Alan Cohen

Dr. Alan Cohen has over 30 years experience in leadership and senior advisory roles in industry, government and academia in technology management, business development, partnerships, and innovation.

He is a former Senior Executive at US Department of Energy, Chief Technology Officer at multiple companies, and Chief Geophysicist - Western Hemisphere at Shell Oil.

He is a patent co-inventor on converting oil and gas wells to geothermal power and heat.

PhD, Chemical Physics
Harvard

MA, Physics
Harvard

BSc, Chemistry
McGill

• Bromhal, Grant (editor), Cohen, Alan, J (co-author), "Real-Time Decision Making for the Subsurface Report," Carnegie Mellon University Wilson E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Pittsburgh PA, June 2019 https://www.cmu.edu/energy/education-outreach/policymaker-outreach/documents/real-time-decision-making-for-the-subsurface-report.pdf
• Batir, Joseph; Cohen, Alan J; and Soroush, Hamed, "New Life for Old Wells," GeoExpro, Volume 18 No. 4, 2021 https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2021/10/new-life-for-old-wells
• Cohen, Alan J; Soroush, Hamed; and Faroughi, Salah, "Solutions for Real-Time Monitoring and Control," GeoExpro, Volume 17 No 4, 2020 https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2020/10/solutions-for-real-time-subsurface-monitoring-and-control
• Boak, Jeremy; Cohen. Alan J; Faroughi, Salah; Soroush, Hamed; and Richards, Maria, "Geothermal Energy- A Sustainable Alternative to Well Abandonment, " CSEG Recorder, Volume 46 No 1, 2021 https://csegrecorder.com/articles/view/geothermal-energy-a-sustainable-alternative-to-well-abandonment

• Committee Member, Development and Production, Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• Keynote Speaker at Society of Petroleum Engineers Meeting on Fiber Optic Sensing
• Keynote Speaker at US Department of Energy Workshop on Mastering the Subsurface