Mukul Sharma

Who is Mukul Sharma?

Mukul M. Sharma is a professor and holds the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Centennial Chair in department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and then M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Southern California in 1981 and 1985 respectively. Dr. Sharma been on the faculty at the University of Texas for the past 29 years and served as Chairman of the Department from 2001 to 2005.

Current research interests include hydraulic fracturing, oilfield water management, formation damage and improved oil recovery. He has published more than 300 journal articles and conference proceedings and have 12 patents. Additional details about his research work and publication can be found on the website.

Dr. Sharma is the recipient of the 2009 Lucas Gold Medal, SPE’s highest technical award and the 2004 SPE Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2002 Lester C. Uren Award and the 1998 SPE Formation Evaluation Award. I served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2002 and have served on the Editorial Boards of many journals, and taught and consulted for industry worldwide.

Beyond academia, Dr. Mukul M. Sharma has founded Austin Geotech Services an E&P consulting company in 1996 and co-founded Layline Petroleum and Karsu Petroleum private E&P companies in 2006.