Robert W. Chin, of Shell International Exploration and Production, PhD, PE has 25+ years experience in the oil and gas industry.   He started with Shell in 1981, providing fluid flow/process services, specializing in multi-phase flow, pipeline leak detection, heavy oil dehydration, and oil/gas separation. He has been responsible for oil/water/gas/solids process separation design and debottlenecking and spent 6 years in Shell's Bakersfield heavy oil fields. In 1998, he left Shell and co-founded an international sales and marketing company for separation vessel internals and process flow design and analysis. Returning to Shell in 2006, he is presently leading R&D efforts on integrated surface facilities for enhanced oil recovery. He is active in the SPE, being a member of the SPE-GCS Projects, Facilties, and Construction Study Group and a member of the facilities paper selection group for the SPE annual meeting, has co-chaired SPE industry-wide processing workshops, and authored a chapter in the SPE Petroleum Handbook.

 

Bill Kinney, P.E., is a Project Director with Fluor Offshore Solutions, in Houston, Texas.  Bill has over 30 years experience developing onshore and offshore oil and gas fields.  Bill has worked on all aspects of hydrocarbon production, beginning at the reservoir sandface through the topside production facilities, transportation pipelines, and export systems.  Bill has been involved with offshore field developments in Gulf of Mexico, S.E. Asia, West Africa, and Alaska.  Kinney holds a BS degree in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University.  Kinney serves on the Civil Engineering and Ocean Engineering Advisory Committees at Texas A&M University and is also a member of MTS and SNAME.