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Director & Eberly Family Chair 


E-mail:   runar.nygaard@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1264
Phone:   405-325-2921

Research interests: Wellbore Integrity, Geomechanics and Drilling Engineering

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Professor & Mewbourne Chair in Petroleum Engineering #3

E-mail:    r.ahmed@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1180

Research interests: Cuttings/solids transport, Drilling fluid rheology and wellbore hydraulics, Underbalanced drilling and MPD, Well control

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Assistant Professor

E-mail:     dangthaison@ou.edu
Office:      SEC 1330
Research Interests: Material characterization, Petrophysics, Enhanced oil recovery, Geo-storage, Mass transport in nanoporous media

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Professor & Mewbourne Chair in Petroleum Engineering #1

E-mail:    deepak.devegowda@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1322

Research interests: Reservoir characterization & uncertainty assessment, Geostatistics, Unconventional oil & gas reservoir engineering

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Associate Professor

E-mail:    mashhad.fahes@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1338

Research Interests:

 

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McCasland Chair Professor

E-mail:    ahmad.ghassemi@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1314

Research interests: Geomechanics applied to petroleum and geothermal reservoir development, Modeling of hydraulic fracturing and faulting, Reactive fluid flow in fractures, and constitutive modeling for chemically-active rocks

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Associate Professor

E-mail:    karami@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1112

Research interests: Production engineering, Multiphase flow, Artificial lift, Flow assurance

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Director of Natural Gas Engineering & Management Prgm
ONEOK Chair in Natural Gas Engineering and Management

E-mail:    rouzbeh.gm@ou.edu

Office:    SEC 1176

Research interests: Enhanced Oil Recovery, Production, Flow Assurance & Emission Reduction, Unconventional Resources

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Professor & Martin G. Miller Chair in Petroleum Engineering

E-mail:    crai@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1264

Research interests: Rock and mineral physics, Reservoir characterization, Petrophysics

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Assistant Professor

E-mail:    baharak.sajjadi@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1248

Research interests: Advanced refinery processes; renewable energies; carbon capture, conversion, & utilization; carbon functionalization & modification; hydrogen production; computational fluid dynamics.

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Professor & Mewbourne Chair in Petroluem Engineering #5

E-mail:    bshiau@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1346

Research interests: Enhanced oil recovery, Chemical flooding, Surfactant and colloid science for petroleum production

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Professor & Mewbourne Chair in Petroleum Engineering #6, Graduate Liaison, & Drilling Simulation Center Director

E-mail:    cteodoriu@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1134

Research interests: Drilling problems, Drilling Dynamics and failure analysis, Well integrity, cementing and threaded connections

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Associate Professor

E-mail:    xingru.wu@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1362

Research interests: Physics of multiphase flow in permeable media, Enhanced hydrocarbon recovery, Reservoir characterization, Geothermal recovery

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Aaron Alexander Chair in Civil and Environmental Science, David Ross Boyd Professor

E-mail:    zaman@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1366

Research interests: Geotechnical engineering; Soil dynamics, rock mechanics, soil structure interaction, flow through porous media

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Affiliate Faculty

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Afilliate Faculty, Petroleum Engineering

E-mail: matthew.pranter@ou.edu


Adjunct Faculty


Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

Email: david.r.childers-1@ou.edu

David Ferris

Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management 

Email: dferris@ou.edu


Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

Email: david.a.heskin@ou.edu


Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

Email: Dora.E.Lopez.De.Alonzo-1@ou.edu


Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

Email: bagajewicz@ou.edu


Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

Email: mstice@ou.edu

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Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

E-mail: tabrizy@ou.edu

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Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

E-mail: vahid.taghikhani@ou.edu


Adjunct Faculty, Oil, Gas and Environmental Law

E-mail:    keith.t.thomas-1@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1210

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Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

E-mail: kai.wang@ou.edu

 

 


Adjunct Faculty, Natural Gas Engineering & Management

E-mail:    zhen.zhu-1@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1210

Emeritus Faculty


Emeritus Professor

E-mail:   fcivan@ou.edu

Research interests: Unconventional gas, condensate, and oil reservoirs analyses and simulation; Flow assurance and mitigation in reservoirs, wells, and pipelines; Oil and gas processing, transportation, and storage

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Emeritus Professor

E-mail:    knapp@ou.edu

Research interests: Microbial enhanced oil recovery, Reservoir simulation & engineering

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Emeritus Professor

E-mail:    subhash@ou.edu

 

Research interests: Drilling and well completions, Stimulation, Coiled tubing applications, Non-Newtonian fluids characterization

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Emeritus Professor

E-mail:    dtiab@ou.edu

Research interests: Well test analysis, Petrophysics, and Reservoir Characterization

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In Remembrance


Professor & Mewbourne Chair in Petroleum Engineering #2

E-mail:    csondergeld@ou.edu
Office:    SEC 1230

Research interests: Rock mechanics, Acoustic emissions, Rock physics

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Emeritus Professor

Remembering Dr. Roegiers.

Research interests: Borehole stability, Pore collapse mechanism, Fracture toughness of rocks