Energy Transition in the Oil and Gas Industry

About

Cenk Temizel is an energy professional with 20 years of international experience in conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs. He was a research assistant at Stanford University before joining the industry. He received his M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California and BSc from Middle East Technical University - Ankara.Ali Baer is the managing partner of Flux Energy Solutions a firm focused on bringing coupled AI solutions to oil gas and geothermal firms. Having hands-on experience in both drilling and reservoir engineering aspects of the industry he worked as an advisor to major geothermal energy companies in Türkiye specializing in reservoir modeling production and injection optimization. Previously he worked as a programmer for various firms creating video games desktop applications and web applications. His research interests include machine learning-assisted reservoir engineering methods time series analysis of production dynamics and the usage of serious games as a training medium in the oil and gas industry. He holds a B.Sc. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Middle East Technical University Ankara and an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Bakent University Ankara.Onder Saracoglu is the Managing Partner at Flux Energy Solutions. He has 27 years of experience working on reservoir simulation reservoir management field development and reservoir engineering studies with NOC service companies and international E&P companies in the Middle East Central Asia and Africa. He has published numerous publications in reservoir and geothermal engineering. He holds a BS (1996) and MS (1999) degrees from the Middle East Technical University in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Ankara Türkiye.Tolga Tural received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University Istanbul Turkey 1991 an M.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Oklahoma State University Stillwater Oklahoma 1995 and MBA Finance & Investment Management from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC 2017. Earlier in his career Mr. Tural specialized in semiconductors specifically integrated circuit design and development design and development engineering roles for both networking and wireless communication applications in both Canada and the US. Later in his career he focused in renewable industry to develop renewable projects as well as to build commercial and large scale power plants for power utilities and oil & gas industry. Mr. Tural has 28 years of diversified experience in semiconductors wireless and data communications power utilities and oil&gas industries. Mr. Tural is currently working at Saudi Aramco New Energies Strategy & Marketing Consultant. His current role is leading decarbonization development with renewables including project development portfolio transaction and technology validation. Mr. Tural currently holds several technical publications and patents. Luigi Saputelli is a Reservoir Engineering Expert Advisor with 34 years of experience as reservoir drilling and production engineer in PDVSA ADNOC Hess and Halliburton. Saputelli is a researcher lecturer and active volunteer in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) where he served as JPT editor (2012-2020) Production and Operations Advisory Board since 2010 founding member of Real-time Optimization Interest Group and Petroleum Data-driven Analytics technical sections since 2003. He is the recipient of the 2015 SPE International Production and Operations Award. He has published more than 100 industry papers 6 patents and contributed with over 5 books on digital oilfield reservoir management and real-time production optimization. He holds a BSc in Electronic Engineer from Universidad Simon Bolivar (1990) with a MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College (1996) and a PhD in chemical engineering from University of Houston (2003). He is also serving as managing partner in Frontender an upstream energy services firm in Houston.Ole Torsæter is Professor Emeritus in reservoir engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) research associate at PoreLab a Norwegian Centre of Excellence and former Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo. He has been researcher or visiting professor with SINTEF Phillips Petroleum ResLab New Mexico Tech Texas A & M University of Bordeaux and A*STAR Singapore. Torsæter has supervised 220 Master- and 25 PhD-candidates and he has published 200 research papers. Ole Torsæter has a doctor degree from NTNU with a thesis on water imbibition in the chalk formations in the Ekofisk Field. Torsæter received the Darcy Technical Achievement Award from the Society of Core Analysts (2014). Distinguished Achievement Award (2016) and Management and Information Award (2018) were received from Society of Petroleum Engineers. Torsæter is member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.