Hans C. Juvkam-Wold, P.E.
John Edgar Holt Endowed Chair

3116 TAMU - 709 Richardson Building

College Station, TX 77843-3116

Phone: (979) 845-4093

Fax: (979) 862-1272

e-mail: hans.juvkam-wold@pe.tamu.edu

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Dr. Hans C. Juvkam-Wold's has more than 20 years of experience in the petroleum industry, from his beginnings as a field lab technician in Venezuela to supervisory positions for Gulf Oil Exploration and Production Co. in Alaska. There, he designed and developed arctic drilling systems, with emphasis on cost, ice forces, and safety.

Dr. Juvkam-Wold has served as the Gulf Mineral Resources Co. representative on the industry's advisory committee on mine shaft drilling, as manager of Gulf's technical services, and as a section supervisor of Gulf's production engineering.

Dr. Juvkam-Wold joined the faculty at Texas A&M U in 1985, whereupon he began to develop the graduate program of teaching and research in drilling. He assumed the position of Assistant Department Head and Undergraduate Advisor in 1993, and Interim Head in 1996 and 2003.

• ScD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969
• SM, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
• SB, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966

• Buckling of tubulars in horizontal drilling
• Well control
• Arctic and offshore drilling
• Dual-gradient drilling

• Dr. Juvkam-Wold specializes in drilling problems, especially horizontal drilling and well control. His recent research has included the buckling of tubulars in horizontal wells. He has researched special problems in arctic and offshore drilling. His current research focuses on dual-gradient drilling in ultra-deep water.

• Four Patents Pending on Subsea Mudlift Drilling, 2000, 2001
• U.S. Patent 3,838,742, "Drill Bit for Abrasive Jet Drilling," Oct. 1, 1974
• U.S. Patent 3,924,689, "Drill Bit and Method of Drilling," Dec. 9, 1975
• U.S. Patent 3,964,557, "Treatment of Weighted Drilling Mud," June 22, 1976

• Completing Horizontal Wells with Coiled Tubing; Helical Buckling of Pipes in Horizontal Wells; Hook Load and Line Tension; Frictional Drag Analysis; Casing Centralization; more than 60 total publications.

• Association of Former Students of Texas A&M U. Distinguished Teaching Award, 1992
• Tenneco Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering, 1990, 2001

• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Texas Society of Professional Engineers
• American Society of Engineering Education
• Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Institute of Shaft Drilling Technology
• American Association of Drilling Engineers
• Tau Beta Pi
• Pi Tau Sigma
• Sigma Xi
• Pi Epsilon Tau

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