Engineer Engineering

Tingting Chen

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PROFILE

I am a PhD student (graduating soon) from Colorado School of Mines. My solid training in petroleum engineering

and geological/geotechnical/geophysical engineering inspires me to search for positions in the oil and gas/energy

industry. My past experience was focused on rock mechanics/geomechanics and EOR. Nevertheless I am open to

different positions (production/reservoir engineering; petrophysics; geological modeling…)

WORK AUTHORIZATION

I am a U.S. permanent resident (green card holder) and a Chinese citizen, which allows me to work both in U.S. and

China without sponsorship.

EDUCATION

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA Expected May 2014

PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (geotechnical specialty) GPA: 3.7/4.0

Minor in Petroleum Engineering

Research Thesis: Reservoir Characterization in Delhi Field, Louisiana

Thesis abstract: An integrated reservoir model is constructed using Petrel based on the geological model. The

reservoir model is then used to perform history matching by running reservoir simulations with ECLIPSE. The

simulation results are also compared with the 4D multi-component seismic inversed calculated attributes. In

addition to identify the bypassed oil zone and maximize recovery, the research work can be used to analog potential

other field candidates for future CO2 floods

Tongji University, Shanghai, China March 2009

M.S. Geological Engineering

Thesis: Influence of soil structure on the compressibility of Shanghai clay

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China July 2006

B.S. in Exploration Technique and Engineering

Thesis: Risk assessment of geological disasters on construction sites

SKILLS

General skills: Collaborate well with interdisciplinary and international teams; good technical report writing; strong

oral presentation; fluent in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and English

Software: Petrel, ECLIPSE, CMG, TOUGH2, FLAC, Matlab, Mathematica, MathCad, CAD, Microsoft Office

Applied Math techniques: Risk assessment and statistical analysis; computational algorithms (i.e., Finite Element

Method, Finite Difference Method, Discrete Element Method, Boundary Element method, etc.) to solve engineering

problems such as: multi-component/multi-phase fluid flow, heat transfer, mechanical and geomechanical analysis

Programming languages: Fortran, Visual Basic, C/C++

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCES

Reservoir simulation engineer intern, Denbury Resources, Plano, TX, USA May 2013 - Aug. 2013

• Allocated production history; QCed and built geologic model for an oil field that is undergoing CO2

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enhanced oil recovery; Built simulation model; Performed reservoir simulation to history match and to

predict future EOR production; Integrated simulation with seismic analysis

Reservoir engineer (part time), Gustavson Associates, Boulder, CO, USA April 2013 - May 2013

• QCed geologic model for an oil field in Central Asia; Performed reservoir simulations

RESEARCH

Research Assistant, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA Sept. 2009 - June 2012

• Participated in project “Probabilistic Hydro-Thermo-Mechanical (HTM) Modeling of Carbon Dioxide

Geological Sequestration in Fractured Porous Rocks”, funded by U.S. Department of Energy

• Developed a 1-D simulator to probabilistically analyze the behavior of CO2 sequestration in heterogeneous

media

• Improved the multi-component and multi-phase flow simulator "TOUGH2"

• Developed coupling numerical scheme to integrate fluid flow and geomechanical analyses

Research Assistant, Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering, Tongji University

Shanghai, China Sept. 2006 - Mar. 2009

• Participated in the project “Anisotropic Constitutive Model for Natural Soft Clay and its Application,”

funded by Chinese National Natural Science Foundation

• Modeled the soil structure of Shanghai clays

• Designed and conducted consolidation tests on sampled soft clays in Shanghai area

• Estimated the yielding strain of soil structure and analyzed data for a systematic assessment on the

influence of soil structure to the compressibility of Shanghai clay

• Studied the stress-path behaviors of Shanghai clays using GDS Triaxial Soil and Rock Testing System

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Chen, T., Davis, T. L. and Kazemi, H., “Integration of Reservoir Simulation and Time-Lapse Seismic in

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Delhi Field: A Continuous CO2 Injection EOR Project” accepted Proc. of SPE Improved Oil Recovery

Symposium, Tulsa, OK, USA, 12-16 April, 2014.

Chen, T., Katsuki, D. and Gutierrez, M., “Forward and inverse modeling of laboratory tests on CO2

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injection in porous rocks,” Proc. of 46th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Chicago, June

2012.

Chen, T. and Gutierrez, M., “Stochastic Analysis of Carbon Capture in Geologic Formation ”, Proc. of 45th

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US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, June 2011.

Chen et al., “Influence of Soil Structure on the Compressibility of Shanghai Clay,” Journal of Engineering

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Geology (Chinese), vol. 16 (No. 5), pp. 681-684, Oct. 2008.

C. Xu, Y. Xiao, X. Liao, and T. Chen, “Influence of Waste and Subgrade Settlement on Landfill Linear

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Stability and Integrity,” in Proc. 4th Asian Regional Conference on Geosynthetics, Shanghai, June 2008.

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