Robert H. Lane

Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Aghorn Energy Development Professor

501 Q Richardson Building

College Station, TX 77843-3116

Phone: (979) 862-7654

e-mail: robert.lane@pe.tamu.edu

Dr. Robert Lane spent nine years in academic positions before moving to the petroleum industry. He spent fifteen years with international petroleum companies in research, research management and field operations engineering positions. He has experience in formation damage, stimulation, remedial cementing, injection well cleanup, coiled-tubing well work and water and gas shutoff in Alaska fields, including some of North America’s largest waterflood and miscible gas EOR projects. Subsequently he spent eight years as an independent consultant to national and international operating companies solving excess water and gas production problems in petroleum reservoirs in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. He is a recognized authority on chemical methods of water control, and he has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1999 – 2000) on the subject. Before coming to Texas A&M Dr. Lane spent four years as Professor of Petroleum Engineering (three as the PE Program’s Director) at a new Middle Eastern engineering college founded by a National Oil Company.

• PhD, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Florida (Gainesville), 1971
• BS, Chemistry, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1966

• Management of water during production of oil and gas
• Well integrity and connectivity to the reservoir
• Reservoir and production chemistry

Dr. Lane is interested in optimizing performance of IOR and EOR projects through improved well/reservoir connectivity and reservoir sweep of drive fluids, minimized production of unnecessary water or gas, and optimized chemical processes that impact recovery. He is also interested in many aspects of reservoir and production chemistry, including management and fate of CO₂ during oil and gas production operations and CO₂ sequestration.

1. Karaoguz, O., Topguder, N.N., Lane, R.H., Kalfa, U., Celebioglu, D.: “Improved Sweep in Bati Raman Heav-Oil CO2 Flood:  Bullhead Flowing Gel Treatments Plug Natural Fractures,” Paper SPE 89400, presented at the DOE/SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, OK, April 2004. Published in SPE Reservoir Engineering and Evaluation, April 2007, pp. 164 – 175.



2. Morgan J., Gunn, A., Fitch, G., Frampton, F., Harvey, R., Thrasher, D., Lane, R., McClure, R., Heier, K.H., Kayser, C.:  “Development and Deployment of a “Bullheadable” Chemical System for Selective Water Shut Off Leaving Oil/Gas Production Unharmed,” Paper SPE 78540 presented at the 10th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 13 – 16 October, 2002.



3. Seright, R.S., Lane, R.H., and Sydansk, R.D.:  “A Strategy for Attacking Excess Water Production”, Paper SPE 70067 presented at the SPE Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference, Midland, TX, 15–16 May 2001; published in SPE Production and Facilities, August 2003, pages 158 - 169.
   
   
4. Lane, R.H. and Seright, R.S., “Gel Water Shutoff in Fractured or Faulted Horizontal Wells”, Paper SPE 65527 presented at the 2000 SPE/Petroleum Society of CIM International Conference on Horizontal Well Technology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 6-8 November 2000.



5. O’Brien, W.J., Stratton, J.J., and Lane, R.H.:  “Mechanistic Reservoir Modeling Improves Fissure Treatment Gel Design in Horizontal Injectors, Idd El Shargi North Dome Field, Qatar”, Paper SPE 56743 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, TX, October 1999.



6. Lane, R.H., “Field Operational and Performance Issues of Polymeric Water Control Agents,” Paper SPE 37243, presented at the SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry, Houston, 18-21 February 1997.  Published in SPE Production and Facilities, February 1998, pages 29 - 33.