Personnel:Petrophysics and Surface Chemistry
Petrophysics and Surface Chemistry
Senior Scientist, Research Group Head
Ph:575-835-5405
jill@prrc.nmt.edu
Resume
Jill Buckley heads the PRRC's Petrophysics and Surface Chemistry Group and is an Adjunct Professor in the Chemistry Department at New Mexico Tech. Her research interests focus on the interactions between crude oils and their surroundings, with emphasis on mechanisms of wettability alteration, effects on immiscible fluid displacements, and the colloidal and wetting properties of asphaltenes. She won the Society of Core Analysts' Technical Achievement Award for 2002, the SCA's highest honor and only award for recognition of techical achievement, and she was recently chosen by a committee of peers to receive New Mexico Tech's 2004 Distinguished Research Award. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from UCLA and NMIMT, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University. She serves as a Review Chairman for SPEREE and is President-Elect of the Society of Core Analysts.
Research Chemist
Ph:575-835-5265
tfan@nmt.edu
Tianguang Fan's research interests focus on crude oil characterization and their effects on wettability alteration, water and mineral samples analysis, and desalination of produced water using modified clay membranes. He earned a B.S. in Photographic Material Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology and a M.S. in Chemistry from New Mexico Tech.
Senior Research Associate
jxwang@prrc.nmt.edu
Jianxin Wang's current research focuses on studying the mechanisms of asphaltene instability in crude oils using data obtained from experiments and thermodynamic modeling. He worked as a research engineer for ten years at the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), sponsored by China National Petroleum Corporation. Jianxin holds a B.S. in Physics from Beijing University, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech.