Industry Funding

- Parametric analysis of the thermo-hydro-chemical and mechanical modeling of the opening and operation process of caves in salt rock.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães.
Period: 2018 to 2020.

- Simulation of fluid flow considering water density as a function of salinity. The Tikuna Aquifer case study.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães.
Period: 2015 to 2019.

- Experimental and numerical analysis of the geomechanical and geochemical effects of carbonate rocks - injection of reactive fluids.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Analice Amorim.
Period: 2018 to 2022.

- Rock mechanics lab project.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Analice Amorim.
Period: 2016 to 2020.

- Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing in naturally fractured reservoirs together with geologic modeling of carbonate outcrops.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Igor Gomes.
Period: 2017 to 2019.

- Fracture modeling and numerical simulation of coupled problems in analog of naturally fractured reservoir, outcrops located at Araripe Basin, NE Brazil.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Igor Gomes.
Period: 2015 to 2017.

- Computational tools for characterization and analysis of naturally fratured systems.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Igor Gomes.
Period: 2015 to 2017.

- Reactive Transport and Wellbore Integrity.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães.
Period: 2015 to 2016.

- SIGER Petrobras Thematic Network – Optimization, Uncertainty and Risk in Reservoir Simulation, Complex Reservoirs and Geomechanical Coupling.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Ézio Araújo.
Period: January 2012 to December 2016.

- CARMOD Petrobras Thematic Network - Geological and Geomechanical Modelling of Outcrops applied to Carbonate and Evaporite Deposits of Araripe Basin – Integrated approach to build models for the simulations of reservoir analogues.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: José Antonio Barbosa and Igor Gomes.
Period: January 2012 to December 2016.

- Hydraulic Fracture Simulation Applied to Shale Gas.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães.
Period: January 2013 to December 2015.

- Coupled fluid flow and geomechanical deformation modeling in oil reservoir - Fracturinq effects.
Funding: Equion Energia.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães.
Period: March 2014 to February 2015.

- Coupled THMC Modelling of Pre-Salt Reservoir Rocks.
Funding: Petrobras.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães.
Period: November 2009 to April 2012.

Government Funding

- MSCIPG - Mesh Generation and Adaptation for Reservoir Simulation. Network on Computational Modeling and Simulation for Oil and Gas Industry.
Funding:  MCT/ FINEP/ CT - PETRO - Thematic Network
Principal Investigator: Prof. Darlan Carvalho
Period: January 2013 to December 2014.

- Locally Conservative Formulations for Flow Simulation of Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Reservoirs.
Funding: CNPq
Principal Investigator: Prof. Darlan Carvalho
Period: January 2013 to December 2014.

- Multidisciplinary Optimization using Surrogate Models.
Funding: CNPq
Principal Investigator: Prof. Silvana Afonso
Period: December 2012 to November 2014.

- Rock-Fluid Interactions in the geological storage of CO2.
Funding: MCT / CNPq
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães
Period: January 2012 to December 2013.

- Multidisciplinary and Structural Optimization using Surrogate Models.
Funding: MCT / CNPq
Principal Investigator: Prof. Silvana Afonso
Period: March 2011 to February 2013.

- Analysis of the Injection of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in Geological Formations.
Funding: MCT / CNPq / CT-Energ FNDCT
Principal Investigator: Prof. Leonardo Guimarães
Period: June 2010 to May 2012.

- Hydro-Geomechanics Numerical modeling of Fault Reactivation during CO2 Injection.
Funding: MCT / CNPq
Principal Investigator: Prof. Igor Gomes
Period: December 2010 to November 2012.

- Hydro-Geomechanics Numerical Modeling of Fault Reactivation in geological formations in State of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Funding: FACEPE / CNPq
Principal Investigator: Prof. Igor Gomes
Period: December 2010 to November 2012.