Two MPGE Emeritus professors have made contributions to the petroleum engineering industry this year.
Emeritus professor, Dr. Djebbar Tiab, has signed a multi-year contract with the Algerian national oil company, Sonatrach, to assist with the establishment of educational/training programs in basic and advanced petroleum engineering. He is also assisting the Algerian Petroleum Institute (API) to establish, in association with a U.S. university, educational/training programs in renewable energy , with emphasis on Solar and Photo-Voltaic.
Emeritus professor, Dr. Faruk Civan, has made several contributions to the industry already this year through publications of his work. Two of the publications will be presented respectively at conferences in April and July These publications include:
Civan, F., Managing Water Crucial in Shale Plays, The American Oil & Gas Reporter, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 68-73, February 2018.
Civan, F., Effect of stress shock and Pressurization/Depressurization Hysteresis on Petrophysical Properties of Naturally-Fractured Reservoir Formations, paper SPE-190081-MS, the Western Regional Meeting, 22 – 27 April 2018 in Garden Grove, California, USA.
Civan, F., Compressibility, Porosity, and Permeability of Shales Involving Stress Shock and Loading/Unloading Hysteresis, paper URTeC 2902156, the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, URTeC 2018, 23-25 July 2018, Houston, Texas, George R. Brown Convention Center.