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Energy Transition Expert Joins UT PGE and CSEE Faculty

October 24, 2024

Hewei Tang joins the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems (UT PGE) faculty as an assistant professor this semester, bringing her extensive background in engineering clean energy to the program. She'll also be joining the Center of Subsurface Energy and the Environment. 

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Tang’s research expertise includes a focus on scientific machine learning, geologic carbon storage, geothermal energy, integrated reservoir characterization and reservoir simulation. Most recently, she was a staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she researched reservoir characterization as well as deep learning and uncertainty quantification in subsurface applications.

Tang is executive editor of Geoenergy Science and Engineering (formerly known as the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering) and serves on the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) program committee. She holds an MS and PhD in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University and a BS in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Tsinghua University.

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UT PGE/CSEE Awarded First-Ever DOE Funding for Geologic H2 Research

March 04, 2024

Four Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment faculty members received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) in February as part of a $20 million effort to accelerate the natural subsurface generation of low-cost, low-emissions hydrogen. This is the first time that the U.S. government has competitively selected teams to research this kind of technology.

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Professor Quoc Nguyen receives the 2023 WesTEC Distinguished Leader in Science and Technology Award

December 01, 2023

WesTEC is the Canada Operations Technical Excellence Conference hosted by Dow Chemical and The Royal Society of Chemistry for over 30 years. The WesTEC award recognizes technical innovation, and technology breakthroughs. Quoc’s breakthrough work in developing innovative solutions for conformance control, unconventional EOR, and flow assurance from lab to field made him a well-deserved recipient of this prestigious award.

Research Professor Mojdeh Delshad has been awarded the 2024 SPE IOR Pioneer Award

November 03, 2023

Dr. Delshad of CSEE and the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering  will receive the award at the SPE IOR meeting in Tulsa in April, 2024.

The SPE IOR Pioneer Award ( http://speior.org/pioneer-award/ ) is presented to selected individuals who have made significant advancements over the years in improved oil recovery technology. This award has been presented to 90 individuals since its inauguration in 1984.

Professor Larry Lake Announces Retirement

August 29, 2023

Professor Larry W. Lake of CSEE and Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering is retiring after four decades. Dr. Lake will be slowly scaling back his teaching load over the next three years.

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Associate Professors Espinoza and Livescu Awarded $5 Million ARPA-E Grant

August 17, 2023

CSEE and Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) Associate Professors Nicolas Espinoza and Silviu Livescu are key team members of a new $5 million grant from the Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program run by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E).

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Associate Professor Zoya Heidari is the Recipient of the 2023 SPE International Formation Evaluation Award

July 25, 2023

The Formation Evaluation Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers recognizes outstanding achievement or contributions to the advancement of petroleum engineering in the area of formation evaluation.

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Professor Kishore Mohanty to serve as Interim Director of CSEE effective July 15

July 07, 2023

He will serve in this role until the next director is appointed. Dr. Mohanty served as Director from 2014 to 2020.

Associate Professor David DiCarlo named a UT Accesibility Champion

June 20, 2023

A UT Accesibility Champion has demonstrated his/her commitment to fostering an accessible, inclusive, and welcoming campus for students with disabilities.

Assistant Professor Wen Song receives the EAGE Arie van Weelden Award

June 20, 2023

The EAGE Arie van Weelden Award is presented to a member of EAGE who has made a highly significant contribution to one or more of the disciplines in the Association and who qualifies as an EAGE Young Professional..

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