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The University Texas A&M University, which attracted a mere six students when it opened in 1876, is now among the largest institutions of higher learning in the nation—with a student body of about 43,000. It consistently ranks among the top five universities in attracting high-achieving National Merit Scholars. Its students include men and women of all races, religions, and backgrounds from all 50 states and more than 100 other countries.

Texas A&M is one of the nation’s best-endowed universities, a factor that helps it attract and retain top faculty members and provide state-of-the-art facilities in areas that coincide with its goals and strengths. The university’s endowment places it among the top 10 nationally.

Teaching and research go hand in hand at Texas A&M as it carries out its commitments as a land-,sea-, and space-grant institution—one of a select few universities to hold all three federal mandates. Its investment in research places it high in rankings by the National Science Foundation. The university’s research endeavors are complemented by a strong and growing graduate education program. The Look College of Engineering also ranks high in the nation in research expenditures.

Each year, Texas A&M's 2,500 faculty conduct approximately $500 million worth of sponsored research projects, assisted by more than 5,000 paid graduate students. Additionally, approximately 3,000 undergraduates each year conduct independent research with faculty supervision.

Research at Texas A&M is about faculty and students driven by the spirit of discovery and committed to pushing back the boundaries of knowledge. At the same time, the majority of the work is dedicated to solving real-world problems and improving the lives of the public we serve.

The Department The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University has a 65-year history of excellence in developing leaders in the petroleum industry. Our overall teaching objective for the BS degree in Petroleum Engineering is to provide a modern engineering education with proper balance between fundamentals and practice, and to graduate engineers prepared for life-long learning, but capable of being productive contributors immediately. At the advanced master and doctoral levels, we prepare engineers for work in industry as well as for research and teaching.

The Aggie Department of Petroleum Engineering is well-known for its curriculum, facilities, and faculty. The first Aggie Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering was awarded in 1931, and the program has been recognized consistently as one of the best in the nation by the Gourman Report and by U.S. News and World Report.

The graduate program was started in the 1940s and has grown to one of the largest in the nation with an enrollment of around 150 students. It was rated Number One by U.S. News and World Report in every evaluation of petroleum engineering graduate programs 1992 to 2002. The distance learning program begun in the early 1990s now offers the complete master of engineering degree and the majority of the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees online, so students can study anywhere in the world toward their A&M degree.

Texas A&M graduates almost 20% of the nation’s new petroleum engineers each year, and approximately 95% of those accept jobs in the petroleum industry.

The Department of Petroleum Engineering is housed in the Joe C. Richardson Jr. Petroleum Engineering Building. The 10-story building contains spacious study rooms with computer facilities, classrooms, and laboratories.

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Life-Long Learning Opportunities The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering recognizes the growing need for advanced professional education for engineers who have earned degrees but wish to enhance the technical and business skills necessary to compete in today’s rapidly advancing industry. We offer a wide range of opportunities to complete course work through programs that best suit the needs of practicing engineers.

Online Degree Programs This department was among the University’s leaders in developing ways to deliver fully accredited courses online so that students can earn graduate credit any time, any where in the world. The program began offering the Master of Engineering degree online in 1999, and in 2003 it began offering the classroom portion of both the Master of Science and the Doctor of Philosophy online.

The department supports a team of distance learning specialists dedicated to ensuring that the learning experience for each student is optimal. These specialists serve as support staff to ensure that each distance student receives quick assistance with issues ranging from course registration to access to libraries to using the course delivery software or other tools specified by the faculty.

In addition, the distance learning team supports faculty in developing and organizing course materials for Web instruction, providing expertise in teaching theory and technology as well as managing the physical and logistical operations of the courses. This frees faculty to focus on subject matter and to continue research rather than to spend inordinate amounts of time in online course management.

Because a growing body of our courses are offered online, captures of lectures, course materials, and other learning tools are available to students in College Station who are enrolled simultaneously in the distance courses. The simultaneous enrollment also allows students to share experiences across academic and professional boundaries and encourages robust discussion among students at a distance and in College Station.

Online Continuing Education Our online degree program has generated abundant course materials that can be made available as continuing education courses with the same advantages of any time/any where study as the courses in the degree program. These courses have the huge advantage over traditional short courses of allowing students to view lectures, study materials, and practice techniques over a much longer time period than most short courses allow. This additional time permits the student to grasp concepts and learn new techniques much more thoroughly than in a hurried short course that delivers a great deal of information in a short time.

Partnership in NExT The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering is one of three university partners and an industry technology leader operating NExT, the Network of Excellence in Training. NExT is dedicated to providing excellent training opportunities to petroleum industry professionals worldwide. The partnership of Texas A&M U., Oklahoma State U., Heriot-Watt U., and Schlumberger provides a “virtual” faculty of practicing experts from industry and academia who conduct more than 100 courses through in-house seminars at industry locations, interactive multimedia eLearning courses, and open enrollment courses at central facilities. NExT professionals can provide independent skills assessment and recommended learning plans for individuals or establish rounded training programs for organizations.

On-Campus or in-House Training The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering houses teaching and conferencing facilities that are available as needed for on-campus short courses that may provide small groups the opportunity to study with one or several of the faculty of the department. Alternatively, faculty travel to industry locations to provide in-house programs by arrangement with the sponsoring organization.

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Research Efforts The Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering conducts research under the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research, the Global Petroleum Research Institute, several research consortia, and individual arrangements with faculty members.

The Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research The Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research is dedicated to solving problems of major interest to industry and government. The Institute conducts its efforts in four research Centers: the Halliburton Center for Unconventional Resources, the Chevron Center for Well Construction and Production, the Schlumberger Center for Reservoir Description and Dynamics, and the Center for Energy, Environment, and Transportation Innovation. Industry and governmental representatives help identify problems of major significance and support projects of particular interest to them through membership at the Institute, Center, or Project level. Additionally, membership provides seed money for identification and initiation of research into additional problems facing the industry.

The oil and gas industry in the United States and the faculty at Texas A&M University have been jointly developing technology for the improved extraction of oil and gas for over 50 years. Through the implementation of the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research, the Department can leverage its experience at a time when the energy from oil and gas resources has become of utmost importance to Texas, to the United States and to the world.

Our faculty have decades of experience in technology development for petroleum resources. The Crisman Institute combines the talents of the faculty into the four research Centers charged with continuing the technology development required by industry.

The focus of each center is to develop technology and processes to reduce the finding and development costs in petroleum reservoirs. These costs can be reduced by developing technologies that either reduce the costs involved in the application of existing technologies or that increase the reserves per completion as a result of better technology. We expect to address both the costs and the ultimate recovery per completion through the research efforts of the Institute.

Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) The Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) is the managing partner of a Cooperative effort to conduct critical research in the development of petroleum technology. Research findings will lead to the application of new and innovative technologies in petroleum exploration and production to address the increasing demand for cost-effective production and enhanced recovery.

As leading producers of petroleum engineers and petroleum technology, The Texas A&M University System, through GPRI, is uniquely positioned to have a direct impact on the quality of education and research in an area of vital economic importance to the world.

Research Consortia Several of our faculty direct joint industry projects that research topics of interest to the professor and to industry supporters. These consortia set their own guidelines for membership, meetings, and deliverables. Existing consortia are studying applications of streamline simulation, enhanced recovery of heavy oil, and improved recovery from naturally fractured reservoirs.

Other Projects Several faculty members develop and maintain individual research programs that may involve collaboration among several departments, universities, or agencies. In some cases, faculty supervise unfunded projects by graduate students who are interested in a specific problem not currently being addressed by industry sponsors.


Faculty Texas A&M’s highly experienced and internationally recognized faculty teach courses and conduct research in their areas of special interest and expertise.

The faculty of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering comprises more than 20 professors and lecturers, many of them widely known and globally involved in the petroleum industry. Four of our faculty are members of the National Academy of Engineering and nine are Distinguished Members of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. One is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

With an average graduate load of seven students per faculty member, Petroleum Engineering continues its long tradition of placing the student first. The success of our former students who have received graduate degrees in Petroleum Engineering is a source of pride among the faculty.


Wayne M. Ahr, C.P.G. Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professor of Petroleum Geology

Dr. Ahr holds a joint appointment in Geology & Geophysics and Petroleum Engineering. His research interest is reservoir characterization and quality ranking of flow units—especially in carbonate reservoirs. Dr. Ahr is author of 60 technical papers and 71 published abstracts and is currently completing work on his book Geology of Carbonate Reservoirs, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.

