J. Bryan Maggard, Ph.D.
Assistant Department Head, Undergraduate

Program and Senior Lecturer

3116 TAMU - 501 U Richardson Building

College Station, TX 77843-3116

Phone: (979) 845-0592

Fax: (979) 862-1272

e-mail: bryan.maggard@pe.tamu.edu

Course Materials

Dr. Bryan Maggard joined the faculty in 1998. His undergraduate and graduate teaching areas include engineering fundamentals, numerical methods, gas reservoir engineering, and application and development of numerical reservoir simulation technology.

Dr. Maggard served as a research associate with the Department of Petroleum Engineering beginning in 1995. His projects include coordination of reservoir simulation efforts for the Bakhilov Field Study as part of the Varyeganneftegaz (VNG) Technical Training Course (1995) and instructor of applied reservoir simulation as part of the PetroVietnam Training Program (1997).

Dr. Maggard previously practiced in industry as a production engineer with Pierce Oil & Gas, Inc. in Ft. Worth, and as a reservoir engineer with Chevron Exploration & Production Services Co., Houston.

• Thermal recovery methods
• Applied reservoir simulation
• Numerical methods and application of computing

• Dr. Maggard is involved in continuing research efforts of the Reservoir Modeling Consortium. His dissertation research focused on the reservoir engineering and production engineering aspects of liquid removal from gas wells.

• Maggard, J.B.: "Modeling and Analysis of Plunger Lift for Water Removal From Tight Gas Wells," Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, August 2000.
• Maggard, J.B., Wattenbarger, R.A., and Scott, S.L.: "Modeling Plunger Lift for Water Removal From Gas Wells," SPE 59747 presented at the SPE/CERI Gas Technology Symposium, Calgary, April 3-5, 2000.
• Wattenbarger, R.A., Maggard, J.B. and El-Banbi, A.H: "Behavior of Tight Gas Reservoirs," Advances in the Economics of Energy and Resources, J.R. Moroney (ed.), JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, Vol 11, 143-160, 1999.
• Wattenbarger, R.A., El-Banbi, A.H., Villegas, M.E. and Maggard J.B.: "Production Analysis of Linear Flow Into Fractured Tight Gas Wells," SPE 39931 presented at the SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting / Low-Permeability Reservoir Symposium, Denver, April 5-8, 1998.
• Wattenbarger, R.A., Maggard, J.B., Villegas, M.E., and El-Banbi, A.H.: "Case Histories of the Hubbert Model for Selected Oil Producing Regions," Advances in the Economics of Energy and Resources, J.R. Moroney (ed.), JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, Vol 10, 111-129, 1997.
• El-Banbi, A.H., Maggard, J.B., and Wattenbarger, R.A.: "Proper Use of Numerical Simulation for Pressure Transient Analysis and Pattern Displacements," 13th EGPC Conference, Cairo, Egypt, October 21-24, 1996.
• Wattenbarger, R.A. and Maggard, J.B.: "Simulation of Paraffin Deposition in Formations and Wellbores," presented at the First International Symposium on Colloid Chemistry in Oil Production: Asphaltenes and Wax Deposition, Rio de Janeiro, November 26-29, 1995.
• Maggard, J.B.: "Commentary on: Edward G. Porter, U.S. Petroleum Supply and History and Prospects," Advances in the Economics of Energy and Resources, J.R. Moroney (ed.), JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, Vol 9, 163-168, 1995.
• Maggard, J.B. and Wattenbarger, R.A.: "Factors Affecting the Efficiency of Electrical Resistance Heating Patterns," UNITAR/UNDP 5th International Conference on Heavy Oil and Tar Sands, Caracas, August 4-9, 1991.
• Baylor, B.A., Maggard, J.B. and Wattenbarger, R.A.: "Improved Calculation of Oil Production Response to Electrical Resistance Heating (ERH)," SPE 20482, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, September, 23-26, 1990.
• Maggard, J.B.: "Effectiveness of Heating Patterns for Electrical Resistance Heating," M.S. Thesis, Texas A&M University, August 1990.

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