Doctoral Student of Petroleum Engineering
Room: 221
Dep. 4311 1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Advisor: Mohammad Piri
Email: melnaeem@uwyo.edu
Phone: 307-76-4011
Education:
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering, University of Wyoming, February 2018 – Present
M.S. Petroleum Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, December 2016
B.S. Honor in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering (First Class), University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, August 2011
Research Interests & Area of Specialization:
- Adsorption/desorption and condensation on reservoir rocks.
- Enhanced gas recovery.
- Enhanced oil recovery.
- Multi-phase flow in porous media.
- Well stimulation (Acidizing, Hydraulic fracturing and Acid-fracturing).
- CO2 sequestration.
- Artificial intelligence applications in petroleum engineering.
- Reservoir simulation.
- Fluids properties EOS, and Phase behavior.
- Unconventional reservoirs description and dynamics.
- Well logs interpretation.
Previous Researches:
- Enhanced gas recovery.
- Adsorption of CH4/CO2 on different reservoir rocks.
- Artificial intelligence in petroleum Engineering.
- Coding multi-phase black oil simulator.
- Multi-fractures and multilateral wells design.
- Impact of Surfactant on the Retention of CO2 and Methane in Carbonate Reservoirs.
- CO2 sequestration.
- Reservoir characterization, rock mechanics, wells’ placement and mud design.
- Unconventional reservoirs description and dynamics.
- Pressure Pulse Technology (PPT) In Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR).
- Artificial lifts design.
Experience:
Research Assistant
- The Center of Innovation for Flow Through Porous Media (COIFPM), University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, February 2018 – Present
- Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, September 2016 – February 2018
Part-Time Research Assistant-Teaching Assistant/ MSc Student
- King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, August 31, 2014 – 2016