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PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Dr. David A. T. Donohue is the Founder
and President of both IHRDC and Arlington Storage Corporation. Dr.
Donohue is a technical specialist, businessman, attorney and lecturer
who has worked in the development of energy projects where he has
a senior equity position. He is a former Associate Professor of
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at Pennsylvania State University,
and held various positions in engineering and research for Exxon
before becoming a developer of energy projects. He is an active
developer of underground gas storage fields in New York State, an
explorer for oil and gas in the US and Ireland, and a developer
of innovative learning systems for the energy industry. He lectures
broadly in the industry management programs. Dr. Donohue holds a
Ph.D. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Pennsylvania
State University and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.
Frederick R. Adamchak joined Poten and Partners in 1995
as Manager of their LNG consulting group. He serves as Senior Consultant
on all aspects of LNG consulting advisory services and special reports.
Prior to joining Poten, Mr. Adamchak worked for Marathon Oil Company
in Houston in technical and commercial positions related to exports
of Alaska LNG to Japan: Senior Petroleum Engineer, 1981-85; Manager
of LNG Operations, 1985-87; and Manager of International Natural
Gas, 1987-95. Previously with the U.S. Coast Guard, he served as
Shipboard Engineer and Marine Inspector of Commercial Vessels in
1968-79 and Chief of the Chemical Engineering branch of the Coast
Guard headquarters in Washington in 1979-81. Mr. Adamchak holds
a B.S. in Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.S.
in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Dr. R.L. (Lyn) Arscott recently retired from Chevron, where
he served as General Manager of Health, Environment and Safety.
He has also served as Senior Executive Consultant for Exploration
and Production for Chevron, reporting to the Chairman of the Board,
and has held numerous Exploration and Production management positions
for Gulf Oil Co. and Chevron in Pennsylvania, Texas, Louisiana and
California. He is a past President of the International Society
of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and Honorary Member of the SPE and
the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
(AIME). He has served as Chairman of the American Petroleum Institute's
General Committee on Health and Environment and as Executive Director
of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP). Dr.
Arscott holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University
of Nottingham, England. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer
for the SPE on the subject of Sustainable Development.
Ronald A. Bain is former Exploration Manager for Anadarko
International New Ventures, Inc., in Houston, Texas. Since joining
Anadarko Petroleum in 1983 as Exploration Manager for the offshore
Gulf of Mexico, he has been heavily involved n bringing advanced
technologies into many of Anadarko's successful exploration programs,
and has served as Chief Geophysicist and Manager for Anadarko China
Company (Beijing). Prior to joining Anadarko, Dr. Bain held research
and exploration positions with Gulf Oil and Sohio Petroleum (now
BP). Dr. Bain received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from
the University of Texas at Austin and his MS in Physics from the
University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the SEG, PESGB, EAGE,
and AAPG.
Janet Gail Besser is Vice President of Lexicon, where she
is primarily responsible for working with energy, natural resource,
and communications companies as they face the challenges of moving
from a traditionally regulated to an increasingly competitive environment.
Ms. Besser has served as Chair of the Massachusetts Department of
Telecommunications and Energy, where her major focus was electricity
industry restructuring. As the state's principal regulator, she
oversaw efforts to promote competition in telecommunications and
the natural gas industry. She has served on of the Board of Directors
of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
She is also a past President (1997-98) of the New England Conference
of Public Utilities Commissioners, and has held directorships and
other leadership positions in industry, academia, and government.
Ms. Besser has an M.S., Public Policy, from Harvard University and
a B.S., Magna cum Laude, Political Science, from Williams College.
Bruce F. Burke is the leader of Chem Systems, Inc.'s Energy
and Refining Practice, where he directs energy-related consulting
assignments in North and South America, as well as in Asia. He specializes
in petroleum refinery planning and strategic analy-sis, refining/petrochemical
interface optimization, project feasibility and financing, and market
and profitability forecasting. Mr. Burke received a B.S.Ch.E. Degree
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ajey Chandra, P.E. is currently a Principal in the Houston
office of Purvin & Gertz, Inc., an international consulting firm
focused on the energy industry. He is primarily responsible for
gas processing projects and international liquids market analysis.
