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Department of Earth Science and Engineering

Central themes

  • Integrated reservoir management
  • Integrated field development
  • Reservoir characterisation and simulation
  • Fractured reservoirs
  • Enhanced oil recovery

Multidisciplinary

  • Seismic geophysics
  • Reservoir geology
  • Rock physics / petrophysics
  • Petroleum engineering
  • Reservoir management

Research areas

  • Reservoir characterisation
  • Integrated reservoir geophysics
  • Integrated reservoir management
  • Time-lapse seismic
  • Seismic inversion and imaging
  • Waveform tomography 

Current Projects

Seismic ray-impedance inversion

  • Seismic ray-impedance inversion
  • Joint inversion of P-P and P-SV wave data
  • Joint inversion of multiscale seismic data

Seismic tomography

  • Seismic reflection tomography with full waveform inversion
  • 3D seismic waveform tomography
  • Crosshole seismic tomography 

Reservoir characterization

  • Pore pressure prediction in carbonate reservoirs
  • Reservoir property inversion from prestack seismic data
  • Seismic response of fractured reservoirs
  • Supervised and unsupervised reservoir characterization

Signal and image processing

  • Data-driven algorithms for seismic multiple attenuation
  • Seismic multiple prediction through inversion
  • Time-frequency spectral decomposition and analysis
  • High resolution seismic image with inverse Q filtering

Authorized Access for CRG Sponsors Link

PhD Opportunities

  • High resolution seismic image (geophysics/physics/computational mathematics) - Prof Y. Wang
  • Seismic inversion and reservoir imaging (geophysics/physics/computational mathematics) - Prof Y. Wang 
  • Seismic multiple attenuation (geophysics/physics/computational mathematics) - Prof Y. Wang 
  • Seismic response of fractured carbonate reservoirs (geophysics/physics/computational mathematics) - Prof Y. Wang
  • Pore pressure prediction using high-resolution seismic data (geophysics/physics/computational mathematics) - Prof Y. Wang 
  • Reservoir characterization by integration of geophysical attributes and petrophysical properties (geophysics/physics/computational mathematics) - Prof Y. Wang

Associated Personnel

  Research students

  Alumni/Aluminae

Recent Publications

 New book 

 Peer-refereed papers  

 EAGE 2011, Vienna

 EAGE 2010, Barcelona

 EAGE 2009, Amsterdam

 EAGE 2008, Rome

 EAGE 2007, London 

Professional Continuing Education

International Investment and Project Management 

The course covers the following topics: International petroleum industry, fundamentals of project management, project management in the upstream oil & gas industry, managing project resources, financial management, international markets, assets in the international marketplace, managing project risk, strategic planning, etc

 
Advanced Petroleum Geoscience

The course covers the following topics: International petroleum industry, reservoir fundamentals, formation evaluation and petrophysics; petroleum geophysics, se ismic interpretation; development geology and reservoir modelling, evaluation of oil and gas assets, project management in the upstream oil and gas industry; geoscience field work, etc

Integrated Reservoir Management

The course covers the following topics : Reservoir fundamentals, petrophysics and well logging, well testing, integrat ed reservoir modelling, reservoir characterisation, production mechanisms, production principles and problems, production well performance, reservoir performance and simulation, history matching, prediction and optimisation, drilling, process engineering, field development, surface facilities, prospect appraisal, etc

Surface Facilities and Project Management

The course covers the following topics: Drilling and well control,advanced drilling(underbalanced drilling, horizontal and multilateral drilling, high temperature/ high pressure drilling, slim-hole drilling), surface operations, production engineering, surface processes, water treatment, corrosion control, gas processing, facilities management, geographic information systems, field development, p roject management, etc

Editorial Office

 Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

 ISI-SCI Impact Factor: 0.805 (year 2010)