CRISMAN

In 1984, the Crisman Institute for Reservoir Management was founded by a private donor endowment by Wayne and Ruby Crisman to further research in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering. The purpose of the Crisman Institute was to get oil and gas companies to bring problems and data to the faculty and students, so both sides could work together to do research on how to build better Reservoir Management plans. In 2004-5, Schlumberger, Halliburton and Chevron each agreed to give a $1 million endowment to Crisman, which was renamed the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research. In addition, companies were allowed to join Crisman to help the faculty focus on important problems and to provide both data and mentoring to our graduate students. We wanted industry to tell us what problems were of importance to them and to provide data we could use to help solve some of those problems... The vision of the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research is to provide a vehicle to enhance..

Primary location: College Station United States