Board Members
Karen Gillis
Chairman | President
kagillis@suncor.com
Karen Gillis (PEng) is a Production Engineer with Suncor Energy Inc. (formerly Petro-Canada). Karen has 9 years of industry experience, including 3 years as a Reservoir Engineer in North East British Columbia. Additionally she spent 8 months as a co-op student in Petro-Canada's Oil Sands department where she worked on numerical simulations addressing gas production during SAGD. She co-wrote and presented a paper entitled "Simulation of Gas Production in SAGD" at the 2000 SPE/Petroleum Society of CIM International Conference on Horizontal Well Technology in Calgary, Alberta. Karen received her diploma of Engineering from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and her Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is registered as a Professional Engineer with APEGGA.
Erin van Boeschoten
Secretary
evanboeschoten@fekete.com
Erin van Boeschoten is in her 3rd year of working at Fekete Associates where she is an Account Manager for North American and International companies of all sizes. Her roles include identifying technical training requirements, working to resolve technical questions with reservoir and production engineers and grow Fekete’s presence within these companies. Erin graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Music and continues to grow by taking in depth training from Fekete’s highly acknowledged engineers as well as being enrolled in the Upstream Petroleum program at SAIT.
Casey O'Shea
Treasurer | Past Chair
coshea@fekete.com
Casey O’Shea (P.Eng) is Vice President of Engineering, Business Development with Fekete Associates. After obtaining a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alberta, Casey joined Fekete in the Pipeline Optimization group where he analyzed numerous gas gathering systems throughout North America. Currently, Casey splits his time between conducting corporate reserve evaluations, new software application development, and the mentoring/training of new staff.
Cameron Fard
Event Liason | Website
Cam.Fard@Pengrowth.com
Cam Fard joined Pengrowth Corporation in July 2008 as an Exploitation Engineer on the CBM team. Previously he worked at Sproule Associates for 3 years performing domestic as well as international evaluations. Cam graduated as a Petroleum Engineer from the University of Alberta and had 3 summer work terms in the field with Apache. He has been on the SPE YP board for 4 years now and prior to that he had been involved with the Petroleum Club while in University.
Michael Young
Student Liaison
michael_young@nexeninc.com
Michael Young joined Nexen Inc. as an acquisitions analyst in January 2008. Mr. Young has evaluated a variety of domestic and international heavy oil, SAGD, shale gas, CBM, EOR, and conventional oil and gas properties. Before joining Nexen, Mr. Young developed strong technical skills with companies such as AJM Petroleum Consultants, Schlumberger Canada, and Master Flo Valve. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alberta and is currently pursuing his MBA part-time at the Haskayne School of Business.
Alex Beszterda
Conference | Symposium
Alex.c.beszterda@conocophillips.com
Alex Beszterda (P.Eng) is a Completions Engineer with ConocoPhillips Canada currently responsible for wellbore abandonments and hydraulic fracture treatment modelling. Alex has 6 years of industry experience with ConocoPhillips, including 4 years as a Production Engineer for waterflood oil properties in Southwest Saskatchewan and a one year assignment in the Operations Excellence department in Houston assisting with development of the company's Integrated Operations progam and Production Surveillance & Optimization guidance documents. In addition, he spent 16 months as an engineering intern with Canadian Hunter and Burlington Resources Canada. Alex received his Bachelor of Science in Oil & Gas Engineering degree from the University of Calgary.
Lisett Briceno
Continuing Education
lbriceno@suncor.com
Lisett is currently a Production Engineer with Petro-Canada Oil and Gas, where she is responsible for the completion and production optimization of Shallow Gas wells in the Medicine Hat area. With over 6 years of experience, Lisett has held different roles in completion engineering and operations on Coaled Bed Methane plays in Canada and oil fields in Venezuela, after obtaining a Bachelor of Petroleum Engineering degree from The Central University of Venezuela.
Dave Anderson
Ambassador Lecture Program
danderson@fekete.com
David Anderson (P.Eng) is Vice President, Software Development with Fekete Associates Inc. He has thirteen years of experience in the petroleum industry, including production optimization, gas deliverability modeling and welltest analysis. Over the past six years, he has lead the development of Fekete's F.A.S.T. RTA software, and has become a recognized expert in the area of production analysis techniques. David has authored numerous papers on the subject, for which he has been awarded two "Best Presented Paper" awards from the Petroleum Society (both in 2005). He also received SPE’s Outstanding Young Professional Award for Rocky Mountain Region in 2008. He has lectured and presented industry courses all over the world on modern production analysis. David has served on the SPE Calgary Section board during 2005-2007 as Director for the Young Professionals Initiative and currently serves on SPE’s Reservoir Description and Dynamics committee.
Brahm Laarman
Day in the Life Coordinator
blaarman@suncor.com
Bram Laarman is a reservoir engineer with Suncor Energy. After graduating with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Bram joined Petro-Canada (now Suncor Energy) as a reservoir engineer and has worked on sweet and sour gas properties in the Foothills area.
Johnathan Yung
University of Calgary Representative
yung.jona@gmail.com
Jonathan Yung recently finished a 16-month internship with Apache Canada where he was an intern reservoir engineer for the Zama field evaluating oil and gas projects including waterflood and CO2 flood properties. He will be returning to the University of Calgary this fall to complete his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering. He is actively involved in the Petroleum & Energy Society (PES) which is an official student chapter of SPE.
Brian Fong
University of Calgary Representative
brian.c.fong@conocophillips.com
Biography coming soon...
