Professor Keith B. Hall is Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law, and John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 3 and 4, and Director of the Energy Law Center; Director of the Mineral Law Institute; Professor of Law at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Prof. Hall is responsible for organizing and promoting programs for Energy Law Center, including conferences, guest lectures, student internships, and student travel to energy law conferences; Secure grants to support student travel to energy law conferences; Organize student field trips to energy industry facilities; Serve as faulty advisor to LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources; Organize the two-day Annual Mineral Law Institute; Oversee publication of Mineral Law Institute newsletter and Proceedings of the Annual Mineral Law Institute – teaching on Mineral Rights; Civil Law Property; Energy Law & Regulation; Advanced Mineral Law; International Petroleum Transactions; Energy Law (seminar on environmental issues relating to oil and gas industry). Roles include Chair, Task Force on Local Impacts of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (created Senate Resolution No. 179 of 2023 Regular Session of Louisiana Legislature); Chair, Emerging Energy Industries Codification Task Force (created by Senate Resolution No. 161 of 2022 Regular Session of Louisiana Legislature); Member, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Ad Hoc Committee on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage; Member, Risk Charge Commission (created by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 44 of the 2021 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature to study possible changes to Louisiana’s oil and gas risk charge statute; Editor-in-Chief, Institute for Energy Law’s Oil & Gas E-Report (2018 to date); Oil & Gas Reporter, Board of Editors (2013 to 2017).

Dr. Gbenga Oluyemi, is Associate Professor in Petroleum Geomechanics, School of Engineering, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Oluyemi is Chair of the Sand Management Network and the Editor-in-Chief of Springer Petroleum Engineering Book Series. He previously worked in the industry at Scaled Solutions Ltd UK where he led an R&D team of chemists, geologists, and engineers working on developing software models and tools for the optimisation of chemical/fluid injection in petroleum reservoir rocks. He also worked in Nigeria with Betta Borix Nigeria Ltd and Elf Petroleum Nigeria Ltd (Now Total Energies) as a Geologist and Field Engineer respectively. His research is focused on the prediction and analysis of formation damage and geochemically induced failure of rocks arising from the interaction of formation rock and a range of fluids including reservoir fluids, oilfield chemicals, drilling fluids, etc. The application domains of his research include production and drilling operations, sand management, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, and Hydrogen storage in underground systems. The main driver of his research is the need to accelerate energy transition and the global shift to greener, renewable energy sources. He has worked as PI and Co-Inv. on a range of projects funded by the UK government, EU, and the oil industry, worth approximately £2M; and has published more than 80 articles in leading journals and conference proceedings. He is a UK Chartered Engineer, a long-standing and active member of the Energy Institute UK, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.   

Moderator: Dr. Leon Moller, is Course leader for Oil, Gas and Renewable Energy Law (LLM/MSc); & International Environmental Law LLM/MSc, Law School, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Moller is a member of the multi-disciplinary Hydrogen Research Group at Robert Gordon University and is involved in international research collaboration with Kobe University on the law of the sea. Leon is an academic lawyer with teaching and research specialisms on Maritime Law, Contract Law, Oil and Gas Contract Law, Energy Law, Hydrogen Law, International Law of the Sea, and Deep seabed mining. Leon has a PhD on the Law of the Sea and LLM in International Natural Resources Law from the University of Dundee, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) in Scotland. Leon is a member of the UK Energy Institute (MEI), UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), Law Society (Namibia & England and Wales). Previously Leon worked as solicitor in Aberdeen, Scotland and advised energy and oil and gas companies on their UK North Sea and West Africa operations. He also worked as Petroleum Commissioner (Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy); Legal Officer (National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia); and legal consultant (Commonwealth Secretariat, London).