8/6/2019 SPE Board Noms

1/4

32 JPT APRIL 2011

Egbert Imomoh is the nominee for 2013SPE president. He heads the slate of SPEmembers recommended by the societysNominating Committee and the Boardof Directors for SPE board positions. If elected, Imomoh would take office as SPE

president-elect at the close of the societys2011 Annual Technical Conference andExhibition. The other nominees, if elect-

ed, would begin three-year terms as directors at the same time.

2013 SPE PresidentImomoh is the nonexecutive chairman and a co-founderof Afren. In 1968, he joined Shell in Nigeria as a petroleumengineer after basic training in the Netherlands. He worked inNigeria, the UK, and the Netherlands and rose to the positionof deputy managing director of Shell Petroleum DevelopmentCompany of Nigeria, a position he held until February 2002when he retired. After that, he worked with Shell Internationalin London as a senior corporate adviser on Nigeria during2002 to 2004.

Imomoh has been a member of SPE since 1973 and was afounding member of the section in Nigeria. He was chairmanof SPE Nigeria Council in 1986 and was named a DistinguishedMember of the society in 1999. He served as the first regionaldirector for Africa on the SPE Board of Directors between 2000and 2003 and was the chairman of the board committee on edu-cational and professional activities during 2002 and 2003. Hehas been chairman of the Board of Trustees, SPE Nigeria Councilsince 2007. Imomoh graduated with a degree in mechanicalengineering from the University of Birmingham, England.

Director, At-LargeMohammed Al-Qahtani is the execu-tive director of Petroleum Engineeringand Development for Saudi Aramco. Inthis capacity he leads an organization of nearly 2,000, overseeing the develop-ment and management of all of SaudiAramcos oil and gas resources. He serveson several professional and corporateboards, including the Saudi Council of

Engineers Board of Directors, the Arabian Geophysical &Surveying Company Board of Directors, and the KingAbdullah University for Science and Technology IndustryAdvisory Board. He has also served as a board member of the

American Petroleum Institute and on the LUKOIL SaudiArabia Energy Board of Directors. He is chairman of the SPESaudi Arabia Section Board of Directors. He earned mastersand PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from theUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Director, Russian and Caspian Region Andrey Gladkov is president andfounder of Modeling TechnologiesCenter, based in Moscow, which pro-vides data management and reservoirsimulation service for the petroleumindustry. Previously, he held engineeringand management positions at Yukos.During his career, he has managed andimplemented several large-scale engi-

neering projects involving production and waterfloodingoptimization, reservoir simulation, and software develop-ment. He also worked in research and development at UfaState Technical Aviation University (USTAU) in Russia.

Gladkov has served in several positions with the SPEMoscow Section, including chairman and information tech-nology director. In 2007, he was awarded the SPE RegionalAward for Management and Information. He has also workedto develop student, young professional, and SPE certificationprograms in Russia and the Caspian region. He has authoredmore than 30 technical papers and contributed to numer-ous conferences and workshops. Gladkov earned BS and MSdegrees in applied mathematics and computer science and aPhD degree in physics and mathematics from USTAU.

Director, Southwestern North AmericaPeter J. Schrenkel is president andfounder of Vision Natural Resources,based in Midland, Texas. He is respon-sible for identification, acquisition, anddevelopment of oil and gas properties forthe company with concentration inOklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, andTexas. Previous positions held includestints in operations management at

Schlumberger, sales and marketing at Reda Pump, and reser-voir and production engineering for Sun Production andOryx Energy. Schrenkel earned a BS degree in mechanicalengineering from the University of Texas at Austin and anMBA degree from the University of Texas at Tyler.

Nominations for 2013 SPE President,Board of Directors Announced

SPE BOARD NOMINATIONS

8/6/2019 SPE Board Noms

2/4

8/6/2019 SPE Board Noms

3/4

34 JPT APRIL 2011

Schrenkel is a former newsletter coordinator and vicechairman of the SPE East Texas Section and also served asits Internet coordinator. In addition, he served as chairman,past chairman, and social chairman of the SPE Permian BasinSection. He is also a member of the West Texas GeologicalSociety and the Society of Independent Earth Scientists, andis a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Director, South Americaand Caribbean RegionNestor Fernando is director of theColombian Petroleum Institute (ICP),Ecopetrol, where he began his career inthe laboratories studying petrophysics,formation damage, and rock mechanics.He has also worked as coordinator inhorizontal well technology and rockmechanics projects, as well as in assessingand predicting the behavior of Colombian

oil fields.From 2003 to 2006, he served as head of ICPs Research Unit,

where he led geological modeling projects for risk reductionand costs in the Colombian foothills, and in modeling of refin-ing processes to improve margins at Ecopetrol refineries.

