Research projects

Sponsored projects carried out by the MCERI group alongside the joint industry project.

Recent projects

Project	Sponsor	Duration
Model Calibration and Efficient Reservoir Imaging: A Joint Industry Project	Multiple domestic and international oil and service companies	Nov 2004 – present
Science Informed Machine Learning for Accelerating Real-Time Decisions (DOE SMART Initiative)	U.S. Department of Energy, NETL	Jul 2022 – Jul 2025
Visualization of Pathline, Streakline and Timeline in High Resolution Geologic Models Using DESTINY	Saudi Aramco	Jan 2022 – Dec 2023
Coastal Bend Carbon Management Program	Talos Energy	Jul 2022 – Jan 2024
Robust CO₂ Plume Imaging using Tomographic Inversion of Seismic Onset Time and Distributed Pressure and Temperature Measurements	U.S. Department of Energy	From Oct 2021
Imaging and Visualization of Fracture Networks Using Fast Marching Method Combined with Machine Learning	Oak Ridge Associated Universities	Oct 2020 – Mar 2022
Polymer Rate Optimization Study for Mangala using DESTINY	Praesagus Real Time Production Optimization Pvt Ltd	Sep 2020 – May 2021
Detailed Fault Modeling at the Azle Site, North Texas: Implications on Seismicity	ExxonMobil Research	Aug 2019 – Aug 2020
Determination of Fracture Connectivity Using Dynamic Reservoir Response	Saudi Aramco	Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Eagle Ford Shale Laboratory	U.S. Department of Energy	Apr 2018 – Apr 2020
Rapid Flow Simulation of Unconventional Reservoirs Using the Fast Marching Method	Marathon Oil Company	Sep 2017 – Sep 2019
Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanical Modeling of the Azle Area, North Texas	State of Texas	Sep 2016 – Dec 2018
Time Lapse Seismic Monitoring and Performance Assessment for CO₂ Sequestration in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs	U.S. Department of Energy	Aug 2013 – Aug 2016
Streamline Tracing in Unstructured Grids	Saudi Aramco	Oct 2011 – Oct 2013
Geology-Based Reservoir Model Building for Carbonate Reservoirs	Qatar National Research Foundation	Nov 2011 – Nov 2014
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification in Predictions of Flows in Highly Heterogeneous Media and its Applications to CO₂ Sequestration	U.S. Department of Energy	Sep 2010 – Sep 2013

Earlier projects

Project	Sponsor	Duration
Time Lapse Seismic Monitoring and Performance Assessment for CO₂ Sequestration in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs	U.S. Department of Energy	Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Infill Drilling in the Wamsutter Field	RPSEA	Sep 2008 – Sep 2010
CMG Research in Multi-scale Data Integration Using Facies-based Hierarchical Bayesian Models	National Science Foundation	Sep 2007 – Sep 2011
Probabilistic History Matching	Shell Oil Company	Aug 2005 – Aug 2010
Optimization Methods for Rate Allocation to Injectors/Producers and ICVs for Smart/Complex Wells: ANDR/SDGM Field	Saudi Arabian Oil Company	Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Rapid Calibration of High Resolution Geologic Models to Dynamic Data Using Inverse Modeling: Field Application and Validation	U.S. Department of Energy	Oct 2005 – Oct 2008
CMG Research in Multi-scale Spatial Modeling for Petroleum Reservoirs Using Static and Dynamic Data	National Science Foundation	Sep 2003 – Sep 2006
An Integrated Approach to Characterizing Bypassed Oil in Heterogeneous and Fractured Reservoirs Using Partitioning Tracers	U.S. Department of Energy	May 2002 – Dec 2006
Dynamic Data Integration in Fractured Reservoirs	Saudi Arabian Oil Company	Jan 2004 – Apr 2005
The Description of Reservoir Properties Using Geological, Geophysical and Engineering Data: A Joint Industry Project	Multiple domestic and international oil and service companies	Nov 1997 – Nov 2003
Rapid Imaging of Interwell Fluid Saturations Using Seismic and Multiphase Production Data	Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	May 2001 – May 2003
Dynamic Data Integration: Berri-Hanifa Field, Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian Oil Company	Jun 2001 – Jun 2002
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Scientific Inference	National Science Foundation	May 1999 – May 2002