Rustom K. Mody, P.E., is Vice President and Chief Engineer – Enterprise Technology for Baker Hughes Incorporated. He oversees product and service research and development as well as engineering talent development across the Baker Hughes enterprise. He also heads industry and university collaboration for the company.

Rustom holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Finance. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

Rustom holds 15 patents and is the author of numerous technical publications. He and his teams have won numerous Meritorious Awards for Engineering Innovation. In all, he has more than 32 years of experience in drilling and completion.

Rustom is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Drilling Engineers, and International Association of Drilling Engineers, and serves on various sub-committees of all three organizations. He also serves on the Boards of Advisors for the University of Oklahoma Engineering Department and University of Oklahoma Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geologic Engineering Industry

Advisory Board, and Pumps& Pipes, a Houston research initiative that fosters collaboration and technology transfer among the oil and gas and medical communities and NASA.

  

Panel of Past, Present & Future SPE Presidents

 

 

Ganesh C. Thakur recently retired as vice president, global advisor and fellow of Chevron Energy Technology Company. Thakur is a world-recognized leader in reservoir engineering & simulation, secondary recovery, reservoir and well productivity improvement, heavy oil, horizontal well technology and EOR. He is also known for the emergence of reservoir management (RM) —in particular waterflooding—as a key interdisciplinary practice. Thakur has an impressive list of publications and teaching engagements conducted around the world. His skills and expertise are called upon widely in the design and operation of RM programs, mentoring technical professionals, and serving as an ambassador of technical capabilities to National Oil Companies and Government Ministries. He is an SPE Distinguished Member and has served as Technical Director – Reservoir for the Board of Directors, and an SPE Distinguished Lecturer. Thakur has authored 50 technical articles, three books, edited two SPE reprint series, and presented over 150 lectures/short courses around the world.

A past chairperson of the SPE Reprint Series, Thakur has served on the SPE Editorial Review and Forum Series committees and as short-course instructor on Integrated Reservoir Management and Waterflood Management. He received SPE’s 2005 Reservoir Description and Dynamics award, 2006 Penn State University’s outstanding alumni achievement award, and 1994 Orange County, California’s outstanding engineer of the year award. Thakur earned a B.S. degree in petroleum engineering from Indian School of Mines and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum and natural gas engineering plus an M.A. degree in mathematics, all from Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he earned an executive MBA degree from Houston Baptist University. He has served as an adjunct professor at USC, University of Texas (Permian Basin), University of Houston, Houston Baptist University, and serving King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

 

Vice President Strategy & Portfolio North America, Statoil  

Helge Hove Haldorsen serves as vice president strategy & portfolio North America for Statoil in Houston, Texas, USA. Prior to his tenure at Statoil, Haldorsen worked for Norsk Hydro in various roles including chief reservoir engineer, vice president technology and competence, vice president exploration and research, senior vice president international exploration and production, and president Hydro Gulf of Mexico.

He has also held various engineering positions at British Petroleum, Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), and ExxonMobil (Esso). He was a second lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy and professor of industrial mathematics at the University of Oslo as well as a lecturer at Stanford University in California.

He has served on the Society of Petroleum Engineer's board of directors for three years. He also has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and Distinguished Author in JPT. He has authored numerous technical papers and articles.

Haldorsen earned an MS in petroleum engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Oslo and a PhD in reservoir engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves on the external advisory board for the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

Senior Executive Advisor, Baker Hughes 

 

D. Nathan Meehan, 2016 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) president, is senior executive adviser at Baker Hughes, advising executive management on reservoir and geoscience issues. Previously, he was president of CMG Petroleum Consulting, vice president of engineering for Occidental Oil & Gas; and general manager exploration and production at Union Pacific Resources.

Meehan earned a BSc in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MSc in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and a PhD degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University. He previously served as chairman of the CMG Reservoir Simulation Foundation and as director of the Computer Modelling Group, Vanyoganeft Oil Company, Pinnacle Technologies, SPE Board of Directors, and JOA Oil & Gas BV. He served on advisory boards of the University of Texas and the University of Houston and currently serves on the EME industry relations board at Pennsylvania State, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and the Advisory Board of World Oil. He is the recipient of the Lester C. Uren Award for Distinguished Achievement in Petroleum Engineering and the Degolyer Distinguished Service Medal and served as a Distinguished Lecturer. He is a licensed professional engineer in four states and has published scores of papers.

  

Breakfast Host & Forum Moderator

 

Jeanne M. Perdue, a Technical Writer at Occidental Petroleum, is the 2014-15 Chair of the SPE Gulf Coast Section and an SPE Distinguished Member. Her involvement with SPE started when she was a Chemist at the Texaco Research Labs, serving as Technical Editor and then Review Chairman on the SPE Peer Review Committee. Later, when she was a Texaco librarian, she helped design the SPE Magic Suitcase of hands-on demonstrations for schoolchildren. Jeanne played an instrumental role getting SPE papers scanned and indexed on a CD-ROM, and this SPE MasterDisc and eLibrary have since morphed into the OnePetro.org website. While covering the latest advancements in technology as an editor at Hart’s E&P and Upstream Technology magazines, Jeanne shared her Top Ten Applications on a tour as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer. For the SPE Gulf Coast Section, she has served as Scholarship Chair, Community Services Chair, Membership Chair, and Secretary. Jeanne was elected twice to the Alief ISD School Board, and is currently on the industry advisory boards for the Houston Community College’s PetroTech program and the University of Houston’s Petroleum Engineering Program.

 

 

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