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Tuesday, 2 May, 0930 to 1200
PANEL: INDEPENDENT SPIRITS DRIVING OFFSHORE INDUSTRY
Room 306
Moderators
Gregory Carter, Nautilus Offshore Co. Inc.
Sandeep Khurana, J P Kenny Inc.
Panelists
Brian Reinsborough , Vice President, Exploration, Nexen Inc.
Earl Reynolds, Vice President and General Manager, Devon Energy
Gene Van Dyke, Chairman and CEO, Vanco Energy
John Simon, Vice President, Development, Amerada Hess Corp.
Cory Loegering, Vice President, Deepwater, Mariner Energy
Bertrand Van Den Berghe, Exploration Manager, Geopetrol Intl.
See below for profiles and photos.
In the past 10 years, independents have experienced a record-breaking production-replacement ratio of 135 percent, compared to the industry norm of 80 percent. Because of their entrepreneurial sprit, independents have used their small size and flexible approach to design more efficient development plans and participate alongside majors in high-impact discoveries that include deepwater and ultradeepwater fields, international activities, and marginal developments.
Independents are now poised to play an important role in growing worldwide energy demand. The panel will discuss some of the strategies independents have adopted to continue this trend. The panelists will address the following:
- Production growth vs. reserve replacement.
- Stepping out from mature shelf to deepwater and ultradeepwater regions.
- Stretching applied technology envelopes.
- Developing strong relationships with industry and government partners.
- Building strong technical teams supplemented by global contractors.
| 0930 | 18363 | Independent Spirits Driving the Offshore Industry E. Reynolds, Devon Energy; G. van Dyke, Vanco Energy; J. Simon, Amerada Hess Corp.; C. Loegering, Mariner Energy; B. van den Berghe, Geopetrol Intl.; S. Khurana, J P Kenny Inc.; G.J. Carter, Nautilus Offshore Co. Inc. |
Moderator Profiles
Gregory Carter, Founder and Owner, Nautilus Offshore Co. Inc.
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Gregory Carter is the founder and owner Nautilus Offshore Company, an offshore drilling enhancement design and project management company exclusive to global offshore exploration. The company has participated in many leading edge projects, including casing drilling, managed pressure drilling, conceptual offshore rig design, arctic rig development, and offshore field development. In 2004, Carter helped form an additional venture, Sea Technology Ltd, which develops offshore drilling enhancement tools. He has over 25 years of experience and began working while still in college tending production fields in south Texas and working offshore drilling rigs. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as a drilling, reservoir and managing engineer for various drilling contractors and operators including Tenneco, Texas Eastern, Marlin Drilling and Nabors Industries. He is a 1984 graduate of Texas A&M University with a BS in Petroleum Engineering and holds an MBA degree from Houston Baptist University.
Sandeep Khurana, Project Manager – Subsea & Facilities, J P Kenny Inc.
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Sandeep Khurana currently acts as a Project Manager for Subsea and Facilities at J P Kenny Inc. in Houston where his key roles include project execution, management, co-ordination and field development planning. He has 16 years of diversified experience in planning and engineering of the offshore platforms, topsides facilities, subsea equipment and pipelines accompanied by technical and managerial assistance during the procurement, fabrication and installation phases. Khurana has been actively involved in contributing to the industry and the community via non-profit organizations like MTS Houston Section, Charter Member of Offshore Energy Center, OTC Technical Program Committee and Offshore Operations Chair of ASME. He earned his masters degree in civil engineering in 1990 from Rice University and is a registered professional engineer in Texas.
Panelist Profiles
Brian Reinsborough, Vice President, Exploration, Nexen Inc.
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Brian Reinsborough was promoted to his current position as vice president of exploration in July 2002. Brian has 18 years experience in the oil and gas industry employed at Mobil, Amoco and most recently Nexen Petroleum U.S.A. where he joined in 1994. Through his nine year association with Nexen, Brian has held positions of increasing responsibilities working in South America, SE Asia and most recently the Gulf of Mexico. He received his bachelor’s degree from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada and received his masters degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Reinsborough is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Program.
