Dr. Ding Zhu (right) and master’s student Ryan Winner running a fracture conductivity experiment. By Nancy Luedke, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station and Marathon Oil Corporation have initiated an impressive research program to study advanced petroleum fluid flow processes and recovery techniques from unconventional resource…
Dr. Jamie Steichen measures water quality while Dr. Hernando Bocosa prepares to collect samples for oil analyses. By Bob Wright, Texas A&M University at Galveston A research consortium led by Dr. Antonietta Quigg, professor of Marine Biology and associate vice president for Research and Graduate Studies at Texas A&M’s…
By Nancy Luedke, Texas A&M University College of Engineering A significant amount of U.S. domestic oil production comes from shale. Extracting oil and gas from these unconventional reservoirs normally requires drilling horizontal wells and using hydraulic fracturing techniques. Yet predicting the full effect of these techniques is still uncertain…
Texas A&M Maritime Academy graduate Captain Jay Rivera piloted Anne, an oil tanker 2 million barrels of crude oil, into a Gulf of Mexico port. By Bob Wright, Texas A&M University at Galveston The biggest oil tanker ever to call on a Gulf of Mexico port – holding as much…
The engineering building on Qatar’s campus. By Texas A&M University at Qatar Staff A solar-powered desalination process, a polymer-enhanced foam to improve oil recovery in Qatari reservoirs and a wearable device to detect low blood sugar are just a few of the Texas A&M University at Qatar research projects selected…
A pair of Texas A&M School of Public Health professors have been awarded one of nine Gulf Research Program (GRP) Exploratory Grants by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ranjana Mehta, PhD, and S. Camille Peres, PhD, will use the grant to explore approaches and strategies…
The radars will provide real-time information on ocean conditions and storms, oil spills and other conditions that can have direct impact on millions of residents of Texas and along the Gulf coast.