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  1. 3D confocal imaging methodology optimized for pore space characterization of carbonates

    Article • Engineering Geology, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  2. The deposition of type II-S Jordan oil shale in the context of Late Cretaceous source rock formation in the Eastern Mediterranean realm. Insights from organic and inorganic geochemistry and petrography

    Article • Marine and Petroleum Geology, February 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  3. Capacity factors for electrical power generation from renewable and nonrenewable sources

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  4. A model of fracture-facilitated flow of hydrocarbons from petroleum source rock

    Article • International Journal of Fracture, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  5. Correct estimation of permeability using experiment and simulation

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  6. Fracture sealing and its impact on the percolation of subsurface fracture networks

    Article • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  7. Validation and Analysis of the Physics-Based Scaling Curve Method for Ultimate Recovery Prediction in Hy-Draulically Fractured Shale Gas Wells

    Article • September 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  8. Evaluation of Rwanda’s Energy Resources

    Article • Sustainability, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  9. Adsorption of Polar Species at Crude Oil–Water Interfaces: the Chemoelastic Behavior

    Article • Langmuir, May 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  10. Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries

    Article • Ecological Economics, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  11. Pore-Scale Spontaneous Imbibition at High Advancing Contact Angles in Mixed-Wet Media: Theory and Experiment

    Article • Energy & Fuels, April 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  12. Fast Screening of LSW Brines Using QCM-D and Crude Oil-Brine Interface Analogs

    Article • April 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  13. Multimodal Carbonates: Distribution of Oil Saturation in the Microporous Regions of Arab Formations

    Article • Energies, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  14. Fractal and multifractal characterization of stochastic fracture networks and real outcrops

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, February 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  15. Generalized Extreme Value Statistics, Physical Scaling and Forecasts of Oil Production from All Vertical Wells in the Permian Basin

    Article • Energies, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  16. Chemical Compositions in Modified Salinity Waterflooding of Calcium Carbonate Reservoirs: Experiment

    Article • Transport in Porous Media, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  17. The Impact of Stimulation Treatment Size on Ultimate Recovery From the Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Wells

    Article • January 2022, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  18. Forecast of Economic Tight Oil and Gas Production in Permian Basin

    Article • Energies, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  19. Solvable model of gas production decline from hydrofractured networks

    Article • December 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  20. The Effect of Hydraulic Fracture Geometry on Well Productivity in Shale Oil Plays with High Pore Pressure

    Article • Energies, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  21. HatchFrac: A fast open-source DFN modeling software

    Article • November 2021, Wiley

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  22. Enhancing Fracture Network Characterization: A Data-Driven, Outcrop-Based Analysis

    Article • October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  23. Generalized extreme value statistics, physical scaling and forecasts of gas production in the Haynesville shale

    Article • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  24. Fault Traces: Generation of Fault Segments and Estimation of Their Fractal Dimension

    Article • Lithosphere, August 2021, GeoScienceWorld

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  25. Impact of Fracture Geometry and Topology on the Connectivity and Flow Properties of Stochastic Fracture Networks

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  26. Data-driven analysis of climate change in Saudi Arabia: trends in temperature extremes and human comfort indicators

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, June 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  27. Quality Evaluation of Epoxy Pore Casts Using Silicon Micromodels: Application to Confocal Imaging of Carbonate Samples

    Article • Applied Sciences, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  28. Energy efficiency and sustainability assessment for methane harvesting from Lake Kivu

    Article • Energy, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  29. Approximating Irreversible Asphaltene Adsorption to Screen IOR Candidates

    Article • January 2021, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  30. Hyrous Pyrolysis of Source Rock Plugs: Geochemical and Visual Investigations and Implications for Primary Mirgation

    Article • January 2021, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  31. Maturing Geothermal Energy for Saudi Arabia

    Article • January 2021, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  32. Modified Salinity Waterflood Compositions Based on Multi-Component ION-Exchange

    Article • January 2021, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  33. Metadata Analysis Reveals Major Worldwide Trends in Industrial and Academic Geophysics

    Article • Energies, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  34. Interfacial Viscoelasticity in Crude Oil-Water Systems to Understand Incremental Oil Recovery

    Article • October 2020, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  35. Novel Approach to Study the Impact of Asphaltene Properties on Low Salinity Flooding

    Article • October 2020, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  36. Text Analysis Reveals Major Trends in Exploration Geophysics

    Article • Energies, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  37. Chemical Compositions in Salinity Waterflooding of Carbonate Reservoirs: Theory

    Article • June 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  38. The Key Factors That Determine the Economically Viable, Horizontal Hydrofractured Gas Wells in Mudrocks

