KamySepehrnoori

UT PGE Professor Kamy Sepehrnoori
ProfessorTexaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering

Research Areas
Research Interests

Reservoir simulation development and application; Simulation of enhanced oil recovery processes; Computational methods; Parallel computations; Applied mathematics; Naturally fractured reservoir modeling; Co-optimization of CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery; Inverse modeling

About

Kamy Sepehrnoori is a professor at the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, where he holds the Texaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He has been teaching at UT since 1981 and has graduated more than 250 M.S. and Ph.D. students under his supervision.

Sepehrnoori’s research interests and teaching include computational methods, reservoir simulation, simulation of unconventional reservoirs, enhanced oil recovery modeling, flow assurance modeling, naturally fractured reservoirs, high-performance computing and CO₂ sequestration.

He has published over 800 journal articles and conference proceedings in his research areas, and has also co-authored four books.

Sepehrnoori is the director of the Reservoir Simulation Joint Industry Project at the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment, which focuses on the development, testing, verification and application of reservoir simulators for oil and gas recovery processes.

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1977
M.S., Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1973

Select Awards & Honors

  • Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal – Society of Petroleum Engineers (2022)
  • Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty – Society of Petroleum Engineers (2020)
  • Faculty Recruitment Award – Society of Petroleum Engineers (2015)
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member (2014)
  • Outstanding Teaching Award – Graduate School (2004)
  • Teaching Excellence Award – Student Engineering Council (2003)
  • Departmental Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching (2000)
  • Faculty Excellence Award (1993)
  • Departmental Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching (1991)
  • GIGAFLOP Performance Award – Cray Research, Inc. (1989)
  • Sun Exploration and Production Company Centennial Fellowship (1983–1989)
  • Award of Excellence – Halliburton Education Foundation (1984)

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