Faculty Research
Godwin A. Chukwu, Professor.
Drilling fluid hydraulics, hydrodynamics of gas-to-liquid
products flow in pipelines, resource economics, GTL transportation
hydraulics, wax and solid deposition studies in pipes.
Abhijit Y. Dandekar, Associate Professor.
PVT/reservoir fl uid phase behavior
and reservoir fl uid properties, special core analysis,
wax and asphaltene deposition, gas hydrates, CO2
sequestration, viscous oils, wettability and oil recovery.
Catherine Hanks, Associate Professor.
Influence of lithology,
local structural position, and regional stress regime on
natural fracture development in fold-and-thrust belts and
foreland basins, effects of fractures on reservoir character,
structural applications of remote sensing.
Santanu Khataniar, Professor.
Water
fl ooding, enhanced oil recovery, reservoir simulation,
relative permeability, gas-to-liquid (GTL) transportation
issues, well log analysis.
Samson X. Ning, Adjunct Associate Professor.
Enhanced oil recovery methods for viscous oil reservoirs,
water fl ood and WAG injection management, well
test design and analysis, reservoir management.
Shirish L. Patil, Professor.
Gas hydrate phase
behavior, formation damage assessment and production
modeling, miscible and immiscible recovery processes,
coalbed methane, carbon sequestration, cementing, gasto-
liquid transportation.
Tao Zhu, Associate Professor.
CO2
sequestration and hydrates, and methane hydrate and
recovery, enhanced oil recovery technology including
heavy oil and reservoir engineering information, natural
gas recovery technology including coal-bed methane,
applied reservoir engineering and reservoir simulation.
