Bill Zeng is registered Professional Engineer with APEGS, Saskatchewan and a Professor of Petroleum Systems Engineering in University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada with 20+ years of oil and gas and R&D experience. He has been consulting for small independents to major energy companies in Canada and internationally. Dr Bill has pioneered and patented several conventional, heavy oil and unconventional EOR processes. He has planned and executed 30+ oil and gas projects and projects worth over $4million cutting across basins in North America and Asia. He has held several faculty positions – Associate Dean: Graduate Studies, Program Chair, Professor, Petroleum Systems Engineering & Senior Lecturer, teaching, leading innovative technology, and R&D in Petroleum Systems Engineering. He is a distinguished SPE author and reservoir journal reviewer with 150+ publications and peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Bill is highly skilled in Reservoir Engineering best practices and a renown expert in well testing, EOR, reservoir modeling and simulation, training, lecturing, and curriculum development. Dr Bill continues to pursue interests in Heavy oil EOR, Unconventional gas/oil reservoir development, transient pressure analysis and reservoir characterization, Non-Darcy flow in porous media, high performance reservoir simulation, CO2 flood/geo-sequestration etc. His excellence in EOR evaluations includes design, implementation and optimization of cold heavy oil production with sands (CHOPS), cyclic solvent injection (CSI) process, Chemical floods (Alkaline, Surfactant, Polymer) and Water-Alternating-Gas (WAG) processes at the Petroleum Technology Research Center.

Dr. Bill earned a B.A.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Southwest Petroleum University, Sichuan, China, M.A.Sc. in Oil and Gas Development Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Sichuan, China and PhD, Petroleum Systems Engineering from University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a member of SPE, American Society of Engineers, CHOA and APEGS.