In-Person ENERGY TRAINING Course

Dr. Wayne Monnery, Ph.D., B.Sc, M.Sc, P.Eng., has written several papers that have been published in both academic and industry journals. He has over 30 years of industry experience, specializing in gas processing (pipeline hydraulics, separation, dehydration, treating, sulfur recovery and refrigeration processes) and also has experience with crude oil dehydration, stabilization and micro-refining topping plants. Dr. Monnery has experience with developing new technology and is recently involved in lithium, waste biomass and used motor oil pyrolysis and geothermal projects. Dr. Monnery has recognized expertise in thermodynamics and physical and transport properties of fluids. He has consulted for several EPC and operating companies through his company Chem-Pet Process Tech. 

Dr. Monnery is currently involved with a small power-based carbon capture project as well as helping clients determine the best options for utilities decisions. He has been involved with CO2 dehydration and CO2 flood gas treating as well as acid gas injection projects for several years.

Richard Baker is an executive/project manager/engineer with over 37 years of practical experience in reservoir engineering and CO2 projects (EOR/CO2 sequestration/Acid gas injection). He has worked on projects in 53 countries including reservoir characterization/reservoir simulation worldwide in Canada, Russia, Indonesia, South America, North Africa, Middle East, North Sea and North America. 

He has been a president of a number of small companies (Yellowbrick; 2006-2009, Epic Consulting Services). The companies were successful from both an economic and technical point of view. He has written a book called “Practical Reservoir Engineering and Characterization” (Elsevier 2015). Richard is a Distinguished Author Member of the Petroleum Society of CIM and received an SPE award in 2007 and a CIM service award in 2008. He has twice won SPE Reservoir Characterization award for Canada and was nominated for a World Reservoir Characterization award. He won the 2018 SPE Mentoring Award for Canada. In addition to authoring and co-authoring 60+ technical papers, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary and sits on the Faculty of Engineering Advisory Board. He helped develop the 4th year Design Capstone courses for the University of Calgary. Richard has held senior reservoir engineering positions at both Shell and Husky Oil, and holds two Bachelors degrees and a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary.  

Amy Fox, PhD, PGeo, is a consultant specializing in geomechanics and has worked on projects in several industries

including oil and gas, geothermal and carbon storage. She started her career in 1998 with GeoMechanics International (GMI) in Palo Alto, California. After GMI was acquired in 2008, Amy was part of the Reservoir Development Services group at Baker Hughes. In 2011 she moved from the U.S. to Canada, and in 2015 she co-founded Enlighten Geoscience Ltd., based in Calgary, Alberta. Enlighten has since

performed more than 100 projects. Over the past several years Enlighten has worked closely with the British Columbia Energy Regulator on issues around induced seismicity.

Amy enjoys increasing awareness of geomechanics through frequent volunteer activities including giving presentations, writing or reviewing articles and papers and co-chairing conference sessions. She was recently the Chair of the organizing committee for the 2023 Gussow Conference: Geomechanics for Sustainable Energy Development. Also in 2023, Amy received the Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research

Award by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Amy’s academic credentials include a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where she was part of Dr. Mark Zoback’s geomechanics research group.