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Haider and Nygaard Win Engineering Staff Awards
Two Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) staff members have won 2024 Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards. Academic Advising Coordinator Jaimie Haider and Lab Manager Daryl Nygaard were among the six Texas Engineering staff members recognized for exemplary performance and outstanding contributions at the award ceremony in May.
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UT PGE Grad Program Continues to Lead in 2024–2025 U.S. News Rankings
The Hildebrand Department’s graduate program in petroleum engineering is No. 1 in the country, according to the 2024–2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings released this week. UT PGE has held this top ranking continuously since 2003.
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UT PGE Students Place in SPE Regional Paper Contest
Two Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) graduate students have placed in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) regional paper contest held in Houston in April. Agustin Garbino (MSPE 2024) won the master’s division, and Tesleem Lawal (MSPE 2020, PhD PE 2024) placed third in the PhD division.
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Pyrcz and Lu Sweep Cockrell School Teaching Awards
Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) professors have won both of the prestigious teaching awards given annually by the Cockrell School of Engineering. Dr. Michael Pyrcz is the recipient of the 2023–2024 Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, and Dr. Yingda Lu is the recipient of the 2023–2024 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor.
Keep readingGeothermal at UT PGE
If geothermal power constitutes just 3% of the global energy mix in 2050, as much as 9 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions could be eliminated. Here’s how UT PGE is helping to make it happen.
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Drilling and Completions
Drilling, well completions, and rock mechanics research includes: well bore stability in highly...
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Enhanced Oil Recovery
Enhanced oil recovery research includes topics such as how to improve oil recovery from all types...
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Formation Evaluation
Formation evaluation research understands and characterizes the physical properties of reservoir...
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Geologic Carbon Storage
CO2 storage research investigates methods for CO2 sequestration, including storage in deep saline...
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
Hydraulic fracturing produces fractures in the rock formation that stimulate the flow of natural...
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Integrated Reservoir Characterization
Integrated Reservoir Characterization research focuses on: 1. providing practical approaches for...
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Natural Gas Engineering
Natural gas engineering research includes topics such as how to extract gas and natural gas...
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Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes
Petrophysics and pore-scale processes research develops the basics science that underlies all...
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Production Engineering
Production engineering research covers a wide range of interests while presenting front-end...
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Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir engineering research includes topics such as how to extract oil and gas efficiently from...
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Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation research focuses on development and application of reservoir simulators for...
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Unconventional Resources
Unconventional resources research includes areas such as rock imaging, well monitoring, fluid...
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