Russell T. Johns

Biography

  Russell T. Johns is the Victor and Anna Mae Beghini Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to his current position, he served on the petroleum engineering faculty at The University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2010. He also has nine years of industrial experience as a petrophysical engineer with Shell Oil and as a consulting engineer for Colenco Power Consulting in Baden, Switzerland. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery, thermodynamics and phase behavior, unconventional gas engineering, multiphase flow in porous media, and well testing. In these areas he has published over 200 technical papers, reports, and books including a recent update of the classic enhanced oil recovery book Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery. Dr. Johns received the SPE Ferguson medal in 1993 for his research on the combined condensing/vaporizing gas-drive process. He served as Co-Executive Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering journal from 2002 – 2004. In 2009, he was awarded the SPE Distinguished Member award. He is currently an Associate Editor for the SPE Journal and director of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Joint Industry Project and co-director of the Unconventional Natural Resources consortium in the EMS Energy Institute at Penn State University.      Russell T. Johns is the Victor and Anna Mae Beghini Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to his current position, he served on the petroleum engineering faculty at The University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2010. He also has nine years of industrial experience as a petrophysical engineer with Shell Oil and as a consulting engineer for Colenco Power Consulting in Baden, Switzerland. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery, thermodynamics and phase behavior, unconventional gas engineering, multiphase flow in porous media, and well testing. In these areas he has published over 200 technical papers, reports, and books including a recent update of the classic enhanced oil recovery book Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery. Dr. Johns received the SPE Ferguson medal in 1993 for his research on the combined condensing/vaporizing gas-drive process. He served as Co-Executive Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering journal from 2002 – 2004. In 2009, he was awarded the SPE Distinguished Member award. He is currently an Associate Editor for the SPE Journal and director of the Enhanced Oil Recovery Joint Industry Project and co-director of the Unconventional Natural Resources consortium in the EMS Energy Institute at Penn State University.   

Research Interest

Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineerin