John McLennan The GreyEdge Group

Background

Since October 2009, Professor John McLennan has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. He has been a Senior Research Scientist at the Energy & Geoscience Institute and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Utah since January 2008. He has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto, awarded in 1980. He has more than thirty-five years of experience with petroleum service and technology companies. He worked for Dowell and Dowell Schlumberger in Denver, Tulsa, and Houston, with TerraTek in Salt Lake City, Advantek International in Houston, and ASRC Energy Services in Anchorage. He has worked on projects concerned with subsurface energy recovery and storage (hydrocarbon, geothermal) in a variety of reservoir environments throughout the world. He is a co-principal investigator on the DOE FORGE project (Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy) and an American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) Fellow.

Areas of Expertise

• Subsurface formation characterization from hydraulic, mechanical, and thermal perspectives.
• Subsurface engineering including hydraulic stimulation, fluid and slurry injection, and wellbore integrity.

Professional Affiliations and Publications

• Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S6xW5H8AAAAJ&hl=en
• Member of AIChE, SPE, SPWLA, ARMA, Geothermal Rising
• Fellow of American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
• Past President of American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)