Program Advisors
Jerry Hubbard, Chief Executive Officer, Energistics
Jerry is responsible for operations, financial management, human resources, marketing and communications for the organization. In addition, he is responsible for delivering the adoption and deployment message for the Energistics standards portfolio, increasing membership value, and building the global user community. He also serves as the Corporate Treasurer. Jerry joined the organization in 2006. After the successful rebranding to Energistics in 2006, Jerry was instrumental in building membership from about 60 to over 100 active corporate members representing a significant portion of the upstream oil and gas industry. As part of developing the eight Energistics Global Regions he has established a volunteer organization of members who assist in the localization and delivery of the Energistics message to their regional communities. He is also the Energistics Executive Sponsor for the National Data Repository Work Group in the Regulatory SIG and facilitates the Geophysics Special Interest Group. Jerry’s industry experience includes executive operations, business development, project management and pipeline construction assignments in Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas and the United Kingdom. He played a key role in the development and adoption of global e-business standards for the oil and gas industry serving as Director of the Standards & Guidelines Committee for the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange Subcommittee (PIDX) of the American Petroleum Institute. He was a founding member of the PIDX Europe Executive Committee and was on the steering committee of the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC). Jerry holds an MS degree in science management and a BS degree in natural resources from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Dr. Julian Pickering, Director, Digital Oilfield Solutions Ltd
Dr. Julian Pickering has a degree in Applied Physics from Brunel University, London and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University, where he was a BP scholar. He has worked for BP for 32 years and has held major posts including the Head of Digital Technology for Global Drilling and Completions and the Head of the Field of the Future Facilities Programme. He left BP in March 2010 and set up his own company, Digital Oilfield Solutions, with partners in the United States of America. He has provided consultancy services to many large Oil and Gas companies and is a consultant to the Energistics Data Standards Organisation. He is the Deputy Chairman of the WITSML Executive Team and a member of the Energistics Standards Advisory Council.
Jim Rogers, Automation Advisor-Worldwide Drilling, Apache Corporation
Jim Rogers is an Automation Advisor with Apache Corporation in Houston, Texas, where he is currently working in the World Wide Drilling group applying automation technologies to drilling operations. Jim is an ISA Certified Automation Professional with over 24 years of practical experience in the Automation, Process Control, and Information Technology fields. Apache Corporation is an independent energy company that explores for, develops and produces natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids.
David Pritchard, Successful Energy Practices International, LLC.
Mr. Pritchard obtained a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 1970, and has over 43 years of oil and gas production, exploration, operations and drilling experience. He has consulted for over twenty major and national oil companies, independents, chemical companies and all major service providers in over twenty locations across the globe. He is a registered professional engineer and expertise includes drilling hazards management and training, well planning, execution and analysis with a focus on risk, particularly related to narrow margin drilling and High Pressure, High Temperature (HPHT) operations. Mr. Pritchard has co-authorship of several Major Oil company key processes, such as stage-gated well design planning and execution, Management of Change (MOC) and risk and uncertainty management. Mr. Pritchard has authored or co-authored 16 industry publications, and was selected as Co-Chair for the Technical committee of the Presidential Commission for the Deepwater Horizon Study Group.
