Olivier Houzé
2025 SPE President KAPPA EngineeringOlivier Houzé is the co-founder and managing director of KAPPA. After 4 years as a well test field engineer with Flopetrol (SLB), he co-founded KAPPA in 1987. He was the original author of Saphir, now the industry standard software in pressure transient analysis, and has served as KAPPA managing director since 1991.
Houzé has been involved in many SPE summits, forums, and workshops. He coauthored one SPE and one SPEE monograph. He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2013 and served on the SPE Board as the Technical Director for Reservoir from 2012 to 2015. He was the recipient of the 2019 SPE Lester C. Uren Award and a 2022 SPE Honorary Award.
He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique (1982) and an MSc in petroleum engineering from Stanford University (1983).
