Active Project List as of August 2019
Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
ER.01.19A – Investigation of EOR by Multi Cycle Surfactant Assisted Spontaneous Imbibition (MC-SASI) and Rich Gas Injection in the Permian Wolfcamp
ER.02.19A – Improved Oil Recovery in Liquid-rich Shale—from Understanding to Practice
ER.10.19B – Investigation of Molecular Structure for Surfactant Huff n’ Puff EOR by Wettability Alteration and Surfactant Assisted Spontaneous Imbibition (SASI)
Field Development
FD.03.19A – Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) in Shale Reservoirs
FD.04.19A – Parent and infill well development in Unconventional Reservoirs
FD.05.19A – Modeling the spatial distribution of natural fractures and its dynamic impact in shale reservoirs for optimal field development
Hydraulic Fracturing
3.01.18 –Investigation of Proppant Distribution in Complex Fracture Networks for Unconventional Reservoir Development
3.02.18 –Next Generation of Physics-Based Integrated Model of Fracturing and Flow in Porous Media: Unconventional Reservoir Toolbox (URT)
3.16.16 –Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing
HF.06.19A – Modeling and Optimization of Proppant Distribution in Multi-Cluster Hydraulic Fracture-Natural Fracture (HF–NF) Networks
HF.07.19A – Determination of hydraulic fracture height growth in unconventional reservoirs
HF.11.19B – Improving SRV estimation and optimizing hydraulic fracturing design through integrated forward modeling and inversion of microseismicity
HF.12.19B – Physic-based machine learning framework for improved hydraulic fracture implementations and reservoir management
Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
7.02.18 –Simplified and Accurate Analytical Techniques for the Determination of Production Performance Influenced By Adjacent Well Hydraulic Fracture Hits
7.03.18 – Mechanistic Model Validation of Production Decline Curve Analysis for Unconventional Reservoirs
Reservoir Modeling
4.01.18 – Well Interference Toolkit
Other
WA.08.19A – Experimental Evaluation of New Fracture Fluid Systems for Slick-Water and Crosslinked Hydraulic Fracturing Operations Using Water with High-TDS Content
WA.09.19A – Permian Wolfcamp-Bone Spring Water Production
OT.13.19B – Model Based Type Well Analysis for Production Forecasting in Shale Reservoirs
OT.14.19B – Time-Lapse Production Geochemistry
Recently Completed Projects
Geology and Geophysical Characterization
1.02.16 – Integrating Outcrop, Core and Wireline Log Analysis with High-resolution Zircon Geochronology to Determine the Depositional Processes and Timing Constraints on Bedding in the Eagle Ford Reservoirs (Dec 2018)
1.04.16 – Characterization of Hydraulic Fracturing Produced Water with High Salinity Content (May 2019)
1.06.16 – Experimental Study of Seismic Detection of Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior in Nano-Scale Porous Media (Aug 2019)
1.07.16 – Multiscale Seismic Models of Complex Fracture Networks in Unconventional Reservoirs (Jan 2019)
Hydraulic Fracturing
3.01.16 – 3D Analysis and Modeling of the Transport of Proppants in Inclined and Sharply-Angled Fractures, and of their Long-Term Fate (Dec 2018)
3.05.16 – Using Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS) to Diagnose Multiple-Staged Fractured Well Performance (Dec 2018)
3.07.16 – Laboratory Study on Eagle Ford Shale Fracture Conductivity (May 2018)
3.10.16 – Analysis of Well Interference (Fracture hits) During Hydraulic Fracturing (Dec 2018)
3.13.16 – Integration of Diagnostic Data, Production Data, and Hydraulic Fracture Modeling into the Development of Fractured Horizontal Wells in Unconventional (Dec 2018)
3.15.16 – Geomechanical Modeling of Microseismicity During Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments (Dec 2018)
Nano and Molecular Scale Research
1.10.16 – Organic-Rich Shale Resource Assessment in the Presence of Nano-Pore Confinement Effects (Dec 2018)
2.02.16 – Experimental Study of Confinement Effects on Hydrocarbon Phase Behavior in Nano-scale Capillaries (May 2019)
2.03.16 – Development of a Molecular Simulation Based Software Package (mPVT) for Modeling Fluid Phase Behavior in Shale Systems (Dec 2018)
2.07.16 – Stochastic Characterization and Upscaling of Organic-Rich Source Rocks (Dec 2018)
2.14.16 – Experimental and Numerical Simulation Study on the Effect of Surfactant Addition in Completion Fluids on Eagle Ford Shale Oil Reservoir (Dec 2018)
Rate Transient Analysis (RTA)
7.01.18 – Fast Analytical/Semi-Analytical Solutions to the Problem of Pressure Interference in Multi-Fractured Parallel Horizontal Wells (Aug 2019)
Reservoir Modeling
4.05.16 – An Efficient Method for Fractured Shale Reservoir Modeling: The Embedded Discrete Fracture Multi-continuum Approach (Dec 2018)
4.07.16 – Development of a General Unconventional Reservoir Utility (GURU) (Dec 2018