# overview
I am in charge of the Hydrocarbon Resource Program at LBNL, and the research programs on unconventional resources, including gas hydrates.

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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3407 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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4019 Resources Engineering And Extractive Metallurgy

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National Technical University of Athens - (Athens, Attiki, Greece)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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National Technical University of Athens - (Athens, Attiki, Greece)

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George and Joan Voneiff Professor in Unconventional Resources

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Numerical Studies of Gas Production from Methane Hydrates

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Tropospheric impact of methane emissions from clathrates in the Arctic Region

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Modeling and Performance Interpretation of Flowing Gas Composition Changes in Shale Gas Wells with Complex Fractures

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High Resolution Investigations of Flow and Thermal Processes During Production from Hydraulically Fractured Ultra-Low Permeability Media

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SeTES: A self-teaching expert system for the analysis, design, and prediction of gas production from unconventional gas resources

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Numerical Studies on Two-Way Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanics in Hydrate Deposits

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Foreword: Special Issue on the 2009 TOUGH2 Symposium

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High Frequency Basin Irrigation Design for Upland Crops in Rice Lands

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Numerical simulation of gas production from hydrate accumulations using a single horizontal well in Shenhu Area, South China Sea

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Possible Influx of Seawater during Gas Production from Unsealed Gas Hydrate Reservoirs has Economic and Environmental Implications

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Development of a design package for a viscous barrier at the Savannah river site

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In situ upgrading of oil shale by Steamfrac in multistage transverse fractured horizontal well system

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Toward Production From Gas Hydrates: Current Status, Assessment of Resources, and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Technology and Potential

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Laplace transform finite difference (LTFD) numerical method for the simulation of compressible liquid flow in reservoirs

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SeTES: A self-teaching expert system for the analysis, design, and prediction of gas production from unconventional gas resources

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THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM BOUNDARY ELEMENT (LTBE) METHOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF DIFFUSION-TYPE EQUATIONS

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Marine methane cycle simulations for the period of early global warming

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Numerical simulation of diverse thermal in situ upgrading processes for the hydrocarbon production from kerogen in oil shale reservoirs

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Numerical studies on coupled flow and geomechanics with the multiple porosity model for naturally fractured tight and shale gas reservoirs

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Toward Production From Gas Hydrates: Status, Technology, and Potential

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Gas production from class 1 hydrate accumulations

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Krauklis wave in a symmetric trilayer model

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General-purpose reservoir simulators: The TOUGH2 family

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Laplace Transform Finite Difference (LTFD) numerical method for simulation of compressible fluid flow in reservoirs

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High-Resolution Numerical Modeling of Complex and Irregular Fracture Patterns in Shale-Gas Reservoirs and Tight Gas Reservoirs

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MeshVoro: A three-dimensional Voronoi mesh building tool for the TOUGH family of codes

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Numerical Simulations in Support of a Long-Term Test of Gas Production from Hydrate Accumulations on the Alaska North Slope: Reservoir Response to Interruptions of Production (Shut-Ins)

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Numerical investigation of gas production strategy for the hydrate deposits in the Shenhu area

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Estimating the reaction parameters of oil shale pyrolysis and oil shale grade using temperature transient analysis and inverse modeling

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Preliminary 3-D site-scale studies of radioactive colloid transport in the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

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Integrated simulation of three-dimensional hydraulic fracture propagation and Lagrangian proppant transport in multilayered reservoirs

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Numerical investigation of potential cernent failure along the wellbore and gas leak during hydraulic fracturing of shale gas reservoirs

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Analysis of reservoir performance of Messoyakha Gas hydrate Field

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Compositional simulation of hydrocarbon recovery from oil shale reservoirs with diverse initial saturations of fluid phases by various thermal processes

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Occurrence of gas hydrate in Oligocene Frio sand: Alaminos Canyon Block 818: Northern Gulf of Mexico

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Interrelationship of dissociating oceanic hydrates and global climate: Methane hydrate response to rising water temperatures

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TOUGH+CO2: A multiphase fluid-flow simulator for CO2 geologic sequestration in saline aquifers

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Challenges, Uncertainties, and Issues Facing Gas Production From Gas-Hydrate Deposits

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Depressurization-induced gas production from class 1 hydrate deposits

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Methane hydrate formation and dissociation in a partially saturated sand.

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Challenges, Uncertainties, and Issues Facing Gas Production From Gas-Hydrate Deposits

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Effect of geomechanics and of grid discretization on the predictions of production from natural hydrate deposits and of the associated geomechanical system response

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Modeling of oceanic gas hydrate instability and methane release in response to climate change

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Effect of Dilution and Contaminants on Sand Grouted with Colloidal Silica

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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A Hydrate Database: Vital to the Technical Community

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Comparison of heating methods for in-situ oil shale extraction

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Toward production from gas hydrates: Current status, assessment of resources, and simulation-based evaluation of technology and potential

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Analyzing the impact of reaction models on the production of hydrocarbons from thermally upgraded oil shales

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Analysis of short- and long-term system response during gas production from a gas hydrate deposit at the UBGH2-6 site of the Ulleung Basin in the Korean East Sea

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Numerical modeling of microearthquakes by using coupled geomechanics simulation for planar fracture propagation