Since joining Purvin & Gertz, he has been involved in a wide range
of projects, including project feasibility, market analysis, price
forecasting, strategic business analysis, insurance risk analysis,
project finance, technology assessment, acquisition and divestment
analysis, and new market development. He has made presentations
on a variety of topics involving the gas processing and liquids
industries worldwide, and has had several papers published in leading
energy publications. Prior to joining Purvin & Gertz, Mr. Chandra
was employed by Amoco for 12 years, where he gained a broad background
in natural gas processing plant engineering and management. Mr.
Chandra was manager of Amoco's onshore gas processing facility at
Bacton, England, and involved with a gas pipeline in Trinidad immediately
prior to leaving Amoco. Mr. Chandra is active in the Gas Processors
Association and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University
and an MBA from the University of Houston.
Dr. Marie N. Fagan is Director, International Gas Programs
for IHRDC. Prior to joining IHRDC in 2001, she was with Cambridge
Energy Research Associates (CERA), providing expertise in upstream
technology, economics, and financial performance; and assisting
clients in developing corporate strategy and upstream business plans.
Previously, she served as an economist with the US Department of
Energy, responsible for coverage of petroleum company profitability,
industry structure, and analysis of market incentives; and with
Decision Analysis Corporation of Virginia, where she performed econometric
modeling of energy markets. Dr. Fagan's path-breaking research into
the effect of technology on the cost of oil and gas exploration
and development has been published in both academic and technical
journals. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from The American
University and a B.S. in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude)
from the University of Connecticut.
Marshall E. Frank retired in September, 2000, from Chem
Systems, where he was President and Managing Director, responsible
for its consulting activities in North and South America and Asia
Pacific. During his more than thirty years with the company, he
had technical and administrative responsibility for a large number
of multidisciplinary projects, both single client and multi-client
sponsored. Mr. Frank's areas of expertise include natural gas utilization
and conversion, the refining/ petrochemical interface and alternative
fuels. He also directed Chem Systems' Financial Practice, which
provided assistance to lenders on assessing the various risks associated
with the financing of major international energy, petrochemical
and polymer projects. Prior to Chem Systems, he was involved in
process evaluation, process engineering and startup of many of Halcon/SD's
proprietary processes at Scientific Design Company. Mr. Frank received
a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.
David A. Garvin is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of
Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and serves
as faculty chairman of Baker Library and the School's Manufacturing
in Corporate Strategy program. He has taught in executive education
programs and consulted for over forty companies. Professor Garvin's
research interests lie in the areas of general management and strategic
change, special focus on organizational learning and business and
management processes. He is the author or co-author of nine books,
twenty-five articles and four videotape series, a three-time winner
of the McKinsey Award, given annually for the best article in Harvard
Business Review, and a winner of the Beckhard Prize, given annually
for the best article on planned change and organizational development
in Sloan Management Review. Professor Garvin received an A.B. Summa
cum Laude from Harvard College in 1974, where he was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1979, where
he held a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a
Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Prior to coming to the Harvard Business
School, he worked as an economist for both the Federal Trade Commission
and the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education.
Jeffrey Goetz is leader of the Marine Research and Consulting
group for Poten and Partners, providing brokerage, consulting and
project development services related to trading and transportation
of crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas and liquefied natural
gas (LNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and other commodities.
Previously Mr. Goetz worked with ExxonMobil in Florham Park, New
Jersey and Fairfax, Virginia as senior analyst in a variety of assignments
including marine planning, equity crude sales and strategic planning.
In addition to working as a tanker broker at SeaBrokers in Stamford,
Connecticut, Mr. Goetz sailed as a deck officer on oil tankers for
five years. Mr. Goetz is a graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy
and has an MBA from Columbia University.
Richard N. Hildahl is president of Energy Resources Group.
