Oliver C. Mullins

Dr. Oliver C. Mullins is a Schlumberger Fellow and member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He is leading a newly codified discipline, “reservoir fluid geodynamics” (RFG) utilizing Downhole Fluid Analysis (DFA) and asphaltene science for novel reservoir evaluation. RFG accounts for processes dictating fluid and tar distributions in oilfield reservoirs. He led the inception and development of DFA in well logging. Dr. Mullins also leads an active research group in petroleum science leading to the Yen-Mullins model of asphaltenes and the Flory-Huggins-Zuo Equation of State. He has won several awards including the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, the SPWLA Gold Medal for Technical Achievement and an SPE Regional Formation Evaluation Award. He has been Distinguished Lecturer 7 times for SPWLA and SPE (currently for SPE). His latest book was just released; “Reservoir Fluid Geodynamics and Reservoir Evaluation”. He authored the award-winning book on DFA, coedited 3 books and coauthored 14 chapters on asphaltenes and related topics. He has coauthored 280 publications, ~½ on petroleum science, ~½ on oilfield applications, and has coinvented 131 allowed US patents. He has accumulated 20,000 citations on Google Scholar to his work. He is Fellow of two professional societies and is Adjunct Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.