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George J. Moridis

Senior Scientist

Building 084, Room 0334

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-4746

Fax: 510-486-5686

[email protected]

Curriculum Vitae

  • Researcher ID
  • Education
  • Awards
  • Professional Affiliations
  • Boards & Committees
  • Scholarly Service
  • Research Funding
  • Professional Activities
  • Other Web Pages

Biography

George Moridis is a Senior Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division of LBNL, where he is the former Head of the Hydrocarbon Resource Program, and was in charge of the LBNL research programs on unconventional resources (hydrates, tight/shale gas and oil), and leads the development of the new generation of LBNL simulation codes of coupled flow, thermal, geomechanical and geophysical processes. Moridis is a visiting professor in the Petroleum Engineering Dept. at Texas A&M University, and in the Guangzhou Center for Gas Hydrate Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; he is also an adjunct professor in the Chemical Engineering Dept. at the Colorado School of Mines, and in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Dept. of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He holds MS and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University and BS and ME degrees in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Moridis is the author or coauthor of over 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 3 book chapters, 3 book chapters, and more than 200 LBNL reports, paper presentations and book articles. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for 2009–10, and a SPE Distinguished Member since 2010. He is the recipient of a 2011 Secretarial Honor Award – the highest non-monetary award of the U.S. Department of Energy – for work on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Flow Rate Technical Group. He is on the editorial board of three scientific journals, an Associate Editor of four scientific journals, and a reviewer for 26 scientific publications.

Publications

  • Researcher ID

Education

  • Ph.D. Reservoir Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1983-1987, 77843
  • M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1980-1982, 77843
  • M.E. Chemical Engineering, National Metsovion Technical University, Athens 10233, Greece, 1979-1980
  • B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, National Metsovion Technical University, Athens 10233, Greece, 1975-1979, Honors

Awards

  • Appointment to the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee, 2013
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement, 2012
  • U.S. Department of Energy: Secretarial Honor Award, 2011
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers, Distinguished Member (Fellow Grade), 2010
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers, Distinguished Lecturer, 2009-2010
  • Editorial Board of Water Resources Research: Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2007
  • LBNL: Outstanding Performance Award for contributions to the establishment and development of a hydrate research program at LBNL, 2006
  • LBNL: Excellence in Technology Transfer award, for the development of the TOUGH+ family of codes, 2006
  • Editorial Board of Water Resources Research: Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2005
  • Popular Science magazine: Best of What’s New award (which honors the 100 most promising new technologies), for the development of the subsurface barrier technology, 1996
  • LBNL: Outstanding Performance Award for contributions to the establishment and development of a subsurface barrier research program, 1995

Professional Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Society of Agricultural Engineers
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • American Society of Petroleum Engineers
  • Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, NWWA
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (OTC Board Member)

Advisory Boards, Committees, and Councils

  • Member, Advisory Board, Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
  • Member, Board of Regents, Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece
  • Member, OTC Program Committee, Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
  • Member, Organizing/Program Committee, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  • Member, Organizing/Program Committee, Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
  • Program Committee Member, Representing SME to the ATC (Arctic Technology Conference)

Scholarly Service

  • Member of the Editorial Board; Associate Editor; Guest Editor of Special Issues, Transport in Porous Media
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • Associate Editor, SPE Journal, Journals of the Society of Petroleum Engineering
  • Member of the Editorial Board; Guest Editor of Special Issues, Computers & Geosciences
  • Guest Editor of Special Issues, Nuclear Technology
  • Elsevier, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • Elsevier, Journal of Hydrology
  • Reviewer, Water Resources Research, Journal of Geophysical Review, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology , Journal of Geological Research, Journals of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Journal of Canadian Petroleum
Technology, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Mineralogist, ChemSusChem, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Chemical Engineering & Technology, Chemical Engineering Science, Energies, Energy and Fuels (American Chemical Society), Energy Conversion and Management, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Research Funding

