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University of Wyoming

Graduate Student Research supported by EORI

Prasenjit Banerjee

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Owen Phillips
Proposed thesis title: “Pollution, Reputation, and Incentive Compatibility.” (Working on solving injectivity estimates, improving scoping data, and re-estimating scoping model).

Seyed Hamidreza Ghazizadeh Behzadi

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Towler
Proposed thesis title: “ASP-WAG A New Enhanced Oil Recovery Method”.

Amy Brandvik

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Vladimir Alvarado
EORI Advisor: Dr. Geoff Thyne
Proposed thesis title: "Effects of Brine Chemistry on Two-Phase Dynamics in Aqueous-Phase Based EOR" (Mechanisms of adjusted water chemistry, known as Low Salinity waterflloding).

Ben Cook

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Owen Phillips
Proposed thesis title: “Three essays on the Capture, Utilization, and Regulation of Carbon” (Focussing on injectivity and risk analysis (probability) and carbon credit issues).

Samiha El-Sayed

M.S. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Vladimir Alvarado
EORI Advisor: Dr. Glen Murrell
Proposed thesis title: "Geological Interpretation of Waterflooding Response in Wyoming Reservoirs" (Screening criteria development).

Panqing Gao

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Towler
Proposed thesis title: “Enhanced Oil Recovery in the South Slattery Minnelusa Reservoir”.

Mahdi Kazempour

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Vladimir Alvarado
EORI Advisor: Dr. Geoff Thyne
Proposed thesis title: "Recovery Mechanisms of Alkaline Components in Chemical Flooding" (Modeling of Alkaline-Polymer flooding).

Kaspars Krutkramelis

M.S. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Mac Radosz
Proposed thesis title: "CO2 Separation From Flue Gas Using Carbonaceous Sorbents  - Pilot Experiments"

Nina Loahardjo

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Norm Morrow
Proposed thesis title: “Wettability Alteration by Changing the Brine Injection Composition on Waterflooding for Mixed-Wet Sandstone and Limestone to Improve Oil Recovery”.

Mehrnoosh Moradi Bidhendi

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Vladimir Alvarado
Proposed thesis title: "Interfacial and Dispersed Flow Effects in Chemical Flooding Recovery" (ASP flood design).

Mark Newcomb

M.S. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Owen Phillips
Proposed thesis title: “Financing Pipeline Infrastructure for Enhanced Oil Recovery”.

Michael Presho

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Victor Ginting
EORI Advisor: Shaochang Wo
Proposed thesis title: Michael is currently studying the uncertainty effects of fractures and deformation bands on fluid flow. Will form more concrete thesis title this spring.

Hui Pu

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Norm Morrow
Proposed thesis title: "Recovery of Crude Oil from Outcrop and Reservoir Sandstone by Low Salinity Waterflooding”.

Behrooz Raeesi

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Piri
Proposed thesis title: "Experimentation and modeling of gas evolution in porous media: Application to solution-gas drive".

Arelys Salazar

M.S. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Vladimir Alvarado
EORI Advisor: Dr. Geoff Thyne
Proposed thesis title: "Chemical Flooding Opportunities in Wyoming" (Design of Alkaline-Flooding formulation for Minnelusa Reservoirs).

Wei Wang

M.S. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Norm Morrow
Proposed thesis title: No title settled on yet.

Xiuyu Wang

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Vladimir Alvarado
Proposed thesis title: Does not receive funding from EORI, but her work on emulsion stability impacts several EORI supported programs. She has also trained and assisted several EORI supported students.

Nico Wibisono

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Hertanto Adidharma
Proposed thesis title: "Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Interfacial Phenomena in CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery”.

Siluni Wickramathilaka

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Norm Morrow
Proposed thesis title: "Oil Recovery by Spontaneous Imbibition from Naturally Fractured Reservoirs”.

Winoto Winoto

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Mac Radosz
Proposed thesis title: "Compressible Near Critical Solutions of Styrene-Diene Diblock Copolymers in Propane".

Arsalan Zolfaghari Shahrak

Ph.D. Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Piri
Proposed thesis title: "Pore-scale network modeling of three-phase flow in mixed-wet systems using thermodynamically consistent threshold capillary pressures".