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  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For innovations in the development of techniques for the testing and optimization of petroleum reservoirs.

Overview

Roland N. Horne is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States, with a focus on engineering disciplines, particularly within subfields such as ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, geophysics, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their work spans a range of topics primarily associated with hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, groundwater flow and contamination studies, geothermal energy systems and applications, and CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Roland N. Horne has contributed extensively to journals and conferences, frequently publishing in venues such as the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Geothermics, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), SSRN Electronic Journal, and the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include Mohammad Aljubran, Yuran Zhang, Mark D. White, Adam J. Hawkins, and Hunter Knox.

Notable recent papers by Roland N. Horne include:

  • "Close Observation of Hydraulic Fracturing at EGS Collab Experiment 1: Fracture Trajectory, Microseismic Interpretations, and the Role of Natural Fractures," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Thermoelectric power generator: Field test at Bottle Rock geothermal power plant," 2020, Journal of Power Sources
  • "An expandable thermoelectric power generator and the experimental studies on power output," 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Laboratory hydraulic stimulation experiments to investigate the interaction between newly formed and preexisting fractures," 2021, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • "Numerical investigation of the impact of fracture aperture anisotropy on EGS thermal performance," 2022, Geothermics

Roland N. Horne has been recognized with the distinction of membership in the National Academy of Engineering since 2002, awarded for innovations in the development of techniques related to testing and optimizing petroleum reservoirs.

Best Publications

  • An investigation of stimulation mechanisms in Enhanced Geothermal Systems

    Mark W. McClure;Roland N. Horne

  • Uncertainty Assessment of Well-Placement Optimization

    Bari Güyagüler;Roland N. Horne

  • Optimization of Well Placement in a Gulf of Mexico Waterflooding Project

    Baris Güyagüler;Roland N. Horne;Leah Rogers;Jacob J. Rosenzweig

  • Characterization of Spontaneous Water Imbibition Into Gas-Saturated Rocks

    Kewen Li;Roland N. Horne

  • Modern Well Test Analysis: A Computer-Aided Approach

    Roland N. Horne

  • Reservoir Development and Design Optimization

    Antonio C. Bittencourt;Roland N. Horne

  • Investigation of injection-induced seismicity using a coupled fluid flow and rate/state friction model

    Mark W. McClure;Roland N. Horne

  • A Procedure to Integrate Well Test Data, Reservoir Performance History and 4-D Seismic Information into a Reservoir Description

    Jorge L. Landa;Roland N. Horne

  • Computing Absolute Transmissibility in the Presence of Fine-Scale Heterogeneity

    C.D. White;R.N. Horne

  • Comparison of methods to calculate relative permeability from capillary pressure in consolidated water‐wet porous media

    Kewen Li;Roland N. Horne

  • Oscillatory convection in a porous medium heated from below

    R. N. Horne;M. J. O'sullivan

  • Relative Productivities and Pressure Transient Modeling of Horizontal Wells with Multiple Fractures

    R.N. Horne;K.O. Temeng

  • Generalized Scaling Approach for Spontaneous Imbibition: An Analytical Model

    Kewen Li;Roland N. Horne

  • An Analytical Scaling Method for Spontaneous Imbibition in Gas/Water/Rock Systems

    Kewen Li;Roland N. Horne

  • The Quality Map: A Tool for Reservoir Uncertainty Quantification and Decision Making

    Paulo S. da Cruz;Roland N. Horne;Clayton V. Deutsch

  • Improved methods for multivariate optimization of field development scheduling and well placement design

    Yan Pan;Roland N. Horne

  • Modeling Reservoir Temperature Transients and Reservoir-Parameter Estimation Constrained to the Model

    Obinna O. Duru;Roland N. Horne

  • Dispersion in tracer flow in fractured geothermal systems

    Roland N. Horne;Fernando Rodriguez

  • Pressure-transient analysis of arbitrarily shaped reservoirs with the boundary-element method

    Jitendra Kikani;Roland N. Horne

  • Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis for Improved Reservoir Description

    Isha Sahni;Roland N. Horne

Frequent Co-Authors

Lianjie Huang
Lianjie Huang Los Alamos National Laboratory
Derek Elsworth
Derek Elsworth Pennsylvania State University
Ahmad Ghassemi
Ahmad Ghassemi University of Oklahoma
Timothy J. Kneafsey
Timothy J. Kneafsey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Christine Doughty
Christine Doughty Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bezalel C. Haimson
Bezalel C. Haimson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chris Marone
Chris Marone Pennsylvania State University
Mark D. Zoback
Mark D. Zoback Stanford University

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