Huangye Chen, Kai Cheng, and Assistant Professor Zoya Heidari received special acknowledgements for their presentations given during the 2014 Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) 55th Annual Symposium held in the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center on May 18-22.
Cheng, a graduate student, and Heidari, a Chevron Corporation Faculty Fellow in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M, presented a paper during the meeting, “Quantifying the Impact of Petrophysical Properties on Spatial Distribution of Contrasting Nanoparticle Agents in Naturally Fractured Organic-Shale Formations.” Other authors of this work include Aderonke Aderibigbe, Masoud Alfi, and Professor John Killough, all from the department of petroleum engineering. Their paper was selected by the 2014 Technology Committee as the Best Poster Presentation at the symposium. As awardees of the Best Poster Presentation, Cheng and Heidari have become part of the Distinguished Speaker Program and will be called upon to share their work with other SPWLA chapters. Cheng’s research interests focus on the application of nanoparticles for enhanced well-log measurements.
The paper by Chen, another graduate student, and Heidari, entitled “Pore-Scale Evaluation of Dielectric Measurements in Formations with Complex Pore and Grain Structures,” was also selected as part of the Distinguished Speaker Program. The program provides the list of distinguished speakers to local SPWLA chapters so the presenters can be called upon to share their research at local meetings. Chen’s areas of research interest include electrical and dielectric properties of organic-rich source rocks.
The presentation of these awards will be made at the business luncheon during the 2015 SPWLA Annual Symposium in Long Beach, California.
“As the Formation Evaluation team at Texas A&M, we received two awards for our technical papers,” said Heidari. “The selections are based on both technical content of the papers and the presentation quality. It is a pleasure to hear from SPWLA that this award is another demonstration of the great success of the graduate program at Texas A&M University.”
Both of the students are currently involved with the Multi-Scale Formation Evaluation Research Group headed by Heidari. This joint industry research program is developing methods for reliable evaluations of challenging formations such as organic-shale and carbonate formations using multi-scale formation data.
In addition to these two awards, three of Heidari’s students (Lu Chi, Mehrnoosh Sanifar, and Huangye Chen) also received fellowships from SPWLA.