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| Dr. Hossein Kazemi Research Co-Director Chesebro' Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Engineering Professor phone: (303) 384 2072 fax: (303) 273 3189 hkazemi@mines.edu web page |
Dr. Erdal Ozkan Research Co-Director Professor phone: (303) 273 3188 fax: (303) 273 3189 eozkan@mines.edu web page |
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Dr. Yu-Shu Wu Professor |
Dr. Xiaolong Yin Assistant Professor Office: (303) 384-2449 Fax: (303) 273-3189 Email: xyin@mines.edu |
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Dr. Philip H. Winterfeld Research Associate |
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Graduate Students
| NAME | DEGREE | EMAIL ADDRESS | ADVISOR | Thesis and/or area of interest |
| El-Zwail, Moammer | MS | melzwail@mines.edu | Wu | Productivity Index for Fractured Wells |
| Ramirez, Kelly | MS | kramirez@mines.edu | Yin | Slim tube experiments of salt precipitation and determination of minimum miscibility pressure |
| Carratu, Juan Carlos | MS | jcarratu@mines.edu | Ozkan | Prediction and Optimization of the Performance of Hydraulically Fractured Horizontal Wells in Shale-Gas Reservoirs - Analytical modeling of hydraulically fractured horizontal wells. |
| Ahmadi, Mahmood | PhD | mahmadi@mines.edu | Ozkan & Tenorio | Transient analysis and Laplace transform inversion |
| Akinboyewa, John | PhD | jakinboy@mines.edu | Kazemi | Simulation of ES-SAGD |
| Alameri, Waleed | PhD | walameri@mines.edu | Graves | Simulation of horizontal wells |
| Alharthy, Najeeb | PhD | nalharth@mines.edu | Kazemi & Graves | Energy Gain Efficiency Using Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) - immiscibile CO2 injection |
| Al-Sumaiti, Ali M. | PhD | aalsumai@mines.edu | Kazemi | Role of Wettability on Waterflood and Subsequent Gas Injection (Double- Displacement Process) in Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs - Centrifuge experiments of natural fractured reservoirs and double displacement. Simulation of double displacement. |
| Apaydin, Osman | PhD | oapaydin@mines.edu | Ozkan | Fracture matrix exchange in tight, shale reservoirs |
| Barzegar Alamdari, Baharak | PhD | bbarzega@mines.edu | Kazemi | Determining fractured carbonate core properties in centrifuge experiments: An application of parameter estimation and numerical modeling to three-phase flow and surfactant-augmented water injection |
| Brown, Jeff | PhD | jsbrown@mines.edu | Kazemi | A practical compositional simulation model for CO2 flooding - Parallel compositional simulation plus trapping and hysteresis as applied to CO2 WAG simualation and CO2 sequestration. |
| Charoenwongsa, Sarinya | PhD | scharoen@mines.edu | Miskimins & Kazemi | Geomechanical Numerical Modelling of Formation Face Damage and Gel Cleanup - Simulation of geomechanics in hydraulically fractured reservoirs |
| Eghtesadi Heris, Ayyoub | PhD | aeghtesa@mines.edu | Kazemi & Davis | Practical aspects of integrated flow simulation and time-lapse seismic imaging; Application to CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery in a Valley-Fill Reservoir, Postle Field, Oklahoma |
| Fakcharoenphol, Perapon | PhD | pfakchar@mines.edu | Wu & Kazemi | DOE geothermal project, naturally fractured reservoir simulation |
| Firincioglu, Tuba | PhD | tfirincioglu@nitecllc.com | Ozkan | Modeling the Effects of Bacterial EOR on Wettability Changes in Dual Porosity Systems |
| Izadi Kamouei, Mehdi | PhD | mizadi@mines.edu | Kazemi | The Surfactant-Augmented Waterflood to Enhance Oil Recovery in Large Carbonate Reservoirs |
| Kiani, Mojtaba | PhD | mkiani@mines.edu | Kazemi & Wu | Simulation of Surfactant Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Dual Porosity Reservoirs - Application to Field Pilot Testing - Simulation of surfactant in naturally fractured reservoirs |
| Kurtoglu, Basak | PhD | bkurtoglu@mines.edu | Kazemi | Improved Oil Recovery in Bakken Formation |
| Nguyen, Thanh | PhD | thtnguye@mines.edu | Wu & Kazemi | Simulation of CO2 enhanced oil recovery |
| Ramirez, Benjamin | PhD | beramire@mines.edu | Kazemi | Mulstiscale Compositional Simualtion of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs |
| Xiao, Feng | PhD | fxiao@mines.edu | Yin | Pore-Scale Simulation of Two Phase Flow in Porous Media |
