Opening General Session
Unconventional Wisdom
1000 to 1200 hours, Monday, 22 September
Wells Fargo Theatre
The ATCE 2008 Opening General Session features a panel of industry experts who will discuss the role unconventional resources play in the future of the E&P industry.
Overlooked for decades due to technology limits and recovery costs, these resources are poised to play a dramatic role in shaping the future of the global energy mix. Unconventional resources such as oil shale, tight gas, oil sands, and alternative energy sources (wind, geothermal, nuclear) represent a substantial proportion of the global reserves base.
While opportunities exist, developing unconventional resources comes with additional challenges than those traditionally faced by the E&P industry. Everything from regulatory constraints to infrastructure and logistics limitations may play a role in limiting our ability to rapidly develop these emerging resources to meet expected demand.
Join a select group of topic experts as they debate the relative pros and cons of profitability, challenges associated with different alternative resources, and the “real” ability of unconventional resources to meet expanding demand. This moderated panel discussion includes ample time for audience questions.
Moderator
Guy Caruso
Administrator, Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
In February 2002, President Bush nominated Guy Caruso to the position of administrator of the Energy Information Administration, a statistical agency within the US Department of Energy (DOE). Caruso has more than 30 years of energy experience, with particular emphasis on topics relating to energy markets, policy, and security. Prior to joining DOE, Caruso worked at the Central Intelligence Agency as an international energy economist in the Office of Economic Research. He has also served as the executive director of the Strategic Energy Initiative Project under the Energy and National Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and as director of the National Energy Strategy Project for the US Energy Association. Caruso holds a BS degree in business administration and an MS degree in economics from the University of Connecticut. He also earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.
Panelists
C.P. (Sandy) Butterfield
Jacek Morawski
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J. Marshall Adkins
Charles (Chuck) Stanley
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Sandy Butterfield is the chief engineer of the wind program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His work at NREL has included aerodynamics research, testing, design reviews, contract management; manager of the applied research program; leader of the certification/standards program; chief engineer; and leader of the codes group. He is currently working on offshore wind energy and leading the gearbox reliability research program. Butterfield joined the Solar Energy Research Institute (which was later renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in 1985 as a research engineer. In 1980, he cofounded ESI, a wind turbine manufacturing company. As vice president of engineering, he was responsible for all aspects of design and manufacturing. He previously worked at Rocky Flats, a small turbine research center, as a test engineer, design reviewer, and analyst. Butterfield is the author or coauthor of more than 100 papers. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1977 with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. At the university, he studied under Bill Heronemous, famous for his floating offshore wind farm proposals in the early 1970s. 
Jacek Morawski is the director of engineering for the AMEC Oil Sands Business Unit. He represents engineering for the AMEC Natural Resources Division in the Americas. He has 30 years of Canadian and overseas experience in corporate and project engineering management, project management, and computer-assisted structural analysis and design. Morawski’s management skills were acquired on multi-million and billion dollar projects. He has led engineering projects for ExxonMobil, Syncrude, PetroCanada, Tec-Cominco, Hibernia Management Development Company, Sable Offshore Energy, and Norsk Hydro. His experience includes oil sands extraction projects, oil and gas installations both offshore and onshore, industrial processing plants, hydro electric and thermal power plants, transmission lines, high-speed rail transport systems, bridges, high-rise buildings, and institutional buildings. Morawski has a bachelor of civil engineering, with great distinction from McGill University, and a master of Applied Science from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta.
Marshall Adkins heads the award winning Raymond James energy research team and focuses specifically on oilfield services and products. Prior to joining Raymond James in 1995, he spent 10 years in the oilfield services industry as an engineer, project manager, and corporate financial analyst. Adkins began his career with BJ Services before spending three years with an advanced oilfield technology firm. He holds a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. 
Chuck Stanley serves as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Questar Corporation. He has served as a director of the company since November 2002. Stanley has responsibility for the company's market resources business segment and is the president and chief executive officer of each entity within that group, i.e., Questar Market Resources, Wexpro Company (exploration and production, cost-of-service properties), Questar Exploration and Production Company (oil and gas exploration and production), Questar Gas Management Company (gas gathering and processing), and Questar Energy Trading Company (wholesale marketing and gas storage). He is a director of Hecla Mining Company, current president and director of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States, and a board member of the American Exploration and Production Council. He is a trustee of the American Geologic Institute Foundation and board member of the Utah Wildlife and Conservation Foundation.
Glenn Vawter is the executive director of the National Oil Shale Association. Prior to volunteering for this position, he managed activities for EGL Oil Shale in Midland, Texas, that led to the successful acquisition of a Bureau of Land Management research, development, and demonstration oil shale lease in Colorado. He has more than 30 years of experience in oil shale technology, policy, environmental, and management activities. During the oil shale boom of the 1970s and 1980s, he was a senior vice president of Tosco Corporation—one of the leading oil shale developers and oil refiners of that era. His career in the oil business started in California with Marathon. Vawter has a degree in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He attended the Harvard Business School where he completed the advanced management program in 1977.
