Industrial Affiliate Programs

Geothermal Program Affiliates
Director: Roland N. Horne
Annual membership: $20,000
Research focus: geothermal reservoir engineering to advance the forecasting, evaluation and development of geothermal fields.

Petroleum Geology Affiliates
Director: Stephan A. Graham
Annual membership: $10,000
Research focus: base-line geologic studies of the petroleum-producing San Joaquin Basin and other basins to better document their geologic history and identify new concepts of exploration and secondary recovery.

Smart Fields
Director: Khalid Aziz
Annual Membership: $50,000
Research focus: The real-time monitoring, model updating and optimal control of oil and gas fields is known in the industry by various names, including Smart Fields, i-fields, e-fields, closed-loop reservoir management, etc. Such a system could be implemented in existing fields or in new fields that are developed by using optimization techniques to determine the location, number and type of wells.

Stanford Center for Reservoir Forecasting
Directors: Jef Caers
Annual membership: $35,000
Research focus: general problem of reservoir characterization and performance, including forecasting, interpreting reservoir geology and geophysics, geostatistics, reservoir engineering, and simulation.

Stanford Project on Productivity & Injectivity of Horizontal Wells
Directors: Khalid Aziz and Louis Durlofsky
Annual membership: $15,000 to $30,000
Research focus: development of improved methods for predicting the performance of horizontal wells.

SUPRI-A (Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute): Thermal Oil Recovery Program
Director: Anthony R. Kovscek
Annual membership: $25,000
Research focus: recovery of heavy oils by steam injection and in situ combustion.

SUPRI-B (Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute): Reservoir Simulation Affiliates
Director: Khalid Aziz, Louis Durlofsky, and Hamdi Tchelepi
Annual membership: $30,000
Research focus: Development of new methods and numerical techniques for modeling complex flow and transport processes in natural porous media, including the design and optimization of field operations under uncertainty.

SUPRI-C (Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute): Gas Injection Affiliates
Directors: Margot G. Gerritsen and Franklin M. Orr, Jr.
Annual membership: $20,000
Research focus: fundamental processes that determine the performance of near-miscible gas injection processes, with emphasis on CO2 flooding.

SUPRI-D (Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute): Well Test Intepretation Affiliates
Director: Roland N. Horne
Annual membership: $20,000
Research focus: automated methods for well test interpretation.