Lab Members

Research Area

• Carbon capture, utilization, and storage
• Enhanced oil recovery
• Unconventional oil and gas resources
• Thermodynamics
• Numerical flow simulation

Biography

Ryosuke Okuno is a professor in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He leads the Energi Simulation Industrial Affiliate Program on Carbon Utilization and Storage (ES Carbon UT) at the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment. Before joining UT Austin, he served as an assistant professor of Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta from 2010 to 2015.

Okuno has seven years of industrial experience as a reservoir engineer with Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., and is a registered Professional Engineer in Alberta, Canada. His research and teaching interests include carbon capture, utilization, and storage; enhanced oil recovery; unconventional oil and gas resources; hydrogen energy; thermodynamics; multiphase behavior; numerical flow simulation; and applied mathematics.

He is a recipient of the 2012 SPE Petroleum Engineering Junior Faculty Research Initiation Award, the 2019 SPE Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award (Southwestern Region), and the 2022 UT PGE Teaching Award. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the SPE Journal and holds the Pioneer Corporation Faculty Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Okuno holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Geosystem Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Education

• Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• M.E. in Geosystem Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
• B.E. in Geosystem Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan