Dr. Maurice B. Dusseault, BSc, PhD, PEng (AB, ON)

Deputy Director, Porous Media Research Institute

Professor of Geological Engineering, Earth Sciences Department, University of Waterloo

Phone: 1 250 498 5541

E-mail: mauriced@uwaterloo.ca

After flunking out of University in 1965, Maurice started in the oil industry as a roughneck for a year, then as a drilling fluids specialist for two years. He returned to university and obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering in 1977 from the University of Alberta. He was awarded a five-year AOSTRA Professorship, held in Civil and Mineral Engineering at the University of Alberta until 1982, when he went to Waterloo to become chair of the Geological Engineering Program.

Maurice is active in research in Petroleum Geomechanics and New Production Methods, teaches short courses to the petroleum industry, and acts as a project advisor for many companies. He has published over 350 articles in conferences and journals on topics such as sand production, salt mechanics, slurry fracture waste injection, heavy oil technologies, pressure pulsing, monitoring of in situ processes, properties of reservoir rocks, borehole stability, and so on.

Maurice is a member of the SPE and the CIM Petroleum Society as well as a number of other professional societies, and has been a Professional Engineer for 28 years.