He has been active in SPE, including chairing AppliedTechnology Workshops on waterflood management and onhydraulic fracturing and was technical chair of the 2009SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum EngineeringConference in Cartagena, Colombia, and the technical chairof the 2010 conference held in Peru. He served as chair of the 2009 ATCE Educational, Professionalism and TrainingCommittee, and was a member of two other such commit-tees at different ATCEs. He was also instrumental in helpingcreate the SPE Northeast Colombia Section in Bucaramanga,Colombia, in 2010.

He is the author of more than 38 publications, and receivedthe Regional Service Award for the SPE South American andCaribbean Region. He earned a bachelors degree in petroleumengineering from the Universidad Industrial de Santander inColombia and a masters degree in petroleum engineering fromTexas A&M University.

Director, Southern Asia Pacific John Boardman is founder of RISC and iscurrently special adviser to the companyin Perth, Australia. Boardmans 40-yearcareer in the upstream oil and gas industryhas focused on achieving greater under-standing of and accounting for risk anduncertainty and more judicious, transpar-ent decision-making processes.

He is a graduate member of theAustralian Institute of Company Directors. Boardman gradu-ated from Sheffield University, England, with a BSc degree infuel technology and chemical engineering.

Director, South Central EuropeMaurizio Rampoldi is development project manager for EniE&P based in San Donato Milanese, Italy. After a brief experi-ence at IBM, he began his career in the petroleum industry by

joining Agip in 1986. He has held several technical, opera-

tional, and managerial positions in Italyand abroad. His main positions haveincluded technical director and deputygeneral manager of Eni Congo; director of Zetah Congo; Reservoir Studies De part-ment manager; and Production Optimiza-tion Technology Department manager.

Rampoldi joined SPE in 1989 andserved for many years as member on

the board of the SPE Italian Section as well as on numerousSPE Applied Technology Workshop committees. He currentlychairs the SPE Italian Section. Rampoldi earned a civil engi-neering degree from the University of Pavia.

Technical Director, Health, Safety, Security,Environment, and Social Responsibility

Roland Moreau is the Safety, Security,Health and Environment manager forExxonMobils Upstream ResearchCompany in Houston, and serves as vicepresident for ExxonMobil Research in

Qatar. His current assignment involvesefforts to form a centralized safety, securi-ty, health, and environment organizationresponsible for developing and supporting

implementation of those programs as well as managing thecompanys strategic environmental and safety technologyresearch activities in Houston and Doha.

Moreau has been with ExxonMobil for more than 30 years.Following initial assignments within the downstream sector, hehas held various technical, supervisory, and managerial assign-ments in ExxonMobils upstream operations and project busi-ness units. He received a BS degree in mechanical engineeringfrom Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA in financefrom Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Moreau co-chaired the Management Systems Subcommitteefor the 2008 and 2010 SPE International Conferences onHealthy, Safety, and the Environment, and will serve in a simi-lar capacity at the 2012 conference. In 2010, he served on thesteering committee for the SPE forum titled Getting to Zero.

Technical Director,Management and Information

Cindy Reece is the technical computingmanager for ExxonMobils upstream busi-ness based in Houston. She and her teamare responsible for the technical comput-ing support of approximately 4,000 engi-neers and geoscientists worldwide.

Reece has spent the past 33 years withExxonMobil in a variety of assignmentsin both production and development

as well as in engineering, operations, and information tech-nology. She has been active in leadership positions in SPEat society and section levels and was instrumental in thedevelopment of professional competency matrix and youngprofessionals programs.

Reece is the current chair of the Energistics Board of Directors and a trustee at Marietta College. She has degreesin both petroleum engineering and business and is a licensedprofessional engineer in Texas.

SPE BOARD NOMINATIONS

JPT

8/6/2019 SPE Board Noms

4/4

Society of Petroleum Engineerswww.spe.org

Nominate an SPE Distinguished Lecturer today.

Learn more at www.spe.org/dl