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  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to understanding multiphase flow and transport in porous media, and applications of these principles to improved oil recovery and aquifer remediation.

Overview

Gary A. Pope is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant number of publications in subfields such as ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, analytical chemistry, and environmental engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, petroleum processing and analysis, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, groundwater flow and contamination studies, and surfactants and colloidal systems.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pope include Robert Dean, Chris Britton, Jonathan William Driver, Miguel Mejía, and Matthew T. Balhoff.

Gary A. Pope has contributed to publications in several venues notably: SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, SPE Journal, and SPE International Conference on Oilfield Chemistry.

Selected recent papers reflecting their research contributions are:

  • Alkaline-surfactant-polymer formulation development for a HTHS carbonate reservoir, 2020, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • State-of-the-Art Laboratory Methods for Chemical EOR, 2022, SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference
  • Experiments and numerical simulations of chemical enhanced oil recovery in fractured carbonate rocks, 2020, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Experimental Investigation of Polyethylene Oxide Polymer Solutions for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Low-Permeability Carbonate Rocks, 2021, SPE Journal
  • Simulation of solvent treatments for fluid blockage removal in tight formations using coupled three-phase flash and capillary pressure models, 2020, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

In 1999, Gary A. Pope was named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to understanding multiphase flow and transport in porous media and applications of these principles to improved oil recovery and aquifer remediation.

Best Publications

  • Identification and Evaluation of High-Performance EOR Surfactants

    David Levitt;Adam Jackson;Christopher Heinson;Larry N. Britton

  • Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery

    LW Lake;RT Johns;WR Rossen;GA Pope

  • Reservoir Simulation of CO 2 Storage in Aquifers

    Ajitabh Kumar;Myeong H. Noh;Robin C. Ozah;Gary A. Pope

  • A compositional simulator for modeling surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation, 1 Formulation

    Mojdeh Delshad;Gary A Pope;Kamy Sepehrnoori

  • Reservoir Simulation of CO2 Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers

    A. Kumar;M. Noh;G.A. Pope;K. Sepehrnoori

  • The Application of Fractional Flow Theory to Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Gary A. Pope

  • A Systematic Laboratory Approach to Low-Cost, High-Performance Chemical Flooding

    Adam K. Flaaten;Quoc Phuc Nguyen;Gary A Pope;Jieyuan Zhang

  • Partitioning Tracer Test for Detection, Estimation, and Remediation Performance Assessment of Subsurface Nonaqueous Phase Liquids

    Minquan Jin;Mojdeh Delshad;Varadarajan Dwarakanath;Daene C. McKinney

  • ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING MOBILITY AND ADSORPTION IN THE FLOW OF POLYMER SOLUTION THROUGH POROUS MEDIA.

    G.J. Hirasaki;G.A. Pope

  • Influence of Viscous and Buoyancy Forces on the Mobilization of Residual Tetrachloroethylene during Surfactant Flushing

    Kurt D. Pennell;Gary A. Pope;Linda M. Abriola

  • Phase Relationships in Chemical Flooding

    Richard C. Nelson;Gary A. Pope

  • Mechanistic Interpretation and Utilization of Viscoelastic Behavior of Polymer Solutions for Improved Polymer-Flood Efficiency

    Mojdeh Delshad;Do Hoon Kim;Oluwaseun Adedeji Magbagbeola;Chun Huh

  • Selection and Screening of Polymers for Enhanced-Oil Recovery

    David Levitt;Gary Arnold Pope

  • Chemical flooding compositional simulator

    Gary A. Pope;Richard C. Nelson

  • Comparison of the three-phase oil relative permeability models

    Mojdeh Delshad;Gary A. Pope

  • Mechanistic modeling of alkaline/surfactant/polymer floods

    Hourshad Mohammadi;Mojdeh Delshad;Gary A. Pope

  • Modeling relative permeability effects in gas-condensate reservoirs with a new trapping model

    G.A. Pope;W. Wu;G. Narayanaswamy;M. Delshad

  • Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Polymers on Residual Oil Saturation

    Heesong Koh;Vincent B. Lee;Gary A. Pope

  • A Coreflood Investigation of Low-Salinity Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Scott M Rivet;Larry W. Lake;Gary A Pope

  • Buoyancy-Dominated Multiphase Flow and Its Effect on Geological Sequestration of CO2

    Steven L. Bryant;Srivatsan Lakshminarasimhan;Gary A. Pope

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamy Sepehrnoori
Kamy Sepehrnoori The University of Texas at Austin
Mukul M. Sharma
Mukul M. Sharma The University of Texas at Austin
Mojdeh Delshad
Mojdeh Delshad The University of Texas at Austin
Kishore K. Mohanty
Kishore K. Mohanty The University of Texas at Austin
Quoc Phuc Nguyen
Quoc Phuc Nguyen The University of Texas at Austin
Steven L. Bryant
Steven L. Bryant University of Calgary
Russell T. Johns
Russell T. Johns Pennsylvania State University
Daene C. McKinney
Daene C. McKinney The University of Texas at Austin
Chun Huh
Chun Huh The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew T. Balhoff
Matthew T. Balhoff The University of Texas at Austin

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