Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes

Professional in Residence

Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering
Louisiana State University
3212C Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Phone: 225-578-6038 / Fax: 225-578-8433

rghughes@lsu.edu

CV

ORCID

 

  • PhD Petroleum Engineering – Stanford University, 1999
  • M.S. Petroleum Engineering – Stanford University, 1996
  • B.S. Petroleum Engineering – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1982
  • CO2 EOR and Carbon Sequestration
  • Multiphase Flow in Porous & Fractured Media
  • Geothermal
  • Reservoir Surveillance
  • Production Data Analysis
  • Unconventionals 
  • PETE 2032 Reservoir Fluid Properties
  • PETE 3025 Economic Aspects of Petroleum Production
  • PETE 3050 Reservoir Dynamics
  • PETE 3085 Well Performance and Production
  • PETE 3320 Fundamentals of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
  • PETE 3990 Independent Research
  • PETE 4046 Well Design-Production
  • PETE 4051 Reserve Estimation and Reservoir Management
  • PETE 4056 Numerical Simulation of Improved Recovery Processes
  • PETE 4089 Natural Gas Engineering
  • PETE 4090 Unconventional Reservoirs
  • PETE 4998 Senior Project I
  • PETE 4999 Senior Project II
  • PETE 7102 Production Engineering 
  • PETE 7201 Fluid Flow in Porous Media
  • PETE 7212 Well Completion Design 
  • William A. Brookshire Award for Teaching Excellence 2016
  • Louisiana Engineering Society Engineering Faculty Professionalism Award 2014
  • Bill Holden Faculty Excellence Award 2013, 2015
  • Zaki Bassiouni Excellence in Instruction Award 2009, 2011
  • LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award 2007
  • OU College of Engineering, Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award 2004
  • OU SPE Student Chapter, Outstanding Faculty Award 2003
  • Centennial Teaching Award 1996
 
  • Colorado Registered Professional Engineer -- Registration # 26735 (1984)

  • LSU Petroleum Engineering Senior Year Advisor (2010 -- present)
  • College of Engineering Academic Matters Committee (2010 -- present)
  • Organizing Committee SPE 2020 Foresight Education Forum
  • College of Engineering Policy Committee. (2006--2011)
  • SPE Worst Case Discharge Summit
  • Modeling of Flow Rate in MC-252 well
  • Member and occasional Chair of OU College of Engineering Academic Misconduct panels
  • Community Engagement for CCS (DOE Phase II project)
  • Community Engagement to Support CCS Development (DOE Phase III project)
  • Louisiana Offshore CO2 Hub Repurposing Infrastructure to Decrease Greenhouse Emissions (DOE Phase II -- Project LOCKRIDGE)
  • Carbon Capture and Underground Storage Shallow Zone Characterization
  • CO2 Geologic Storage Site Evaluation in Offshore Louisiana
  • Carbon Capture and Underground Storage Shallow Zone Characterization''
  • Southeast Regional Carbon Storage Partnership: Offshore Gulf of Mexico
  • Development and Improvement of Flow Models Applied to WCD Calculations
  • Integrated CCS in the Louisiana Chemical Corridor
  • Experimental Investigation and Performance Evaluation of Models Applied to Worse-Case-Discharge Calculations
  • Relating the transport behavior of nanosensors to rock structure and fluid flow properties in geologic formations
  • A study of fluid flow in sediments and the effect of tidal fluctuations
  • Tepetate Field Study – Phase I
  • Oil Spill Scenario Development
  • Geothermal Resource Development With Zero Mass Withdrawl Engineered Convection, and Wellbore Energy Conversion
  • Non-equilibrium Kinetics of Hydrate Formation in Porous Media
  • Evaluation and Enhancement of Carbon Dioxide Flooding Through Sweep Improvement
  • Sweep Improvement Evaluation of Oil Fields in Mississippi
  • Sucker Rod System Design and Analysis Hardware and Software Donation
  • Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration
  • Travel Grant to Participate in NeSS 2002, International Workshop on Neutrinos and Subterranean Science
  • Continuation of Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Stability of Hydrate-Bearing Formations
  • Junior Faculty Research Program: Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Stability of Hydrate-Bearing Formations
  • Development of Reservoir Characterization Techniques and Production Models for Exploiting Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
  • Bermejo Field Reservoir Characterization Project
Peer-Reviewed
Zulqarnain, M., Sears, S.O., Zeidouni M., Hughes, R.G., Carlson, D., and Rivera, C.F., ``GCS site selection in saline Miocene formations in South Louisiana'', International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 122 (2023), 103818
 
Wang, B., Wald, I., Morrical, N., Usher, W., Mu, L., Thompson, K. and Hughes, R., ``A GPU-accelerated particle tracking method for Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations using hardware ray tracing cores'', Computer Physics Communications}, 271 (February 2022), 108221.
 
