Curriculum Vitae - Harold Vance Department of Petroleum ...

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Maria Antonieta Barrufet
I have attended most of the annual SPE meetings and many regional conferences, with the
objectives of becoming aware and updated on the latest academic and industrial
developments. The following, are some of the most important activities that helped my
research and teaching.
• Attended the 1993 SPE Forum Series: Phase Behavior, Snowmass, CO., June 1993.
• Selected to participate in Pilot Faculty Abroad Seminar in Mexico City (May 15 to May 26
1994). Research Component: Presentation: “Facts of Texas A&M University and the
Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University.”
• Attended short course “Miscible Flooding” by Lynn Orr. Tulsa, April 9, 1994.
• Attended short course “Thermodynamics of Reservoir Fluids,” by Abaas Firoozabadi.
Reservoir Engineering Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA. (August 7-11, 1995).
• Took a year faculty development leave at Chevron CPTC and worked in the Reservoir
Engineering Simulation Consulting group (1998-1999)
• Developed a Compositional/Thermal Simulation Workshop for Chevron (June 1999).
Additional Information
I speak Spanish, Catalan, and English fluently, and I have a good knowledge of Portuguese.
Recent Funding
Title Sponsor Dates Dollar Share
Electron Beam Work on Heavy Conoco-Phillips 2010-2011 75,000
Oils
(TEES)
Steam Management and In- Petronas / 2009-2011 60,000
situ Upgrading of Oil Using
Hydrogen Donors
Crisman
Value Chain Analysis of Heavy
Oil From Wellhead to the
Refinery
Schlumberger 2010-2011 50,000
Theoretical and Experimental QATAR National 2010-2012 120,000
Study of Asphaltene
Deposition During CO2
Injection in Qatar’s Oil
Reservoirs
Research Fund
Distance Learning
Approximate Revenues
MENG and Certificate
2011 600,000
Current Number of Students Chaired
During the last 5 years I collaborated with 176 students as a member of chair in their degree
plans (mostly DL)
From these 176 I was or I am still the chair or co-chair of 57. I graduated 12 MENG (chair), 7
MENG (co-chair), 3 MS chair, 1 MS co-chair, 2 PhD chair