Appendix C
Biographies of the Workshop Moderators and Presenters
Scott Anderson is senior policy director in the Climate & Energy Program at Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to joining EDF in 2005, Anderson spent many years in the oil and gas industry. He is the former executive vice president and general counsel of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO). He was the long-time secretary of the LIAISON Committee of Cooperating Oil and Gas Associations, and was previously a member of the governing Council of the State Bar of Texas Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section. He is currently a member of the Committee of Visitors for the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2005, he has advised EDF on policies relating to oil and natural gas development and to the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide. Anderson works on a broad array of legislative and regulatory issues, and participates in stakeholder groups focused on reducing the environmental footprint of oil and natural gas operations. He received his BA from the University of Texas at Austin and his JD from University of Texas School of Law.
Mark Boling is President of V+ Development Solutions at Southwestern Energy. He joined Southwestern Energy in January 2002 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors. He became Executive Vice President in 2002, and was named President of V+ Development Solutions in 2012. In 1993, Boling opened a private law practice in Houston specializing in the oil and gas industry. Prior to that, he was a partner with Fulbright and Jaworski LLP where he worked from 1982 to 1993. Boling holds a juris doctorate degree from Southern Methodist University and a bachelor’s degree in geology from DePauw University.
Susan L. Brantley (NAS). See Appendix B.
Barry Freifeld is a mechanical engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he is the principal investigator for numerous projects relating to CO2 sequestration and arctic hydrology. He also recently took over as the head of the Hydrogeology Depart-
ment in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area. He is an expert in the development of well-based monitoring instrumentation and techniques. His recent innovations include the U-tube geochemical sampling methodology, as well as thermal perturbation fiber-optic monitoring techniques for understanding subsurface processes. He has also received a U.S. patent for a portable whole-core x-ray computed tomography imaging system used at continental drill sites and on drilling vessels. He received his BA in Applied Mathematics (UC Berkeley), his MS in Mechanical Engineering (UC Santa Barbara), and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering (UC Berkeley).
David Glatt. See Appendix B.
Douglas Hollett is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) in the Office of Fossil Energy (FE). His portfolio includes R&D and programs in Clean Coal and Carbon Management, Oil and Natural Gas systems, international engagements in clean fossil energy, and inter-agency engagements within the US government. Prior to being named PDAS in FE, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Power in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he oversaw research, development, and demonstration for a diverse clean energy portfolio. Mr. Hollett came to the Department of Energy in 2011 with more than 32 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Most recently, he was Manager and Director for Unconventional New Ventures at Marathon Oil. In that role, his responsibilities included capturing and initiating new domestic and international opportunities in shale gas and tight oil reservoirs. He also served as Manager, International New Ventures, which included identifying and growing new global energy projects, and as VP and General Manager of Atlantic Canada, where he led the first modern deep-water drilling campaign in Canada. Prior to Marathon, he worked for Unocal conducting frontier field studies, the U.S. Geological Survey mapping in California and Colorado, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society doing integrated land use planning. Mr. Hollett holds a BA in Geology from Williams College and a MS in Geology from the University of Utah.
Svetlana Ikonnikova is a research scientist and Senior Energy Economist in the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. Over the past fifteen years, she has been conducting research and lecturing on energy markets and energy industry developments, focusing on the electric power industry and renewable energy sustainability, natural gas supply, liquefied natural gas trade and shale gas economics in the U.S., EU, and FSU. Dr. Ikonnikova was a co-principal investigator and a lead modeler in the multi-year inter-disciplinary study of many major U.S. shale gas and oil plays, including the Barnett, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, and Bakken plays, focusing on resource and production evaluation, with the goal to build the future production outlooks for each play. At present, she leads a project aiming to update the past shale gas development projections and a co-leads a multi-year resource assessment of the Permian Basin. She received BSc and MS degrees in applied mathematics and physics (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia), a PhD in economics and management science (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) and did her postdoctoral research in energy and environmental regulation (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium).
