Yulun Wang has been interested in petroleum-related topics since childhood. Born in a city powered by a major oil field in northeastern China, Yulun earned his B.S. degree in Petroleum Geology from Jilin University (China). Desiring to study rock-focused reservoir characterization in more detail, Yulun moved to the University of Tulsa for his graduate-level education and worked with Dr. Robert Scott on the Lower Cretaceous shallow-marine carbonates in southwest Texas, which earned him a M.S. degree in Geology. Learning about the boom of unconventional resource plays at that time, Yulun became interested in working further on the characterization of these reservoirs, which brought him to pursue a PhD degree in the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University.
Yulun is currently a fourth-year PhD student, working with Dr. Michael Grammer on the natural fractures and rock mechanics of the unconventional “Mississippian Limestone” play in north-central Oklahoma, USA. He has presented and published his findings as both a PhD candidate and as a geology intern at Tiptop Oil and Gas USA (SINOPEC) in several regional and national AAPG and SEPM conferences, and is a leading author on a publication which is in press on the upcoming AAPG Memoir dedicated to the “Mississippian Limestone” play in the U.S. Southern Mid-Continent. He is a recipient of the Davis Geology Fellowship from the Oklahoma Geological Foundation (2015) and the Grants-in-Aid award from the American Association for Petroleum Geologists (2016, 2017).