Three Professors Win 2015 SPE Regional Awards
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May 12, 2015
UT PGE continues a streak of excellence as three faculty members, Drs. Ken Gray, Kamy Sepehrnoori and Mark McClure, were announced Society of Petroleum Engineers' (SPE) regional award winners. Last year, Drs. Daigle and DiCarlo received the honor for their work in formation evaluation and chemical enhanced oil recovery.
Regional and section awards recognize members who contribute exceptional service and leadership within SPE, as well as making significant professional contributions within their technical disciplines at the SPE regional level.
W.A. (Monty) Moncrief Centennial Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering and Professor Sepehrnoori, who is also a SPE distinguished member, was awarded the “Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award.” He received the award for his successes in teaching and researching computational methods, enhanced oil recovery modeling, flow assurance and unconventional reservoir simulations.
McClure, assistant professor, won the “Completions Optimization and Technology Award” for his collaborative work with his students to demonstrate a hydraulic fracturing simulator that fully couples fluid flow with the stress induced by fracture deformation in 3D discrete fracture networks.
These technical discipline awards require a nomination from a colleague including a statement of reason with specific examples of the candidate’s work that support the award criteria.
Gray, professor, was awarded the “Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty.” This award recognizes superiority in research and classroom teaching, significant contributions to the petroleum industry and effectiveness in guiding students.
In his impressive 52 years as a faculty member, Gray has established many innovative techniques to foster student learning and professional development while simultaneously leading in classroom teaching and student-based research.
The three professors will be honored in May 2015 in Midland, Texas, with the awards.
