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Alkali Surfactant Polymers (ASP)

Lead Scientist: Dr. Guoyin Zhang

Formulates and develops alkali surfactant polymer (ASP) treatments for enhanced recovery of oil and evaluates existing ASP treatments.

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Geo-Resources Evaluation and Applied Technologies(GREAT)

Lead Scientist: Dr. Sai Wang

The Geo-Resource Evaluation and Applied Technologies (GREAT) Group advances fundamental understanding and innovative solutions for subsurface energy and resource challenges. Through cutting-edge laboratory testing, experimental studies, and applied technologies, we evaluate and optimize the development of oil and gas, geothermal, hydrogen, critical minerals, mining, and carbon storage systems. Our mission is to bridge science and engineering to enable sustainable, efficient, and responsible use of Earth’s resources.

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Industry Service & Outreach Group (ISOG)

Makes public data available in intuitive and user-friendly formats and works with other organizations to provide information about new or under-used technologies available to the independent oil and gas community.

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Petrophysics and Surface Chemistry

Lead Scientist: Dr. Jill Buckley

Studies surface and interfacial properties of crude oils, wettability alteration and crude oil/brine/rock interactions, stability of asphaltenes, and the effects of surfactants used in core cleaning on wettability assessment.

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Produced Water in Petroleum Engineering

Lead Scientist: Dr. Jianjia Yu

Pursues advanced methods of treating oilfield produced water through innovative membrane technology.

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Reservoir Evaluation/Advanced Computational Technologies (REACT)

Lead Scientist: Dr. William Ampomah

Develops new technologies using computational intelligence, geostatistics and fuzzy logic to solve the unique problems encountered in reservoir characterization and numerical simulation of oil and gas reservoirs using data of all scales.

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Reservoir Sweep Improvement

Lead Scientist: Dr. Randall Seright

Performs research and development to improve reservoir sweep efficiency and reduce saltwater production during oil and gas recovery operations.

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