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Christopher R. Clarkson

Christopher R. Clarkson

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
60
Citations
16961
World Ranking
2138
National Ranking
87

Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
17273
World Ranking
1762
National Ranking
81

Overview

Christopher R. Clarkson is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their work primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with significant contributions across several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Engineering, and Geophysics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to fluid flow and reservoir behavior, notably:

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Amin Ghanizadeh, Hamidreza Hamdi, Chengyao Song, Bin Yuan, and D. Zeinabady. This collaborative network reflects a focus on reservoir evaluation, fluid mechanics, and related engineering challenges.

Clarkson's articles are often published in specialized venues for energy and petroleum engineering, with the most common publication outlets being:

  • SPE Journal
  • Fuel
  • SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
  • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • "Impacts of relative permeability hysteresis, wettability, and injection/withdrawal schemes on underground hydrogen storage in saline aquifers," 2022, Fuel
  • "History, Geology, In Situ Stress Pattern, Gas Content and Permeability of Coal Seam Gas Basins in Australia: A Review," 2021, Energies
  • "Wetting dynamics of nanoliter water droplets in nanoporous media," 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • "Cyclic Gas Injection in Low-Permeability Oil Reservoirs: Progress in Modeling and Experiments," 2024, SPE Journal
  • "Low-permeability reservoir sample wettability characterization at multiple scales: Pore-, micro- and macro-contact angles," 2021, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

The research addresses a variety of experimental and modeling challenges related to wettability, fluid injection schemes, gas storage, and reservoir characterization, often at different scales from pore-level to reservoir-scale analysis.

Best Publications

  • Pore structure characterization of North American shale gas reservoirs using USANS/SANS, gas adsorption, and mercury intrusion

    C.R. Clarkson;N. Solano;R.M. Bustin;A.M.M. Bustin

  • Geological controls on coalbed methane reservoir capacity and gas content

    R.M Bustin;C.R Clarkson

  • The effect of pore structure and gas pressure upon the transport properties of coal: a laboratory and modeling study. 1. Isotherms and pore volume distributions

    C.R. Clarkson;R.M. Bustin

  • Binary gas adsorption/desorption isotherms: effect of moisture and coal composition upon carbon dioxide selectivity over methane

    C.R. Clarkson;R.M. Bustin

  • The effect of pore structure and gas pressure upon the transport properties of coal: a laboratory and modeling study. 2. Adsorption rate modeling

    C.R. Clarkson;R.M. Bustin

  • Characterization of tight gas reservoir pore structure using USANS/SANS and gas adsorption analysis

    C.R. Clarkson;M. Freeman;L. He;M. Agamalian

  • Production data analysis of unconventional gas wells: Review of theory and best practices

    C.R. Clarkson

  • Variation in micropore capacity and size distribution with composition in bituminous coal of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: Implications for coalbed methane potential

    Christopher R. Clarkson;R. Marc Bustin

  • Innovative methods for flow-unit and pore-structure analyses in a tight siltstone and shale gas reservoir

    Christopher R. Clarkson;Jerry L. Jensen;Per Kent Pedersen;Melissa Freeman

  • Relative permeability of CBM reservoirs: Controls on curve shape

    C.R. Clarkson;M. Rahmanian;A. Kantzas;K. Morad

  • Gas transport and storage capacity in shale gas reservoirs – A review. Part A: Transport processes

    Yves Gensterblum;Amin Ghanizadeh;Robert J. Cuss;Alexandra Amann-Hildenbrand

  • Petrophysical and geomechanical characteristics of Canadian tight oil and liquid-rich gas reservoirs: I. Pore network and permeability characterization

    A. Ghanizadeh;C.R. Clarkson;S. Aquino;O.H. Ardakani

  • Application of the mono/multilayer and adsorption potential theories to coal methane adsorption isotherms at elevated temperature and pressure

    C.R. Clarkson;R.M. Bustin;J.H. Levy

  • Production Analysis of Tight-Gas and Shale-Gas Reservoirs Using the Dynamic-Slippage Concept

    Christopher R. Clarkson;Morteza Nobakht;Danial Kaviani;Turgay Ertekin

  • Petrophysical and Geomechanical Characteristics of Canadian Tight Oil and Liquid-Rich Gas Reservoirs

    Amin Ghanizadeh;Samuel Aquino;Christopher R. Clarkson;Omid Haeri-Ardakani

  • Nanopores to megafractures: Current challenges and methods for shale gas reservoir and hydraulic fracture characterization

    C.R. Clarkson;B. Haghshenas;A. Ghanizadeh;F. Qanbari

  • Modeling Two-Phase Flowback of Multifractured Horizontal Wells Completed in Shale

    Christopher R. Clarkson;Jesse Williams-Kovacs

  • New type curves for analyzing horizontal well with multiple fractures in shale gas reservoirs

    M. Nobakht;M. Nobakht;C.R. Clarkson;D. Kaviani

  • Impacts of relative permeability hysteresis, wettability, and injection/withdrawal schemes on underground hydrogen storage in saline aquifers

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  • Nanopore-Structure Analysis and Permeability Predictions for a Tight Gas Siltstone Reservoir by Use of Low-Pressure Adsorption and Mercury-Intrusion Techniques

    Christopher R. Clarkson;James Wood;Sinclair Burgis;Samuel Aquino

  • Reservoir Engineering for Unconventional Reservoirs: What Do We Have to Consider?

    Christopher R. Clarkson;Jerry L. Jensen;Tom Blasingame

  • Production Analysis of Western Canadian Unconventional Light Oil Plays

    Christopher R. Clarkson;Per Kent Pedersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Hamed Sanei
Hamed Sanei Aarhus University
Bernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer University of Calgary
Maria Mastalerz
Maria Mastalerz Indiana University
Roberto Aguilera
Roberto Aguilera Curtin University
Eric C. Gaucher
Eric C. Gaucher Total (France)
Beth L. Parker
Beth L. Parker University of Guelph
Romain Millot
Romain Millot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Viola Birss
Viola Birss University of Calgary
R. Marc Bustin
R. Marc Bustin University of British Columbia
Turgay Ertekin
Turgay Ertekin Pennsylvania State University

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