Digital Reservoir Characterization Technology (DIRECT)
The DIRECT Industrial Affiliate Project aims to develop novel technologies, practical workflows, demonstrations and documentation to enable subsurface data analytics and machine learning.
Our goals are to combine best-practice and cutting-edge technology in reservoir spatiotemporal characterization and modeling, real-time drilling control, production data integration and forecasting, reservoir petrophysical measures and geophysics with emerging technology in big data analytics and machine learning to optimize well trajectory and resource recovery.
Faculty Supervisors
Researchers and Projects
Wendi Liu (2nd Year PhD)
Data analytics, geostatistics and machine learning for unconventional reservoirs including feature engineering, anomality detection and spatiotemporal geostatistical and machine learning accounting for sampling bias.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz
Jose Salazar (2nd Year PhD)
Data analytics, geostatistics and machine learning for unconventional reservoirs including geostatistical significance and robust trend models.
Supervisor: Drs. Lake and Pyrcz
Javier Santos (2nd Year PhD)
Multiscale spatial modeling with data analytics and machine learning, new methods to integrate physics and fast surrogate models.
Supervisors: Drs. Prodanovic and Pyrcz
Honggeun Jo (3rd Year PhD)
Geostatistical and machine learning for heterogeneity modeling, including realistic training models and conditional machine learning-based models.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz
Wen Pan (4th Year PhD)
Machine learning for realistic subsurface models integrating petrophysical and geophysical data.
Supervisors: Drs. Torres-Verdin and Pyrcz
John D’Angelo (4th Year PhD)
Multi-objective geosteering through integration of directional drilling and geophysical data".
Supervisor: Dr. van Oort
Eduardo Maldonado (1st Year PhD)
Generalizable machine learning-based surrogate models for flow forecasting.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz
Akhil Potla (1st Year MSc)
Integration of engineering physics into machine learning-based flow forecasts. Initial work with capacitance resistance modeling.
Supervisor: Dr. Foster
Midé Mabadeje (1st Year PhD)
Novel data analytics and machine learning workflows to address various sources of bias that impact decision making.
Supervisor: Dr. Pyrcz
Recent Highlights
The 1st Annual DIRECT Review Meeting took place on Zoom on June 24,2020. Overview Slides for this Meeting are available on the DIRECT website.
