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🛢️ Resource & Energy Engineering Division

REEE develops sustainable resource and energy engineering solutions by combining subsurface characterization, engineering optimization, and sustainability principles, spanning petroleum and reservoir engineering, rock mechanics and geomechanics, geothermal energy systems, hydrogen storage and production, carbon capture and storage, mining engineering and mineral resources, and nuclear energy and waste management. Its work treats the subsurface both as a resource base to be extracted responsibly and as a storage medium for CO2 and hydrogen, bridging traditional resource extraction with the clean energy transition.

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Reservoir Modeling & Recovery Center

Models fluid flow in porous media through multiphase-flow simulation, integrating well-test/pressure-transient analysis, material balance, and uncertainty quantification to predict and optimize reservoir performance and recovery.

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Well & Production Engineering Center

Optimizes advanced drilling, completion, and enhanced-oil-recovery technologies through reservoir-stimulation simulation, modeling horizontal/multilateral well designs, hydraulic fracturing, chemical/thermal/gas-injection EOR scenarios, and production decline curves to evaluate hydrocarbon-production strategies.

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Rock Mechanics & Geomechanics Center

Characterizes the stress-dependent mechanical behavior of rock for wellbore stability, hydraulic fracturing, and subsurface integrity through in-situ-stress/poroelastic modeling and rock-failure-criterion simulation, assessing the safety of subsurface operations including CO2 and hydrogen storage.

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Geothermal Energy Engineering Center

Develops geothermal-energy extraction technologies — including EGS (enhanced geothermal systems) stimulation and heat recovery — through thermal-reservoir simulation, modeling hydrothermal/petrothermal resource potential, drilling approaches, and the economics of binary-cycle/direct-use power generation.

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Carbon Engineering Center

Develops technology for the safe, permanent sequestration of CO2 in deep geological formations to mitigate climate change through supercritical-CO2 injection/plume-migration simulation and caprock-sealing/geochemical-trapping modeling, evaluating MVA (monitoring, verification, accounting) frameworks and CO2-EOR feasibility via simulation.

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Hydrogen Energy & Storage Center

Researches underground hydrogen storage in salt caverns, depleted reservoirs, and aquifers for renewable-energy integration through injection/withdrawal-cycle simulation, modeling H2-rock geochemical reactivity, salt-cavern stability, and microbial mitigation to evaluate safe seasonal energy-buffering strategies.

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Mining Engineering Center

Designs advanced mining and ore-processing methods through geomechanics/blast-engineering simulation, modeling underground mine design and ventilation, ore-grade estimation, tailings management, and reclamation to optimize extraction plans for critical minerals, rare earths, and base metals.

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Nuclear Energy Engineering Center

Researches the geological aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle — from uranium exploration to deep-repository siting — through radionuclide-transport modeling and long-term geologic-stability simulation, assessing the safety of nuclear-waste isolation and facilities.

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