Speakers

Kishore Mohanty is the W.A. (Monty) Moncrief Centennial Chair Professor in Petroleum Engineering in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in EOR, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen generation, and nanotechnology. He received his BS from IIT, Kanpur and PhD from University of Minnesota. He worked at ARCO Oil & Gas Company R&D from 1981-1991 before joining the faculty at the University of Houston where he worked for 17 years. He joined UT PGE in 2009 and was the director of the Center for Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering, 2013-2019. He has won several awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers including the John Franklin Karll award in 2022, SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty in 2016, AIME/SPE Anthony F. Lucas Technical Leadership Gold Medal in 2013 and IOR Pioneer award in 2008.