Julie E. Kowan is a Geomechanics Consultant with over 12 years’ experience helping operators drill safer, more cost-effective wells and plan field development by reducing Non-Productive Time (NPT) due to wellbore instability and improving production. Julie has expertise in unconventional reservoirs, pore pressure prediction, stress constraint, wellbore stability, fracture permeability and compaction. Prior to launching J. Kowan Consulting, LLC, Julie was a Geomechanics Advisor at Baker Hughes from 2009 to 2016. Before being promoted to Advisor, Julie held several other technical geomechanics positions at Baker Hughes and GeoMechanics International from 2005 to 2009. Julie earned a Master of Science in Geology from Brown University and a Bachelor of Science in Geology from Rutgers University. View Julie’s Resume

Katharine Burgdorff Tyler specializes in wellbore image analysis, pore pressure prediction, wellbore stability, fractured reservoir characterization, and sand production prediction. She started with Geomechanics International (GMI) in 2002 which became part of RDS (Reservoir Development Services) at Baker Hughes in 2008. During her previous roles as a project leader at GMI and RDS, Katharine was involved with GMI•Imager™ and GMI•MohrFracs™ software development and training. She helped to develop and teach a new tutorial-based GMI•SFIB™ course and has experience using Techlog to develop natural fracture and fluid flow analysis deliverables and to process image logs. She worked for the Asia Pacific region starting in 2004 and was the Geomechanics Team Lead for the Asia Pacific group before moving back to the U.S. in June 2009. After continuing to consult for the RDS Asia Pacific group remotely she joined the North America consulting group in March 2014. She holds a B.A. in Geology from Middlebury College and was part of research teams involved in sediment coring in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica as well as in the North Atlantic.
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