Yula Tang
About Yula Tang
Yula Tang is a Principal Petroleum Engineer at Chevron in Midland, Texas, with extensive experience in reservoir engineering and petroleum consulting.
Company
Yula Tang is currently employed at Chevron, where she holds the position of Principal Petroleum Engineer. She is based in Midland, Texas, United States. At Chevron, she is involved in the development and optimization of petroleum resources through integrated reservoir and surface network engineering.
Title
Yula Tang holds the position of Principal Petroleum Engineer at Chevron. She applies her expertise in petroleum engineering to oversee complex projects and ensure optimal resource management and extraction techniques.
Education and Expertise
Yula Tang has a robust educational background in petroleum engineering. She earned her B.S. from Southwest Petroleum University from 1979 to 1983. She further advanced her education by obtaining an M.S. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Tulsa between 1995 and 2001. Her extensive academic background supports her deep expertise in reservoir engineering, artificial lift coordination, and flow assurance.
Professional Background
Yula Tang has held multiple significant roles in the petroleum industry. Before joining Chevron, she worked as an Artificial Lift Coordinator at Tengizchevroil from 2016 to 2019 in Kazakhstan. She served as a Senior Reservoir Engineering Advisor at Chevron from 2005 to 2016 in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, she was a Principal Consultant at SPT Group from 2001 to 2005. She had a brief stint as a Senior Petroleum Engineer at Schlumberger in 2001. Earlier in her career, she was an Associate Professor at Southwest Petroleum University in China from 1983 to 1995.
Project Involvement
Yula Tang has contributed to several high-profile projects. Notably, she led the integrated reservoir-surface network IPM modeling and element sulfur deposition study for the Chevron China CDB Sour Gas Project in Chengdu, China. She also prepared critical project documents including the ODP, UMP, SA&O, and ADT for Chevron. Her work has consistently involved complex reservoir and surface network integration, single well workover, and flow assurance.