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Sponsors opted to continue a reservoir characterization project in the Permian Basin, operated by Fasken Oil and Ranch, as the main field research project for 2025-2027. Please contact RCP if you wish to join the consortium for Phase XXI.
IMAGE 2022
Achievement Award
Best Paper IMAGE 2021
Dr. Jim Simmons, Dr. Ali Tura, Matthew Copley, Joseph Stitt, SEG President Anna Shaughnessy, Sima Daneshvar, and Andrea Damasceno
2025 GRADUATE Ethan Deal
MS Geophysics
Where are you from?
Long Beach, California
What work did you do at Mines?Integration of Geophysical, Geological, Geochemical, and Engineering datasets to understand which factors are impacting unconventional well production on Fasken Ranch
What are your plans after graduation? Geophysicist at EOG Resources
2025 GRADUATE Ana Garcia-Ceballos
PhD Geophysics
Where are you from?
Laramie, Wyoming
What work did you do at Mines? I evaluated distributed fiber optics sensing technology for monitoring oil and gas well life stages
What are your plans after graduation? Geophysicist with BP, Houston, Texas
2025 GRADUATE Gianna Joab
MS Geophysics
Where are you from?
Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago
What work did you do at Mines? I utilized inversion and spectral decomposition to classify lithofacies of the Lower Wolfcamp in the Mindald Basin, Texas
What are your plans after graduation? Geophysicist with Shell, Houston, TX
2025 GRADUATE Peiyao Li
PhD Geophysics
Where are you from?
Chengdu, China
What work did you do at Mines? I worked with distributed fiber optic sensing to quantitatively characterize unconventional reservoirs and hydraulic fracturing
What are your plans after graduation? After graduation, I will join Febus Optics as US Lead Analyst
2025 GRADUATE Duke Ozamah
MS Geophysics
Where are you from?
Lagos, Nigeria
What work did you do at Mines? My work focused on assessing the value of multi-component surface seismic data for seismic amplitude variation
with angle (AVA) inversion, specifically by utilizing the converted waves in reservoir characterization
What are your plans after graduation? I am currently looking for an opportunity
2025 GRADUATE Araz Shafiyev
MS Geophysics
Where are you from?
Baku, Azerbaijan
What work did you do at Mines? Inverted for VTI anisotropy parameters using VSP data from Fasken Oil & Ranch, Midland Basin, Texas
What are your plans after graduation? I will work towards my PhD at Georgia Tech
2025 GRADUATE Aldifa Afimanya
MS Geology
Where are you from?
Jakarta, Indonesia
What work did you do at Mines? Integration of Sequence Stratigraphy and Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology for Characterization of CO₂ Sequestration Targets in the Lower Miocene Interval of the Gulf of Mexico
What are your plans after graduation? Working at Pertamina (Indonesia) as a Development Geoscientist
2025 GRADUATE Anna Titova
PhD Geophysics
Where are you from?
Omsk, Russia
What work did you do at Mines? My work focused on compressive sensing for land seismic acquisition and processing
What are your plans after graduation? Working as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Bureau of Economic Geology in Austin, Texas
The March 2022 issue of Hart Energy’s Oil & Gas Investor featured an article covering RCP’s current research program.
Dr. Ali Tura receives Distinguished Lecturer 2021 at IMAGE Conference
Chuang Xiao
Investigation of Apparent Axial Response in Seabed Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Active Source Experiments
Session: DAS P2 – Reservoir Monitoring
August 18, 2026 | 3:40 PM to 5:20 PM
Hoang Anh Nguyen
qFWI: Full Waveform Inversion with Hybrid Quantum Finite Basis Physics-Informed Neural Network
Session: DMLA 5 – Wavefield Simulation
August 18, 2026 | 4:55 PM to 5:20 PM
Aini Ashiqin Mohd Mokhdhari
Developing a calibrated geologic-geophysical workflow for reservoir property prediction in the Midland Basin
Session: STUD P1 – Field Applications
August 18, 2026 | 1:20 PM to 3:00 PM
Dr. Pengchao He
Low-Frequency DAS for Non-Intrusive Traffic Load Measurement and Vehicle Weight Estimation on a Highway Bridge
Session: DAS P3 — Near Surface
August 19, 2026 | 8:00–9:40 AM
Roman Yermakov
eFWI-Enhanced Workflow for Joint PP/PS Inversion: Edvard Grieg Field
Session ID: AAS 4 – Multicomponent Seismic
August 19, 2026 | 3:40 PM to 4:05 PM
Michael Braunscheidel
Carbonate debris aprons and rafted blocks originating from the Central Basin Platform, Midland Basin, West Texas: examples and implications from the Dean and Lower Wolfcamp Formations
Session: USC 5 – Permian and Unconventionals
August 20, 2026 | 10:45-11:10 AM
Dr. Pengchao He
Multiple Time-Step Inversion of Discretized Hydraulic Fracture Aperture Distribution Using Multi-Well LF-DAS Constraints: Application to the HFTS-2 Field
Session: DAS 4 — Fracture Characterization
August 20, 2026 | 3:10–3:35 PM