Nancy Zakhour

About Nancy

Nancy Zakhour is a Well Design Lead at Occidental Petroleum managing a team of subject matter experts overlooking drilling, completion, and production engineering design and optimization. She is chairing the completion engineering sub-committee of the Department of Energy (DOE) funded, cost-shared, Joint Industry Program (JIP) Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site II (HFTS-II). Prior to her current role, Nancy was a Completion Engineering Advisor leading multidisciplinary and cross-functional projects focused on developing breakthrough solutions by leveraging geoscience, engineering, data analytics, and data management.

Prior to working for Occidental, Nancy worked as Callon Petroleum’s Completion Engineering Advisor, supervising and monitoring all completion activity and contracts as the company tripled in size. Prior to Callon, Nancy worked for Schlumberger’s Well Services segment in North America and various international locations (Indian, Egypt, Russia, Malaysia, Syria) in both technical and field operational roles. She is a recipient of the SPE Regional Completions Optimization and Technology Award. Outside of work, Nancy has served as a panelist, speaker, presenter at various technical SPE conferences and leadership workshops, promoting women in energy and leadership and supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Nancy earned her bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut, an MBA from Rice University, and is a certified Project Management Professional.