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.

Each year we hold a meeting to present our current research. For information on our annual meetings click here.

UT GeoFluids is currently supported by 12 energy companies.

 

 

2012 UT GeoFluids Consortium Meeting
Poromechanical Modeling, Lab Experiment and Modeling in GeoFluids

The 2012 UT GeoFluids Consortium Meeting to be held Feb. 16 and 17, 2012 on the downtown U.T. Campus at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

Abstracts are now posted. See the Meeting Agenda.

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2012 GeoFluids Workshop GeoFluids personnel gathered in Burnett, TX to practice talks, complete research, and prepare for the 2012 UT GeoFluids Consortium Meeting.

Julia Schneider Awarded Doctoral Degree
On December 3rd Julia Schneider was awarded her doctoral degree. Her dissertation was entitled "Compression and permeability behavior of natural mudstones".

Luo, G., Nikolinakou, M.A., Flemings P.B., Hudec M.R., Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 1— Uncoupled models, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol. 96, No1, pp43-64, 2012.

Nikolinakou, M.A., Luo, G., Hudec M.R., Flemings P.B., Geomechanical modeling of stresses adjacent to salt bodies: Part 2— Poroelastoplasticity and coupled overpressures, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, vol. 96, No1, pp65-85, 2012.