- Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- George K. Hickox, Jr. Professor in Petroleum Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-6416
- Email: jkillough@tamu.edu
- Office: RICH 709

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Math Sciences, Rice University
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, Rice University
- B.A., Chemical Engineering (Phi Beta Kappa), Rice University
Research Interests
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- Unconventional reservoir simulation/high performance computing
- Coupled surface/sub-surface reservoir models
- Upscaling and multiscale reservoir simulation
- Hysteresis and relative permeability
Certifications & Memberships
- Distinguished Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers
Awards & Honors
- 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
Selected Publications
- 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.