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CPGE

The Center for Petroleum !and Geosystems Engineering!

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Juan Sanchez, Vice President for Research Sharon L. Wood, Dean CSE

John G. Ekerdt, Associate Dean

Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Kishore Mohanty, Director

Kamy Sepehrnoori, Deputy Director Diane Landeros, Executive Assistant

•  Chemical EOR - Pope •  Gas EOR - Mohanty •  Geological CO2 Storage - Srinivasan •  Hydraulic Fracturing & Sand

Control - Sharma •  Wider Windows Drilling & Formation Damage

- Gray •  Nanoparticles for Subsurface Processes •  - Huh •  Fracture Research & App. Consortium- Olson •  Reservoir Simulation - Sepehrnoori •  Center for Petroleum Asset Risk Management

- Lake

Industrial Affiliates Projects Research Programs •  Drilling, Well Completions, and Rock

Mechanics •  Education, Training, and Outreach •  Environmental Engineering •  Fundamental Processes •  Integrated Reservoir Characterization •  Nanoparticle Engineering for Subsurface

Processes •  Petroleum Asset Risk Management •  Production Engineering •  Reservoir Engineering •  Unconventional Resources

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MISSION FOR CPGE In order to achieve this Vision, the Mission of CPGE is to: • recruit, cultivate, and support the best academic researchers in the world to find original solutions to challenging energy and environmental problems, especially those faced by the exploration & production industry; • educate the next generation of petroleum engineers who will be leaders in energy and environmental technology and policy; and • foster an environment of collaborative and interdisciplinary research leading to intellectual property creation and technology transfer to the exploration & production industry.

VISION FOR CPGE The vision of the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

(CPGE) is to be the premier academic research organization in all facets of oil and gas exploration and production. Through its leadership and

technology innovation, CPGE will enable energy security that balances environmental impact and affordable resources.

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CPGE Overview

•  As with all research centers, the core idea is to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration among faculty

•  Research programs are decentralized to maximize the independence and flexibility of the faculty but still encourage faculty to cooperate and share resources

•  Research professors and research scientists play a very important role in research programs

•  Administration is very efficient—about 2% of research grants and contracts

•  The CPGE administrative staff are essential and effective

–  Work with office of sponsored research, office of technology commercialization, office of Vice President for Research, and other research & administrative units

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CPGE Overview •  CPGE has been successful in large collaborative

research proposals such as the interdisciplinary Energy Frontier Research Center funded by DOE

•  CPGE has a very strong international reputation •  CPGE has a good record of collaboration with

faculty in other disciplines •  CPGE has its own administrative and technical staff

and other infrastructure to support its research •  CPGE is centered in the Petroleum & Geosystems

Engineering Department.

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2013-14 Research Funding for PGE

Total Private Support $19.2M

Total Federal Support $3.5M

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PGE Faculty Matthew T. Balhoff

Paul Bommer

Hugh Daigle

Mojdeh Delshad

David DiCarlo

Nicolas Espinoza

John T. Foster

K. E. Gray

Chun Huh

Larry W. Lake

Kishore K. Mohanty

Mark McClure

Quoc P. Nguyen

Hilary C. Olson

Jon E. Olson

Tad Patzek

Gary A. Pope

Masa Prodanovic

Kamy Sepehrnoori

Mukul M. Sharma

Sanjay Srinivasan

Eric van Oort

Carlos Torres-Verdin

Mary F. Wheeler

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CPGE Staff (2014) Technical Staff

Administrative Staff

Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars

Diane Landeros Esther Barrientes Dori Coy

Heather Felauer Jin Lee

Barb Messmore Emilio Núñez

Greg Siebers Leilani Swafford

Arnob Bhuyan Joanna Castillo Eric Dao Tim Guinn Jon Holder Ajeetha Kamilla Gayani Kennedy Saebom Ko Austin Lim

Jith Liyanage Jun Lu Ripudaman Manchanda Ahad Maqsood Nhut Nguyen Daryl Nygaard Sujeewa Palayangoda Krishna Panthi Anna-Maria Pham

