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Both petroleum and geothermal energy programs are available in Stanford's Petroleum Engineering Department. Their location in the School of Earth Sciences provides unusual opportunities for interaction with geologists, geophysicists and geostatisticians.
BS, MS, Engineer and PhD programs include a wide variety of courses and research topics. In addition to courses available from other departments, petroleum engineering students may choose advanced courses in well-test analysis, thermodynamics, enhanced oil recovery, geothermal engineering, reservoir simulation, reservoir engineering, flow of non-Newtonian fluids, chemical aspects of fluid production, applied mathematics and environmental aspects of petroleum products.
Current research areas of interest to faculty include well test analysis, enhanced oil recovery by in-situ combustion and by steam or carbon dioxide injection, reservoir simulation, geothermal engineering, hydrocarbon phase behavior, multiphase flow in pipes, pore level displacement mechanisms, the characterization of reservoir heterogeneities and the sensitivity of oil recovery process performance to those heterogeneities.
Topics of Interest
Departmental
Mission Statement
Faculty and
Interests
An overview of our faculty and their various interests are listed under each of their names.
Khalid
Aziz - Reservoir
Simulation, Natural Gas Engineering and Multiphase Flow in Pipes
Jef
Caers - Petroleum Geostatistics, Reservoir
Characterization
using neural networks, statistical pattern recognition, Stochastic
simulation,
Data integration.
Lou
Durlofsky- Simulation of flow through geologically complex
reservoirs.
Upscaling of finely gridded geological/geostatistical models. Modeling
of flow in horizontal wells and the coupling of the well to the
reservoir.
Development of simulation techniques applicable to unstructured
systems.
Margot
Gerritsen - Computational Fluid
Dynamics.
Design of numerical methods that are simple and efficient. Application
areas include compressible flows, coastal ocean modeling.
Roland
Horne - Well Testing, Optimization and Geothermal
Reservoir
Engineering.
Kristian
Jessen - Phase behavior of petroleum reservoir fluids.
Compositional
streamline simulation. CO2 sequestration in petroleum reservoirs,
aquifers
and coal seams.
Andre
Journel - Non-parametric, non-Gaussian Geostatistics,
Stochastic Simulation and Scale Averaging.
Ruben
Juanes - Three-phase flow, numerical simulation,
environmental
remediation.
Tony
Kovscek - Strongly coupled mass/heat transport processes
in
fractured rocks and soils; thermal oil recovery; simulation of thermal
and isothermal multiphase flow in porous media; interfacial phenomena,
especially wettability of solids, foams, and emulsions; experimental
imaging
of fluid flow in porous media.
Tara LaForce - Partially
miscible multiphase flow, miscible gas injection, remediation of
aquifers, and CO2 sequestration.
Sullivan
Marsden (Emeritus) - Mircrowave Heating for EOR, Gravity
Drainage
Processes and Wine and Beer Making.
Lynn
Orr - Thermodynamics of Phase Equilibria, Transport
Phenomena,
and Oil Recovery by Gas Injection.
Hamdi
Tchelepi - Scalable Parallel Linear Solution Algorithms
for
Reservoir Flows.
Department of Petroleum Engineering Stanford University 065 Green Earth Sciences Bldg. 367 Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305-2220
Phone: 650/723-4744, Fax: 650/725-2099