Ultra-Deepwater Program Advisory Committee (PAC)

The Ultra-Deepwater Program utilizes a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) in an advisory role.  The UDW PAC provides high-level input on program priorities, field areas of interest, and technology dissemination, as well as a link to the producer and research communities, but its primary role is project selection.  PAC engagement in the process is critical as these operators will be the organizations called upon to actually deploy and operate the new technologies developed under the program. 

Ahmed Abou-Sayed, Advantek International

John O. Allen, Allen Energy Consultants

Arun Antony, Atkins Global

John Beck, Sembmarine SSP

Laura Bowie, Gulf of Mexico Alliance GOMAX

Jim Chitwood, Safe Marine Transfer, LLC

Brian Conroy, Texas A&M University

Paul Doucette, GE

Bill Maddock, Subsea Systems Institute

Dale B. Marietta, DORIS

Chuck McConnell, Rice University

Alexei V. Milkov, Colorado School of Mines

John Pappas, Texas A&M University

Bob Pilko, Blade Energy

Ted Ryan, Sembmarine SSP

Fred Sabins, CSI Technology

Art Schroder, Safe Marine Transfer

Shakhir Shamshy, Chevron

Vinod Veedu, OCEANIT

Marshall Watson, Texas Tech University

Brian Weaver, Stress Engineering

Tom Williams, RPSEA

George Wong, University of Houston

Xiaolei Yin, Exxonmobil