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Heidari Wins International SPE Award for Technical Excellence

Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) Professor Zoya Heidari has won the 2024 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) the Lester C. Uren Award for Technical Excellence. The international award is given annually to one recipient for distinguished achievement in the technology of petroleum engineering. Dr. Heidari was officially recognized at SPE’s Annual…

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UT PGE Team Places 2nd in Global Energy Case Competition

A team of four Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) students won second place and $7,000 in prize money in the global Switch Energy Alliance (SEA) Case Competition held in November. Team Quwa — Danya Almohammed (BSPE 2026); Mohamed Awad (PhD PE 2025); Sara Al Lawati (BSPE 2026); and Lina Al Khowaiter…

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Villarroel Wins International SPE Fellowship

Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (UT PGE) graduate student Julio C. Villarroel Salvatierra (MSPE 2023, PhD PE 2026) has won the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2024 Henry DeWitt Smith Fellowship.

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Geothermal at UT PGE

If geothermal power constitutes just 3% of the global energy mix in 2050, as much as 9 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions could be eliminated. Here’s how UT PGE is helping to make it happen.

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Geologic Carbon Storage

Geologic Carbon Storage

CO2 storage research investigates methods for CO2 sequestration, including storage in deep…

Drilling and Completions

Drilling and Completions

Drilling, well completions, and rock mechanics research includes: well bore stability in…

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Enhanced oil recovery research includes topics such as how to improve oil…

Formation Evaluation

Formation Evaluation

Formation evaluation research understands and characterizes the physical properties of reservoir rocks…

Integrated Reservoir Characterization

Integrated Reservoir Characterization

Integrated Reservoir Characterization research focuses on: 1. providing practical approaches for assessing…

Production Engineering

Production Engineering

Production engineering research covers a wide range of interests while presenting front-end…

Reservoir Engineering

Reservoir Engineering

Reservoir engineering research includes topics such as how to extract oil and…

Unconventional Resources

Unconventional Resources

Unconventional resources research includes areas such as rock imaging, well monitoring, fluid…

Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes

Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes

Petrophysics and pore-scale processes research develops the basics science that underlies all…

Reservoir Simulation

Reservoir Simulation

Reservoir simulation research focuses on development and application of reservoir simulators for…

Natural Gas Engineering

Natural Gas Engineering

Natural gas engineering research includes topics such as how to extract gas…

Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics

Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics

Hydraulic fracturing produces fractures in the rock formation that stimulate the flow…

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