Gayani Pinnawala A. Rodney Russell Grace Sela Erin Shook Mark Smith Abdoljalil Varavei Upali Weerasooriya Geegana Wickermasiri

Karasinghe Arach Upamali Jiajia Cai Sophie Dufour Reza Ganjdanesh Xubo Gao Behz Ghanbarian-Alavijeh Nilanka Gurusinghe Sumudu Herath Sung Hyun Jang

Amit Katiyar Ijung Kim Erandimala Kulawardana Dharmika Lansakara-P Liangping Li Haishan Luo Rafael Longoria Chammi Miller

Baehyun Min Anand Nagoo Xiaolong Peng Valentina Prigiobbe Eugene Podnos Ali Qajar Suneth Rajapaksha Joyce Rigelo

Maryam Shafiekhani Moslem Taghavifar Amir Taghavy Qing Wang Haiyan Zhou Peixi Zhu

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CPGE Collaborators at UT •  Todd Arbogast (Applied Mathematics) •  Alex Athey (Physics) •  Phil Bennett (Geochemistry) •  Eric Bickel (Mechanical Engineering) •  Chris Bielawski (Chemistry) •  Roger Bonnecaze (Chemical Engineering) •  Bayani Cardenas (Geology) •  Ian Duncan (Geology) •  Peter Eichhubl (Geology) •  Peter Flemings (Geology) •  Marc Hesse (Geology) •  Sue Hovorka (Geology) •  Xavier Janson (Geology) •  Keith Johnston (Chemical Engineering) •  Tip Meckel (Geology) •  Tom Milner (Biomedical Engineering) •  Mrinal Sen (Geophysics) •  Kyle Spikes (Geology) •  Nan Sun (Electrical and Computer Engineering) •  Lesli Wood (Geology) •  Ali Yilmaz (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

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CPGE Collaborators at Other Institutions •  Susan Altman (Hydrogeology, SNL) •  Baojun Bai (Petroleum Engineering, University of Missouri) •  Joe Bishop (Applied Mathematics, SNL) •  Martin Cassidy (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, U. of

Houston) •  Randy Cygan (Geochemistry, SNL) •  Thomas Dewers (Geomechanics, SNL) •  Tim Kneafsey (Environmental Engineering, LBNL) •  Clovis Maliska (Mechanical Engineering, Federal University

of Santa Catarina, Brazil) •  Francisco Marcondes (Material Science, Federal University

of Ceará, Brazil) •  Mario Martinez (Mechanical Engineering, SNL) •  Sean McKenna (Geostatistics, SNL) •  Andre Revil (Geophysics, CO School of Mines) •  Paulo Ribeiro (Petroleum Engineering, University of

Campinas, Brazil)

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CPGE Sponsors Abu Dhabi National Oil Advanced Energy Consortium Afren American Air Liquid American Chemical Society American Gilsonite Ample Resources Anadarko Petroleum Apache Corp. Baker Hughes BASF BEG/FRAC BG Int'l BHP Billiton Petroleum BP Caesar Systems Cairn Energy India Cenovus Energy ChemorTech Chevron Cepsa Chief Oil & Gas China Oilfield Services Clariant CMG ConocoPhillips Denbury Department of Energy Drillinginfo ENI

EOG Resources ExxonMobil Ferus GDS International Genesis RTS Harco Halliburton Hess Huntsman Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo Kemira KIGAM Kuwait Oil Co. Linde Group Maersk Oil Qatar Marathon Oil Meadwestvaco Merchant Energy National Oilwell Varco National Science Foundation Nexen Petroleum Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Co. OMV E&P Oxy PEMEX PennWest Exploration Petrobras Petroleum Development Oman Petroleum National Berhad Pioneer Natural Resources Pluspetrol PTT Public Co.

