Contact PTTC

The national team leverages regional effort through national communications. PTTC's mission is accomplished by distributing applied technology information via newsletters, websites, exhibitions, and participation in workshop and industry events. Directed by Bill Lawson, PTTC Executive Director, PTTC's Headquarters is located in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. Support contractors Cole, Lovendahl, Rychel and Schatzinger are also located in the Tulsa area. Kathy Chapman provides contracting, finance and accounting support from the Washington, DC area. The PTTC team functions as a virtual organization. E-mail us at hq@pttc.org for general questions and comments.

Principal Investigator
Executive Director

 Mailing Address
PO Box 8531
Tulsa, OK 74101-8531		 Bill Lawson Ph: 918-629-1056
 PTTC Mailing Address
P.O. Box 710942
Oak Hill, VA 20171

PTTC Publications Address
P.O. Box 458
Bixby, OK 74008
Financial/Business Affairs

Mailing Address
 P.O. Box 710942
Oak Hill, VA 20171		 Kathy Chapman Ph: 703-620-4797
Fax: 703-620-4799

 		 
Technology Manager Lance Cole Ph: 918-241-5801
Fax: 918-241-5728		  
Advertising Sales Director

Mailing Address
 1712 Meixner Road
Waco, TX 76705

 Russell Lindsay Ph: 254-829-3003
Fax: 254-829-0799		  
Webmaster/Newsletter Kristi Lovendahl  
Technical Consultant (eng.) Dwight Rychel Ph: 918-492-6964  
Operations Manager Vi Schatzinger Ph: 918-532-5495  

DR. WILLIAM F. (BILL) LAWSON, Executive Director, joined the PTTC headquarters team in February, 2011 Dr. Lawson has a broad petroleum background including 31 years at DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory and its precursors, the last 12 years of which he served in leadership positions in the oil and gas program area. He retired from DOE in January, 2006, as the Director on DOE’s Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil. He was an adjunct professor for one year at the University of Oklahoma in the colleges of Business and Earth and Energy. He continues a part time position at the University of Tulsa as the Director of Technology Commercialization while he does some additional outside consulting. He serves on several civic and professional boards .


KATHY CHAPMAN, Financial/Business Affairs, joined PTTC's staff in 1994, with senior responsibility for accounting systems and administration of contracts, as well as other business affairs. She played a key role in negotiating the subcontracts in all 10 regions, and continues to supervise their compliance. Ms. Chapman also handles liaison with Washington groups. She received her contracts management certification in 1995 through a graduate-level program at the University of Virginia. Ms. Chapman received her B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her prior experience includes six years of managing public and private contracts for ICF Resources in Fairfax, VA. Email Kathy Chapman at .

 


 

E. LANCE COLE, Technology Manager, an Oklahoma resident since 1978 and a registered professional engineer in Oklahoma, has served PTTC since 1996, beginning as Project Manager and then as Executive Director until AAPG assumed PTTC management responsibility. As National Project Manager, he was responsible for technical oversight of PTTC's regional lead organizations and contract reporting for the national office, and served as a technical adviser on all aspects of the program. As Executive Director, he had primary staff responsibility for the overall PTTC organization. Mr. Cole received a B.S. in chemical engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and an M.S. in management from Southern Nazarene University. His professional experience encompasses reservoir and corrosion engineering, as well as reserve estimation and appraisal. He has worked with a major oil and gas company, a large integrated independent, and in engineering-oriented consulting companies. Mr. Cole is a member of SPE, AAPG, SEG and SIPES and, in the past, has been involved with the SPE/DOE IOR Symposium in Tulsa for several years. Email Lance Cole at .

RUSSELL LINDSAY, Advertising Sales Director, joined PTTC in July 2010. In this new position, Mr. Lindsay takes the lead role for developing and providing PTTC marketing partners with new, prominent advertising and marketing opportunities to effectively reach the PTTC loyal audience. Mr. Lindsay brings more than 25 years of media sales and sales management experience including previously holding the position of Executive Vice President of Stevens Publishing Corporation and most recently Group Publisher for Douglas Publications and 1105 Media, Inc.  Mr. Lindsay’s prior experience includes the successful launch and management of new print and digital products such as webinars, virtual events, websites and industry leading print publications. Russell’s email address is Russell.lindsay7@gmail.com.
 

KRISTI LOVENDAHL, Webmaster/Newsletter Editor, has served PTTC as Editor of the PTTC Network News newsletter and webmaster since January 2001. Ms. Lovendahl began her career in communications in 1993 at BDM-Oklahoma, Inc. in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, later helping implement an Intranet system there. In 1997 she was a key staff member in a new communications division for SCG, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ms. Lovendahl has more than 18 years of progressive experience in electronic document architecture and web design. She has created many publications, ranging from quarterly and annual reports to internet/intranet web sites for companies in the energy sector. Ms. Lovendahl’s formal education includes numerous publishing, document design and web-related software courses. Email Kristi Lovendahl .


DR. DWIGHT F. RYCHEL, Technical Consultant (Engineer), is a consulting engineer with a primary focus on the evaluation and commercialization of leading edge oil and gas exploration and production technology, including drilling, production, reservoir, improved oil recovery and renewable energy. Dr. Rychel has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, M.B.A. in Business Administration from Florida State University, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Rychel is a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma. He is a member of the Intervention and Coiled Tubing Association, Waterjet Technology Association, and Society of Petroleum Engineers. Dr. Rychel has been involved with the Improved Oil Recovery Symposium for eight years and the General Chairman for 2010.

VIOLA RAWN-SCHATZINGER, Operations Manager, has a B.A. in English with a minor in Zoology from the University of Wyoming, M.S. in Zoology from the University of Wyoming, and work towards a Ph.D. in Geology (Vertebrate Paleontology and Petroleum Geology) with the University of Texas, Austin. Her dissertation on a predator-prey model for the saber tooth cat, Homotherium serum and mammoths and mastodons was published by the Illinois State Museum in 1992. She worked alternating positions from 1977-1990 for the Illinois State Museum, The Texas Memorial Museum and the Texas Highway Department, Archeology Division. Through various government contractors, Ms. Schatzinger provided technical support to the U. S. Department of Energy’s NIPER Research Lab and later the National Energy Technology Laboratory oil and gas program in geology and environmental science for 20 years. She served as editor for two DOE newsletters (The Class ACT and EYE on Environment) for 10 years and as editor for PTTC’s Network News for the past year. She has published and presented a number of papers on topics as varied as saber tooth cats, fluvial depositional environments, seismic exploration of the Uinta Basin, a geological primer for CO2 sequestration, and biodiversity in South Pacific reefs. Her hobbies of cave exploration and scuba diving carbonate reefs have reinforced her geologic background. Email Vi Schatzinger at vschatzinger@pttc.org.