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Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin

RESEARCH

  • Research Areas
    • Drilling and Completions
    • Enhanced Oil Recovery
    • Formation Evaluation
    • Geologic Carbon Storage
    • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
    • Integrated Reservoir Characterization
    • Natural Gas Engineering
    • Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes
    • Production Engineering
    • Reservoir Engineering
    • Unconventional Resources
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Internship
  • Theses and Dissertations
    • Past Theses and Dissertations
  • Research Areas
    • Drilling and Completions
    • Enhanced Oil Recovery
    • Formation Evaluation
    • Geologic Carbon Storage
    • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
    • Integrated Reservoir Characterization
    • Natural Gas Engineering
    • Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes
    • Production Engineering
    • Reservoir Engineering
    • Unconventional Resources
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Internship
  • Theses and Dissertations
    • Past Theses and Dissertations

Integrated Reservoir Characterization

Integrated Reservoir Characterization

Integrated Reservoir Characterization research focuses on: 1. providing practical approaches for assessing and managing geologic and flow related uncertainty using improved physical and stochastic models, and 2. providing insights into the physics of fluid flow through multi-scale heterogeneous media.

Faculty:

Matt Balhoff

Hugh Daigle

Zoya Heidari

Larry Lake

Jon Olsaon

Masa Prodanovic

Carlos Torres-Verdin

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

UT PGE faculty conduct $10 million in research a year by working on significant industry and federal projects. They specialize in 12 major research areas with 85+ partners.


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  • About
    • What is Petroleum Engineering?
    • What is Geosystems Engineering?
    • Facts and Rankings
    • Vision and Mission
    • Feel the Energy
    • History
      • An Early History of UT PGE
    • Events
    • Contact Us
  • Undergraduate Program
    • Admissions
    • Degree Requirements
    • Advising
    • Sustainable Energy Minor
    • Tuition and Funding
    • Program Outcomes
    • Transfer Students
    • Careers
    • Student Organizations
    • First-Year Experience
      • First-Year Fall Retreat
      • Study Abroad
    • FAQs
  • Graduate Program
    • Admissions
    • Tuition and Funding
    • Degree Requirements
    • Careers
    • Student Organizations
    • FAQs
  • Faculty & Staff
    • Faculty Directory
    • Academic Staff
    • Faculty Openings
  • Research
    • Research Areas
      • Drilling and Completions
      • Enhanced Oil Recovery
      • Formation Evaluation
      • Geologic Carbon Storage
      • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
      • Integrated Reservoir Characterization
      • Natural Gas Engineering
      • Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes
      • Production Engineering
      • Reservoir Engineering
      • Reservoir Simulation
      • Unconventional Resources
    • Summer Undergraduate Research Internship
    • Theses and Dissertations
      • Past Theses and Dissertations
  • Connect
    • Hire a UT PGE
    • Giving
    • Distinguished Alumni
      • Distinguished Alumni Honorees
    • Alumni Events
    • External Advisory Committee
    • Alumni Profiles
    • Industry Partners
      • Workforce Initiative
  • News
    • Press Coverage
    • Energy One Magazine
    • Annual Report
    • Communications Resources
  • K–12 Outreach
    • Program Leadership
    • Energy Science and Technology Institute
    • Educator Resources
    • Educator Events
    • Our Impact