2009 PSC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Anthony Au

Anthony Au is a professional engineering consultant with ADA International Consulting Ltd. He has over 30 years of experience in reservoir engineering, dynamic reservoir modeling and reservoir simulation software research and development. His interests include naturally fractured reservoirs and thermal recovery methods. He joined the Petroleum Society in 1978. In 1982, he was elected to the Calgary Section Board. In addition to the normal responsibilities of a Board member, Anthony has been active in numerous committees during the past 26 years. He was a contributing author to the first Petroleum Society Monograph on oil and gas reserves, which was published in 1994. He was a member of the electronic publishing committee that published the first Technology Bank CD in 1997. He served on the Continuing Education Committee and helped to develop new standardized contracts with instructors in 1999. Anthony has served as Chairman of the Calgary Section in 1988, he was Chairman of 45th Annual Technical Meeting (CIPC) in 1993, and he was Chairman of the Petroleum Society in 1997. He is currently the Treasurer.

J. Russell Barnes

J Russell Barnes is an independent Consulting Project Engineer, focusing on the Commercialization of Frontier Petroleum Properties and performing Economic Evaluations of both domestic and foreign oil and gas producing .properties. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science from the University of Texas, Austin and an MBA in international business from University of Southern California. Additional graduate level study was performed at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Ocean Engineering topics. Russ has been participating in Petroleum Society since 1996 as part of the Annual Technical Meeting, CIPC, and ITOHOS Conference Organizing Committees, generally as Registration Chair. He is also a member of APEGGA.

Tareq Chowdhury

Tareq Chowdhury completed his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering at the University of Calgary in 1993 and started his career at APA Petroleum Engineering Inc. (currently known as RPS Energy). During his seven years with APA, he was involved in numerous reservoir and production engineering projects. In 2000, Tareq joined Rio Alto Exploration as a Production Engineer and in 2002, he moved to Devon Canada Corporation. Recently, Tareq moved to EnCana as a Production Engineer within the Canadian Foothills Division. Tareq has been an active volunteer with the Petroleum Society since 1998, serving as a Committee Member and then as a Chairman of the Back to Basics Special Interest Group. He has also served on several CIPC Technical Program Committees. Besides serving as a member of the Society’s Board of Directors, he served on the CIPC 2008 Organizing Committee as the Technical Program Chairman. Tareq is a member of APEGGA, the Petroleum Society and SPE.

Jeff Duer

Jeff Duer completed his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering at the University of Calgary in 2002 and started his career at EnCana as a Drilling Engineer. In 2003, Jeff continued his career with EnCana in the Gas Storage Business Unit as a Reservoir Engineer, and worked on gas storage development and optimization projects. In 2006, Jeff joined Sproule International Limited as a Reservoir Engineer. His experience has included Reservoir Simulation, surface network modeling, and well test analysis, and economic analysis in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Indonesia, New Zealand, Oman, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Recently, Jeff joined Shell Canada as a Reservoir Engineer within the Canadian Foothills Ventures Division. Jeff has been an active volunteer with the Petroleum Society since 2003, serving as a Committee Member and then as a Chairman of the Back to Ba¬sics Special Interest Group. Jeff is a continuing member of the Pet¬roleum Society of Board of Directors, currently serving on the Sections Affairs portfolio. Jeff is a member of APEGGA, the Petroleum Society and SPE.

Robert Hawkes

Robert Hawkes is Team Leader, Reservoir Services for BJ Services Company Canada overseeing petrophysical and reservoir engineering services. Robert graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1979 with a diploma in petroleum engineering. He began his career with Esso Resources in Calgary in their testing department and then went on to become a senior welltest specialist with Fekete Associates Inc. Robert is well published in the JCPT and in SPE publications and was a Distinguished Lecturer for the SPE 2007-2008 Distinguished Lecture Program. As a member of the Petroleum Society, Robert has volunteered on several CIPC Technical Program Committees and has been an active member of the Reservoir Evaluation and Production Optimization Special Interest Group. Robert is a member of SPE, the Society of Petroleum Petrophysicists and Well Logging Analysis (SPWLA), the Petroleum Society and the Alberta Society of Engineering Technologists (ASET).

S.A. (Raj) Mehta

Raj Mehta is a Professor of Oil and Gas Engineering and the Director of International Programs in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. His prime research interests are in the areas of high pressure combustion including mechanisms associated with high pressure air injection-based oil recovery processes, flue gas injection-based IOR and CO2 sequestration, safety aspects of underbalanced drilling operations, gas phase combustion in porous media, near wellbore stimulation processes and explosions and safety aspects associated with the energy industry. He is a member of a number of Boards, including the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI), the Petroleum Society and the University of Calgary’s International Education Council. He is also a member of the Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee of the SPE and is a registered professional engineer in the Province of Alberta.

