JOHN CHEN is an Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in Reservoir Simulation. Dr. Chen's research will create a state-of-the-art reservoir simulation toolkit that allows for multiple parallel runs, faster computation and rigorous optimization. It will develop numerical techniques that are faster and have greater accuracy than are currently available. These techniques will assist history matching methods and increase the effectiveness of field optimization. In turn, these advancements will improve the workflow, including risk and uncertainty analysis. There will be an overall significant improvement in the modeling and simulation processes of enhanced oil recovery for unconventional oil and gas (tight and shale oil and gas, CBM), heavy oil and oil sands.

Professor at the University of Calgary (Canada)
B.S., University of Jiangxi (1983)
M.S., Xi'an Jiaotong University (1985)
Ph.D., Purdue University (1991)

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