| Zerpa, Luis | PhD | lzerpa@mines.edu | Kazemi & Koh | A comprehensive hydrate kinetic model for the prediction of gas hydrate formation and dissociation in oil and gas pipelines - Simulation of fluid assurance kinetics for hydrates |
| Zhang, Ronglei | PhD | rozhang@mines.edu | Wu & Yin | DOE CO2 sequestration, reaction-transport modelling for CO2 sequestration |
Alumni
| Alumni | Degree | Thesis | |
| Vladimir Petunin | MS - 2011 | Laboratory Study of Permeability Change with Radially Applied Pressure | |
| Omar Alnahdi Saudi Aramco |
PhD - 2011 | Compositional Modelling of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Control Volume Mixed Finite Element Method | |
| Waleed Alameri | MS - 2010 | Use of Horizontal Wells To Improve Pattern Waterflood In Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs - simulation of horizontal wells | |
| John Akinboyewa | MS - 2010 | Compositional Thermal Simulation of Expanding Solvent-Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (ES-SAGD) in Heavy Oil/Bitumen Reservoirs | |
| Mohammed Al-Kobaisi | PhD - 2010 | Multiphase multiscale simulation of water-oil flow in single- and dual-porosity reservoirs - Comparison of different finite difference and finite element formulations; multiscale simulation | |
| Ajab Al-Otaibi | PhD - 2010 | Pressure Transient Behavior of Vertical Wells Accounting for Non-Darcy Flow in Hydraulically Fractured Wells and Naturally Fractured Reservoirs | |
| Benjamin Ramirez | PhD - 2010 | Mulstiscale Compositional Simualtion of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs | |
| Najeeb Salim Alharthy | MS - 2009 | Energy Gain Efficiency Using Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) | |
| Ali A. Albinali | MS - 2009 | Finite Difference Formulation of Coupled Geomechanics and Fluid-Flow for Reservoir Engineering Applications | Margaret "Peggy" Brown | MS - 2009 | Analytical Trilinear Pressure Transient Model for Multiply Fractured Horizontal Wells in Tight Shale Reservoirs |
| Marathon Oil Company | |||
| Basak Kurtoglu | MS - 2008 | Semi-Analytical Representation of Wells and Near-Well Flow Convergence in Numerical Reservoir Simulationr | |
| Marathon Oil Company | |||
| Osama Raba | MS- 2008 | The Effects of Small Conductivity Near-Wellbore Natural Fractures on Three-Phase Performance of Long Horizontal Wells | |
| British Petroleum | |||
| Arjun Bathija | ME - 2008 | ||
| Mohamed Elhage | ME - 2008 | ||
| Can " Jon" Yetkin | MS - 2007 | Simulation of Permeability Anisotropy to Reduce Grid orientation Effects | |
| Benjamin Ramirez Marathon Oil |
MS - 2007 | Gas Condensate Non-Darcy Flow Effects in Dual-Porosity, Dual-Permeability Naturally Fractured Reservoirs | |
| Flavio Medeiros Junior | PhD - 2007 | Semi-Analytical Pressure Transient Model for Complex Well-Reservoir Systems | |
| Safian Atan | PhD - 2007 | Multiscale Multimesh Numerical Simulation for Two-Phase Flow in Highly Heterogeneous Reservoirs | |
| Marathon Oil Company | |||
| Mohammad Al-Matrook | PhD - 2006 | Multi-Scale Formulation and Simulation of Three-Phase Flow with Interphase Mass Transfer | |
| Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research | MS - 2002 | An Improved Two-Component Simulation of Black Oil, Volatile Oil, and Gas Condensate Reservoirs | |
| Adetayo Balogun | MS - 2005 | An Improved Water-Oil Transfer-Function for Dual-Porosity/Dual-Permeability System | |
| Shell | |||
| Christian Aguilar | MS - 2005 | Simulation of Pressure Transient Response of Single and Dual-Lateral Wells | |
| British Petroleum | |||
| Victor Salazar Indij | MS - 2005 | Improved Heavy Oil Recovery in a Foamy Heavy Oil Reservoir Using SAGD Technology | |
| Apex Petroleum Engineering | |||
| Nasser Al-Mohannadi | PhD - 2004 | Simulation of Horizontal Well Tests | |
| Qatar University | |||
| Juergen Dreier | MS - 2004 | Pressure-Transient Analysis of Wells in Reservoirs with a Multiple Fracture Network | |
| Wintershall | |||
| Jose Martinez -Val | ME - 2004 | ||
| Repsol YPF | |||
| Jaime Moreno | MS - 2004 | Streamline Simulation of Counter-Current Water-Oil Flow in Dual-Porosity Naturally Fractured Reservoirs | |
| Schlumberger | |||
| Carlos Pereira | MS - 2003 | Combined Effect of Non-Darcy Flow and Formation Damage on Gas Well Performance in Dual-Porosity/Dual-Permeability | |