Harry W. Sullivan, Jr.
Harry W. Sullivan, Jr. is an International Energy Attorney based in Dallas, Texas, where he is an Executive Professor at Texas A&M School of Law and an Adjunct Professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law. Currently Assistant General Counsel at Kosmos Energy in their West Africa exploration activities, Mr. Sullivan has more than 30 years experience as a practicing energy attorney working for major international oil & gas companies. His previous experience includes fourteen years as Senior Counsel-International in the International E&P Legal Group of ConocoPhillips, Of Counsel with Thompson & Knight LLP, fifteen years as Chief Counsel-International and Senior Counsel for Atlantic Richfield Company and five years as Senior Counsel for Sun Oil Company. His experience includes negotiating and working in more than 25 different countries, including specifically: Algeria, Australia, Azerbaijan, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Georgia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE and the U.S.
Harry’s practice and experience focuses on the upstream and mid-stream oil and gas industry. He has extensive experience in international gas and LNG projects. Mr. Sullivan has significant experience working in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on oil & gas transactional matters, and building local content through training courses and hands on workshops. Harry has considerable expertise in international laws concerning corruption and ethics. Harry is an expert negotiator and has negotiated countless oil and gas and energy transactions throughout his career. As a member of AIPN (Association of International Petroleum Negotiators) and on his own, Mr. Sullivan has organized numerous oil & gas training programs around the world.
He currently teaches oil and gas law, international petroleum transactions, international oil and gas negotiations, oil and gas contracts and oil and gas advanced contract drafting. Additionally, he has taught international petroleum transactions at South Texas College of Law and oil and gas law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (now Texas A&M University School of Law), SMU’s Cox School of Business and Dallas’ El Centro College; and business law at the University of Texas at Arlington
Harry earned his LLM and JD law degrees from SMU Law School and LSU Law School, respectively. He is licensed to practice law in the states of Louisiana and Texas and before the Supreme Court of the United States; and is Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law in Texas. He is also admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales.
Edwin M. Callender
Edwin M. Callender is an attorney and international energy consultant based in Houston, Texas. He is managing member of The Callender Law Firm PLLC, a practice focused in the areas of energy and oil & gas law, commercial transactions, business law, and private placements. Mr. Callender is an energy and oil & gas industry practitioner with more than 25 years experience delivering quality legal-, consulting-, and technical- services across various industry segments. Mr. Callender has held positions of increasing responsibility at major oil & gas-, refining-, natural gas-, and electric power- companies, and has good expertise in business strategy, commercial transactions, energy deal structuring and risk analysis, business planning, and business optimization. Mr. Callender’s unique combination of legal-, analytical-, engineering-, and business- skills evidences his broad and deep expertise. He is also principal consultant of EMC Energy Consulting LLC, an international energy economics research, management, and process operations consulting firm. Edwin Callender is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN).
Mr. Callender earned his BSc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1988, he joined Atlantic Richfield Company as a chemical engineer in Houston, Texas and began a career in the energy and oil & gas industry. He graduated magna cum laude with his JD law degree from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, and also earned an MBA-Finance degree , and a MSc. degree in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Houston. Mr. Callender is respected for his contributions and competence in his fields of endeavor, and holds a European patent for a commercial petrochemical process. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including: the State Bar of Texas, Texas Bar College, Houston Bar Association, American Bar Association, and the Houston Lawyers Association where he is also a member of the board of directors. Edwin Callender is a Texas and New York licensed attorney and is licensed to practice before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Fifth Circuit and the US District & Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of Texas.
Keith B. Hall
Keith B. Hall is the Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law and Director of the Mineral Law Institute at Louisiana State University (LSU). He teaches Mineral Rights, Advanced Mineral Law, International Petroleum Transactions, Energy Law & Regulation, and an Energy Law Seminar that focuses on environmental issues relating to oil and gas activities.
Professor Hall is co-author of a textbook on oil and gas law that is used in U.S. law schools and also is co-author of a book published by the American Bar Association on the legal issues relating to oil and gas development. His shorter publications have focused on a variety of oil gas issues. He is a frequent speaker at national and international oil and gas conferences, and is a contributing co-author to the forthcoming new edition of a textbook on international petroleum transactions.
In addition to teaching at LSU, Professor Hall has taught: International Petroleum Transactions as a Visiting Professor at Baku State University in Azerbaijan; International Energy Transactions as a Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law; and Introduction to Mineral Law as an adjunct professor at Loyola School of Law in New Orleans.
Before joining the LSU Law School faculty, he practiced law for 16 years, with a focus on oil and gas litigation and transactions. He often serves as a consultant or expert witness in litigation involving oil and gas matters.
Professor Hall serves on the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators’ Education Advisory Board, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Trustees Council, the Institute for Energy Law’s Advisory Board, and the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation’s Board of Trustees. He is a former Chairman of the Oil & Gas Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. In addition, he is a registered professional engineer who worked for eight years as a chemical engineer before attending law school.
Dennis A. Pieters
Dennis A. Pieters currently serves as a Director of Mid-Atlantic Oil and Gas Inc. in Georgetown, Guyana. Prior to this appointment, he was a Reservoir Engineering Consultant for Aramco Services Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas. He is a Reservoir Engineering Subject Matter Expert and until 2018 taught Reservoir Engineering to Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists at the Upstream Petroleum Development Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dennis has an extensive background in reservoir engineering of both conventional and unconventional (CBM and Shale gas) reservoirs as well as CO2 enhanced recovery processes, economic and decision analysis. He has authored papers in these areas.
Since 1980, Dennis has held a series of progressively responsible staff engineering, consultant and management positions in the US and internationally with Amoco, Saudi Aramco, Shell Oil and Halliburton Landmark Graphics. Dennis worked as a simulation specialist on Ghawar and Safaniya fields for Saudi Aramco, simulating the first horizontal well in the Kingdom in 1989. As a consultant for Landmark Graphics, he managed horizontal well engineering teams in Siberia and in 2003 was the reservoir sub-surface Subject Matter Expert for the Army Corps of Engineers on location in Iraq, immediately following Operation Iraqi Freedom. As part of task force RIO (Rebuild Iraqi Oil) the team was charged with estimating and reporting to the President of the United States on the cost of rebuilding Iraqi oil infra-structure to pre-war levels for appropriation by the U.S. Congress. The measure was approved.
Dennis is a graduate of Guyana’s Queen’s College. He earned a BSc degree in Geological Engineering and MSc and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering, all from Colorado School of Mines. He has taught reservoir engineering and economics courses at the Colorado School of Mines and is the author of a book on oil and gas decision-making. He is an active member of the SPE Gulf Coast Section, and was the outstanding editor for the SPE Journal in 2014. He is also a director of the Potential Gas Committee which is charged with evaluating natural gas resources in the United States.