Praxair Quantum Reservoir Repsol Rex Energy RPSEA RWE DEA Sasol Saudi Aramco Schlumberger Seoul National University Shell Shengli SK Innovation SNF Southwestern Energy Co. Statoil Stranded Oil Talisman Energy Taminco TerraTherm Tiorco Total TX Engineering Experiment Station US Geological Survey Verande Technology Water Standard Weatherford Int'l Wedron Silica Wintetshall Woodside Energy YPF

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Cockrell school of engineering

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U.S. News & World Report Top Graduate Engineering Schools

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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015MIT 1 1 1 1 1Stanford University 2 2 2 2 2UC Berkeley 3 3 3 3 3Cal Tech 7 7 5* 4 4Carnegie Mellon 6 6 7 5* 5Georgia Tech 4 4 4 5* 6*University of Illinois 5 5 5* 5* 6*Purdue 13* 11* 10* 8 8*University of Michigan 8 9 8* 9* 8*UT Austin 9 8 8* 11* 10Texas A&M 12 13 12* 11* 11*USC 10* 11* 12* 9* 11*Cornell 10* 10 10* 13 13Columbia 18 16* 15 15 14*UC San Diego 13* 14* 14 14 14*

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U.S. News and World Report UT Austin - Graduate Programs Spring 2014 Info

Source: U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools”, 2015 Edition

All Schools PublicUT Austin CSE 10 6Aerospace 8 5Biomedical 15 6Chemical 6 3Civil 3 3Computer 9 5Electrical/Electronic 12 6Environmental 4 3Mechanical 10 5Petroleum 1 1

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Engineering Students & Degrees

●  Enrollment, Fall 2013 ▲  B.S. 5,612 ▲  Graduate 2,162

●  Degrees awarded, 2012-13 ▲  B.S. 1,095 ▲  Graduate 649

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PGE Graduate Enrollment Fall 2014

GRADUATE STUDENT

ENROLLMENT UT AUSTIN STUDENTS PERCENT

MASTERS STUDENTS

U.S./Perm. Res. Male 48 22% U.S./Perm. Res. Female 10 4.5% Foreign 75 34% Total Masters Students 133 Ph.D. STUDENTS!

U.S./Perm. Res. Male 8 4% U.S./Perm. Res. Female 1 .5% Foreign 78 35% Total Ph.D. Students 87

TOTAL PGE GRADUATE STUDENTS 220 100%

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Countries Represented in PGE Fall 2014

COUNTRY   MS   PHD   TOTAL  USA   58   9   67  CHINA   16   22   38  INDIA   13   16   29  IRAN   4   16   20  KOREA   4   6   10  NIGERIA   4   2   6  BRAZIL   3   3   6  SAUDIA ARABIA   4     4  THAILAND   4     4  COLUMBIA   1   2   3  TURKEY   3     3  MEXICO   2   1   3  FRANCE   1   1   2  KAZAKHSTAN   2   2  PAKISTAN   2     2  JAPAN 1   1   2  TAIWAN 1   1   2  RUSSIA 1   1   2  ARGENTINA, AZERBAIJAN, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, 8   6   14   CANADA, CYPRUS, GREECE, LEBANON,   MOROCCO, NEPAL, PERU, SRI LANKA, TUNISIA,   UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (1 EACH)  

 TOTAL 133   87   220  

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PGE Graduate Enrollments

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MS/PhD Graduates

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Funding and Graduate Student Support

•  Graduate Research Assistantships

•  Teaching Assistantships

•  Foreign Governments

•  Oil Companies

•  Self Supported

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" Nanoparticle Subsurface Engineering " Hydraulic Fracturing & Sand Control " Gas EOR " Chemical EOR " Reservoir Simulation " Geological CO2 Storage " Center for Petroleum Asset Risk

Management " Wider Windows Drilling & Formation

Damage " Fracture Research & App. Consortium

Industrial Affiliates Projects

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NSE VISION: UT CPGE will be the leading academic entity for collaborative invention and development of applications of nanoparticles to oil and gas exploration and production

Nanoparticles for Subsurface Engineering

•  8 projects (NSE funded) and 6 projects (DOE & other funding) currently in progress, with participation of 11 faculty members, 9 post-doc’s, and 13 graduate students (36 publications since 2009) •  Silica NP-stabilized foam for CO2 EOR mobility control -- Robust stability at high salinity and high T

•  Silica NP-stabilized emulsion for heavy oil recovery -- Synergy between mobility control by emulsion and delivery of lower-C hydrocarbon for oil viscosity reduction

•  Superparamagnetic NP-based nano-paint for flow assurance -- Intense localized heating to prevent hydrate/wax deposition in pipes

•  Enhanced reservoir imaging/sensing using superparamagnetic NPs as contrast agents and as tracers -- Injection of NP dispersion to generate magnetic induction field in the reservoir, or in the produced fluids, for their detection

Example  Projects  

Chun Huh, Project Director

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Hydraulic Fracturing and Sand Control JIP Some Current Projects

•  Pad fracturing of horizontal wells •  Next generation models for hydraulic fracturing •  Effect of wellbore trajectory / artificial lift on well productivity •  Refracturing •  Improved proppant placement / conductivity

–  Field placement methods –  Modeling / experiments –  Proppant pack conductivity improvement

•  Energized fractures (CO2, LPG, N2….) •  Preventing / removing liquid (water / condensate) blocking •  Fracturing naturally fractured reservoirs •  Shale characterization •  EM fracture diagnostics / DFIT analysis

Mukul Sharma, Project Director

Research Sponsors (2013-14) •  JIP: 39 sponsoring

companies: •  Air Liquide •  Air Products & Chemicals •  Anadarko •  Apache •  Baker Hughes •  BHP Billiton •  BP America •  Chevron •  ConocoPhillips

•  Devon •  ENI •  Fairmount Minerals •  Ferus •  Halliburton •  Hess Corporation •  LanXess •  The Linde Group •  Marathon Oil •  MWV •  Nalco

•  Nexen •  Noble Energy •  PEMEX •  Oxy •  Pioneer Natural Resources •  Praxair Inc. •  Range Resources •  Sanchez Oil & Gas •  Saudi Aramco •  Schlumberger •  Shell •  Southwestern Energy •  Statoil •  Talisman Energy •  TOTAL •  Unimin •  Weatherford International •  Wintershall •  YPF

•  RPSEA •  DOE •  Additional Major Grants

•  BP •  EOG •  Halliburton •  Schlumberger •  Statoil

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•  Nanoparticle enhanced foams

•  CO2 soluble surfactant based mobility control •  Asphaltene precipitation

•  High pressure relative permeability •  Pore-scale models

•  EOR in Shales

•  Upscaling of WAG/foam floods

Kishore Mohanty, Project Director

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Ø  Industrial affiliates started in 2006 with 12 companies now has 40 sponsoring companies

Ø  UT Research funding for chemical EOR increased from about $1 million per year to about $6 million per year

Ø  New patented surfactants have been developed that extend the range of reservoir conditions to any temperature and salinity, to carbonates and to heavy oils

Ø  New polymers have been developed and tested for EOR under harsh reservoir conditions

Ø  UTCHEM reservoir simulator is the worldwide standard for simulating chemical EOR processes to design field projects

Ø  New EOR processes and methods have been developed Ø  Developed CEOR solutions for 36 field projects over the past 6

years

Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Industrial Associates Project

Gary A. Pope, Project Director

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Chemical EOR Project Sponsors

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The objectives of this research project

are development, testing, verification

and application of reservoir simulators

for oil and gas recovery processes.

Reservoir Simulation JIP Kamy Sepehrnoori, Project Director

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Reservoir Simulation JIP

•  New developments for UTCHEM and UTCOMP simulators

•  Development of GPAS

•  Development of a wellbore simulator

•  Naturally fractured reservoir simulator development and studies

•  Wettability alteration modeling

•  Microgel modeling (Improved Water Flooding)

•  Phase behavior modeling

•  Predictive reservoir souring and remediation modeling

•  Asphaltene precipitation and deposition modeling

•  Scales precipitation and deposition modeling

•  Compositional miscible gas Flooding simulation

•  Chemical flooding simulation

•  Reservoir simulation studies using experimental design method

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Geological CO2 Storage Industrial Associates Project

Project goals are to answer questions such as:

•  What is the ideal target formation for geological storage?

