Dean S. Oliver
Professor in Petroleum Engineering
Mewbourne School of Petroleum & Geological Engineering
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
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E-mail address: dsoliver@ou.edu Office address: |
Dean Oliver is the Mewbourne Chair Professor in the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma and the Director of the OU Center for Ensemble Methods. He holds a BS degree in Physics and a PhD in Geophysics. He was Director of the Mewbourne School from 2002 to 2006. Prior to joining The University of Oklahoma, he was a professor in the Petroleum Engineering department at The University of Tulsa for six years, the last year as Chairman. He worked seventeen years for Chevron as a research geophysicist, a staff reservoir engineer for Chevron USA and for Saudi Aramco, and as a research scientist in reservoir characterization. He has received best paper of the year awards in two journals and received the SPE Reservoir Description and Dynamics award in 2004. He was awarded Distinguished Member status in SPE in 2008. He is currently the Executive Editor of SPE Journal. His research interests are in inverse theory, reservoir characterization, uncertainty quantification, and optimization.
More details can be found in Dean Oliver's cv.
Photographs from a recent (July 2006) trip to China are here.
History matching of geologic facies. Current research projects focus on the use of the ensemble Kalman filter for data assimilation and control of petroleum reservoirs. Several problems are of particular interest.
| Student | Degree | Dissertation/Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|
| Chinedu Agbalaka | PhD (started 2006) | History Matching of 3D Reservoir Models with Geological Facies |
| Yanfen Zhang | PhD (started 2006) | Application of Ensemble Kalman Filter to Field Case (Initial project) |
| Hemant Phale | PhD (started 2006) | Ensemble Kalman filter for compositional simulation |
| Yao Tong | PhD (started 2008) | Ensemble Kalman filter for data assimilation for large models |
| Vahid Dehdari | PhD (started 2009) | Ensemble-based optimization |
| Student | Degree | Year | Dissertation/Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yan Chen | PhD | 2008 | Ensemble-Based Closed-Loop Production Optimization (pdf file) |
| Yaqing Gu | PhD | 2006 | Ensemble Kalman Filter for Reservoir Model Updating |
| Jude Nwaozo | MS | 2006 | Dynamic Optimization of a Water Flood Reservoir (pdf file) |
| Yannong Dong | PhD | 2005 | Integration of Time-Lapse Seismic Data into Automatic History Matching (pdf file) |
| Ning Liu | PhD | 2005 | Automatic History Matching of Geologic Facies (pdf file) |
| Student | Degree | Year | Dissertation/Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fengjun Zhang | PhD | 2002 | Automatic History Matching of Production Data for Large Scale Problems |
| Usman Suleiman | MS | 2002 | Gaussian Co-Simulation and Modeling of Cross-Covariance |
| Yafes Abacioglu | PhD | 2001 | The Use of Subspace Methods for Efficient Conditioning of Reservoir Models to Production Data (pdf file) |
| Ruijian Li | PhD | 2001 | Conditioning Geostatistical Models to Three-Dimensional, Three-Phase Flow Production Data by Automatic History Matching |
| Ning Liu | MS | 2001 | Assessment of Uncertainty Assessment Methods |
| Soraya Betancourt | MS | 2000 | Comparison of Sampling Methods for Uncertainty Evaluation in Reservoir Flow Predictions |
| Zhan Wu | PhD | 1999 | Conditioning Geostatistical Models to Two-Phase Flow Production Data (pdf file) |
| Zhuoxin Bi | PhD | 1999 | Conditioning 3D Stochastic Channels to Well-Test Pressure Data (pdf file) |
| Nanqun He | PhD | 1997 | Three Dimensional Reservoir Description by Inverse Theory Using Well-Test Pressure and Geostatistical Data (pdf file) |
| Luciane Cunha | PhD | 1996 | Sampling the a Posteriori Probability Density for Permeability Fields Conditioned to the Variogram and Well-Test Pressure Data |