Robert Caldwell worked internationally for 10 years before founding The Scotia Group with his partner, David I. Heather. Caldwell is involved in reserve and reservoir analysis and heads the multiyear low permeability gas project for Scotia, which provides international oil and gas advisory services. He is also involved in database development and strategic business studies, developing new tools and analysis methods. He has BS and PhD degrees from the University of Western Australia.
James Merkel is a reservoir engineer with The Scotia Group. His responsibilities include reserves and economic evaluations, reservoir studies, and research activities associated with resource evaluation and reserves growth. He is a member of Scotia's GRI Future Gas Resource Evaluation project team. Previously he was associated with several companies with U.S. and multinational interests. He has mainly been involved in field operations, production, and exploration. He holds a BSc degree from Texas A&M University.
John T. Hansen is a senior product manager for supply products at Gas Research Institute, Chicago. He leads the Emerging Resources Team, which develops technology for the identification, evaluation, and exploitation of gas resources in the lower 48 U.S. Targeted resources include tight sands, coalbed methane, shales, and conventional gas. Before joining GRI, Hansen was a reservoir engineer at Shell Western E&P. He has a BS in geological engineering from Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, Houston.
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