Faculty Directory

The following is a list of the faculty of the department, their office hours, general research areas and their e-mail addresses. For phone numbers and mailing addresses, refer to the UT Electronic Directory. A directory of the Center for Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Research Staff is at http://www.cpge.utexas.edu/staff.html

Matthew Balhoff

balhoff@mail.utexas.edu

Pore scale and multiscale modeling; flow and transport in porous media; and reservoir engineering

Paul Bommer

pmbommer@mail.utexas.edu

Reservoir evaluation; enhanced recovery design backed by years of drilling and production practice.

Steven L. Bryant

Steven_Bryant@mail.utexas.edu

Petrophysics; reactive flow and transport; the relationship between microstructure and macroscopic properties of granular media; applications of large-scale computing

Ben H. Caudle

bcaudle@mail.utexas.edu

Reservoir engineering; waterflooding; secondary and enhanced oil recovery

Martin E. Chenevert

mechenevert@mail.utexas.edu

High-temperature/high-pressure properties of drilling fluids; wellbore stability in highly deviated wellbores

Mojdeh Delshad

delshad@mail.utexas.edu

Enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; simulation and groundwater modeling and remediation.

David DiCarlo

dicarlo@mail.utexas.edu

Fluid flow; pore-scale physics; preferential and compositional displacements; gas injection processes.

K. E. Gray

ken_gray@mail.utexas.edu

Drilling and rock mechanics; wellbore mechanics; reservoir engineering; transient fluid flow; fracture mechanics; horizontal wells

Gale Greenleaf

greenleaf@mail.utexas.edu

Technical writing and communication

Chun Huh

chunhuh@mail.utexas.edu

Enhanced oil recovery processes, with particular emphasis on process modeling; the use of polymers to enhance oil recovery.

Christopher Jablonowski

cjablonowski@mail.utexas.edu

Energy and mineral resource economics; applied econometrics.

Russell T. Johns

rjohns@mail.utexas.edu

Remediation of nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPL); multiphase, multicomponent flow in porous media; well testing; and petrophysics

Larry W. Lake

larry_lake@mail.utexas.edu

Enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; reservoir characterization; geochemical modeling; simulation

Krishan A. Malik (adjunct professor)

kmalik@mail.utexas.edu

Reservoir and economic evaluation; energy economics and policy; oil and gas finance; petroleum and structural geology

Quoc P. Nguyen

quoc_p_nguyen@mail.utexas.edu

Stimulated hydrocarbon production; Intelligent wells; Enhanced coal bed methane production; Heavy oil recovery

Jon E. Olson

jolson@mail.utexas.edu

Naturally fractured reservoirs; rock mechanics; hydraulic fracturing; structural geology; GPS applications in petroleum and geosystems engineering

Ekwere J. Peters

ejpeters@mail.utexas.edu

Flow through porous media; computer imaging; viscous fingering; computer-assisted transient-pressure analysis; drilling and well completions

Augusto L. Podio

apodio@mail.utexas.edu

Well control and drilling optimization; computer-based production systems; multiphase flow; beam pumping optimization

Gary A. Pope

gpope@mail.utexas.edu

Enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; fluid flow in porous media; numerical simulation; phase behavior and fluid properties; water soluble polymers; surfactants; surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation; characterization of NAPLs in groundwater; use of tracers for characterization of aquifers

Robert S. Schechter

rsschechter@mail.utexas.edu

Enhanced oil recovery; surface chemistry; properties of surfactants in solution; oil-well stimulation

Kamy Sepehrnoori

kamys@mail.utexas.edu

Simulation of enhanced oil recovery; computational methods; vector and parallel computations; applied mathematics; subsurface remediation modeling; data bases

Mukul M. Sharma

msharma@mail.utexas.edu

Formation damage; petrophysics; fluid flow in porous media

Sanjay Srinivasan

ssriniva@mail.utexas.edu

Reservoir engineering, flow modeling.

Tim Taylor

tdtaylor@mail.utexas.edu

Carlos Torres-Verdin

cverdin@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Petrophysics, formation evaluation, geophysics

Willem C. J. van Rensburg

vanrensburg@mail.utexas.edu

Mineral and energy economics; synthetic fuels; coal and lignite exploration

Mary F. Wheeler (joint with Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics)

mfw@ices.utexas.edu

Numerical solutions of partial differential systems with applications to flow in porous media and parallel computation