Eric De Rouffignac

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Former Manager, Recovery of Difficult Hydrocarbons , Shell International E&P
Independent Consultant

Eric de Rouffignac graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 with a Ph. D in Physics (Solid State). After working three years for PEMEX in Mexico he joined Shell in 1981. His main areas of expertise are Reservoir Engineering and Thermal Physics. His core work has been the generation, testing and piloting of novel subsurface EOR technologies and their integration into ongoing operations in the US, Canada, Africa and the Middle East. He has been a project leader in those areas for Shell Oil Company in the US. He is one of the principal inventors and developers of the In-situ Upgrading Process (IUP) and the In-situ Conversion Process (ICP) pioneered by Shell in the thermal arena.  In 2002 he transferred to the Difficult Hydrocarbon Team in Rijswijk to lead a group working on novel processes for heavy oil production. He was a Research Advisor and subject Matter Expert for Thermal recovery for Shell until his retirement in 2010. He is the author of over 100 patents and over 20  publications. He now resides in Austin Texas and continues to work as an Oil and Energy Consultant.

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