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Wednesday, 3 May, 0930 to 1200
PANEL: TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION: ENERGY POLICY ACT 2005
Room 602
Moderators
Art Schroeder, Energy Valley Inc.
Laura Atkins, OPEC
Keynote
Øivind Reinertsen, President, Statoil Gulf of Mexico
Panelists
James Slutz, Deputy Asst. Secretary, US DoE
Sean Hanrahan, Managing Director, DeepStar
C. Michael Ming, Managing Member, K. Stewart Energy Group
Brian Clark, Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger
Dirk McDermott, Managing Director, Altira Group
Michelle Foss, Chief Economist & Director, Center for Energy Economics, U. of Texas
See below for profiles and photos.
Over the past six years OTC panel sessions have examined technology commercialization from many different perspectives; international consortiums/organizations, venture and private capital models, industry initiatives, etc. With the signing into law of the Energy Policy Act 2005, sub-part J authorizes funding of a Program Consortium to administer a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program of technologies for ultradeep water and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource exploration and production, including addressing the technology challenges for small producers, safe operations, and environmental mitigation. |
| 0930 | 18411 | Technology Commercialization: Energy Policy Act 2005 Authorizes a Public + Private Partnership to Facilitate Research, Development and Commercialization of Upstream Technologies Art Schroeder, Energy Valley Inc. |
Moderator Profiles
Art Schroeder, CEO, Energy Valley Inc.
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Art Schroeder is CEO of Energy Valley, Inc., a company that provides money, marketing and management to advance energy related technologies. For over 20 years he has been responsible for operations, engineering, construction, environmental, health and safety and crisis management within the petroleum sector. Through his career he has served on a number of industry and civic boards and published numerous technical papers. Schroeder graduated from Georgia Tech with BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering with a minor in environmental engineering and from the University of Houston with an MBA, majoring in finance and international business. He recently completed a one-year graduate level certificate program at University of Houston in ebusiness management.
Laura Atkins, Senior Advisor, Energy Technologies, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Laura Atkins serves as a senior advisor for OPEC examining the interrelationships and dependencies between technology, supply/demand and policy. Previously she served as technical director for ARCO Middle East in Dubai, United Arab Emirates where her team was responsible for designing and structuring a $1.2 billion gas field development, pipeline and marketing project in the Arabian Gulf. Prior to her Middle East assignment Atkins was director, new business development with ARCO International where she was responsible for identifying promising upstream opportunities in new countries and helped establish overseas regional offices for business development. Prior to that she served as director, petrophysics research and technical services where she managed a group of top-level experts and a laboratory that provided technical services to operating divisions worldwide. Earlier in her career she was a regional manager for ARCO Alaska, Inc. Atkins is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, with a master’s degree in public administration with concentrations in international affairs and leadership. She also holds a BS in chemical engineering from Tulane University.
Keynote Speaker and Panelists Profiles
Øivind Reinertsen, President, Statoil Gulf of Mexico
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Øivind Reinertsen, president of Statoil Gulf of Mexico, moved to Houston in the fall 2005 to open Statoil's new office in Houston. Reinertsen has a long career with Statoil and has primarily been involved in large projects off the coast of Norway. He has also worked offshore where he managed the Sleipner Field. He now comes to Houston from his latest position as senior vice president with responsibility for all operations and activities in the Tampen area, one of the main areas of production for Statoil on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Outside of Norway, Reinertsen previously managed the Statoil office in the Netherlands.
James A. Slutz, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology, US Department of Energy
James A. Slutz currently serves as the deputy assistant secretary for natural gas and petroleum technology in the office of fossil energy of the US Department of Energy. In this position, Slutz is responsible for administering oil and gas programs, both domestic and international, including research and development, planning and environmental analysis and import and export activities. Prior to his appointment in June 2002, Slutz served as the director, Indiana Division of Oil and Gas, with responsibilities for overseeing oil and natural gas exploration and production, natural gas storage and leasing of state land for exploration. In 1993, Slutz was appointed to represent the governor of Indiana on the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), an organization representing the governors of oil and gas producing states. Slutz holds an MBA degree from The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business and a BS degree from The Ohio State University, School of Natural Resources.
