- Industrial Affiliate Programs
- Basins and Petroleum Systems Modeling Group
Director: Stephan A. Graham
Annual membership: $40,000
Research focus: The Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling program seeks to be a recognized center of excellence for training and research in visualization and quantification of the geohistory of basins and petroleum systems by (1) training the next generation of petroleum systems modelers, (2) devising quantitative tools that, in combination with assessment methodology, can be used to rigorously evaluate geologic risk in various petroleum exploration settings, and (3) conducting basic and applied energy-focused research. - Center for Aquifer Simulation
Director: Steven M. Gorelick
Annual membership: $50,000
Research focus: An interdisciplinary program to develop and integrate Earth science and engineering techniques used to analyze and assess contaminant behavior originating from point and non-point sources, in both the unsaturated near surface and the saturated subsurface. - 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. - Molecular Organic Geochemistry Industrial Affiliates
Director: J. Michael Moldowan
Annual membership: $33,000 (continuing sponsor), $45,000 (new sponsor
Research focus: Developing methods in molecular organic geochemistry toward application in petroleum exploration/exploitation and the environment. - 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
Director: 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 Exploration Project
Director: Jon Claerbout and B. Biondi
Annual membership: $41,000 (continuing sponsor), TBD (new sponsor
Research focus: To improve the theory and practice of constructing 3-D and 4-D images of the Earth from seismic echo soundings. - Stanford Project on Deep-water Depositional Systems
Director: Stephan A. Graham and Donald R. Lowe
Annual membership: $20,000
Research focus: Study of deep-sea sedimentary deposits (the last, major untapped reservoir of fluid hydrocarbons on our planet) and the geologic processes which produce them. - Stanford Project on Productivity & Injectivity of Horizontal Wells
Director: 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. - Stanford Rock Fracture Project
Director: Atilla Aydin and David Pollard
Annual membership: $30,000
Research focus: Faulting and fracturing of rock problems relevant to oil and gas reservoir charaterization the flow of underground fluids. - Stanford Rockphysics & Borehole Geophysics Project
Director: Amos M. Nur
Co-director: Gary Mavko
Annual membership: $51,000
Research focus: Properties and processes in rock as related to geophysical exploration, crustal studies, and tectonic and borehole processes. - Stanford-China Geosciences Industrial Affiliates
Director: Stephan A. Graham
Annual membership: $20,000
Research focus: Cooperative research with representatives of Chinese institutions in the study of geology, particularly the tectonics of western China and the origins and characteristics of petroliferous basins and mineralized belts. - 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
Annual membership: $20,000
Research focus: Identification and development of numerical techniques, and the use of computers to predict performance of oil recovery processes, especially that of enhanced oil recovery methods. - SUPRI-C (Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute): Gas Injection Affiliates
Director: 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.