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
- Office: RICH 1012
- Phone: 979-845-2244
- Email: danhill@tamu.edu
Jihoon Kim
- Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- Larry A. Cress '76 Faculty Fellow
- Office: RICH 501L
- Phone: 979-845-2205
- Email: jihoon.kim@tamu.edu
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
- Office: RICH 501F
- Phone: 979-845-2208
- Email: john-lee@tamu.edu
D. Nathan Meehan
- Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Office: RICH 709
- Phone: 979-862-6416
- Email: meehan@tamu.edu
George J. Moridis
- Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- Robert L. Whiting Chair in Petroleum Engineering
- Office: RICH 407L
- Phone: 979-458-4470
- Email: moridis@tamu.edu
Kan Wu
- Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- Class of ’75 DVG Associate Professor
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow
- Office: RICH 501Q
- Phone: 979-862-7654
- Email: kan.wu@tamu.edu
Ding Zhu
- Professor, Petroleum Engineering
- McCain Engineering Chair
- Office: RICH 1011
- Phone: 979-458-4522
- Email: dingzhu@tamu.edu
