Production Engineering Staff
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Quoc P. Nguyen, Program Manager quoc_p_nguyen@mail.utexas.edu Research interests include: matrix acidizing; acid fracturing; fluid diversion; intelligent completion; and unstable displacement in porous media |
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Matthew Balhoff balhoff@mail.utexas.edu Prof. Balhoff's research interests include pore-scale and multiscale modeling; flow and transport in porous media. |
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Steven L. Bryant steven_bryant@mail.utexas.edu Production engineering applications such as matrix acidizing and water shutoff have motivated much of Prof. Bryant's research in flow and reactive transport in porous media. Current interests include the multiscale modeling of pattern evolution in strongly coupled reactive flows, and the flow and transport properties of highly heterogeneous rocks such as vuggy carbonates. He is co-author (along with Prof. Larry Lake and Dr. Aura Araque-Martinez) of Geochemistry and Fluid Flow. |
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David Dicarlo dicarlo@mail.utexas.edu Prof. DiCarlo's research interests include using advanced experimental techniques such as multi-energy CT scanning, synchrotron radiation, and acoustical measurements. These techniques are used to connect the laboratory scale to the pore scale and reservoir scale on topics such as three-phase, compositional, fracture, and preferential flow in the subsurface. |
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Larry W. Lake larry_lake@mail.utexas.edu Dr. Lake's research interests in this area include geochemical flow modeling, downhole temperature interpretation, and wellbore fluid flow modeling. |
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Jon E. Olson jolson@mail.utexas.edu Professor Olson specializes in the rock mechanics aspects of production engineering, with applications to hydraulic fracturing, reservoir compaction, wellbore stability, sand production, in situ stress estimation, wave propagation and naturally fractured reservoir characterization. His research group employs a variety of methods including physical experiments, fracture mechanics theory and numerical modeling. He has worked in production engineering since 1990, 6 years of which were in industry. |
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Augusto L. Podio apodio@mail.utexas.edu Professor Podio has been active in petroleum production engineering teaching and research for thirty years primarily in the areas of multi-phase flow in pipes, optimization of beam pumping, single and multi phase flow metering, hybrid artificial lift systems and applications of sonics and ultrasonics to the solution of problems related to hydrocarbon production systems. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers on methods and equipment for analyzing the performance of production systems and holds seven US patents. |
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Mukul M. Sharma msharma@mail.utexas.edu Professor Sharma has an active research and teaching program in various aspects of petroleum production engineering. His primary research is in the area of formation damage and the productivity of fractured wells. His current research projects include drilling induced damage (drill-in fluids), condensate dropout and water blocks. In the area of hydraulic fracturing projects include: maximizing the productitivity of fractures in tight gas sands, growing injection well fractures in water injection wells and modeling fracture growth in poorly consolidated sands. In the past he has worked on formation damage issues associated with fines migration, clay swelling, sand production, emulsions and inorganic scales. This research activity has been supported primarily by industry, but also by the Department of Energy and by the State of Texas. Professor Sharma has taught production engineering related courses worldwide and is the Chairman of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department. |