JAMES A. MURTHA

(As of May 2011)

ADVISING, MODEL BUILDING, STRATEGIC PROCESS

* Serving on task forces, establishing corporate risk analysis strategy and procedures, reviewing cost/benefit analysis. 
* Giant oil and gas field acquisitions, extended reach drilling, probabilistic aspects of drilling software project, deepwater development, reserves and facilities cost estimating(several), international pipeline project, value of information models(several), corporate/business unit production forecasting (3), prioritizing of equipment inspection and repair, experimental design to estimate EUR and deliverability, comparison of extension vs. no extension of licenses, decision to modify gas plant design based on development well surprises.

* International drilling AFE cost, international exploration and production economics, large scale development plan, large gas field/LNG plant, deepwater development strategy and cashflow, large-scale probabilistic property evaluation, layered reservoir, debottlenecking processing plant, probabilistic material balance model vs. geoscience mapping, air separation unit, cogen plant, facilities cost estimating, integration of probabilistic models with conventional models, expert witness for international arbitration, production forecast and economics for  two shale gas plays, screening model for resource play, decommissioning cost and critical path model.

FOR WHOM

Air Liquide, Aker Marine, Amoco, ARCO/Vastar, ARAMCO, Bluewater, BP, CDX Gas, ChevronTexaco, CSIRO (Sydney, Melbourne), El Paso, Enron Capital and Trade, Enterprise Oil, EOG Resources, Exxon, ExxonMobil, Fluor Daniel, Gaffney Cline, Halliburton, Hellenic Petroleum, Hercules Offshore, Koch Industries, Mariner Energy, Miller Energy Partners, Mobil, NASA, OXY, Perez Companc, Phillips Petroleum, Platt River Associates, Provident Royalties, Santos, Shell, Syncrude, St Mary Land and Exploration, Taylor Energy, Texaco, TXU, Union Texas Petroleum, VICO, Western Underground Gas Storage.

ON-SITE SEMINARS AND TRAINING

(5000 students since 1992)

Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (Abu Dhabi), Aera (Bakersfield), Amoco (Houston, London, Denver), Anadarko, Apache, ARCO/Vastar (Plano, Bakersfield, Houston), Arthur Andersen (Houston), Ashland (Houston), BHP (Houston, Melbourne), Burlington, Canadian Hunter, CDX Gas, Chevron (Houston, Bakersfield), ChevronTexaco (Beijing, Luanda, Duri, Bakersfield), Conoco (Houston), DeGolyer & MacNaughton (Moscow), Ecopetrol (Bogota, Bucamaranga), Dupont, El Paso, Enron (Houston, London, Wichita) Entergy (Houston, London) Enterprise Oil (London, Houston, Stavanger) EOG Resources (Houston, OKC) ESP-Oil (Maracaibo) ExxonMobil (Houston, New Orleans, Dallas, New Orleans) Fluor Daniel (Houston, Camberly), Freeport-McMoRan (New Orleans), Gulf Canada Resources (Calgary), Halliburton (Houston, Aberdeen), Hellenic Petroleum Kerr-McGee (Beijing, Houston), Koch Industries (Houston), Landmark (Mexico, Villahermosa, Panama), Marathon (Houston, OKC, Calgary, ) Mariner Energy (Houston), Merak (Houston, Calgary, Denver) Mineral Management Service (New Orleans, Camarillo), Mobil (Bakersfield, Dallas, Paulsboro, Houston, Dubai, Doha, Aberdeen), NASA (Houston) Nisource, Nevada Power, NOVA, Operations Research (Sydney), OGX, Orlando Utilities, Owens Corning, OXY (Bakersfield, Doha, Tulsa, Lima, Bogota, Muscat, Houston, Midland), Palisade (Boston, Houston, Dallas, Falls Church, New Orleans, Calgary), Pemex (Villahermosa, Pozo Rica), Perez Companc (Caracas, Neuquén, Talara), Phillips Petroleum (Shekou, Bartlesville, Houston, Anchorage), Pogo (Houston), Rice University, Samson, Santos (Adelaide), Schlumberger (Houston), Scientific Software/Intercomp (London) Shell (The Hague, New Orleans, Robert, Bakersfield, Houston), Ryder Scott, Shell Chemical (Houston), Sipetrol (Bogota), Society of Petroleum Engineers (Houston, Bakersfield, Dallas, Denver, New Orleans, Port O Spain, San Antonio, San Jose, Yokahama), Statoil (Stavanger) ,Tasett (Oslo), Texaco (Houston, New Orleans, White Plains, Bakersfield, Aberdeen), TXU, Union Texas Petroleum (Houston, London), Unocal and Spirit Energy (Houston, Midland, Lafayette, Anchorage, Jakarta, Bangkok, Balikpapan), VICO (Jakarta) Vintage, Western Gas.