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George J. Moridis

Senior Scientist

Building 074, Room 0107A

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-4746

Fax: 510-486-5686

gjmoridis@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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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

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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

Experience

  • Senior Scientist and Faculty Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of California, 2016-Present
  • Professor and holder of the Robert L. Whiting Endowed Chair, Petroleum Engineering Department, Texas A&M University (TAMU), 2019-Present
  • Professor and holder of the George and Joan Voneiff Professorship in Unconventional Resources, Petroleum Engineering Department, Texas A&M University , 2016-2019
  • Head, Hydrocarbon Resource Program, LBNL, 2013-2016
  • Deputy Program Lead for Energy Resources, LBNL, 2009-2013
  • Research Area Leader, Transport and Thermodynamics, LBNL, 2003-2009
  • Group Leader, Contaminant Hydrology, LBNL, 1997-2003
  • Group Leader, Subsurface Containment Technologies, LBNL, 1993-1997
  • Research Engineer, TAMU, 1989-1991
  • Associate Engineer/Senior Scientist, International Rice Research Institute, 1987-1989
  • Research/Teaching Assistant, Texas A&M University , 1980-1987
  • Chemical Engineer, Greek National Atomic Energy Commission, 1979-1980

Patents

  • Patent No.: 7,537,058, Method of gas production from gas hydrate reservoirs, issued on June 26, 2001
  • Patent No.: 6,250,848 B1, Process for Guidance, Containment, Treatment, and Imaging in a Subsurface Environment Utilizing Ferrofluids, issued on June 26, 2001
  • Patent No.: 5,836,390, A Method for Formation of Subsurface Barriers Using Viscous Liquids, issued on November 17, 1998

Awards

  • Recipient of the John Franklin Carll Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2019
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU), Water Resources Research: 2015 Editor’s Choice Award, 2016
  • 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, Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee to the US Secretaries of Energy, 2013-Present
  • Honorary Member, Advisory Committee, National Gas Hydrate Program, Directory General of Hydrocarbons, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India
  • 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: $25,579,000 (1989-2021)
  • FY 2021 Awards (October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020): LBNL TOTAL = $800: $400K from US DOE (hydrates); $400K from US DOE (shale oil)
  • FY 2020 Awards (October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020): LBNL TOTAL = $400: $400K from US DOE (hydrates); TAMU TOTAL = $63K: 63K (Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate)
  • FY 2019 Awards (October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2019): LBNL TOTAL = $1,600,000: $400K from US DOE (hydrates), $1,200K from US DOE (shale oil, 3-year funding at $400K/year); TAMU TOTAL = $150,000: 150K (Crisman Institute project)
  • FY 2018 Awards (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018): LBNL TOTAL = $463,000: $50K from Chevron (hydrates) + $200K from US DOE (shale oil) + $213K from OMV (hydrates and waxes in reservoirs); TAMU TOTAL = $1,545,000: $360K from Marathon Oil (unconventional resources, share of a larger project) + $1000K from DOE (shale oil, share of a larger project he initiated) + 65K (GNS Science – New Zealand) + 120K (Crisman Institute project)
  • FY 2017 Awards (October 1, 2016 – September 30, 2017): LBNL TOTAL = $500,000: $50K from Chevron (hydrates) + $200K from US DOE (hydrates) + $25K from BOEM (gas fate following sub-oceanic accidents) + $225K (LBNL part of a TAMU-LBNL DOE project); TAMU TOTAL = $650,000: $150K from ENI (with J. Killough and T. Blasingame) + $500K (hydrate project, TAMU-LBNL collaboration, with J. Kim and Y. Akkutlu)
  • FY 2016 Awards (October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016): TOTAL = $1,140,000: $90K from NASA/JPL + $120K from Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI (radionuclide transport) + $150K from OMV Norway (hydrates and waxes in reservoirs) + $50K from Chevron (hydrates) + $330K from US DOE (hydrates) + $25K from BOEM (gas fate following sub-oceanic accidents) + $200K from US DOE (shale oil) + $75K from US DOE (waterless fracturing, CERC collaboration with China) + $100K from KIGAM (hydrates)
  • FY 2015 Awards (October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015): TOTAL = $305,000: $75K from US EPA+$150K from US DOE + $80K from Chevron
  • FY 2014 Awards (October 1, 2013 – September 30, 2014): TOTAL = $1,961,000: $497K from Chevron + $75K from US EPA + $340K from US DOE (hydrates) + $120K from KIGAM (Korea) + $429K from US DOE (shales) +$500K from BOEM/US DOI
  • 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)

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