Alan Krupnick is the head of Resources for the Future (RFF) Center for Energy and Climate Economics. His research focuses on analyzing environmental and energy issues, in particular, the benefits, costs, and design of pollution and energy policies, both in the United States and in developing countries, with an emphasis on China. As head of RFF’s Center for Energy
and Climate Economics, he leads RFF’s research on the risks, regulation, and economics associated with shale gas development and has developed a portfolio of research on issues surrounding this newly plentiful fuel. He also served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, advising the Clinton administration on environmental and natural resource policy issues. In 2011, he was elected president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and earlier that year was named an AERE Fellow. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals. He co-chaired a federal advisory committee counseling the US Environmental Protection Agency on the implementation of new ozone and particulate standards. Krupnick is a regular member of expert committees for the National Academy of Sciences, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and various Canadian government and nongovernmental institutions. He also consults with state governments, federal agencies, private corporations, the Canadian government, the European Union, the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank. He received his MA and PhD in economics from the University of Maryland and his BS in finance from The Pennsylvania State University.
David McBride was named vice president of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) in May 2013, responsible for overseeing Anadarko’s global HSE programs in more than 15 countries. McBride possesses more than 25 years of experience in the oil and natural gas industry. He held various HSE, regulatory and legal roles with multiple independent exploration and production companies before joining Anadarko in August 2005. He is currently active with the American Petroleum Institute and serves as chair of the Health and Environment Committee. He is also a member of the Marine Preservation Association Board of Directors and a member of the Education for Tomorrow Alliance Board of Directors. He is former chairman of Clean Gulf Associates, a non-profit industry organization formed to provide spill response capability in the Gulf. He also has served as chairman of the Executive Committee for the Marine Well Containment Corporation, and is a former member of the Governing Board of the Center for Offshore Safety. Recently, Mr. McBride served as the Environment and Regulatory Task Group Lead for the National Petroleum Council Study. McBride received a BS in marine biology from Nicholls State University and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola University in New Orleans. He has completed a Fellowship on Environmental Communication at Loyola University.
Michelle McGregor is the Senior Oil and Gas Development Advisor for the Nature Conservancy, Appalachian region. Michelle works directly with the Oil and Gas Industry, Governmental agencies, environmental NGOs, and other key partners to enhance ongoing collaboration and develop and deploy leading environmental and engineering strategies, practices, and tools to reduce habitat impacts. Michelle is a former global environmental, health, and safety (EHS) executive with a broad base of experience that includes global EHS compliance, corporate leadership, EHS strategic risk, and project, program, and performance management. She has worked in key business sectors including energy, manufacturing, petrochemical, government, and consulting in over 35 countries. Michelle attended Texas A&M University and The University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Susan Packard LeGros has been president and executive director of the Center for Responsible Shale Development since 2014. She has extensive experience in environmental, energy and natural resources law across multiple industries and applications. Ms. Packard LeGros is consistently recognized as a leading environmental and energy attorney and is a frequent lecturer and guest speaker on environmental and energy issues. Prior to the Center for Re-
sponsible Shale Development, Ms. Packard LeGros was Partner and Of Counsel at several law firms, representing and advising clients on matters including environmental management and compliance, litigation before federal and state environmental agencies and state utility commissions, and renewable energy and energy efficiency policy development and finance. She began her legal career as an attorney for the federal Environmental Protection Agency and went on to work as in-house counsel at several large international corporations before entering private practice. She has represented pharmaceutical companies, regional transportation, water and sewage authorities, municipalities, chemical companies, and energy service companies and developers. She earned her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law, and her bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.
Michael Parker is currently Principal of Parker Environmental and Consulting, LLC, which provides environmental and regulatory policy development, technical, and advocacy support on a range of issues, focusing on nonconventional oil and gas development including hydraulic fracturing, produced water management, water resource management, onshore and offshore environmental management issues, and carbon capture and storage issues. Prior to establishing his consulting practice, Mr. Parker worked for ExxonMobil Production Company for over 35 years in a variety of engineering and technical assignments. At retirement, Mr. Parker was a Technical Advisor in ExxonMobil’s Upstream Safety, Health, and Environment organization. Mr. Parker provided technical support and guidance to ExxonMobil affiliates world-wide on a range of issues including drilling and production discharges, underground injection control, spill prevention and control, facility decommissioning, artificial reef programs, marine environmental issues, carbon capture and storage, hydraulic fracturing and general issue management coordination. Mr. Parker has served as Chair of the American Petroleum Institute’s Upstream Environmental Subcommittee, the Hydraulic Fracturing Workgroup, the Carbon Capture and Storage Work Group and the Water Issues Group and was involved in the revisions to API’s HF Guidance Documents and Recommended Practices. Mr. Parker is a graduate of the University of Texas and Texas A&M University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas and Louisiana.