Wang, B., Feng, Y., Thompson, K. and Hughes, R.G., ``Streamline-based simulation of nanoparticle transport in field-scale heterogeneous subsurface systems'', Advances in Water Resources}, 148 (February 2021), 103842.
 
Zulqarnain, M., Zeidouni M. and Hughes, R.G., ``Hydromechanical modelling to evaluate impact of fault structure on CO2 migration in stacked storage system'', International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control}, 93 (2020), 102886.
 
Zulqarnain, M., Zeidouni M. and Hughes, R.G., ``Response surface modeling of CO$_2$ dynamic storage efficiency factor in high permeability thick sandstones'', Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology}, 9 (5), 1043--1063.
 
Waltrich, P., Capovilla, M., Lee, W., de Sousa, P.C., Zulqarnain, M., Hughes, R.G., Tyagi, M., Williams, W., Kam, S., Archer, A., Singh, J., Nguyen, H., Duhon, J. and Griffith, C., ``Experimental Evaluation of Wellbore Flow Models Applied to Worst-Case Discharge Calculations for oil wells,'' SPE Drilling & Completion (July 2019).
 
Zulqarnain, M., Zeidouni M. and Hughes, R.G., ``Field-scale well leakage risk assessment using reduced-order models'', Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 9 (3), 567--581.
 
Zulqarnain, M., Zeidouni M. and Hughes, R.G., ``Implications of Fault Structure Heterogeneities, Dissolution and Capillary Trapping Mechanisms for CO$_2$ Storage Integrity'', International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control}, 76 (2018), 53--61.
 
Hughes, R.G., ``Overview of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering Concepts,'' in Encyclopedia of Maritime and Offshore Engineering.
 
Ansari, E., Hughes R.G. and White, C.D., ``Modeling a new design for extracting energy from geopressured, geothermal reservoirs'', Geothermics (January 2018).
 
Waltrich, P., Whitehead, J., Hughes, R., and Thompson, K., ``A Study of Fluid Flow in Sediments and the Effect of Tidal Pumping,''
Journal of Earth Science (October 2017).
 
Gherabati, S.A., Hughes, R.G., White, C.D. and Zhang, H., ``A Large Scale Network Model to Obtain Interwell Formation Characteristics,'' International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology, 15(1), 1--24.
 
Ansari, E., Hughes R.G., ``Statistical Modeling of Geopressured Geothermal Reservoirs'', Computers & Geosciences (May 2017).
 
Gherabati, S.A., Takbiri, A., Hughes, R.G., ``Heterogeneity Quantification in Waterfloods Using a Multiphase Network Approach'',
Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 40, 299--311.
 
Ansari, E., Hughes R.G., ``Response Surface Method for Assessing Energy Production from Geopressured Geothermal Reservoirs'',
Geothermal Energy (December 2016)
 
Yalcinkaya T., Radonjic M., Hughes R.G., Willson C.S, Ham K., ``The Effect of CO2-Saturated Brine on the Conductivity of Wellbore-Cement Fractures'', SPE Drilling and Completion (September 2011)
 
Jin, L., Wojtanowicz, A.K. and Hughes, R.G., ``An Analytical Model for Water Coning Control Installation in Reservoir with Bottom Water,'' Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (May 2010).
 
Al Adwani, F., Langlinais, J.P. and Hughes, R.G., ``Modelling of an Underbalanced Drilling Operation Utilizing Supercritical Carbon Dioxide,'' SPE Drilling and Completion (December 2009).
 
Daneshfar, J., Civan, F. and Hughes, R.G., ``Feasibility Investigation and Modeling Analysis of CO2 Sequestration
in Arbuckle Formation Utilizing Salt Water Disposal Wells,'' Journal of Energy Resources Technology (June 2009), Vol. 131.
 
Gonzalez, M.C., Hughes, R.G., Civan, F. and Taylor, C., ``Phenomenological Modeling of Hydrate Formation and Dissociation,'' in Recent Advances in the Study of Gas Hydrates, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2004).
 
Hughes, R.G. and Blunt, M.J., "Network Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Fractures and Matrix/Fracture Transfer", SPE Journal (June 2001),  6, No. 2.
 
Hughes, R.G. and Blunt, M.J., ``Network Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Fractures'', Advances in Water Resources (February 2001), 24, No. 3--4, 409--421.
 
Hughes, R.G. and Blunt, M.J., ``Pore Scale Modeling of Rate Effects in Imbibition'', Transport in Porous Media (September 2000), 40, No. 3, 295--322.