In his research, Dr. Ahr and his students are exploring ways to relate fundamental rock properties to petrophysical characteristics so the rock properties with the greatest influence on reservoir quality can be singled out. Rock properties are relatively easy to map but reservoir quality is not—yet, anyway. When these links between fundamental rock properties and reservoir quality are discovered, it will be possible to identify, evaluate, and map reservoir flow units, baffles, and barriers in complex or compartmentalized reservoirs. To date Ahr has chaired 53 thesis/dissertation committees and his former students hold positions in major oil companies around the world. Dr. Ahr collaborates with industry on prospect evaluation, reservoir characterization, and field development. He teaches short courses and leads field trips for professionals

Education

• PhD, Geology, Rice University, 1967 • MS, Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 1965 • BS, Geology, Texas Western College (now University of Texas–El Paso), 1960

Areas of Specialization

• Carbonate reservoir evaluation and reservoir characterization • Geologic analysis of exploration and development prospects

Research

• Carbonate reservoir characterization and flow unit quality assessment • Carbonate depositional and diagenetic environments • Environmental sedimentology • Environmental geology

Awards and Honors

• Best Paper Award, West Texas Geological Society, 2003 (with student J. Layman) • Second Prize, Best Paper Competition, AAPG National Meeting 2001 (student T. Hopkins)

Research Award, Ministry of Education and Science, Madrid, Spain, 1993 • Fulbright Research Scholar, Belgium, 1988 • Professeur Invité, Université de Louvain, Belgium 1988 • Faculty Development Study Award, Great Britain; Visiting Scholar, U. of Leicester, U.K., 1984 • Best Paper of Convention, Second Place, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting,

1983 • NASA Fellowship, Rice U., 1966–67 • Who’s Who in the South and Southwest • American Men and Women of Science


Walter B. Ayers Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Walter Ayers is Visiting Professor of Geosciences in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering and Adjunct Professor in the Geology and Geophysics Department at Texas A&M University, where he teaches courses in integrated reservoir studies, formation evaluation, unconventional reservoirs, and petroleum geology. His ongoing research involves production optimization from stripper well fields, CO2 sequestration, and enhanced methane production from coal beds.

Before joining Texas A&M University in January 2001, Ayers was Geoscience Technical Manager and Principal Consultant with Schlumberger Holditch-Reservoir Technologies, where he evaluated conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, built static reservoir models, and coordinated geologic aspects of integrated reservoir studies for domestic and international projects. Also, he was the Schlumberger appointee to the Geoscience Board of Advisors of NExT (Network for Excellence in Training), an organization that provides professional training to the oil and gas industry.

In 1995, Ayers joined S.A. Holditch & Associates as Vice President of Geosciences to build a geoscience department for oil and gas consulting. He participated in numerous oil and gas projects in the USA and internationally. In India, he mentored the ONGC coalbed methane teams that selected the exploration and pilot well sites in the Jharia Basin, an ongoing coalbed gas project. In 1997, Schlumberger purchased S.A. Holditch & Associates.

From 1991 through 1995, Ayers was at Taurus Exploration, Inc. (now, Energen Resources), where he advanced to General Manager of Geology. He was a member of a Conoco/Taurus strategic alliance management team for coalbed methane. He directed or participated in coalbed and shale gas projects in more than more than 40 basins in the UK, France, Germany, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, and the USA.

From 1978 to 1991, Ayers was with The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), where he was Program Coordinator for Natural Gas and Coal Research. His research focused on relations among depositional systems and the occurrences and producibility of oil, gas, coal, and coalbed methane. With funding from the Gas Research Institute (now, GTI), he managed studies of coalbed gas occurrence and producibility in the San Juan, Black Warrior, and Northern Appalachian basins, which led to the first coalbed methane exploration models.

Education

• Ph.D., Geology, 1984, The University of Texas at Austin • M.S., Geology, 1971, West Virginia University • B.S., Geology, 1969, West Virginia University


• Petroleum geology; integrated studies of conventional and unconventional reservoirs • Basin analysis, clastic depositional systems and facies, and related hydrology • Clastic and carbonate depositional systems • Unconventional reservoirs • Depositional framework of coal; coalbed methane exploration and development • Industry short courses in geosciences • Technical manager and team leader of integrated petroleum reservoir projects • Expert witness in hearings and court cases

Publications

More than 100 publications, 50 short courses, and 75 presentations on clastic depositional systems, integrated reservoir studies, and unconventional gas reservoirs, including fractured shales, low-permeability sands, and coal beds.


Maria A. Barrufet, P.E. Rob L. Adams Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Maria Barrufet’s interest in fluids spans research efforts as diverse as converting oilfield brine to irrigation-quality water, to optimizing oil production from gas condensate fields, to developing software for thermal simulation. Her design of hybrid technology to convert oilfield brine to irrigation-quality water addresses one of the most important and expensive problems associated with the production of oil and gas, but implementation of her technology could turn wastewater into valuable irrigation-quality water and salts for de-icing roads.

Dr. Barrufet’s evaluation of production strategies to optimize oil production from gas condensate fields involves integrated studies requiring fluid characterization, reservoir characterization and economics. Her development of software for thermal simulation includes mutual solubilities of oil and water, which have often been neglected in similar calculations.

Principal or co-principal investigator on projects sponsored by the Department of Energy and various oil companies in the areas of Improved oil recovery using thermal and chemical methods, Dr. Barrufet has over 50 publications in the areas of thermodynamics, phase behavior and phase equilibria of fluid mixtures, profile modification, neural networks, and polymer flooding.

Education

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1987 • MS, Chemical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1983 • Chemical Engineer, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, 1979

Research Interests and Areas of Specialization

• Enhanced Oil Recovery: Thermodynamics and transport phenomena applied to chemical, miscible and thermal recovery processes Multiphase Flow: Pipe flow design, numerical methods, optimization, and statistics

• Rock and Fluid Properties: Correlation and measurement of capillary pressures and relative permeabilities, polymer and gel rheology for profile modification and water control. Equations of State (EOS) for multiphase equilibria and modeling of paraffin and asphalthene deposition

• Modeling and computer simulation of flow of non-Newtonian fluids through pipe networks • Thermal recovery, particularly multiphase water/hydrocarbon equilibria: simulation, algorithm development

and optimization studies

Awards and Honors

• TEES Fellowship, 2004 • Texas A&M University Assessment Award, 2003 • W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, 1994-1995 • Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 1995 • Burlington Resources Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993 • General Electric Faculty of the Future Award, 1992 • Sterling Who’s Who, 1994


Thomas A. Blasingame, P.E. Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Geology & Geophysics

Dr. Thomas A. Blasingame joined the faculty in 1991. Two years later, he was notified that his proposal to the Department of Energy for research in reservoir characterization had been accepted, providing $1.6 million in funding—one of the largest research grants in the department’s recent history. Hired to capitalize on his expertise in applied reservoir engineering, Dr. Blasingame has established a productive and well-funded research program which has netted approximately $500,000 in the past five years.

Dr. Blasingame’s focus on high quality research is reflected in the comments of several SPE technical reviewers, and his efforts have led to 22 conference presentations. He integrates his skills as a reservoir engineer, fluid dynamicist, pressure transient analyst and mathematician in the increasingly complex domain of well test analysis. He has consulted in gas reservoir management, well testing short courses, well test analysis and interpretation, programs for reservoir description and reservoir management, and software development for petroleum engineering applications.

In addition, Dr. Blasingame manages one of the highest graduate student loads in the department, producing research that is timely and of high quality, with practical applications and a significant effect in industry. Students acknowledge that he is a challenging teacher who recognizes the value of their effort and encourages them to higher achievements.

Dr. Blasingame was the 1996 chairman of the SPE Education and Professionalism Committee and has served on several other SPE committees. He is actively involved in the American Society for Engineering Education and has chaired the department’s Austin Chalk Symposium, a one-day conference for operators, service companies, and consultants working in the Austin Chalk. He has participated on several departmental committees and currently serves on the College of Engineering Faculty Advisory Committee.

Education

• PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1989 • MS, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1986 • BS, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1984


• Technical mathematics • Oil and natural gas reservoir engineering • Reservoir evaluation • Reservoir description

Research

Dr. Blasingame is involved in continuing studies on methods for the evaluation and prediction of gas reservoir performance, field-scale programs in reservoir description and reservoir management, development and application of methods of analysis and interpretation of well tests and production data, and theoretical/computational studies of multiphase flow in porous media.

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Member, SPE, 2000 • Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award - 1994 • TAMU Association of Former Students Teaching Award - 1986


Akhil Datta-Gupta LeSuer Chair in Reservoir Management and Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Akhil Datta-Gupta is Rob L. Adams Endowed Professor in Petroleum Engineering in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. Dr. Datta-Gupta received his PhD in 1992 and MS in 1985 in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. He received his BS in Petroleum Engineering from the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, India in 1982. Prior to Texas A&M, he worked for BP Exploration and Research and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dr. Datta-Gupta is well-known throughout the industry for his contributions to fast flow simulation methods and dynamic data integration into high-resolution geologic models. He is the recipient of the 2003 Lester C. Uren Award of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) for significant technical contributions in petroleum reservoir characterization and streamline-based flow simulation. He is an SPE distinguished member (elected, 2001), distinguished lecturer (1999-2000), distinguished author (2000) and was selected as an outstanding technical editor (1996). He also received the SPE Cedric K. Ferguson Certificate for the best peer-approved paper (2000). In addition to his SPE awards, he is a recipient of the AIME Rossitter W. Raymond award (1992), TAMU Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award (1997) and serves as a member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Datta-Gupta has extensive experience in multiphase fluid flow simulation, inverse modeling and integrated characterization of subsurface heterogeneities for oil recovery and environmental remediation. He has been the principal investigator of several research projects funded by the U. S. Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and various oil companies and national laboratories. Currently he is the lead investigator of a Joint Industry Project at Texas A&M University funded by multiple domestic and international oil and service companies.

Dr. Datta-Gupta has published extensively on high-resolution reservoir characterization, rapid flow simulation techniques and large-scale parameter estimation via inverse modeling. He is considered an industry expert in streamline-based flow simulation and dynamic data integration into high-resolution reservoir models and routinely teaches industry courses on these areas.

Education

• PhD, Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1992 • MS, Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1985 • BS, Petroleum Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India.


• High resolution numerical schemes for reservoir simulation • Geostatistics and stochastic reservoir characterization • Modeling and scale-up of enhanced oil recovery • Environmental remediation and contaminant transport

Research

Dr. Datta-Gupta has research interests in integrated reservoir characterization, inverse methods, development and application of high resolution numerical schemes for reservoir simulation, and fracture zone characterization for oil recovery, as well as nuclear waste disposal. He developed the first three-dimensional version of UTCHEM, a multiphase, multicomponent compositional chemical flood simulator used by oil companies and universities worldwide.

Awards and Honors

• Distinguished Member, SPE, 2001 • Advisor to Cedrick Ferguson Award Winner, SPE, 2000 • Outstanding Technical Editor, SPE, 1996 • Rossiter W. Raymond Award of AIME for the best paper written by a member under the age of 33, 1992


Christine A. Ehlig-Economides Albert B. Stevens Endowed Chair and Professor of Petroleum Engineering

As one of the foremost contributors in the reservoir-testing field, Dr. Christine Ehlig-Economides has been distinguished by contributions in analytical models for well-test analysis, in the articulation of the practical methodology for well-test interpretation, in the design of testing procedures, and in the evaluation of testing hardware and pressure-transient data quality. She is frequently called on to address multidisciplinary groups on such subjects as re-evaluating old reservoirs by applying new interpretations to old data and by integrating new measurements with old or demonstrating why data integration enables greater information from the individual measurements. Working with geologists and geophysicists, she has discovered important avenues for interdisciplinary information exchange.

At Texas A&M, she is applying these skills in a project with other academic institutions, industry, and government to develop energy solutions as a major research and academic theme at TAMU. She is well-qualified for such as project, as her work has consistently emphasized interdisciplinary approaches to engineering problems.

Dr. Ehlig-Economides worked in about 30 countries during her 20 years with Schlumberger, and during her distinguished lecture tour in 1997-1998, she visited 15 countries on 4 continents. As chair of the SPE Cultural Diversity Committee and member of the SPE Ad Hoc Task Force on Diversity/Governance, she was instrumental in planning a roundtable on cultural diversity involving corporate executives and in expanding global member participation in society activities. Results of these efforts are seen in the current SPE tracking of SPE member interests and participation, which she originally proposed as a Global Technical Network.

Education

• PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, 1979 • MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas, 1976 • MAT, Mathematics Education, University of Kansas., 1974 • BA (cum laude), Math-Science, Rice University, 1971

Area of Expertise

• Reservoir Engineering and Horizontal and Multibranch Wells

• Layered Reservoir Testing • Pressure Transient Testing

• Reservoir Engineering • Geothermal Reservoir Engineering • Natural Gas Hydrates • Groundwater Modeling

Publications More than 50 publications and presentations, across all areas of expertise, including one textbook on production systems

Patents

• Ehlig-Economides, C.A.: "Property Determination for Multilayer Formation," US Patent # 4,803,873, 1989. • Ehlig-Economides, C.A.: "Characterizing the Layers of a Hydrocarbon Reservoir," US Patent # 5,247,829,

Sept. 5, 1993.

Honors and Awards

• National Academy of Engineering, 2003 • SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 1997-98 • SPE Lester C. Uren Award, 1997 • SPE Distinguished Member, 1996 • SPE Formation Evaluation Award, 1995 • SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for

Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 1982 • Alaska SPE Engineer of the Year, 1982

• Outstanding Faculty Award (University of Alaska, Fairbanks; School of Mineral Industry)

• Sigma Xi (National Honor Research Society) • Standard Oil of California Fellowship (Stanford

University) • Phi Kappa Phi (University of Kansas)


Gioia Falcone Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Gioia Falcone joined the faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. She was a Research Reservoir Engineer in the Geoscience Research Centre of TOTAL E&P UK. She holds a Laurea degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, an MSc degree in petroleum engineering from Imperial College London and has just completed her Ph.D. studies at Imperial College London. She has previously worked for ENI-Agip in Italy, Enterprise Oil and Shell Expro in the UK, covering both offshore and onshore assignments.

Education

• Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College, London, 2006 • MS, Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College, London, 1999


• Well Performance and Production Optimization • Production Allocation and Metering • Multiphase Flow Modelling

• 4D History Matching • Dynamic Link Reservoir/Wellbore • Wellbore Phase Redistribution

Publication Topics • “Multiphase Flow Metering: principles and applications”, Elsevier, Developments of Petroleum Science series.

Authors: G. Falcone, G.F. Hewitt, C. Alimonti. Expected publication: November 2006. • “Experimental Investigation of Wellbore Phase Redistribution Effect on Pressure Transient Data”, A.M.Ali,

G.Falcone, G.F.Hewitt, M. Bozorgzadeh, A.C.Gringarten, presented at the 2005 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, 912 October 2005.

• “Multiphase flow metering: 4 years on”, G.Falcone, G.F.Hewitt, C.Alimonti, B.Harrison, presented at the 23North Sea Flow Measurement Workshop, Tonsberg, Norway, 1821 October 2005.

• “Multiphase Flow Metering: Current Trends and Future Developments", G.Falcone, C.Alimonti, G.F.Hewitt, B.Harrison, (first presented at the 2001 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in New Orleans, Louisiana, 30 September-3 October 2001, SPE 71474) included in “Offshore Multiphase Production Operations”, SPE Reprint Series No. 58, Vol. 2, Part IV, December 2004

• “PetroElastic Modelling as a Key Element in 4D History Matching – A Field Example”, G.Falcone, O.Gosselin, F.Maire, J.Marrauld, M.Zhakupov, presented at the 2004 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Houston, Texas, 2729 September 2004, SPE 90466

• “Improving Multiphase Flow Metering Performance Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms”, C.Alimonti, G.Falcone, presented at the 3International Symposium on TwoPhase Modelling and Experimentation, Pisa, Italy, 2224 September 2004 “Impact of PetroElastic Modelling and CutOffs on the Integration of Quantitative 4D Seismic into Reservoir Modelling”, G.Falcone, F.Maire, O.Gosselin, E.Brechet, J.Marrauld, D.Caie, presented at the EAGE 66Conference and Exhibition, Paris, France, 711 June 2004

• “Integration of Multiphase Flow Metering, Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic in Field Performance Monitoring”, C.Alimonti, G.Falcone, SPE Production & Facilities, February 2004 issue

• “ANUMET: A Novel Wet Gas Flowmeter”, G.Falcone, G.F.Hewitt, L.Lao, S.M.Richardson, presented at the 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, 58 October 2003, SPE 84504

• “Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Multiphase Flow Metering: the integration of statistics, data mining, neural networks, fuzzy logic and adhoc flow measurements towards well monitoring and diagnosis”, C.Alimonti, G.Falcone, presented at the SPE ATC 2002 conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 2002

• “Experimental characterisation of gas-liquid flows through an angle valve”, C.Alimonti, U.Bilardo, G.Falcone, presented at the International Conference Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plants, Alba, Cuneo, Italy, 1820 September 2002.

• “Multiphase Flow Metering: Current Trends and Future Developments", G.Falcone, C.Alimonti, G.F.Hewitt, B.Harrison, Distinguished Author Series of the JPT, April 2002.

• “Multiphase Flow Metering: Current Trends and Future Developments", G.Falcone, C.Alimonti, G.F.Hewitt, B.Harrison, presented at the 2001 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in New Orleans, Louisiana, 30 September3 October 2001, SPE 71474

• “Model predicts more accurate PI over a field's life”, G.Falcone, B.Harrison, published in the Oil & Gas Journal, March 19, 2001.

• “Checking the AshfordPierce model through a field data base”, C. Alimonti, U.Bilardo, G.Falcone, presented at the OMC ‘99, March 1921, Ravenna, 1999, pp.12451248 of conference proceedings.


