Dr. Oliver is the Director and Eberly Family Chair Professor of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He holds a BS degree in Physics and a PhD in Geophysics. Prior to joining The University of Oklahoma, he was a professor in the Petroleum Engineering department at The University of Tulsa for six years and he worked seventeen years for Chevron as a research geophysicist, a staff reservoir engineer for Chevron USA and for Saudi Aramco, and as a research scientist in reservoir characterization. His research interests are in inverse theory, reservoir characterization and optimization.

More information about his research, publications, and a vita can be found at the web site for his research group.