Faculty Interests
Dr. Hemanta K. Sarma
EOR and IOR processes (thermal, HC gas, CO2, air, microbial, horizontal well, gels & foam), near-wellbore productivity enhancement measures, unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, including CBM and tight shale, CO2 sequestration.
Dr. John M. Williams
Monitoring of non-hydrocarbons in natural gas and associated gas streams, fluid sampling techniques and on-site measurement, especially hydrogen sulphide, pressure-volume-temperature laboratory methods and management, protecting and facilitating access to phase behaviour data, HSE monitoring and management.
Dr. Jorge Gomes
Carbonate reservoir characterization, core-log integration, SCAL, reservoir rock typing, use of seismic inversion in reservoir description, 3D static modeling (estimation and simulation techniques), model ranking and upscaling, static-dynamic integration, evaluation or resources and reserves, and uncertainty analysis.
Dr. Ferda Akgun
Petroleum drilling engineering, underbalanced techniques (feasibility and screening analysis)
Tubular design (casing, drill string), failure analysis for complex well geometries, drill bit screening to meet a given objective, ROP modeling.
Dr. Pawel Nawrocki
Rock mechanics, rock testing and modeling of rock behavior, borehole stability analysis, shale behavior and fracturing of soft, weak rocks, acoustic emission monitoring.
Dr. Hadi Belhaj
Characterization and modeling of fractured reservoirs, dynamic simulation of fluid flow in porous media, EOR/IOR technologies, transport phenomena in porous media, biotechnology applications in the petroleum industry, reservoir management and field development, energy price modeling and economics of petroleum venture, application of laser technology in drilling and in heavy oil recovery, non-traditional techniques of well completion and sand control, merging technologies and innovation.
Dr. Motiur Rahman
Well stimulation and improved oil/gas recovery by hydraulic fracturing sandstones and acid fracturing carbonates. Formation damage due to drilling and completion fluids and its removal by acidizing sandstone and carbonate formations.
Dr. Mohammed Haroun
EEOR/EOR/IOR, Electrokinetics (EK) applications in Petroleum Engineering, Electrically enhanced Oil Recovery (EEOR), Petroleum Economics, Heat Management in heavy oil recovery and Electrokinetics applications in Environmental Engineering - Electroremediation of coastal marine sediments.
Dr. Mohammed Al Kobaisi
The use of numerical modeling to study fluid flow in porous media. Research focused on the efficient and accurate performance prediction of large scale (full field), highly heterogeneous reservoirs. Specific interests include application to naturally fractured reservoirs.
Dr. Ali AlSumaiti
Enhanced oil recovery, numerical reservoir simulation, unconventional reservoirs, and multidisciplinary projects.
Dr. Bisweswar Ghosh
Flow assurance, water and gas shutoff, formation damage, wellbore deposition control
Dr. Jing Lu
Pressure transient analysis for a multiple-wells system, pressure transient analysis of horizontal wells in dual-porosity, dual-permeability naturally fractured reservoirs, non-Darcy binomial deliverability equations for partially penetrating vertical gas wells and horizontal gas wells.
Mr. Abukari Iddris
Drilling fluid technology, oil-well cementing, drilling simulator operations, well control operations, practical IWCF simulator instruction.
Mr. Mimoune Kissami
Pressure-Volume-Temperature experimental studies, developing research and teaching laboratories, designing and running the petrophysics experiments at simulated reservoir conditions, sand control and wettability measurements, routine and special core analysis tests.
Dr. Hadil Abu Khalifeh
Solvent-Based EOR technologies,
Application of optimal control theory in EOR and
Transport Phenomena in Porous Media
