Study Group: Horizontal Drilling Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 111
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
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Fred Aminzadeh, PhDPresident
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Fred Aminzadeh, PhD, is the President of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists with 32000 members and chairman of Advisory Board of Western Standard (ticker WSEG). Dr. Aminzadeh worked for Unocal (now Chevron) in E&P. He has consulted on risk, reserves and other investment issues in the petroleum...
Eric SmithProfessor and Associate Director
A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
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...
Independent Consultant
Bob Alford
Bob Alford is a Global Energy Consultant, providing strategic planning and analysis of large investments in the upstream/midstream oil and gas sector. Mr. Alford also consults on the valuation, acquisition and divestment of new oilfield services technologies. His technical expertise covers the upstream...
President
Ramshorn Investments, Inc.
Jordan Smith is the President at Ramshorn Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nabors Drilling. Mr. Smith is responsible for the screening and participation in direct investments in the exploration and production sector for Nabors worldwide. He has more than 50 years of experience in conducting...
Owner
Freedom Energy Associates, Inc.
Cliff Clark is the President and Owner of Freedom Energy Associates, a firm developing exploration and development drilling prospects in the US. Mr. Clark specializes in the use of 3-D seismic data to improve the quality of the drilling prospects. He developed several CMM and CBM projects in the Illinois...
Marc GarrisonPresident
Onyx Energy America LLC
Marc Garrison is the President of Onyx Energy America and has experience in conventional and unconventional gas production such as coal bed methane and shale gas in Eastern Kansas, Northeast Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, and Western Kentucky. Onyx primarily provides consultancy and project management...
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| Oilfield Equipment Experts | 141 |
| Underbalanced Drilling Experts | 25 |
GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Experts(?)
What is the cost and profit per barrel of oil? What products are in one barrel (42 gallons) of oil? Could the government, both federal and state, be a larger part of the equation than "Big Oil"?
Human Resources in the energy sector reflects the skilled shortage more acutely than the blue collar sector. The interview model of a five year vision is antiquated. If mentoring is relevant in the field, why not mentoring in the office setting with field veterans asking relevant questions?
BP and CoP seem to be making an early commitment to build the Arctic Gas Line. However, when all of the underlying issues and politics are analyzed, the impartial observer has to ask if this is a "real" alternative to the other options that have been put forward or is it competitive...
The simple fact is that the world is no where near running out of oil and/or natural gas. Former Aramco Chief Engineer and spokesperson Nansen Saleri has spoken with uncommon clarity on this issue; most recently in a Wall St. Journal Article on March 4th titled “The World Has Plenty of Oil.”...
LNG has long been considered a panacea for US gas demand and a price-dampener in the near term. However, the fact remains that there is simply not enough LNG supply available at competitive prices to meet any significant new demand from recently-built or in-progress US LNG terminals. Any...
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- E&P Company (ei)
- Oilfield Service Company (ei)
- Drilling contractor (ei)
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- Pipeline Construction Contractor (ei)
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- Engineer
- President
- Consultant
- Owner
- Project Manager
- Principal
- Chief Executive Officer
- Director
- Exploration Manager
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