8^th International Conference on Petroleum Engineering October 15-16, 2018 Holiday Inn Rome Aurelia, Rome, Italy

Prof. Lingai Luo is the first class research director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire de Thermocinétique de Nantes (LTN), France. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in thermal engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and her Ph.D. degree in mechanic and thermal engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France. Her previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor at INPL, Associate Professor at University of Nancy I, and later at INPL. From 2003 until 2012 she was a Full Professor at University of Savoie, France. From 2007 to 2012, she was the director of Laboratory of design optimization and environmental engineering (LOCIE) of CNRS and University of Savoie. She was the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering (1998–2006) and was the head of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (2008-2013) of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was the scientific director of French National Research Agency (ANR)’s energy department. She is also an invited professor at 5 Chinese universities/institutions, and Leuphana University at Lüneburg, Germany. Professor Lingai Luo has published and presented extensively, contributing more than 100 journal articles, one book and more than 120 international conference papers (29 as invited speaker).

Prof. Luo is mainly engaged in the intensification of heat and mass transfer and shape optimization in different energy components, systems and processes. Her research covers a wide range of topics in thermal, process and energy engineering, including combustion in fluidized bed, energy balance analysis of industries, solar refrigeration machines, adsorption and absorption processes, thermoelectric heat pumps or energy for buildings. More recently, her research activities focus on a fundamental strategy based on thermodynamic analysis, transfers intensification and energy systems optimization.

Prior to joining the faculty at Washington University in 2001, Professor Agarwal was the Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Wichita State University from 1994 to 1996 and the Executive Director of National Institute for Aviation Research from 1996 to 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was also the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor at Wichita State University. From 1978 to 1994, Professor Agarwal worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. From 1976 to 1978, Professor Agarwal worked as a NRC Research Associate at NASA Ames Research Center and as a Principal Research Engineer at Rao and Associates in Palo Alto, California from 1975 to 1976. Over a period of 35 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and Electromagnetics, Computational Aeroacoustics, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Hypersonic Flows, Bio-Fluid Dynamics, and Flow and Flight Control. More recently, he has devoted some of his efforts in nanotechnology and renewable energy systems - in particular wind, solar and biomass. He is the author and coauthor of over 500 publications and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many professional, government, and industrial advisory committees. Professor Agarwal is a Fellow of eighteen societies: American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Institute of Pysics (IOP), UK, Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Energy Institute (EI), Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Academy of Science of St. Louis, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), and World Innovation Foundation (WIF). He has received many honors and awards for his research contributions including the ASME Fluids Engineering Award (2001), ASME Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (2006), Royal Aeronautical Society Gold Award (2007), AIAA Aerodynamics Award (2008), AIAA/SAE 2009 William Little-wood Lecture Award (2009), James B. Eads Award of Academy of Science of St. Louis (2009), ASEE/AIAA John Leland Atwood Award (2009), SAE Clarence Kelly Johnson Award (2009), SAE Franklin W. Kolk Award (2009), AIAA Lindbergh Award (2010), SAE Aerospace Engineering Leadership Award (2013), SAE Excellence in Engineering Education Award, SAE International Medal of Honor (2015) and AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award (2015) among many others.

flow control, rarefied gas dynamics and hyper-sonic flows, turbulence modeling, bio-fluid dynamics, energy from wind and biomass, carbon capture and sequestration, chemical looping combustion, and energy efficiency of buildings.

Mileva Radonjic completed her PhD at Bristol University, and postdoc at Princeton. She is currently being evaluated for associate professor in Petroleum Engineering Department at LSU. Dr. Radonjic established Sustainable Energy and Environmental Research (SEER) laboratory, focused on development of materials and technologies for prevention of leaky wellbores, in conventional O&G production, carbon sequestration and hydraulic fracturing. She is currently working as one of the editors on a book titled as the keynote presented here, and published papers with her graduate students in several journals as well as presented at more than 60 conferences in the last 5years.

Carbon storage and capture, global warming mitigation. Oil-well cement durability, effective long term zonal isolation, corrosion issues. Wellbore stability, geomechanics. Enhanced oil recovery.

