May 15, 2008
Carlos Torres-Verdin, petroleum and geosystems engineering associate professor, received the Petrophysics 2007 Best Paper Award with co-authors, Guodong Jin, Sarath Devarajan, Emmanuel Toumelin and E.C. Thomas. Editors selected "Pore-Scale Analysis of the Waxman-Smits Shaly-Sand Conductivity Model" for fundamental
contributions to the pore-scale study of electrical conductivity of clay-bearing siliciclastic rocks. The simulation method correctly predicts macroscopic electrical properties of porous rocks measured in the laboratory.
Torres-Verdin , graduate student Alberto Mendoza, and their co-author,
William Preeg, also received the Best Poster Award from the society. The poster describes a new accurate method to rapidly simulate density and neutron measurements acquired in drilled wells.
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