ADVANCED RESOURCES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Senior Reservoir Engineer With
Mrs. Anne Oudinot is a Senior Reservoir Engineer with Advanced Resources International, Inc., and has over 10 years of experience conducting projects within the energy sector, with emphasis in the reservoir aspects of unconventional gas and in the use of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil and gas recovery as well as storage.
Her area of expertise is reservoir simulation applied to unconventional reservoirs (coalbed methane and gas shales) as well as CO 2 sequestration. She is currently working on a full scale CO 2 injection project in a DSR in Alabama as well as a full scale CO 2-EOR project in Texas and recently managed the Pump Canyon CO 2-ECBM/ Sequestration Demonstration Project in the San Juan Basin.
Mrs. Oudinot received the B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics and the M.S. degree in Geotechnical Engineering from France. She received the M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Houston, USA and is a member of SPE.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Vice President With
Dr. Andrew Duguid is a Vice President with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has 15 years of research and commercial experience in Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), CO 2-enhanced oil recovery (EOR), well integrity assessment, and risk assessment topics.
Dr. Duguid provides technical and operational leadership developing and operating commercially and federally funded carbon storage projects worldwide. Dr. Duguid has acted as the principal investigator for multiple US Department of Energy carbon storage projects, including the Phase I and II Integrated Midcontinent Stacked Carbon Storage Hub CarbonSAFE project. Dr. Duguid specializes in developing projects taking advantage of 45Q tax credits and other incentives. He has overseen screening, modeling, or characterization studies for carbon storage at more than 20 ethanol plants in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, and Ohio.
Dr. Duguid leads two technical panels on well infrastructure for the Industrial Standards Organization's Technical Committee 265 Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transportation, and Geological Storage. He earned a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from Princeton University and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Nuclear Engineering from the Ohio State University.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Mr. Benjamin L. Roth is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 12 years of experience working in the oil and gas, mining, and CO 2 capture and storage industries.
He currently oversees the development and implementation of federal and privately funded contracts related to the organization's activities in carbon capture and energy sectors. He is a geologist by background and prior to joining ARI worked in the oil and gas and mining industries with a focus on geomodelling and subsurface exploration as well as overseeing field operations and managing field personnel.
Mr. Roth holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Geology from Virginia Tech and is currently an active member in the SPE and AAPG professional societies.
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- Vice President
- Vice President With
Mr. Clark C. Talkington is a Vice President with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in energy and environmental matters across public, private and multilateral organizations with the last 13 years focused principally on climate change and sustainable energy development.
Prior to joining ARI, Mr. Talkington was Sr. Vice President at Sindicatum Carbon Capital where he was responsible for managing a global team that originated and structured coal mine methane projects in the United States and China. At Sindicatum, he also supported development of other clean energy and renewable energy projects. Mr. Talkington's background also includes positions at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, Switzerland managing the work programs for cleaner electricity production, coal mine methane, and petroleum and mineral reserves classification, and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Change Division where he led EPA's Coalbed Methane Outreach Program and co-chaired the Global Methane Initiative Coal Mine Technical Subcommittee.
Mr. Talkington holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas and a B.S. in Political Science from Texas A&M University.
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- Vice President
- Vice President With
Mr. David E. Riestenberg is a Vice President with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 13 years of experience in the energy sector, with emphasis on the geologic aspects of unconventional resources and the use of carbon dioxide for both enhanced recovery and sequestration. He is the project manager and monitoring lead for the SECARB RCSP Phase III Anthropogenic Test being conducted in Mobile County Alabama.
Previously, Mr. Riestenberg served as the geologic operations lead for EQT Production Company, a large gas shale E&P operator where he supervised the drilling of over 150 horizontal wells. Prior to that Mr. Riestenberg served as a post-masters research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he studied natural and artificially produced gas hydrates.
Mr. Riestenberg holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati and a Master of Science in Geology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Mr. Riestenberg is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Mr. Gabriel F. Casanova is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 14 years of experience in the energy industry including oil and gas, carbon storage, geothermal, and gas storage. His primary area of expertise is well design, completions, monitoring, intervention, and workover.
Previously, Mr. Casanova worked at Baker Hughes as the Global Completions and Well Intervention SME for CCUS and Geothermal. Prior to that Mr. Casanova held roles in engineering, operations, product development, and business development.
Mr. Casanova holds a B. S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Mr. George J. Koperna Jr. is CEO with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 15 years of experience conducting and supervising projects within the energy sector. He is a recognized expert in CO 2 applications, for both storage and enhanced recovery, in addition to the areas of unconventional reservoir exploitation. He has significant experience in leading appraisals, permitting, development, and optimization projects in the public and private sectors.
Mr. Koperna lends his expertise to international standards development, as he is the US Head of Delegation for the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 265: Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport, and Geological Storage. Additionally, he chairs an effort within the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) working towards the development of the CO 2 Storage Resources Management System and its companion Guidelines document.
