Leading Experts in Oil and Gas Industry Deepwater Operations Experts

Richard Currence was Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Tidewater until he retired in March of 2003. He spent 36 years of his 39 year career in the offshore marine service business – providing services to the majors, independents and national oil companies as well as offshore drilling...

Dennis Fagerstone is an independent consultant in the oil and gas industry. Prior, Mr. Fagerstone was an Executive Vice President of International Operations at Pioneer Natural Resources. He began as Executive Vice President following the August 1997 merger of Parker & Parsley with Mesa to form Pioneer....

Philip Hyatt is the Managing Partner of Petronomics Partners of Texas, a consulting firm providing economic analyses to oilfield service providers, and exploration and production (E&P) operators. Mr. Hyatt has more than 30 years of experience at various executive levels, primarily in line management...

Allen May is the CEO and Co-founder at Elang Energy, a new exploration and development (E&P) business, a company focused on exploration and development of oil and gas in the Asia Pacific region. Prior, he was the President of Samson-International, an E&P business unit focused on the international arena...

Jens Rasmussen is the Owner of Raza Service. Mr. Rasmussen has 28 years of professional experience in the marine and offshore industry. He is site manager for Floatel International's newbuilding of two deep water semisubmersible accommodation units in Singapore. Mr. Rasmussen has held executive management...

James Ritter is a Subsea Manager at Chevron. Mr. Ritter is responsible for the Tombua Landana Deepwater Project in Angola, West Africa. He has experience in design, installation, and operation of offshore pipeline systems. Mr. Ritter also has experience in oil and gas pipelines and subsea systems for...

Eric Smith is a Professor and Associate Director of the Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute at A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Mr. Smith has experience in conducting market and economic analysis of offshore construction and drilling operations world wide and directing feasibility studies...

Roger Vernon is the Founder of Vernon Associates; a firm providing consulting services in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Vernon has more than 33 years of experience in managing offshore drilling operations. He specializes in sub sea exploration and production projects in the North Sea and has extensive...

Wojtek Weckiewicz is the president of Deep Ocean Consultants, a consulting firm in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Weckiewicz has more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He has experience in construction and operation of crude oil and liquefied gas tankers, subsea project management,...