Jim Murtha

Jim Murtha, a registered petroleum engineer, presents seminars and training courses and advises clients in building probabilistic models in risk analysis and decision making. Jim is an industry-recognized expert on risk and decision analysis; he was elected to Distinguished Membership in SPE in 1999, the recipient of the 1998 SPE Award in Economics and Evaluation, and was 1996-7 SPE Distinguished Lecturer in Risk and Decision Analysis. Since 1992, over 4500 professionals have taken his classes.  SPE has further honored Jim by choosing him as the principal author of the Chapter on Risk and Decision Analysis in the new edition of the SPE Petroleum Engineering Handbook.  He has published Decisions Involving Uncertainty - An @RISK Tutorial for the Petroleum Industry. In 25 years of academic experience, he chaired a math department, taught petroleum engineering, served as academic dean of a college, and co-authored two texts in mathematics and statistics. Jim has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the U of Wisconsin, a MS in petroleum & natural gas engineering from Penn State, and a BS in mathematics from Marietta College.