Sean Hanrahan, Managing Director, DeepStar Chevron
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Sean Hanrahan, DeepStar Director, Chevron, leads the DeepStar deepwater technology program on behalf of the ten oil company participants. He joined Chevron in Australia 1996 as a drilling engineer and work on the deepwater Gorgon exploration and appraisal program. In 2000, Hanrahan moved to San Ramon, California to provide technical support to international drilling projects and new business opportunity assessments. He commenced the DeepStar director position in 2004. Prior to joining Chevron, he worked in well services, onshore Australia. Hanrahan has a BE in petroleum engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and an MBA from California State University.
C. Michael Ming, Managing Member, K. Stewart Energy Group, LLC
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C. Michael Ming (“Mike”) is a managing member of K. Stewart Energy Group, LLC, an independent oil and gas company located in Edmond, Oklahoma. Ming’s experience includes onsite drilling and production engineering in the Rockies and California, operations management in the mid-continent and he served as a principal, director and vice president of engineering at K. Stewart Petroleum Corp. Ming is an emeritus member of the Petroleum Investments Committee at Stanford University and is a past chairman. He is actively involved in the university’s energy programs in earth sciences and engineering, is a co-sponsor of the MAP/Ming visiting professorship on energy and the environment and currently serves on the School of Earth Sciences dean’s advisory board. He is an adjunct professor in energy management at the University of Oklahoma and has served as a strategic planning advisor on oil & gas to the Department of Energy. He holds a BS degree with distinction in petroleum engineering and an MS degree in engineering management, both from Stanford University and is a registered professional engineer in Oklahoma.
Brian Clark, Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger
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Brian Clark, Schlumberger Fellow, has been developing oil field technology for 27 years. He has over 40 patents covering wireline and while-drilling technology. He was named 2002 Texas Inventor of the Year and received the 1996 Formation Evaluation Award from the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Clark has held various technical and management jobs in Schlumberger, including research scientist, vice president and director of research, vice president formation evaluation and technology center manager responsible for developing and manufacturing wireline, drilling and measurement and well services products. Clark served as a director of the American Institute of Physics and is currently a director of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America. He is a delegate to the World Petroleum Congress and is active in several professional societies. Clark has a BS in mathematics and physics from Ohio State University, and MA and PhD degrees in physics from Harvard University.
Dirk McDermott, Managing Partner, Altira Group LLC
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Dirk McDermott is the founder and managing partner of Altira Group LLC, a Denver based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early stage equity investments in companies that develop and commercialize technology for the energy industry. He has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, manager and scientist within the energy sector. McDermott holds an MBA and an MS in geophysics from Stanford University. He has served on the boards of directors of a number of Altira portfolio companies including Canyon Offshore, Inc., RC Squared, Inc., Coherence Technology Company, Inc., Beyond Compliance Inc. DeepFlex Inc. and TransZap, Inc.
Michelle Michot Foss, Chief Energy Economist and Head, University of Texas, Center for Energy Economics
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Michelle Michot Foss is chief energy economist and head University of Texas, Center for Energy Economics. She has over 20 years of experience in energy and environmental research and consulting in the US and abroad in senior positions with extensive public speaking engagements and numerous publications to her credit. She has broad experience in applied energy economics and business development, enterprise strategy and commercial operations and business-government relationships across the energy value chains. Prior to her current position, she served as executive director, Institute for Energy, Law & Enterprise, University of Houston where she was instrumental in initiating many new programs and landing federal, state and corporate funding for the university. Earlier she served as director of research, Simmons & Company International and prior to that was senior associate and director of research, Jesse H. Jones Center for Economics and Demographic Forecasting, Rice Center. She holds a PhD with honors in political science, University of Houston, an MS in mineral economics, Colorado School of Mines and a BS in biology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
