• Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University – 1992
  • M.S., Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University – 1989
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University – 1982

Research Interests

    • Enhanced oil recovery for conventional and unconventional reservoirs 
    • Miscible gas flooding 
    • Chemical flooding 
    • Low salinity water flooding 
    • Thermodynamics and phase behavior 
    • Well testing 
    • Geothermal energy 

Certifications & Memberships

  • Member, National Academy of Engineering – 2025
  • Honorary Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2025
  • Distinguished Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2009
  • Distinguished Lecturer, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2019-2020

Awards & Honors

  • Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, AIME – 2023
  • IOR Pioneer Award, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2022
  • Editor in Chief for all Society of Petroleum Engineer Journals – 2018-2020
  • International Award in Reservoir Description and Dynamics, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2016
  • Faculty Pipeline Award, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 2013
  • Cedric K. Ferguson Medal, Society of Petroleum Engineers – 1993

Selected Publications

  • Yoga, Hanif F., Johns, Russell T., and Prakash Purswani. "Predictive Model for Relative Permeability Using Physically-Constrained Artificial Neural Networks." SPE J. 29 (2024): 928–942. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/209420-PA
  • Yoga, Hanif F., Gasimli, Nijat R., and Russell T. Johns. "Reliable Equivalent Alkane Carbon Number Determination for Dead and Live Crudes in Microemulsion Systems." SPE J. 29 (2024): 4935–4949. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/221470-PA
  • Magzymov, Daulet, Johns, Russell T., Hashim, Hafsa, and Birol Dindoruk. "Modeling of High-Pressure and High-Temperature Microemulsion Experiments using HLD-NAC-Based Equation of State." SPE J. 28 (2023): 1202–1215. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/209470-PA
  • Tawfik, Miral S., Karpyn, Zuleima T., and Russell T. Johns. "Effect of Oil Chemistry on the Performance of Low Salinity Waterflooding: An Integrated Experimental Approach." Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Virtual, October 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/201670-MS
  • Duffy, Timothy S., Gamwo, Isaac K., Johns, Russell T., and Serguei N. Lvov. "Modeling Contact Angle vs. Temperature for the Quartz-Water-Decane System." SPE J. 26 (2021): 3668–3680. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/205518-PA
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