A past International Board Member for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Mr. Koperna holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from West Virginia University.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Mr. James S. Caballero is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 40 years of experience in reservoir, production, and drilling engineering, as well as economic and financial analysis. Mr. Caballero has conventional expertise in heavy oil, light oil, gas condensate, and dry gas, as well as unconventional experience in oil and gas shale and coalbed methane.
Mr. Caballero has worked on the ground on projects in over 26 countries, including India, China, Russia, Indonesia, Norway, Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Australia, Norway, Argentina, and Germany. He has served as Vice President of Engineering, Acquisitions, and Divestitures for Statoil Energy U.S., Vice President of Engineering, Planning, and Analysis for Equitable Resources, and Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor for ExxonMobil. Mr. Caballero has worked for Advanced Resources International, Inc. for over 11 years.
Mr. Caballero holds a B. S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Mr. Joel C. Main is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has 9 years of experience in commercial and government carbon capture and storage subsurface projects ranging from development to site characterization, project design, permitting, and monitoring.
In his current role, Mr. Main develops, manages, and provides technical expertise to commercially and federally funded carbon capture and storage projects throughout the country. He specializes in development of static earth models, Class VI testing and monitoring plans, resource estimation, and project development. During his previous role at Battelle Memorial Institute, Mr. Main served as the lead for several commercial and government site screening and characterization studies and as a task lead for the Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative (MRCI). He has subsurface experience in the Appalachian, Illinois, Michigan, San Joaquin, and Denver-Julesburg Basins and in the states of Kansas and Nebraska.
Mr. Main received his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Structural Geology from The Ohio State University Columbus, OH. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Vice President With
Mr. Jonathan R. Kelafant is a Vice President with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 25 of years of experience in natural gas resource recovery and assessment in over 20 countries including Australia, Botswana, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mozambique, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine and Zimbabwe.
He manages domestic and international energy projects with a primary emphasis on the technical assessment and development of gas resources. Responsibilities include new business development, contract negotiation, scheduling and management of field operations, geologic analysis, and feasibility study development. Projects range from short-term reserve assessments for domestic and overseas production companies (ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Shell, BP Amoco, etc.) to managing full scale field development programs. He has worked extensively in Ukraine and neighboring countries on unconventional gas projects including shale gas and coalbed methane for more than a decade.
Mr. Kelafant holds a M.Sc. in Geology from George Washington University and a B.Sc. in Geology from Washington and Lee University.
He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Mr. Manoj Kumar Valluri is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has 8 years of experience in reservoir engineering, carbon capture and storage, enhanced oil recovery, and oilfield chemistry.
He currently supports development and execution of multiple federal and commercial (45Q) carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects. His work is primarily focused on reservoir engineering, computer simulations, injection well permitting, and overall project implementation. He has led multiple reservoir engineering and experimentation related tasks on state and federally funded carbon dioxide storage and EOR projects. Mr. Valluri conducted reservoir assessments for CCUS projects within the U.S. as well as internationally. During previous role at Battelle, Mr. Valluri served at the principal investigator for multiple projects on developing soy-based oilfield chemistries and validating the products in oil and gas field applications.
Mr. Valluri holds a master's in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University - College Station and an honorary bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani, India. He is a board member of Society of Petroleum Engineers' Ohio Section and a member for the Energy Institute's CCS Reservoir Engineering committee.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Member of the National Capital Section of SPE
- Project Manager With
Mr. Matthew H. Wallace is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has over 15 years of experience in energy and environmental consulting, with the last 12 years focused on enhanced oil recovery (CO 2 EOR), and CO 2 capture, transportation, and storage.
Mr. Wallace provides project management and technical analysis for developing large-scale commercial carbon storage projects, including subsurface characterization, project design, and permitting. He also conducts subsurface modeling, reservoir characterization, and resource assessment of potential enhance oil recovery and carbon storage assets. Mr. Wallace is the primary administrator of several techno-economic models, including the ARI CO 2 PROPHET Model and CO 2 EOR Cost Model. Recent work includes resource characterization of natural gas supply and CCUS potential for the North Slope of Alaska, and resource characterization and economic analysis of CO 2 EOR potential in Australia.
Mr. Wallace is a member of the National Capital Section of SPE and holds a B.S. degree in Environmental Studies from Washington & Lee University.
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- Vice President
- Vice President and Treasurer With
Mr. Michael L. Godec is a Vice President and Treasurer with Advanced Resources International, Inc. He has 28 years of high-level experience in supporting the public policy, strategic planning, market analysis and forecasting, asset evaluation, and resource evaluation missions of both public and private sector organizations.
Mr. Godec provides objective and analytically sound consulting services and advice to all the major stakeholders concerned with the development of regulatory policies for the upstream oil and gas industry in the United States. These include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Programme, UNIDO, UK Dept. of Energy and Climate Change, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), American Petroleum Institute (API), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and National Petroleum Council (NPC).
