Professor
University of Houston

MICHAEL J. ECONOMIDES is a Professor at the Cullen College of Engineering,


University of

Houston , and the Managing Partner of a petroleum engineering and petroleum strategy consulting firm. His interests include petroleum production and petroleum management, a particular emphasis on natural gas, natural gas transportation, LNG, CNG and processing, advances in process design of complex operations, economics and geopolitics. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of World Energy Monthly Review. Previously, he was the Samuel R. Noble Professor of Petroleum Engineering at


Texas

A&M

University and served as Chief Scientist of the Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI). Prior to joining the faculty at

Texas

A&M

University , Professor Economides was the Director of the

Institute of

Drilling and Production at the

Leoben

Mining

University in

Austria . Before that, Dr. Economides worked in a variety of senior technical and managerial positions with a major petroleum services company. He has authored or co-authored 11 professional textbooks and books, including “The Color of Oil”, as well as 200 journal papers and articles.  Economides performs a wide range of industrial consulting activities, including major retainers by national oil companies at the country level as well as Fortune 500 companies. He has had professional involvement in over 70 countries. In addition to his technical interests he has written extensively in wide circulation media on a broad range of issues associated with energy, energy economics and geopolitical issues. He also appears regularly as a guest and expert commentator on national and international television programs.