Career total: $19,803,000 (1989-2014)
  • FY 2014 Awards (October 1, 2013 – July 31, 2014): TOTAL = $1,461,000 ($497K from Chevron + $75K from U.S. EPA + 340K from U.S. DOE (hydrates) + $120K from KIGAM, South Korea + $429K from U.S. DOE (shales))
  • FY 2013 Awards (October 1, 2012 – September 30, 2013): TOTAL = $870,000 ($450K from U.S. EPA + $200K from RPSEA + $100K from U.S. DOE + $120K from KIGAM, South Korea)
  • FY 2012 Awards (October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012): TOTAL = $505,000 ($375K from U.S. DOE (hydrate studies) + $100K from KIGAM, South Korea + $30K from the University of Bergen)
  • FY 2011 Awards (October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011): TOTAL = $1,167,000 ($80K from Taisei Corporation, Japan + $627K from Statoil, Norway + 450K from U.S. EPA +$10K from U.S. DOE)
  • FY 2010 Awards (October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2010): TOTAL = $965,000 (165,000+$445,000+305,000 from U.S. DOE + $50,000 from KIGAM, Korea)
  • FY 2009 Awards (October 1, 2008 - September 30, 2009): $4,375,000 ($175,000+480,000+360,000 from U.S. DOE + $35,000+405,000 from ConocoPhillips + $15,000 from CUG – China + $2,900,000 from RPSEA)
  • FY 2008 Awards (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008): TOTAL = $3,647,000 ($1,010,000 from U.S. DOE + $1,837,000 from RPSEA)

Professional Activities

  • SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Workshop - Building on the Past to Create the Future, Singapore, Session Chair and Discussion Leader (Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing), April 27-30, 2014
  • SPE Unconventional Resources Conference Keynote Speaker (Emerging challenges/Opportunities of UR Systems), Houston, Texas, April 10-12, 2013
  • International Conference on Developing Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources: Exploration and Production Keynote Speaker, Chennai, India, March 1-3, 2013
  • 34th International Geology Conference Keynote Speaker (2 subjects), Brisbane, Australia, August 5-10, 2012
  • Institute for Advanced Sustainability (Germany): Invited Speaker, conference on “Energy from clathrate hydrates”, 2011
  • Fiery Ice: 7th International Workshop on Methane Hydrate Research & Development Keynote Speaker, Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand, May 10-12, 2010
  • Goldschmidt Conference Keynote Speaker, Davos, Switzerland, June 21-26, 2009
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers: Western Regional Meeting Keynote Speaker, San Joe, California, March-24-26, 2009
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers: Invited Speaker, International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, Beijing, December 5-7, 2006
Organizing/Program Committees (member), Conferences of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and/or the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME):
  • SPE 9th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Doha, Qatar, December 6-9, 2015
  • SPE 8th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 10-12, 2014
  • International Conference on coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) Processes in Geosystems (GeoProc 2014), Houston, Texas, June 2014
  • SPE 7th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Doha, Qatar, January 20-22, 2014
  • SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (LACPEC), Maracaibo, Venezuela, December 3-5, 2013
  • SPE 6th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Beijing, China, March 26-28, 2013
  • SPE Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference (CURC), Calgary, Canada, October 30 - November 1, 2012
  • SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (LACPEC), Mexico City, Mexico, (Chair of 2 sessions), April 16-18, 2012
  • SPE 5th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Bangkok, Thailand, (Chair of 4 sessions) February 7-9, 2012
  • SPE Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference (CURC), Calgary, Canada, (Session chair), November 15-17, 2011
  • SPE Advanced Technology Workshop (IPTC), “Overcoming Difficulties in Conventional & Unconventional Gas Development”, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 10-13, 2011
  • Arctic Technology Conference (ATC), Houston, Texas, (Session organizer), February 7-9, 2011
  • SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (LACPEC), Lima, Peru, (session chair of 2 sessions) November 30 - December 3, 2010
  • Canadian Unconventional Resources and International Petroleum Conference (CURIPC), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 19-21, 2010
  • Ninth International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition in China (IOGCE), Beijing, China, (Session Chair, Unconventional Resources), June 8-10, 2010
  • SPE Western Regional Meeting, Anaheim, California, May 27-29, 2010
  • SPE Unconventional Gas Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 23-25, 2010
  • International Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage, and Utilization, San Diego, California, November 2-4, 2009
  • SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (LACPEC), Cartagena, Colombia, May 31 - June 3, 2009
  • SPE Tight Gas Development and Planning Workshop, Hangzhou, China, June 15-18, 2008
Organizer and Conference Chair:
  • TOUGH Symposium, September 2012, Berkeley, California, 2012
  • TOUGH Symposium, 14–16 September, Berkeley, California, 2009
Organizer and Session Chair:
  • Offshore Technology Conference, 5-8 May, Houston, Texas (4 sessions), 2014
  • Offshore Technology Conference, 3–6 May, Houston, Texas (4 sessions), 2010
  • Offshore Technology Conference, 4–8 May, Houston, Texas (4 sessions), 2008

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