Herb Yuan - Shell (POSC Chairman )
Herbert Yuan is Vice President Capabilities and Integration and serves
on the leadership team of Shell’s Upstream R&D Organization known
as SEPTAR. He joined Shell in Houston in 1977 and worked in various
research assignments, where he specialized in rock properties
characterization and petrophysical research focused on advanced
capillarity and shaly sand analysis conducted in both Houston and
Rijswijk. In 1991, he began a series of technical managerial positions.
In 1993, he was Head of Petrophysical Technology Development at SIPM in
The Hague. In 1996, he served as a charter member of the Gamechanger
Innovation process, which has earned a reputation for corporate
innovation. In 1997, he was skills manager for rock and fluid
characterization and in 1999 became Manager of Global Petrophysical
Research. He assumed his present position in 2002.
Herb was born in Sydney, Australia. He majored in mathematics and
chemistry from the Australian National University and later earned a
PhD in theoretical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is married, has three sons
and is active in his church.
His thoughts on becoming POSC Board Chairman:
“The new POSC Board of Directors represents a cross-section of the key
people shaping software and information management in the EP Industry
and it is an honor to chair such a board. The POSC Board has the
capability and responsibility to rebuild POSC into an organization
recognized for creating standards allowing the EP industry to achieve
levels of integration and efficiency required for future business
success. XML standards are an excellent place to start, which will
allow POSC to facilitate the digital fields vision which many of the
POSC companies share.”