A team of Rice University researchers and industry collaborators has been named authors of the “Best Petrophysics Paper 2019” by the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts.
The winning paper is titled “NMR [nuclear magnetic resonance] Evaluation of Light-Hydrocarbon Composition, Pore Size, and Tortuosity in Organic-Rich Chalks.”
The Rice group works in the lab of George J. Hirasaki, A. J. Hartsook Professor Emeritus and research professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering. His co-authors are Zeliang Chen, who earned his Ph.D. in applied physics last week and now works for Facebook; Philip M. Singer, research scientist; and Xinglin Wang, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in ChBE.
Collaborating on the paper were Harold J. Vinegar, president of Vinegar Technologies and professor of petroleum geoscience at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Scott V. Nguyen of Bracket Technologies, Austin.