Consultants, Inc.
Rafael Sandrea is president of IPC Petroleum Consultants, Inc., a Tulsa-based
international petroleum consulting firm that specializes in oil and gas reserves
appraisals and risk analysis for international upstream petroleum investments.
Sandrea’s presentation will focus on “IOR and the Future of Oil Supply.” He is
the author of a groundbreaking new research report, available soon from PennWell
Publishing, on future global oil and gas supply.
Sandrea is very active giving seminars and workshops and speaking on the
reserves theme around the world. He graduated cum laude in petroleum engineering
from the University of Tulsa and received his Ph.D. from Penn State University.
Sandrea headed the petroleum engineering department at the Universidad de
Oriente in Venezuela and later was the Ford Foundation Professor in the graduate
school of petroleum engineering at the Universidad Nacional of Mexico.
Sandrea is the coauthor of Dynamics of Petroleum Reservoirs under Gas Injection
(Gulf Publishing, 1974), a book used extensively in petroleum engineering
courses around the world.
In 1974 he founded a Caracas-based engineering company, ITS Servicios Técnicos.
During his 30-year tenure as its president and CEO, ITS provided the oil and gas
industry a wide range of technical services and products, including project
management, reservoir engineering, geology, seismic processing, E&P data
management, and business archiving.
Sandrea is a member for life of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a member
of the editorial advisory board of the forthcoming Petroleum Encyclopedia, of
the board of The Open Petroleum Engineering Journal, and of the United Nations
Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Fossil Resources.
Sandrea has published over 30 technical papers. His latest publications cover
areas such as risk analysis for international upstream petroleum investments,
appraisal of global oil and gas reserves, development of algorithms for
estimating the production capacity of new oil fields, global offshore oil
reserves potential, and assessment of global oil and gas resources and their
potential for enhanced recovery. Some of these articles have been featured in
CNN Money and Petroleum World.com. They are available on IPC’s website at
www.ipc66.com. |
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Paul
Ching
Retired
Paul Ching retired from Royal Dutch Shell PLC on July 1, 2007, after more than
34 years.
His last position with the company was vice president, technical, E&P research
and development, for Shell International Exploration & Production. Ching was
responsible for the development and execution of Shell’s global E&P R&D program.
Ching was born and raised in South Dakota. He earned a BS in mathematics from
Northern State University in 1969 and an M.S. in geological engineering in 1973
from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Ching joined Shell (US) E&P in 1973 and spent the next seven years working as a
petrophysical engineer, production geologist, and division geological engineer.
In 1980, he was appointed to the position of offshore lease sale coordinator,
preparing development scenarios and bids for U.S. offshore lease sales.
In 1982, Ching moved to Washington, DC, where he worked as a lobbyist/technical
advisor for Shell’s U.S. governmental affairs office. He returned to Shell (US)
E&P in 1983 and for the next 15 years worked in a variety of senior management
roles in engineering and operations, both in the U.S. and internationally.
In 1999, Ching was named president of Pecten, an international subsidiary of
Shell (US) E&P, and the onshore U.S. Continental E&P assets (excluding
California). In January 2000, Ching moved to Miri, Malaysia, and was appointed
general manager of technology and technical services in Shell Malaysia E&P,
moving on to become general manager of the Sarawak Business Unit of Shell
Malaysia E&P in 2001. In November 2002, he moved to Shell International
Exploration & Production in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, to take over
responsibility for the development and execution of Shell’s global E&P R&D
program.
Ching remains active in energy and technology in a number of areas. He is
working with the Bureau of Economic Geology (under the Jackson School of
Geosciences, University of Texas) on nanotechnology. He is an independent
director on three private technology start-up companies. Ching also was
appointed an independent director of the Meridian Resource Corp., Houston, Tex.
Paul is a long-time member of SPE and the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. For SPE, he serves on the SPE R&D Advisory Committee. He also serves
on the Advisory Committee of the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of
Texas, and the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Geology in Austin,
Texas. |
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2008
Sponsors
DOUBLE PLATINUM
ConocoPhillips
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US Department of Energy
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PLATINUM
Fabrication Technologies Inc.
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Joshi Technologies
International, Inc.
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Praxair, Inc.
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Schlumberger
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GOLD
Gel Technologies Corporation
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PennEnergy
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Polymer Services LLC
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Williford Energy
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SILVER
W. Alan Benson
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Marjo Operating Co.
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BRONZE
IMPACT Technologies LLC
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Mountaineer International LLC
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Sarco LAN Systems
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Tracer Technologies International Inc.
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