Energy Resources Engineering faculty and graduate students conduct research using computational, experimental and theoretical approaches. Research is currently ongoing in the following areas:
- Reservoir characterization, uncertainty modeling and geostatistics
- Computational modeling of subsurface flow (reservoir simulation)
- Enhanced oil recovery (thermal, chemical, gas injection)
- In-situ combustion and in-situ upgrading
- Shale gas, shale oil, and other unconventional resources
- Well test analysis
- Advanced well and wellbore flow modeling
- Clean energy conversions
- Carbon capture during coal combustion
- Geological sequestration of greenhouse gases
- Geothermal engineering
- Renewables such as large-scale solar and marine energy systems
- Modeling of integrated energy systems
- Process optimization and inverse modeling (history matching)
See more details on the Research Groups page.