Peer Review
Panel
On October 31, 2001, EPA met with the expert
panel to receive comments on the Agency's draft study entitled, "Evaluation
of Impacts to Underground Sources of Drinking Water by Hydraulic Fracturing
of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs." EPA received extensive and valuable comments
from the expert panel.
Peer Review Panelists
Morris Bell is an Engineer with the Colorado Oil and Conservation
Commission. Mr. Bell earned an engineering degree from the University
of Oklahoma. Mr. Bell has been closely involved with the coalbed methane
development in the San Juan Basin and Raton Basin. He has investigated
water well complaints and directed projects to test water wells. Mr. Bell
worked for Amoco as a production engineer drilling and completing tight
gas well. He also worked as a consultant, specializing in the completion
and evaluation of coalbed methane wells.
Peter E. Clark is an Associate Professor, Department of Chemical
Engineering and Material Science, at the University of Alabama. Dr. Clark
has a Ph.D from the University of Oklahoma State University. He specializes
in complex fluid flows and hydraulic fracturing. Dr Clark has taught several
courses in the Chemical Engineering, Mineral Engineering, Engineering
Mechanics, Civil Engineering Departments including fluid mechanics, petroleum
rock and fluids, well completion, drilling, and natural gas engineering.
David Hill is a Manager in the Engineering Resources Division
of the Gas Technology Institute. Mr. Hill has a B.S. from Marietta College
in Petroleum Engineering and an MBA from Northwestern University. Mr.
Hill’s area of expertise include unconventional reservoirs (coalbed
methane, gas shales, tight sands), hydraulic fracturing, and reservoir
evaluation in technical, managerial and marketing aspects of technology
development, deployment and commercialization. He has authored and co-authored
over 40 articles about oil-and-gas-related R&D and field based operations.
Buddy McDaniel is a Technical Advisor for Production Enhancement
Technology for the Halliburton Company. Mr. McDaniel has a B.S from the
University of Oklahoma in Chemical Engineering. He specializes in applications
for highly deviated and horizontal wellbores and understanding of reservoir
response to fracturing applications. He has conducted research relating
to the laboratory measurement of fracture conductivity of proppants under
simulated reservoir conditions.and was actively involved in the design
and application of hydraulic fracturing treatments in soft chalks, deviated
and horizontal wellbores, gas storage wells, geothermal wells, and conventional
hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Jon Olson is an Assistant Professor, Department of Petroleum
and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Olson
has a Ph.D from Stanford University in Applied Earth Science. Dr. Olson
has worked in the areas of fracture mechanics and coal geology and has
published several papers on these subjects. He was also employed by Mobil
Exploration for several years as a research engineer in the areas of rock
mechanics, structural geology, and well performance.
Ian Palmer is a Senior Petroleum Engineering Associate at BP
Amoco. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Adelaide in Australia.
He has worked extensively in coalbed methane extraction, including fracture
design and prediction, rock mechanisms of coal, and openhole cavity completions.
Dr. Palmer has also developed hydraulic fracturing models.
Norm Warpinski is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff,
Sandia Laboratories. Dr. Warpinski has a Ph.D. from the University of
Illinois in Mechanical Engineering. He is an authority on hydraulic fracturing,
geomechanics, poroelasticity, in situ stresses, and production mechanisms,
with expertise ranging from theoretical modeling and laboratory testing
to field and in situ mineback experiments. Dr. Warpinski is the project
manager and lead scientist for a program to develop hydraulic fracture
diagnostic technology for use in industry fracturing applications. Dr.
Warpinski has published extensively on the subject of hydraulic fracturing.
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