Dr. Zhi Chen received his PhD degree from the University of Regina, Canada and B.Eng. from the Dalian University of Technology, China. He worked at the University of Regina, the National Research Council Canada (NRC), and Oil & Gas industry before he joined Concordia University in 2004. His research interests include Modeling of Pollutant’s Fate and Transport in the Environment, Risk Assessment, Air Pollution, and Environmental Application of Systems Analysis and Information Technology. Research results and the developed models have been applied to the pollution control planning, management of soil and groundwater contamination, and coastal environmental protection.

Air Pollution Control, Soil and Groundwater Remediation Design, Management of Emerging Water and Air Contaminants, Geomatics-Based Environmental Risk Assessment, Environmental Modeling and Optimization under Uncertainty, Model-Based Environmental Decision Support.

Fawzi Banat is a Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI). After obtaining his chemical engineering Doctorate at McGill University, Canada, in 1995, he taught at several universities before joining the PI in 2011. He has published over 120 papers in reputed journals and served in many scientific committees.

fundamentals of multi-component mass transfer, membrane separations applied to desalination and wastewater treatment, renewable energy and gas treatment.

Dr. Alraeesi is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Chair of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at College of Engineering, UAE University. He earned his Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from UAEU. He joined the university as Teaching Assistant. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA. Dr. Alraeesi was an active member in UAE University council in the period of February 2011 until February 2013, and recently he is in the National Faculty Development Program committee. His research interest is in inorganic palladium-based catalytic membrane reactors and Hydrogen related processes. He is teaching several courses including Engineering Thermodynamics, Physical Chemistry and Engineering Applications I & II, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, and Reactor Design, in addition to supervision and coordination of senior design projects. He served as a college coordinator for engineering thermodynamics course in the period of August 2010 until July 2014. Current research interest emphasizes on the modeling of hydrogenation reactions in the palladium-based membrane reactors. The research area extended to address the deposition of conventional catalysts on the surface of palladium membranes and consequently the impact of hydrogen permeability on the stability of catalysts.

Hydrogen Energy Palladium-Based Membrane Reactors Reaction Engineering

Currently a TPL (RE/PE) Senior Specialist at Subsurface Team of R&T Group at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Prior to this, he occupied a number of both industrial and academic positions in UK. He holds a First Class Honors BEng in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D in Steam-foam drive process in EOR from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has had over 30 years of academic, industrial and research experiences mainly associated with the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. He is currently the EOR Cluster Leader within the Subsurface Team. The job involves advanced technology screening and implementation for relevant Reservoir subsurface challenges and adopting the most efficient and economic ones to address them. Major Area of interest: EOR, Reservoir monitoring and simulation, Uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization.

EOR, Reservoir monitoring and simulation, Uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization.

Rahman's background in multiphase flow experiments and CFD of both academic (fundamental) and industrial (applied) research contributions have been documented in more than 90 refereed journals and conference proceedings. In recognition of his high-quality research endeavors, Rahman has been awarded several multimillion-dollar grants from organizations such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Newfoundland Research & Development Corp and Qatar Foundation. He has been involved in a number of research collaborations with companies, including Intecsea, Rasgas, Total, NEL, Syncrude Canada, GRI simulations, C-Core, Petroleumsoft and Coanda Research & Development Corp. He is also involved in with a number of professional organizations, including SPE, ASME and CSME. He is a registered Profession Engineer in Alberta, Canada.

1. Abnormal flow and its effect on structural integrity. 2. LNG fire, pool fire and domino effects 3. Gas kick in Managed Pressure Drilling 4. Pipeline and wellbore leak detection 5. Horizontal, vertical, and inclined multiphase flow assurance in pipelines and wellbores 6. Slug flow, hydrate flow, bubble dominated flow, and droplet laden flow. 7. Artificial gas lift 8. Multiphase flow through porous media 9. CFD using ANSYS platform 10. Multiphase flow metering

Ridha Gharbi has over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, ranging from research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering. He has published extensively in refereed journals and technical conferences. Ridha Gharbi holds a B.Sc. from the University of Tulsa (1987), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (1989 and 1993, respectively) all of which are in petroleum engineering. He was the Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Kuwait University from 2004 to 2008. Ridha Gharbi served as editor-in-chief, associate editor, a member of the Editorial Board and/or reviewer of several international technical journals and sponsor agencies. He was the founder of the petroleum engineering graduate program at Kuwait University and the co-founder of the joint-graduate program between the department of petroleum engineering and the department of earth and environmental sciences.

