focuses on the study of carbonate reservoir rocks using outcrop analogs, including the K-T boundary carbonate breccias that correspond to the main oil-producing unit in southern Mexico. José has an MS degree in geo- chemistry and geochronology from the University of Arizona, in Tucson, USA, and a PhD degree in geology from the National University in Mexico City (UNAM).
Peter Hegeman is a Project Manager and Engineering Advisor in the Reservoir Sampling and Pressure Discipline at the Schlumberger Sugar Land Product Center. He joined Schlumberger in 1978. His interests include well testing, pressure-transient analysis, for- mation testing and production system analysis. Peter holds BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, in University Park, USA.
Ben Herber is a Graduate Student pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his BS degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005, majoring in geology. He worked for three years with Remington Oil and Gas, later Helix Energy Solutions Group. His specialty is 3D seismic interpretation as well as sedimentology and stratigra- phy. Upon graduation, he will be employed with Shell Exploration and Production Company in Houston.
Timo Jokela is Business Development Manager for new technology at Reslink AS, a Schlumberger com- pany, in Stavanger. He began his career in Wireline with Otis Engineering in 1977 and held positions as completion supervisor, base manager and operations supervisor. He worked as a completions architect in Stavanger in 2002 and then joined Reslink in 2008.
Christian Koeberl is Head of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna, in Austria. His interests span impact research, geochem- istry, cosmochemistry and planetary geology. He received a PhD degree in astronomy and chemistry from the University of Graz, in Austria. He has been the principal investigator on two impact-structure drilling projects for the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program: the Bosumtwi structure in Ghana and the Chesapeake Bay impact structure in the USA. His publications include 15 books, approxi- mately 340 peer-reviewed research publications and more than 400 abstracts and other nonreviewed publi- cations. Christian has served on the review boards of numerous journals and is currently the Editor in Chief of the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Svein Kvernstuen, Account Manager for Reslink AS in Stavanger, oversees support of Reslink product sales and marketing in the Norway, Russia and Indonesia markets. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechatronic engineering from Agder University College in Grimstad, Norway, and a business economics degree from the Norwegian School of Management in Stavanger. Before joining Reslink he worked as a mechatronic engineer for Nodeco AS and a senior field engineer and project engineer for Aker Maritime in Norway. In 2000 he joined Reslink as a regional manager in Stavanger. Before taking his current position in 2009, he was based in Perth, Australia, as Reslink business develop- ment manager, responsible for openhole completion equipment and services in the Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Indonesia regions.
Robert Lestz is the Unconventional Resources R&D Theme Manager for Chevron Energy Technology Company in Houston. He has worked in the midconti- nent, Forth Worth basin, north and south Texas and West Africa as a completion, production and reservoir engineer responsible for new well completions and base production optimization. In 2001 he was a techni- cal consultant for Chevron’s New Ventures Group. Currently, he works for Chevron’s technology company leading the R&D and technical services for unconven- tional resources, such as oil shale and geothermal energy. Robert is a petroleum engineering graduate of The University of Texas at Austin.
Edmund Leung, who is based in Stavanger, is a Reslink Senior Reservoir Engineer specializing in flow control modeling and monitoring. He earned a BEng degree in petroleum engineering (Hons) from the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He began his career in 1996 as a reservoir engineering consultant, focusing on well test interpretation and design for Santos Ltd. in Adelaide, Australia. Since then he has held numerous technical and business development positions in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Asia, the Middle East and the USA. Before joining Reslink in 2008, Edmund was the reservoir engineering software business development manager in Dubai, responsible for the growth and support of reservoir simulation applications and real-time produc- tion surveillance workflows, services and technologies.
Amy Long is a Senior Manager with Schlumberger Business Consulting, based in Singapore. She advises E&P operators on strategic and organizational issues, which have included commercial models for conven- tional and enhanced geothermal systems. In addition, she has led consulting projects addressing corporate strategy, postmerger integration, asset portfolio man- agement, organization design and technical compe- tency development. Prior to joining Schlumberger in 2003, Amy worked for Arthur D. Little. She has a degree in international relations from Stanford University, in California, and a certificate from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD).
