Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research
The Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research identifies and solves significant research problems of major interest to industry and government. The Institute conducts it efforts in four research Centers: the Halliburton Center for Unconventional Resources, the Chevron Center for Well Construction and Production, the Schlumberger Center for Reservoir Description and Dynamics, and the Center for Energy, Environment, and Transportation Innovation. Industry and governmental representatives can help identify problems of major significance and support projects of particular interest to them through membership at the Institute, Center, or Project level. Additionally, membership provides seed money for identification and initiation of research into additional problems facing the industry.
The oil and gas industry in the United States and the faculty at Texas A&M University have been developing technology for the improved extraction of oil and gas for over 30 years. Through the implementation of the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research, we plan to leverage our experience at a time when the energy from oil and gas resources becomes of utmost importance to Texas, to the United States and to the world.
Our faculty have decades of experience in technology development for petroleum resources. The Crisman Institute combines the talents of the faculty into four research Centers that can continue the technology development required by industry.
The focus of each center will be to develop technology and processes to reduce the finding and development costs in petroleum reservoirs. These costs can be reduced by developing technologies that either reduce the costs involved in the application of existing technologies or that increase the reserves per completion as a result of better technology. We expect to address both the costs and the ultimate recovery per completion during the research efforts of this Institute.
Vision
The vision of the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research is to provide a vehicle to enhance development of petroleum engineering technology through cutting-edge, industry-directed research conducted in four dedicated research Centers in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.
The mission of the Crisman Institute for Petroleum Research is to produce significant advances in upstream petroleum engineering technology through the combined efforts of faculty, post-doctoral researchers, highly qualified graduate students, in close cooperation with industry.