Publications/Conferences

General

Garcia M., Mathieu J.-B., Garcia V. The KivMOGS plugin in Gocad for facilitating geostatistical analysis and modeling with user-friendly tools, 31th Gocad Meeting, Nancy June 2011. Published in the conference proceedings.

Garcia M., Allard D., Foulon D. and Delisle S. 2005. Fine scale rock properties: towards the spatial modeling of regionalized probability distribution functions, in Leuangthong O. and Deutsch C.V. Eds, Geostatistics Banff 2004, Springer.

Oil & gas - geothermal

Haffen S., Géraud Y., Diraison M., Dezayes C., Siffert D., Garcia M.H. Geothermal, structural and petrophysical characteristics of Buntsandstein sandstone reservoir in the Upper Rhine Graben, presented at the European Geosciences Union Conference, Vienna, Austria, 27 April-02 May 2014.

Garcia M.H. KivDFN3d: a plugin in GOCAD-SKUA to simulate and analyze 3D discrete fracture networks (DFN) of various complexities. Presented at the TOTAL – University Naturally Fractured Reservoir Workshop, Pau, 15-16 April 2014.

Garcia M.H. and Gauthier B.D.M. Preliminary results of the statistical analysis of fracture sampling biases and estimation uncertainty from well data. Presented at the TOTAL – University Naturally Fractured Reservoir Workshop, Pau, 15-16 April 2014.

Ohren M., Vigier L., Siffert D., Garcia M.H., Bonnetblanc P., Bailey A. Physical and Statistical Analysis of Temperature Distribution in the Akutan Geothermal Reservoir, presented at the Joint PSAAPG - SPE - PSSEPM Conference, Montereyn USA, 19-25 April 2013.

Garcia M.H., Vigier L. and Siffert D. Procesos de trabajo (Workflow) y problemáticas de la caracterización y modelización de los yacimientos naturalmente fracturados, presented at the Congreso ACHEGEO 2013, Santiago, Chili, 11-12 April 2013.

Garcia M.H., Linking the GoFraK workflow to DigiFract data. Project reference: GoFraK. Presented at the TOTAL – University Naturally Fractured Reservoir Workshop, Pau, 21-22 February 2013.

Siffert D., Haffen S., Garcia M.H., Géraud Y. Phenomenological study of temperature gradient anomalies in the Buntsandstein formation, above the Soultz geothermal reservoir, using Tough2 simulations. Presented at the Stanford Geothermal Workshop, 11-13 February, 2013. Published in the conference proceedings

Garcia M.H., Data integration and uncertainty issues in the GoFraK workflow for modeling static and dynamic NFR properties. Presented at the TOTAL – University Naturally Fractured Reservoir Workshop, Pau, 17-18 January 2012.

Garcia M.H., Gauthier B.D.M., Irving A.D. and Pauget L. Statistical analysis of well fracture data to distinguish and extract fracture corridors from diffuse fractures, presented at the EAGE Naturally & Hydraulically Fractured Reservoirs Workshop, Nafplio, Greece, April 2011

Cottereau N., Garcia M., Gosselin O. and Vigier L. Effective Fracture Network Permeability: Comparative Study of Calculation Methods, presented at the SPE Europec/EAGE Annual Conf. & Exhibit., Barcelona, June 2010.

Garcia M., Gosselin O. and Cottereau N. New advances in the GoFraK workflow for modeling naturally fractured reservoirs as input to multiphase flow simulators, 28th Gocad Meeting, Nancy June 2008.

Garcia M., Gouth F. and Gosselin O. Fast and efficient modeling and conditioning of naturally fractured reservoir models using static and dynamic data, SPE paper N°107525, presented at the SPE Europec/EAGE Annual Conf. & Exhibit., London, June 2007.

Garcia M., Delisle S., Gouth F. and Foulon D. The GoFraK workflow for modeling the flow properties of naturally fractured reservoirs, 25th Gocad Meeting, Nancy June 2005.

Gauthier B., Auzias V., Garcia M. and Chiapello E. Static and dynamic characterization of fracture pattern in the Upper Jurassic reservoirs, papier SPE 78498, 10th Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, U. A. E., Oct. 2002.

Gauthier B., Guiton M. and Garcia M. The characterization of a fractured reservoir: a multi-disciplinary approach with application to an offshore, Abu Dhabi carbonate reservoir. paper ID56776, AAPG Cairo 2002 International Conference and Exhibition, Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 2002.

