Dr. Kishore K. Mohanty

Professor of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas (Austin)

Dr. Kishore Mohanty is currently a professor, of petroleum & geosystems engineering at the University of Texas (Austin). Prior to this post Dr. Mohanty was a Professor of chemical & biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston. He was also the director of the Institute for Improved Oil Recovery. His research encompasses miscible flooding, surfactant treatment, viscous oil recovery, mobility control, pore structure, wettability, fractured carbonates, hydrates, CO2 sequestration, and nanotechnology. Recently, his team has developed a dilute surfactant treatment for fractured oil-wet carbonate reservoirs that can produce more than 60% of the oil at a very low chemical cost.

Dr. Mohanty worked for ARCO Oil & Gas for more than 10 years in research and development before joining University of Houston in 1991. He has published more than 100 papers and given numerous invited plenary talks. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in wettability, fluid flow in porous media and enhanced oil recovery. He was interviewed on the future of energy in the television series “The State of Tomorrow”.

His professional service includes: Executive Editor of the Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal 2002-04, Chairperson Elect, Reprint Series Committee, Society of Petroleum Engineers 2006-07, and Chairman, 2002 Gordon Research Conference on Transport through Permeable Media. He is a member of the editorial board of SPE Journal and JPT special series.

Dr. Mohanty received a B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, both in Chemical Engineering. He was recently selected to be a Distinguished Member of the SPE. He has won numerous awards including Outstanding Review Chair Award, SPE Journal Editorial Board 2006, W. T. Kittinger Outstanding Teacher Award, Cullen College of Engineering 2005, and Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, University of Houston, 2004.