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Office Location: EER 5.614B

Eric van Oort

Professor

Richard B. Curran Centennial Chair in Engineering

Research Areas
Drilling and Completions
Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Geomechanics
Unconventional Resources

Research Websites
RAPID and CODA

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, Chemical Physics, 1990
M.S., University of Amsterdam, Chemical Physics, 1986
B.S., University of Amsterdam, Chemistry, 1983
Barlaeus Gymnasium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1982

PGE Courses Taught
PGE 379/381: Drilling Engineering
PGE 383: Advanced Well Construction
PGE 430: Introduction to Drilling & Completions

Research Interests
Drilling automation (RAPID consortium)
Big Data Analytics (RAPID consortium)
Zonal isolation / cementing / well abandonment & decommissioning (CODA consortium)
Borehole instability / lost circulation prevention, and artificial borehole strengthening (CODA consortium)
Shale-fluid interaction and novel shale drilling fluids, use of nano-particles
Real-time operations monitoring (RTM)
Hydraulic fracturing optimization and associated water management
Quantum computing

Awards & Honors
Society of Petroleum Engineers Drilling Engineering Award, 2017.

Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member Award, 2016.

Society of Petroleum Engineers Best Paper Award, SPE D&C (September Issue, 1997).

Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer (1996).

KSEPL Experimental Award, awarded for best experimental work in Shell Research (1994).

Invited Speaker, GE Sensing Systems: Intelligence & Awareness, Niskayuna, Sept. 5, 2018.

Invited Speaker, Deepwater Horizon: The Movie & The Actual Event, Princeton, Apr. 20, 2018.

Co-Organizer, SPE-WIA 2019 Conference on Well Abandonment and Decommissioning.

Co-Organizer, AADE 2017 & 2019 National Technical Conference.

Co-Organizer, AADE 2016 & 2018 National Fluids Conference.

Co-Organizer, OESI / BSEE RTM Workshop, Houston, TX, April 17, 2017.

Co-Organizer, SPE Deepwater Drilling & Completions Conference, 2016.

Highlighted Publications and Google Scholar Profile
van Oort, E., Incedalip, O., Karimi Vajargah, A., Thermal Wellbore Strengthening through Managed Temperature Drilling – Part I: Thermal Model and Simulation, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 58 (2018), 275-284

van Oort, E., Hoxha, B.B., and Hale, A.H., Thermal Wellbore Strengthening through Managed Temperature Drilling – Part II: Chemical System Design and Laboratory Testing, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 58 (2018), 285-295

Enayatpour, S., van Oort, E., & Patzek, T. (2018). Thermal shale fracturing simulation using the Cohesive Zone Method (CZM). Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 55, 476-494.

Cayeux, E., Shor, R., Ambrus, A., Pournazari, P., Ashok, P., & van Oort, E. (2018). From shallow horizontal drilling to ERD wells: How scale affects drillability and the management of drilling incidents. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 160, 91-105, doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2017.10.026

Wu, Q., Nair, S., Shuck, M., van Oort, E., Guzik, A., Kishida, K., Advanced distributed fiber optic sensors for monitoring real-time cementing operations and long term zonal  isolation, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2017.08.072.

Razavi, O., Vajargah, A. K., van Oort, E., & Aldin, M. (2017). Comprehensive analysis of initiation and propagation pressures in drilling induced fractures. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 149, 228-243.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2016.10.039

Karimi Vajargah, A., van Oort, E. “Determination of Downhole Drilling Fluid Rheology Using Real-time Distributed Pressure Sensors”. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Volume 24, May 2015, Pages 400-11

Adrian Ambrus, Ulf Jakob Flø Aarsnes, Ali Karimi Vajargah, Babak Akbari, Eric van Oort, Ole Morten Aamo. Real-time estimation of reservoir influx rate and pore pressure using a simplified transient two-phase flow model. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Volume 32, May 2016, Pages 439-452.

Karimi Vajargah, A., van Oort, E. “Determination of Downhole Drilling Fluid Rheology Using Real-time Distributed Pressure Sensors”. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Volume 24, May 2015, Pages 400-11

Gradishar, J., Ugueto, G. and van Oort, E.: “Setting Free the Bear: The Challenges and Lessons of the Ursa A-10 Deepwater ERD well”, peer-reviewed paper SPE 163525-PA, SPE Drilling & Completions, 2014

van Oort, E., Vargo, R.: Improving Formation Strength Tests and Their Interpretation, SPE Drilling and Completions, September 2008, P.284-294

van Oort, E.: On the Physical and Chemical Stability of Shales, J. Pet. Sci. & Engr., 1051 (2003), 1-23

van Oort, E., Hale, A.H., Mody, F.K. and Roy, S.,: Transport in shales and the design of improved water-based shale drilling fluids. SPE Drilling & Completions, 1996, September.

Karaborni, S., Smit, B., Heidug, W., Urai, J.L. and van Oort, E., The swelling of clays : molecular simulations of the hydration of montmorillonite. Science, 1996, 271(23 February), p. 1102-1104.

van Oort, E., Manson, N.B. and Glasbeek, M.: Optically Detected Spin Coherence of the Diamond N-V Centre in its Triplet Ground State, J.Phys.C.: Solid State Physics 21, 1988, 4385-4391

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