Dr. Christine Ehlig Economides, Professor
Department of Petroleum Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering
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Areas of expertise
- Petroleum production systems.
- Reservoir engineering.
- Shale reservoirs.
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Awards
- Professor and Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Chair
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Member of the National Academy of Engineering
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Recipient of SPE Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal
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Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty
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Lester C. Uren Award
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Innovative Teaching Award
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Formation Evaluation Award
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Co-author of Petroleum Production Systems
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Member of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES)
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QRI Scholar
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Chief Scientist for the Sinopec Research Institute on Petroleum Engineering
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One of the Thousand Talents in China.
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Publications
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Lee, Kyung Jae & Moridis, George & A Ehlig-Economides, Christine. (2017). Numerical simulation of diverse thermal in situ upgrading processes for the hydrocarbon production from kerogen in oil shale reservoirs. Energy Exploration & Exploitation. 35. 014459871668935. 10.1177/0144598716689354.
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Ehlig-Economides, Christine & Liu, Guoqing. (2017). Comparison among Fracture Calibration Test Analysis Models. . 10.2118/184866-MS.
- Liu, Guoqing, and Christine Ehlig-Economides. (2017)Comprehensive Before-Closure Model and Analysis for Fracture Calibration Injection Falloff Test, the paper is now under review by SPEJ, and available upon request.
- Du, J., Pang, W., Lei, J., Zhang, T., & Ehlig-Economides, C. A. (2017, March 6). Pressure Transient Analysis of Shale Gas Wells With Non-Uniform Fractures. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/183724-MS
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Liu, G & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2017). New Model for DFIT Fracture Injection and Falloff Pressure Match. . 10.2118/187191-MS.
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Lee, Kyung Jae & Moridis, George & A Ehlig-Economides, Christine. (2016). Compositional simulation of hydrocarbon recovery from oil shale reservoirs with diverse initial saturations of fluid phases by various thermal processes. Energy Exploration & Exploitation. 35. . 10.1177/0144598716684307.
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Liu, Guoqing & Ehlig-Economides, Christine. (2016). Interpretation Methodology for Fracture Calibration Test Before-Closure Analysis of Normal and Abnormal Leakoff Mechanisms. . 10.2118/179176-MS.Lee, Kyung Jae & Moridis, George & A. Ehlig-Economides, Christine. (2016). A Comprehensive Simulation Model of Kerogen Pyrolysis for the In-situ Upgrading of Oil Shales. SPE Journal. 21. 1612-1630. 10.2118/173299-PA.
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Lee, Kyung Jae & Moridis, George & A. Ehlig-Economides, Christine. (2016). In situ upgrading of oil shale by Steamfrac in multistage transverse fractured horizontal well system. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. 38. 3034-3041. 10.1080/15567036.2015.1135209.
- Merry, H., Ehlig-Economides, C.A., Wei, P., (2015, September) Model for a Shale Gas Formation with Salt-Sealed Natural Fractures. SPE-175061, prepared for presentation at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Houston, Texas, USA, 28– 30 September 2015.
- Sorek, N., Moreno, J. A., Rice, R., Luo, G., & Ehlig-Economides, C. (2014, October 27). Optimal Hydraulic Fracture Angle in Productivity Maximized Shale Well Design. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/170965-MS.
- For more publications, visit:https://www.researchgate.net/search/publications?q=ehlig%2Beconomides
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Patents
- Ehlig-Economides, Christine. Method for Individually Characterizing the Layers of a Hydrocarbon Subsurface Reservoir. Schlumberger Technology Corporation, assignee. Patent 5247829. 28 Sept. 1993. Print.
- Ehlig-Economides, Christine. Process for Measuring Flow and Determining the Parameters of Multilayer Hydrocarbon Producing Formations. Schlumberger Technology Corporation, assignee. Patent 4803873. 14 Feb. 1989. Print.
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Grants and Funded Research
- National Science Foundation grant totaling $320,000 for the Live Energy project. The project seeked to develop a continuously updated online textbook on energy sustainability to support core science and engineering courses for both majors and non majors. 2014.
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Curriculum Vitae
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Contact information