INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATES PROGRAM
Center for Tectonophysics
Texas A&M University

     

Purpose

  • Provides industry support for both graduate training and fundamental and applied research important to the petroleum industry.

Interdisciplinary Research

  • Integrated geological and engineering studies by a team of graduate students and faculty from Geology , Geophysics and Petroleum Engineering at Texas A& M University.

Research Focus

  • Fluid-Flow Properties of Faults and Field-Scale Studies of Faulted Reservoirs

Research Goals

  • to determine values and spatial distributions of fluid-flow properties of reservoir-scale faults using field and laboratory measurements together with theoretical models and inverse methods, and
  • to develop a field-based mechanistic understanding of the linkage between host-rock lithology, fault development, fault structure and fluid-flow characteristics of faults.

Explore our on-going and proposed research through the links below.

Proposal

Pilot Study

Geology and Hydrogeology of
the Fault-Partitioned Hickory Aquifer

Executive Summary

Pilot Study
Objectives and Results

Abstract, Introduction

Stratigraphy

Proposal

Structure

Hydraulic Compartmentalization

Hydraulic Conductance of Faults

For more information, contact:

Brann Johnson
Mail: Center for Tectonophysics
MS 3113
Texas A&M; University
College Station, TX 77843-3113
e-mail: johnson@geopsun.tamu.edu
phone: 409-845-3297
FAX: 409-845-3002

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Center for Tectonophysics
Department of Geology & Geopkysics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3113