Mukul Sharma

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

PhD, University of Southern California

W.A. (Tex) Moncrief, Jr. Centennial Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering

Mukul M. Sharma is Professor and holds the “Tex” Moncrief Chair in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he has been for the past 35 years. He served as Chairman of the Department from 2001 to 2005. His current research interests include hydraulic fracturing, oilfield water management, formation damage and improved oil recovery. He has published more than 450 journal articles and conference proceedings and has 21 patents. He founded Austin Geotech Services, an E&P consulting company, in 1996. He also co-founded Layline Petroleum in 2006 and Navidad Energy in 2017.

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