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As an exploration geologist, she worked in virgin basins offshore and onshore, did basin modeling, structural restoration, seismic interpretation validation, prospects generation, risking and ranking. As a reservoir geologist, she performed geological analysis, wells correlation, static and fractures models building and uncertainty analysis. As a project manager, she led integrated team between geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists and reservoir engineers, liaised with project stakeholders and insured projects completion on time and budget. She has a special interest in unconventional reservoirs: tight, shale gas and fractured basement as well as in carbon storage.

She holds a Master Degree and a PhD in Structural Geology from Toulouse University, France. She authored and co-authored technical articles in peer reviewed journals as well as 4 US patents. She is a member of the Faculty for the Future Selection Panel, a SLB Foundation, since 2015. She was a member of the Southern Africa SPE section between 2014 and 2016.

Debbie has played a large role in developing programs for International Oil and Gas companies, for structured on-boarding training programs for all new hires, to gain an overall understanding of the Oil and Gas value chain. More recently Debbie has been working with International Oil and Gas companies to create programs for high school students to enable the young minds the opportunity to learn more about the Energy and Sustainability concepts in today’s age, using fun, interactive and engaging STEAM techniques and practices.

During the past 13 years, Debbie has trained over 1,000 individuals, delivered over 100 commercial classes in more than 20 countries, as well as being a Lead Instructor for our very popular OilSim business simulator software, which is leading the way, in unique gamified oil and gas training solutions.

Today, he oversees the Digital Portfolio at SLB, emphasizing the role of AI and Data Science. Outside of this, Fabrizio is involved in the AI Academy initiative, hoping to support the energy industry's growth through knowledge-sharing worldwide.

During the past 20 years, he has trained over 1,500 individuals, delivered over 150 commercial classes in more than 25 countries, and developed over 15 industry courses. He is an adjunct professor of geoscience and petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa.

Between 2012 and 2014 she worked for Maersk Oil in Copenhagen as a drilling geomechanics specialist. She returned to SLB in 2015 as Technical Lead in the Geomechanics Centre of Excellence. She holds a master’s degree in engineering geology from the Technical University Munich and a PhD in applied geology from the Charles University Prague.

In addition to his technical expertise, Khaled has made significant contributions to the industry through mentoring, training, and curriculum development, as well as publishing numerous technical papers in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). His work ensures that the next generation of reservoir engineers is equipped with cutting-edge skills and industry insights. He holds a BSc in Petroleum Engineering from Tripoli University and an MSc in Reservoir Evaluation and Management from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

In the last four years, I worked for HQ-SLB-NEXT. Initially, I served as the Director of Curriculum Artificial Lift and later as the Director of New Energy Domain. My responsibilities included creating technical training programs for clients worldwide, assessing their competency, designing training plans, delivering technical classes, and promoting our training offerings globally.

Before that, I spent eleven years collaborating with Multi-National Operators like Petrobras, Triton Energy, Lasmo Oil, Tuskar, and Tenneco. In Colombia, South America, and with State Oil Companies like Saudi Aramco and Ecopetrol, I focused on various activities such as field development, reservoir surveillance, well construction and intervention, well stimulation, testing, artificial lift implementation, surface production operations, and project management for ESP pumps.

He also has a proven track record, working on asset evaluations, integrated production enhancement projects and field development planning. Luu has been a lead instructor for the petroleum engineering training program at SLB headquarter. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in chemical engineering and petroleum engineering. He also attended graduate school at the University of Houston, completing a computer science program.

He has also been actively involved in production engineering training (designing, teaching, and supervising training programs and courses) and strategic planning of human resources, developing proficiency matrices, performing and analyzing competence assessments, and developing discipline training roadmaps. Manuel holds an MS in applied thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in mechanical engineering from the Technical University, Lisbon, Portugal.

Well versed with business drivers for drilling, having worked in Integrated Drilling Services bidding teams - undertaking the technical assessment, risk evaluation and costing for wells under turnkey and lump sum projects. Worked with clients in several countries, spanning six continents, including her native Mexico.

Muriel joined SLB in 2012 as a Geologist and has, since then, been working extensively with clients on various field development studies, petrotechnical data management and solutions automation projects, providing consultancy services and workflows support with Petrel and Techlog. She holds a Petroleum Engineering Degree from the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INPHB), Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.

He then shifted his focus to QHSE loss prevention and risk management, eventually earning a promotion to Iraq HSE and Training Manager. KC later joined NExT SLB U.S. as an HSE Master Trainer, and today, he serves as the Global HSE Director of Curriculums and HSE Subject Matter Expert at NExT.

In his current role, KC designs and delivers customized training programs for external clients, develops training materials, and creates structured Training Road Maps tailored to various proficiency levels in HSE competencies. Additionally, he plays a key role in developing HSE competency levels—ranging from Awareness to Expert—as part of the competency assessment services offered by SLB NExT.

Valmore’s more than 30 years of oil and gas industry experience includes development of competency models for many companies in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Recently, he has focused on developing competency models, technical capability development, and training the oil and gas industry. Valmore holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering.

As the global wellbore training manager, Yahaya is responsible for the curriculum design and development of all Wellbore courses and the contents of their associated Techlog training manuals, across multiple subsurface domains including petrophysics, geology, geomechanics, production log, geophysics reservoir engineering, wellbore integrity and unconventional resources. In addition to the wellbore standard courses, Yahaya has responsibility for courses customization aimed at addressing individual clients’ specific needs and frequently deliver training classes to client. Yahaya also develop and run customized and immersive On the Job training courses to help accelerate closing skills and competencies gap of clients’ trainees.

With more than 28 standard courses in his portfolio, he manages a team of more than 100 certified instructors across the globe that delivers Techlog courses to our clients. Apart from overseeing subsurface wellbore software training portfolio, he mentors and coaches younger geoscientists and petrophysicist and volunteer as guest lecturer in several universities teaching both MSc and Phd students in the use of Techlog for subsurface evaluation. Yahaya obtained a BSc. degree in geology and a MSc. degree in petroleum geology and sedimentology from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.