Josef Shaoul

Josef Shaoul, SPE, is engineering manager and partner at Fenix Consulting Delft, where he conducts fracture stimulation studies, provides onsite fracture engineering support, performs well test analysis, and works on reservoir simulation and software development. He joined Fenix in 1996, when the company operated as Pinnacle Technologies Delft. Previously, Shaoul was lead software engineer at RES (Resource Engineering Systems), where he led development of FracPro. He also worked for Hunter Geophysics on tiltmeter mapping applications. Shaoul has more than 35 years of industry experience. He earned BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been active in SPE, serving as co-chair of the European Stimulation Workshop for the past 15 years and as a committee member of the SPE IHFTC since its inception. He has authored eight peer-reviewed journal articles and 40 SPE papers.