James R. Gilman

Jim Gilman is iReservoir's Director of Engineering and has over 36 years of experience in the petroleum industry. His expertise includes specialization in the area of application and development of numerical simulators for fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs. He was a co-developer of Marathon Oil Company's 3-D, 3-phase simulator for naturally fractured reservoirs and was instrumental in testing and debugging the dual-porosity versions of the commercial black oil and compositional simulators for Marathon's applications. In addition to simulation expertise, Jim's work at Marathon Oil Company's Technology Center involved company-wide training and consultation in the areas of reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, naturally fractured reservoirs, horizontal wells and production risk/uncertainty analysis. He was most recently Manager of Reservoir and Well Performance, a multi-disciplinary organization involved in 3-D geologic modeling, laboratory special core analysis, reservoir simulation and general reservoir engineering. Jim has authored or co-authored over a dozen articles primarily dealing with naturally fractured reservoirs or horizontal wells. He was instrumental in the simulation of a large naturally fractured reservoir undergoing gas injection to improve gravity drainage and was recently invited to speak on fractured reservoir simulation at the 2003 International Simulation Forum in Germany and a 2003 Statoil Research Summit on Fractured Carbonates. He was a member of the SPE Editorial Review Committee from 1987-2000 and most recently served as an Executive Editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering. He served as Chairman of the Twelfth SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation (1993) and on the program committees for the 1991 and 1997 symposiums. Jim has a MS in Chemical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines (1983) and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University (1978). Jim is a registered PE, and a member of the SPE and AICHE.