Mukul M. Sharma, petroleum engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, received the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s major technical award. This medal recognizes distinguished lifelong achievements in improving the technique and practice of finding and producing petroleum. Professor Sharma has spent his career researching better methods for finding and producing oil & natural gas, and to improve utilization or re-injection of produced water. Most recently, he has helped to improve production of gas from unconventional resources, which represents the single fastest growing domestic source of energy for the United States.
Sharma holds the W.A. “Tex” Moncrief, Jr. Centennial Endowed Chair in Petroleum Engineering.
