About TOC
TOC researchers at the ATCE 2019. (From left to right: Behrad Rashidi, M.Eng.; Farshad Tabasinejad, PhD; Hamid Behmanesh, PhD; Hamidreza Hamdi, PhD; Prof. Christopher Clarkson, PhD; Farhad Qanbari, PhD; Hossein Ahmadi, M.Sc.; Bin Yuan, PhD; and Zhenzihao Zhang, PhD)
The Tight Oil Consortium is created to solve multidisciplinary problems facing industry in the arena of low permeability (tight) oil reservoirs.
To accomplish this goal, we are composed of researchers from geoscience and the petroleum engineering disciplines.
Research Vision
TOC Research Vision

Nano to Mega Scales

  • Reservoir characterization in multiple scales within space and time.
  • Characterization of complex series of physio-chemical processes.

Pore to Field Characterization

  • Geoscientists
  • Engineers
  • Chemists
  • Mathematical Modelers
  • Economists
  • Policy Analysts
  • Private Sector
  • Government/Public Bodies