Larry W. Lake is the Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on the faculty of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering since 1978. He obtained a B.S.E. from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from Rice University, both in chemical engineering. He is a world-famous expert in reservoir engineering, geochemistry, fluid flow in porous media and enhanced oil recovery.
Dr. John Fanchi worked as a reservoir management expert in North Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and elsewhere; employed by Marathon Oil Company, Cities Service, and Getty Oil, Inc. in technology centers; Colorado School of Mines, Golden, professor of petroleum engineering; technology consultant; Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, professor of engineering and energy. John was the principal creator, U.S. Department of Energy BOAST and BOAST II simulators; designer of computer software. Dr. Fanchi has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Houston and is the author of a variety of books in the areas of physics, earth science, mathematics, and engineering. He was co-founder and first President of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics. He has worked in the energy industry, and has taught courses in energy, engineering, and physics at Texas Christian University (TCU), Colorado School of Mines (CSM), and the University of Tulsa.
Robert F. Mitchell is the president of Well Complete, LLC. He has published over 100 papers on wellbore and well completion problems, including wellbore thermal/flow simulation, drillstring mechanics, tubing buckling analysis, arctic well completions, tubular stress analysis, and geomechanics. Principal technical accomplishments include the first deep permafrost thaw subsidence casing design, the comprehensive analysis of the post-buckling equilibrium of tubulars, and the accurate prediction of dynamic surge pressures. He won the SPE Drilling and Completions Award for 2005. He authored the casing and tubing design chapter for the textbook Petroleum Well Construction, one of the editors of the textbook Advanced Drillingand Well Technology, and lead editor for the textbook Fundamentals of Drilling Engineering. He has served as technical editor for Applied Mechanics Reviews, The Journal of Energy Resources Technology, SPE Computer Applications, the SPE Journal, and has been executive editor for SPE Drilling and Completions. He was a Halliburton Technology Fellow in the Drilling and Evaluation Division of Halliburton from 1996 to 2014, vice president of Enertech Engineering and Research Company from 1980 to 1996 and worked at Exxon Production Research Co from 1973 to 1980. He holds BA, MME, and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University, and is a registered professional engineer in Texas.
Kenneth E. Arnold was the founder of Paragon Engineering Services in Houston, an oil and gas project management and engineering services company, which became AMEC Paragon in 2005. He has over 45 years of experience in facilities engineering design and project management, having worked on both onshore and offshore projects in many areas of the world. He is co-author of two textbooks, five design guidelines and over 50 technical articles on this subject. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Arnold served on the Board of SPE as the first specialty director of Projects, Facilities and Construction and also as VP Finance. He has twice been chosen as an SPE distinguished lecturer, and is a recipient of the SPE DeGoyler Medal and Public Service Award. He was named 2003 Houston Engineer of the Year by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and is a member of the Board of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. He served two terms on the Marine Board of the National Research Council and recently chaired a National Academies committee on Evaluating the Effectiveness of Offshore Safety and Environmental Management Systems.Arnold has taught facilities engineering at the University of Houston. He is a registered Professional Engineer and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Engineering School of Cornell University and the Petroleum Engineering Department of the University of Houston. In 1964, Kenneth E. Arnold received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University. He completed a M.S. in Civil Engineering at Tulane University in 1967.
Joe Dunn Clegg's 39-year career with Shell Oil Company began with his employment as a petroleum production operations engineer at various locations across the country including Odessa, Midland, and Houston, Texas, as well as Lovington, New Mexico; Billings, Montana; Denver, Colorado; and New Orleans, Louisiana. Throughout his career, Clegg devoted himself to improving the safety of oilfield operations. He was named an SPE Legend in Artificial Lift in 2014. He was chosen to serve during 1984–1985 as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on the topic of “Artificial Lift: Producing at Optimal Rates.” He served a second term as a Distinguished Lecturer in 1993–1994, speaking on “High-Volume Artificial Lift.” Additionally, he authored and coauthored three papers on artificial lift in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1988, he received the SPE Production and Operations award. Joe held BA and BS degrees in engineering from Rice Institute.
Edward D. Holstein is a retired coordinator in Exxon's Houston headquarters Production Department. During his tenure with Exxon, he served as a liaison between research and production groups, performed technical review of major capital projects, and review of reservoir performance. He also developed, monitored, and participated in reservoir engineering training, managed groups associated with the company's reserve records and technical computer applications, including an automated production tracking system.Prior to joining Exxon, in 1955, Holstein was employed by Carter Oil Company (later merged with Humble to become Exxon). His work with Carter was interrupted when he reported to the US Army, serving two years active duty with the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, with most of his time serving as head of the metallurgical lab at White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, leaving as a First Lieutenant. Upon returning to Carter, Holstein worked in reservoir surveillance, facility design, well completion planning, artificial lift design, and field operations.Since retirement, Holstein has been involved in multiple consulting projects and as editor of the reservoir section in the update of the SPE Petroleum Engineering Handbook and the SPE Waterflooding Monograph.Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Holstein graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and from the University of Oklahoma in 1955 with a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering.
H.R. "Hal" Warner, Jr., SPE, is a consulting reservoir engineer. Previously, he worked for 27 years for ARCo, ending as a Senior Technical Advisor; since 2000, he has been an independent consultant and has spent much of his time during the past decade consulting through DeGolyer and MacNaughton. Warner is an SPE Distinguished Member and received the 1979 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond Award. He has written many SPE technical papers and served as Executive Editor of SPE Reservoir Engineering (1992-1994) and on the JPT Special Series Committee (2004-2012). He is the author or coauthor of three chapters in SPE's Petroleum Engineering Handbook (2007) and served as editor of the Emerging and Peripheral Technologies volume; he is also the coauthor of SPE's Low Invasion Coring monograph. Warner holds a BS degree from Iowa State University and a PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin, both in chemical engineering.
