Curtis Hays Whitson

Curtis Hays Whitson is Professor at NTNU's Department of Geoscience, specializing in petroleum reservoir engineering and fluid phase behavior. His research encompasses PVT modeling of complex fluids, CO2 injection in fractured chalk, and unconventional resource development. Recent work advances compositional tracking for gas-condensate systems and hydrogen storage in depleted fields.

With 40+ years of publications, he has contributed foundational methods in diffusion coefficient estimation, material balance for high-pressure reservoirs, and black-oil proxies for thermal recovery. Industry collaborations include benchmarking bottomhole pressure calculations and fluid heterogeneity analysis in tight formations.