SPE BOARD NOMINATIONS

Nominations for 2013 SPE President, Board of Directors Announced

Egbert Imomoh is the nominee for 2013 SPE president. He heads the slate of SPE members recommended by the societys Nominating Committee and the Board of Directors for SPE board positions. If elected, Imomoh would take office as SPE president-elect at the close of the societys 2011 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. The other nominees, if elected, would begin three-year terms as directors at the same time. American Petroleum Institute and on the LUKOIL Saudi Arabia Energy Board of Directors. He is chairman of the SPE Saudi Arabia Section Board of Directors. He earned masters and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Director, Russian and Caspian Region

Andrey Gladkov is president and founder of Modeling Technologies Center, based in Moscow, which provides data management and reservoir simulation service for the petroleum industry. Previously, he held engineering and management positions at Yukos. During his career, he has managed and implemented several large-scale engineering projects involving production and waterflooding optimization, reservoir simulation, and software development. He also worked in research and development at Ufa State Technical Aviation University (USTAU) in Russia. Gladkov has served in several positions with the SPE Moscow Section, including chairman and information technology director. In 2007, he was awarded the SPE Regional Award for Management and Information. He has also worked to develop student, young professional, and SPE certification programs in Russia and the Caspian region. He has authored more than 30 technical papers and contributed to numerous conferences and workshops. Gladkov earned BS and MS degrees in applied mathematics and computer science and a PhD degree in physics and mathematics from USTAU.

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Imomoh is the nonexecutive chairman and a co-founder of Afren. In 1968, he joined Shell in Nigeria as a petroleum engineer after basic training in the Netherlands. He worked in Nigeria, the UK, and the Netherlands and rose to the position of deputy managing director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, a position he held until February 2002 when he retired. After that, he worked with Shell International in London as a senior corporate adviser on Nigeria during 2002 to 2004. Imomoh has been a member of SPE since 1973 and was a founding member of the section in Nigeria. He was chairman of SPE Nigeria Council in 1986 and was named a Distinguished Member of the society in 1999. He served as the first regional director for Africa on the SPE Board of Directors between 2000 and 2003 and was the chairman of the board committee on educational and professional activities during 2002 and 2003. He has been chairman of the Board of Trustees, SPE Nigeria Council since 2007. Imomoh graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.

Director, Southwestern North America

Peter J. Schrenkel is president and founder of Vision Natural Resources, based in Midland, Texas. He is responsible for identification, acquisition, and development of oil and gas properties for the company with concentration in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Previous positions held include stints in operations management at Schlumberger, sales and marketing at Reda Pump, and reservoir and production engineering for Sun Production and Oryx Energy. Schrenkel earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA degree from the University of Texas at Tyler.

Director, At-Large
Mohammed Al-Qahtani is the executive director of Petroleum Engineering and Development for Saudi Aramco. In this capacity he leads an organization of nearly 2,000, overseeing the development and management of all of Saudi Aramcos oil and gas resources. He serves on several professional and corporate boards, including the Saudi Council of Engineers Board of Directors, the Arabian Geophysical & Surveying Company Board of Directors, and the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology Industry Advisory Board. He has also served as a board member of the

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Schrenkel is a former newsletter coordinator and vice chairman of the SPE East Texas Section and also served as its Internet coordinator. In addition, he served as chairman, past chairman, and social chairman of the SPE Permian Basin Section. He is also a member of the West Texas Geological Society and the Society of Independent Earth Scientists, and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. tional, and managerial positions in Italy and abroad. His main positions have included technical director and deputy general manager of Eni Congo; director of Zetah Congo; Reservoir Studies Department manager; and Production Optimization Technology Department manager. Rampoldi joined SPE in 1989 and served for many years as member on the board of the SPE Italian Section as well as on numerous SPE Applied Technology Workshop committees. He currently chairs the SPE Italian Section. Rampoldi earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Pavia.

Director, South America and Caribbean Region

Nestor Fernando is director of the Colombian Petroleum Institute (ICP), Ecopetrol, where he began his career in the laboratories studying petrophysics, formation damage, and rock mechanics. He has also worked as coordinator in horizontal well technology and rock mechanics projects, as well as in assessing and 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 reduction and costs in the Colombian foothills, and in modeling of refining processes to improve margins at Ecopetrol refineries. He has been active in SPE, including chairing Applied Technology Workshops on waterflood management and on hydraulic fracturing and was technical chair of the 2009 SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference in Cartagena, Colombia, and the technical chair of the 2010 conference held in Peru. He served as chair of the 2009 ATCE Educational, Professionalism and Training Committee, and was a member of two other such committees at different ATCEs. He was also instrumental in helping create the SPE Northeast Colombia Section in Bucaramanga, Colombia, in 2010. He is the author of more than 38 publications, and received the Regional Service Award for the SPE South American and Caribbean Region. He earned a bachelors degree in petroleum engineering from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia and a masters degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.

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

Roland Moreau is the Safety, Security, Health and Environment manager for ExxonMobils Upstream Research Company in Houston, and serves as vice president for ExxonMobil Research in Qatar. His current assignment involves efforts to form a centralized safety, security, health, and environment organization responsible for developing and supporting implementation of those programs as well as managing the companys strategic environmental and safety technology research activities in Houston and Doha. Moreau has been with ExxonMobil for more than 30 years. Following initial assignments within the downstream sector, he has held various technical, supervisory, and managerial assignments in ExxonMobils upstream operations and project business units. He received a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA in finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Moreau co-chaired the Management Systems Subcommittee for the 2008 and 2010 SPE International Conferences on Healthy, Safety, and the Environment, and will serve in a similar capacity at the 2012 conference. In 2010, he served on the steering committee for the SPE forum titled Getting to Zero.

Director, Southern Asia Pacific

John Boardman is founder of RISC and is currently special adviser to the company in Perth, Australia. Boardmans 40-year career in the upstream oil and gas industry has focused on achieving greater understanding of and accounting for risk and uncertainty and more judicious, transparent decision-making processes. He is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Boardman graduated from Sheffield University, England, with a BSc degree in fuel technology and chemical engineering.

Technical Director, Management and Information

Cindy Reece is the technical computing manager for ExxonMobils upstream business based in Houston. She and her team are responsible for the technical computing support of approximately 4,000 engineers and geoscientists worldwide. Reece has spent the past 33 years with ExxonMobil in a variety of assignments in both production and development as well as in engineering, operations, and information technology. She has been active in leadership positions in SPE at society and section levels and was instrumental in the development of professional competency matrix and young professionals programs. Reece is the current chair of the Energistics Board of Directors and a trustee at Marietta College. She has degrees in both petroleum engineering and business and is a licensed JPT professional engineer in Texas.

Director, South Central Europe

Maurizio Rampoldi is development project manager for Eni E&P based in San Donato Milanese, Italy. After a brief experience at IBM, he began his career in the petroleum industry by joining Agip in 1986. He has held several technical, opera-

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