Gary A. Pope currently holds the Texaco Centennial Chair in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

. He holds a B.Sc. from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. from Rice University

Rice University

William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...

, both in chemical engineering. He has previously worked at Shell

Royal Dutch Shell

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 for more than 7 years and has graduated more than 110 graduate students. He is noted for research in reservoir engineering

Reservoir engineering

Reservoir engineering is a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to the drainage problems arising during the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs so as to obtain a high economic recovery....

, reservoir simulation

Reservoir simulation

Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering in which computer models are used to predict the flow of fluids through porous media.-Uses:...

, enhanced oil recovery

Enhanced oil recovery

Enhanced Oil Recovery is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field...

, phase behaviour and fluid properties.
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...

 in 1999. He has received numerous awards, among them the SPE John Franklin Carll Award

SPE John Franklin Carll Award

SPE John Franklin Carll Award is one of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' highest prizes, established in 1956. It recognizes contributions of applications of engineering practices in petroleum development and recovery. The prize is named in honor of John Franklin Carll, a geologist of the 19th...

 in 2002 and the SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal in 2004.
Notable students include Mojdeh Delshad

Mojdeh Delshad

Mojdeh Delshad is currently Research Associate Professor at PGE department at University of Texas at Austin. She has obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from petroleum engineering under the supervision of Dr. Gary Pope. In the last 18 years she has been involved in research on reservoir simulation,...

, Akhil Datta-Gupta

Akhil Datta-Gupta

Akhil Datta-Gupta is currently full professor of petroleum engineering in the Harold Vance department at Texas A&M University. He obtained his BS from Indian School of Mines, and his MS and PhD degrees from University of Texas at Austin, all in petroleum engineering...

, and Bang Vishal.

External links

• http://pe.utexas.edu/~gpope/
• http://www.pge.utexas.edu/faculty/pope.cfm
• http://www.utexas.edu/opa/experts/profile.php?id=305