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Education
B. S., Petroleum Engineering, Penn State University, 1981
M. S., Petroleum Engineering, Penn State University, 1983
Professional Profile
In excess of twenty-five years of petroleum engineering evaluation experience including:
Supervision/Project Management of technical studies including:
- Reserves certification, resource valuation, field development studies, reservoir modeling and technical training courses for coalbed and coal mine methane projects in the U.S., Australia, China, India and Europe.
- Field development studies, low permeability gas assets located in the southern North Sea; consultant to Shell affiliate Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM); Assen, Netherlands.
- Acting Manager, Offshore Australia Business Unit, Santos Ltd; Adelaide, South Australia from May 1999–July 2000. Responsible for the appraisal and development of oil and gas assets located offshore; Western Australia, Northwest Shelf and Timor Sea.
- In-house consultant to BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH (now ExxonMobil Production Germany); Hannover, Germany from 1997 – 2003. Responsible for the reservoir evaluation and simulation of numerous gas fields and underground gas storage reservoirs.
- Reservoir engineering consultant to Williams (formerly Barrett Resources) and Lance Oil & Gas Company on the Powder River Basin coalbed methane development; 1997 – present; results of technical studies were used as the basis for the statewide 80-acre spacing order for the Ft. Union coals.
- Reserve valuations, equity studies and acquisition due diligence of major oil and gas assets located in the domestic US and worldwide.
Unconventional gas reservoir development (coalbed methane, shales, tight gas sands).
Black oil, compositional, and unconventional reservoir simulation studies (North/South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and China).
Exploration, exploitation and infill development of oil and gas reservoirs.
Gas storage reservoir assessment, design, implementation and monitoring.
Design and management of waterflood and tertiary recovery programs.
Integration of “4D” geophysical data into geological and reservoir simulation models.
Development and instruction of reservoir engineering, production optimization and reservoir simulation industry training courses offered through OGCI-Petroskills.
Manager of software client support and instruction of training courses for the ECLIPSE suite of software products.
Field gathering system design and optimization.
Expert witness testimony and testimony before various regulatory commissions.
Registered Professional Engineer: Colorado, Wyoming U.S.A.
Countries of Work Experience
Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Trinidad, Tunisia, UK, US, Venezuela, Vietnam
Work Experience
MHA PETROLEUM CONSULTANTS, INC., Lakewood, Colorado:
(July, 1997 - Present) President and Petroleum Engineering Consultant
Responsible for the day to day operations of an organization of approximately 20 people with active engineering projects throughout the world. In charge of staff development, staff recruitment, development of new business and new business contacts, as well as maintaining relationships with the company’s existing client base. Project Manager of numerous engineering consulting projects worldwide. Instruction and development of industry training courses.
ENRON OIL & GAS COMPANY, Denver, Colorado and Houston, Texas:
(October, 1995 to June, 1997) Engineering Manager
In charge of a staff of reservoir, production engineers, and support personnel. Responsible for property evaluations, exploration and exploitation drilling programs, secondary recovery design and implementation, reservoir simulation studies, reserve and acquisition evaluations, and annual budgeting and forecasting for EOG’s largest division.
INTERA Petroleum Division, Denver, Colorado:
(October, 1990 to September, 1995) Sr. Manager, E&P Studies; Consulting Engineer
Manager of the North American consulting group which included a staff of more than 30 geologists, geophysicists, petrophysicists and engineers. Responsible for staff development, staff recruitment, and profit/loss for Intera’s largest global consulting group. Provided engineering and simulation services for clients in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and China.
CNG Development Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
(October, 1988 to September, 1990) Staff Engineer
Management of oil and gas properties in conventional and unconventional (tight sands, shales, and coalbed) reservoirs. Production forecasting, field optimization, reserve estimates, formation evaluation, and depletion and drainage studies.
