Department of Petroleum Engineering

Obadare Awoleke
Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 407
Research Interests:
- experimental and theoretical investigation into propped fracture conductivity in low and high permeability environments
- heavy oil reservoirs (production, completion and stimulation related challenges)
- data analysis using statistical and virtual intelligence techniques
- the incorporation of uncertainty into the models used by petroleum engineers to predict oil and gas well productivity using time series analysis methods.
- application of Monte Carlo techniques and stochastic differential equations to modeling uncertainty in petroleum production or reservoir engineering

Abhijit Dandekar
Department Chair | Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 419
Research Interests:
- gas-to-liquids
- gas hydrates
- CO2 sequestration
- effect of wettability on oil recovery
Nicole Dufour
Office Manager
Department of Mechanical Engineering | Department of Petroleum Engineering
Duck 337
Omid Mohammadzadeh
Assistant Professor
Petroleum Engineering
DUCK 411
Ronald Nguele
Postdoc
Petroleum Engineering
Brent Sheets
PDL Director
Petroleum Development Laboratory
Research Interests:
- unconventional reservoirs development
- reservoir simulation and optimization
- enhanced oil recovery
- application of nanotechnology in petroleum engineering

Yin Zhang
Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 413
- Oil recovery methods
- Reservoir simulation
- H2 transportation and geo-storage
- CO2 EOR and storage
- Oilfield corrosion prevention
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