Associate Professor - Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering; University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA 2010
M.S. Exploration of Petroleum Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, 2003
B.S. Exploration of Mining Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, 2001Dr. Ebrahim Fathi is an expert in unconventional oil and gas recovery. He has been heavily involved in developing new laboratory measurement techniques quantifying fluid storage and transport in organic-rich shale resources under dynamic reservoir conditions. He participated in innovative research developing new-generation of flow simulators for unconventional reservoirs, in simulation-based history-matching and optimization efforts in the laboratory, and the area of computational fluid dynamics. His recent research focus is on multi-stage hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells and prediction of fault reactivation in hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells in Shale gas reservoirs. He serves as a technical editor for the SPE journal and received SPE outstanding service award 2013.
Research Interests
Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wellsShale oil/gas reservoir characterization and simulation
CO2-enhanced shale gas and oil recovery
Teaching Interests
Petroleum Fluids and Phase behaviorAdvanced numerical and theoretical techniques in Engineering
Fluid mechanics of Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs
Heavy Oil Recovery
Geostatistics and Inverse theory
Special Interests
Laboratory measurement and characterization of fluid transport and storage in organic-rich ShalesSimulation and upscaling of flow, transport and reactions in multi-scale heterogeneous porous media
Professional Societies
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)