Sara Abedi
PhD/Assistant Professor
- Experimental and theoretical microporomechanics
- Nanochemomechanics of geomaterials
- Multiscale modeling
- Granular material failure and flow and granular physics
- Geomechanics
I. Yucel Akkutlu
PhD/Associate Professor
- Shale gas and oil resource assessment and characterization
- CO2-enhanced shale gas and oil recovery
- Shale oil recovery using surfactants and microemulsions
- Digital rock physics and pore-network modeling
- Compositional reservoir flow simulation coupled with geomechanics
- Natural gas hydrates
Ibere Alves
PhD/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Gas and oil production
- Two phase flow modeling
- Artificial lift
- Flow assurance
- Intelligent fields
- Deep water petroleum production
Debjyoti Banerjee
PhD/Joint Professor
- Thermofluidics (multiphase flow, boiling-condensation, thermal management)
- Micro/nano-fluidics, micro/nano-technology (DPN, SFIL, CNT synthesis)
- Nanofluids (complex fluids)
- Thermal energy storage/ solar power and numerical simulations (network models, Finite Elements/ FEA, Computational Fluids: CFD/CHT, Molecular Dynamics/ MD)
Maria A. Barrufet
PhD/Professor
- Multicomponent thermodynamic and transport phenomena in nanoscale pores applied to compositional reservoir simulation
- Flow assurance: hydrates and asphaltene prediction and prevention
- Desalination processes to treat oilfield brines
Peter Bastian
MS/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Career reservoir engineer with over 30 years industry experience
- Specializing in oil and gas economics
- Reservoir engineering
- Numerical reservoir simulation
Thomas A. Blasingame
PhD/Professor
- Unconventional reservoirs
- Production data analysis
- Pressure transient data analysis
- Petroleum reservoir engineering
- Technical mathematics
Akhil Datta-Gupta
PhD/University Distinguished Professor
- Streamline simulation and applications
- Inverse modeling and multiscale data integration
- Geostatistics and stochastic reservoir characterization
- Modeling and scale-up of enhanced oil recovery
Fred Dupriest
BS/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Drilling performance workflows
- Drilling mechanics theory and practices
- Lost circulation theory and practices
- Stuck pipe avoidance
- Borehole quality management practices
- Advanced well control practices
Eduardo Gildin
PhD/Associate Professor
- Model reduction of large scale dynamical systems
- Control and optimization of large scale dynamical systems
- Reservoir modeling and simulation
- Closed-Loop Reservoir Management: Production Optimization, History Matching and Optimal Control
A. Rashid Hasan
PhD/Professor
- Wellbore Heat Transfer
- Transient Transport Processes
- Wellbore/Reservoir Fluid Flow
Berna Hascakir
PhD/Assistant Professor
- Heavy Oil and Oil Shale Recovery with Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods
- Diagnostic Studies on Reservoir Rock and Fluids
- Produced Water Management
A. Daniel Hill
PhD/Professor
- Production engineering
- Well completions
- Well stimulation
- Production logging
- Complex well performance (horizontal and multilateral wells)
W. David Kennedy
MS/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Theoretical Petrophysics
- Conductivity Anisotropy in Rocks
- Numerical Modeling of Logging Instrument Responses
- Formation Evaluation Education and Training
John Killough
PhD/Professor
- Unconventional reservoir simulation/high performance computing
- Coupled surface/subsurface reservoir models
- Upscaling and multiscale reservoir simulation
- Hysteresis and relative permeability
Jihoon Kim
PhD/Assistant Professor
- Coupled flow and geomechanics in hydrate, shale and tight gas, and geothermal reservoirs
- Hydraulic fracturing, hydroshearing, coupled geomechanic-geophysical modeling
- Reservoir simulation, computational geomechanics
Mike King
PhD/Professor
- 3D reservoir modeling and characterization
- Pressure and rate transient analysis for unconventional reservoirs
- Upscaling of geologic models for flow simulation
- Streamline-based simulation and flow analysis??
