Byron Haynes
Associate Professor of Practice
Areas of Expertise
Reservoir Engineering
Engineering Communications
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Production Engineering
Simulation
Educational Qualifications
MS, Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988.
BS, Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982.
PGE Courses
PGE 333T: Engineering Communications
PGE 382K: Theory/Application of Reservoir Transients
Professional Qualifications
Principal Reservoir Engineer, Shell Exploration and Production, Houston, Texas, May 2023–Present.
Lead Reservoir Engineer, Technical Directorate/Subsurface Development, North Caspian Operating Company, Atyrau, Kazakhstan, October 2018–May 2023.
Reservoir Engineering Learning Advisor, Global Solutions, Shell Exploration and Production, Houston, Texas, July 2014–Sept. 2018.
Adjunct Professor, Lecturer Well Testing Class (PGE 382K), The University of Texas at Austin UT PGE, Sept. 2017–Jan. 2018.
Chief Reservoir Engineer, Shell Kuwait, Ltd., Kuwait, Nov. 2011–June, 2014.
PDO Development Planning Team Leader, Petroleum Development Oman, Muscat, Oman, Jan. 2006–Oct. 2011.
Reservoir Engineering Advisor and Production Engineering Advisor, Occidental Qatar, Ltd., Doha, Qatar, June 2004–Jan. 2006.
Oxy Reservoir Engineering Team Leader (Muscat, Oman; Summer 2003) and Oxy Reservoir Engineer for OXY Colombia (Houston, Texas; 2002–2004), Occidental Petroleum.
BP Senior Reservoir Engineer (Milne Point Kuparuk Field, Anchorage, Alaska; 2001–2002); BP Reservoir Engineering Advisor (BP Kuwait, 1997–2000); BP Field Engineer (Prudhoe Bay, North Slope, Alaska; 1995–1997); BP Prudhoe Bay Reservoir Engineer (Anchorage, Alaska, 1994–1995 and 1988 – 1991; GoM, Houston, Texas, 1991–1994); BP Exploration.
Engineering Examiner, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1983–1985.
Operations Analytical Engineer, ARCO Oil and Gas, Midland, Texas, 1981–1983.
Awards & Honors
Distinguished Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Professional Engineer, Alaska (EP 8504) and Texas (72697).
SPE Certified Petroleum Engineer.
Chairman of the Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors Board, State of Alaska (1995–1997).
Shell Subject Matter Expert for Miscible Gas EOR, Well Reservoir and Facility Management.
Shell and NCOC Reservoir Engineering Technical Authority (TA2) Accreditation.
Chairman of the SPE Engineering Professionalism Committee, 1999, 2007, 2008 and 2017.
Member of the SPE Engineering Registration Committee (1994–1997, 2015–2018).
Technical Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Magazine (2005–2008).
Associate Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Magazine (2008–2017).
Associate Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, Formation Evaluation Magazine (2020–Current).
Co-Chairman of the SPE EOR/IOR Technical Interest Group.
SPE Outstanding Technical Editor Award (November 2007, 2013).
2012 SPE Annual Meeting Reservoir Engineering Session Chair, 2012 ATCE, San Antonio.
2013/2014 SPE Water Management Conference Committee and Session Chair, Kuwait.
2013 SPE Annual Meeting Reservoir Engineering Session Chair.
Instructor for SPE Technical Editor Workshop (2008–2010, 2012).
Instructor for 2012 and 2013 SPE ATCE Technical Writing Workshop.
Highlighted Publications
“Development and Use of Equations of State for the Prudhoe Bay Full Field Model,” 1989 Internal BP Conference.
“Development and Applications of an Improved Equation of State,” SPE 22711, 1991.
“Modeling Reservoir Heterogeneity in a Fluvial Sandstone: The Gypsy Sandstone of Oklahoma,” SPE 22742, 1991.
“An Evaluation of a Method to Predict Unknown Water Levels in Reservoirs and Quantifying the Uncertainty,” SPE 29466, 1995.
“The Professional Engineer,” Sept.–Dec. 1995, A series of articles promoting Professional Engineering Licensure written for the SPE, Journal of Petroleum Technology.
“The Design and Early Performance History of Two Waterflood Pilots in the Mauddud Carbonate Reservoir, North Kuwait,” SPE 49458, 1998.
“Development and Use of a Multimillion Cell Streamline Model for the Cano Limon Field, Colombia, Internal Occidental Petroleum Oil and Gas Conference, 2003.
“Impact of Pore Volume Compressibility on Recovery from Depletion Drive & Miscible Gas Injection in South Oman,” SPE 115274, 2008.
“Life Cycle of a Depletion Drive and Sour Gas Injection Development: Birba A4C Reservoir, South Oman,” IPTC 12175, presented at the 2008 International Petroleum and Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur.
“Calibration of High-Resolution Reservoir Models Using Transient Pressure Data,” SPE 124834, 2009.
“Simplification of Coupled Reservoir and Facility Modelling To Facilitate Efficient Decision Making: An Example of a Miscible Sour Gas Flood for Enhanced Oil Recovery,” SPE 125201, 2009.
“Integrated Capacitance Resistive Model for reservoir Characterization in Primary and Secondary recovery,” SPE 147344, 2011.
“Value of Pressure Transient Analysis for Reservoir Surveillance and Production Optimization During Early Production of Kashagan Field,” SPE 198345, 2019.
“Development of Miscible Sour Gas Floods: A Comparison of South Oman Cluster of Fields and the super-Giant Kashagan Field,” Shell Publication, 2008–2024_05, Shell E&P Journal of Technology, 2008.
“Pushing EOR through the Opportunity Funnel: The Shell EOR Accelerated Learning Program,” SR.12.12630_11, Shell Journal of Technology, Oct. 2012.
2012 SPE ATCE Technical Writing Course.
