Applied Research
Recent Areas of emphasis include
Borehole stability
- Calibrated models accounting for anisotropy and planes of weakness
- Rock Drilling-fluid interactions, shale hydration and dehydration
Stimulation and hydrofracture
- Optimizing hydrofracture in laminated formations
- Pulsed hydraulic fracture
- Microfracture swarms and brittle-ductile transition
CO2 storage
- Geophyiscal Monitoring
- Injection hydro-mechanics
- Upscaling and containment
Thermo-poroelastic response to injection and production
- Oil and Gas
- Thermal energy storage (GeoTES)
- Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)
- Thermal conductivity at in-situ conditions
Proppant testing at extreme conditions
- Deep oil and gas
- EGS
- Superhot – supercritcal geothermal
Geologic Hydrogen
- Thermo-hydro-mechano-chemical (THMC) interactions
- Subsurface stimulation, Accelerated mechanical promotion (AMP)
- Geologic Hydrogen Exploration and Reservoir Characterization
