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Moving today's technology
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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

Marcio Albuquerque de Souza
Equipment Engineer
Petrobras

Sandeep Patni
Manager - Deepwater Technology
Shell

Julie J. Morgan
Chief Flow Assurance Engineer
Woodside Energy

Khalid Mateen
VP, Eng. & Technology
Total

Don Craig
Subsea Technology Manager
bp

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

Sam Fowler
OXY

Runar Østebø
Advisor Subsea Technology & Operations
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

Douglas Estanga
Sr. Flow Assurance Engineer
Chevron

Rob Taylor
Instrumentation Engineer
Chevron

Yijun Liu
Program Lead – Topsides
Upstream Technology Portfolio - Deepwater Infrastructure
ExxonMobil

Hariprasad J. Subramani
Strategic Relationship Manager - Innovation & Technology Ventures
Chevron

Douglas Rieth
Manager Marine Engineering
OXY

Mohamed Elshabrawy
Senior Well Engineer | Borehole Surveying SME
Wells Technology
Shell

Ross Doak
DeepWater Robotics Lead
Shell

Vikas Shukla
Automation Program Lead - Deepwater
ExxonMobil

Jianwei Bai
Chevron

Renzo Angeles
Principal Engineer - Well Equipment & Reliability
ExxonMobil

Netaji Ravi Kiran Kesana
Principal Researcher/Engineer, Flow Assurance - Pipeline and Transport Technology
Equinor

Muhammad Sofyan
Drilling &Completions Rep - Upstream Research & Technology Group
TotalEnergies

James Whelan
Woodside Energy