    Article • Energies, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  39. Physical Scaling of Oil Production Rates and Ultimate Recovery from All Horizontal Wells in the Bakken Shale

    Article • Energies, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  40. Estimation of Effective Permeability, Fracture Spacing, Drainage Area, and Incremental Production from Field Data in Gas Shales with Nonnegligible Sorption

    Article • SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, March 2020, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  41. 3D Confocal Imaging Methodology Optimized for Pore Space Characterization of Microporous Carbonate Reservoirs

    Article • January 2020, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  42. A Physics Based Model of Enhanced Gas Production in Mudrocks

    Article • January 2020, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  43. Physical Scaling Predicts Oil Production Rates and Ultimate Recovery from All Horizontal Wells in the Bakken Shale

    Article • December 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  44. Beyond Carbon Steel: Detecting Wellbore Shape and Cavities, and Cement Imperfections in Cased Wells

    Article • Energies, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  45. Three-dimensional simulation of tracer transport dynamics in formations with high-permeability channels or fractures: Estimation of oil saturation

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  46. Generalized Extreme Value Statistics, Physical Scaling, and Forecasts of Gas Production in the Barnett Shale

    Article • Energy & Fuels, October 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  47. Comment on “A periodic grain consolidation model of porous media” [Phys. Fluids A 1, 38 (1989)]

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  48. Generalized Extreme Value Statistics, Physical Scaling and Forecasts of Oil Production in the Bakken Shale

    Article • Energies, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  49. Generalized Extreme Value Statistics, Physical Scaling and Forecasts of Gas Production in the Barnett Shale

    Article • June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  50. Generalized Extreme Value Statistics, Physical Scaling and Forecasts of Gas Production in the Barnett Shale

    Article • June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  51. Imaging and Characterization of Microporous Carbonates Using Confocal and Electron Microscopy of Epoxy Pore Casts

    Article • SPE Journal, March 2019, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  52. Beyond Steel Casing: Detecting Zonal Isolation in the Borehole Environment

    Article • March 2019, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  53. Validation of High Pressure Resin Impregnation Technique for High Resolution Confocal Imaging of Geological Samples

    Article • March 2019, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  54. Thermal cooling to improve hydraulic fracturing efficiency and hydrocarbon production in shales

    Article • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  55. 3D simulation of active-passive tracer dispersion in polygonal fractured geometries

    Article • January 2019, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  56. Adsorption of Charged Surfactants onto Calcium Carbonate

    Article • January 2019, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  57. Correlation Analysis of Fracture Intensity Descriptors with Different Dimensionality in a Geomechanics-constrained 3D Fracture Network

    Article • January 2019, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  58. Electromagnetic Detection of the Water Cone Growth During Reservoir Development

    Article • January 2019, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  59. PicoTesla magnetic tunneling junction sensors integrated with double staged magnetic flux concentrators

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  60. Behavior of numerical error in pore-scale lattice Boltzmann simulations with simple bounce-back rule: Analysis and highly accurate extrapolation

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  61. Numerical simulation of the magnetic cement induction response in the borehole environment

    Article • August 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  62. Field data provide estimates of effective permeability, fracture spacing, well drainage area and incremental production in gas shales

    Article • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  63. Thermal shale fracturing simulation using the Cohesive Zone Method (CZM)

    Article • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  64. Percolation Properties of Stochastic Fracture Networks in 2D and Outcrop Fracture Maps

    Article • June 2018, EAGE Publications

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  65. Solvable Model for Dynamic Mass Transport in Disordered Geophysical Media

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  66. Improving Pore Network Imaging & Characterization of Microporous Carbonate Rocks Using Multi-Scale Imaging Techniques

    Article • November 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  67. A Simple Physics-Based Model Predicts Oil Production from Thousands of Horizontal Wells in Shales

    Article • October 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  68. Detecting Poor Cement Bonding and Zonal Isolation Problems Using Magnetic Cement Slurries

    Article • October 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  69. Knudsen-Like Scaling May Be Inappropriate for Gas Shales

    Article • October 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  70. Bulk and Surface Aqueous Speciation of Calcite: Implications for Low-Salinity Waterflooding of Carbonate Reservoirs

    Article • SPE Journal, August 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  71. Fracking and the future of fuels

    Article • Physics Today, February 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  72. Physics, fracking, fuel, and the future

    Article • Physics Today, July 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  73. Bulk and Surface Aqueous Speciation of Calcite: Implications for Low-Salinity Waterflooding of Carbonate Reservoirs

    Article • January 2016, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  74. Simple models of the hydrofracture process

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  75. Thermodynamics phase changes of nanopore fluids

    Article • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek