Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
Since 1997, Alain Gringarten has been Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Director of the Center for Petroleum Studies at Imperial College, London. He coordinates all research and postgraduate teaching and activities in petroleum-related studies at the College. Alain Gringarten made major contributions in many breakthrough advances in well test interpretation, including: the use of Greens functions.
The "Gringarten type curves" for wells with wellbore storage and skin, fractured wells, and wells with double porosity behavior.
The first major commercial computer-aided interpretation software. And a well-test interpretation methodology which has become standard in the oil industry.
He was also an early pioneer of multidisciplinary studies, both in industry and in academia. As a result, well-test analysis started becoming more useful as a reservoir-description tool, both during exploration and for reservoir simulation.
In recent years, Alain Gringarten spent a lot of time in research of deconvolution as a well-interpretation tool.
He is one of the main contributors in establishing a stable algorithm of deconvolution as a least squares mathematical problem. Gringarten, A.C. (before Christ), "Method for obtaining a dimensionless representation of well pressure data without the use of type-curves", United States Patent 4607524, 1986 (publication) Gringarten, A.C. (before Christ), "Method of determining characteristics of a fluid producing underground formation", United States Patent 4328705, 1982 (publication).
Gringarten received the following honours and recognition for his achievements: 2007 Chairman, Society of Petroleum Engineers Europec, London Chairman, Society of Petroleum Engineers United Kingdom Workshops on Well Testing (2001), Gas Condensates (2002), Fractured Reservoirs (2003), Multilateral Wells (2004), Measurements while Drilling (2006) and Multilayered Reservoirs (2008). Company-convenor, EAGE-Society of Petroleum Engineers workshop on Well Testing and Seismics (2009) 2009 Elected Society of Petroleum Engineers Honorary Member 2009 Society of Petroleum Engineers North Sea Service Award 2005 Society of Petroleum Engineers Cedric Ferguson certificate for Society of Petroleum Engineers best paper published in 2004 2003-2004 Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer 2003 Society of Petroleum Engineers John Franklin Carl award for technical application and professionalism in petroleum development and recovery 2002 Elected Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member 2001 Society of Petroleum Engineers Formation Evaluation Award.
