About Ivor Ellul
Currently the CEO of Knowledge Reservoir, Dr. Ivor Ellul founded the Houston-based energy consulting company in 1999. Dedicated to offering expertise in oil and gas exploration and production, Knowledge Reservoir provides consulting in the areas of reservoir management, production solutions, knowledge management, real time systems, and pipeline and process engineering. Over the course of his career, Dr. Ivor Ellul has founded several other companies in the energy and technology sphere and served in a variety of executive and managerial roles at ventures in Houston and overseas. Dr. Ivor Ellul is a visiting professor at Imperial College London, lecturing on pipeline and process engineering to the master’s course in petroleum engineering. He has served on various boards including the petroleum engineering advisory board of the University of Houston, the advisory board of Energy Ventures. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Pipeline Simulation Interest Group.
A native of Malta, Dr. Ivor Ellul grew up on the island nation, where he earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Malta in 1980. After a stint as a process design engineer in West Germany, he enrolled at Imperial College London and received a master of science in petroleum engineering in 1982. Returning to the college after working in North Africa, Dr. Ivor Ellul completed a doctorate in petroleum engineering in 1989. While pursuing his PhD, he developed advanced computer codes designed to predict the flow of multiphase fluids in pipelines.
A native of Malta, Dr. Ivor Ellul grew up on the island nation, where he earned a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Malta in 1980. After a stint as a process design engineer in West Germany, he enrolled at Imperial College London and received a master of science in petroleum engineering in 1982. Returning to the college after working in North Africa, Dr. Ivor Ellul completed a doctorate in petroleum engineering in 1989. While pursuing his PhD, he developed advanced computer codes designed to predict the flow of multiphase fluids in pipelines.