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
Ina Hadziavidic, Business Development Consultant, StimStixx Technologies Inc.
Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelrahman, Senior Reservoir Engineer, ADNOC Onshore
Nihal Darraj, CCS Researcher, Imperial College London
Pejman Shoeibi Omrani, Senior Scientist Energy Transition, TNO
Yurii Moroz, Head of New Energies, NaftoGaz
Gabrijel Grubac, Senior Engineer, Blade Energy Partners
Akos Kiss, Department Manager Subsurface Optimisation in Asset Crisana, OMV Petrom