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Balhoff Named Next UT PGE Chair
Professor Matthew Balhoff has been selected as the new chair of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. He will begin his four-year term in July.
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PetroBowl Team Goes Undefeated
The University of Texas at Austin’s PetroBowl Team has won the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2023 North American Regional Competition held in March.
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UT PGE Grad Program Continues to Lead in 2024 U.S. News Rankings
The Hildebrand Department’s graduate program in petroleum engineering is No. 1 in the country, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings released today. UT PGE has held this top ranking continuously since 2003.
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UT PGE Team Wins National Energy Contest
Three PhD students from the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering — Ibrahim Gomaa, Keivan Khaleghi and Dongyoung Yoon — have won the 2023 Chevron National Engineering Week Competition held in February.
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Research Associate Professor Arvind Ravikumar recently testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology about next-generation U.S. energy infrastructure, focusing on hydrogen and pipelines. Dr. Ravikumar co-directs UT Austin’s Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab (EEMDL).
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Research Areas
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Drilling and Completions
Drilling, well completions, and rock mechanics research includes: well bore stability in highly...
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Enhanced Oil Recovery
Enhanced oil recovery research includes topics such as how to improve oil recovery from all types...
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Formation Evaluation
Formation evaluation research understands and characterizes the physical properties of reservoir...
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Geologic Carbon Storage
CO2 storage research investigates methods for CO2 sequestration, including storage in deep saline...
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Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
Hydraulic fracturing produces fractures in the rock formation that stimulate the flow of natural...
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Integrated Reservoir Characterization
Integrated Reservoir Characterization research focuses on: 1. providing practical approaches for...
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Natural Gas Engineering
Natural gas engineering research includes topics such as how to extract gas and natural gas...
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Petrophysics and Pore Scale Processes
Petrophysics and pore-scale processes research develops the basics science that underlies all...
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Production Engineering
Production engineering research covers a wide range of interests while presenting front-end...
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Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir engineering research includes topics such as how to extract oil and gas efficiently from...
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Reservoir Simulation
Reservoir simulation research focuses on development and application of reservoir simulators for...
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Unconventional Resources
Unconventional resources research includes areas such as rock imaging, well monitoring, fluid...
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