WPC - Christine Ehlig-Economides, Professor, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair - University of Houston
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THE 23RD WORLD PETROLEUM CONGRESS

Christine Economides - Professor, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair

CULLEN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING: PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

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Dr. Christine Ehlig-Economides is Professor and Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair at the University of Houston. Prior to her current position, Ehlig-Economides taught at Texas A&M University for ten years and worked twenty years for Schlumberger.

While at A&M, she managed research in production and reservoir engineering in conventional and shale reservoirs and helped the petroleum engineering department to grow and evolve to a broader energy scope.

Ehlig-Economides was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2003 and was a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on America’s Energy Future and the NRC Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES). She chaired The Academies of Medicine, Engineering, and Science in Texas (TAMEST) shale task force in 2017. She currently is a Board member for Quantum Reservoir Impact (QRI). She became an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in 2018.

Ehlig-Economides earned a Bachelor of Arts in Math-Science from Rice University, a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.

RELEVANT PROJECTS

Principal Investigators: Dr. Dimitrios G. Hatzignatiou | Dr. Christine Ehlig-Economides

Overview:

Impact is the expansion and knowledge of sub-surface geologic capacity and potential access for CO 2 storage in the US Gulf Coast. Determining the capacity of storage and the critical locations for access can enable a long term storage repository and enable a CCUS roadmap to marry all sources and sinks in the region.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Liu, G., and Ehlig-Economides, C. 2019. Comprehensive before-closure model and analysis for fracture calibration injection falloff Test. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 911-933, 172.
  • Hu, X., Liu, G., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2019, December 1). Model for Asymmetric Hydraulic Fractures with Nonuniform-Stress Distribution. SPE Production and Operations. doi:10.2118/195193-PA 2019.
  • Luo, G., Tian, Y., Bychina, M., & Ehlig-Economides, C. Production-Strategy Insights Using Machine Learning: Application for Bakken Shale. SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering. doi:10.2118/195681-PA. August 2019.
  • Tang, J., Wu, K., Zuo, L., Xiao, L., Sun, S., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2019, October 1). Investigation of Rupture and Slip Mechanisms of Hydraulic Fractures in Multiple-Layered Formations. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/197054-PA
  • Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (December 2018). Practical considerations for diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) analysis. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 171, 1133-1140.
  • Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (December 2018). Practical considerations for diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) analysis. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 171, 1133-1140.
  • Sorek, N., Moreno, J. A., Rice, R. N., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (October 2018). Productivity-Maximized Horizontal-Well Design With Multiple Acute-Angle Transverse Fractures. SPE Journal.
  • Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (September 2018 online). Comprehensive before-closure model and analysis for fracture calibration injection falloff test. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 172, 911-933.
  • Bychina, M., Luo, G., Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2018). State of the Art for Multiple Transverse Fracture Horizontal Well Design. Hydraulic Fracturing Journal, 5(1), 53-68.
  • Tang, J., Wu, K., Li, Y., Hu, X., Liu, Q., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (September 2018). Numerical investigation of the interactions between hydraulic fracture and bedding planes with non-orthogonal approach angle. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 200, 1-16
  • Tian, Y., Ayers, W. B., Sang, H., McCain Jr, W. D., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (May 2018). Quantitative Evaluation of Key Geological Controls on Regional Eagle Ford Shale Production Using Spatial Statistics. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 21(02), 238-256
  • Lee, K. J., Moridis, G. J., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2016, October 1). A Comprehensive Simulation Model of Kerogen Pyrolysis for the In-situ Upgrading of Oil Shales. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/173299-PA 498. Pang, W., Du, J., Zhang, T., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2016, February 1). Actual and Optimal Hydraulic-Fracture Design in a Tight Gas Reservoir. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/168613-PA
  • Yan, C., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2015, March 1). Systematic Study of Bakken Well Performance Over Three Well-Completion-Design Eras. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal. doi:10.2118/171566-PA
  • Marongiu-Porcu, M., Economides, M.J., Ehlig-Economides, C. A., and Retnanto, A. (March 2015). Comprehensive Fracture Calibration Test Design. Hydraulic Fracturing Quarterly, V. 2 Number 2, pp. 38-52.

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