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A dozen graduate students and two professors from Texas A&M University standing outdoors on the graveled area of a well site surrounded by fracturing equipment, hoses and tanks

Research

Both conventional and unconventional reservoirs require stimulation methods and adjustments to continue producing oil and gas as pressures and subsurface reserves fluctuate. Research can enhance, streamline, and improve the accuracy of these techniques.

Focus Areas

Specialties in these types of stimulation methods and adjustments include:

  • Acid fracturing
  • Hydraulic fracturing methods
  • Injecting nano-encapsulated chemicals for delayed release profile modification
  • Materials
  • Matrix acidizing
  • Modeling
  • Performance evaluation and forecasting in hydraulically fractured wells
  • Proppant transporting
  • Refracturing
  • Sand transporting

Faculty Researchers

Below is a list of petroleum engineering faculty members who do research in one or more of the focus areas.

A. Daniel Hill

  • Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Noble Chair
  • Regents Professor
A. Daniel Hill

Jihoon Kim

  • Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Larry A. Cress '76 Faculty Fellow
Jihoon Kim

W. John Lee

  • Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Kelly L. '87 and William D. '87 Von Gonten, Jr. DVG Chair in Petroleum Engineering
  • Regents Professor
W. John Lee

D. Nathan Meehan

  • Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
D. Nathan Meehan

George J. Moridis

  • Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Robert L. Whiting Chair in Petroleum Engineering
George J. Moridis

Kan Wu

  • Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • Class of ’75 DVG Associate Professor
  • Chancellor EDGES Fellow
Kan Wu

Rami Younis

  • Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering
Rami Younis

Ding Zhu

  • Professor, Petroleum Engineering
  • McCain Engineering Chair
Ding Zhu