Date: October 7, 2009
Title: Hemant A. Phale presents "Data Assimilation Using The
Constrained Ensemble Kalman Filter" at the SPE Annual Technical Conference
and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Dean S. Oliver is a co-author on this paper.
Date: October 6, 2009
Title: Dr. Oliver presents "Localization of Ensemble-Based
Control Setting Updates for Production Optimization" at the SPE Annual
Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Yan Chen is a corresponding author on this paper.
Date: February 5, 2009
Title: The OU Consortium on Ensemble Methods (OUCEM) annual meeting for 2009 was held at the Shell EP Technology Center, Bellaire, Houston, TX, USA. Around 15 representatives from member companies and 2 visitors from Roxar were present for the meeting.
Date: February 3, 2009
Title: Chinedu C. Agbalaka presents "Automatic History Matching of Production and Facies Data with Nonstationary Proportions Using EnKF" at the Reservoir Simulation Symposium in Woodlands, TX, USA. Dean S. Oliver is a co-author on this paper.
Date: February 3, 2009
Title: Yan Chen presents "Ensemble-Based Closed-Loop Optimization on Brugge Field" at the Reservoir Simulation Symposium in Woodlands, TX, USA. Dean S. Oliver is a co-author on this paper.
Date: February 2, 2009
Title: Yanfen Zhang presents "History Matching Using a Hierarchical Stochastic Model with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: A Field Case Study" at the Reservoir Simulation Symposium in Woodlands, TX, USA. Dean S. Oliver is a co-author on this paper.
Date: September 23, 2008
Title: Dean Oliver receives "SPE Distinguished Member Award" at the SPE-ATCE in Denver.
Date: August 18, 2008
Title: Dean Oliver presents "Efficient Ensemble-Based Closed-Loop Production Optimization" at Shell Upstream Research and "Application of EnKF to Brugge Test Case" at Shell Production Company in Houston
Date: June 24, 2008
Title: Yan Chen presents "Application of Ensemble-Based Closed-Loop Optimization on Brugge Field" at the SPE-ATW on Closed Loop Optimization in Bruges, Belgium. The problem is fairly realistic (20 producers, 10 injectors, 3 completions per well, 7 rock relperm regions, several facies). Data is provided twice during the test case and participants are asked to optimize net present value of the reservoir. The OU solution to the workshop test problem is judged best of the nine solutions submitted. Co-authors include Ning Liu (Chevron) and Dean Oliver.
Date: June 20, 2008
Title: Dean Oliver presents "Improved Initial Sampling for the Ensemble Kalman Filter" at the Ensemble Kalman Filter Workshop in Voss, Norway. Yan Chen is a co-author on this paper.
Date: June 18, 2008
Title: Ning Liu (Chevron) presents "Ensemble filter methods applied to nonlinear problems" at the Ensemble Kalman Filter Workshop in Voss, Norway. Dean Oliver is a co-author on this paper.
Date: June 14-15, 2008
Title: Dean Oliver gives two days of lectures on the ensemble Kalman filter for Aramco Research Services in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Date: May to August, 2008
Title: Hemant A. Phale worked for Chevron ETC, Houston as a summer intern. His main responsibilities there included implementing conforming EnKF, testing the performance of the conforming EnKF on a synthetic problem, implementing ensemble-based production optimization (the standard EnOpt and Conjugate Gradient based EnOpt), and testing the performance of these techniques on a synthetic case as well as a field application.
Date: May to August, 2008
Title: Yanfen Zhang did her internship with Chevron ETC. As her intern project, in addition to improving the applicability and functionality of the history matching research code, she did the study of applying EnKF together with double stochastic hierarchical model and localization to a real field case.
Date: May to August, 2008
Title: Chinedu Agbalaka had an internship with Chevron ETC, Houston. His intern project was History Matching of the NSSRM Reservoir Model: Impact of Fault Multiphase Flow Properties on History Matching Results.
Date: April 24, 2008
Title: The Spring 2008 Member's meeting for the Consortium on Ensemble Methods was held at the University of Oklahoma.
Date: April 20, 2008
Title: Yan Chen presents "Efficient Ensemble-Based Closed-loop Optimization" at 2008 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Date: April 18, 2008
Title: Dean Oliver presents "Ensemble Method for Reservoir Data Assimilation" at Chevron Energy Technology Company in Houston
Date: March 18, 2008
Title: Dean Oliver presents "Ensemble Method for Reservoir Data Assimilation" at ExxonMobil Upstream Research in Houston
Date: November 13, 2007
Title: Dean Oliver receives "A Peer Apart Award" at SPE-ATCE in Anaheim in recognition of his service to SPE peer reviewed journals.
Date: May to Aug, 2007
Title: Yan did her intern with Chevron Energy Technology Company, San Ramon, CA.
Date: May 6-9, 2007
Title: Dr. Zhang is organizing a technical session and will be giving a presentation at Hedberg Research Conference "Basin Modeling Perspectives: Innovative Developments and Novel Applications", Hague, The Netherlands.
Date: April 3, 2007
Title: Dr. Oliver presents graduate seminar at Texas A&M University.
Date: March 26, 2007
Title: Dr. Oliver presents IGERT seminar at LSU.
Date: March 19-22, 2007
Title: Dr. Zhang presents an invited plenary talk at SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geosciences (http://www.siam.org/meetings/gs07/), Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Date: March 1, 2007
Title: The 2007 affiliates meeting will be held March 1st at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center.
Date: November 17-18, 2006
Title: Dr. Zhang presents a keynote address at Chinese Forum on Enhanced Oil Recovery by World Petroleum Congress, Beijing, P. R. China.
Date: September 1, 2006
Title: Dr. Zhang receives a three-year grant on "CMG Collaborative Research: Stochastic Multiscale Modeling of Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport" from National Science Foundation.
