Earth Sciences Division Staff: George J. Moridis

Biographical Summary

George Moridis received M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees from Texas A&M University, College Station Texas, and B.S. (1979) and M.E. (1980) in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University, Athens, Greece.  He has been a Staff Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, California, since 1991.  At LBNL, he is the Research Area Leader for Transport and Thermodynamics, is in charge of the LBNL research programs on (a) hydrates and (b) tight gas, and (c) leads the development of the new generation of LBNL codes for the simulation of flow and transport in the subsurface. He is an adjunct professor (a) of the Petroleum Engineering Dept. of Texas A&M University (Texas, USA), (b) of the Chemical Engineering Dept. of the Colorado School of Mines (Colorado, USA), (c) of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Dept. of the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), and (d) of the Guangzhou Center for gas Hydrate Research, Guangzhou Institute for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou, China). He is the author and co-author of 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, of over 130 LBNL reports and book articles, and of 2 patents.  He is a SPE Distinguished Lecturer for the 2009-1010 period.

Research Grants and Awards

Career total: 

• $15,962,000 (April 1989- May 2009)

FY 2009 Awards:

• $4,775,000 (October 1, 2008 – May 1, 2009):

  • $175,000+480,000+360,000 from DOE
  • $35,000+810,000 from ConocoPhillips
  • $15,000 from CUG – China
  • $2,900,000 from RPSEA

FY 2008 Awards:

• $3,647,000 (October 1, 2007 – March 30, 2008):

  • $1,010,000 from DOE
  • $2,637,000 from RPSEA

Education

Graduate

• Jan. 1983 - 1987, Ph.D. in Reservoir Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
• 1980 - Dec. 1982, M.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
• 1979 - 1980, M.E. in Chemical Engineering, National Metsovion Technical University, Athens 10233, GREECE

Undergraduate

• 1975 - 1979, B.Sc. (Honors) in Chemical Engineering, National Metsovion Technical University, Athens 10233, GREECE

Honors, Recognitions & Awards

• 2009-2010: Society of Petroleum Engineers: Distinguished Lecturer
• 2009: Goldschmidt Conference, June 21-26, Davos, Switzerland: Keynote Speaker
• 2009: Western Regional Meeting, March-24-26, San Joe, California, Society of Petroleum Engineers: Keynote Speaker
• 2007: Editorial Board of Water Resources Research: Outstanding Reviewer Award
• 2006: International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, 5-7 December, Beijing, Society of Petroleum Engineers: Invited Speaker
• 2006: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Outstanding Performance Award for contributions to the establishment and development of a hydrate research program at LBNL.
• 2006: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Excellence in Technology Transfer award, for the development of the TOUGH+ family of codes.
• 2005: Editorial Board of Water Resources Research: Outstanding Reviewer Award
• 1996: Popular Science magazine: Best of What’s New award (which honors the 100 most promising new technologies), for the development of the subsurface barrier technology.
• 1995: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Outstanding Performance Award for contributions to the establishment and development of a subsurface barrier research program.
• Organizing Committees, Society of Petroleum Engineers: 2008 Tight Gas Development and Planning Workshop, Hangzhou, China, 15-18 June; 2009 Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Cartagena, Colombia, 31 May – 3 June; 2009 International Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage, and Utilization, San Diego, California, 2–4 November; 2010 Ninth International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition in China, Beijing, China, 8-10 June.
• Organizer and Chairman of Hydrate Sessions: 2008 Offshore Technology Conference, 4–8 May, Houston, Texas
• Organizer and Conference Chair: 2009 TOUGH Symposium, 14–16 September, Berkeley, California

Affiliations

Professional

• American Geophysical Union
• American Society of Agricultural Engineers
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Society of Civil Engineers,
• American Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, NWWA
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (OTC Board Member)

Reviewing/Editing

• Transport in Porous Media (Member of the Editorial board)
• Water Resources Research
• Journal of Geophysical Review
• Journals of the Society of Petroleum Engineering (Member of the Editorial board)
• Journals of the American Society of Civil Engineers
• Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
• Nuclear Technology
• Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (Elsevier)
• Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier)
• Energy and Fuels (American Chemical Society)
• Journal of Physical Chemistry
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• American Mineralogist
• Computers & Geosciences
• Journal of Canadian Petroleum
Technology