题目：Current Trends and Challenges in the US Unconventional Oil/Gas Industry

时间：8月7日（周二）上午 10：00-12：00

地点：工科楼B347

主讲人：I. Yucel Akkutlu 教授

报告人简介：

Yucel Akkutlu is professor of petroleum engineering and William Keeler faculty fellow at Texas A&M University in College Station. He is the holder of Flotek Industries, Inc. Career Development Professorship. He is a chemical engineer and received Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His main research interest is fluid flow, transport and reactions in porous media. This interest finds many applications in reservoir engineering, in particular the areas of enhanced petroleum recovery and the recovery from source rocks such as coal, shale and methane hydrates. Akkutlu is a distinguished SPE member. He was the executive editor of the SPE Journal 2013-2016. He was the 2014-15 SPE Distinguished Lecturer. He received 2018 TAMU-Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award, 2016 TAMU-Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award, and 2015 AIME Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award. Dr. Akkutlu also received several department-level teaching awards. He has been serving in several SPE committees, including SPE EUROPEC Conference committee, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media (RMFPM) committee, 2007-2010. He served Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) as a member of the materials and chemical engineering committee, 2011-2014.