EOR, Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Numerical Simulation, and Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Abdulrazag Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., Agip Oil Company, and the Petroleum Research Centre of Libya. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, environmental aspects of petroleum production, and petroleum contracts. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Professor Zekri is currently working as a professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Enhanced Oil Recovery, Environmental Problems Associated with Oil and Gas Production, Fluid Flow in Porous Media.

Chen Qinghua, teaching structural geology, basin analysis and general geology since 1982,doing petroleum exploration research work, since 1986.

Reservoir Characterization, petroleum exploration, Structural Geology, Basin Analysis and General Geology.

Dr. Gamal Alusta received his B.Sc. degree from Tripoli University-Libya, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees from the Heriot Watt University-UK. Dr. Gamal A. Alusta obtained his PhD & MPhil both in petroleum engineering. Dr. Alusta worked for Repsol (Akakus) oil operations-Libya, as a Senior Reservoir Engineering from August 3rd 1997 to March 5th 2008, where He also spent some time in the Drilling and Workover departments. He worked closely with Geoscientists, Drilling engineers and Production engineers to perform various activities both in the office and on-site. He also worked as a Petroleum Engineer at Woodside Energy North Africa in Libya from March 11th –Sep. 25th 2008. Currently He is working as Program Director for the Master of Petroleum Engineering and an Assistant Professor in Petroleum Engineering at United Arab Emirates University, UAE. This involves teaching various undergraduate and graduate courses in petroleum engineering and related areas. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Dr. Alusta has completed a number of research projects in the area of EOR to International Petroleum Industries.

Formation damage, Drilling mud evaluation, well test interpretation in order to estimate the skin. Integrating reservoir simulation and economic modelling to assist with decision making between EOR projects and infill well drilling to extend field life and linking dynamic simulation with economic. Mechanism of Low Salinity Water Flooding to Improve Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs.

Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah obtained his BTech (Hons) degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1995. He served in several industries as quality and production engineers for nearly 4 years prior to the commencement of his study at master level in 1998. He received his MSc in the year 2000 in the field of Chemical Process Technology. Four years later, he received his doctorate degree in the field of chemical engineering, specializing in catalysis and reaction engineering. His PhD study was supported by the National Science Fellowship provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Malaysia. Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah is a registered chemist with the Malaysian Institute of Chemistry and has so far published a number of research papers in refereed international and local journals. He also actively engaged in several consultancy works on environmental engineering projects with local industries. His current research areas are catalysis, wastewater engineering and renewable fuels. Presently, there are 8 post-graduate students completing their MSc or PhD thesis under his supervision. Among awards won by him are the Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Best Thesis Award 2004 and Gold Award at the Malaysian Institute of Higher Learning Research and Development Exhibition 2005. He is also actively involved in community services as the trainer for the Malaysian’s National Service Program.

Catalysis, microporous and mesoporous materials, reaction engineering, wastewater engineering.

Dr. Rintu Banerjee is an professor at Agricultural & Food Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her Research Areas maily focuses on Food Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Enzymology & its Biotechnological applications, Protein Chemistry. She has achieved many Awards & Honours. She has done many International and National publications in the Journals. She has gone through scientific research areas and some scientific projects too.

Food Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Enzymology & its Biotechnological applications, Protein Chemistry.

Mr. Abdelkrim Abourriche is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at National School of Applied Sciences in Safi, Morocco. Abourriche’s specialist areas are the development of original natural resources such as Moroccan oil shale. He also worked as Project Manager entitled: Solvent Extraction of organic matter of oil shale. Study and Promotion of the oils produced. This project is funded by Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology. In 2008 he took on the role of Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at National School of Applied Sciences Safi. He is the author of over 30 publications in international journals and conference proceedings refereed and a hundred oral presentations or by posters.

