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Vita Albert C VITA ALBERT C. REYNOLDS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Research Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Mathematics, The Univer- sity of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2016{present. McMan Chair in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla- homa, 2003{2016. Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Mathematics, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1985{present. Chairman, Department of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1990{1992. Director of TU Petroleum Reservoir Exploitation Projects, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1990{present. Associate Graduate Dean and Associate Director of Research, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1986{1990. Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Mathematics, The Univer- sity of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1980{1985. Associate Professor of Mathematics, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1976{1980. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1970{1976. EDUCATION BA Mathematics University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1964{1966 MS Mathematics Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, OH, 1966{1968 PhD Mathematics Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 1968{1970 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society of Petroleum Engineers. European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers. International Association of Mathematical Geology. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Albert C. Reynolds 2 MAJOR HONORS Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1966. Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1966. Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, 1983. Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Member, 1999. Society of Petroleum Engineers Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, 2003. McMan Chair in Petroleum Engineering, 2003. Society of Petroleum Engineers Formation Evaluation Award, 2005. Society of Petroleum Engineers Outstanding Technical Editor, 2008. Chevron/University of Tulsa Fellowship, 2013. Society of Petroleum Engineers John Franklin Carll Award, 2013. Society of Petroleum Engineers Honorary Member, 2014. Chevron/University of Tulsa Fellowship, 2015. Society of Petroleum Engineers Outstanding Technical Editor Award, 2015. Chevron/University of Tulsa Fellowship, 2016. Society of Petroleum Engineers Outstanding Technical Editor Award, 2017. BOOKS R. Burden, D. Faires and A. Reynolds: Numerical Analysis, Prindle, Webber and Schmidt, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts (ix + 579 pages) 1978. D. Oliver, A. Reynolds and N. Liu: Inverse Theory for Petroleum Reservoir Character- ization and History Matching, (ix + 360 pages) Cambridge University Press, May 2008. BOOK Chapters C´ıntia Machado and Albert C. Reynolds: \Application of the Method of Matched Asymptotic Expansions to Solve a Non-Linear Pseudo-Parabolic Equation: The Sat- uration Convection-Dispersion Equation" Chapter 7 of Perturbation Methods with Applications in Science and Engineering, published by InTechOpen ( 117-139. Reynolds, Albert C., He, Nanqun and Oliver Dean S.: \Reducing Uncertainty in Geo- statistical Description With Well-Testing Pressure Data," in Recent Advances in Reservoir Characterization, AAPG Memoir 71, eds. R. Schatzinger and J. Jordan (1999) Albert C. Reynolds 3 REFEREED TECHNICAL PAPERS Zhenyu Guo and Albert C. Reynolds: \Robust Life-Cycle Production Optimization with an SVR Proxy," SPE Journal, accepted for publication May 2018. C´ıntia Machado and Albert C. Reynolds: \Application of the Method of Matched Asymptotic Expansions to Solve a Non-Linear Pseudo-Parabolic Equation: The Sat- uration Convection-Dispersion Equation" accepted for Perturbation Methods, pub- lished by InTech. Bailian Chen and Albert C. Reynolds: \CO2 Water-Alternating-Gas Injection for En- hanced Oil Recovery: Optimal Well Controls and Half-Cycle Lengths," Computers and Chemical Engineering, Computers and Chemical Engineering (2018) 44-56. Zhenyu Guo and Albert C. Reynolds: \Waterflooding Optimization with the INSIM- FT Data-Driven Model," Computational Geosciences, Vol. 22, Issue 3 (June 2018) 745-761. C´ıntia G. Machado and Albert C. Reynolds: \Approximate Semi-Analytical Solution for Injection-Falloff-Production Well Test: An Analytical Tool for the In-situ Estimation of Relative Permeability Curves," Transport in Porous Media (Jan. 2018), Vol. 11, issue 1, 207-231. C´ıntia G. Machado, Mohammadreza M. Firoozabad and Albert C. Reynolds: \CO2 Effects on Wellbore Pressure Response during Injection-Falloff Test," SPE Journal, Vol. 23, issue 3, (June 2018) 919-936, doi:10.2118/185824-PA. Ranran Lu, Fahim Forouzanfar and Albert C. Reynolds: \An Efficient Adaptive Al- gorithm for Robust Control Optimization using StoSAG," Journal of Petroleum Sci- ence and Engineering, Vol. 