Cem Sarica receives SPE 2010 Production and Operations Award
September 8, 2010
Cem Sarica is a professor of petroleum engineering and the director of two industry-supported consortia at The University of Tulsa: Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects (TUFFP) and Tulsa University Paraffin Deposition Projects (TUPDP). He is also serving as coprincipal investigator of Tulsa University High Viscosity Oil Projects (TUHOP). Previously, Sarica served as associate professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at Pennsylvania State University and assistant professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering at Istanbul Technical University.
He currently serves as a member of the SPE Projects, Facilities and Construction Advisory Committee. He has previously served as a member of SPE Production Operations and Books committees, and was a member of the SPE Journal editorial board between 1999 and 2007. He has more than 100 publications, mostly in SPE journals and proceedings. His research interests are production engineering, multiphase flow in pipes, flow assurance, and horizontal wells. Sarica earned BS and MS degrees from Istanbul Technical University, and a PhD degree from The University of Tulsa - all in petroleum engineering.