SPE’s CO2 Storage Resources Management System

Subhash Thakur is an independent consultant and the founder of Sustainable Petroleum Solutions LLC. Prior to this, he worked at BP for 35 years as a Petroleum Reservoir Engineer and Resource Manager. He has an extensive background in reservoir simulation, EOR, field development planning, reserves evaluation and CO₂ storage. The projects he worked at BP included Permian Basin CO₂ EOR, San Juan Basin (Colorado) coalbed methane (CBM) and Trinidad offshore oil and gas field developments. He led a team of specialists which provided reservoir management expertise to BP’s business units worldwide. He conducted screening and economic evaluations of potential CO₂ EOR and storage projects on the US Gulf Coast and Canada. He has authored several internal BP reports and SPE publications. He is a member of the SPE CO₂ Storage Resource Committee (serves in Communications and Training Materials Subcommittees). He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from India, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA.

Daniel DiLuzio works in Chevron’s Global Reserves group where he is a member of Chevron’s Reserves Advisory Committee (RAC) responsible for the assurance of Chevron’s oil and gas reserves and resources and chair of Chevron’s CO₂ Storage Advisory Committee. Dan has 38 years of global industry experience with prior roles with Shell, Total, Newfield and Encana in various engineering and management roles. Dan is a member, and prior chair, of the SPE Oil and Gas Reserves Committee (OGRC) since 2011 and chaired the PRMS Update Sub-Committee delivering the PRMS 2018. Dan is also a current committee member of the SPE CO₂ Storage Resources Committee (CSRC). Dan is a member of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE) and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. Dan holds BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana State University.

W. John Lee holds the DVG Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to this position, he held the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair at the University of Houston’s petroleum engineering program from 2011 to 2015. Still earlier, Lee was a professor of petroleum engineering at Texas A&M from 1977 to 2011. He was the former executive vice president of S.A. Holditch & Associates, where he specialized in reservoir engineering for unconventional gas reservoirs. He served as an Academic Engineering Fellow with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington during 2007–2008, and was a principal architect of the new SEC rules for reporting oil and gas reserves. Prior to beginning his career in academia, Lee managed Exxon’s Major Fields Study Group. He has written many technical papers and four SPE textbooks: Well Testing, Gas Reservoir Engineering, Pressure Transient Testing, and Applied Well Test Analysis. Lee is an Honorary Member of SPE and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He received his BChE, MS, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Scott Frailey is a principal reservoir engineer for the Illinois Geologic Survey, where he is involved with the technical aspects of the CO₂ storage and CO₂ EOR programs and provides technical expertise in the areas of reservoir characterization and engineering including pressure transient analyses, core analyses, well log analyses, and reservoir modeling. Scott chairs the SPE CO₂ Storage Resources Committee that oversees the Storage Resources Management System (SRMS) and SRMS Guidelines. Previously, Scott was an associate professor of petroleum engineering at Texas Tech University and a reservoir engineer at BP Exploration (Alaska). He graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla with B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in petroleum engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, New Mexico, Illinois, and Indiana, and member of the SPWLA and SPE.