Petroleum Engineering

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Education

• Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, 2008

• Master’s Degree, Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, ITC, University of Twente, Holland, 2001

• BSc., Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic University, 1997

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Professional Experience

• Associate Instructional Professor, University of Wyoming, USA (Current)

• Associate Research Fellow, Center of Innovation for Flow through Porous Media, UW, USA (Current)

• Associate Professor and Petroleum Engineering Coordinator, Khazar University, Baku, Az

• Assistant Professor, Lebanese American University

• Assistant Professor and Petroleum Engineering Department Head, Australian University, Kuwait

• Senior Instructor (Sessional), Curtin University of Technology, Australia

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Research Interests

• Nano-Condensation and Geostorage of CO2 and Hydrogen

• Thermal EOR/IOR Employing Laser

• Solidifying and Trapping CO2 and H2 through Mineralization

• Petroleum Economics, Prediction of Oil Price Fluctuations

• Environmental Issues Affecting Oil Industry, Change Detection and Assessment

• Microbial CO2 Treatment Techniques

• Remote Sensing, GIS and Fuzzy Logic Applications in Petroleum Industry

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Courses Taught

• Production Engineering – PETE 3715

• Phase Behavior of Petroleum Fluids – PETE 3015

• Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering – PETE 2050

• Reservoir Petrophysics – PETE 3110

• Rock Mechanics – PETE 4215 and PETE 5215

• Petroleum Economics – PETE 4340 and PETE 5150

• Heat and Mass Transfer – PETE 3025

• Computing and Data Mining – PETE 2060

• Engineering Thermodynamics – ES 2310

• Multicomponent Thermodynamics – PETE 3015

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Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Western Australia Basalt-CO2-Brine Wettability at Geo-Storage Conditions, Journal of Collide and Interface Science, June 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.078

• Fracturing and permeability enhancement with laser technology employing fuzzy logic, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Volume 188, May 2020, 106830, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2019.106830

• Improving TC drill bit’s efficiency and resistance to wear by Graphene coating, Petroleum Research, Accepted for Publication and under press, January 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptlrs.2021.12.008

• Satellite-Based hydrocarbon exploration employing ASTER and fuzzy logic, Journal of Upstream Oil and Gas Technology, Volume 6, February 2021, 100034, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.upstre.2021.100034

• Application of Combinatory Pulsed COIL and ND: YAG Lasers to Increase Heavy Oil Recovery and Improve Rock Permeability, World Congress on Petroleum and Refinery, Brisbane, Australia, published in Journal of Petroleum and Environmental Biotechnology, 2016, (https://www.longdom.org/proceedings/application-of-nd-yag-laser-to-improve-rock-permeability-and-increase-heavy-oil-recovery-employing-fuzzy-logic-32550.html)

• An Optimization Approach to Predict Crude Oil Prices, International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management, Volume 2, No. 6, 2013 (http://www.ejournalofbusiness.org/archive/vol2no6/vol2no6_1.pdf)

• Oil Slicks and Coastal Zones Post Gulf-War; A 20-Years Assessment, Employing High-Resolution Satellite Imagery, SPE /APPEA international conference on HSE, 11-13 September 2012, Perth, Western Australia (https://doi.org/10.2118/156053-MS)

• Application of Remote Sensing In Two Southern Iranian Oil Fields, The First International Applied Geological Congress, Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Iran, published in semantic scholar, 2011 (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ 4307/2ac591d5a4fc14798faffa8444b571236041.pdf)

• Remote Sensing, Fuzzy Logic and GIS in Petroleum Exploration, Conference Proceedings, SPE International Conference and Exhibition, Adelaide, South Australia, 2006 (https://doi.org/10.2118/101040-MS)