Susan Juch Lutz is a Senior Geologist and Petrologist with Schlumberger TerraTek* Geomechanics Laboratory Center of Excellence in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. There she is the technical manager of the X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory, performing quantitative analyses of whole rock and clay minerals, mostly for tight gas reservoirs in the USA. Previously, from 1988 to 2004, she was a research geologist for the Energy and Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah and worked on a wide variety of hydrocarbon and geother- mal projects. She has more than 20 years of experi- ence with volcanic-hosted and deep-circulation geothermal reservoirs, where her specialties include the overall geology and evolution of geothermal sys- tems, and clay and alteration mineral zoning. Susan earned BS and MS degrees in geology from the University of Utah and is working to complete her PhD thesis on the Dixie Valley, Nevada, fault-related geo- thermal system, also from the University of Utah.
Terje Moen, R&D Manager for Reslink AS in Stavanger, oversees product development within screen and inflow control device (ICD) technology and helps develop new products based on the interaction between the reservoir and screen-based completions. He was a cofounder of Reslink in 1996 and worked in
sales and marketing as well as engineering and prod- uct development. Terje holds an MSc degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD degree in petro- leum engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim.
Oliver C. Mullins is a Chemist and Scientific Advisor at Schlumberger in Houston. Building on existing tech- nology, he is the primary originator of downhole fluid analysis (DFA), a significant new product line in the oil industry, for which he was awarded three Performed by Schlumberger Gold Awards. He has authored a book on the physics of reservoir fluids and DFA and has been Distinguished Lecturer for both the SPWLA and SPE on this topic. He also leads an active research group in asphaltene and petroleum science, focusing on the molecular and colloidal structures of asphaltenes and, in particular, asphaltene dispersion in reservoir crude oil. He coedited three books and coauthored nine chap- ters on asphaltenes in addition to 150 publications with 1,900 literature citations in refereed journals to these publications. He holds 52 US patents and is also Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, in College Station.
Gustavo Murillo-Muñetón has a BS degree in geology from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), in Mexico City. He holds an MS degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and a PhD degree from Texas A&M University. In the past he carried out petrogenic and geochronologic studies of igneous and metamorphic rocks from different Mexican basins. During the last 10 years his research has mainly focused on sedimentology, stratigraphy and diagenesis of carbonate reservoirs. He is a part-time Graduate School Instructor at the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Arquitectura of IPN.
Martin Neumaier joined Schlumberger in Aachen, Germany, as a Geologist in 2008. He earned a BS degree in geology and an MS degree in geological reservoirs at the University of Montpellier, in France. Martin was involved in the pressure and temperature calibration and the implementation of the Avak impact crater effects in the Alaska North Slope petroleum sys- tems study. Currently, his main project is an integrated play-to-prospect study of the petroleum systems of the Norwegian Atlantic margin.
Michael O’Keefe, who is based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, has been Schlumberger Product Champion for downhole fluid analysis (DFA) since 2006. He is responsible for developing new DFA technology into useful solutions for the oil industry, across the full life cycle of projects from R&D to engineering, field test- ing and commercialization of new services. He joined Schlumberger in 1990 as a Wireline field engineer in Austria. Since 1991 he has had assignments in Norway, Saudi Arabia and Australia; in his previous position as principal reservoir engineer he had projects in many other parts of the world. Coauthor of 17 technical papers and 15 filed patents, Michael is a recipient of the Performed by Schlumberger Gold Award for DFA in 2005, and for the Quicksilver Probe* tool in 2006. As a member of the Quicksilver Probe development team he also won the Hart’s Meritorious Engineering Award in 2006. He has a BEng degree (Hons) in electronic engineering from the University of Tasmania, in Hobart.
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