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Russell is professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on the faculty since 1995 and holds the Pioneer Corporation Faculty Fellowship within the department.
He has nine years of industrial experience in both the petroleum and environmental fields with Shell Oil in New Orleans, Houston, and Bakersfield and Colenco Power Consulting in Baden, Switzerland.
He
completed a PhD degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford in
1992 (with a minor in Water Resources from civil engineering) and a BS
degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern in 1982. Read more ...
Research Interests:
His research interests include theory of gas injection processes, thermodynamics and multiphase flow in porous media, remediation of aquifers, and well testing. Read more ...
Recent Courses:
PGE326 (Thermodyanmics and Phase Behavior),
PGE384 (Advanced Thermodyanmics),
PGE370/383 (Fundamentals of Subsurface Environmental Engineering),
PGE383 (Enhanced Oil Recovery). Read more ...
Honors and Awards:
He received the SPE Ferguson medal in 1993
for his work on the combined condensing/vaporizing gas drive process.
He also received the Faculty Excellence award in 1997, the Young
Faculty award in 2000, Deans fellow in 2004, and the departments
teaching award in 2004. From 2002 to 2005, he served as
executive editor of the leading reservoir engineering journal published
by the
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Read more ...
