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Tuesday, 2 May, 1400 to 1630
PANEL: FUTURE OF THE GULF OF MEXICO AFTER KATRINA AND RITA
Room 604
Session Chairpersons
Stephen Balint, Shell Intl. E&P Inc.
Daniel Orange, AOA Geophysics Inc.
Panelists
Joe Bastardi, AccuWeather
Chuck Enze, Shell International E&P Inc.
Roger Leick, ExxonMobil Development Co.
Chris Oynes, MMS
Tim Juran, Transocean
See below for profiles and photos.
The 2005 hurricane season will be forever remembered for the destruction delivered upon the Gulf of Mexico region. The one-two punch from Katrina and Rita battered eastern Texas to western Florida, causing massive damage and changing the course of life for millions. Offshore, the oil and gas industry experienced the fury of these storms, with fixed and floating production structures, drilling rigs, and even pipelines suffering under the powerful winds and tall waves. As the recovery efforts continue on and offshore, the longer-term meaning of these events will be debated.
| 1400 | 18410 | Future of the Gulf of Mexico After Katrina and Rita S.W. Balint, Shell Intl. E&P Inc.; D. Orange, AOA Geophysics Inc. |
Chair Profiles
Stephen Balint, Shell Intl. E&P Inc.
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Steve Balint is currently manager of civil/marine engineering for Shell International Exploration and Production Inc. He has worked more than 25 years in the offshore engineering and construction arena on projects worldwide. Balint is active in ASCE and API and co-founded the FPSO Research Forum. He is a civil engineering graduate from Virginia Tech and Tulane University.
Daniel Orange, AOA Geophysics Inc.
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Daniel Orange is president and CEO of AOA Geophysics Inc., a consulting firm to the upstream oil and gas industry. Since joining AOA, Orange and his group have worked on some of the most challenging seafloor geohazard projects in the industry and they have also evaluated (and opened up) the hydrocarbon prospectivity of frontier basins in deepwater provinces worldwide. Orange is an expert in the use of manned and unmanned submersibles as field vehicles, using seafloor data (bathymetry, side scan) as base maps for field work and the integration of seismic data for 3D process control. He has held positions at University of California Santa Cruz, Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. In these positions, Orange continued to push the application of seafloor mapping techniques and ground-truthing to the prediction and evaluation of seafloor seepage, including seepage in hydrocarbon-prone basins. He holds an undergraduate and master’s degrees in earth, atmospheric and planetary science from MIT and a PhD in geology and geophysics from the University of California Santa Cruz.
Panelist Profiles
Joe Bastardi, Senior Forecaster, Accuweather
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Joe Bastardi is an expert senior forecaster at AccuWeather and is heard daily on radio stations across the US and appears frequently on national television news programs. Bastardi’s extraordinary record of forecast accuracy has established him as the pre-eminent long-range and hurricane forecast meteorologist in practice today. During the 2004 hurricane season, Joe’s predictions of correct landfall areas were an average of 33 hours ahead of the National Hurricane Center, and he was the first to predict the return of the Ghost of Ivan. In mid-August 2002 he correctly forecast that heavy fall and winter precipitation would eliminate the drought in the eastern US. In 2001, he predicted Tropical Storm Allison would hit Houston with flooding rains and massive damage. Allison caused major flooding with $500 million damage in metro Houston. Bastardi studied meteorology at Pennsylvania State University.
C.R. Enze, V.P. E&P Projects, Shell International E&P Inc.
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Chuck Enze is responsible for Shell’s deepwater projects globally, as well as other significant projects in North and South America. He started in 1976 with Shell Oil Company and has spent most of the past 30 years working on offshore engineering and construction projects located in the Gulf of Mexico, California West Coast and offshore Alaska. Some of Shell’s more notable projects that Enze has been involved with are Cognac, Eureka and Shell’s Gulf of Mexico deepwater development program starting with the Auger Project in the late 1980’s through to the most recent Nakika Project. Since the late 1990’s, his efforts have broadened into the development of international projects for the Shell Group. Enze is a civil engineering graduate from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
Roger D. Leick, ExxonMobil
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Roger D. Leick is currently the marine engineering manager within ExxonMobil Development Company; he most recently served as the engineering manager for the Adriatic LNG Project. Lieck has spent the majority of this career with Exxon and ExxonMobil involved in the development of offshore technology for both fixed platforms and floating systems. He has been involved in projects spanning most of the major offshore producing regions of the world. Lieck began his career with Exxon Production Research Company in 1974 immediately following receipt of his BS and MS degrees in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University.
Chris Oynes, Regional Director, MMS
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Chris Oynes is the regional director for the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region of Minerals Management Service. As the regional director, Oynes manages the leasing of the OCS lands for oil, gas and other mineral development and supervises the regulation of operations and protection of the environment on those leases which involve 4,000 platforms covering the five Gulf Coast States. He has 30 years of federal government experience with energy matters. Oynes served 11 years in Washington, DC with MMS in various capacities, including chief of the Lease Sale Planning Branch and the Leasing Division. He served for 7 years as the deputy regional director in the Gulf for MMS and has been regional director for 12 years. In 1998 Oynes received a Presidential Award as a Meritorious Executive in the Senior Executive Service of the Federal Government. He has received the two highest honor awards that the US Department of the Interior bestows. Oynes holds a BA in political science from California State University at Fullerton and a JD from George Washington University.
Tim Juran, Division Manager, Transocean
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Tim Juran is division manager for north America for Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. Prior to being named to this role in November 2005 Juran served as vice president of Performance and Technology beginning in early 2005, vice president of human resources since 2002 and previously as the company's north America region manager since 2001. From 1999 to 2001, he served R&B Falcon Corporation, a predecessor company of Transocean, as vice president, north America and Europe and vice president, Europe, from 1997 to 1999. Since joining the company in 1981, Juran's career has included service in six countries in the Far East and Southeast Asia, as well as Aberdeen and Houston. He holds a BS degree in mining engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
