Roland Horne
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| PhD university | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
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Roland N. Horne is the Thomas Davies Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow in the Precourt Institute for Energy. He holds BE, PhD and DSc degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, all in Engineering Science.
He is best known for his work in well test interpretation, production optimization, and analysis of fractured reservoirs. So far in his academic career he has supervised the graduate research of 45 PhD and 120 MS students. He is an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He served on the International Geothermal Association (IGA) Board 1998-2001, 2001-2004, and 2007-2010, and was the 2010-2013 President of IGA.
Horne has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1998 and 2009), and has been awarded the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, the Lester C. Uren Award, and the John Franklin Carl Award. From Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), he received the Best Paper in “Geophysics” in 2011, and from SPE he received Best Paper in Journal of Petroleum Technology (1992) and Best Paper in SPE Formation Evaluation (1993).[1][2]
Best Paper in Geophysics 2011
Mark McClure and Roland N. Horne received the 2011 Best Paper in Geophysics Award for their paper Investigation of injection-induced seismicity using a coupled fluid flow and rate/state friction model.[3]
References
- ↑ Roland N. Horne Homepage
- ↑ Roland N. Horne, personal communication
- ↑ McClure, M. and R. N. Horne (2011), Investigation of injection-induced seismicity using a coupled fluid flow and rate/state friction model Geophysics, 76(6):WC181.
