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Overview

George J. Moridis is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans fields primarily within engineering and environmental science, with a particular focus on mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, mechanics of materials, environmental chemistry, and geophysics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, reflecting a diverse range of interests and expertise. These topics include:

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods

George J. Moridis has published extensively in several peer-reviewed venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • SPE Journal
  • Energy & Fuels
  • SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering

Their recent papers include the following works:

  • "An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments" (2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology)
  • "Compositional reservoir simulation of underground hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs" (2023, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy)
  • "Rock Deformation and Strain-Rate Characterization during Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments: Insights for Interpretation of Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic-Sensing Signals" (2020, SPE Journal)
  • "Hydraulic-Fracture-Width Inversion Using Low-Frequency Distributed-Acoustic-Sensing Strain Data-Part I: Algorithm and Sensitivity Analysis" (2020, SPE Journal)
  • "Coupled Flow/Geomechanics Modeling of Interfracture Water Injection To Enhance Oil Recovery in Tight Reservoirs" (2020, SPE Journal)

Collaborations are also a notable aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including T. A. Blasingame, Kan Wu, Yongzan Liu, Matthew T. Reagan, and Ge Jin. These partnerships have contributed to advancing research in related fields over numerous publications.

Best Publications

  • TOUGH2 User's Guide Version 2

    K. Pruess;C.M. Oldenburg;G.J. Moridis

  • Numerical Studies of Gas Production From Methane Hydrates

    G.J. Moridis

  • Depressurization-Induced Gas Production From Class-1 Hydrate Deposits

    George J. Moridis;Michael Brendon Kowalsky;Karsten Pruess

  • Toward Production From Gas Hydrates: Assessment of Resources, Technology and Potential

    George J. Moridis;Timothy Scott Collett;Ray Boswell;Masanori Kurihara

  • Strategies for gas production from oceanic Class 3 hydrate accumulations

    George J. Moridis;Matthew T. Reagan

  • TOUGH+HYDRATE v1.2 User's Manual: A Code for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media

    G.J. Moridis

  • TOUGH+Hydrate v1.0 User's Manual: A Code for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media

    George Moridis;George J. Moridis;Michael B. Kowalsky;Karsten Pruess

  • Toward Production From Gas Hydrates: Current Status, Assessment of Resources, and Simulation-Based Evaluation of Technology and Potential

    George J. Moridis;Timothy S. Collett;Ray Boswell;Masanori Kurihara

  • Numerical Studies on the Geomechanical Stability of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments

    Jonny Rutqvist;George J. Moridis

  • Challenges, Uncertainties, and Issues Facing Gas Production From Gas-Hydrate Deposits

    George Moridis;Timothy S. Collett;Mehran Pooladi-Darvish;Steven H. Hancock

  • A NUMERICAL STUDY OF MICROSCALE FLOW BEHAVIOR IN TIGHT GAS AND SHALE GAS RESERVOIR SYSTEMS

    C. M. Freeman;G. J. Moridis;T. A. Blasingame

  • Methane hydrate formation and dissociation in a partially saturated core-scale sand sample

    Timothy J. Kneafsey;Liviu Tomutsa;George J. Moridis;Yongkoo Seol

  • Numerical studies of gas production from several CH4 hydrate zones at the Mallik site, Mackenzie Delta, Canada

    George J. Moridis;Timothy S. Collett;Scott R. Dallimore;Tohru Satoh

  • Gas production potential of disperse low-saturation hydrate accumulations in oceanic sediments

    George J. Moridis;E. Dendy Sloan

  • Modeling of fault reactivation and induced seismicity during hydraulic fracturing of shale-gas reservoirs,

    Jonny Rutqvist;Antonio P. Rinaldi;Frédéric Cappa;George J. Moridis

  • Evaluation of Gas Production Potential from Marine Gas Hydrate Deposits in Shenhu Area of South China Sea

    Gang Li;George J. Moridis;Keni Zhang;Xiao-Sen Li

  • Geomechanical response of permafrost-associated hydrate deposits to depressurization-induced gas production

    J. Rutqvist;G.J. Moridis;T. Grover;T. Collett

  • A numerical study of performance for tight gas and shale gas reservoir systems

    C.M. Freeman;G. Moridis;D. Ilk;T.A. Blasingame

  • Comparison of kinetic and equilibrium reaction models in simulating gas hydrate behavior in porous media

    Michael B. Kowalsky;George J. Moridis

  • Regional long-term production modeling from a single well test, Mount Elbert gas hydrate stratigraphic test well, Alaska North Slope

    Brian J. Anderson;Brian J. Anderson;Masanori Kurihara;Mark D. White;George J. Moridis

  • Gas production from a cold, stratigraphically-bounded gas hydrate deposit at the Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope: Implications of uncertainties

    G. J. Moridis;S. Silpngarmlert;M. T. Reagan;Timothy S. Collett

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Alwin Blasingame
Thomas Alwin Blasingame Texas A&M University
Timothy J. Kneafsey
Timothy J. Kneafsey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Timothy S. Collett
Timothy S. Collett United States Geological Survey
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yongkoo Seol
Yongkoo Seol National Energy Technology Laboratory
Ray Boswell
Ray Boswell United States Department of Energy
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Curtis M. Oldenburg
Curtis M. Oldenburg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Barry Freifeld
Barry Freifeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yu-Shu Wu
Yu-Shu Wu Colorado School of Mines

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