OUR TEAM
Mr. Paul Munding leads Bone Energy LLC, and his background covers many different facets. Paul started working in 1999 with Marathon Oil in the Yates field of Iraan, TX field that set world records. He has had many field jobs from working on frac and cementing crews with Schlumberger in SE Oklahoma to compressors and pumping units with Anadarko in the Hugoton Basin. His knowledge on reservoir simulation was earned while working on offshore fields with BP out of Houston. Paul has worked reservoir on wells from New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
While at Chesapeake Paul worked in the Southern Oklahoma oil and gas fields as a field supervisor. He then did production and completions for Chesapeake Energy in NW Oklahoma and the Fayetteville shale. He has done many company leading projects such as drainage and interference studies on horizontal well plays and vertical gas in the Haley region of west Texas. Paul led RKI’s production engineering team in the Delaware basin while they doubled their net production and reduced daily downtime. Paul last worked at Flogistix, a production service company where he helped develop two market leading initiatives on SMART gas lift and vapor recovery.
Paul attended college on academic scholarship from the University of Oklahoma and the American Petroleum Institute (API) and graduated with distinction with a degree in Petroleum Engineering in 2003. With his practical experience he likes to say he got an undergrad working for an operator and a master’s working for a service company.
Dr. Hamid Karami is an assistant professor at Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering of the University of Oklahoma, where he started in 2017. He received his BSc degree (2009) from Sharif University of Technology, and MSc (2011) and PhD (2015) degrees from the University of Tulsa, all in Petroleum Engineering. He worked as a research associate at Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects (TUFFP), and Tulsa University Horizontal Well Artificial Lift Projects (TUHWALP), before joining OU. At OU, Dr. Karami has led several projects funded by ACS, QNRF, or sponsored by industrial entities, applying his knowledge of multiphase fluid dynamics and artificial lift. Since 2022, he has also worked as a part-time flow assurance consultant for Wood Group. His main teaching and research expertise areas are production engineering, multiphase flow, flow assurance, and artificial lift.
Dr. Karami is the author and co-author of 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, or book chapters. He currently has 502 citations and a Google Scholar h-index of 12. A full list of publications is available here.