MCERS

The Marathon Center of Excellence for Reservoir Studies

Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineering Department

Research Projects

 

Transient analysis and Laplace transform inversion

Simulation of ES-SAGD

Simulation of horizontal wells

Comparison of finite difference and finite element formulations; multiscale simulation

Compositional finite element modeling using partial molar volumes

Pressure transient flow in naturally and hydraulically fractured wells

Centrifuge experiments of natural fractured reservoirs and double displacement. Simulation of double displacement.

Fracture matrix exchange in tight, shale reservoirs

Experimental studies of surfactant processes. Parameter estimation and simulation of experiments.

Parallel compositional simulation plus trapping and hysteresis as applied to CO2 WAG simualation and CO2 sequestration.

Analytical modeling of hydraulically fractured horizontal wells.

Simulation of geomechanics in hydraulically fractured reservoirs

Integrated flow simulation and time-lapse seismic imaging, Postle Field, OK

Productivity Index for Fractured Wells

DOE geothermal project, naturally fractured reservoir simulation

Bacterial EOR

Microseismic imaging of waterfloods.

Evaluation of gravity drainage EOR vs displacement EOR

DOE geothermal project

Simulation of surfactant in naturally fractured reservoirs

Non-Darcy flow

Simulation of CO2 enhanced oil recovery

Experimental studies of pressure-dependent porosity, capillary pressure, and relative permeability.

Compositional simulation using the partial molar volume approach.

Slim tube experiments of salt precipitation and determination of minimum miscibility pressure

Pore-scale simulation

Simulation of fluid assurance kinetics for hydrates

DOE CO2 sequestration, reaction-transport modelling for CO2 sequestration

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