Committee and Staff Biographies - Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies - page 161

David K. Dillon is the principal of David K. Dillon PE, LLC, a petroleum engineering
consulting firm located in Centennial, Colorado. He holds a B.S. degree in civil engi-
neering from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1974). He is a licensed professional
engineer in Colorado (#19171) and Wyoming (#12530) and has been a member of the
Society of Petroleum Engineers for over 35 years. Before starting his career as a consulting
engineer, Mr. Dillon worked in the private oil and gas industry for 20 years as a drilling
engineer, a production engineer, and a reservoir engineer. He has extensive experience in
optimizing production from existing oil and gas fields, secondary recovery operations, and
the calculation of oil and gas reserves. Mr. Dillon was also an Engineering Supervisor
and the Engineering Manager for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
for over 15 years. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is the regulating
body for oil and gas drilling and production in the state of Colorado. As the Engineering
Manager he was instrumental in the drafting and adoption of new rules by the Commission
and the review and approval of underground injection permits for the State of Colorado.
Mr. Dillon has offered expert testimony before the oil and gas commissions of several states.
Sidney J. Green (NAE) is research professor at the University of Utah, where he holds a
dual appointment in mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. He is
also a Schlumberger Senior Advisor and was one of the founders and former President and
Chief Executive Officer of TerraTek, a geomechanics engineering firm, which was acquired
by Schlumberger in 2006. Mr. Green has worked in the area of geomechanics for nearly
5 decades. He has published numerous papers and reports, holds a number of patents, has
given many presentations on geomechanics, and has received a number of rock mechanics
and geomechanics recognitions. He has served on government committees and on many
university and national laboratory advisory boards, and he has testified at a number of con-
gressional hearings. He has served as member of the board of directors for a number of
businesses. He received the Outstanding Engineer award and the Entrepreneur of the Year
award from Utah, and the Distinguished Alumni Award (1976) and the Professional Degree
recognition (1998) from the former Missouri School of Mines. He received the 1989 Hon-
orary Alumni Award and the 2009 Engineering Achievement Award from the University
of Utah. He is a past member of the Greater Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Board of
Governors and was recently elected a Fellow of the American Rock Mechanics Association.
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He most recently served as
a member of the NRC Committee on Assessment of the Department of Energy's Methane
Hydrate Research and Development Program: Evaluating Methane Hydrate as a Future
Energy Resource. Mr. Green has a B.S. from the former Missouri School of Mines and
an M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in mechanical engineering. He attended
1 year at Pennsylvania State University graduate school and 2 years at Stanford University,
where he received the degree of engineer in engineering mechanics.