Gauthier B., Garcia M. and Daniel J.M. Integrated Fractured Reservoir Characterization: A Case Study in a North Africa Field, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, August 2002.

Garcia M., Hadj Hassen F. et Sonier F. Maillage adaptatif: vers une reconnaissance d'entités volumiques et l'intégration de contraintes géométriques, in proceedings of Journées Modélisation du Sous-Sol, Ecole des Mines de Paris, February 1997.

Garcia M., Journel A.G. and Aziz K. Automatic grid generation for modeling reservoir heterogeneities, SPE Reservoir Engineering, May 1992.

Environment

Mathieu J.-B., Kaskassian S. and Garcia M.H.. Apport de la géostatistique au diagnostic de sites et sols pollués : prolongement d’un cas d’étude de démonstration GeoSiPol, accepted for presentation at the 3èmes Rencontres de la recherche sur les sites et sols pollués – ADEME, Paris, France, November 18-19, 2014.

Garcia M.H., Mathieu J.-B. and Garcia V. , Methodological and practical aspects of geostatistical bootstrap for quantifying global and local soil contamination uncertainty, accepted for poster at geoENV2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014.

Mathieu J.-B., Garcia M.H. and Garcia V.  Good practices for getting reliable and useful information about soil contamination un-certainty from easily conducted statistical analyses, accepted for formal presentation at Intersol 2014, Lille, March 2014, article and slides available from Intersol's web site.

Demougeot-Renard H., Garcia M.H.. and Jeannée N. What about the practical implementation of geostatistics for contaminated sites and soils? Ninth International Geostatistics Congress, Oslo, Norway, June 11 – 15, 2012. Published in the conference proceedings. Link to the paper.

Mathieu J.-B., Garcia M.H., Garcia V. and Rabaute A. Providing cutting-edge graphic and modeling technology for managing, visualizing and analyzing environmental data and for assessing site and soil contaminations, presented at Intersol 2012, Paris-Sud, France, March 2012. Link to the presentation

Demougeot-Renard H., Garcia M.H., Haouche-Belkessam L. and Denys S. Research program REPERAGE - Combining geostatistics and on-site x-ray fluorescence analyses for a real time adaptive polluted site investigation, Extended abstract, 26 p, August 2011, Extended abstract available online from ADEME's web site.

Demougeot-Renard H., Garcia M.H., Haouche-Belkessam L. and Denys S. Program r&d REPERAGE - Couplage de methodes geostatistiques et de mesures sur site pour caracteriser un site pollue : mise en œuvre « en temps reel » a l’aide d’un spectrometre portable a fluorescence de rayon x, Résumé, 26 p, August 2011, Extended abstract available online from ADEME's web site. Final report in French.

Garcia M.H., Mathieu J.-B., Garcia V., Rabaute A. and Demougeot-Renard H. SoilRemediation: a software tool for managing, visualizing and analyzing environmental data and for assessing site and soil contaminations, presented at Contaminated Site Management in Europe (CSME 2010), Gent, Belgium, Oct. 2010.

Demougeot-Renard H., Haouche-Belkessam L., Denys S., Garcia M.H.  et D’Or D. Couplage de mesures sur site et de méthodes géostatistiques : mise en œuvre « en temps réel » à l’aide d’un FPXRF (Projet REPERAGE). Communication aux 2èmes rencontres nationales de la recherche sur les sites et sols pollués organisées par l’ADEME, Paris, 20-21 octobre 2009. Published in the conference proceedings.

Chilès J.P., Demougeot-Renard H., Garcia M., Jeannée N., Le Loc’h G. et Péraudin J.J. Une démarche de concertation autour de l’application de la géostatistique pour la caractérisation et la dépollution de sites pollués. Communication aux 2èmes rencontres nationales de la recherche sur les sites et sols pollués organisées par l’ADEME, Paris, 20-21 octobre 2009. Published in the conference proceedings.

Kheffi A., Collart C., D’or D., Bour O., Garcia M. et Salpeteur V. Methodology developments for measuring biogas emissions from landfill surface. Presented at the Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Sardinia, October 2009. Published in the conference proceedings.

Alary C. and Demougeot-Renard H. Factorial kriging analysis as a tool for explaining the complex spatial distribution of metals in sediments. Accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology, Manuscript ID: es-2009-022305.R1.

Mathieu J.B., Garcia V., Garcia M. and Rabaute A. SoilRemediation: a plugin and workflow in Gocad for managing environ-mental data and modeling contaminated sites. Presented at the 29th Gocad Meeting, Nancy, June 2009.