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DESIGNING INJECTABLE COLLOIDAL SILICA BARRIERS FOR WASTE ISOLATION AT THE HANFORD SITE

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Integrated simulation of vertical fracture propagation induced by water injection and its borehole electromagnetic responses in shale gas systems

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Special issue on the 2009 TOUGH symposium Foreword

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Erratum: Marine methane cycle simulations for the period of early global warming (Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences (2011) 116 (G01010) DOI: 10.1029/2010JG001300)

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Numerical studies of gas production from Class 2 and Class 3 hydrate accumulations at the Mallik site, Mackenzie Delta, Canada

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Modeling Hydrates and the Gas Hydrate Markup Language

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Evaluation tests for colloidal silica for use in grouting applications

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Massively parallel simulation of field-scale oceanic gas hydrate deposits

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Coupled multiphase fluid flow and wellbore stability analysis associated with gas production from oceanic hydrate-bearing sediments

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Large-scale simulation of methane hydrate dissociation along the West Spitsbergen Margin

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Oil Shale In-Situ Upgrading by Steam Flowing in Vertical Hydraulic Fractures

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Transformational Decomposition (TD) method for compressible fluid flow simulations

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Geomechanical response of permafrost-associated hydrate deposits to depressurization-induced gas production

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Krauklis wave in a trilayerKrauklis wave in a trilayer

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Development of a numerical simulator for analyzing the geomechanical performance of hydrate-bearing sediments

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Phase Behavior of Methane-Ethane Mixtures in Nanopores

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Feasibility of Monitoring Gas-Hydrate Production With Time-Lapse Vertical Seismic Profiling

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Editorial to the special issue on the 2015 TOUGH Symposium

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Transformational decomposition (TD) method for compressible fluid flow simulations

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Numerical Studies of Gas Production From Class 2 and Class 3 Hydrate Accumulations at the Mallik Site, Mackenzie Delta, Canada

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Geochemistry of clathratederived methane in Arctic ocean waters

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Numerical studies of gas production from methane hydrates

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A comprehensive simulation model of kerogen pyrolysis for the in-situ upgrading of oil shales

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Methane hydrate formation and dissociation in a partially saturated sand

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Numerical Studies on Two-Way Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanics in Hydrate Deposits

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Sorption and diffusion of radionuclides onto and through Hanford soil.

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE 2009 TOUGH2 SYMPOSIUM FOREWORD

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Gas production from a cold, stratigraphically-bounded gas hydrate deposit at the Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope: Implications of uncertainties

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A thermodynamic model for mutual solubility of water and CO2 in brines

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Modeling and numerical simulation for coupled flow and geomechanics in composite gas hydrate deposits

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Laboratory Measurements on Core-scale Sediment and Hydrate Samples to Predict Reservoir Behavior

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A Semianalytic Solution for Flow in Finite-Conductivity Vertical Fractures by Use of Fractal Theory

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A numerical study of performance for tight gas and shale gas reservoir systems

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The Eagle Ford Shale Laboratory: A Field Study of the Stimulated Reservoir Volume, Detailed Fracture Characteristics, and EOR Potential

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Petroleum Engineering; 3116 TAMU

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Freeman, Craig M. (2010-07). Study of Flow Regimes in Multiply-Fractured Horizontal Wells in Tight Gas and Shale Gas Reservoir Systems. Master's Thesis.

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Freeman, Craig Matthew (2013-11). Study of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena in Tight Gas and Shale Gas Reservoir Systems. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Yang, Daegil (2013-07). A Simulator with Numerical Upscaling for the Analysis of Coupled Multiphase Flow and Geomechanics in Heterogeneous and Deformable  Porous and Fractured Media. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Xie, Antu (2016-12). Application of the Discrete Element Method to Study the Effects of Occlusion Interfaces in Shale. Master's Thesis.

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Grover, Tarun (2008-10). Natural gas hydrates - issues for gas production and geomechanical stability. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Cossio Santizo, Manuel (2012-10). A Semi-Analytic Solution for Flow in Finite-Conductivity Vertical Fractures Using Fractal Theory. Master's Thesis.

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Olorode, Olufemi Morounfopefoluwa (2012-02). Numerical Modeling of Fractured Shale-Gas and Tight-Gas Reservoirs Using Unstructured Grids. Master's Thesis.

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Hazra, Kaushik Gaurav (2014-04). Comparison of Heating Methods for In-Situ Oil Shale Extraction. Master's Thesis.

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Odunowo, Tioluwanimi Oluwagbemiga (2012-07). Numerical Simulation Study to Investigate Expected Productivity Improvement Using the "Slot-Drill" Completion. Master's Thesis.

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Numerical Simulation Study to Investigate Expected Productivity Improvement Using the "Slot-Drill" Completion

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Broussard, Ryan Sawyer (2013-02). Analytical and Numerical Solutions for the Case of a Horizontal Well with a Radial Power-Law Permeability Distribution--Comparison to the Multi-Fracture Horizontal Case. Master's Thesis.

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Lee, Kyung Jae (2014-10). Rigorous Simulation Model of Kerogen Pyrolysis for the In-situ Upgrading of Oil Shales. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Pitakbunkate, Termpan (2015-08). Study of Fluid Behavior and PVT Properties of Hydrocarbons in Shale Reservoirs Using Molecular Simulations. Doctoral Dissertation.