Oil & Gas Reserves Committee

About the Committee

The Oil and Gas Reserves Committee (OGRC) is responsible for programs dealing with oil and gas reserves and resources matters, including reserves and resources definitions, terms, recommended practices, and standards. The committee disseminates reserves and resources information to other organizations, agencies, and companies involved in reserves matters, including cooperation with other committees and organizations in development and delivery of relevant training courses.

The committee currently has a chair, vice-chair, and 16 members who are degreed engineers and geoscientists with 10+ years of experience in reserves and resources estimation. There are also eight observers to the OGRC who represent their respective societies on reserves matters. Currently, observers represent the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), the World Petroleum Council (WPC), the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE),The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and the Expert Group on Resource Management (EGRM) of the United Nations Economic Council of Europe.

OGRC Governance (pdf)

Qualifications and Experience

  • Must be an SPE member
  • Must have excellent working knowledge of the specialty topic of reserves and resources estimation and preferably be a recognized industry expert on the topic
  • Must have 10+ years of oil and gas reserves experience

Expected Time Commitment

  • Attend two meetings each year at ATCE and at a location selected by the chair (in-person or online).  Facilities to participate by phone are normally available, though physical participation is preferred (if held in-person).  The meetings usually last three to four hours.
  • Participate in conference calls of one to two hours in between meetings as needed to accomplish the goals of the committee. Normally there are two or three of these in a year.
  • Participation on subcommittees requires additional time, depending on subcommittee.

Deliverables and Expectations

  • Responsible for programs dealing with oil and gas reserves and resources matters, including reserves and resources definitions, terms, recommended practices, and standards.
  • Disseminates reserves and resources information to other organizations, agencies, and companies involved in reserves matters, including cooperation with other committees and organizations in development and delivery of relevant training courses.

Members

John Lee, Chairman
Texas A&M University

Daniel Olds, Past Chairman
Ryder Scott Company LP

Elizabeth Hay
ExxonMobil

Kolawole Ojo 
Apache Corporation

Daniel Diluzio
Chevron

Syed Hasan
ADNOC

Monica Clapauch Motta
Petrobras

Herman Acuna
Ryder Scott Company LP

Richard Krenek
Netherland, Sewell & Associates Inc

 

Trina Medina 
MI3 Petroleum Engineering

Lilibeth Perdomo 
YPF Argentina

Ruslan Alissov
Qatar Energy

Scott Schmidt
QuarterNorth Energy LLC

Ignatiy Volnov
LUKOIL Overseas Service Ltd

Tim Wright
Southwestern Energy Company

Atilio Malave
Addax Petroleum

Jim Bradly
RPS Energy

Antony Corrie-Keilig
Aramco

Periodically, OGRC creates subcommittees to assist with various activities. They are not officially approved by the board, but by the OGRC to work on specific projects.

  • PRMS Training: Chair - Steven McCants
  • PRMS AG Spanish: Chair - Herman Acuna
  • PRMS Examples: Chair – Daniel DiLuzio
  • PRMS Update: Chair – Monica Clapauch Motta & Herman Acuna
  • PRMS AG: Chair – Charles Vanorsdale
  • Reserves Estimation and Auditing Guidelines: Chair – Rick Krenek

Observers

Board Liaison
Deborah Ryan 

S&P Global Platts

JCORET
Carolina Coll

International Finance Corp.

IFRS Foundation
Corey Walrod

IFRS Foundation

SPEE
Stefan Krystosik 

DeGolyer and MacNaughton

SPEE
Rawdon Seager (for PRMS related matters)

Gaffney Cline

SPWLA
Joshua Oletu 

Gaffney Cline

 

AAPG
John Ritter

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

EAGE
Xavier Troussaut

Total SA

SEG
Dan Maguire

Antrim Energy Consulting, LLC

EGRM
Alex Shpilman

EGRM Observer

WPC
Pandele Neculae

Geophysics Assoc. Prof. UBB