D. Nathan Meehan, PhD, PE
D. Nathan Meehan is the L. F. Peterson ‘36 Professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University conducting research in carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), blue hydrogen, quantifying and decreasing emissions from oil and gas operations, and monitoring and reporting, verification of GHG emissions and enhanced recovery in unconventional wells using CO2. He is a Senior Technology Advisor for Petro.ai, a leading oilfield data analytics firm, and a non-executive Director of Ignis H2, a geothermal energy startup. He was formerly President of CMG Petroleum Consulting, an energy advisory firm founded in 2001, President of Gaffney, Cline & Associates, and a senior executive at Baker Hughes. He served as the 2016 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Previously he was Vice President of Engineering for Occidental Oil & Gas and General Manager, Exploration & Production Services for Union Pacific Resources. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Meehan holds a BSc in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University. With more than 45 years of industry experience, he served as Chairman of the Board of the CMG Reservoir Simulation Foundation and twice as a Director of the Computer Modelling Group, Ltd., as Director of Vanyoganeft Oil Company, Nizhnyvartosk, Russia, as Director of Pinnacle Technologies, Inc., twice as a Director of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and as a Director of JOA Oil & Gas BV.
He is an SPE Distinguished Member and the recipient of SPE’s Lester C. Uren Award for Distinguished Achievement in Petroleum Engineering, the Degolyer Distinguished Service Medal the SPE Public Service Award and has been named an SPE Honorary Member, the Society’s highest award. He received the World Oil Lifetime Achievement Award and the Petroleum Economist magazine’s Legacy Award. He has been named 2023 Distinguished Alumni of the University of Oklahoma College of Earth and Energy and was the 2025 recipient of the Distinguished Mentorship Award from the Texas A&M College of Engineering as selected by the junior faculty. He is the 2025 Inaugural recipient of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics Distinguished Alumni award.
He serves on the University of Oklahoma Board of Visitors Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy and the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences board. He has served on petroleum engineering Department advisory boards at the University of Texas, University of Houston, Penn State, and St. Frances University petroleum engineering departments. He has served on the National Petroleum Council and the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission. Dr. Meehan is a widely published author and a licensed professional engineer in four states.
Meehan and his wife live in Spring, TX, and have six children and ten grandchildren. He raises bees and claims to be “the greatest BBQ cook of our generation”.