Cem Sarica

Dr. Cem Sarica, Floyd M. Stevenson, Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa (TU), is currently serving as the director of three industry-supported consortia at the TU: Fluid Flow, Paraffin Deposition and Horizontal Well Artificial Lift Projects. His research interests are multiphase flow in pipes, flow assurance, and horizontal wells. He holds BSc and MSc degrees from Istanbul Technical University and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from TU. He has served on various Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Committees. He was an SPE Journal Editorial Board member between 1999 and 2007. He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Energy Resources Technology (JERT) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) between 1998 and 2003. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Multiphase Production Conferences organized by ISAVFT. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2008 and 2012 Multiphase Production Conferences organized by BHRG. He is the recipient of the 2010 SPE International Production and Operations Award. He was recognized as a Distinguished Member of SPE in 2012 and received the SPE John Franklin Carll Award and the SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Certificate in 2015. In 2024, Cem was elected an ASME Fellow and received SPE’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty.