A new project has been awarded to MPGE’s Drilling and Completion Group. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), will study failure in wellbore cements and elastomer liner hanger in conjunctions with loss of well control incidents. The aim is to develop new testing protocols for sealing assemblies and […]
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Energy Department Funds New Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $29 million in funding for two projects at Sandia National Laboratories in Fallon, Nevada and the University of Utah in Milford for the establishment of a Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), which will create an underground laboratory to conduct cutting-edge research on enhanced geothermal systems […]
Leading OU Research Group Develops New Model
The Reservoir Geomechanics and Seismicity Research Group, led by MPGE Professor and alumnus Ahmad Ghassemi, has developed the first horizontal well stimulation model that takes into account shale anisotropy. Other developments to occur with this area include 3D hydraulic fracture propagation and analysis of re-fracturing. 3D fracture simulation in Niobrara chalk
A Report from the U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium
The American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) held their 50th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium in Houston, Texas, June 26-29. This was a special year for OU faculty and students in attendance because MPGE Professor Emeritus Jean-Claude Roegiers not only served as a keynote speaker but was recognized with a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the field […]
Research Day Hosted by OU SPE
On Friday, April 1, OU SPE hosted their first Research Day on OU’s Norman campus. The event, chaired by Wes Herron and Shelby Goss, came about as a way to address the current lack of internships available for petroleum engineering students while also highlighting the research that takes place within MPGE. Faculty members Carl Sondergeld, Catalin […]
Hajirezaie Takes 2nd in Student Research Competition
MPGE Master’s student, Sassan Hajirezaie, placed 2nd in the engineering category of the 2016 Student Research and Creativity Day hosted by OU’s Graduate College. With over sixty-five entries, this year’s SRCD was a huge success in showcasing the broad range of graduate research taking place across OU. Sassan is in his second year of the […]
Development of the Next Level Drilling Simulator – A Hardware in the Loop Concept for Classroom and Research
Catalin Teodoriu, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, has been appointed as the Director of the Drilling Simulation Center at OU. The National Oilwell Varco (NOV) drilling simulator, donated to OU’s Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, is an industrial standard simulator used to create unique virtual experiences that allow students to safely apply their […]
1st Annual OU SPE Graduate Student Paper Contest Held
On Saturday, February 6, OU SPE held its first Graduate Student Paper Contest in Sarkeys Energy Center. Twenty students participated from both the master’s and Ph.D. programs. MPGE faculty Deepak Devegowda, Siddarth Misra, Rouzbeh Moghanloo, and Saeed Salehi volunteered their time to serve as judges. The quality of the presentations and the research being done […]
Faculty to Present at Conferences
Professors Carl Sondergeld and Chandra Rai, along with Assistant Professor Siddharth Misra and Research Associate Younas Dadmohmashi, have been invited to present their research work, Simultaneous Estimation of Intrinsic Permeability, Effective Porosity, Pore-Volume Compressibility, and Klinkenberg-Slip Factor of Ultra-Tight Rock Samples Based on Laboratory Pressure-Step-Decay Method, at the SPE Low Perm Symposium in Denver, Colorado May […]
Research: September 2015
Assistant Professor Mashhad Fahes was awarded a research grant of $16,042 from Texas A&M University for “Investigating the Role of Ultrasonic Waves on Increasing Oil and Gas Production by Removing Skin from Near Wellbore Region in Carbonate Reservoirs.”