Agenda

We are excited to have Dr. Martin Poitzsch, Reservoir Engineering Technology Leader, Aramco Americas, join us to discuss sustainability as it relates to our industry. Dr. Poitzsch will start off with a tribute to the late Dr. Hisham Nasr-El-Din. Dr. Nasr-El-Din was a professor and holder of the John Edgar Holt Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University, as well as a recipient of several SPE awards and honors. Following the tribute, Dr. Poitzsch’s presentation will shed light on the sustainability needs of our current environment in regard to climate change and reduction of CO2 emissions. Carbon capture, storage and sequestration, as well as CO2-EOR are key examples of upstream to net zero emissions. There are many major opportunities for oilfield chemists and engineers to introduce efficiencies and technologies in upstream operations to achieve that objective.