Marcelo Laprea-Bigott
PhD/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Transient well analysis
- Reservoir engineering and production optimization in Venezuelan fields
- Reservoir engineering and simulation
- Heavy oil recovery methods
Jenn-Tai Liang
PhD/Professor
- Using nano drug delivery technologies for transport and controlled release of oilfield chemicals
- Hydraulic fracturing fluid cleanup
- Microbial enhanced oil recovery
- Scale, wax, and asphaltene inhibition
- In-depth conformance control
- CO2 injector for carbon sequestration and improved oil recovery
Heitor Lima
PhD/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Deepwater drilling
- Deepwater well design
- Advanced well control
M. Sam Mannan
PhD/Joint Professor and Regents Professor
- Abnormal situation management
- Aerosol research
- Quantitative risk assessment
- Reactive chemicals
- Modeling of silane releases
- LNG safety
- Design and flammability research
William D. McCain, Jr.
PhD/Visiting Professor
- Reservoir engineering and reservoir management
- Reservoir fluid properties
- Reservoir rock properties
- Reservoir simulation, especially compositional simulation
- Production of volatile oils and gas condensates
Priscilla G. McLeroy
MS/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Improved decision and risk analysis
- Lifecycle oil and gas management
- Integrated E&P asset design
- Oil & gas systems engineering
Duane McVay
PhD/Professor
- Risk and uncertainty assessment
- Unconventional resource assessment
- Petroleum reservoir simulation
- Integrated reservoir characterization and management
Zenon Medina-Cetina
PhD/Joint Professor
- Stochastic mechanics
- Stochastic processes: spatiotemporal simulation (3D-T)
- Risk, reliability and sensibility analysis
- Uncertainty identification, characterization and propagation
- Inverse problems: Bayesian and extended logic
- Photomechanics: identification of localization phenomena
- Geostatistics: probabilistic site characterization
- Optimal modeling and simulation of structures and processes
- Stochastic design of early warning systems
- Causal analysis through influence diagrams: Bayesian networks
- Scientific computing: parallelization of Monte Carlo methods
- Integrated site characterization: geologic, geophysical and geotechnical
George Moridis
PhD/Professor
- Numerical simulation and advanced numerical methods
- Unconventional gas resources
- Thermal operations
- Enhanced oil recovery processes
- High performance computing coupled (flow, thermal, geomechanical, geochemical, geophysical) processes
Nobuo Morita
PhD/Professor
- Geomechanics numerical modeling using the finite and boundary element methods for borehole, perforation, casing, and formation stabilities and hydraulic fracturing
- Geomechanics laboratory and field analyses
Hadi Nasrabadi
PhD/Assistant Professor
- Compositional Modeling of Multiphase/Multicomponent Fluid Flow in Porous Media
- Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration
- Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluids
- Modeling asphaltene precipitation in porous media
- Shale gas and oil recovery
Hisham Nasr-El-Din
PhD/Professor
- Enhancing well performance through chemical means
- Developing environmentally friendly chemicals
Sam Noynaert
PhD/Assistant Professor
- Applied drilling research
- Horizontal/deviated drilling
- Automation and optimization of the drilling process
- Oilfield tubular design and issues
- Solutions to drilling-related problems in unconventional reservoirs
David S. Schechter
PhD/Associate Professor
- Spraberry Trend Area
- Geological and Petrophysical Analysis
- Wettability Determination and Imbibition Experiments
- Numerical Modeling
- Reservoir Simulation
- CO2 Flooding and Gas Injection
Jerome J. Schubert
PhD/Associate Professor
- Drilling
- Well control
- HPHT Cementing
- HPHT Rheology
- Deepwater Drilling
- Dual Gradient Drilling
- Managed Pressure Drilling
Yuefeng Sun
PhD/Joint Professor
- Petrophysics
- Reservoir geophysics
- Quantitative petroleum geology of ultra-deep petroleum systems
Peter P. Valkó
PhD/Professor
- Performance of stimulated wells
- Design and analysis of hydraulic fracturing treatments
- Numerical inversion of the Laplace transform
George Voneiff
MS/Professor of Engineering Practice
- Applied petroleum economics in unconventional plays
- Statistical analysis of large data sets from unconventional formations
- Large-Scale production data analysis using empirical techniques
Ruud Weijermars
PhD/Professor
- Petroleum economics and decision making
- Reservoir models and production forecasting
- Geothermal reservoir models
- Wellbore stresses and hydraulic fracturing
Kan Wu
PhD/Assistant Professor
- Hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs
- Particle-laden flows
- Coupled geomechanics and fluid flow modeling
- Well performance prediction and optimization
Ding Zhu
PhD/Professor
- General production engineering
- Well stimulation
- Complex well performance
- Intelligent completion technology