Faculty Directory

The following is a list of the faculty of the department, their 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

J. Eric Bickel (joint with Mechanical Engineering)

ebickel@mail.utexas.edu

Decision and risk analysis, uncertainty quantification, value of information.

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 (emeritus)

bcaudle@mail.utexas.edu

Reservoir engineering; waterflooding; secondary and enhanced oil recovery

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.

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

Kishore K. Mohanty

mohanty@mail.utexas.edu

Transport of simple and complex fluids in complex microstructured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology

Quoc P. Nguyen

quoc_p_nguyen@mail.utexas.edu

Chemical enhanced oil recovery; conformance control technology; stimulated hydrocarbon production; thermal and chemical conversion of tar sand and oil shale; functionalized nanoparticles for subsurface applications

Jon E. Olson

jolson@mail.utexas.edu

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

Tadeusz W. Patzek

patzek@mail.utexas.edu

Reservoir characterization; enhanced oil recovery; alternative energies

Ekwere J. Peters(retired)

ejpeters@mail.utexas.edu

Fluid flow in porous media; field operations; petrophysics; reservoir engineering

Augusto L. Podio (retired)

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

Maša Prodanović

masha@ices.utexas.edu

Multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media; porous media characterization; level set method, image analysis; sediment mechanics/fracturing and ferrohydrodynamics.

Robert S. Schechter (emeritus)

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.

Carlos Torres-Verdin

cverdin@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Petrophysics, formation evaluation, geophysics

Eric van Oort

vanoort@austin.utexas.edu

Drilling, drilling fluids, borehole stability

Willem C. J. van Rensburg (retired)

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