•  Which rock/fluid properties are crucial in evaluating storage options?

•  What time scales are needed to move injected CO2 into permanently stored forms?

•  What measurements would provide verification that CO2 is stored permanently?

Sanjay Srinivasan, Project Director

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Geological CO2 Storage

CO2

Deep Saline Aquifer

Aquifer/DepletedOil or Gas Reservoir

Oil/Gas Producing Reservoir

Unmineable Coal

CO2

Deep Saline Aquifer

Aquifer/DepletedOil or Gas Reservoir

Oil/Gas Producing Reservoir

Unmineable Coal

CO2

1 m

ile

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Chemical EOR Valuation

Portfolio Optimization

Analog Data in HC

Development Decisions

Concept Selection & Development Optimization

Real Options

Portfolio Management and Project Selection

VOI; Impact of Estimates & Methods

Reliability / Risk Management

Real-Time Optimization

Managed Pressure Drilling

Probabilistic Risk Analysis

Simple Models for

Unconventional Reservoirs

Reservoir Characterization From Production

and Injection

Fluctuations

Decision Making

Data

Methods Culture

Processes

Larry Lake, Center Director

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Wider Windows Industrial Affiliate Program

Wellbore U-Tube Topical Areas of Study Indicated in Red

Dr. Ken Gray (Drilling and Rock Mechanics) Dr. Maša Prodanović (Pore Level Modeling) Dr. David DiCarlo (Imaging) Dr. Jon Holder (Testing and PFC Simulation) Dr. Evgeny Podnos (Finite Element Simulation) Dr. Sebnem Ozupek (Finite Element Simulation) Dr. Matt Balhoff (Multi-Scale Flow in Porous Media) Dr. Mark McClure (Coupled Flow and Geomechanics) Dr. Hugh Daigle (Petrophysics) Dr. Chadi El Mortar (Geotechnical Engineering)

Wider Windows Research Staff

Students in Wider Windows Eighteen graduate student projects

K.E. Gray, Project Director

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Wider Windows M.S. & Ph.D. Projects

● ROP and MSE Parametrics: MSE Technologies; ROP Models; Field Case Studies; ‘Slow ROP’; Real-Time, Automated Drilling ● Torque and Drag Models ● Leak-Off Test (LOT) Models; Time-Lapse Shoe Tests, FIT, LOT, XLOT, Pump-In/Flow-Back ● Pump-In and Flow-Back Signatures, Interpretations, and Applications ● Lost Circulation Mitigation in Low Permeability Formations with Fluid Additives that Encourage Fracture Termination against Preexisting Fractures ● Crack Mechanics: Initiation/Propagation/Plugging; Filtration/Mud Cake Dynamics ● Lost Circulation! – What? and Lost Circulation Panel of Inquiry (Operations-Based) ● Leak-Off Test Models Combining Wellbore and Near-Wellbore Fluid, Mechanical, and Thermal Behavior ● Rock Properties From Resistivity Measurements During FIT, LOT, XLOT, and Pump-In/Flow-Back Tests ● Far-Field and Near-Wellbore Changes in Permeability in Depleted, Anisotropic Formations ● Permeability Estimation of Damaged Formations Near Wellbore ● Measuring Formation Damage Using In-Situ Techniques ● Near-Well Multi-scale Simulation of Formation Damage

Drilling Operations & Formation Damage

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Fracture Research & App. Consortium

•  Hydraulic fracture propagation modeling for shale gas and tight sands - multi-frac, horizontal well, natural fracture interaction cases

•  Natural fracture network characterization and permeability assessment

•  Shear dilatancy and permeability enhancement in heavy oil sands

•  Fracture mechanics testing of rock for natural fracture and hydraulic fracture modeling

•  Applications of stress corrosion cracking to wellbore stability

Jon Olson, Project Director