Extraction of oil shale, Carbone fibres, microporous and mesoporous materials

Dr. Diji obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan in 2008, Masters of Science degree (MSc) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan in 1997 and a Bachelors of Science (B.Sc) from the Obafemi Awolowo University (Formerly University of Ife) in 1987. He has a professional postgraduate qualifying Diploma in Management Consultancy practice and Organizational Transformation of the International Professional Managers Association (IPMA – Uk). He is currently a senior lecturer and ag. Head of department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I currently teach courses in Thermo – fluids, material science, production technology and entrepreneurship as well as energy studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He also serves as an associate lecturer in two major academic Centre’s of the University of Ibadan: Centre for Sustainable Development (CESDEV) and the Centre for Petroleum, Economics, Energy and Law (CPEEL). His core competences are in energy studies, environment and small business development.

Thermo – fluids, Petroleum, Energy and Law, material science, production technology

Faraj Ahmad ALSulaiman is a chief geologist in the field division of petroleum engineering for North Oil Company, Ministry of Oil, Kirkuk, Iraq. He received his BSc. Degree from Mosul University in general geology, and received MSc. And PhD. Degree in structural geology from Baghdad university, in 1989 and 1998 respectively. Since 2000, he joined North Oil Company as supervisor for logging operation and interpretation. In addition to his work in North Oil Company he worked as lecturer in Tikrit and Kirkuk universities.

Formation water, Salinity variation, Hemrin oilfield, Hemrin anticline, Hydrochemical ratio.

Mr. Muhammad Usman, Former Director General of Agricultural Research System, Government of Pakistan who retired from service after a spotless career of about 35 years with senior level experience on research and development of integrated agricultural industries with regard to livestock and dairy development, poultry, aquaculture and apiculture, sustainable agricultural production system, fruits and vegetable, seed and fishery production, bioenergy and Chemical Engineering as well as petroleum engineering & technology. Mr. Usman is basically an agricultural scientist with specialization of agricultural/ chemistry working as plant breeder with regard to the yield and quality of various agricultural crops, released several varieties, presented and published research papers on crops, Aquaculture and Fishery, renewable energy in the different conferences of the world. Mr. Usman established “Prominent Agro Based Industries SDN BHD” in Malaysia and “Foundation for Rural Development in Pakistan”, with primarily aims to work on integrated agricultural project for Rural Development through improvement in agriculture for rehabilitation of affected area.

livestock and dairy development, poultry, aquaculture and apiculture, sustainable agricultural production system, fruits and vegetable, seed and fishery production, bioenergy and Chemical Engineering as well as petroleum engineering & technology.

Lecturer in Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 1986 to 1994 Reader in Earth Sciences, Pondicherry University, India 1994 to 2002 Professor in Earth Sciences, Pondicherry University, India 2002 onwards

Economic Geology, Mineral exploration

Dr. Anurodh Mohan Dayal is Emeritus Scientist and presently working on potential of shale gas in Cambay basin, Gujarat, India. He is working on exploration of Hydrocarbon is Indian sedimentary basins using surface geochemical prospecting technique. During his tenure he worked with various oil companies in India and abroad in their exploration block. He is consultant of shale gas project from Damodar basin, Jammu and Kashmir and hydrocarbon exploration project of Oil Industrial Development Board and Director General of Hydrocarbon, New Delhi. He delivered number of invited talk in India and abroad. He presented his work in various international conference and delivered talk at Melbourne, Australia, Davos, Switzerland, Vancouver, Canada, Tennessee, USA, Köln, Germany, Vienna Austria, China and Italy. He was awarded DAAD fellowship and bilateral Exchange program fellowship from The Royal Society, London, UK. He also received an invitation from French Embassy to visit Institute Physics de Globe, Paris and BRGM, Orleans, France. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed research journals and more than 22 technical reports for the various oil companies. His papers were published in five books. Book on shale gas Exploration, exploitation and impacts to economics and environment has been published by Elsevier in February 2017. Received an invitation to write a book on Alternative Energy in next decade and presently working on that book. He superannuated as Principal scientist in January 2012 and CSIR awarded him the position of Emeritus Scientist post for period of five years to continue his work on shale gas in Cambay basin. He is also working on potential of shale gas in Damodar basins as research project on shale gas as consultant with CMPDI and CIMFR supported by Ministry of Coal and preliminary work on potential of shale gas from Spitti, Karewa and Zanskar basin. This work has been published in an international journal.

Shale Gas, Geo-chemical, Exploration of Hydrocarbon.