Speaker William D. Von Gonten, Jr. “Bill”, President, W.D. Von Gonten & Co. Petroleum Engineering
William D. Von Gonten, Jr. “Bill”, is founder, owner, and president of Houston, Texas – based W.D. Von Gonten & Co. Petroleum Engineering, formed in 1995 and W.D. Von Gonten, Laboratories, LLC formed in 2013. Bill is a Registered Petroleum Engineer and a member of the Society of Petroleum …
William D. Von Gonten, Jr. “Bill”, is founder, owner, and president of Houston, Texas – based W.D. Von Gonten & Co. Petroleum Engineering, formed in 1995 and W.D. Von Gonten, Laboratories, LLC formed in 2013.
Bill is a Registered Petroleum Engineer and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
With 30-plus years of domestic and international industry experience, Bill’s areas of expertise and services span both conventional and unconventional shale plays, including all major plays in the US and Internationally. Extensive work efforts in these areas include oil and gas reserve estimations, field studies, property acquisitions, reservoir simulations, well test analysis, development plans, and economic projections. To better understand unconventional reservoirs, Bill constructed a unique core laboratory to evaluate highly layered reservoirs at centimeter scale. This state of art laboratory focuses on understanding hydrocarbon flow systems and geomechanical properties. The lab is very focused on the development of proprietary software for high resolution hydraulic fracture simulation, plus empirical and physics based data analytics. The new software tools will enable the industry to model the unconventional layered reservoirs and fluid flow unlike any other software in the industry today.
Bill has recently co-developed a proprietary process to evaluate hydraulic fracture connectivity in unconventional reservoirs to improve well production performance. In addition, he has co-developed a method for integrating measurements from known laboratory techniques of fluid extraction.
In 1988, Bill earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and in April 2015, was named an Outstanding Alumni of the Dwight Look College of Engineering – an honor given each year to former students who have made outstanding contributions to his or her profession, discipline or community.
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