2024 Technical Meeting Speakers
Neil Mendes
CEO
Alpine Polytech
Energy Market Outlook: Who moved my metrics?
The traditional metrics for managing and predicting O&G trends are so 20th century. In this presentation, we will discuss the outlook, new norms and evolving factors that are painting the landscape for our industry.
Speaker Bio
Neil Mendes has worked in the oilfield service industry with 25+ years working in the engineered materials arena. Currently Neil is the CEO of Alpine Polytech an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Accredited Laboratory providing material and equipment performance testing and consulting services to the Energy Market. Alpine works with all fluids and environments that polymers will see in service, including H2, H2S, HF, CH4, CO2, CCUS from cryogenic to 300˚C and from vacuum to 40,000 psi.
Prior to Co-founding Alpine Polytech, Neil spent 20 years with Greene, Tweed & Company, the last 15 years in executive management. From 2009-2014, Neil was Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Greene, Tweed Company, prior to that (2001-2009), he served as General Manager/Vice President of the Oilfield Business Group.
Dr. Brendan Rodgers
ELL Technologies LLC
New Elastomer Technologies for Oil & Gas Industry
Perhaps you have heard that there has not been any new polymer development in recent times. The next steps to polymer development are actually taking place with the advanced additives and compounding technologies. Graphene and carbon nanotubes are facilitating the step changes, otherwise not possible. If value added reliability and performance as it relates to new polymer development.
Speaker Bio
Brendan Rodgers, based in Austin Texas, has spent 42 years working in the tire and rubber industry with both The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and ExxonMobil. He has worked on a broad range of tire and industrial rubber products including hydraulic hose and conveyor belts, materials technology, and tire design. He now has a consulting company, ELL Technologies LLC, in Austin Texas supporting the tire, chemical, oil and gas industries. Brendan has a PhD in chemical engineering from The Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he studied thermodynamics, heat transfer through large rubber sections, and vulcanization kinetics. He has a Master's degree in Polymer Technology also from The Queen’s University, and a BSc in Biological Chemistry from The University of Ulster.
Andy Chang
Global Strategic Technology Manager
Victrex USA Inc
PEEK - Based Alternative to PCTFE for Cryogenic Valves
Looking for an alternative to PCTFE for cryogenic valves? Discover how high performance, PEEK-based VICTRTEX CT polymers, now Shell MESC SPE 77/200 & 77/302 compliant, can deliver reliable performance for LNG and LH2 applications.
Speaker Bio:
Alistair Gill
Technical Manager - Digital Engineering Americas
Element
Polymer and Non-Metal Component Performance Evaluation - The Synergies of Testing and Simulation
While Digital Engineering does require testing to characterize physical properties, it provides opportunity to focus on the critical properties to ensure required system performance. The combination of a digital test in conjunction with a physical testing offers a tremendous advantage over only physical testing or simulation.
Speaker Bio
Alistair Gill is a mechanical engineer with a 1st Class Honors Degree from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He ash spent most of his 30 year career in digital simulation and the energy sector and specializes in non linear FEA. He is managing the growth of Element Digital Engineering in USA, but is still heavily involved in technical aspects and capability development. He ash been a resident of Houston, Texas since 2006 and is a licensed engineer in that state.
Afternoon Sessions
Moderator
Eric Crawford
Lead Engineer
James Walker
Moderator bio
Eric Crawford is currently the Lead Engineer at James Walker SPS Group where he employs his knowledge in polymer structure, performance, and processing. His responsibilities include developing customer relationships, managing projects, conducting technical reviews, and ensuring material compliance with regulatory standards (such as REACH, RoHS2, Toxic Substance Control Act, Proposition 65, PFAS, and Conflict Minerals). Notably, he holds a U.S. patent for an installation tool used in the Semiconductor industry.
Buc Slay
CTO
Alpine Polytech
Extreme Environment in Situ Polymer Testing
What if you could perform a tensile pull while your specimen is immersed in the same media, pressure, and temperature of the actual downhole application? You might be interested in this presentation. You will earn about new cutting edge, patent- pending technology that allows for in situ testing in the lab.
Speaker Bio
KC Chakrabarty
Evonik Corporation
What Emerges from a 6 Month ISO23936-1 Test
Does the extended 6 months of testing by ISO23936-1 actually have a benefit? Yes, we find a significant difference when testing for the extended period of time. In this presentation you will learn the different thresholds of various PEEK, Carbon Fiber Filled PEEK and Glass Fiber Filled PEEK. This presentation will also aid you in lifetime modeling.
Speaker Bio
Panel Discussion with all panelists. Moderated by Jessica Mattison.
