Full Name
Jim Crompton
Job Title
Faculty
Company
Colorado School of Mines
Speaker Bio
Jim Crompton, Affiliate Professor, Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Jim Crompton retired from Chevron in 2013 after 37 years with the major international oil & gas company. After moving from Houston to Colorado Springs, Colorado, Jim established the Reflections Data Consulting LLC to continue his work in data management and analytics for Exploration and Production industry. From 2019 to 2023, Jim was a teaching faculty member and a Professor of Practice in the Petroleum Engineering Department lecturing on petroleum data analytics and the Digital Oilfield 2.0. He retired from active teaching in 2023 but still continues as a guest lecturer in several courses.
Jim was a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2010-2011 speaking on the topic of “Putting he Focus on Data”. In 2024 he received a “Distinguished Member” award from the SPE. He is a frequent speaker a SPE conferences on digital/Intelligent Energy and the Data Foundation. His interests lie in the full spectrum of the information value chain from data capture, data management, data visualization, data access modeling and analytics, simulations, and serious gaming.
Jim graduated from the Colorado School of Mines (BS in Geophysical Engineering in 1974 and MS in Geophysics in 1976) before joining Chevron in Denver, Colorado. He later earned an MBA degree (1976) from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio Texas.
Jim Crompton retired from Chevron in 2013 after 37 years with the major international oil & gas company. After moving from Houston to Colorado Springs, Colorado, Jim established the Reflections Data Consulting LLC to continue his work in data management and analytics for Exploration and Production industry. From 2019 to 2023, Jim was a teaching faculty member and a Professor of Practice in the Petroleum Engineering Department lecturing on petroleum data analytics and the Digital Oilfield 2.0. He retired from active teaching in 2023 but still continues as a guest lecturer in several courses.
Jim was a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2010-2011 speaking on the topic of “Putting he Focus on Data”. In 2024 he received a “Distinguished Member” award from the SPE. He is a frequent speaker a SPE conferences on digital/Intelligent Energy and the Data Foundation. His interests lie in the full spectrum of the information value chain from data capture, data management, data visualization, data access modeling and analytics, simulations, and serious gaming.
Jim graduated from the Colorado School of Mines (BS in Geophysical Engineering in 1974 and MS in Geophysics in 1976) before joining Chevron in Denver, Colorado. He later earned an MBA degree (1976) from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio Texas.
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