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Kent Perry is Director, Exploration & Production Research at the Gas Technology Institute in Des Plaines , Illinois . At GTI, he has responsibility for planning and managing a research program which has the overall objective of developing new technology for enhanced recovery of natural gas in the lower 48 United States . Past experience includes thirty years of natural gas engineering and gas production responsibilities including; gas storage engineering for Northern Illinois Gas Co ., production engineering with Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co ., and, exploration and production for Michigan Energy Resources Co . He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a past SPE Distinguished Lecturer. He has participated in National Petroleum Council studies on the potential for natural gas in the United States and has authored several papers on low permeability natural gas resources and hydraulic fracturing. | 