Karl A. Miller

Karl Miller has worked for the last 28 years to improve heavy oil and bitumen recovery processes, including assignments in Canada, the U.S., Argentina, Colombia and Brazil as both an employee of several oil companies, and as an independent consultant. He is currently a Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer in Husky Energy’s Heavy Oil Thermal Assets Group. His areas of work have included cold production with vertical wells and with horizontal wells, post cold production using either solvent processes and in situ combustion processes and steam processes using various combinations of vertical and horizontal wells. Much of this work has been documented in papers and articles. Karl earned B.E.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering, and has also worked in diverse areas such as diamond synthesis, explosives research and manufacture of glass containers. Karl has been an active volunteer with the Petroleum Society for a number of years, and has worked on CIPC Technical Committees, including serving as Chairman for 2005. He has also worked on a number of Slugging It Out Committees, including two years as Co-Chairman. Karl is currently the Chairman of the Heavy Oil and Horizontal Well Special Interest Group and the Student Affairs Director. Karl is a member of the Petroleum Society, APEGGA, CHOA and SPE.

Frank Palmai

Frank Palmai is a Reservoir Engineering Analyst at EnCana Corporation within the Clearwater Mannville CBM team. He has over 22 years of varied reservoir engineering experience in both conventional and unconventional oil and gas projects in Canada, as well as internationally. He is a specialist in the areas of reservoir simulation and well test interpretation. Frank is currently serving in the Programs portfolio on the Petroleum Society’s Board of Directors. In addition to Frank’s involvement with the Board, he is also active within the Petroleum Society’s Reservoir Evaluation and Production Optimization Special Interest Group. Frank is also currently the Chair of CAPP’s Well Test Committee and serves on the ASET RPT(Eng) Nominating Committee as a member. Mr. Palmai is a graduate of SAIT and is a member of APEGGA, ASET, the Petroleum Society and SPE.

Raj S.V. Rajan

Raj received his B.Ch.E. (1963) from Delhi University; M. Tech.(1965) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Ph.D. (1970) from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. All the degrees were in chemical engineering. Following a few years of working as a member of the chemical engineering faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Dr. Rajan was a professional chemical engineer working on projects related to thermal hydraulics of CANDU nuclear reactor safety for nearly nine years at the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment of the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Pinawa, Manitoba. Since 1982, Raj has worked on various aspects of heavy oil and oil sands projects at the Alberta Research Council. In recent years, Raj has been involved in the AACI (AERI/ARC Core Industry) Research Program. He has to his credit many published technical papers and seven patents. He is an active member in APEGGA and SPE, and has a membership in AIChE, CIC/CSChE and the Petroleum Society. His hobbies include music (including teaching), reading and active volunteer service to both his profession and his community at large.

Uliana Romanova

Uliana Romanova holds an M.Sc. in physics and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Kazan State University (Russia). Dr. Romanova is currently working as a Senior Analyst (Reservoir Performance Optimization) at RPS Energy. The area of her expertise is reservoir performance optimization and laboratory studies. She formerly worked as a Project Engineer at Hycal Energy Research Laboratories, a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, a post-doctoral fellow at the Reservoir Engineering Division, Institut Francais du Petrole (France) and a Research Scientist at the A.E. Arbuzov Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Science at the Heavy Oil and Bitumen Research Centre (Russia). She has served on the Organizing Committee of the Petroleum Society’s Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC) since 2003. She was the Director of Student Affairs on the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Society from 2006 to the end of 2007, after which she became the Chairman of the Petroleum Society. Dr. Romanova is a member of the Petroleum Society, Society of the Petroleum Engineers, Canadian Heavy Oil Association, and Society of Special Core Analysis

Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor, P.Chem., is a Senior Technical Professional Manager with Halliburton specializing in Fracture and Acidizing treatment design and fluid development. In this role he works with a team dedicated to delivering optimum asset value through use of advanced fracture and Acidizing design software. Robert has 30 years industry experience in management and research positions with four years international experience. He is a graduate of the University of Calgary, has twenty five patents and 15 papers, 10 of which have been published in JCPT within the last five years. Robert has served as both a speaker and chair at several Unconventional Gas conferences. He is the past president of the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta and is currently serves on the Board of Directors.

K.C. Yeung

K.C. Yeung is Manager of Oil Sands Technology at Husky Energy Inc. in Calgary. He has 31 years experience in heavy oil reservoir engineering and development, including cyclic steam stimulation (CSS), steamflood, in situ combustion, cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) and steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). K.C. holds B.Sc. (with Distinction) and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering, both from the University of Hawaii. He was the Chairman of the Petroleum Society of CIM in 2007 and the President of the Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA) for 2005-2006. K.C. was also the Technical Conference Chairman for the 2006 and 2008 World Heavy Oil Conferences (WHOC), Conference Chairman for the Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC) 2005, Technical Program Co-chairman for the 2004 Joint CHOA/CSPG/CWLS Conference, Technical Program Chairman for CIPC 2002 and the 1999 SPE/Petroleum Society One-day Horizontal Well Conference. He is a member of APEGGA, the Petroleum Society, CHOA, SPE and ASME.