Richard Cochrane joined HARC in May of 2013 as a Research Intern, working with Dr. Rich Haut and the Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems (EFD) team. His major area of study this summer concerns the research of dope and dope-free connections on well tubing, while also assisting Andra Wilcox and team with projects like the Virtual Rig site and Virtual Frac spread. Richard has completed his 3rd year at Texas A&M University, where he will graduate next spring with a Bachelors of Science in Petroleum Engineering. In his time at Texas A&M, Richard has been involved in a number of service, leadership, and student government organizations. Upon graduating in May 2014, Richard will be looking for jobs related to Petrophysics, Reservoir Engineering, and project management.

Richard can be reached via email at rcochrane227@gmail.com. 

Katherine Reyes graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Psychology from Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. She is currently attending the University of Houston in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering and upon graduation she plans on working in the petroleum industry. Katherine enjoys mentoring youth in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and has volunteered with local community colleges, the Star of Hope, and Boys and Girls Country of Houston. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society, Golden Key Honors Society, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and the American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE). Katherine's focus this summer has been researching different technologies that use natural gas either in part or in whole to displace diesel, methods of transporting natural gas, LNG, CNG, pipeline/sales gas and field/wellhead gas. She has also worked to develop four calculators to estimate the cost savings that can be achieved when displacing diesel with natural gas for drilling and four for hydraulic fracturing treatments. Katherine can be reached at katherine.reyes@ymail.com.