Researchers

Ph.D. Thesis: Ph.D. Thesis: A Multi-Physics Inversion Approach for the Joint Petrophysical Interpretation of Electromagnetic and Fluid-Flow Measurements (Spring 2000 – Fall 2004).

Ph.D. Thesis: Simulation and Interpretation of Formation-Tester Measurements Acquired in the Presence of Mud-Filtrate Invasion, Multi-Phase Flow, and Deviated Wellbores (Fall 2005 – Spring 2009).

Masters Thesis: Improved Petrophysical Evaluation of Consolidated Calcareous Turbidite Sequences with Multi-Component Induction, NMR, Resistivity Images, and Core Measurements (Fall 2010 –December 2012).

Mohamed Bennis
Advanced methods for the interpretation of borehole measurements and core data acquired in spatially heterogeneous rocks (Fall 2015 – Fall 2021).

 

Joshua Bautista-Anguiano
Numerical simulation and interpretation of borehole spontaneous potential and resistivity measurements (Spring 2014 – Summer 2021).

Ph.D. Thesis: Rapid Modeling and Inversion-Based Interpretation of Borehole Acoustic Measurements Acquired in Isotropic and Vertical Transversely Isotropic Formations. (Fall 2013 – Fall 2017).

Ph.D. Thesis: Numerical Simulation and Interpretation of Formation-Tester Measurements Acquired in the Presence of Mud-Filtrate Invasion (Summer 2004 – Spring 2008).

Ph.D. Thesis: Interpretation of Multi-Component Induction and Sonic Measurements Acquired in High-Angle Wells and Joint 1D Radial Inversion of Resistivity and Sonic Logs (Fall 2005 – Spring 2010).

Master’s Thesis: Estimation of Elastic Properties of Hydrocarbon-Bearing Shale by Combining Effective-Medium Calculations, Conventional Well Logs, and Dispersion Processing of Sonic Waveforms (Fall 2009 – Summer 2011).

Master’s Report: Study of Liquid-Coupled Ultrasonic Techniques to Evaluate Elastic Wave Propagation in Rocks  (Fall 2015 – Summer 2017).

Ph.D. Thesis: Rapid Numerical Simulation and Inversion of Nuclear Borehole Measurements Acquired in Vertical and Deviated Wells (Fall 2005 – Spring 2009).

Master’s Thesis: Extrapolation of Elastic and Petrophysical Properties from Wells Using 3D Prestack Seismic Amplitude Data (Fall 2004 – Summer 2006).

Masters Thesis: Quantitative Interpretation of Pulsed Neutron Capture Logs: Fast Numerical Simulation and Inversion in Thinly-Bedded Formations (Fall 2008 – Summer 2010).

Master’s Thesis: Mud-Filtrate Invasion Modeling to Quantify Static and Dynamical Petrophysical Properties of Fractured and Vuggy Carbonate Formations (Scholarship from Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A.) (Summer 2006 – Spring 2008).

Ph.D. Thesis: Wideband Directional Complex Electrical Conductivity of Geomaterials: a Mechanistic Description (Fall 2010 – Summer 2015).

Master’s Thesis: Time-Lapse Variations of Multi-Component Electrical Resistivity Measurements Acquired in High-Angle Wells, August 2009.

Masters Thesis: Estimation of elastic properties of hydrocarbon-bearing shale from well logs (Fall 2010 – Fall 2012).

Master’s Thesis: Estimation of Dry-Rock Elastic Moduli Based on the Stimulation of Mud-Filtrate Invasion Effects on Borehole Acoustic Logs (Fall 2005 – Fall 2007).

Construction of static multi-layer petrophysical models in multi-mineral formations (Fall 2012 – Spring 2014).

Ph.D. Thesis: Inversion-Based Petrophysical Interpretation of Multi-Detector Logging-While-Drilling Sigma Measurements (Spring 2010 – Spring 2014).

Master’s Thesis: New Methods of Petrophysical Rock Classification Based on MICP and Grain-Size Distribution Measurements with Applications in Carbonates and Tight-Gas Sandstones (Fall 2014 – Fall 2016).

