Faculty
Dr. Hemanta Sarma
Chairman, Petroleum Engineering Program
Office: Ruwais 3107A
Email: hsarma@pi.ac.ae
Phone: +971-2-607-5386
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Professor Hemanta Sarma is the Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Program at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi. More recently he was a Professor and holder of the Reg Sprigg Chair in Petroleum Engineering in the Australian School of Petroleum (ASP), University of Adelaide. He is also the founding Director of the Centre for Improved Petroleum Recovery (CIPR) in the ASP and was a Research Project Leader (2003-2006) for CO2 sequestration through enhanced petroleum recovery and enhanced coal-bed methane recovery in the CO2CRC, a major Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies. In addition, he has been a consultant to a number of Australian petroleum companies in the areas of reservoir engineering and EOR.
Previously he was a Senior Staff Reservoir Engineer with the Alberta Research Council, Canada, and an Invited Research Advisor at the Technology Research Center of Japan National Oil Corporation where he participated in domestic and international R&D projects and field pilots. He has published extensively and offered several specialized courses on EOR and reservoir engineering.
Dr. Sarma holds a B.Tech. Honours in petroleum engineering from Indian School of Mines, an M.Sc. in chemical engineering (specialization in reservoir engineering) from University of Calgary and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from University of Alberta. An active SPE member, he has served on several technical program committees, including SPE South Australian Executive Committee leading its Continuing Education Program. He is a member of SPE’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty Award Committee since 2006 and its 2008-09 Chair. In addition, he is an Associate Editor of SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering Journal, and led an SPE-wide academic taskforce looking at improving the quality of the Journal. Earlier, he served in the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology.
Prof. Sarma is a 2008-recipent of The Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning awarded by the Hon. Julia Gillard, Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minsterfor“initiating students into the profession of Petroleum Engineering while interacting with them to secure their welfare as individuals and success as scholars”. Earlier, he also received a 2006 Excellence in Teaching Prize of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Adelaide.
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