Research


Subsurface Applications
- Conventional oil and gas
- Tight and shale oil and gas
- Heavy-oil/bitumen/tarmat
- Methane hydrates
- Geothermal
- Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
- Subsurface environmental remediation
- Nuclear waste storage
- Groundwater (as a resource)
- Geohazard identification and mitigation
- Subsurface reserves (SEC reporting)
- Fundamental processes
- Knowledge transfer
- Hydrogen storage

Technical Disciplines
- Drilling engineering
- Production engineering
- Reservoir engineering
- Petrophysics/formation evaluation
- Data analytics and machine learning
- Geomechanics/ rock mechanics
- Geology
- Geophysics/seismic interpretation
- Geochemistry
- Geostatistics
- Computational sciences
- Curriculum development/design

Engineering Tools
- Large scale simulation
- Pore-scale simulation
- Reduced-order models
- Analytical models
- Macro-scale experiments
- Micro-scale experiments
- Fluid analysis
- Software development / deployment
- Design of experiments / uncertainty quantification
- Subsurface visualization and interpretation
- Learning management systems