He has over 30 years of experience in strategic and economic matters
related to oil and natural gas transportation, including analysis
of economic feasibility of projects, environmental matters, rate
design, cost of service, valuation, and transit issues. He advises
international energy companies including Shell, ChevronTexaco, BP,
AIOC, and others; and governmental agencies. From 1973 to 1993 he
served as Partner in charge of the Energy Transportation Group for
Ernst and Young. Major projects in which he has been directly involved
in regulatory and financing issues include the Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
LOOP, the Express Pipeline, the Express Pipeline, Inter-provincial,
and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. He served as a member of the
World Bank mission identifying prospective energy transportation
projects in the CIS; he also directed seminars on the Russian energy
industry for senior representatives of the administration, Congress,
and agencies of the United States government. Mr. Hildahl has served
as chairman of the European Energy Charter Forum on Transit Issues.
Laura Langer is Vice President, Risk Management for PG&E
Corporation. Ms. Langer manages the Corporation’s financial exposure
associated with market, credit and operational risks, oversees mitigation
strategies and hedging policies, and works closely with the Company’s
business units to coordinate risk management and counterparty credit
policies and procedures. She joined PG&E Corporation from Deloitte
& Touche LLP’s New York Capital Markets Group. Prior to that, she
was Director of Corporate Risk Management for Equitable Resources.
Ms. Langer holds M.S. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford
University, Mathematics from the University of Colorado and Computational
Finance from Carnegie Mellon. She has just finished a three-year
term as a Director of the International Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Michael C. Lynch is Vice President, Global Oil, at WEFA
Energy, and a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology's Center for International Studies. He has combined
S.B.-S.M. degrees in Political Science from M.I.T., and has performed
a variety of studies related to international energy matters, including
forecasting of the world oil market, energy and security and corporate
strategy in the energy industries, as well as analysis of oil and
gas supply. His most recent major report, published in 1996 by the
Gas Research Institute, is International Petroleum Price, Supply
and Demand: Projections Through 2020. He is the past-President of
the United States Association for Energy Economics, and was the
Program Chairman of their 1996 North American Conference, as well
as being an appointed council member of the International Association
for Energy Economics. His publications have appeared in Spanish,
Arabic and Japanese, as well as English.
G.T. Maureau is an independent oil and gas management consultant
specializing in S.E. Asia, the Mediterranean, and N.W. and Central
Europe. Since 1988, when he founded MaurOil International Inc, he
has reviewed Hydrocarbon Laws and contract terms of over 30 oil
and gas producing countries; advised on strategic planning and organization
to numerous international oil and gas companies; advised on the
privatization of national oil companies, and planned and conducted
exploration promotion campaigns for governments. He has lectured
extensively to both private and national oil company executives
and as a contract Sessional Instructor at the University of Alberta.
He provided resource management advice to Erdgas Erdol GmbH as Head,
Exploration and Production, covering NW Europe and Kazakhstan. Before
this, he provided acquisition and divestiture advice to Wintershall
AG, where he acted as Vice President, New Ventures. At Wintershall
his areas of responsibility included NW Europe, North Africa and
Russia. Prior to forming MaurOil, he was Vice President-International
with Aberford Resources/ Encor Energy Corporation, Inc., where he
developed successful Canadian frontier and foreign exploration programs.
He also served for three years as Senior Regional Exploration Manager-Atlantic
Region with Petro-Canada. His career began with Shell International
Petroleum Mij in late 1966. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics
and Geology and an M.Sc. in Geophysics, both from the University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Richard A. Norman is Founder and Partner of Essex Hydro
Associates, a developer and operator of nine small-scale hydroelectric
projects regulated by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
He also serves as Vice President and Treasurer of Honeoye Storage
Corporation where he actively directs the construction, financing,
and operations of this underground gas storage company in New York
State. Mr. Norman has held energy project management positions at
the Cabot Corporation, J. Makowski Associates, Inc., and Oxford
Energy, Inc. He has served as Special Assistant to the United States
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, advising on
a program to construct LNG tankers, and has been active in the development
of gas-fired cogeneration projects, LNG facilities, and underground
gas storage projects. Mr. Norman graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy,
after which he served as an officer in the nuclear submarine fleet
for seven years. He then received a M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business
School.
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