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30+ years of experience

Moving today's technology

into the future

Our Story

Our Story 

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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Meet The DeepStar Team

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Meet The DeepStar Management Staff
Meet the team
Published Articles
Published Videos
The DeepStar Board
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Shakir Shamshy

Director 

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Curtis Linehan

Project Manager

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Femke Leeraar

Program Specialist

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Tadashi Sakurai

Manager, Technical Lead Unit, Production Facilities Group
INPEX

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Clay Thompson

Director, GOM Operations
OXY

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Marcio Albuquerque de Souza

Equipment  Engineer 
Petrobras

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Sandeep Patni

Manager - Deepwater Technology
Shell

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Julie J. Morgan

Chief Flow Assurance Engineer
Woodside Energy

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Khalid Mateen

VP, Eng. & Technology
Total

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Don Craig

Subsea Technology Manager
bp

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Luis Aguilar Cordova

Sr. Advisor, Global Facilities Engineering
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Shakir Shamshy

DeepStar Director &

DeepStar Board Chair
Chevron

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Jeswin Joseph

Technology Manager - US EPI
Equinor

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Wei Ren

Technology Development Manager Deepwater Infrastructure
ExxonMobil

DeepStar Subcommittee Chairs

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Moussa Kane

Production Chemistry - Flow Assurance

TotalEnergies

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Spiridon Ionescu

Sr. Subsea Controls Engineer
Chevron

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Gabriela Torres

Principal Engineer - Subsea Processing Technologies
ExxonMobil

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Chris Shaw

PTX/E Engineering Technology

Shell

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Dave Barrow

Senior Advisor Subsea Completions
Chevron

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Svein Gabrielsen

Advisor, Digital Solutions D&W
Equinor

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Kevin Tian

Technology Development Lead - Marine DeepWater Infrastructure
ExxonMobil

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Raja Nadathur

Sr Research Engineer
Shell

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Sam Fowler


OXY

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Runar Østebø

Advisor Subsea Technology & Operations
Equinor

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Andrew Onstad

Program Lead - Low Carbon Program
Shell

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Zhongxin Hou

Shell

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Scott R. Hickman

Flow Assurance Engineering Advisor

ExxonMobil

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Marcelo Goulart

Equipment Engineer
Petrobras

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Rodolfo "Nahun" Vega Garcia

Drilling Engineering Advisor Sr.
                    OXY

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Douglas Estanga

Sr. Flow Assurance Engineer

Chevron

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Rob Taylor

Instrumentation Engineer

Chevron

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Yijun Liu

Program Lead – Topsides
Upstream Technology Portfolio - Deepwater Infrastructure

ExxonMobil

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Aden Garcia

Completion Well Intervention Engineer

Shell

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Douglas Rieth

Manager Marine Engineering

OXY

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David Petruska

Senior Advisor Floating Systems

bp

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Ross Doak

DeepWater Robotics Lead

Shell

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Renzo Angeles

Principal Engineer - Well Equipment & Reliability

ExxonMobil

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Jeet Saikia

ExxonMobil

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Netaji Ravi Kiran Kesana

Principal Researcher/Engineer, Flow Assurance - Pipeline and Transport Technology

Equinor

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Jianwei Bai

Floating Systems, Construction & Integrity Subsea, Civil and Marine Engineering

Chevron

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Muhammad Sofyan

Drilling &Completions Rep - Upstream Research & Technology Group

TotalEnergies

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James Whelan

Blaine Kosharek

Woodside Energy

Operations Automation Lead,
Intelligent Operations

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Brent Eilerts

Carbon & Energy 

Technology Engineer
Chevron

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