Areas of expertise include knowledge of geological, engineering, and economic issues concerning the petroleum and mineral industry in terms of exploration, production, and economic activities. Major current research interests include (1) geological characterization and delineation of plays; 2) determination of plays having the greatest reserve growth potential and trend analysis to determine the possible variables controlling reserve growth; (3) determination of undiscovered oil and gas resources on a national, regional, play, and field level; (4) deterministic and probabilistic reserve estimation; (5) risk analysis; (6) production analysis; and (7) economic evaluation of discovered and undiscovered resources.

B.S.E. Mineral and Petroleum Engineering, Seoul National University, 1992

M.A. Energy and Mineral Resources, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994

Ph.D. Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Tinker, S. W., and Kim, E. M., 2001, Research: energy policy for the future, Geotimes, June, p. 22–25.

Fisher, W. L., and Kim, E. M., 2000, Assessing and forecasting, by play, natural gas ultimate recovery growth and quantifying the role of technology advancements in the Gulf Coast Basin and East Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Final progress report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy, DE-FG21-96MC33148, 190 p.

Kim, E. M., Tinker, S. W., Fisher, W. L., and Ruppel, S. C., 2000, Benefit/cost analysis of GRI’s gas supply research initiative: economics of a gas supply research trust fund to increase gas production on Federal Lands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report to the Gas Research Institute, 70 p.

Ruppel, S. C., and Kim, E. M., 2000, Current hydrocarbon reserves and future reserve growth on University Lands: quantification and economic evaluation: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report to the Business Affairs and Audit Committee, Board of Regents, The University of Texas at Austin, variously paginated.

Kim, E. M., and Fisher, W. L., 1999, E. Texas, Gulf Coast show gas-recovery growth: Oil and Gas Journal, v. 97, no. 40, p. 92–96.

Kim, E. M., and Fisher, W. L., 1999, Further growth lies ahead for South Texas Wilcox plays: Oil and Gas Journal, v. 97, no. 9, p. 79–83.

Hal H. Bybee Fellowship, Geology Foundation, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Memorial Graduate Fellowship, Houston Geological Society, 1995–1998

Best Paper, Mineral and Mining Society of America, 1993

Departmental Alumni Scholarship, Seoul National University, 1990–1991

Eugene M. Kim, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
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Telephone: 512-471-1806