Petroleum Engineering

Reza Taheri

Reza Taheri

Associate Instructional Professor

E-mail: rtaheri1@uwyo.edu | Phone: TBD

Office Location: Room 4022, Engineering Building

Dept. 3295, 1000 E. University Avenue

Laramie, WY 82071

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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

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

 

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

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

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles