Ivor Ellul

Dr. Ivor Ellul began his career in the oil and gas industry in 1980, in West Germany, as a design engineer on pipeline and storage tank systems.  After specializing in the modeling of multiphase flow in pipelines, he worked for a number of years in the area of numerical modeling of single and multi-phase pipelines.  He has conducted a comprehensive number of pipeline simulation studies for clients worldwide.  Recent experience includes various executive positions in the upstream area of the oil and gas industry. He has been involved in starting up a number of ventures, among them Knowledge Reservoir which became the pre-eminent international oil and gas consulting enterprise over a span of 15 years. He successfully exited the company in 2013 by merger with RPS, a UK publicly listed company.

Dr. Ellul is visiting Professor to the Petroleum Engineering Department of Imperial College London, where he lectures the M.S. course on pipeline and process engineering. He is also a past member of the advisory board of the Faculty of Petroleum Engineering of the University of Houston. He has served on the advisory board of Energy Ventures and on the Board of Trustees of Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart. He currently serves as Chairman of the Pipeline Simulation Interest Group as well as Past Chair of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Gulf Coast Section.

Dr. Ellul holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Malta and MS and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College, London. Dr. Ellul is a registered Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.