Master’s Thesis: Assessment of Shoulder-Bed, Invasion, and Lamination effects on Borehole Sonic Logs  (Fall 2004 – Spring 2007).

Master’s Thesis: Rock Classification from Conventional Well Logs in Hydrocarbon-Bearing Shale (Fall 2009 – Summer 2011).

Ph.D. Thesis: Equation-of-State, Compositional, One-Dimensional Radial Flow Method to Simulate Invasion and Fluid Withdrawal in the Presence of Oil- or Water-Base Muds (Summer 2008 – Fall 2011).

Master’s Thesis:  Numerical Simulation of Dual-Packer Formation-Tester Measurements in the Presence of Naturally Fractured Formations (Spring 2003 – Fall 2004).

Master’s Thesis: Mixing Laws and Fluid Substitution for Interpretation of Magnetic Resonance Measurements December 2016 (Fall 2014 – Fall 2016).

Master’s Thesis: Sensitivity Analysis of Fluid Density from Multi-Phase Wireline Formation Tester Measurements in the Presence of Invasion (Fall 2003 – Summer 2004).

Master’s Report: Numerical Simulation of Water- and Oil-Base Mud-Filtrate Invasion in Vertical and High-Angle Wells and Corresponding Impact on Monopole and Dipole Sonic Waveforms (Fall 2007 – Summer 2009).

Ph.D. Thesis: Simulation and Inversion of Borehole Electromagnetic Measurements for the Estimation of Petrophysical Properties in the Presence of Mud-Filtrate Invasion. (Fall 2004 – Fall 2008).

Master’s Thesis: Field Examples of the Combined Petrophysical Inversion of Gamma-Ray, Density, and Resistivity Logs Acquired in Thinly-Bedded Clastic Rock Formations (Summer 2007 – Summer 2009).

Ph.D. Thesis: Development of Effective Medium Models for Quantification of Elastic Properties and Modeling of Velocity Dispersion of Saturated Rocks (Fall 2011 – Summer 2015).

Ph.D. Thesis: Numerical Modeling of Petrophysical Properties with Applications to Hydrocarbon-Bearing Shale (Spring 2009 – Fall 2013).

Colin Schroeder

Interpretation of well logs and formation-tester measurements in the presence of invasion and capillary transitions (Spring 2015 – Fall 2021).

Valeriia Sobolevskaia

Inversion-based petrophysical interpretation of bulk density and P- and S-wave acoustic slownesses (Fall 2018 – Summer 2020).

Tatyana Torskaya

Ph.D. Thesis: Pore-Scale Analysis of Grain Shape and Sorting Effects on Fluid Transport Phenomena in Porous Rocks (Fall 2006 – Fall 2013).

Emmanuel Toumelin

Ph.D. Thesis: Pore-Scale Petrophysical Models for the Simulation and Combined Interpretation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Wide-Band Electromagnetic Measurements(Fall 2001 – Spring 2006).

Echezona Uzoh

Master’s Thesis: Quantitative Studies of Relative Dip Angle and Bed-Thickness Effects on LWD Density Images Acquired in High-Angle and Horizontal Wells (Spring 2006 – Summer 2007).

Omar J Varela

Ph.D Thesis: Stochastic Inversion of Pre-Stack Seismic Data to Improve Forecasts of Reservoir Production (Fall 2000 – Summer 2003).

Nathan Vrubel

Master’s Thesis: Statistical Partitioning of Well Logs and Core Measurements to Detect and Quantify Petrophysical Properties (Fall 2005 – Summer 2007).

You Wang
Fluid substitution methods for the interpretation of NMR measurements (Fall 2016 – Summer 2023).

Jianghui Wu

Ph.D. Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Multi-Phase Mud-Filtrate Invasion and Inversion of Formation Tester Data (Fall 1999 – Spring 2004).

Chicheng Xu

Ph.D. Thesis: Reservoir Description with Well-Log-Based and Core-Calibrated Petrophysical Rock Classification (Spring 2009 – Summer 2013).