Rafael E. Hincapie
Head of Department Subsurface Technologies
OMV E&P Gmbh
SPE Programme Committee Chair
Programme Chairs
Programme Committee Members
Francesca Verga, Professor & Strategic Advisor - Politecnico di Torino (Strategic Advisor to the Programme Committee)
Yucel I. Akkutlu, Professor, John Edgar Holt ’27 - ChairTexas A&M University
Daniel Arnold, Associate Professor - Heriot-Watt University
Marco Brignoli, Activity Manager - Eni E&P
Torsten Clemens, Senior Reservoir Engineer Adviser - OMV E&P Gmbh
Alain Gringarten, Emeritus Professor of Petroleum Engineering - Imperial College London
Heikki Jutila, Technical Director - Jutila Ltd
Taoufik Manai, Senior Advisor - Reservoir Engineering - SLB
Thomas Schaaf, Reservoir Engineer - Storengy SAS, A Company of ENGIE
Benjamin Stewart, Account Leader, Consultant - Independent
Paul Van Den Hoek, Principal Water Flood Engineer and Geomechanics Specialist - Panterra Geoconsultants BV
Tao Yang, Senior Specialist Equinor - ASA
Balch Robert, Senior Scientist - New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Erdal Ozkan, Professor of Petroleum Engineering - Colorado School of Mines
Emad Walid Al Shalabi, Associate Professor - Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Leonhard Ganzer, Managing Director - Underground Energy Storage Technologies
Emre Artun, Associate Professor - Sultan Qaboos University
Serhat Akin, Professor - Middle East Tech. Uni. (Reservoir Eng., Geothermal Energy, Reservoir Modeling)
Majed Al Suwailem, Research Fellow - King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (Energy Security, Geopolitics, and Hydrocarbon Laws and Regulations)
Siti Aishah Binti Mohd Hatta, Manager - Global CCS Institute
Carolina Coll, Principal Industry Specialist - Reservoir CGGVera
Vera Rocca, Associate Professor - Politecnico di Torino
William Palozzo, Managing Director - DG Impianti Industriali S.p.A.
Francisco Porturas, President and Founder, Peruvian Geothermal Association
Hans Sizoo, Carbon Capture & Storage Development Manager - BP