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Novel Wettability Modifiers to Improve Oil Recovery from Tight/Shale Reservoirs
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Multi-Scale Rock Physics of Unconventional and Carbonate Reservoirs
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Featured Research Topic
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
CARBON UT, a new Industrial Affiliates Project (IAP), has been approved in CSEE
The IAP will be led Dr. Nicolas Espinoza and Dr. Ryosuke Okuno and will focus on Utilization, Transportation, and Storage of CO2 for maintaining the carbon cycle.
Learn moreTraci Laird, Executive Assistant, CSEE, is receiving a Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award for 2020-2021
As Executive Assistant of the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment (CSEE) since January 2020, Traci has taken the lead to rebrand the Center, implement our vision, build a culture of collaboration and inclusiveness, help develop a new website, establish our monthly webinar series, strengthen the relationship with PGE, and so much more. Last March she was a leader in anticipitating and implementing our work transition plan for COVID.
Zoya Heidari, Associate Professor, is receiving the SPWLA Distinguished Technical Achievement Award
The virtual ceremony will be broadcast via the SPWLA YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/UNd0oCPSnTo at 12:25 pm.Central today, May 19,,2021. The award “is presented in recognition of exceptional contributions in one or more specific areas of formation evaluation technology”.
Learn moreYingda 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.
