John Killough

Educational Background

- Unconventional reservoir simulation/high performance computing
- Coupled surface/sub-surface reservoir models
- Upscaling and multiscale reservoir simulation
- Hysteresis and relative permeability

George K. Hickok, Jr. Professorship of Petroleum Engineering
Teaching Excellence Award, Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering - 2016
Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, Society of Petroleum Engineers - 2013
Halliburton Technology Fellow for Reservoir Simulation

Tang, H., Killough, J.E., Heidari, Z., and Sun, Z., “A New Technique to Characterize Fracture Density Using Neutron Porosity Logs Enhanced by Electrically-Transported Contrast Agents”, SPE Journal, April, 2017.
B. Yan, Y. Wang, H. Nasrabadi, and J.E. Killough, “Accelerating Flash Calculations Using Compositional Space for Reservoir Simulation”, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, March, 2017.
B. Yan, Y. Wang, and J.E. Killough, “A Fully-Compositional Model Considering the Effect of Nanopores in Tight Oil Reservoirs”, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, January, 2017.
B. Yan, M. Alfi, C. An, Y. Cao, Y Wang, JE Killough, “General Multi-Porosity simulation for fractured reservoir modeling”, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 33(1), 777-791, July, 2016.
Yan, B., Wang, Y., and Killough, J.E., “Beyond dual-porosity modeling for the simulation of complex flow mechanisms in shale reservoirs”, Computational Geosciences 20 (1), 69-91, 2016.