Other News
• Dr. Miskimins was the first guest for Mines’ new podcast “The Conveyor”.
Check out her 10-minute podcast about the state of the industry ( https://bit.
ly/3Cu92Nj ) and keep an eye on The Conveyor to see what else gets featured.
• For the TOPENERGY alliance (Mines, UTexas & Penn State) Jim Crompton
revised their program on Environmental Stewardship and is developing a new
section on the Digital Oilfield. Dr. Linda Battalora is now the Mines rep for
TOPCORP.
It probably surprises nobody that Jennifer got a new puppy during the pandemic – his name is Aidan. Here he is in her lap
with his sisters Kensi and Zoey.
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
Names highlighted in red are our students, faculty, research associates and post-docs.
Presentations
• Prof. Jim Crompton has spoken at a lot of conferences, webinars,
lecture series and class guest lectures over the past year, including
Eminent Lecture Series, SPE Gulf Coast Society, a western India PE
student group, OspreyData, and classes at University of Portsmouth
and NU. He also completed a two-part webinar for Surtek on
challenges of data visualization and explainable AI.
• Dr. Zerpa was chair of the Session on Wetting, Interfaces, and
Membranes of Gas Hydrates at the Twenty First Symposium on
Thermophysical Properties, June 20-23, 2021.
• Dr. Fleckenstein presented on “Finite Element Analysis of Casing
Deformation” at SPE Virtual Summit: Casing Deformation During
Fracturing of Unconventional Wells, on 16-18 February 2021.
• Philip H. Winterfeld and Yu-Shu Wu presented “Multi-stage hydraulic
fracturing simulation with fluid and heat flow, and geomechanical
effects” at the AIChE 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting.
This is one of the many visuals Jim Crompton used in his presentations
over the past year.
• PhD student Berk Coskuner presented his work, “Effects of Molecular Level Forces on the Diffusivity Characteristics of Hydrocarbons in
Shale Reservoirs” at the UrTec meeting in Houston, July 2021.
• Santiago Rocha MS ‘21 and Luis Zerpa will present “Evaluation of closed-loop geothermal heat extraction concepts using reservoir
simulation” at the 2021 Geothermal Rising Conference at San Diego, California, 3-6 October, 2021.
• Wang, Shihao, Yu-Shu Wu , and X. Wen, “Unified Reservoir and Seismic Simulation with Explicit Representation of Fractures and Faults,”
SPE-203979, to be presented at SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference, 4 - 6 Oct 2021 Galveston Island Convention Center Galveston, Texas,
USA
• Similoluwa Oduwole, Luis Zerpa , Mathias Pohl, Jyoti Behura, and Manika Prasad will present “Reservoir analysis of a CO2 sequestration site:
Experiment-guided field scale modeling” at the 2021 International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, 26 September - 1 October,
Denver, CO.
• Yu, Xiangyu , Cong Wang, X. Yan, Shihao Wang , Lei Wang, Phil Winterfeld , and Yu-Shu Wu, “A 3D Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical
(THM) Model Using EDFM and XFEM for Hydraulic-Fracture-Dominated Geothermal Reservoirs,” SPE-203983, to be presented at SPE
Reservoir Simulation Conference, 4 - 6 Oct 2021 Galveston Island Convention Center Galveston, Texas, USA
• Wu, Dawei, Yuan Di, and Yu-Shu Wu , “Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of Supersonic Multiphase Gas Injection,” SPE-203911, to be
presented at SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference, 4 - 6 Oct 2021 Galveston Island Convention Center Galveston, Texas, USA
• Tian, Ye , Chi Zhang , Zhengdong Lei, Xiaolong Yin , Hossein Kazemi, and Yu-Shu Wu , “An Improved Diffusion Model for Fractured Tight
Reservoirs,” SPE-204010, to be presented at SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference, 4 - 6 Oct 2021 Galveston Island Convention Center
Galveston, Texas, USA
• Daniel Croce PhD ‘20 and Luis Zerpa will present “Mechanistic model for the design and operation of an intermittent gas lift system for
liquid loaded horizontal gas wells” at 2021 SPE ATCE at Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21-23 September, 2021. SPE-205962-MS
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