Mr. Godec was the Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer (2009-2010) on the subject "Environmental Performance of the Exploration and Production Industry: Past, Present, and Future." Mr. Godec has an M.S. in Technology and Human Affairs from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Mr. René-Marcel Frijhoff is a Project Manager at Advanced Resources International, Inc. He is an internationally accredited Principal Technical Expert in subsurface evaluation and has held technical and managerial accountability in the oil and gas, geothermal and carbon storage industries for 27 years.
His last three positions before ARI were: Chief Geophysicist for Shell Netherlands, Exploration Lead for Shell Trinidad and Tobago, and Geothermal and Carbon Management Advisor for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Mr. Frijhoff holds a doctorate in Geology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Project Manager and Drilling Manager at Advanced Resources International
Mr. Stephen Bumgardner is a Project Manager and Drilling Manager at Advanced Resources International. He has 36 years of experience in the upstream oil & gas industry in reservoir, drilling, production, and facilities engineering for design, construction, and operations. Mr. Bumgardner has expertise with oil, gas, heavy oil, natural gas liquids, CO 2 EOR floods, as well as unconventional work in shale, coalbed methane, tight gas sands and CCUS.
Mr. Bumgardner has worked in twelve foreign countries including Indonesia, China, Singapore, India, Botswana, Norway, Chile, Turkey, Mexico, and the UK. He has served as a Sr. Vice President of Strategic Development with EOGEPL, India and worked on rank wildcat exploration drilling projects in the continental U.S., Alaska, Indonesia, South America, and Africa.
Mr. Bumgardner holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Oklahoma and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He also takes an active interest in the training and development of new engineers and students.
Mr. Vello A. Kuuskraa, President of Advanced Resources, has over 40 years of experience with oil and natural gas resources and extraction technologies. He leads the firm's market studies addressing the outlook for North American and international oil and gas development, is the co-author of the recently published "World Shale Gas and Oil Study" (sponsored by the U.S. Energy Information Administration), and is the author of over 100 technical papers on energy resources and technology.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Ms. Denise J. Hills is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. She has over 17 years of experience in geologic energy research, focusing on unconventional resource assessment and geologic carbon storage, and specializes in societal impacts and science education, communication, and policy. She is currently involved with numerous CCUS projects, providing expertise in reservoir assessment, energy and environmental justice, and community engagement.
Prior to joining ARI, Ms. Hills was the Program Director, Energy Investigations, for the Geological Survey of Alabama. There, she provided strategic leadership with her experience conducting broad geologic energy research and engaging community members, regulators, legislators, and other invested parties to develop and implement policies on energy and environmental related issues. Ms. Hills additionally has experience in informal science education, research data management, and ship-based geophysical surveys.
Ms. Hills has an M.S. in Geology from the University of Delaware, and a B.S. in Geology from the College of William and Mary. She is a member of and actively engaged in volunteer leadership in numerous professional societies, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the Association for Women Geoscientists, and the Earth Science Information Partners.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Ms. Karen S. Lechtenberg is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. She brings over 12 years of geologic characterization and operations experience in oil and gas and carbon storage.
At Advanced Resources International (ARI), she plays a key role in private and CarbonSAFE Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) initiatives. Specializing in designing data collection methodologies and evaluating stratigraphic science well programs, her expertise extends to the integration of collected data into 3D geocellular models and injection simulations to meet EPA Class VI standards. Beyond CCS, Ms. Lechtenberg contributes to diverse projects spanning geothermal energy, hydrogen technology, and oil and gas sectors.
Ms. Lechtenberg holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Geology from the University of Kansas. Her academic specialization lies in carbonate and siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy, notably highlighted by her research on the Build-and-Fill Geometries of the Lower Ismay (Pennsylvanian) Carbonates in the Paradox Basin, Utah, USA.
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- Project Manager
- Project Manager With
Ms. Mollie Kish is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc. She has 8 years of experience conducting subsurface projects ranging from conventional and unconventional oil and gas exploration and development to carbon storage site characterization, permitting and monitoring.
Ms. Kish is currently responsible for managing and providing technical analyses for commercially and federally funded carbon sequestration projects. She is a geophysicist by background and specializes in seismic interpretation, volumetrics and project management. Prior to joining ARI, Ms. Kish worked at Shell E&P where she was an Exploration Geoscientist responsible for frontier subsurface analyses including prospecting, volumetrics and risking as well as an Operations Geologist responsible for field development planning, emergency response planning and drilling horizontal wells.
Ms. Kish holds a M.S. degree in Geology with concentration in Geophysics from West Virginia University and a B.S. degree in Geology with concentration in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Licensed Professional Geologist in the state of Texas and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Exploration Geophysicists.