Albert C. Reynolds

Albert Reynolds

McMan Chair in Petroleum EngineeringProfessorKeplinger Hall #L115
918-631-3043
reynolds@utulsa.eduResearch Website

Office Hours - Fall 2009

M/W 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Course Syllabus - Fall 2009

PE 7813-02 Special Topics: Closed Loop Reservoir Management

Introduction

Albert C. Reynolds has been a faculty member at The University of Tulsa (TU) since 1970.  At TU, he has served as Associate Graduate Dean, Associate Director of Research, and Chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering.  Currently, he is McMan Chair in Petroleum Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Director of The University of Tulsa's Petroleum Reservoir Exploitation Projects (TUPREP), an industry/university cooperative project dedicated to research in reservoir characterization, reservoir simulation and well testing.  

Dr. Reynolds served as an SPE Technical Editor (1983-85 and 1989-92, 2007-present) and served ten years as an Associate Editor of In Situ. He has served on the SPE Pressure Transient Testing Committee (1991-1994, Chairman 1993-94), the SPE Well Testing Committee (1981-1982), the SPE Reservoir Monitoring Committee (2004-2007), the AIME Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award Committee (1991-1992, 1992 Chairman), the SPE Formation Evaluation Award Committee (1996-1999, 1999 chairperson) and on the Steering Committee for the 2006 SPE Applied Technology Workshop (ATW) on History Matching.  He was the Program Committee Chairperson for the 2006 SPE Improved Oil Reservoir Symposium and Co-Chairperson for 2008 SPE ATW on "Closed-Loop Reservoir Management.'' He currently serves on the Program Committee for the 2009 SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, the SPE Formation Evaluation Committee and as a technical editor for SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering.

Dr. Reynolds has co-authored well over 100 technical papers and two books, primarily on well testing and the application of inverse theory and optimization to data integration and uncertainty quantification to reservoir characterization and history matching.  In support of his research in these areas, Dr. Reynolds has extensive funding from more than 20 oil companies and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Education and Degrees Earned

  • Ph.D., Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University (1970)
  • M.S., Mathematics, Case Institute of Technology (1968)
  • B.A., Mathematics, University of New Hampshire (1966)

Areas of Academic Specialty

  • Reservoir Characterization
  • Assisted History Matching
  • Characterization of Uncertainty in Reservoir Description and Performance
  • Real Time Reservoir Management
  • Pressure Transient Analysis
  • Computational Methods in Engineering

Areas of Research Focus

  • Reservoir Characterization
  • Optimization
  • Data Integration
  • History Matching
  • Characterization of Uncertainty
  • Inverse Theory
  • Pressure Transient Analysis
  • Reservoir Simulation
  • Ensemble Methods

Professional Affiliations

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers
  • European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers
  • International Association of Mathematical Geology
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Courses Taught at TU

  • History Matching (PE 7813)
  • Inverse Problems (PE 7133)
  • Reservoir Engineering I (PE 3023)
  • Reservoir Simulation I (PE 7043)
  • Rock Properties (PE 2113)
  • Special Topics - Closed Loop Reservoir Management (PE 7813)

Awards & Recognition

  • McMan Chair in Petroleum Engineering, 2003
  • Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1966
  • Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1966
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 1983
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member, 1999
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers Formation Evaluation Award, 2005
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, 2003

Publications

  • A Stochastic Algorithm for Automatic History Matching
    Gao, G., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: SPE Journal (June 2007) 196-208.
  • A Well Test for In-Situ Determination of Relative-Permeability Curves
    Chen, S., Li, G., Peres, A. and Reynolds, A. C.: Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, (February 2008) 95-107
  • An Improved Implementation of the LBFGS Algorithm for Automatic History Matching
    Gao, Guohua and Reynolds, A. C.: SPE Journal (March 2006) 5-17.
  • Approximate Analytical Solutions for the Pressure Response at a Water Injection Well
    Boughrara, A. A., Peres, A. M. M., Chen, S., Machado, A. A. V. and Reynolds, A. C.: SPE Journal (March 2007), 19-34.
  • Assessing the Uncertainty in Reservoir Description and Performance Predictions with the Ensemble Kalman Filter
    Zafari, M. and Reynolds, A. C.: SPE Journal (September 2007) 382-391.
  • Automatic History Matching in a Bayesian Framework, Example Applications
    Zhang, F., Skjervheim, J. A., Reynolds, A. C. and Oliver, D. S.: SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering (June 2005) 214-223.
  • Characterization of the Measurement Error in Time-Lapse Seismic Data and Production Data with an EM Algorithm
    Zhao, Y., Li, G. and Reynolds, A. C.: Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Revue de l'IFP, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2007) 181-193.
  • Estimation and Removal of Tidal Effects from Pressure Data
    Zhao, Y. and Reynolds, A. C.: accepted for publication in SPE Journal (2008).
  • Estimation of Relative and Absolute Permeability by History Matching of Three-Phase Flow Production Data
    Reynolds, A. C., Li, R. and Oliver, D. S.: J. Canadian Pet. Tech. (March, 2004) 37-46.
  • History Matching of Three-Phase Production Flow Production Data
    Li, R., Reynolds, A. C. and Oliver, D. S.: SPE Journal (Dec. 2003) 328-340.