Research Areas

Energy Resources Engineering Faculty and graduate students conduct research in the following areas:

• Computational and experimental techniques.
• Modeling resource production, aquifer management, and geological sequestration of greenhouse gases.
• Geothermal energy recovery.
• Natural gas from unconventional sources (deep shales, hydrates, tight gas sands, coal beds).
• Recovery of energy resources from tar sands, heavy oil reservoirs, shales and other nonconventional sources with reduced emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.
• Integrated energy resource systems.
• Optimization of the efficiency of energy recovery and the minimization of environmental and societal impact.
• Enhanced oil recovery by thermal means.
• Gas injection and the use of chemicals.
• Flow of fluid in pipes.
• Geostatistical reservoir characterization.
• Properties of petroleum fluids.
• Reservoir simulation using computer models.
• Well test analysis.

Research Groups

Visit our research group page or follow one of the links below:

• SUPRI-A: Thermal & Heavy Oil Recovery
• SUPRI-B: Reservoir Simulation
• SUPRI-D: Well Testing
• SUPRI-HW: Advanced Wells
• SCCS: Stanford Center for Carbon Storage
• SCRF: Center for Reservoir Forecasting
• Geothermal Program
• Smart Fields
• Benson Lab
• Clean Energy Conversions Laboratory
• Wyoming Carbon Capture and Storage Project

Interdisciplinary Programs

Energy Resources Engineering faculty are also involved in these interdisciplinary programs and initiatives:

• Global Climate and Energy Project
• Earth Systems Program
• Graduate Program in Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources
• Stanford Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Sciences

We also have Lab Facilities and Industrial Affiliate Programs.