TENNECO OIL Exploration and Production, Denver, Colorado:
(June, 1983 to September, 1988) Senior Reservoir Engineer
Responsible for management of oil and gas properties in the Rocky Mountain Region. Unitization studies for several enhanced recovery projects in North Dakota. Lead engineer for Tenneco’s significant interests in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico.
Professional Memberships
Chairman – Denver Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); 2001/2002
SPE Henry Matson Technical Service Award, May 2000, for innovative contributions
in the field of engineering in gas reservoirs.
Chairman; SPE Reprint Series on Layered Reservoirs
Editor; SPE Reprint Series on Reservoir Management
Professional Engineering Registration Committee
General Chairman, 1993 SPE Low Permeability Reservoirs Symposium
Program Chairman, SPE Low Permeability Reservoirs Symposium (1995, 1998, 2000)
SPE Gas Technology Committee; SPE Reprint Series Committee
SPE Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee
General Chairman; 2005 SPE Rocky Mountain Technical Conference
Publications
- “Recent Developments in Forecasting Coal Seam Methane Production”, presentation for the Brisbane, Australia SPE Section, 15 February 2005.
- “A U.S. Perspective. Forecast for the Future – Reliability of Supply and Deliverability of Coal Seam Methane Resources”, presentation at the December 2003 Australian CBM Conference in Brisbane.
- Hower, T.L., “Coalbed Methane Reservoir Simulation: An Evolving Science,” paper SPE 84424 presented at the 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 5-8 October.
- Hower, T.L., Jones, J.E., Goldstein, D., Harbridge, W.: “Development of the Wyodak Coalbed Methane Resource in the Powder River Basin,” paper 84428 presented at the 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 5-8.
- Gas Reservoir Management, Applied Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Engineering for Others; technical training manuals for OGCI/Petroskills industry training courses; 2001/2002.
- Principles of Reservoir Engineering and Reservoir Engineering Mechanisms, technical training manuals for British Petroleum Corp., Sunbury, UK; 1999.
- Managing Water-Drive Gas Reservoirs, co-author of the textbook published by the Gas Research Institute, Chicago, Ill, 1993.
- Gas Reservoir Management and Gas Reservoir Modeling, technical training manuals for Amoco Production Company, Houston, Texas, 1993.
- Hower, T.L., Fugate, M.W., and Owens, R.W.: “Improved Performance in Aquifer Gas Storage Fields Through Reservoir Management”, paper SPE 26172 presented at the 1993 Gas Technology Symposium, 28-30 June, 1993, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Hower, T.L., and Owens, R.W.: “Reservoir Management of a Gulf Coast Water-Drive Gas Field”, presented at the 1992 International Gas Research Conference, 16-19 November, Orlando, Florida.
- Hower, T.L., Lewis, D.R., and Owens, R.W.: “Recovery Optimization in a Multi-reservoir Offshore Gas Field with Water Influx”, paper SPE 24865 presented at the 1992 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 4-7 October, Washington, D.C.
- Hower, T.L., and Decker, M.K.: “Identifying Recompletion Candidates in Stratified Gas Reservoirs”, presented at the 1992 Mid-Continent Gas Symposium, 13-14 April, Amarillo, Texas.
- Hower, T.L. and Jones, R.E.: “Predicting Recovery of Gas Reservoirs Under Water-Drive Conditions”, paper SPE 22937 presented at the 1991 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 6-9 October, Dallas.
- Hower, T.L.: “Using Depletion Ratios to Select and Evaluate Drilling Locations in Naturally Fractured Gas Reservoirs”, paper SPE 20758 presented at the 1990 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 23-26 September, New Orleans.
- Hower, T.L.: “BOAST II: Features, Capabilities, and Some Modifications”, SPE Computer Applications, Jan.-Feb. 1990, pp. 27-29.
- Hower, T.L. and Collins, R.E.: “Detecting Compartmentalization in Gas Reservoirs Through Production Performance”, paper SPE 19790 presented at the 1989 SPE Technical Conference and Exhibition, 8-11 October, San Antonio
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