Dr. Marco R. Thiele

President, StreamSim Technologies

Dr. Thiele co-founded StreamSim Technologies, Inc. in 1997 to develop and promote the use of streamline-based reservoir simulation technology as powerful reservoir engineering methodology. Dr. Thiele is president of StreamSim Technologies where he is directly involved in the ongoing technology development program as well as training, consulting, and marketing aspects of the business. In 2006, Dr. Thiele was named a Consulting Professor in the Department of Energy Resource Engineering at Stanford University.

From 1994 to 1997 he was an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford teaching graduate-level courses on Reservoir Simulation, Thermodynamics of Phase Behavior, and Applied Mathematics in Reservoir Engineering. His research at Stanford focused on streamline-based flow simulation, uncertainly in reservoir forecasting, and integrated reservoir management.

Dr. Thiele received his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and his Masters and Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and 1986 respectively.

He is the recipient of the 1996 SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, winner of 1994 International SPE Student Paper Contest, and a 1991 distinguished SPE speaker invited by the SPE Adriatic Section. Dr. Thiele is a technical editor for the SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal, and serves on the SPE Primer Series Committee.

Dr. Thiele has published widely on reservoir flow modeling and application of streamline-based flow simulation to reservoir engineering, and is a frequent speaker on the topic at international conferences and symposiums.