Faculty

Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, recipient of SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, and Lester C. Uren, Innovative Teaching, and Formation Evaluation Awards. Co-author of Petroleum Production Systems. Member of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES), QRI Scholar and Board Member
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petroleum production and reservoir engineering, well stimulation, unconventional resource engineering, carbon capture and storage
Selected Publications:
Liu, G., and Ehlig-Economides, C. 2019. Comprehensive before-closure model and analysis for fracture calibration injection falloff Test. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 911-933, 172.
Hu, X., Liu, G., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2019, December 1). Model for Asymmetric Hydraulic Fractures with Nonuniform-Stress Distribution. SPE Production and Operations. doi:10.2118/195193-PA 2019.
Luo, G., Tian, Y., Bychina, M., & Ehlig-Economides, C. Production-Strategy Insights Using Machine Learning: Application for Bakken Shale. SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering. doi:10.2118/195681-PA. August 2019.
Tang, J., Wu, K., Zuo, L., Xiao, L., Sun, S., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2019, October 1). Investigation of Rupture and Slip Mechanisms of Hydraulic Fractures in Multiple-Layered Formations. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/197054-PA
Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (December 2018). Practical considerations for diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) analysis. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 171, 1133-1140.
Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (December 2018). Practical considerations for diagnostic fracture injection test (DFIT) analysis. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 171, 1133-1140.
Sorek, N., Moreno, J. A., Rice, R. N., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (October 2018). Productivity-Maximized Horizontal-Well Design With Multiple Acute-Angle Transverse Fractures. SPE Journal.
Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (September 2018 online). Comprehensive before-closure model and analysis for fracture calibration injection falloff test. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 172, 911-933.
Bychina, M., Luo, G., Liu, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2018). State of the Art for Multiple Transverse Fracture Horizontal Well Design. Hydraulic Fracturing Journal, 5(1), 53-68.
Tang, J., Wu, K., Li, Y., Hu, X., Liu, Q., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (September 2018). Numerical investigation of the interactions between hydraulic fracture and bedding planes with non-orthogonal approach angle. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 200, 1-16
Tian, Y., Ayers, W. B., Sang, H., McCain Jr, W. D., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (May 2018). Quantitative Evaluation of Key Geological Controls on Regional Eagle Ford Shale Production Using Spatial Statistics. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 21(02), 238-256
Lee, K. J., Moridis, G. J., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2016, October 1). A Comprehensive Simulation Model of Kerogen Pyrolysis for the In-situ Upgrading of Oil Shales. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/173299-PA 498. Pang, W., Du, J., Zhang, T., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2016, February 1). Actual and Optimal Hydraulic-Fracture Design in a Tight Gas Reservoir. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/168613-PA
Yan, C., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2015, March 1). Systematic Study of Bakken Well Performance Over Three Well-Completion-Design Eras. Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal. doi:10.2118/171566-PA
Marongiu-Porcu, M., Economides, M.J., Ehlig-Economides, C. A., and Retnanto, A. (March 2015). Comprehensive Fracture Calibration Test Design. Hydraulic Fracturing Quarterly, V. 2 Number 2, pp. 38-52.