Vikram Rao is the executive director of RTEC, and assumed this position on September 1, 2008. Rao spent nine years with Halliburton and another 25 with predecessor companies. Most recently he served as senior vice president and chief technology officer, responsible for Halliburton’s technology effort as well as intellectual asset management. He joined a predecessor company in 1974 as a senior research engineer. Dr. Rao advises the nonprofit RTI International and venture capitalist Energy Ventures AS, and firms BioLargo Inc., Global Energy Talent Ltd. and Integro Earth Fuels Inc. He serves on the Science Council of Royal Dutch Shell plc. He also serves as Chairman of the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission. Rao is the author of more than 50 publications and has been awarded 40 United States patents and foreign analogs in fields that include non-ferrous metal refining, alloy formulations, and oil and gas technology. RTI Press released his book Shale Gas: the Promise and the Peril in July 2012. Rao earned a doctorate degree and a master’s in engineering from Stanford University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in Chennai India.
Leslie Savage is the chief geologist for the Oil and Gas Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas. She currently is responsible for coordinating rulemaking for the division, coordinating with federal and other state agencies, and water quality certification of federal permits. Savage has represented the Commission in several state and national organizations,
including the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, and currently is on the board of the national Ground Water Protection Council. Savage graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982 with a BS in Geology.
Peter Stahl is associate professor of soil ecology in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. Stahl’s academic training is in the fields of terrestrial and soil microbial ecology. Research in his laboratory is directed towards applied ecological studies relating to land remediation/reclamation and ecosystem management, as well as basic ecological studies of structure and function of microbial communities in soil. Three key areas on which their research focuses include: 1. How soil microbial communities and the ecosystem processes they drive are impacted by disturbance; 2. How microbial communities in soil and the ecosystem processes they drive recover from disturbance; and 3. The influence of management practices on the impacts of disturbance, the recovery of microbial communities and ecosystem processes, and the speed of site remediation? Stahl attended Oklahoma State University for a BA in agriculture and biology and the University of Wyoming for his MS and PhD in mycology-ecology. Prior to taking the soil ecologist position at the University of Wyoming, he held several post-doctoral research positions, including one at the Center for Microbial Ecology and Long Term Ecological Research associated with Michigan State University. He also held a position at the National Soil Tilth Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.
Berry (Nick) Tew, Jr. is Alabama’s State Geologist and Oil and Gas Supervisor. In these capacities, he directs the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) and the staff of the State Oil and Gas Board (OGB) of Alabama. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. Nick has been with GSA and OGB for over 30 years and has served in his present capacity since 2002. Dr. Tew has extensive knowledge of Alabama’s surface and subsurface geology and the state’s rich endowment of geologically related natural resources and has published extensively on the geology of the state and region. He is an expert in Gulf Coastal Plain stratigraphy, petroleum geology, and the regulation of oil and gas operations and is a frequent speaker on these and other topics, nationally and internationally. Dr. Tew has served as President of the American Geosciences Institute, a federation of organizations representing approximately 250,000 geoscientists worldwide, and is on the Executive Board of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. He has previously served as President of the Association of American State Geologists, Vice-Chairman of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, and Chairman of the U.S. Department of the Interior Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Groundwater Protection Council and is member of the National Petroleum Council and the National Ocean Council Governance Coordinating Committee, in addition to many other geoscientific and service activities. Dr. Tew is a Fellow in the Geological Society of America and was awarded the 2013 E.W. Marland Award by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Recently, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley appointed Tew as Chairman of the Alabama Water Agencies Working Group to continue to study water issues in the state and to undertake activities toward development of recommendations relative to water policy and management. He received a BA in anthropology and BS, MS, and PhD in geology from the University of Alabama.
Eric Vendel is legal counsel for the Ohio Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management.
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