Chair in Well Engineering and Production Technology
UQ Gas & Energy Transition Research Centre
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Ray is currently Professor of Well Engineering & Production Technology in the School of Chemical Engineering and Energi Simulation Co-chair in the Centre for Natural Gas. There he is researching projects related to low permeability, unconventional reservoirs (i.e., tight gas, coal seam gas, shale gas reservoir). In addition, he is an instructor and course coordinator in several courses in the ME Petroleum Engineering program at the University of Queensland.
Outside of teaching and research, Prof Johnson is the Principal at Unconventional Reservoir Solutions, a provider of reservoir engineering, stimulation consulting, and training services to the petroleum and mining industry, focusing on unconventional resources such as gas or oil from coal, shale, or naturally fractured reservoirs.
From 2014 to 2020 Ray was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the ASP, University of Adelaide.
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Availability:
Available for supervision
Dr Jimmy Li is a geoscientist specialising in the intersection of geophysics and geomechanics for resource and geoenergy development. He brings a unique blend of high-level industry experience and rigorous academic research to his work.
Before transitioning to academia, Dr Li spent a decade with Halliburton Energy Services (Sperry Drilling), where he managed complex onshore and offshore geophysical logging projects for global majors including Shell, ConocoPhillips, and PetroChina. This practical foundation informed his PhD research at Curtin University (2021), where he developed a pioneering theory on wettability-affected wave propagation. His work established a new experimental framework for rock wettability characterisation using elastic wave measurements, a breakthrough with direct applications for multi-frequency sonic logging.
Since joining The University of Queensland in 2021, Dr Li has focused on rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering for underground mining. Notably, he led the development of the Quality Management System (QMS) for the Mechanical Testing Laboratory, securing its NATA accreditation for rock mechanics measurement.
