AADE DRILLING FLUIDS HALL OF FAME

PURPOSE:

• To recognize key individuals who have contributed to advancing our understanding and knowledge of drilling, completion, cementing, and fracturing fluids

• To share their accomplishments with the industry in order that they not be forgotten

• To elevate our image as an important part of the oil and gas industry by highlighting contributions of our distinguished men and women

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2020/2022 Honorees

Glen Benge - Honoring his leadership in the advancement of cementing technology, research and global application of foamed cement and dedication to development of industry cementing standards.

Lindsay J. Fraser - For his part in development and application of unorthodox drilling and drill-in fluid systems, particularly in horizontal and deep water drilling and for contributions to the advancement of the drilling fluids industry through participation in AADE, SPE and API.

George E. King - For his work in developing and testing fluids used in completion, gravel packing and workovers in conventional and unconventional wells.

Hallan N. Marsh - For his pioneering research in the development of methods and equipment to determine downhole well conditions and measure the physical properties of drilling fluids, including the creation of the Marsh Funnel.

Larry J. Remont - For his dedicated efforts in education and to helping those in the drilling industry navigate the complexities inherent in the selection and use of drilling fluid systems.

Christopher A. Sawdon - For his contributions to reducing the environmental impact of drilling, advancing drilling fluid design, employee career development, and training in oilfield chemistry.

2018 Honorees

Robert C. Ayers, Jr - For his leadership and individual efforts that helped the industry avoid NPDES Permit regulations banning the discharge of water-based drilling fluids.

Robert M. Beirute - For his notable contributions to cementing technology, including research on job design and execution, failure analysis, QA/QC, testing standards and advanced seminars

Ronald G. Bland - For his development of high-performance drilling fluids for use in extreme environments and collaborative laboratory studies on the impact of drilling fluids on PDC bit performance.

Fredrick B. Growcock - For his significant contributions to the characterization and development of drilling and fracturing fluids, including novel formulations, test methods, and cuttings processing technology.

Donald D. Schmidt - For his active promotion of drilling fluids as a science, use of lab technologies to monitor and understand drilling fluid behavior and distinguished API leadership.

Dwight K. Smith - For his dedication to the advancement of cementing technology and his landmark books on cementing, well plugging and abandonment, and the Halliburton story.

2016 Honorees

Claude E Cooke, Jr. - For his many contributions to cementing technology and pioneering development of hydraulic fracturing fluids including the invention of ceramic proppants

Kelly B. Fox - For his pioneering work on synthetic polymers for brine viscosification and friction reduction in coil tubing and fracturing fluids

Arvind D. Patel - For his extensive research into shale inhibition, pioneering use of amines in clay control along with innovations in reversible invert imulsion drilling fluids

Stephen C. Polnaszek - For his field application of water-based environmentally friendly drilling fluids encompassing shale stability, horizontal and HTHP application and admirable leadership of  APi committee SC13

Ronald E. Sweatman - For his significant contribution to the advancement of cementing and other well services through patented technologies and numerous publications

Mario Zamora - For his pioneering work in hydraulic and rehology, barite sag and software development and his leadership role in the fluids industry

2014 Honorees

Syed A. Ali - For his significant contributions to the advancement of completion fluids technology 

Thomas S. Carter - For his application of drilling fluids technologies to achieve quality wellbores in critical wells

James D. Fann (1913-2002) - For his pioneering contributions to the development of equipment for measuring fluid properties

Erle P. Halliburton (1892-1957) - For his pioneering developments in cementing technology

John Kelly, Jr. (1924-2013) - For his significant contributions to the technology of oil- based drilling fluids

Benjamin K. Stroud (1882-1950) - For his pioneering developments of weighting agents for controlling downhole pressures

2012 Honorees

Thomas E Cox - For his contributions to oilfield corrosion control and the safe testing of drilling fluids at the wellsite and in the laboratory 

Fred E. Dupriest - For his application of drilling fluids technologies to achieve quality wellbores in critical wells

James L. Lummus - For his significant contributions to drilling fluids technology, lost circulation, and drilling optimization

Warren C. McMordie, Jr. - For his pioneering work to improve the industry’s understanding of temperature and pressure effects on the density and viscosity of drilling fluids

Cheryl L. Stark - For her significant contributions to drilling fluids standardization and advancements in environmentally acceptable drilling fluids

Donald L. Whitfill - For his outstanding contributions to drilling fluids technology, lost circulation, and wellbore stability

2010 Honorees

Max R. Annis - For his contributions to drilling fluids technology, their performace under extreme conditions and their impact of the environment

Leroy L. Carney - For his research and devlopment of high-performance drilling fluids and fundamental work on complex chemical interactions

Jack C. Estes - For his accomplishments in optimized drilling,drilling fluids technology and standardization

Preston L. Moore - For dedication to drilling engineering education and to the drilling man on the rig

George S. Ormsby (1919-2011) - For his fundamental work on mechanical solids separation, hydraulics, and downhole pressure analyses of drilling fluids

William A. Rehm - For his contributions to directional-drilling operations and to the understanding of wellbore pressures

J. George Savins - For his development of the V-G meter and his contributions to the understanding of the rheology of complex fluids

2008 Honorees

Ronald K. Clark - for his significant contributions in mud chemistry, mud/shale interactions, environmental impact, rheology, and hydraulics

Henry C.H. Darley - for his co-authorship of Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids and his pioneering work in water-based drilling fluid formulations

Curt G. Hamill - for helping create the first drilling “mud” at Spindletop and giving birth to the modern drilling fluids industry

Robert L. Garrett - for his pioneering work in the measurement of sulfides and carbonates in drilling fluids leading to two standard tests which bear his name

William C. Goins, Jr. - for his development of well-control methods, hydraulics optimization, extreme-pressure additives for drilling muds, and procedures for foam drilling

A.C. (Charles) Perricone - for spearheading the development of polymers to control fluid loss and stabilize rheology in high-temperature, water-based drilling fluids

2006 Honorees

Martin E. Chenevert - for his dedicated efforts in education and landmark research and development in oil and water-based mud technology, wellbore stability, and mud / shale interactions

Billy G. Chesser - for his seminal contributions to water-based mud technology, corrosion control, filtration control, shale stabilization, and dewatering

George R. “Doc” Gray - for his co-authorship of Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids, and pioneer work in oil-based drilling fluid formulations

Tommy C. Mondshine - for his pioneering efforts in oil-mud design, lubricity, fluid-loss control, shale inhibition technology, reservoir drilling fluids, and methods of measuring fluid properties

Leon H. Robinson - for his dedicated and sustaining contributions to methods for processing and managing drilling fluids, solids control technology, and drilling fluid hydraulics

Walter F. Rogers - for his writing of Composition & Properties of Oilwell Drilling Fluids, which greatly accelerated the growth of drilling fluid technology, and editing of the Principles of Mud Control, which spurred field application of new mud technology

Jay P. Simpson - for his dedicated efforts and significant contributions to the development of water and oil-based muds that have enabled drilling and completion of critical wells

Don J. Weintritt - for his innovation and pioneering work in emulsifiers and organo clays used in oil muds, high-temperature drilling fluids, mud testing and analyses, corrosion control, and mineral-scale mitigation