Research Areas: Carbon Dioxide Capture, Conversion & Sequestration
Clean Fuels & Catalysis
Coal Science & Technology
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Unconventional Oil & Gas
Clean Fuels & Catalysis
About:
Dr. John Wang’s research centers on reservoir evaluation, well stimulation, and energy investment with application to tight and shale gas, CO2 and H2 storage, minerals, and geothermal energy. John’s ongoing research includes development of advanced simulation and stimulation technologies, assessment of energy and mineral resources and storage capacities, and techno-economic analysis of energy systems. John directs an industry/academia/government consortium PSU 3S Laboratory for World-class Research.
Research Interests:
• Reservoir Evaluation
• Well Stimulation
• Tight and Shale gas, CO2 and H2 Storage, Minerals, and Geothermal
• Energy and Minerals Investment and Economics
Memberships & Committees:
Services to Profession:
• Associate editor of Springer Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Tech., 2011-present
• External examiner at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Trinidad & Tobago, 2015-present
• Member of Intl Editorial Advisory Committee for the West Indian J. of Eng. of UWI, 2016-2022
• SPE completions optimization and technology award subcommittee, 2017-2020
• SPE technical subcommittee member for the 11th IPTC in Beijing, 2019
• Editor-in-chief of Elsevier Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources, 2012-2016
• SPE technical program committee for 2016 Asia Pacific Hydraulic Fracturing Conference in Beijing
• SPE technical committee and session chair for 2014 SPE Eastern Regional Meeting in Charleston, W.V.
• SPE program committee and session chair for 2014 Workshop on Hydraulic Fracture in Singapore
• SPE technical committee and session chair of 2013 SPE Eastern Regional Meeting
• SPWLA steering committee and session chair for 2012 Topical Conference Black Shale Petrophysics
• SPE Pittsburgh Petroleum Section scholarship chair of 2009-2014
Services to University:
• Academic Advisor for PNGE Students, 08/2019-present
• Program Chair for Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering (Interim 2018-19)
• Faculty advisor of Penn State AADE Student Chapter, 05/2012 - 12/2017
• Faculty advisor of Penn State SPE Student Chapter, 07/2009 - 05/2015
• Coordinator of Penn State Well Control Training Program, 09/2010 - 05/2015
Yildirim, L. T. O., D. Elsworth, and John Y. Wang, (2023). Permeability and Rigidity of Green River Shale Before and After Exposure to Water, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, v. 145 (4), [042401], https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4056032.
Yeu, W. and John Y. Wang, (2022). Integrated reservoir evaluation and simulation study for gas injection: A field case study, IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, v. 983, [012042], doi:10.1088/1755-1315/983/1/012042.
Abaa, K., John Y. Wang, D. Elsworth, and M. Ityokumbul, (2021). Laboratory Investigation of Impact of Slickwater Composition on Multiphase Permeability Evolution in Tight Sandstones, SPE Production & Operations, SPE-180250-PA, pp. 1-15,
https://doi.org/10.2118/180250-PA.
Li, Z., D. Elsworth, C. Wang, L. Boyd, Z. Frone, E. Metcalfe, A. Nieto, S. Porse, W. Vandermeer, R. Podgorney, H. Huang, T. McLing, G. Neupane, A. Chakravarty, P. J. Cook, P. F. Dobson, C. A. Doughty, Y. Guglielmi, C. Hopp, M. Hu, R. S. Jayne, S. E. Johnson, K. Kim, T. Kneafsey, S. Nakagawa, G. Newman, P. Petrov, J. C. Primo, M. Robertson, V. Rodriguez-Tribaldos, J. Rutqvist, M. Schoenball, E. L. Sonnenthal, F. A. Soom, S. Sprinkle, C. Ulrich, C. A. Valladao, T. Wood, Y. Q. Zhang, Q. Zhou, L. Huang, Y. Chen, T. Chen, B. Chi, Z. Feng, L. P. Frash, K. Gao, E. Jafarov, S. Karra, N. Makedonska, D. Li, J. Li, R. Pawar, N. Welch, P. Fu, R. J. Mellors, C. E. Morency, J. P. Morris, C. S. Sherman, M. M. Smith, D. Templeton, J. L. Wagoner, J. White, H. Wu, J. Moore, S. Brown, D. Crandall, P. Mackey, T. Paronish, S. Workman, B. Johnston, K. Beckers, J. Weers, Y. Polsky, M. Maceira, C. P. Chai, A. Bonneville, J. A. Burghardt, J. Horner, T. C. Johnson, H. Knox, J. Knox, B. Q. Roberts, P. Sprinkle, C. E. Strickland, J. N. Thomle, V. R. Vermeul, M. D. White, D. Blankenship, M. Ingraham, T. Myers, J. Pope, P. Schwering, A. Foris, D. K. King, J. Feldman, M. Lee, J. Su, T. Baumgartner, J. Heise, M. Horn, B. Pietzyk, D. Rynders, G. Vandine, D. Vardiman, T. Doe, J. McLennan, Y. S. Wu, J. Miskimins, P. Winterfeld, K. Kutun, M. D. Zoback, A. Singh, R. N. Horne, K. Li, A. Hawkins, Y. Zhang, E. Mattson, D. Elsworth, K. J. Im, Z. Li, C. J. Marone, E. C. Yildirim, J. Ajo-Franklin, A. Ghassemi, D. Kumar, V. Sesetty, A. Vachaparampil, H. F. Wang, H. Sone, K. Condon, B. Haimson, W. Roggenthen, C. Medler, N. Uzunlar, C. Reimers, and M. W. McClure, (2021). Constraining maximum event magnitude during injection-triggered seismicity, Nature Communications, v. 12, 1528, pp. 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20700-4.
Zhao, X., Q. Qian, C.Shi, John Y. Wang, (2021). Determination of Dynamic Drainage Volume in Water-Flood Operations Based on Fluid Flow Velocity Field Delineation, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, v. 143(4), [043003].
Holditch, S. A. and John Y. Wang, (2020). Tight Gas Reservoirs – Case Histories, book vol. IV as a reprint volume, published by Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, Texas, USA, pp. 1-200.
Wang, John Y. and S. A. Holditch, (2020). SPE Book Tight Gas Reservoirs - Well and Reservoir Modeling, Vol. II, chapter 5, published by Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, Texas, USA.
Wang, John Y. and S. A. Holditch, (2020). SPE Book Tight Gas Reservoirs – Development Economics, Vol. II, chapter 7, published by Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, Texas, USA.
Yue, W. T. and John Y. Wang, (2020). Fracture Face Damages and Numerical Investigation of Their Impacts on the Productivity of a Shale Gas Well, Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference, IFEDC 2019, pp. 242-264, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2485-1_25.
Zhou, Q., John Y. Wang, and Y. Xiao, (2020). Identification and illustration of relationships between produced gas and water in marcellus under different spatial and temporal domains through data-driven analytics - Nonparametric model, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v.184, [106434].
