Dr. Michael L. Wiggins currently serves as President of William M. Cobb & Associates, Inc. (Cobb & Associates). He has over 30 years of professional experience in academia and the upstream oil and gas industry including drilling, production, and reservoir engineering. His industry experience includes employment with major and independent E&P companies and he has been offering petroleum engineering consulting services to the industry for over 20 years. His technical interests include reservoir management and engineering, production operations, well performance, and production optimization.

Before joining Cobb & Associates in 2006, Mike was a professor of petroleum and geological engineering at the University of Oklahoma, serving on the faculty for 15 years. In this role, he taught courses and conducted research related to reservoir engineering, production operations, and petroleum project evaluation. He has co-authored numerous papers in his areas of expertise and received research funding from various governmental agencies, international oil companies, and national oil companies. In addition, he has conducted numerous short courses in the areas of reservoir management, reservoir engineering, waterflood design and evaluation, well completions, production operations, and petroleum project evaluation.

Mike is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and has served on the SPE Board of Directors. He has been the Executive Editor for SPE Production and Facilities and has served as a technical editor for SPE since 1991. He has served on numerous program committees for SPE technical meetings and served as the General Chairman for the 2003 SPE Production and Operations Symposium.

Mike is a registered professional engineer in the states of Texas and Oklahoma. His activities at Cobb & Associates include reservoir studies, oil and gas reserve evaluations and audits, improved recovery design, educational courses, and litigation support including expert witness services.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering
Texas A&M University, May 1991

M.Eng. Petroleum Engineering
Texas A&M University, August 1988

B.S. Petroleum Engineering
Texas A&M University, May 1979

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