159, 314-330 (Nov. 2017), doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2017.09.002. Javad Rafiee and Albert C. Reynolds: \Theoretical and Efficient Practical Procedures for the Generation of Inflation Factors for ES-MDA," Inverse Problems, Vol. 33, No. 11, 28 pages (Oct. 2017). Reza Mohammadnia, Albert C. Reynolds and Fahim Forouzanfar: \Monotonicity Con- ditions for MPFA Methods for a Numerical Well Testing Reservoir Simulator," Jour- nal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 158, 707-728 (Sept. 2017), doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2017.08.047. Zhenyu Guo and Albert C. Reynolds and Hui Zhao: \A Physics-Based Data-Driven Model for History-Matching, Prediction and Characterization of Waterflooding Per- formance," SPE Journal, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 367-395 (April 2018) doi:10.2118/182660- PA. Albert C. Reynolds 4 Bailian Chen, Jincong He, Xian-Huan Wen, Wen Chen and Albert C. Reynolds: \Un- certainty Quantification and Value of Information Assessment using Proxies and Markov Chain Monte Carlo for a Pilot Project," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 157 (August 2017), 328-339. Bailian Chen, Rahul M. Fonseca, Olwijn Leeuwenburgh and Albert C. Reynolds: \Mini- mizing the Risk in the Robust Life-Cycle Production Optimization using Stochastic Simplex Approximate Gradient," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 153, 331-344, 2017. Yang Zhang, Ranran Lu, Fahim Forouzanfar and Albert C. Reynolds: \Well Placement and Control Optimization for WAG/SAG Processes using Ensemble-based Meth- ods," Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol. 49, 193-209, June 2017. Xin Liu and Albert C. Reynolds: \Robust Gradient-Based Multiobjective Optimiza- tion for the Generation of Well Controls to Maximize the Net-Present-Value of Pro- duction Under Geological Uncertainty," Mathematical Geosciences, Vol. 49, Issue 3 (April 2017) 361-394. Rahul M. Fonseca, Bailian Chen, Jan Dirk Jansen and Albert C. Reynolds: \A Stochas- tic Simplex Approximate Gradient (StoSAG) for Optimization Under Uncertainty," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 109, No. 13, 1756-1176, March 2017. Bailian Chen and Albert C. Reynolds: \Optimal Control of ICV's and Well Operating Conditions for the Water-Alternating-Gas Process," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 149, 623-640, January 2017. Yu Zhao, Fahim Forouzanfar and Albert C. Reynolds: \Assisted History Matching for Multi-facies Channelized Reservoir Using ES-MDA with Common Basis DCT" Computational Geosciences, Online (Dec. 2016). Hui Zhao, Zhijiang Kang, Xiansong Zhang, Haitao Sun, Lin Cao and Albert C. Reynolds: \A Physics-Based Data-Driven Numerical Model for Reservoir History Matching and Prediction with a Field Application," SPE Journal Vol. 21, No. 6 (Dec. 2016) 2175-2194. Duc H. Le, Alexandre A. Emerick and Albert C. Reynolds: \An Adaptive Ensemble Smoother with Multiple Data Assimilation for Assisted History Matching," SPE Journal Vol. 21, No. 6 (Dec. 2016) 2195-2207. Xin Liu and Albert C. Reynolds: \Augmented Lagrangian Method for Maximizing Expectation and Minimizing Risk for Optimal Well Control Problems with Nonlinear Constraints," SPE Journal, Vol. 21, Issue 5 (Oct. 2016) 1830-1842. Albert C. Reynolds 5 Xin Liu and Albert C. Reynolds: \Gradient-Based Multiobjective Optimization for Maximizing Expectation and Minimizing Uncertainty or Risk with Application to Optimal Well Control Problems with only Bound Constraints," SPE Journal, Vol. 21, Issue 5 (Oct. 2016) 1813-1829. Rahul M. Fonseca, Albert C. Reynolds and Jan Dirk Jansen, \Generation of a Pareto Front for a Bi-objective Water Flooding Optimization Problem using Approximate Ensemble Gradients," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 147, 249-260 (2016). DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2016.06.009. Xin Liu and Albert C. Reynolds: \Gradient-Based Multiobjective Optimization with Application to Waterflooding Optimization," Computational Geosciences Vol. 20, No. 3, 677-693 (June 2016), Special Issue: \Selected contributions from the 14th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR XIV)." Hui Zhao, Ying Li, Shjuyue Cui, Genhua Shang, Albert C. Reynolds, Zhenyu Guo, and Huazhou A. Li: \History Matching and Production Optimization of Water Flooding Based on a Data-Driven Interwell Numerical Simulation Model," Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering (2016) vol. 31, 48-66(2016). Xin Liu and Albert C. Reynolds: \A Multiobjective Steepest Descent Method with Applications to Optimal Well Control," Computational Geosciences, Vol. 20, Issue 2, April 2016, 355-374. Fahim Forouzanfar, Walter Poquioma and Albert C. Reynolds: \Simultaneous and Se- quential Estimation of Optimal Placement and Controls of Wells With a Covariance Matrix Adaptation Algorithm," SPE Journal (April 2016) 501-521. Bailian Chen and Albert C. Reynolds: \Ensemble-Based
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