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John Fanchi
Professor Emeritus — Ross B. Matthews Professorship in Petroleum Engineering
                     j.r.fanchi@tcu.edu817-257-7445
Program Affiliations
Education
BS, University of Denver
MS, University of Mississippi (Physics)
PhD, University of Houston (Physics)
Areas of Focus
- Energy in Society
 - Energy Education and Energy Policy
 - Petroleum Engineering and Reservoir Management
 - Forecasting recovery from oil and gas reservoirs
 - Modeling flow in porous media
 - Cosmogony and Cosmology
 
Selected Publications
- J.R. Fanchi, Energy in the 21st Century, 5th Edition, World Scientific, Singapore (TBP 2023); first edition by J.R. Fanchi published in 2005 by World Scientific.
 - J.R. Fanchi, Confronting the Enigma of Time, World Scientific, Singapore (2023).
 - J.R. Fanchi, Reason, Faith, and Purpose – The Ultimate Gamble, World Scientific, Singapore (2022), includes secular cosmology
 - J.R. Fanchi, The Goldilocks Policy – The Basis for a Grand Energy Bargain, World Scientific, Singapore (2019).
 - J.R. Fanchi, Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation, Fourth Edition, Elsevier-Gulf Professional Publishing, Woburn, MA and Oxford, UK (2018).
 - J.R. Fanchi and R.L. Christiansen, Introduction to Petroleum Engineering, J. Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey (2017).
 
Last Updated: August 04, 2025