ARAMCO AMERICAS - Key Persons

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• CTO
• Team Lead for Transport Technology Integration at the Aramco Research Center - Detroit.

He joined Aramco in 2015 working on several research and development engine and control projects. He was drawn to Aramco for the opportunity to apply his creativity to mechanical engineering. "Aramco allows me to have a fresh look at engines and their controls," he said. Baur currently leads a turbulent jet ignition project (TJI) to improve engine efficiency for vehicles.

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• Researcher
• Member of the Drilling Technology Team at the Aramco Research Center - Houston

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• Senior Engineer at the Aramco Research Center

Mike Traver is a senior engineer at the Aramco Research Center-Detroit who chairs the Transport Workstream for the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative. He has always been drawn to alternative energy and engine technologies. His senior project for his undergraduate degree was a solar powered aircraft, and his graduate work focused on diesel engine combustion and emissions. After graduate school, he began his career working in a small research lab in Ohio. Quickly he learned that the real action was near Detroit, the heart of the automotive industry, and he joined German engineering services provider IAV. There, he worked on diesel engine development for passenger cars, heavy trucks, and off-road machines and became a manager of a business unit with 25 employees along the way. At Aramco, he recently worked with a team to build a heavy-duty truck that can capture around 40 percent of the CO2 emissions from its exhaust. During the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas, Traver discussed a marine carbon capture feasibility study conducted by his OGCI team and leading tanker shipper Stena Bulk. It showed it is technically feasible to outfit ships with mobile carbon capture systems as the industry looks to find decarbonization pathways.

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• Petroleum Engineer in the Reservoir Engineering Technology Team at the Aramco Research Center - Houston, Says Her Love for Math and Science Started a Young Age.

Shannon Eichmann, a Petroleum Engineer in the Reservoir Engineering Technology Team at the Aramco Research Center-Houston, works on finding new ways to translate images of rocks into datasets that can be used to improve characterization of underground reservoirs. Eichmann says her love for math and science started a young age. "I've always loved math. My mom worked at a school when I was a child. She brought home an algebra book. I must have been about eight, and I remember looking through it and thinking that it was cool. There were equations with letters mixed in with the numbers. I had no clue what it meant, but, even then, I knew I really loved math." Eichmann received her bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M, and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Eichmann joined Aramco in 2013 as one of the earliest hires to start the Aramco Research Center-Boston. She explains, "I was doing my post-doctoral work at Rice University and working with Aramco's EXPEC ARC in Dhahran. I was thinking about what I was going to do after my post-doc when Aramco approached me about their vision for the research centers. At the time, the vision was focused on providing long-term fundamental research, which fit well into my wheelhouse. I also had experience setting up labs during my Ph.D. and my post-doc which is useful for starting new labs." After working at the research center in Boston for four years, Eichmann moved back to Texas to work at the research center in Houston where she continues to be an active member of the scientific community. A constant learner, she is a member of several scientific organizations, including: The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), The Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysists (SPWLA), The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and The American Chemical Society (ACS). In 2021, Eichmann received the Regional Service Award for North America at the SPE Gulf Coast Section banquet, an award that recognizes industry professionals for their excellent service to the society. As she advances her research, Eichmann continues to serve the society and the greater scientific community. She has published 30 papers, participated in 60 conference talks and posters, and she has been involved in 12 granted patents, with several others still in the patenting process. Shannon Eichmann, a Petroleum Engineer in the Reservoir Engineering Technology Team at the Aramco Research Center-Houston, says her love for math and science started a young age.