UT GeoFluids studies the state and evolution of pressure, stress, deformation and fluid migration through experiments, models, and field study. This industry-funded consortium is dedicated to producing innovative concepts that couple geology and fluid flow.

The results are used to predict pressure, stress, trap integrity, and borehole stability. Our team combines geoscientists at The University of Texas with geotechnical engineers at MIT. Concepts developed in the GeoFluids Consortium have been extended to study marine slope stability and the processes of hydrate formation and disassociation. Tools have been developed to measure pressure in-situ in mudrocks.

This consortium began on June 1, 2009. For more information about the consortium please see the consortium tab above or contact the Consortium Co-Directors, Dr. Peter Flemings and Dr. Jack Germaine.

UT GeoFluids is currently supported by 11 energy companies.

Each year UT GeoFluids holds a meeting to present current research to its consortium memebers. For information, abstracts, presentations, and participant lists from previous annual meetings please visit the meeting site.

2013 UT GeoFluids Consortium Meeting
Registration is open for the 2013 UT GeoFluids Consortium meeting and workshop Feb. 21 and 22, 2013 on the downtown U.T. Campus at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

 

Brendan Casey Winner of the 2012 Northeast Geotechnical Research Symposium Abstract Competition

The Geotechnical Engineering Group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with Geosyntec Consultants, hosted the 2012 Northeast Geotechnical Engineering Graduate Research Symposium at UMass Amherst on Friday, 26 October 2012.

Andrew Smith Joined Successful Mission for AMGG Research School

Andrew Smith recently participated in scientific cruises to acquire high-resolution 3D seismic and multi-component data using University of Tromsø's research vessel FF Helmer Hanssen.

Hickman, S.H., et al., 2012, Scientific basis for safely shutting in the Macondo Well after the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 3, p. 3.

Reece, J.S., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B., Long, H., and Germaine, J.T., 2012, Permeability-porosity relationships of shallow mudstones in the Ursa Basin, Northern Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1029/2012JB009438, in press

Reece, J.S., Flemings, P.B., and Germaine, J.T.,2012, Data report: permeability, compressibility, and microstructure of resedimented mudstones from IODP Expedition 322, Site C0011. In Saito, S., Underwood, M.B., Kubo, Y., and the Expedition 322 Scientists, eds., Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), Volume 322: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.322.205.2012, in press

Bohn, C. W., Flemings, P.B., and Slingerland, R.L., 2012, Accommodation change during bypass across a late stage fan in the shallow Auger basin, in Application of Seismic Geomorphology Principles to Continental Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems: Case Studies from Seafloor and Near-Seafloor Analogues, Volume 99, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), p. 225-242, doi: 10.2110/pec.12.99.0225.

Flemings, P.B., John, C., Behrmann, J., 2012, Expedition 308 synthesis: overpressure, consolidation, and slope stability on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico, In Flemings, P.B., Behrmann, J.H., John, C.M., and the Expedition 308 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 308: College Station TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.308.215.2012

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