D’Or D., Demougeot-Renard H., Garcia M. An integrated geostatistical approach for contaminated site and soil characterisation. Math Geosci 41: 307–322, 2009.

D’Or D., Demougeot-Renard H. and Garcia M. Geostatistics for contaminated sites and soils: some pending questions. GeoEnv VI - Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Rhodes, Greece, 2006.

Demougeot-Renard H., Steyer E., Garcia M., D’Or D. and Laboudigue A. Contribution of in situ measurement techniques to contaminated site characterisation and the management of large contaminated sites: the former MetalEurop plant. Difpolmine conference, Montpellier, Dec. 2006.

Bour O., Rollin C., Baroudi H., Garcia M., Emonet A.L., Bues M., Le Thiez P., Blondel T., Schwartz J., Benslimane F. and Guyonnet D. Approche méthodologique de la modélisation du transport des HAP dans les sols et les eaux. Première rencontre nationale de la recherche sur les sites et sols pollués, Paris, December 12 -13, 2002.

Froidevaux R., Garcia M. and Blondel T. A probabilistic and conditional approach for delineating the extent of a contamination plume within an aquifer. in Monestiez P., Allard D. and Froidevaux R. Eds, geoEnV III – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Kluwer, 2001.

Garcia M., Blondel T. et Colin P. Répartition spatiale et estimation du volume et de la part mobilisable de produits légers présents en phase non aqueuse dans les sols à partir de données de sondage, Seminar on Analysis, Methodology of Treatment and Remediation of Contaminated Soils and Groundwater, INTERCHIMIE 2001, Paris-Nord Villepinte, March 2001.

Garcia M. and Froidevaux R. Application of geostatistics to 3d modelling of contaminated sites: a case study. in Soares A., Gómez-Hernández J. and Froidevaux R. Eds, geoENV I – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Kluwer, 1997. 

Colin P., Froidevaux R., Garcia M., and Nicoletis S. Integrating geophysical data for mapping the contamination of industrial sites by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a geostatistical approach, in Srivastava R.M., Rouhani S. Cromer M.V. And Johnson A.I Eds, Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, ASTM STP 1238, Philadephia, 1996.

Nuclear waste disposals

Yven B.,   Mathieu J.-B. and Garcia M.H. Estimation of spatial trend and uncertainty of clay content in the Callovian-Oxfordian clay formation from a 3d high resolution impedance cube, Poster presented at the 14^ème Congrès Français de Sédimentologie, Paris, La Villette, Nov. 2013.

Garcia M., Rabaute A., Yven B. and Guillemot D. Multivariate and spatial statistical analysis of Callovo-Oxfordian physical properties from lab and borehole logs data: towards a characterization of lateral and vertical spatial trends in the Meuse/Haute-Marne Transposition Zone, accepted for oral presentation at the Fourth meeting on “Clays in Natural & Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement”, 29th March to 1st April 2010, Nantes. Published in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Vol. 36, Issues 17–18, 2011, pp 1469–1485.

Garcia M. et Caussade S. Rapport final – Intégration de pressions capillaires variables dans la simulation d’essais de traçage dans le gaz – Projet GAM – Phase V du GTS (Grimsel), Report of FSS International r&d in English on behalf of ANDRA, ref. B RP 0FSS 02-001, 111 pp, 2002.

Garcia M. et de Combarieu M. Expérience « Gas Migration » dans le laboratoire souterrain du GRIMSEL (Suisse), Recherches pour le stockage des déchets radioactifs à haute activité et à vie longue, Bilan des études et travaux 2001, ANDRA, pp 419-429, 2001.

Garcia M. et Caussade S. Rapport final – Modélisation en écoulement et en transport dans le cadre du projet GAM pour la phase V du laboratoire Grimsel Suisse, Report of FSS International r&d in English on behalf of ANDRA, ref. B RP 0FSS 01-001, 143 pp, 2001.

Garcia M., Modélisation en écoulement et en transport dans le cadre du projet GAM – Phase V du GTS (Grimsel), Report of FSS International r&d in English on behalf of ANDRA, ref. B RP 0FSS 99-001, 225 pp, 1999.

Gómez-Hernández J. et Garcia M. Analyse bibliographique des méthodes géostatistiques adaptées à la caractérisation des aquifères, Report of FSS International r&d in French and English on behalf of ANDRA, ref. B RP 0FSS 98-001, 243 pp, 1998. Public report available from ANDRA.