A. Daniel Hill Robert L. Whiting Endowed Chair, Assistant Department Head, and Graduate Advisor

Author of two textbooks on petroleum production, Dr. Dan Hill is a world-renowned specialist in production logging, multiphase flow in pipes, and well stimulation. He has taught undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, fluid properties, petroleum engineering design, and production engineering, and graduate courses in advanced production engineering, production logging, well stimulation, and two-phase flow in pipes since he joined the U. of Texas faculty in 1982. During the last five of his 22 years with that department, he directed the Improved Well Performance Research Program, securing funding of almost $3 million during the last three of those years alone.

Dr. Hill is a prolific writer with more than 150 publications, technical reports, and professional presentations to his credit, including the textbooks, Improved Well Performance Research Program and Petroleum Production Systems. Additionally, he has conducted more than 60 industry short courses and workshops and holds five patents for improved oil recovery through injection processes. As a 1988-89 SPE Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Hill presented his lecture on production logging in deviated wells at 28 SPE chapters throughout the world.

Prior to joining the faculty at the U. of Texas, Dr. Hill was an advanced research engineer for Marathon Oil’s Denver Research Center in Littleton, Colorado.

Education

• BS, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University 1974 • MS, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas, 1976 • PhD, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas, 1978


• Well Logging • Well Stimulation • Improved Production Performance

Publications

• More than 40 refereed publications • More than 80 presentations • More than 30 technical reports • Five patents • Two textbooks; one book chapter • More than 60 industry short courses and workshops

Honors and Awards

• Phi Kappa Phi • Tau Beta Pi • Sigma Xi • Omega Chi Epsilon • Phi Lambda Epsilon

Memberships

• Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME • American Institute of Chemical Engineers • Society of Professional Well Log Analysts


Stephen A. Holditch, P.E. Department Head, Samuel Roberts Noble Chair and Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Stephen A. Holditch has been the Head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering since January 2004. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1976 and has taught most of both the undergraduate and graduate courses. In supervising more than 100 MS and PhD students, Dr. Holditch has focused his research in areas involving gas reservoirs, well completions, and well stimulation.

Dr. Holditch was the Society of Petroleum Engineers, International (SPE) President 2002, SPE Vice President-Finance and a member of the Board of Directors for the SPE from 1998-2003. In addition, he served as a Trustee for the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) from 1997-1998.

Dr. Holditch has received numerous awards in recognition of his technical achievements and leadership. In 1995, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and in 1997 to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1998, Holditch was elected to the Petroleum Engineering Academy of Distinguished Graduates.

Education



• Analysis of low-permeability gas reservoirs • Fracture treatment design evaluation, and

optimization

• Coalbed methane development • Well completions and workovers

Research Dr. Holditch is recognized as an industry leader in the evaluation and stimulation of low permeability reservoirs. His research includes

• Low permeability gas reservoir engineering • Hydraulic fracture treatment design • Simulation of hydraulic fracture treatments • Evaluation of hydraulic fracture treatment fluids • Non-Darcy flow of gas in fractures • Effects of mud filtrate invasion upon drillstem tests and upon induction log response, and • Effects of fracture fluid cleanup upon well productivity Publications

More than 100 publications, two textbooks, and 70 presentations on advances in fracture technology; fracture properties; tight gas formation wells; stress testing and stress profiling; effects of non-Darcy flow on hydraulically fractured gas wells; water blocking and gas flow from hydraulically fractured gas wells; pre-fracture and post-fracture formation evaluation; hydraulic fracturing

Awards and Honors

National Academy of Engineering, 1995 Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 1998 Society of Petroleum Engineers • Past President, 2002-2003 • President, 2001-2002 • President elect, 2000-2001 • Treasurer, 1997-2000 • John Franklin Carll Award, 1999 • Best Paper-SPE Formation Evaluation, 1996 • Lester C. Uren Award, 1994 • Distinguished Member, 1989 • Distinguished Lecturer, 1982-83

• Distinguished Service Award for Petr Eng Faculty, 1981

• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineering (AIME) Board of Trustees, 1997-1999

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Rhodes Petroleum Industry Leadership Award, 1999

Texas A&M University • S.R. Noble Foundation Endowed Chair, 2004 • R.L. Adams Professorship, 1995-2003 • Petroleum Engineering Academy of Distinguished

Graduates, 1998 Shell Distinguished Chair in• Petroleum Engineering, 1983-87


Jerry L. Jensen Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Geology & Geophysics

Dr. Jerry L. Jensen focuses on reservoir engineering and geological statistics in his research integrating petrophysical data and geological information for reservoir characterization. He works with probe permeameter data, evaluating the amount and types of data that are necessary and reliable, and the diagnostics of data to visualize geological structure and organization.

Jensen has 10 years’ industry experience as a field engineer for Services Techniques Schlumberger in Paris and as a research engineer for Gearhart Industries in Texas. During 12 years at Heriot-Watt U. in Scotland, he continued his industry involvement by developing and teaching commercial courses on the integration of petrophysics and geology and openhole well log interpretation. After leaving Heriot-Watt, he served as an Associate Professor at U. of Alaska Fairbanks before coming to Texas A&M.

Education

• PhD, Petroleum Engineering, U. of Texas at Austin, 1986 • MS, Petroleum Engineering, U. of Houston, 1980 • BSc, Electronic & Electrical Eng., U. of Birmingham, UK, 1973: First class honors.


• Reservoir characterization • Integrating petrophysics and geology

• Openhole well logging

Research • Diagnosis of geological structure and organization from logs and cores • Strategic sampling of reservoirs: Which measurements, how many, and where? • Modeling complex interactions in poorly sampled, fractured formations • Evaluating interwell communications for reservoir management

Recent Publications

• Guan, L., McVay, D. A., Jensen, J. L., and Voneiff, G. W., “Evaluation of a Statistical Method for Assessing Infill Production Potential in Mature, Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs,” Journal Energy Resources Technology, vol. 126, pp241-244, 2004.

• Jensen, J. L., Hart, J. D., and Willis, B. J., “Evaluating Proportions of Undetected Geological Events in the Case of Erroneous Identifications,” Mathematical Geology, vol. 38, no. 2, in press, 2006.

• Jensen, J.L., Lake, L.W., Corbett, P.W.M., and Goggin, D.J.: Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists, Second Edition, Elsevier (2000); reprinted 2003 and 2004.

• Seifert, D., and Jensen, J. L., "Object and Pixel-based Reservoir Modelling of a Braided Fluvial Reservoir," Mathematical Geology (2000), Vol. 32, 581-603.

• Lorenz, J. C., Sterling, J. L., Schechter, D. S., Whigham, C. L., and Jensen, J. L., “Natural Fractures in the Spraberry Formation, Midland Basin, TX: The Effects of Mechanical Stratigraphy on Fracture Variability and Reservoir Behavior,” AAPG Bulletin (2002) Vol. 86, 505-524.

• *Bui, T.D., Brinton, J., Karpov, A. V., Hanks, C. L., and Jensen, J. L., "Evidence and Implications for Significant Late and Post-Fold Fracturing on Detachment Folds in the Lisburne Group of the Northeastern Brooks Range," SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering (2003) Vol. 6, 197-205.

• Hanks, C. L., Wallace, W. K., Bui. T. D., Jensen, J. L., and Lorenz, J., “The Character, Relative Age, and Implications of Fractures and Other Mesoscopic Structures Associated with Detachment Folds: An Example from the Lisburne Group,” Bull. Can. Pet. Geol. (2004) Vol. 52.

• Rivera, N., Ray, S., Jensen, J. L., Chan, A. K., and Ayers, W. B., “Detection of Cyclic Patterns Using Wavelets: An Example Study in The Ormskirk Sandstone, Irish Sea,” Mathematical Geology (2004) Vol. 36.

Honors and Awards

• Halliburton Faculty Fellow 2003 • Tenneco Teaching Award 2004


Petroleum Engineering • Texas A&M University • 15

-Wold, P.E. Hans C. JuvkamJ.E. Holt Chair and Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Hans C. Juvkam-Wold’s experience covers over 40 years in the petroleum industryfrom his beginnings as a field lab technician in Venezuela to supervisory positions forGulf Oil Exploration and Production Co. in Alaska. There, he designed and developearctic drilling systems, with emphasis on cost, ice forces, and safety.

Dr. Juvkam-Wold has served as the G

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ulf Mineral Resources Co. representative on the industry’s advisory committee on mine shaft drilling, as manager of Gulf’s technical

services, and as a section supervisor of Gulf’s production engineering.

Dr. Juvkam-Wold joined the faculty at Texas A&M U in 1985, whereupon he began to develop the graduate program of teaching and research in drilling. He assumed the position of Assistant Department Head and Undergraduate Advisor in 1993 and Interim Head in 1996 and again in 2003.

