Big Data and Machine Learning in Reservoir Analysis Register to attend Well monitoring can provide a continuous record of flow rate and pressure, which gives us rich information about the reservoir and makes well data a valuable source for reservoir analysis. Recently, it has been shown that machine learning is a promising tool to interpret […]
Using Downhole Fiber Optic Sensing Technology to Monitor, Control and Improve Well Performance Register to Attend Using Downhole Fiber Optic Sensing Technology to Monitor, Control and Improve Well Performance Downhole sensing technology today provide engineers continuous measurements for flow condition diagnosis. The measurements include temperature, pressure, acoustic, and strain, with distributed temperature sensors (DTS) and […]
Mitigating Production Degradation Due to Frac Hits in Unconventional Reservoirs Register To Attend In unconventional reservoirs, a "frac hit" is the infill-to-parent well communication during hydraulic fracturing. In most shale plays, production from the parent-infill well system drops below original forecasts due to production degradation after fracture hits from offset wells. Fracturing treatments in infill […]
Molecular Structure, Functional Molecules, Molecule Simulations and Classical Thermodynamics in Relation to Efficient Hydrocarbon Energy Production and Stewardship of the Environment Professor Abbas Firoozabadi Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Reservoir Engineering Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA Register to attend at https://bit.ly/3e0IM1s In the last few years, there has […]
UNDERGROUND STORAGE TECHNOLOGY AND R&D The storage of natural gas in underground formations has played a key role in providing a reliable and affordable source of gas to meet the demands for electric generation and heating. Over the two decades R&D and application of the resulting technology has played a key role in providing a […]
Well Instrumentation and Fiber Optics – Critical Information to Understand the Interplay Between: Well, Stimulation and Subsurface Monitoring the creation and geometry of hydraulically induced fractures using a variety of diagnostic tools is a relatively expensive but necessary step to achieve the successful development of unconventional reservoirs. In recent years, downhole instrumentation using a combination […]
CCUS – The need for it and its current status Capture of Carbon dioxide (CO2) and its storage or utilization (CCUS) is one of the technologies that will be part of the portfolio of solutions needed to reduce anthropogenic emissions of CO2 in response to climate change. There have been extensive research, development and demonstration […]
Dr. Hassan Alkandari, Kuwait Education Attaché in US Dr. Alkandari arrived in the US 34 years ago from Kuwait when he was 18 years old with an intense desire to achieve his educational dreams. He faced many challenges that he had not anticipated— culture, education, language, and the lifestyle shock. Dr. Alkandari will present a […]
Research and Opportunities for CCUS in Wyoming The energy industry is transitioning to low-carbon energy fuels and technologies. Undoubtedly, Wyoming, the largest fossil energy producing state within the Rockies, will experience large impacts during the low-carbon energy transition. These impacts, though, could be as positive in the long term for Wyoming. One of the most […]
Swing by to get free lunch and SWAG, play some of our fun activities, and look at the cool stuff we’ve found of the department’s history.
Swing by to get free lunch and SWAG, play some of our fun activities, and look at the cool stuff we’ve found of the department’s history.
