Appendix C

Workshop Planning Committee Member Biographies

MARY HART FEELEY (Chair) retired as chief geoscientist from ExxonMobil Exploration Company in 2014. Her responsibilities included advising senior ExxonMobil Upstream management on strategic geoscience matters and identifying global geoscience opportunities for ExxonMobil. Her graduate work focused on understanding depositional patterns in upper slope salt basins and the Mississippi Fan using seismic stratigraphy techniques. She also spent many years working on lease sales, prospect maturation, and energy development in the Gulf of Mexico. Feeley received a Ph.D. in oceanography from Texas A&M University. She previously served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Ocean Studies Board, the Committee on Guidance for NSF on National Ocean Science Research Priorities: Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences, and the Committee on Offshore Science and Assessment for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

MARY KANG is an associate professor of civil engineering at McGill University, studying methane emissions from oil and gas systems and subsurface hydrology. Kang made the first direct measurements of methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States, and over the past decade, she has led projects on direct measurements of abandoned/inactive wells in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma, California, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and internationally. She conducts data mining, geospatial/statistical analysis, and machine learning to determine the scope of the emissions and develop mitigation solutions. Kang received a B.A.Sc. and an M.A.Sc. in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Princeton University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Earth system science at Stanford University.

DONALD NATHAN MEEHAN is a professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, specializing in carbon capture, utilization, and storage; blue hydrogen; emissions reduction in oil and gas operations; and enhanced recovery in unconventional wells using carbon dioxide. He serves as a senior technology advisor for PetroAI and as a nonexecutive director of Ignis H2, a geothermal energy startup. With more than 45 years of industry experience, he held leadership roles at CMG Petroleum Consulting; Gaffney, Cline & Associates; and Baker Hughes. Meehan served as the 2016 president of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and is a recipient of SPE’s Lester C. Uren Award, the DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal, and the SPE Public Service Award. He received the World Oil Lifetime Achievement Award and Petroleum Economist’s Legacy Award. Meehan received a B.Sc. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.Sc. in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.

MILEVA RADONJIC is a professor and the Samson Investment Chair in Petroleum Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where she established Hydraulic Barrier Materials and Geomimicry Labs in the School of Chemical Engineering. She spent a year at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC, focusing on building materials for rapid rebuilding post-Katrina in New Orleans, prior to employment with the BP America drilling team in Houston. Her primary research interest remains focused on investigating mechanisms of rock/cement–fluid interactions and their impact on engineering performance in concrete structures, ancient monuments, and wellbores. Radonjic received a doctoral degree at the Interface Analysis Centre, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, followed by a visiting scholarship at Princeton University.

JAMES ALLEN SLUTZ is the director of study operations for the National Petroleum Council (NPC), an independent federal advisory committee to the United States, reporting to the secretary of energy. Prior to NPC, he led a global energy consulting practice with projects in North America, Asia, and Europe. Previously, Slutz served as acting assistant secretary of fossil energy at the Department of Energy (DOE) and before that as deputy assistant secretary of oil and natural gas. Prior to joining DOE, Slutz served as the Indiana oil and gas director, regulating the state’s upstream oil and gas industry and natural gas storage wells. He is a former vice chair of the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission. Slutz serves as an advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research and is a board member of the local chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). In his capacity with SPE, he serves as the program chair for the annual SPE/American Association of Petroleum Geologists/Society of Exploration Geophysicists Washington, DC, Technology and Sustainability Symposium. He has published papers in collaboration with the American Enterprise Institute, the East–West Center, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and the National Bureau of Asian Research. Slutz received a B.S. from the Ohio State University School of Natural Resources and an M.B.A. from the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. He previously served as chair of the Committee on Earth Resources and as a member of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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