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Congratulations to Dr. Behnam Jafarpour and his team for being awarded funding by the U.S. Department of Energy to Apply Machine Learning to Geothermal Exploration.  The project title is “Enabling Efficient Surveillance, Control, and Automation of Geothermal Operations with Advanced Predictive Analytics”. The project is aimed at developing advanced machine learning and data analytics technologies […]

by The University of Alberta’s Reservoir Geomechanics Research Group Spring has finally arrived and with the warmer temperatures we have several students gearing up to put the polishing touches on their theses and prepare for final examinations. It is always bittersweet to see our students near completion of their degrees, but always exciting to share […]

March 12, 2019 marked the grand opening of the new Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research (LITPEG), at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, where Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair, Dr. Leonardo Guimarães and his research team’s new offices and research space now reside.  Over 100 industry, government, and university executives attended the inauguration […]

Learning opportunity about the business impact and practical implications of some of the latest award-winning research at IPE. The Flow Assurance and Scale Team (FAST) from Heriot-Watt University are hosting a workshop on Oilfield Scale Management in Aberdeen on 29th January, to provide information on the FAST7 JIP and on the FASTrac one-to-one consultancy service. […]

by Suzanne Hurter, Energi Simulation Chair and Professor at the University of Queensland  We are looking for potential PhD students (Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and NZ citizens) to be associated with the Energi Simulation Industrial Chair Research Program. Details on these scholarships at https://scholarships.uq.edu.au/scholarship/energi-simulation-phd-scholarship Please spread the word!

It really has been a remarkable quarter as we close in on the 5th Annual Symposium taking place in Edmonton on November 13, 14, and 15, 2018. Exciting things are happening both at home and abroad – in addition to seeing members of [RG]2 making innovative presentations and attending events on both sides of the […]

August 9 & 10, 2018 University of Campinas UNISIM hosted their II Energi Simulation Workshop in Optimization and Integration between Reservoir and Production Systems. The technical event was held at the FEM (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) and was attended by approximately 50 people. The technical presentations were related to research projects under development at UNISIM […]

August 24, 2018 Duke Anderson and Andrew Seto of Energi Simulation, and Victor Salazar of CMG Limited visited Dr. Leonardo Guimarães and his research team at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, on August 6-7, 2018. In addition to reviewing the Energi Simulation Research Chair program led by Dr. Guimarães on ‘Optimization, Uncertainties […]

Three Energi Simulation team members, Andrew Seto, Ricardo Garza and Sima Kohbodi, attended CMG’s Technical Symposium at the Eau Claire Sheraton Suites on June 4-5, 2018. The biennial event showcased the latest research and development in state-of-the-art reservoir simulators and case studies to the industry, ranging from improvement in computational speed to inclusion of artificial […]

by Behnam Jafarpour, Energi Simulation Chair and Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Each year, Petroleum Engineering students at all levels (BS, MS, and PhD) participate in the Annual Student Paper Contest, sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers during the Western Regional Meeting (SPE-WRM). The top rank in each category wins a free trip to […]