Vol. 59 No. 9

September 2007

Steven Bryant, SPE, is an associate professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the George H. Fancher Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering. Bryant served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer 2001–02. His current research efforts range from grain-scale models of geological processes to the role of methane hydrates in the Earth’s carbon cycle. Bryant has published more than 60 papers and one textbook with applications in production engineering, reservoir engineering, and formation evaluation.