William D. McCain, Jr.
Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering

501 N Richardson Building

College Station, TX 77843-3116

Phone: (979) 845-8401

e-mail: bill.mccain@pe.tamu.edu

Dr. William D. "Bill" McCain's 31-year history in petroleum engineering includes both faculty and consultative positions, including 11 years as head of the petroleum engineering department at Mississippi State University. He gained his early experience with Esso Research Laboratories from 1956 to 1963 and began teaching at Mississippi State in 1963. He served in the U.S. Army from 1976 until 1984, when he joined the faculty at Texas A&M University.

Since 1987, he has worked with projects in reservoir engineering and simulation, compositional modeling, corrosion abatement, surface processing, NGL plants, and miscible flooding as a consultant, first with Cawley, Gillespie & Associates and then with S.A. Holditch & Associates.

Dr. McCain has consulted for several hundred clients and taught short courses for SPE and several major oil companies. He served as a technical editor for SPERE.

• PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1964
• MS, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1961
• BS, Mississippi State University, 1956

• Reservoir engineering and reservoir management
• Reservoir fluid properties
• Reservoir rock properties
• Reservoir simulation, especially design of water flooding and miscible displacement
• Production of volatile oils and gas condensates

• U.S. Patent 6,945,327, "Method for Reducing Permeability Restriction Near Wellbore," September 20, 2005
• U.S. Patent 2,942,619, "Feed Injector for Coking for Chemicals," September 13, 1960
• U.S. Patent 2,943,994, "Chemicals Coking Quenching System," July 5, 1960

• Dr. McCain has written two editions of the textbook The Properties of Petroleum Fluids and authored and co-authored on more than 45 professional articles.

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