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2008-2009 Distinguished Lecturers by Discipline

Drilling and Completion

Mark Dykstra
Improving Drilling Performance by Applying Advanced Dynamics Models

Brian C. Gahan
Perforating With Lasers: Are You Ready for the Power of Light?

Malcolm Knopp
Recommendations for Designing Nondamaging Acid Stimulation Fluids for Oil and Gas Bearing Reservoirs

Luiz Marques
The Production Management of Unstable Light, Crude Oils Showing Asphaltenes Deposition Problems

Bernard Piot
Cements and Cementing: An Old Technique With a Future?

David Underdown
When is Classic Sand Control Not Enough?—The Impact of Formation Fines

 

Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility

John Hall
Designing The Perfect Drilling Fluid Additive: Can It Be Done?

David S. Hughes
The Strategic Significance and Practicalities of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage

John Veil
Produced Water Management Options — One Size Does Not Fit All

 

Management and Information

Fahed A. Al-Ajmi
Reservoir Management and the Art of Listening To the Reservoir

Ken R. Brown
The Enhanced Oil Recovery Kiss of Death — It Was a Technical Success but an Economic Failure!

Tony Harrison
Reserves Management and Auditability — Critical Requirements in Today’s Oil and Gas Industry

Yasin Senturk
Value of Seamlessly Collaborative Integrated Studies

P.K. Verma
Enhancing Offshore Asset Value — Indian Experience

 

Production and Operations

Francisco Alhanati
Pitfalls To Avoid in Assessing Artificial Lift Run-Life Performance  

Pavel Bedrikovetsky
Injectivity Impairment and Well and Water Management

Anthony Martin
Appropriate Hydraulic Fracturing Technologies for Mature Oil and Gas Formations

Martin Rylance
Remediating Cusiana and Cupiagua Fracturing between a Rock and a Hard Place

 

Projects, Facilities, and Construction

Wael F. Ellaithy
The Scarab/Saffron Fields Deepwater Gas Fields Development: Installation Aspects and Subsea System

John Morgan
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) — Roaring Ahead — Where Will it End?

 

Reservoir Description and Dynamics

Ahmed M. Al-Hamadah
Impact of Cutoffs in Tight Gas Reservoir Simulation

Zaki Bassiouni
Low-Cost Methods for Improved Oil and Gas Recovery

Harvey E. Goodman
Optimizing Asset Design — Cradle To Grave — by Bridging the Gap Between the Earth Science and Engineering Disciplines Using Mechanical Earth-Modeling Technology

Robert H. Hite
A 20-Year Perspective on Use of Pressure-Transient Analysis

Hussein Hoteit
Higher-Order Methods in Reservoir Simulation: Luxury or Necessity?

Wayne Narr
Guilt and Absolution in Naturally Fractured Reservoir Characterization: The Cause and Devilish Effect of Heterogeneity

Ron Sawatzky
Cold Production: Recovery Mechanisms and Field Performance

George Stosur
The Growing Demand for Oil and Natural Gas and the Related Global Warming Issues

Neil Williams
Mature Fields: Keep Revisiting the Fundamentals