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The DeepStar Program was initiated
in 1991.
DeepStar has always been the industry’s best mechanism for the progression of collaborative offshore technology development and throughout the years adapting to new market conditions and drivers.
The DeepStar Program was initiated in 1991 and until recently, has been administered by Chevron. The Program identifies and assembles a technical portfolio of projects with its mission to develop cost-efficient, low-risk methods to produce hydrocarbons from deepwater.
Deepwater areas of the world contain significant reserves and remain one of the best exploration and development opportunities for oil companies. However, producing hydrocarbons in deepwater presents both commercial and technical challenges within our current market environment.
Through the DeepStar program, oil companies, vendors, regulators, academic and research institutes have collaborated to develop the technologies necessary to tackle offshore issues. Its common format has involved defining deepwater projects that are driven by business needs, creating scenarios for going forward, coming to a common understanding of high-level objectives, framing knowledge gaps, and identifying technological capabilities; and seeking solutions. In doing so, each participant minimizes the costs and risk of developing the technology, while at the same time, making the most of its particular technology achievements.
The value of DeepStar is that it offers participants the opportunity to significantly leverage their technology investment and co-develop solutions to a common issue or need.
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Shakir Shamshy
Director
Curtis Linehan
Project Manager
Femke Leeraar
Program Specialist
Tadashi Sakurai
Manager, Technical Lead Unit, Production Facilities Group
INPEX
Clay Thompson
Director, GOM Operations
OXY
Cesar Lima
Senior Subsea Engineer
Petrobras
Sandeep Patni
Manager - Deepwater Technology
Shell
Julie J. Morgan
Chief Flow Assurance Engineer
Woodside Energy
Khalid Mateen
VP, Eng. & Technology
Total
Luis Aguilar Cordova
Sr. Advisor, Global Facilities Engineering
HESS
Shakir Shamshy
DeepStar Director &
DeepStar Board Chair
Chevron
Jeswin Joseph
Technology Manager - US EPI
Equinor
Wei Ren
Technology Development Manager Deepwater Infrastructure
ExxonMobil
DeepStar Subcommittee Chairs
Moussa Kane
Production Chemistry - Flow Assurance
TotalEnergies
Spiridon Ionescu
Sr. Subsea Controls Engineer
Chevron
Gabriela Torres
Principal Engineer - Subsea Processing Technologies
ExxonMobil
Chris Shaw
PTX/E Engineering Technology
Shell
Dave Barrow
Senior Advisor Subsea Completions
Chevron
Halvor Kjørholt
Leader Drilling and Well Solution
Equinor
Amitava Guha
Technology Development Program Lead - Marine
ExxonMobil
Raja Nadathur
Sr Research Engineer
Shell
James Stear
Sr Principal Offshore Civil
& Structural Engineer
Chevron
Torstein Vinterstø
Equinor
Andrew Onstad
Program Lead - Low Carbon Program
Shell
Zhongxin Hou
Shell
Scott R. Hickman
Flow Assurance Engineering Advisor
ExxonMobil
Marcelo Goulart
Equipment Engineer
Petrobras
Rodolfo "Nahun" Vega Garcia
Drilling Engineering Advisor Sr.
OXY