With speakers from various disciplines and professions, the SPE Distinguished Lecturer program focuses on the hottest trends, tools, and technology in E&P around the globe. View the complete 2018-2019 Distinguished Lecturer schedule at www.spe.org/dl/schedule.php.

2. ROBERTO F. AGUILERA
Research Fellow
Curtin University
The Exceptional Price
Performance of Oil:
Explanations and
Prospects

3. COSAN AYAN
Reservoir Engineering Advisor
Schlumberger (ret.)
Reservoir and Fluid
Characterization with
Formation Testers:
Reducing Asset Uncertainties

4. KRESO KURT BUTULA
Reservoir Management Advisor
Schlumberger
The Unfulfilled Expectation of
Horizontal Wells with Multistage
Fracture Completions in
Conventional Reservoirs:
A Solution

5. RAJAN CHOKSHI
Artificial Lift & Production Optimizer
Accutant Solutions
Real-Time Data
Acquisition & Analysis
for Enhanced Production

6. TORSTEN CLEMENS
Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor
OMV Upstream
EOR from Micro-Scale
to Field Implementation:
Example of Polymer
Injection

7. LORI DALRYMPLE
CEO
Architecture of Communication
Soft Skills for Hard Times:
How to Succeed
in the Industry Downturn

8. BEHROOZ FATTAHI
President
EnerTrain Institute
A Soft Transformation
Approach to Career Success

9. JIM GALFORD
Chief Scientific Advisor - Nuclear Physics
Sensor Physics Team, Halliburton
Geochemical Logging:
A Valuable Tool for Exploring
Complex Reservoirs

10. ROBERT HAWKES
Reservoir Engineering Advisor
Trican Well Service
Fluid Imbibition:
Hydraulic Fracture Flowback
Dynamics

11. JOHN HEDENGREN
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering Department
Brigham Young University
Drilling Automation and
Downhole Monitoring with
Physics-based Models

12. CHARLES HINRICHSEN
Chemical Treatment Specialist (ret)
Controlling Scale Deposition:
Advances in Using
Technology to Preserve
Production in the Oil Field

13. CHRIS HOPPER
Managing Director
Moving Future Ltd.
Resilient Projects are
the Best Solution to an
Uncertain World

14. ISMARULLIZAM MOHD ISMAIL
Subsurface Engineering Manager
Tendeka
Autonomous Inflow
Control Device:
Principle, Prediction & Reality

15. MEDHAT (Med) KAMAL
Emeritus Fellow
Chevron
Conventional & Unconventional
Reservoirs:
What is In and Out in Today's
Pressure and Rate
Transient Analysis

16. BARBARA KUTCHKO
Research Scientist
National Energy Technology Laboratory
The New Science Behind
Foamed Cement

17. ROY LEDGERWOOD
Technical Advisor
Baker Hughes - a GE company
Solving the Mystery of
Low Rate Penetration
in Deep Wells

18. SILVIU LIVESCU
Chief Scientist, Coiled Tubing
Baker Hughes - a GE company
Coiled Tubing Telemetry:
State of the Technology

19. CHRISTIAAN LUCA
Independent Consultant
Non-technical risk management
Managing Non-Technical
Risks Made Practical and
Value-Driven

20. SRIKANTA MISHRA
Institute Fellow / Chief Scientist (Energy)
Battelle Memorial Institute
Big Data Analytics:
What Can It Do for Petroleum
Engineers & Geoscientists?

21. PAUL MITCHELL
Discipline Lead for Geophysics
TAQA, United Kingdom
4D Seismic History Matching

22. KAREN OLSON
Director of Technologies
Southwestern Energy Company
Freshwater Neutral:
Managing Water Use and
Giving Back to the Environment

23. CHARLES POPE
Completions Technology Supervisor
Devon Energy
Stop, Drop and Circulate:
An Engineered Approach to
Coiled Tubing Intervention
in Horizontal Wells

24. HANK RAWLINS
Technical Director
eProcess Technologies
Enhanced Production
Through Surface Facilities
Sand Management

25. MARTIN RYLANCE
Global Senior Advisor for Hydraulic
Fracturing & Stimulation
BP Russia
The "Fracts" of Life
(Common Failure Mechanisms
Associated with Fracturing)
Vice President, Wells
BP Russia

26. GEORGE SAWARYN
Independent Drilling Consultant
Well Collision Avoidance:
The Way Forward

27. SZEZANA SEVIC
Process Chemistry Specialist
PM Lucan Enterprises
How to Develop a
Management System to Avoid
Inorganic Scale Problems

28. GEORGE STOSUR
Oil and Gas Research & Development
U.S. Department of Energy (ret.)
Global Climate Change Wars
and Fossil Energy:
Current and Future Realities

29. GARY TELETZKE
Senior Technical Advisor for EOR
ExxonMobil Upstream Research
CO2 in the Subsurface:
From EOR to Storage

30. HOLDER THERN
Technical Lead, NMR Research
Baker Hughes - a GE company
NMR Logging While Drilling:
From Concept to Reality

31. MARK VAN DOMELEN
Vice President of Technology
Downhole Chemical Solutions
Developing the Next Generation
of Completion Engineers

32. JJ XIAO
Petroleum Engineering Constultant
Saudi Aramco
Enhancing Production with
Electric Submersible Pumps:
Challenges and Solutions

33. DING ZHU
Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Texas A&M University
Using Downhole Fiber Optic
Temperature Sensing
Technology to Monitor,
Control and Improve Well
Performance

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