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Jordan Mimoun

Well Testing Team Lead ExxonMobil

Jordan Mimoun, SPE, is a reservoir engineering subject-matter expert and well testing team lead at ExxonMobil. He and his team oversee ExxonMobil’s worldwide exploration and appraisal testing (including design and planning, onsite operations supervision, and data interpretation and integration), while supporting pressure transient analysis for producing assets. Mimoun recently served on the steering committees of the SPE Applied Technology Workshops on well testing, as chairperson in 2017 and session chair in 2014. He is the ExxonMobil representative to WinCubed’s Welltesting Network. Mimoun holds an MS degree in petroleum engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a diplôme d’ingénieur degree from École Centrale de Lille, France. He is a member of the JPT Editorial Review Committee and can be reached at jordan.g.mimoun@exxonmobil.com.

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