Externally Funded Projects

Co-Workers, Project Title, and Duration

Torres-Verdin, C., and Peters, E., Estimation of Capillary Pressure Curves that Honor Low-Field NMR Measurements, Burlington Resources Foundation: March 2001 – December 2001.

Torres-Verdin, C., Interactive Media Laboratory for Well Logging Applications, FAST-Tex Teaching Grant from the Center for Instructional Technologies, UT Austin: March 2000.

Torres-Verdin, C., and Sen, M. K., Integrated Approach for the Petrophysical Interpretation of Pre-Stack 3D Seismic Data, Well-Log Data, Core Data, Geological Information, and Reservoir Production Data via Bayesian Stochastic Inversion, US Department of Energy (Mrinal K. Sen is with UT Austin’s Institute for Geophysics): September 2000 – August 2003.

Torres-Verdin, C., Unrestricted grant to perform research on formation evaluation, YPF S.A.: August 2001.

Wheeler, M., Dawson, C., Peszynska, M., Sen, M., Torres-Verdín, C., Stevens, R., Papka, M., Saltz, J., Sussman, A., Parashar, M., and Haines, B., Data Intense Challenge: The Instrumented Oilfield of the Future, National Science Foundation: September 2001 – August 2004.

Torres-Verdin, C., Numerical Simulation Studies for the Integration of Low-Field NMR and Dielectric Measurements of Porous Rocks: American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund: January 2002 – December 2003.

Torres-Verdin, C., Java-based Interactive Utility for the Instruction of Fundamentals of Well Logging, FAST-Tex Teaching Grant from the Center for Instructional Technologies, UT Austin: March 2002.

Torres-Verdin, C., Development of an Interactive Instructional Facility for Well Logging and Integrated Reservoir Characterization, Academic Development Grant from the College of Engineering, UT Austin: May 2002 – May 2003.

Torres-Verdin, C., Development of a Computer Code for the Forward Modeling of Pre-Stack Seismic Data With an Efficient Interface for Cooperative Inversion, Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories: January 2003 – May 2003

Sharma, M., Torres-Verdin, C., Bryant, S., and Hirasaki, G., Integrated, Multi-scale Characterization of Imbibition and Wettability Phenomena Using Magnetic Resonance and Wide-Band Dielectric Measurements, US Department of Energy (M. Sharma and S. Bryant are with UT Austin’s Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, and G. Hirasaki is with Rice University): October 2004 – September 2007.

Torres-Verdin, C., Combined borehole seismic and electromagnetic inversion for high-resolution petrophysical assessment of hydrocarbon reservoirs, US Department of Energy: January 2005 – December 2007.