Denning Wang
Project Engineer

Denning Wang has over 5 years of industry experience. He joined DeGolyer and MacNaughton in 2018 as a petroleum engineer in the Reservoir Studies Division. Prior to joining D&M, Wang was a research assistant at The University of Texas at Austin. His primary area of investigation encompassed the study of chemical-enhanced oil recovery methodologies.

Wang received a bachelor’s degree in 2016 and a master’s degree in 2018 in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Wang is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a registered professional engineer in Texas.

Geographical Experience

• China
• India
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Trinidad and Tobago
• United States

Topical Areas of Experience

• Estimation of technically recoverable resources
• Reservoir simulation modeling (black oil and compositional)
• Secondary and tertiary recovery methodologies, including chemical EOR
• Field development planning
• Decline-curve analysis
• Reserves estimation
• PVT analysis
• Special core analysis

Major Projects

Since arriving at D&M, Wang has worked on various projects, including construction of simulation models, field development planning, and reserves estimation. He has constructed and forecast models for oil reservoirs in Russia under various development strategies, including primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery. He has conducted field development plan studies for development sensitivities and reserves upgrade assessment.

In Trinidad and Tobago, he assessed the current performance of several fields. He identified additional potential to technically recoverable resources through infill drilling and drilling through previously overlooked areas. He identified primary targets for development.

Wang worked on streamline surveillance modeling on fields under waterflood operations. He evaluated the current waterflood performance and highlighted areas of oil potential. Wang made recommendations to the adjust the injector rates to focus water injection to higher-performing injector-producer patterns.

He conducted a benchmarking analysis to optimize oil rim development for a national oil company in Russia. Production profiles were estimated for several fields based on planned field development. Wang conducted in-depth analyses on various sources of data, including fluid PVT data, SCAL data, and MDT data for several fields in Russia.