Geothermal Energy Engineering: Technology Transfer with the Oil and Gas Industry

About

Dr. Livescu is a professor in the Department of Geothermal Studies at the University of Texas at Austin SPE technical director for data science and engineering analytics and editor-in-chief Elsevier Geoenergy Science and Engineering. He has conducted fundamental and applied research multidisciplinary research and technology development diversified innovation intellectual property and management applied to several petroleum engineering and clean energy technical disciplines with a focus on well engineering and operations (monitoring and telemetry systems well intervention stimulation construction production and data science and engineering analytics). He is strongly committed to helping solve some of the most impactful energy transition and digital transformation problems for a net-zero sustainable and affordable energy future. Birol Dindoruk is currently a Professor and AADE Endowed professor in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston USA. He is also currently Editor-in-Chief of Elseviers Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. Birol previously worked at Shell for over 35 years as a Chief Scientist of Reservoir Physics one of seven allotted in the company. He received a B.Sc. in petroleum engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul a Engineering MSc from Bogazici University a MSc in petroleum engineering from the University of Alabama a MBA from the University of Houston and a PhD in petroleum engineering from Stanford. Birol has published well over 130 publications and is active in many associations including Society of Petroleum Engineers.