Education

• ScD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969 • SM, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967 • SB, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966


• Buckling of tubulars in horizontal drilling • Well control

• Arctic and offshore drilling • Riserless drilling

Res rcea h Dr. k control. His recent research has lu blems in arctic and offshore drilli a tion in ultra-deep water.

Juv am-Wold specializes in drilling problems, especially horizontal drilling and well inc ded the buckling of tubulars in horizontal wells. He has researched special prong nd is currently involved in the development of riserless drilling for applica

Patents

• U.S. Patent 6,499,540, “Method for Detecting a Leakin a Drill String Valve,” 31 December 2002 • U.S. Patent 6,474,422 B2, “Method for Controlling a Well in a Subsea Mudlift Drilling System, 5 November

2002 • U.S. Patent 6,474,422 B, Method for Shut-In of a Subsea Mudlift Drilling System, 29 May 2002. • U.S. Patent 3,964,557, “Treatment of Weighted Drilling Mud,” 22 June 1976 • U.S. Patent 3,924,689, “Drill Bit and Method of Drilling,” 9 December 1975 • U.S. Patent 3,838,742, “Drill Bit for Abrasive Jet Drilling,” 1 October 1974

Pub alic tion Topics

Com tiTension

ple ng Horizontal Wells with Coiled Tubing; Helical Buckling of Pipes in Horizontal Wells; Hook Load and Line ; Frictional Drag Analysis; Casing Centralization; more than 70 total publications

Awa rds and Honors

• 2

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Association of Former Students of Texas A&M U. Distinguished Teaching Award, 199• Tenneco Award for Meritorious Teaching of Engineering, 1990 and 2001

Distinguished Member of SPE, 2003 • Honorary Memberships:

o Tau Beta Pi Pi Tau Sigma

o Sigma Xio Pi Epsilon Tau

March 2006


W. John Lee, P.E. L.F. Peterson Chair and Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. W. John Lee is known throughout the world in petroleum reservoir engineering. After receiving BChE, MS, and PhD degrees from Georgia Tech, Dr. Lee worked for the Reservoir Studies Division of Exxon Production Research Company from 1962 to 1968. His work focused on simulator reservoir studies of major Exxon reservoirs

ed by SPE: Well Testing, Gas Reservoir Engineering, and Pressure Transient Testing.

t member of the Board of Directors of SPE, has been a Distinguished Lecturer, has received the Disti ui or SPE. He received the 1986 Res oi med a Distinguished Member in 1987 an ard in 1992. Dr. Lee was also elected s first class of its Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni in 1994. He received the AIME Mineral Industries Education Award in 2002 and

thony F. Lucas Gold Medal in 2003.

in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and South Texas. Later he joined and eventually headed Exxon Company, USA’s, Major Fields Study Group, where he supervised integrated field studies of Exxon’s largest domestic reservoirs. In 1975-76, he was District Reservoir Engineer for Exxon’s Houston District.

He joined Texas A&M University in 1977 and currently holds the Peterson Chair in Petroleum Engineering. He also joined S. A. Holditch & Associates, Inc., petroleum engineering consultants, in 1980 and retired as Executive Vice President in 1999. He is the author of three textbooks publish

He is a pasng shed Faculty Achievement Award, and is a Continuing Education Lecturer ferv r Engineering Award and the John Franklin Carll Award in 1995. He was na, Honorary Member in 2001, and received SPE's Distinguished Service Aw

to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 and to Georgia Tech'

received the AIME/SPE An

Education

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1963 , Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1961 • MS

• BChE, Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 1959

Areas of Expertise

Oil and Gas Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir Analysis and Management, Petroleum Project Economics

Awa s rd and Honors

•

demy of Engineering, 1993 y Member, 2001

• Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni, 1994 hed Service Award, 1992

ward, 1986

of Engineering, 1983 for Teaching Excellence, 1983

• Halliburton Education Foundation Award, 1982-1983

Engineers' Council, 1982 • SPE Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award,

1982 • Distinguished Lecturer, SPE, 1978-1979

ducation Program,

Continuing Education Program, 1970 – Present

SPE DeGolyer Distinguished Service Medal, 2004 • Texas A&M Association of Former Students • SPE Continuing Education Award, 2003 Distinguished Achievement Awards

tion, 2001 • AIME/SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, 2003 • Continuing Educage• AIME Mineral Industries Education Award, 2002 • Teaching, Colle

rd• Texas Society of Professional Engineers “Dream Team,” 2001

• Tenneco Awaand 2000

• National Aca• SPE Honorar• AIME Honorary Member, 2000 • SPE John Franklin Carll Award, 1995

• Outstanding Achievement Award in Teaching, Texas A&M Student

Georgia Tech,• SPE Distinguis• Invited Paper, SPE Distinguished Author Series, • Lecturer, AAPG Continuing E

nt October 1987; November 1994 SPE Distinguished Member, 1987

1977 - Prese• Lecturer, SPE•

• SPE Regional Service Award, 1987 • SPE Reservoir Engineering A

Publicat sion Books - m Presentations – more than 150 Publications - more than 100 ore than 7

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J. Bryan Maggard Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor

Bryan Maggard joined the faculty in 1998. He is currently the Undergraduate Advisor for the department. His undergraduate and graduate teaching areas include engineering fundamentals, numerical methods, gas reservoir engineering, and application and development of numerical reservoir simulation technology.

Dr. Maggard served as a research associate with the Department of Petroleum Engineering beginning in 1995. His projects include coordination of reservoir simulation efforts for the Bakhilov Field Study as part of the Varyeganneftegaz (VNG) Technical Training Course (1995) and instructor of applied reservoir simulation as part of the PetroVietnam Training Program (1997).

Dr. Maggard previously practiced in industry as a production engineer with Pierce Oil & Gas, Inc. in Ft. Worth, and as a reservoir engineer with Chevron Exploration & Production Services Co., Houston.

Education



• Thermal recovery methods

• Applied reservoir simulation • Numerical methods and application of computing • Tight Gas Reservoir Engineering/Simulation

Research

Dr. Maggard is involved in continuing research efforts of the Reservoir Modeling Consortium. Hisresearch topic considered the complex reservoir engineering and production engineering aspects of liquid removal

dissertation

reservoirs. His ongoing research includes analysis through reservoir simulation of ar hydraulic fractures in tight retrograde condensate reservoirs.

Dr. g nvestig ure-depe e rformance t ting method unde st pendent.

from gas wells in low-permeabilitycondensate damage ne

Ma gard has also used numerical simulation to i ate nonuniqueness that appears when presst an exisnd nt permeability affects analysis of transient pe

re imates OGIP when permeability is pressure de da a. His work determined tha


Daulat D. Mamora Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Daulat D. Mamora has worked internationally, covering a broad spectrum of petroleum engineering activities, including the design and management of oil and gas development projects, and gas and water injection schemes.

During his 15 years as a petroleum engineer with Royal Dutch/Shell, Dr. Mamora

ransportation, U.S. Department of Energy, and consortia including Shell, Halliburton,

ment. He is also on the editorial boards of SPE Journal and Ciencia, Technologia y Futuro, the journal of Ecopetrol, Colombia.

served as head of the reservoir engineering department and as advisor in exploration and production at Shell in Malaysia.

As a member of the Texas A&M faculty, Dr. Mamora has conducted training programs for engineers from Japan, Indonesia, Russia, and Vietnam. He has conducted research projects for Hyperion Resources, Burlington Resources, the US Department of TChevronTexaco, Saga Petroleum, BP, Saudi Aramco, Mobil, ConocoPhillips, and Total S.A. He was instrumental in establishing the Henry J. “Hank” Ramey Thermal Recovery laboratory in the depart

Edu tioca n

• PhD, Stanford University, 1993 • MS, Stanford University, 1990 • BS (Honors), University of Malaya, 1973


• Waterflood and thermal oil recovery

• Zone isolation in horizontal wells

• Gas injection and recycling • Reservoir development and management

Research

Dr. Mamora’s main research interests are thermal recovery, waterflood, improved oil recovery with horizontal wells, and gas reservoir engineering with emphasis on experimental research where applicable.

Awards and Honors

• ChevronTexaco Fellow Texas A&M University Engineering Program, 2002-2003 • Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 1996 • Texas Engineering Experiment Station Engineering Excellence Award, 1993


William D. McCain, Jr. Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. William D. “Bill” McCain’s 37-year history in petroleum engineering includes both faculty and consultative positions, including 11 years as head of the petroleum engineering department at Mississippi State University. He gained his early experience with Esso Research Laboratories starting in 1956 and began teaching at Mississippi State in 1963. He served in the U.S. Army from 1976 until 1984, when he joined the faculty at Texas A&M University.

Since 1987, he has worked with projects in reservoir engineering and simulation, corrosion abatement, surface processing, NGL plants, compositional modeling, and miscible flooding as a consultant, first with Cawley, Gillespie & Associates and then with S.A. Holditch & Associates until its purchase by Schlumberger.

