Dr. Svetlana Ikonnikova is a Research Scientist and Senior Energy Economist in the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. She received B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in applied mathematics and physics (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia), a Ph.D. in economics and management science (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) and did her postdoctoral research in energy and environmental regulation (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium). Over the past fifteen years, she has been conducting research and lecturing on energy markets and energy industry developments, focusing on the electric power industry and renewable energy sustainability, natural gas supply, liquefied natural gas trade and shale gas economics in the U.S., EU, and FSU. Dr. Ikonnikova was a co-Principle Investigator and a lead modeler in the multi-year inter-disciplinary study of many major U.S. shale gas and oil plays, including the Barnett, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, and Bakken plays, focusing on resource and production evaluation, with the goal to build the future production outlooks for each play. At present, she leads a project aiming to update the past shale gas development projections and a co-leads a multi-year resource assessment of the Permian Basin.
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