Department of Petroleum Engineering

Mohabbat Ahmadi
Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 411
Research Interests:
- conventional and unconventional gas resources development
- supercritical CO2 EOR/sequestration
- enhanced oil recovery

Vahid Atashbari
Affiliate Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 417
Research Interests:
- origin of overpressure and pore pressure prediction
- carbonate reservoir characterization
- business models and business plans
- oil price models and forecasting

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

Santanu Khataniar
Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 421
Research Interests:
- water-flood and enhanced oil recovery
- reservoir simulation
- gas-to-liquid (GTL) transportation through pipeline
- well log analysis
Samson Ning
Adjunct Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering
- enhanced oil recovery
- pressure transient analysis
- reservoir management
Brent Sheets
Acting PDL Director
Petroleum Development Laboratory
Research Interests:
- unconventional reservoirs development
- reservoir simulation and optimization
- enhanced oil recovery
- application of nanotechnology in petroleum engineering

Emeriti
