Recent News & Events

Group Members:

    • PhD student, Yu-xiang, Shawn Zhang, was awarded Gustavus E. Archie Memorial Grants from AAPG Foundation’s Grants-in-Aid Program in 2016
    • MS student Rafael Villegas was successfully awarded with a Graduate Fellowship from Spindletop Oil and Gas Co. in 2016
    • Congras to Troy Barber (undergraduate lab assistant) who won extremely competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program in 2015.
    • Mengdi (Dean) Sun, a joint PhD student from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) with 18-month funidng from China Scholarship Council, will present an oral talk at 2016 GSA Conference in Denver.
    • Rui Yang, a joint PhD student from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) with funding from China Scholarship Council, are the 1st authors for two posters in 2016 GSA Annual Conference in Denver.

Conference organization

  • Co-Convener, session “Accumulation Mechanisms and Producibility of Hydrocarbons in Unconventional Reservoirs”, 5th Conference on Earth System Science，Shanghai, July 2–4, 2018.
  • Dr. was a Scientific Committee member for 8th International Symposium of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu, Nov. 15–17, 2016.
  • Dr. Hu served as Co-Convener for session “Shale Science: Coupled Processes in Hydraulic Fracturing and CO2 Sequestration” (with 41 oral and poster presentations), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 15–19, 2014

Student Achievements:

  • PhD student (Shawn) Yuxiang Zhang has won (1) Student Research Grant, AAPG Southwest Section (2018); (2) Grants-in-Aid Program ($1500) from AAPG Foundation (2018); Student Research Grant ($1,500); (3) Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS, 2017); (4) Neutron Outreach Program Scholarship ($500) from University of Maryland/NIST (2017); (5) Full-cost covered attendance to Summer School on the Fundamentals of Neutron Scattering funded by NIST Center for Neutron Research / NSF (2016); and (6) Gustavus E. Archie Memorial Grant ($2,750) from AAPG Foundation’sGrants-in-Aid Program (2016)
  • PhD student Golam Kibria has been awarded with (1) (1) ) Student Research Grant, AAPG Southwest Section (2018); (2) Student Research Grant ($2,000) from Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (2017); (3) Student Research Grant ($1,000), AAPG Southwest Section (2017); (4) Hugh D. Miser Memorial Grant ($2,250) from AAPG Foundation’sGrants-in-Aid Program (2017); (5) Student Research Grant ($2,000) from Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (2016)
  • Five MS students Ben Rogers, Dillion Worley, Richard Kalteyer, Scott Leaseburge, and Marvin Dunbar successfully defended their MS thesis in Nov.- Dec. 2017.
  • MS student Jordan Bevers is selected for Scholarship ($1,000) from Desk and Derrick Educational Trust (2017)

Dr. Hu’s Presentations:

8/17/2017 “Fracture-matrix interaction and shale hydrocarbon production”. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development – Langfang, PetroChina, China.
3/31/2017 “Nano-petrophysics Studies of Fine-grained Reservoirs: Connectivity, Wettability, and Hydrocarbon Movement”. Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX.
12/5/2014 “Shale Nanopore Connectivity, Micro-scale Fluid Migration, and Hydrocarbon Production”. Institut français du pétrole (IFP), Rueil-Malmaison, France.
12/1/2014 “Shale Nanopore Connectivity, Micro-scale Fluid Migration, and Hydrocarbon Production”. Department of Geosciences and Environment, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France.
8/29/2014 “Shale Nanopore Connectivity, Micro-scale Fluid Migration, and Hydrocarbon Production”. Department of Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
8/27/2014 “Sustainable Shale Resource Development: Environmental and Production-Decline Concerns”. Conoco Phillips Center for a Sustainable WE2ST, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
03/27/2014 “Fracture-Matrix Interaction Studies in Waste Repository and Shale Development”. Shell Colloquium, ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
02/20/2014 “Fracture-Matrix Interaction Studies in Waste Repository and Shale Development”. College of Engineering, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
02/17/2014 “Nanopore Connectivity and Macro-scale Fluid Migration in Shales”. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd (JAPEX), Tokyo, Japan.
02/13/2014 “Fluid Flow and Chemical Transport in Porous and Fractured Media”. Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
01/31/2014 “Nanopore Connectivity and Macro-scale Fluid Migration in Shales”. Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
01/17/2014 “Pore Connectivity and Fluid Migration in Shales”. Research Institute of Production and Exploration Development (RIPED), PetroChina, Beijing, China.
11/08/2013 “Sustainable Shale Hydrocarbon Development Affected by Environmental and Production-Decline Issues”. Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas.
10/24/2013 “Sustainable Shale Hydrocarbon Development Affected by Environmental and Production-Decline Issues”. Energy & Geoscience Institute, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
10/29/2013 Hu, Q.H., Z.Y. Gao, and R.P. Ewing. Diffusion-Limited Fracture-Matrix Interaction and Gas Recovery in Barnett Shale. Session “A Comprehensive Look at Hydraulic Fracturing for Hydrocarbon Recovery and Other Purposes”, 2013 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting and Exposition, Denver, CO, October 27–30, 2013.
10/19/2013 Hu, Q.H. Pore Structure and Fluid Flow Considering Yucca Mountain and Tight Shale Gas Experience. GSA Penrose Conference“ Predicting and Detecting Natural and Induced Flow Paths for Geothermal Fluids in Deep Sedimentary Basins” Park City, Utah, October 19–23, 2013. (keynote speaker)
10/07/2013 “Sustainable Shale Hydrocarbon Development Affected by Environmental and Production-Decline Issues”. The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.