Brice Kim, PhD

Planned, executed and supported drilling operations. Responsibilities include well planning, drilling applications engineering (torque and drag analysis, hydraulics modeling, and BHA design) for North American Offshore.

Joined the central oilfield services research and technology group as a measurement physics and systems lead to evaluate and implement leading technologies (e.g. AI models, advanced compression modalities etc) through Baker Hughes product development and management gate process.

Joined the Baker Hughes Oilfield Services product development management (PDM) team to support and improve the current PDM process.

Conducted remote monitoring and data-based predictive failure analysis of GE industrial CT-systems. Also created live dashboard using Splunk.

Additive Manufacturing Technology Team: -Conducted a series of defect analysis on additive manufactured parts (metal and plastic) using GE Phoenix V|tome|x M300 CT Scanner and image processing software, VG Studio. -Developing a deep learning model for automated defect recognition of scanned tensile bars. -Worked on developing standard operating procedure to scan feed stock powders to near 1 micron resolution.

Cyber Physical Systems Team: Developing smart borescope to automatically detect turbine engine defects based on deep learning computer vision model. Transferred my knowledge on turbine engines to the team with my mechanical background and assisted in identifying various modes of turbine engine defects.

Reservoir Innovations Team: Worked on physics validation and data-driven analysis of fracture driven-interference (or Frac Hits) as an integrated subsurface modeling engineer using JewelSuite and MFrac simulators.

Developed a new methodology to measure relative permeability of unconventional samples using laboratory measurements and simulation based optimization.

- Diagnosed Lost-in-Hole incidents and provided mitigation recommendations to clients in Eagle Ford and Permian. Also conducted wellbore integrity and reservoir pore-pressure analyses for a client in the Mediterranean. -Analyses were done by reviewing daily drilling reports, logs, injection and well tests, lithology, regional, and field data, then by conducting geomechanical analysis following the established workflow using Baker Hughes’s geomechanical modeling software (JewelSuite) and the stress simulator (GMI-SFIB). -Attended all the client meetings and findings were well received by clients.

Halliburton Project: 1) Developed a new stimulation method using micro-proppant injection to enhance permeability of shale by an additional 70% after the conventional proppant injection operation. (A joint research effort with Halliburton) 2) Developed an analytical model to quantify the quality of stimulation operation and a new experimental methodology to deliver microproppants into split cores without damaging the sample. Two pending patents developed from this joint-research effort with Halliburton. As a Graduate Research Assistant: 1) Analyzed nano-pores of various samples using Micromeretic’s Nitrogen Gas Porosimetry. 2) Personally built and machined experimental apparatuses and currently in charge of managing the research group laboratory. Southwestern Energy Project: 1) Researched interaction between organic pore walls and CO2 to produce trapped hydrocarbons and analyze CO2 storage capacity of organic-rich shale. 2) Analyzed and compared storage capacity of shale with methane and CO2 under confinement. Marathon Project: 1) Developed a hydrocarbon compositional simulator to simulate laboratory core sample measurements to history match and determine optimum inputs for a reservoir simulator. 2) Researched multi-phase fluid behavior in organic nano-pores

College level advisory council for petroleum engineering department graduate students

- Studied a peculiar behavior of methane hydrates leading to accelerated re-formation upon moderate dissociation. - Discovered that if the system is heated beyond 40 oC, hysteresis disappears. - After the laboratory experiments, series of molecular dynamics simulations using GROMACS software were conducted to investigate the memory-effect phenomenon in the free water-gas system in molecular level. - Determined that moderate melting of hydrates still leaves hydrogen cage networks leading accelerated re-formation.

Hydrate experiment preparation, equipment testing, calibration, labview code for future lab works and preliminary testings

Translating energy report from English to Korean for Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Houston

Worked as a graduate student researcher as a part of a joint project between Texas A&M University and Halliburton at the Halliburton Technology Center in Houston

Assisting and helping out the installation and instrumentation of newly received GM hybrid engine at Walter E Lay Automotive laboratory

OLEV&E (ONLINE ELECTRIC VEHICLE) with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) incorporation with Seoul City. Tested the world's first commercialized wirelessly charging vehicle at the Seoul Zoo. Experimenting with embedding electric strips in roadbed that magnetically transfer energy to battery-powered vehicles above the road. Selected as one of the 50 best inventions of the year by New York Times magazine