Mehmet Torcuk

Mehmet Torcuk is a PhD student at the Colorado School of Mines, where he received his Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering in 2013. He received his Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering in 2010 from Istanbul Technical University. Torcuk has received several awards throughout his academic career, including the Graduate Research Scholarship from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, an award that is only given to the top 100 brightest students in technical disciplines in Turkey. He has also authored papers for SPE on the topics of pressure and rate transient analysis, reservoir simulation, and physics of fluid flow in shale reservoirs, and had his research work published in the SPE Journal of October 2013.

Torcuk will be focusing on the numerical modeling of unconventional reservoirs with improved physics, which includes compositional modeling as well as coupled geomechanics and fluid flow.

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