Dr. McCain has consulted for several hundred clients and taught short courses for SPE and several major oil companies worldwide.

Education

• PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1964 ogy, 1961

, 1956 • MS, Georgia Institute of Technol• BS, Mississippi State University


• Reservoir engineering and reservoir management

and retrograde gases

• Reservoir fluid properties • Reservoir rock properties • Reservoir simulation, especially volatile oils

Patents

• U.S. Patent 2,942,619, “Feed Injector for Coking for Chemicals,” Sept. 13, 1960 • U.S. Patent 2,943,994, “Chemicals Coking Quenching System,” July 5, 1960 • U.S. Patent 6,945,327, “Method for Reducing Permeability Restriction near Wellbore,” Sept. 20, 2005

Publications

Dr. C he Properties of Petroleum Fluids and 46 professional articles, generally

Mc ain has written two editions of the textbook T on reservoir engineering with many specific to fluid properties.


Duane A. McVay Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Duane A. McVay teaches courses and conducts research in the areas of applied reservoir simulation and integrated reservoir management. He has been instrumental in the development and teaching of the senior-level capstone design courses in Integrated Reservoir Studies; these are multi-disciplinary courses involving faculty and students in geology, geophysics and petroleum engineering.

Dr. McVay has over 16 years of industry experience with S. A. Holditch & Associates, Inc. (SAH), a petroleum engineering consulting company. At SAH, he conducted and supervised integrated reservoir studies involving multi-disciplinary teams of geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists, production engineers and reservoir engineers with the objective of optimizing reservoir depletion plans. Dr. McVay also supervised the group responsible for the development and support of the company's commercial reservoir simulation software.

Education

• Texas A&M University - B.S. Petroleum Engineering (1980) ineering (1982)

ngineering (1994) • Texas A&M University - M.S. Petroleum Eng

E• Texas A&M University - Ph.D. Petroleum


• Applied reservoir simulation s • Integrated reservoir studie

• Reservoir simulation software development

Publications Topics

• Reservoir Simulation

• Production Performance Analysis

• Gas Reservoir Engineering • Well Test Interpretation • Numerical Methods for Simulation • Integrated Reservoir Modeling

Awards

• Amoco Foundation Award for Distinguished Service to Students, 1983


Larry D. Piper, P.E. Senior Lecturer

Dr. Larry Piper has more than 20 years of teaching experience in the department. He served as coordinator of Engineering 109, a college-wide introductory engineering and computing course from 1991 to 1994, and served as assistant head for the undergraduate program within the department. In that capacity, he administered a wide-reaching scholarship program that served almost every student in the department, including the prestigious Nelson Scholarships, which are intradepartmental scholarships equivalent to the university’s President’s Endowed Scholarships.

Prior to joining the department, he had 20 years of military experience including assignments in management, project analysis, and teaching, and three years of petroleum production experience with a major oil company.

Education

• PhD, Texas A&M University, 1984 • MS, Texas A&M University, 1981 • MS, US Naval Postgraduate School, 1970 • BS, Texas A&M University, 1957


• Reservoir engineering • Reservoir simulation • Phase behavior

Research

Dr. lude reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, and phase behavior of reservoir syst s; gas compressibility factors.

Piper’s research interests incem and methods for computing

Awa s rd and Honors

• Presidential Award for Academic Advising, 2004 lopment, Huddleston Co., Inc., 1994

• Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, 1993 • Extra Mile Award for Student Deve

Publication Topics

• Water and gas coning • Z-factor correlations


David S. Schechter Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. David S. Schechter heads the Naturally Fractured Reservoir CharacterizationEngineering group at Texas A&M. Before joining Texas A&M in 2000 he was at theNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology for 7 years. Prior to New MexicoTech, Dr. Schechter performed research and taught in the Petroleum EngineeringDepartment at Stanford University from 1989 - 1993. He has been involved in anextensive reservoir characterization effort in the naturally fractured Spraberry TrendArea that has involved geological, petrophysical, logging interpretation, coreflooding,wettability assessment si

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mulation studies and the design of a waterflood and CO2 pilot in the Spraberry trend, one of the largest oil fields in the world.

Education

• PhD, Physical Chemistry, Bristol University, England, 1988 iversity of Texas at Austin, 1984 • BSc, Chemical Engineering, The Un


• CO2 Phase Behavior • Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

• Log Analysis • Core Analysis • Surface Chemistry • Integrated Reservoir Studies • Reservoir Simulation

• Gas Injection • Waterflooding • Pilot Design

Research • Pilot design in the Spraberry Trend Area, west Texas

• Gravity Drainage

l Modeling

• Geological and Petrophysical Analysis • Wettability Determination and Imbibition Experiments

• Numerica• Reservoir Simulation • CO2 Flooding and Gas Injection

Publications

• Schechter, D.S., “Waterflooding and CO2 Injection in the Naturally Fractured Spraberry Trend Area,” n Petroleum Technology, 41, No. 10, Pg. 9 – 14, 2002. in the Spraberry Formation, Midland Basin, TX: The Effects of Mechanical cture Variability and Reservoir Behavior,” Lorenz, J.C., Sterling, J.L., Schechter,

D.S., Whigham, C.L., and Jensen, J.L., AAPG Bulletin, 92, No. 15, Pg. 999 - 1030 (2002). • “Advanced Reservoir Characterization to Evaluate Carbon Dioxide Flooding, Spraberry Trend, Midland

Basin, Texas,” Montgomery, S.L., Schechter, D.S., and Lorenz, J.C., AAPG Bulletin, 84, No. 9, Pg. 1247-1273 (2000).

• Schechter, D.S. and Guo, B., “Parachors Based on Modern Physics and Their Uses in IFT Prediction of Reservoir Fluids,” SPE Reservoir Engineering, 15, Pg. 65 – 81, 1996.

• Schechter, D.S., Zhou, D. and Orr, F.M., Jr., J. Pet. Sci. and Eng., “Low IFT Drainage and Imbibition,” 11, 283–300, 1994.

Journal of Canadia• Natural Fractures

Stratigraphy on Fra


Jerome J. Schubert, P.E. Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Jerome J. Schubert has nearly 25 years’ experience in the petroleum industmostly as a drilling engineer. He specializes in well control training and methodeep water drilling, underbalanced drilling and managed pressure drilling. DSchubert has extensive industry experience with Pennzoil Company and Enron and Gas, as well as in academia at the U. of Houston-Victoria’s Petroleum TrainiInstitute, and at Texas A&M U. since 1994.

Dr. Schubert’s teaching duties include foundations of engineering, drilling and production systems, drilling engineering, and advanced drilling engineering at the undergraduate level. His graduate courses include special topics in underbalanced drilli

ry, ds,

r. Oil ng

ng, drilling engineering, and advanced well control. Dr. Schubert has also taught industry courses in well control, drilling technology, underbalanced drilling, dual-gradient drilling, extended-

ultilateral drilling, well completion and workover technology, and quick-look log interpretation. reach/m

Dr. Schubert is a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Education

• PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1999 gineering, Texas A&M University, 5

Texas A&M University, 1• ME, Petroleum En 199 • BS, Petroleum Engineering, 978

Research

• Drilling • Well • Dual-gradient

control drilling

illing • Conductor casing setting depth • Risk assessment of drilling systems

• Underbalanced drilling

• Managed pressure dr

Recent Publications • Choe, J., Schubert, J.J., and Juvkam-Wold, H.C., “Analyses and Procedures for Kick Detection in

Subsea Mudlift Drilling,” paper IADC/SPE 87114 presented at the 2004 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, –4 March.

bert, J.J., “Optimum Selection of Underbalanced Techniques,” paper SPE/IADC /IADC Middle East Drilling Technology Conference & Exhibition, Abu

Dhabi, UAE, 20-22 October. ert, J.J. and Juvkam-Wold, H.C., Choe, J., Denney, D., “Well-Control Procedures for Dual-

Dallas, Texas, USA, 2• Al-Ajmi, S.E. and Schu

85322 presented at the 2003 SPE

• SchubGradient Drilling,” JPT (June, 2003).

• Schubert, J.J., Juvkam-Wold, H.C., and Choe, J., “Well Control Procedures for Dual Gradient Drilling as Compared to Conventional Riser Drilling,” paper SPE 79880 presented at the 2003 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19-21 February.

Patents

• U.S. Patent 6,394,195 “Dynamic Shut-In of a Subsea Mudlift Drilling System” May 28, 2002. U.S. Patent 6,474,422 “Controlling a Well in a Subsea Mudlift Drilling System” November 2, 2002. U.S. Patent 6,499,5

• • 40 “Method for Detecting a Leak in a Drill String Valve” December 31, 2002.

Invited Lectures

Dr. S uThese lectures have included topics as simple as rocks and minerals in oilwell drilling to extended-reach multilateral drilling and drilling in high-pressure/high-temperature conditions.

ch bert has given invited lectures on drilling topics ranging from well blowout control to riserless drilling.