Micrometer, Chalk, Chainsaw: Real World Petroleum Engineering Applications Not all of us will land engineering roles in an R&D department, in fact most will land roles where we must find a balance between engineering precision, real world application, and capital discipline. Knowing when and how to utilize and apply precise engineering, in light of the […]
Micrometer, Chalk, Chainsaw: Real World Petroleum Engineering Applications Not all of us will land engineering roles in an R&D department, in fact most will land roles where we must find a balance between engineering precision, real world application, and capital discipline. Knowing when and how to utilize and apply precise engineering, in light of the […]
Presentation from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Group Discussion from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oil and Gas industry is going through an enormous transition after the recent collapse of the commodity prices due to COVID 19. Massive consolidation in the industry will inevitably lead to cost control but the industry still needs new capital […]
Presentation from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Group Discussion from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oil and Gas industry is going through an enormous transition after the recent collapse of the commodity prices due to COVID 19. Massive consolidation in the industry will inevitably lead to cost control but the industry still needs new capital […]
Presentation from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Group Discussion from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Oil and Gas industry is going through an enormous transition after the recent collapse of the commodity prices due to COVID 19. Massive consolidation in the industry will inevitably lead to cost control but the industry still needs new capital […]
The Future of Drilling: Advancing Drilling Automation, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI This seminar will now be on zoom. It is an exciting time in the Drilling discipline. Novel advancements in systems automation are making well construction not only more reliable and efficient, but also safer. At the same time, activity is exploding in […]
There has been a large gap in the modeling and understanding of reservoir fluids; this deficiency has led to major inefficiencies in field development planning. Petroleum system modeling provides the timing, type and volume of fluids entering the reservoir (among other things). However, reservoir fluid compositional redistributions and phase changes during and post charge to […]
Geothermal development in the United States Past, Present, and Future: A personal perspective The presentation will review United States geothermal development over the last forty years. This will cover the first development at The Geysers steam field in the 1960’s through today, on a decade-by-decade basis. The author started working in the geothermal industry in […]
Hydraulic Fracture Geometry Characterization in Unconventional Reservoirs: Numerical Modeling and Data Interpretation Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing with horizontal drilling is a key technique to economically unlock hydrocarbon in unconventional reservoirs. Despite […]
With the current transition in energy sources from fossil fuels to renewable energy to address the world's climate change crisis, new attention is being paid to the uses and potential […]
George Moridis Professor and holder of the Robert L. Whiting Chair in Petroleum Engineering Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering Texas A&M University We investigate by means of numerical simulation a planned year-long field test of depressurization-induced production from a permafrost-associated hydrate reservoir on the Alaska North Slope at the site of the recently-drilled Hydrate-01 Stratigraphic Test […]
Maša Prodanović Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Computing properties such as (relative) permeability, diffusion coefficients or electrical resistivity of rocks based on images (e.g. X-ray or scanning electron microscopy) of their microstructure has recently been a popular, alas computationally intensive, framework for data-based upscaling of such […]
Millions of wells will need to be abandoned in the coming decades, at a phenomenal expense to the oil & gas industry with zero return on investment (ROI). A sizeable portion of these wells is already leaking primarily methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere, and more wells are expected to do so at […]
PETER M. MUELLER Co-Founder, EcoVapor Recovery Systems Emissions of methane, VOCs, NOx, and CO2 from oil and gas production facilities are coming under increased scrutiny by Federal, State, and even local jurisdictions, as well as the general public. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, while VOCs and NOx are precursors to ozone formation. CO2 concentrations […]
RUI QIAO Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech Abstract: Oil from tight reservoirs has grown to dominate the liquid petroleum production in the U.S., which greatly benefits the petroleum industry. The industry, however, faces challenges in improving oil recovery from these reservoirs and reducing its carbon footprint. CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 sequestration […]
RUBEN JUANES Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT Earthquakes occur when faults slip. While the most devastating earthquakes are of tectonic origin, human activities have been associated with the triggering of earthquakes that have caused substantial economic damage and societal concern. The demonstration that fluid injection can cause earthquakes dates back to the 1970s […]
Chris Atchison, National Science Foundation Joint Geology & Geological Engineering/ Geophysics/ Mining Engineering/ Petroleum Engineering Departments Lecture Berthoud 241/ Zoom, 4PM, Thursday, February 16, 2023 “Broadening Participation in Geoscience Field-studies through Inclusively Designed Communities of Learning” Abstract: Regardless of the discipline, field-focused coursework places an implicit prerequisite on the physical ability needed to navigate the […]
MICHAEL CELIA Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University Subsurface energy systems have historically focused on extraction of hydrocarbons through mining (coal) or drilling and pumping (oil and gas). These extractive industries have led to myriad environmental damages at the land surface as well as large greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. Future […]
LOUIS DURLOFSKY Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University There are many challenges associated with achieving carbon storage at gigaton scales. In this talk, I will present some of our recent developments in two areas relevant for the reservoir engineering of CCUS projects. A general framework for optimizing CO2 storage operations using derivative-free algorithms will […]
PETER M. MUELLER Co-Founder, EcoVapor Recovery Systems Emissions of methane, VOCs, NOx, and CO2 from oil and gas production facilities are coming under increased scrutiny by Federal, State, and even local jurisdictions, as well as the general public. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, while VOCs and NOx are precursors to ozone formation. CO2 concentrations […]
