Faculty
Jon Wallace
Adjunct Faculty - Lecturer
Education
Ph.D Aerospace Engineering (2003) Georgia Institute of Technology
MS Operations Research (2015) Georgia Institute of Technology
MS Aerospace Engineering (2001) Georgia Institute of Technology;
MS Mechanical Engineering (2000) Georgia Institute of Technology
BS Mechanical Engineering (1999) Georgia Institute of Technology
Selected Professional Activities/Honors
2015 best paper award at the 2015 Hess Reservoir Engineering Forum
2014 Outstanding Technical Editor Award, SPE Reservoir Eval. and Engineering
2011 President’s award for bottom-line impact at Southwestern Energy
Four patents: well, subsurface, and drilling engineering (2009-2013)
1st place AIAA Graduate Team Design competition (2000 & 1999)
N.A.S.A. URETI Fellowship (2002-2003)
Tau Beta Pi honor society, Undergraduate Honors, National Honor society scholarship
Associate Editor for the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
Associate Editor for the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Technical Editor, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
Session chair, “Modeling Well Spacing and Multiscale Transport,” Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, San Antonio, TX, Aug 2015.
Session Chair and Manuscript Reviewer, SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 2014, Denver, CO.
Research Interests
Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery (waterflooding, gas flooding, and fracturing)
Unconventional Resources
Natural Gas Engineering
Selected Publications
- Wallace, J., Kabir, S., Cipolla, C., 2016, “Probing Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests in Unconventional Reservoirs,” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering (in-press, February 10th, 2016)
- Bertoncello, A., Wallace, J., Blyton, C., Honarpour, M. M., & Kabir, 2015. S. Imbibition and Water Blockage In Unconventional Reservoirs: Well-Management Implications During Flowback and Early Production. SPE Res Eval & Eng. J.
- Cipolla, C., Wallace, J., 2014, “Stimulated Reservoir Volume: A Misapplied Concept?”, SPE-168596-MS, SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, 4-6 February, The Woodlands, Texas, USA.
- Wu, Y-S, Kazemi, H., Wallace, J., Torcuk, M., Fakcharoenphol, P., Honarpour, M., Bertoncello, A., 2013, “Managing Shut-in Time to Enhance Gas Flow Rate in Hydraulic Fractured Shale Reservoirs: A Simulation Study,” SPE-166098-MS, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, LA.
- Xia, X., Wallace, J., Du, L., Modeling of Abnormal Fluid Pressure in Unconventional Plays Due to Uplift, Unconventional Resources Technology Conference held in Denver, Colorado, USA, 12-14 August 2013.
- Wallace, J., Huang, H., Wan, J., 2010, “Discretized Physics-Based Models and Simulations of Subterranean Regions, and Methods For Creating and Using the Same,” USPTO Patent Application US20130073272.
- Wallace, J., Hommema, J., Searles, K., Hsu, S-Y, Wan, J., Grueschow, E., 2011, “Space-time surrogate models of subterranean regions,” USPTO Patent Application US20110024125A1.