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Senior Research Scientist
Research Operations
Dr. John Rogers is Sr. Research Scientist at HARC emphasizing Sustainable Energy Technology and Issues, Energy Life Cycle Analysis, and lowering impacts of fossil energy production and use. Current interests and efforts include integrating wind, geothermal, oil and gas, and carbon sequestration concepts. Dr. Rogers is coordinating tasks on the Environmentally Friendly Drilling (EFD) joint industry partnership program to significantly reduce the environmental impact and footprint of petroleum drilling and production operations in sensitive ecological systems.
Past areas of research study have been in the development of expert systems using pattern recognition schemes (Neural Networks) to interpret dynamometer diagrams and control of artificial lift systems, hydraulic fracture optimization, and mathematical and computer modeling micro-porous Hollow Fiber Membrane system as a liquid/liquid extractor, and addressing issues in EOR/IOR in conventional and unconventional reservoirs. Other areas of interest have been in improved methods to recover unconventional hydrocarbon resources (tight gas, enhancement of coalbed methane recovery, hydrate technology, development of remote/stranded gas marketing technology, and recovery of CO2 from waste streams).
Dr Rogers’ began his professional career in 1980 as a petroleum production engineer with varied responsibilities in west Texas Permian Basin waterfloods, EOR pilots, and field engineering support for a $50MM (1984$) 80 well drilling and water flood expansion project with modification of 2 injection facilities and construction of 2 new facilities. Immediately after obtaining his PhD (mid-career) Dr. Rogers was the Industrial Wastewater Control Supervisor leading a group of 21 people implementing the NPDES permit for Pima County Arizona (Tucson) Wastewater Management. Prior to joining DOE, John worked at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC) at New Mexico Tech as a Senior Research Associate studying aspects of EOR applied in conventional and Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. As a Petroleum Engineer/Project Manager at NETL, Dr. Rogers’ efforts emphasized managing a diverse technical portfolio of as many as 30 projects dedicated to developing and commercialization of new and emerging technologies to reduce costs of DCS (drilling, completions and stimulation), methane hydrates, and HTHP deep gas drilling and production applications from which the EFD project was developed. As a Research Team Lead at NETL, Dr Rogers initiated the ultra-HTHP drilling laboratory to investigate the rock, fluid, and cutter characteristics at 250 °C and 30,000psi.
Dr. Rogers has over thirty publications in varied technical areas and has presented at various conferences and symposiums. He holds a M.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University and B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from New Mexico State University and is a PMI certified professional project manager and registered engineer in the State of Texas. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and serves or has served on the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Drilling Operations Committee, SPE Facilities and Construction Committee, Co-Chair of the SPE ATW on Reservoir Souring, JPT Editorial Committee for Production Operations, and IADC book committee.
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