A $700 MILLION INITIATIVE AT PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH CHAIRS IN OIL & GAS RESERVOIR MODELLING

FOUNDATION CMG
Not-For-Profit Research Company
30 Years Experience $75 Mil Endowment-Like Funding Member Led & Directed www.FoundationCMG.com

Fund Research & Grad Students at Universities

Result for Industry & Government
Create Distinguished Research Chairs & Teams Research of Oil & Gas Reservoir Modelling

HQP (High Quality People) Special Industry Leading Technology

MEMBERS

INITIATIVE
Premier Researchers
At Prominent Research Universities To Create & Lead Research Teams

Establish 18 Chairs Worldwide A $700 mil Initiative

BUILD RESEARCH TEAMS AT EACH UNIVERSITY

Chair Lead Researcher 2 to 4 Professors and Post Docs ~25 Grad Students Admin
Each University 30 Person Multi-disciplinary Research Teams Engineers, Geologist, Geophysicist

18 RESEARCH CHAIRS
C #15

C #16

Chairs Working Independently

C #6 C #5

C #17

Collaborating Frequently
C #4 C #3 C #18 C #1

Focus on Strategic Research

C #2

for Reservoir Modelling

STRATEGIC RESEARCH PROGRAM

O&G Reservoir Modelling
All Recovery Processes Numerical Modelling Geostatistics Geomechanics 4D Visualization & Data Handling

14 STRATEGIC RESEARCH AREAS

Formulation & Solutions Geostatistics, Scaling & Gridding

Techniques Geomechanics Phase Behavior & Transport Phenomena Uncertainty, Optimization & Control Visualization & Database Fusion Well Domain Modelling

Multi-Purpose Simulation Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Carbonate Reservoirs Unconventional Gas Recovery Gas Recovery Processes & Disposal Chemical Recovery Processes Thermal Recovery Processes

RELIABLE FUNDING
Matching Funding
Catalyst First In $250K / Yr

Industry Consortia 3x FCMG

12 Companies @ $62K/Yr

Governments 2x FCMG $500K / Yr

$750K / Yr

Each University Research Team $1.5 MM / Yr

Leverage
Companies @ 24 to 1 ($1.5 mil / $62K) Government @ 3 to 1 ($1.5 mil / $500K)

Renewal Each 5 Years Quality Control

COLLABORATE
With Industry Consortia
Steering Committees at Each University

With Computer Modelling Group Ltd. With Research Chairs of Other Universities With Foundation CMG Technical Symposia
Chairs & Selected Students

Our Research Chairs

July 2011

Dr. Zhangxing (John) Chen Dr. Mario Costa Sousa Reservoir Simulation Scalable Reservoir Visualization

Dr. Arne Skauge EOR Dr. Sebastian Geiger Carbonate Reservoir Simulation Dr. Eric Mackay Reactive Flow Simulation

Dr. Rick Chalaturnyk Geomechanics

Dr. Yu-Shu Wu Reservoir Modelling

Dr. Shuyu Sun Multi-Purpose Simulation

Dr. Quoc P. Nguyen Reservoir Engineering

Dr. Mohamed Aggour Under development

Dr. Ruihe Wang Unconventional Recovery

Dr. Leonardo Guimaraes Optimization & Risk Analysis

RESULT

18 Research Chairs Worldwide @ $1.5 mil Approximately $27 mil Annually $700 mil Over 25 Years 5,000 Graduates Over 25 Years
PhD & MSc Research New Technologies

Industry & Government Participation HQP to Exploit Newest Technology in

Industry

Foundation CMG Membership Value Proposition

Cost Benefit

CONTACT

Duke Anderson President

Phone 403-450-8399 Duke.Anderson@ FoundationCMG.com www.FoundationCMG.com