Michael J KingMichael J. King is a Senior Advisor and Discipline Technical Authority in Reservoir Performance Prediction with BP America. He is a project manager within the Advanced Reservoir Performance Prediction R&D program, where he is involved in global technlogy development and deployment. King has worked for BP both domestically and overseas since 1982 as a practicing reservoir engineer and in research and development. He has worked in fundamentals of flow in porous media, laboratory analysis, numerical methods, and reservoir characterization and is considered an authority in geologic modeling, upscaling, and streamline technology. King has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer and has served on numerous SPE and industry committees. His original training was in theoretical physics and mathematics, and a BS degree from The Cooper Union and MS and PhD degree from Syracuse University. Read More Read Less