Earl Reynolds, Vice President and General Manager, Devon Energy
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K. Earl Reynolds was elected vice president and general manager, International Division, in 2003. Before joining Devon, Reynolds served as senior vice president, International and Gulf of Mexico Operations for Ocean Energy. Prior to joining Ocean, Reynolds spent 10 years with Burlington Resources, where he served in a variety of operational and management positions, including director and general manager, United Kingdom and general manager of Acquisitions and International Ventures. Previously, he was operations staff superintendent for Mobil Oil in Houston. Reynolds holds a BS in petroleum engineering from Mississippi State University and an MS in petroleum engineering from the University of Houston. He is a registered engineer as well as a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.
Gene Van Dyke, Chairman and CEO, Vanco Energy
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Gene Van Dyke serves as chairman and CEO of Vanco Energy and is president of the various Vanco subsidiaries in Africa. In 1962 Van Dyke formed Van Dyke Oil Company, concentrating on exploration and production activities primarily in south Louisiana. Then in 1973 he devoted his company exclusively to international offshore exploration, beginning with the North Sea and has been responsible for many of the significant oil and gas discoveries offshore The Netherlands. In 1996 Van Dyke turned his company to a new frontier, deepwater exploration, selecting West Africa as the initial area for investment and renamed it Vanco Energy Company. Van Dyke has over 50 years experience in the oil and gas industry. His career began as a geologist for Kerr-McGee in Oklahoma City, then with an independent oil operator in Wichita Falls, Texas until 1952 when he became an independent. From 1958 to 1962, he operated in Houston under the partnership of Van Dyke and Mejlaender, working the Texas Gulf Coast. Van Dyke is a 1950 graduate of University of Oklahoma with a BS in geological engineering.
John Simon, Vice President, Development, Amerada Hess Corp.
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John Simon is vice president of West Africa Development for Amerada Hess Corp. He has been with the company in a variety of project and operations management positions for the past 16 years. He is currently the manager for Okume Complex a major field development by his company in West Africa. Prior to this he managed Gulf of Mexico asset developments for his company such as Baldpate and Conger projects. Simon graduated from Texas A&I University with a BSME in 1976 and worked at Tenneco Oil in offshore drilling, projects and operations positions until he joined AHC in 1989.
Cory Loegering, Vice President, Deepwater, Mariner Energy
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Cory Loegering is vice president of Deepwater for Mariner Energy, Inc. and is responsible for Mariner's deepwater assets. He led the Swordfish, Ochre, King Kong/Yosemite and Falcon subsea projects and has participated at various levels in the exploration planning, development, project management and execution cycles through initial production for all of Mariner's deepwater projects. His current responsibilities include drilling, completions, production and projects for the development of Mariner’s deepwater assets. He has been active in exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico since 1977 in the planning, reservoir, production and projects disciplines when he began with Conoco and was responsible for Gulf of Mexico production and development in the western and central GOM. In 1982 he joined Tenneco as reservoir engineering supervisor for the Eastern Gulf Division and later served as senior engineer in the economic, planning and analysis group. He joined Hardy Oil and Gas, now Mariner, in 1990 and eventually became active in deepwater with the formulation and implementation of Mariner’s objective to become a deepwater operator. He holds a BS degree in civil engineering from Montana State University.
Bertrand Van Den Berghe, Exploration Manager, Geopetrol Intl.
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Bertrand Van Den Berghe is exploration and new venture manager for Geopetrol International in Monaco, a position he has held since 2005. Prior to this he held exploration positions in numerous well known oil companies such as Triton (now HESS), Agip, and Shell. He has 25 years of experience in the oil industry. Van Den Berghe has worked worldwide in the oil industry and is well versed in English, French and Spanish languages. He earned philosophy of science degree in Structural Geology from Paris VI University in France.