Petroleum Engineering

Stuart L. Scott Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Stuart L. Scott has nine years of industry experience covering a wide range of petroleum engineering topics. He has worked with Phillips Petroleum Company as a software development/consulting engineer in their corporate headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; as a drilling and production engineering in their Panhandle Region Office (Borger, TX); and as a reservoir engineering specialist on their Alaska/California Partner Operated Asset Team (Houston).

His industry experience covers such diverse topics as asset management, hydraulic fracturing, multiphase flow in pipes, air-foam workover/completions, reservoir simulation and software development. His specialty is application of technology to improve asset performance.

In 1996, Dr. Scott joined the Petroleum Engineering Department at Louisiana State U. as an Assistant Professor where he developed a well funded research program on multiphase production systems with a focus on

er 1.1 million dollars in research funding, including support from the MMS, NSF, DOE, the State of Louisiana, and industry.

Scott joined the Petroleum Engineering faculty at Texas A&M as an Associate Professor and has mov h the College Station Campus. He teaches clas o d roundtable symposia on multiphase pump well h

deepwater/subsea applications. At LSU, he was awarded ov

In 1998, Dr.ed is research program on multiphase production systems toses n production engineering and well stimulation and has hoste tec nology.

Education

• Ph.D. ., Petroleum Engineering, University of Tulsa, 1987 uter Science, University of Tulsa, 1985

Engineering, University of Tulsa, 1982• M.S., Comp• B.S., Petroleum

Research

• Multiphase flo• Well performance

w in pipes

• • Hydraulic fracturing

Well completion design

Publications

Dr. S tthydr c

co has presented a number of papers on such diverse topics as multiphase flow in pipe, well performance, auli fracturing and reservoir simulation.

Awar ds and Honors

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Henry R. Worthington Medal, 2003

• Chair of the Panhandle Section, 1992 e Production Operations Technical Committee, 2000, 1992

TEES Fellow, 2004 • • Shell Doctoral Fellow,1986-87 • Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) • International Winner, Student Paper Contest, PhD Division, 1987

• Chair of th• Chair for the first SPE Forum on Multiphase Flow, Pumping and Separation Technology, 1992 • Editor of the SPE Reprint Volume on Offshore Multiphase Production Operations,1998-99 • ASME, member

• Texas A&M University • 24

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Richard A. Startzman, P.E. L.F. Peterson Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Richard A. Startzman’s expertise is based largely on his 20 years with ChevronCorporation in management, research and operations in Europe, the Middle East, anthe U.S. His early experience included research for Standard Oil Co. of California,culminating with his position as head of operations research. During three years in theArabian Gulf, he proposed $5 billion in projects to increase recovery from the Bahrainfield. In the United Kingdom, he managed all reservoir

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engineering activities for Chevron’s European operations, including the second highest producing field in the North Sea. Prior to joining Texas A&M’s Petroleum Engineering faculty, Dr. Startzman was manager of Exploration and Production Computing. He consults with majors, independents, and service companies in the areas of economics and reservoir engineering.

Education

• PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1969 • MS, Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1962 • BS, Petroleum Engineering, Marietta College, 1961


• Reservoir • Economic

engineering evaluation

• Artificial intelligence • Operations research

Research

Dr. Startzman concentrates much of his effort in the areas of economic optimization for offshore oil and gas fields and developing and improving economic risk analysis methods.

Publication Topics

Offs re ll Log Correlation; AI in Formation Evaluation; Knowledge-Based Systems in Petroleum E&P; Economic Evaluation; Neural Networks

ho Field Development; We

Awards and Honors

• Society of Petroleum Engineers •

lden Gate Section, 1981-82

date

athematics) • Phi Kappa Phi (Scholarship) • Sigma Xi (Research)

Distinguished Member, 1994 • Chairman, Go• General Chair—1978• Annual California Regional Meeting Publications Chairman—1974 • Peterson Professorship, 1993 to• Tenneco Teaching Award, 1989 • Halliburton Professor of Petroleum Engineering, 1984 to 1985 • Honorary Societies: • Pi Epsilon Tau (Petroleum Engineering) • Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) • Beta Beta Chi (Music) • Kappa Mu Epsilon (M


March 2006


Catalin Teodoriu Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Catalin Teodoriu joined the faculty in 2006. He was a research coordinator for petroTechnical University of Clausthal. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering for Oil University “Petrol-Gaze” Ploiesti, Romania, he completed his Ph.D. studies at the Clausthal, Germany. From 1996-1998, he was employed in the Oil and Gas Company (P1998 he joined Institute of Petroleum Engineering, TU Clausthal and has worked in vrelated to oil and gas tubular goods, drilling fluids and field equipment development.

leum engineering at the and Gas Industry at the Technical University of ETROM) in Romania. In arious research projects

Education

• Ph.D., Technical Sciences, “Oil-Gas” University, Ploiesti, Romania, 2005 • Ph.D., Engineering, Technical University of Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, 2003

anced Studies, Petroleum Equipment for Offshore Production, “Oil-Gas” University, Ploiesti,

Romania, 1996

• AdvRomania, 1997

• MS, Mechanical Engineering, “Oil-Gas” University, Ploiesti,


• Computer modeling and optimization

ver

g equipment

odeling

• Well completion and worko

• Drilling process and drillin

• Threaded connections m

Research

• Threaded connection optimization

aviour under extreme conditions

• Non conventional drilling methods

oil industry (thread compounds, mud additives)

• OCTG design and well integrity

• Deep-Well Casing Integrity

• Cement beh

• HPHT Cementing for Deep Gas Wells

• Intelligent completion

• Lubrication in

• Finite Element Simulation

Publication Topics

• Teodoriu, C., Buttress Connection Resistance under Extreme Axial Compression Loads, Oil and Gas

, Particle Holdup Profiles in Horizontal Gas-Liquid-Solid echnology, Vol 28, No. 12, November 2005, ISSN

lts of Casing Threaded Connection, mane de Mecanica Ruperii, ARMR, Nr. 17, Iluy 2005, ISSN 1453-8148

Mor a

Magazine, 4/2005, Volume 31, ISSN 0342-5622 • Bello, O.O, Reinicke, K.M, Teodoriu, C.

Multiphase Flow Pipeline, Chemical Engineering &T0930-7516

• Ulmanu, V., Teodoriu, C., Fatigue Life Prediction and Test ResuBuletinul Asociatiei Ro

e th n 20 Conference papers.

Awa s rd and Honors

• PETROM SA, Excellence scholarship best student, “Oil-Gas” University, Ploiesti, Romania ,1995-1996


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Peter P. Valkó Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Peter Valkó’s primary interest is stimulation of hydrocarbon producing wells. His activities involve design, optimization and evaluation of hydraulic fracturing operations. He is an expert on the rheology of fracturing fluids with special emphasis on foams, and he has recently published a textbook on hydraulic fracturing.

His broader fields of interest include mathematical modeling, identification and optimization of processes involving fluid flow, elastic deformation, phase transition and chemical kinetics.

In a tio vel in the U.S., Austria, and Hungary

Dr. Valkó is a member has e

ddi n to his research, Dr. Valkó has taught for 20 years at the university le; and he has conducted research in Russia.

of the Well Completions Technical Committee of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and rec ntly been named to the editorial board of SPE Journal.

Edu tioca n

• PhD (Candidate of Sciences), Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, USSR, 1981 of Chemical Engineering, Hungary, 1975

sity of Chemical Engineering, Hungary, 1973 • Doctor technicus, Veszprem University• MS (Dipl. chemical engineer), Veszprem Univer

Pub atlic ions

Dr. k d two chapters in multi-author monographs. He has more than 25 ed technical journals.

Val ó is the author of three books anpublications in peer-review


• Modeling, identification, and optimization • Hydraulic Fracturing


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Robert A. Wattenbarger, P.E. Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Robert A. Wattenbarger has more than 35 years’ experience in the petroleum industry. Reservoir engineering and computer software have been his specialties, with emphasis on reservoir simulation and well test analysis. He was vice president of Scientific Software Corporation in Denver for 10 years after being involved in the formation of that company.

Education

• PhD, Stanford University, 1967 • MS, University of Tulsa, 1965 • BS, University of Tulsa, 1958


• Reservoir simulation • Gas engineering • Well test analysis • Thermal recovery

Research

Dr. Wattenbarger has three main areas of research: gas reservoir engineering emphasizing production and analysis of tight gas reservoirs, paraffin deposition in wellbores and in reservoirs, electromagnetic heating of reservoirs, and well test analysis and well performance, in general. Research in these areas is centered around

ques and solutions. reservoir simulation techni

Publication Topics

Dr. Wattenbarger’s SPE textbook, Gas Reservoir Engineering, co-authored with John Lee, was published in 1996. His recent papers have been in the area of gas reservoir engineering; past papers explored aquifer influence functions with applications mainly to Gulf Coast reservoirs, and real gas well test analysis including the effects of wellbore storage and non-Darcy flow.

