Dr. Catalin Teodoriu

Catalin Teodoriu is a Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Until 2015, he was head of the Sub-department for Drilling Technology, Completion, and Workover at Clausthal University of Technology. Between 2006 and 2009, he was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, teaching courses on drilling topics, such as Drilling Engineering, Introduction to Drilling Engineering, Completion and Workover, and Advanced Drilling Engineering. He now serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and as adjunct professor at the Oil and Gas University of Ploiesti in addition to his position in the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at OU. His research interests include drilling problems, drilling dynamics and failure analysis, well integrity, cementing, and threaded connections. He specializes in developing new threaded connections for OCTG as well as an expert on drilling problems and failure analysis.