Research focuses on understanding the geologic factors controlling both the formation and cost effective production of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs such as shales, tight gas sands, and low-pressure gas. Projects address the flow of fluids from the pore to the reservoir scale, depositional and diagenetic effects on reservoir quality, and the combined effects of faults, natural fractures, and hydraulic fracturing on flow and production.
| Petrophysics, Formation Evaluation, Quantitative Seismic Interpretation, Machine Learning, Integrated Subsurface Characterization, Carbon Sequestration
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 | sedimentology, stratigraphy, marine geology
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 | Fault and fracture mechanics, reservoir geomechanics, diagenesis and low-temperature geochemistry, fluid flow and transfer processes in sedimentary basins, deformation mechanisms of the upper crust, structural control of mass and heat transfer in sedimentary basins, effects of chemical mass transfer on the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of fractures and faults, chemical ...
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 | Fluids in diagenetic and hydrothermal systems, Fluid inclusions, Fractures, Structural diagenesis
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 | Sedimentology and stratigraphy, petrology of sedimentary rocks, reservoir characterization
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| Source Rock Characterization
Geochemistry (Organic, Biomarker, Gas Isotope)
Mudrock Characterization
Petrography, SEM
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 | Geochemist - 20 years of stable isotope geochemistry laboratory development (ThermoElectron GasBench, Conflo, MAT252, DeltaXL. 15 years of Gas Chromatography method development and automation (Agilent 6890 GC-MS), sample loop injection development, high temperature and cryogenic chromatography. 8 years of X-ray Fluorescence analysis (Bruker T5 handheld and benchtop units). Expert in a wide ...
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 | Research in carbonate, sandstone, and mudrock stratigraphy, sedimentology, diagenesis, reservoir characterization, and pore network analysis.
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 | Subsurface hydrology, numerical modeling and optimization of groundwater resources, multiphase flow and contaminant transport in both the unsaturated and saturated zones, geochemistry modeling and subsurface reactive transport, Mathematical geology, geostatistics, inverse modeling, optimization, risk assessment and risk analysis
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 | Maria-Katerina Nikolinakou is currently a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on understanding stress and pore pressure in complex geologic systems, including salt systems and accretionary prisms. She studies the behavior of geologic materials ...
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 | Seismic interpretation of depositional systems, Seismic data processing, Multicomponent data processing and velocity ratios estimation for reservoir characterization, Seismic modeling, Seismic inversion, Diffraction imaging, Acreage evaluation and prospect generation, 3D seismic attributes-based rock property prediction in hydrothermal dolomite reservoirs.
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| Manager of the Texas Seismological Network and Seismology Research (TexNet). Extensive
30 years experience in Seismology and Applied Geophysics both through my research position
as a Senior Researcher and collaboration with Industrial partners in multidisciplinary
European and US funded projects. I currently manage the seismic network of Texas with 210
seismic stations ...
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 | Sedimentology, geomorphology, and stratigraphy of clastic sedimentary systems. Rivers, deltas, coasts, and turbidite systems. Stratigraphic forward modeling. Seismic stratigraphy and interpretation of three-dimensional seismic data. Reproducible scientific computing in geology.
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 | Carbon cycle, Methane Hydrate, Hydrogeology, Flow and Transport in Porous Media, Analytical and Numerical Modeling
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 | Seismic sedimentology; seismic geomorphology; seismic and sequence stratigraphy; Characterization of thin-bed reservoirs; seismic chrono-stratgraphy
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| Program Manager for the Advanced Energy Consortium
Managing multidisciplinary nanosensor, miniaturized electronics, and smart materials research for the assessment of subsurface properties in various applications, including energy exploration, geothermal, CCUS, etc.
https://www.beg.utexas.edu/aec/
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 | 3D geological interpretation and modeling
- Integrated reservoir characterization
- Petroleum Geology
- Petroleum Engineering
- Carbonate sequence stratigraphy
- Conventional and unconventional reservoir exploration and development
- Oil field exploration and production reservoir management
- Petrophysics
- Geostatistics
- Reservoir simulation
- Software development
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| Petrophysics; mainly creation of core-calibrated interpretation models for well logs.
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 | Natural fracture / vein systems in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks; structural geology; tectonics
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 | Personnel management, fiscal reporting, budget management, contract negotiation, management of geological samples
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 | Microstructural analysis of rocks, particularly small-scale deformation structures and pores in mudrocks.
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 | Sequence stratigraphic interpretations (well logs, 3-D seismic), integrated reservoir characterization, subsurface correlation and mapping (using workstation and PC) and subsurface structural interpretation (using 3-D seismic), project management, CO2 sequestration
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