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Novel Wettability Modifiers to Improve Oil Recovery from Tight/Shale Reservoirs
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a proposed method to reduce anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by capturing CO2 emissions (e.g. from power plants) and storing CO2 in a supercritical state in subsurface geological formations such as deep saline aquifers or depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Research Highlights
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EDFM and EDFM-AI for modeling and calibration of complex hydraulic and natural fractures – Wei Yu
Current reservoir simulators oversimplify fracture complexity to simple fracture geometry.
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Oil-Tolerant Worm-like Micellar Solution - Krishna Panthi
Surfactants have the ability to self-assemble in most of the aqueous solutions to form...
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Improved oil recovery with capacitance resistance models – Frank Male
Oilfields only produce a small fraction of the original resource in place during primary recovery. After...
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CSEE News
Yingda Lu, Assistant Professor, is receiving the SPE Regional Production and Operations Award in the Southwestern North America Region.
The Production and Operations Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of production and operations technology.
Learn moreDeborah Hempel-Medina has been selected to receive a Transformational Online Instruction Contributions (TONIC) Award
These awards are intended to recognize professional (non-tenure-track) instructional faculty and staff who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and rapid innovation in our hybrid and online instruction. Deborah’s efforts have made an extraordinary and positive impact on students and the university during a challenging year. This program is sponsored and funded in partnership with the Provost’s Office. Deborah will be invited to participate in a panel presentation for the Faculty Innovation Center’s Technology-Enhanced Learning Symposium in May 2021.
Hildebrand Department recognized as No. 1 graduate Petroleum Engineering program in the country by U.S. News & World Report
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The widely respected QS World University Rankings by Subject ranked UT’s petroleum engineering program 2nd in the world for the second year in a row.
Important attributes that contributed to this ranking were overall reputation and research citation rates.
QS World University Rankings for Engineering - Petroleum 2021 | Top Universities
DOE Awards $46 Million for Geothermal Initiative Projects with Potential to Power Millions of U.S. Homes
Professor Mukul Sharma is The Univeristy of Texas at Austin recipient.
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