Congratulations to the 2013 International Award Winners
11 July 2013 in Americas,Asia-Pacific,Canada,Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa,Europe, Russia and West Africa,Latin America and Caribbean,Middle East, North Africa and India,Russia and Caspian,United States
The SPE Board of Directors approved the 2013 International Award recipients at their recent meeting in Calgary, Canada. The winners were chosen from a pool of first-rate candidates. Seventeen international award committees recommended these winners to the board because of their outstanding and significant technical, professional, and service contributions to SPE and the petroleum industry. SPE President Egbert Imomoh will present the awards to the winners at the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in New Orleans. Please join SPE in congratulating the 2013 SPE International Award recipients.
2011 International Award Winners
2012 International Award Winners
2013 Winners
Honorary Membership
- Ali Rashid Al Jarwan, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Kate Hadley H. Baker, BP America, Houston, Texas, USA
- Emmanuel O. Egbogah, Emerald Energy Resources, Lagos, Nigeria
- Turgay Ertekin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
- Medhat M. Kamal, Chevron, San Ramon, California USA
- Giovanni Paccaloni, Paccaloni Consulting, Milan, Italy
- Fred I. Stalkup, Dallas, Texas, USA
John Franklin Carll Award
- Albert C. Reynolds, Jr., University of Tulsa, Oklahoma USA
Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal
- Kishore K. Mohanty, University of Texas, Austin, Texas USA
- Erdal Ozkan, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado USA
Robert Earll McConnell Award
- Theodore M. Streit, Gaddy Engineering, Charleston, West Virginia USA
- Sara H. Akbar, Kuwait Energy, Salmiyah, Kuwait
- Thomas Blasingame, Texas A&M University, New Zealand
- Hisham Nasr-El-Din, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA
- Elizabeth Einhorn, Eagle Rock Energy Partners, Midland, Texas USA
- Joshua S. Etkind, Shell, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Loris Tealdi, Eni E&P, Milan Italy
- Tayfun Babadagli, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Maria A. Barrufet, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
- Marco Brignoli, Eni E&P, Milan, Italy
- Ernie Brown, Schlumberger, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Stephen K. Cheung, Yorba Linda, California, USA
- Gokhan Coskuner, Husky Energy, Calgary, Canada
- Nnaemeka Ezekwe, BP America, The Woodlands, Texas USA
- Richard J. Hallam, BP America, Katy, Texas USA
- Byron Haynes, Shell Exploration & Production, Houston, Texas USA
- Leonard J. Kalfayan, Hess Corporation, Houston, Texas USA
- Michael J. King, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA
- Tadeusz W. Patzek, University of Texas, Austin, Texas USA
- Gary F. Teletzke, ExxonMobil Upstream Research, Houston, Texas USA
- Terry L. Thoem, Thoem & Associates, Katy, Texas USA
- Diederik van Batenburg, Shell Global Solutions, Rijswijk, Netherlands
- Kenji Furui, ConocoPhillips, Stavanger, Norway (Medal)
- Nobuo Morita, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (Certificate)
- Giin-Fa Fuh, ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas USA (Certificate)
“Casing- and Screen- Failure Analysis in Highly Compacting Sandstone Fields”
- Craig L. Cipolla, Hess, Houston, Texas, USA
- Rolv Rommetveit, Drilling Solutions, Bergen, Norway
Formation Evaluation Award
- Anil Kumar, Omak Technologies, Plano, Texas USA
- John M. Karish, ENSCO, Houston, Texas USA
- Andrei S. Popa, Chevron, Bakersfield, California USA
- Francisco J. Alhanati, C-FER Technologies, Edmonton, Canada
- Craig Pauley, Chevron, Bakersfield, California USA
- John Killough, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas USA
- Brian Chacka, Denbury Resources, Plano, Texas USA
- Jenny D. Cronlund, BP Exploration, Katy, Texas USA
- Madhavi V. Jadhav, Schlumberger Asia Services, Mumbai, India
- Nael N. Sadek, Lufkin Automation, Cairo, Egypt
- Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia


