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A chemical and petroleum engineer and an expert on energy geopolitics he holds a number of positions such as professor at the Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Chairman of the Board of XGAS, a natural gas firm and Managing Partner of Dr. Michael J. Economides Consultants, Inc. with a wide range of industrial consulting, including major retainers by several Fortune 500 companies and national oil companies, Editor-in-Chief of Energy Tribune , a newsletter in the energy and related industries and activities and Editor-in-Chief of the newly established peer-reviewed Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, published by Elsevier.

Technically, he casts a commanding figure in petroleum and natural gas reservoir and production engineering. With 14 textbooks and over 200 journal papers and articles, his works are referenced by almost all practitioners in the field.

In the relatively recent past he has served as Senior Technical Advisor to Yukos and Sibneft, Russia’s major petroleum companies, ENI, Italy’s main petroleum multinational company, and China’s CNOOC and subsidiary COSL. During 1997 and 1998 Economides was in Venezuela as the Senior Advisor on Production Technology for PDVSA, the national oil company of Venezuela.

Following his 2000 best seller The Color Of Oil and a large number of publications in international magazines, he is considered by many as the premier world expert on the geopolitics of energy, giving about 50 speeches per year to groups from many large professional societies, organizations and corporations. He is a frequent guest on national and international media, appearing on CNBC, Fox News, A(Australian)BC, Tokyo Channel 13, Dow Jones Wire, NPR, Bloomberg, BBC World Service and many local stations throughout the world. He writes for the editorial pages of major newspapers and internet news organizations.
His latest wide appeal book is From Soviet to Putin and Back: The Dominance of Energy in Today’s Russia.