Dr. Wattenbarger has recently published several papers on paraffin deposition in wellbores and in reservoirs. They included using a new reservoir/wellbore simulator to study the effects of solution gas, natural cooling, and artificial heating, making this the first such simulation in the industry. This work was a follow-up of a number of papers that on electrical (or electromagnetic) heating of oil wells, a pioneering technology that has proved to be only marginally economical to date.

Dr. Wattenbarger has written a number of papers on reservoir simulation. Of particular interest was the industry’s first compositional simulator and simulation project on the Carson Creek gas cycling project. This was the first time that comparative cases could be run for full and partial gas cycling, followed by blow-down.


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Darla-Jean Weatherford

Lecturer

Ms. Darla-Jean Weatherford has taught technical writing and presentations for the department since 1993. She also serves as the department’s information representative, producing the department's newsletter, the Reservoir, and fielding and responding to questions about the department's history, events, and services.

Before joining this department, Ms. Weatherford taught technical writing in the sine Administration program and the Department of English for 3 as 1 years' experience teaching secondary school English and journalism. Her master's thesis in

docu en purposes gives her a unique background in technical writing and presentations research. She also serves as a freelance technical editor and presentations designer.

Master of Bu ssyears. She h 2

m t preparation for educational

Educ tioa n

• MS, Educational Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M University, 1989 t Texas State University, 1972 • BS, Education, Southwes


• Technical report writing and editing • Technical presentation design

tance learning course design • Dis


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Ding Zhu Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Ding Zhu is an Assistant Professor at Petroleum Engineering Department at TexaA&M University. Before joint Texas A&M, she was a Research Scientist at TheUniversity of Texas at Austin. Since 1992, Dr. Ding Zhu has conducted and supervisedresearch projects in production engineering, well stimulation, and complex weperformance. Dr. Zhu is author of more than fifty technical papers, and a member of

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ell stimulation, well performance improvement, and horizontal/multilateral wells.

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Her research areas include productionengineering, well stimulation, and multilateral well technology.

Dr. Zhu has developed several comprehensive computer software applications for production engineering, many of which have been adopted by industry sponsors. She developed the production engineering software package, PPS, which has been widely used in teaching and in the field worldwide. She has also taught numerous short courses on w

Edu tioca n

• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Beijing University of Science & Technology, 1982 • MS, Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988

ngineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992 • PhD, Petroleum E

Res rcea h Areas

• Design and evaluation of acidizing processes • Integrated production-log interpretation • Horizontal well completions and stimulation

Professional Activity

• Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986-current • Section Chairman, SPE Fifth International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Beijing, China, 1995 • Program Committee and Section Chairman, SPE Sixth International Oil & Gas Conference and

Exhibition, Beijing, China, 1998 • Session Chairman, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 2003 and 2004 • Program Committee, Production Optimization and Monitoring, SPE Annual Technical Conference and

Exhibition, 2003 and 2004 • Program Committee, SPE Applied Technology Workshop—Hydraulic Fracturing, March, 2003 • Program Chairman, SPE Austin Section, 2001-2002 • Chairman, SPE Austin Section, 2002-2003 • Scholarship Chairman, SPE Austin Section, 2003-2004

Honors

• “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering,” 1998 • “Who’s Who in American Women,” 1998 • Distinguished Engineer, China National Offshore Oil Co., 1983-84 • University Academic Awards, Beijing University of Science & Technology, 1980 and 1982

Publications

More than 50 publications and presentations


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Faculty RetiredJohn C. Calhoun, Jr., Professor Emeritus

Deputy Chancellor for Engineering Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering Emeritus Dr. John C. Calhoun has served Texas A&M from the level of vice-chancellor to dprograms for research and experimentation, consistently seeing ways to advance the Uinstitutions of higher education. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a D

ean to director of major niversity’s stature among

istinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, an Honorary member of AIME, and a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Engineering Education. He has received the Mineral Industry Education Award from AIME, the Degolyer Medal from SPE, and a Centennial Medallion from ASEE.

Paul B. Crawford, Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus of Petroleum Engineering Author o exas A&M. He received the ci and served as a Distinguished Lect r xas Tech University College of Engi er n Science in 1977.

f more than 150 publications, Dr. Paul Crawford is now Professor Emeritus at TSo ety of Petroleum Engineers’ Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal in 1982 ure of SPE in 1979-80. He was named Distinguished Engineer by Tene ing in 1982. He received the Italian Interpetrol World Award for America

James W. Jennings., Professor Emeritus

ProfDr. m rofessional career as a professor of petroleum engineering, inter er lf Research and Development Co. When he retired from GRDC in 1985, he was vice president of the Production Research Division. Five of his inventions during the

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essor Emeritus of Petroleum Engineering Ja es Jennings spent two-thirds of his psp sed with 13 years as a researcher with Gu

1960s earned U.S. pate

Jam .es T Rollins., Professor Emeritus

Dr. James Rollins applied engineering to the drilling, compboth sdomestic rds from the Atlantic Richfield Foundation in 1983 to 1985 and was reco iz

letion, and workover processes for oil and gas wells, on hore and offshore. His research emphasized the cementing and stimulation of problem wells, both

and foreign. He received awagn ed as a Permian Basin Pioneer.

James E. Russell

Dr. e Head of Petr u head, the department established its first Industry Boa a uate programs by U.S. News and World Report and in unde ra

Jam s E. Russell taught in Petroleum Engineering and Geophysics from 1978 to 2005, serving asole m Engineering from 1992 to 1996. During his term asrd nd was ranked tops in the nation in gradrg duate programs by The Gourman Report.

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Laboratories Acid Stimulation Laboratory In this lab, we will develop new and better methods to measure acid-fracture conductivity so industry can better design well completions in deep, carbonate reservoirs. Engineering Imaging Laboratory A state-of-the-art, high-resolution, fourth-generation X-ray CT scanner is available for general use. Within PETE, it is used mainly for measurements of porosity and saturations in cores and enhanced oil recovery flood experiments. Fluid Separation and Treating Laboratory In this lab we will utilize inclinable multiphase flow loop donated by Halliburton to investigate multiphase flow in wells & risers. Fracture Conductivity Laboratory In this lab we will develop two-phase models of stimulation treatments in naturally-fractured gas reservoirs and build fracture-performance models based on experimental studies of fracture conductivity. Gas Hydrates Laboratory Sophisticated equipment in this lab is devoted to understanding the growth and dissolution of gas hydrate crystals. High Pressure/High Temperature Fluid Property Measurement Laboratory In this lab, we will measure gas viscosities with extended ranges of temperatures, pressures, gas specific gravities, and quantities of non-hydrocarbons. These data will be used to extend the range of applicability of the correlation to 400 F and at least 25,000 psia. Integrated Reservoir Investigations Laboratory This lab contains new UNIX workstations, associated projectors, plotters and printers, and the latest engineering and geoscience's software, available for teaching, research, and continuing education programs. Mobil Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory for Core Analysis Students in this teaching lab practice measurement of rock and fluid properties. Students in this teaching lab practice measurement of rock and fluid properties. Naturally Fractured/Integrated Reservoir Studies Laboratory This lab focuses on multi-disciplinary approach to improving reservoir performance in naturally fractured reservoirs. This is accomplished by integrating all facets of information to achieve optimization of recovery in specific field cases. Research is focused on fracture and matrix characterization, core and log analysis, fluid flow and transfer mechanisms (capillary imbibition and gravity drainage) and analytical and numerical simulation of these processes. Water flooding and gas injection experiments are performed at reservoir conditions using reservoir rock fluids. Oilfield Brine Processing Laboratory Research to improve the efficiency of membrane-based filters used for treatment and desalination of produced water and brackish ground water. We will continue to investigate advanced membrane-filter simulator models, new and novel cleanup methods, and low-power desalination technology, which we will test in field demonstrations. Ramey Thermal Recovery Laboratory Experiments carried out in this lab are aimed at understanding and optimizing oil production using steam and in-situ combustion oil recovery techniques. Oil recovery using various configurations of vertical and horizontal wells as producers and injectors can be investigated and compared. Riverside Field-Scale Production Test Facility This facility comprises test wells, flow loops, and multi-phase pumping and metering equipment. It is in an early stage of development. Texaco Drilling Fluids Laboratory/Fluid Rheology Lab


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This teaching lab provides students hands-on experience in dealing with changing behaviors of drilling fluids. Tommie E. Lohman Fluid Measurement Laboratory This lab provides equipment and procedures for the physical analysis of oilfield fluids including oilfield emulsions, water and sediment in oils, and gas and liquid metering. A working water well is used in conjunction with the lab for analysis of transient pressure and sucker rod pumps. The lab serves as an instructional facility for production engineering where students are trained in the acquisition and evaluation of fluid data. Emphasis is placed on development of procedures for handling oilfield fluid samples.

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