Petroleum engineering professor lists in Katy

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Eric van Oort and Carolina van Oort have listed for sale a five-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 22102 Baymist Court in Katy for $549,000.

The 4,460-square-foot house was built in 2002 in Grand Lakes. It is located in the Grand Lakes Phase Two subdivision. Karen Karapasha of Re/Max Westwide Realtors is the listing agent.

Eric van Oort is a professor at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin. He is also the owner of EVO Oilfield Consulting LLC and the chairman of the board of directors at Genesis Real Time Systems. He previously worked as an onshore gas technology manager at Shell Oil Company and was a staff scientist and university lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

He earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Amsterdam.

According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 4,260 home sales in Katy during the past 12 months.