2. Amirkabir University of Technology Department of Petroleum Engineering
دانشکده مهندسی نفت
Amirkabir University of Technology Department of Petroleum Engineering

3. Dr. Farzad Mahboubi
Head of Department

4. History
Founded in 2004
More than 400 graduates since 2006

5. Currently has 2 Academic Groups
Alumni play prominent roles in leading industries and government in Iran

6. Department Overview Collaboration of more than 17 academic staff
Approximately 349 B.Sc. students,
295 M.Sc. students, and 43 Ph.D. students majoring in:
Petroleum Reservoir Engineering,
Exploration Engineering,
Drilling Engineering,
Petroleum Equipment Engineering

7. Activities:
Academic
Research
Student Extra Curriculum

8. Virtual Education: Field: Petroleum Engineering
Trend: Hydrocarbon Reservoir Engineering
Student Admission:
Sep 2011
Sep 2012
Jan 2013
Number of active students: 74

9. Distribution of Students
percent
Male
Female
Total of Students
%83.72
329
%16.28 64
393
Total of University
%89.43
203
%10.57 24
227
Graduate
%75.91
126
%24.09 40
166
B.S.
%89.14
164
%10.86 20
184
M.S.
%80.76 42
%19.23 10 52
Daily
%96.56 56
%3.44 2 58
Second part
%89.19 66
%10.81 8 74
Electronic
%90.70 39
%9.30 4 43
Ph D
57.77%
42.23%

10. Graduate & Under Graduate
B.S. %
Student
57.77%
227
42.23%
166

11. Department Graduates Total Male Female Degree 183 153 30 B.S. 111 9912
M.S. -
PhD
294
252 42

12. Academic Staff
Professors: 3 Associate Professors: 3 Assistant Professors: 7 Guest Professors: 5 Total Members: 18

13. Graduate Courses RESERVOIR GEOSTATISCS, FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOLOGY,
MULTI PHASE FLOW IN WELL BORE,
SPECIAL TOPICS IN PETROLEUM ENG.,
ADVANCED PROGRAMMING,
PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY,
SOLID HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION,
MODELING & SIMULATION,
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR) BY THERMAL METHOOD,
OIL & GAS PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY,
UNCONVENTIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVOIR,
ADVANCED FLUID FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA
ADVANCED ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY,
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN PRODUCTION,
FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOLOGY,
PHASE EQUILIBRIA IN RESERVOIR FLUID,
RESERVOIR MODELING & SIMULATION,
ADVANCED MATHEMATICS,
FRACTURED RESERVOIR ENGINEERING,
GAS RESERVOIR ENGINEERING,
ADVANCED WELL TESTING ANALYSIS,
ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY BY WATER FLOODING & GAS INJECTION,
ADVANCED PRODUCTION ENGINEERING,
FLUID FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA,

14. Graduate Courses
COMPUTER APPLICATION IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION & DERILLING,
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING OF THE WELLS,
OFFSHORE DRILLING, ADVANCED DRILLING FLUID,
SPECIAL TOPICS IN DRILLING,
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN DRILLING,
BLOWOUT CONTROL,
ADVANCED WELL TESTING,
APPLICATION OF ADVANCED ROCK MECHANICS IN PETROLEUM ENGINEERING,
SPECIAL TOPICS IN PRODUCTION ENGINEERING,
GEOSTATISTICAL SPATIAL MODELING OF RESERVOIR
EDUATIONAL SENIOR SEMINAR,,
FUNDAMENTALS OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY,
ADVANCED RESERVOIR ENGINEERING,
WELL COMPLETION& STIMULATION,
WELL COMPLETION STIMULATION,
DRILLING FLUIDS, WELL LOGGING,
TECHNICAL AND ECONOMICAL STUDIES OF PETROLEUM,
FUNDAMENTALS OF DRILLING&PRODUCTION,
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING, ADVANCED DRILLING ENGINEERING,
ADVANCED WELL LOGGING,
SPECIAL COURSES IN PRODUCTION,
PRODUCTION TESTING OF WELLS,
WELL CEMENTING, ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS,

15. Graduate Courses FORMATION ADVANCED GEOPHYSICS, ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY,
PETROPHYSICS,
TECHNICAL AND ECONOMICAL STUDIES OF PETROLEUM,
PETROLEUM GEOLOGY,
PALEONTOLOGY,
SEDIMENTARY BASIN ANALYSIS,
SUBSURFACE GEOLOGY,
OPERATIONS RESEARCH,
SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION,
FORMATION DAMAGE,
COMPUTER APPLICATION IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION,
SPECIAL TOPICS IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION,
GEOSTATISTICS, REMOTE SENSING,
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN MINING,
ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS,
ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING,
SEISMOLOGY SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA PROCESSING,
THEORY OF ELASTIC WAVE PROPAGATION,
SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA INTERPRETATION,
SPECIAL TOPICS IN EXPLORATION ENGINEERING,
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY,
RESERVOIR GEOCHEMISTRY,

16. Graduate Courses GEOLOGY MODELING, WAVE PROPAGATION IN POROUS MEDIA,
ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS,
ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS,
GAS RESERVOIR ENGINEERING,
TWO PHASE FLOW FLUID MECHANICS,
TRANSPORT PHENOMENA,
UNIT OPERATION,
PROCESS CONTROL,
MASS TRANSFER,
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND GAS,
WAVE PROPAGATION IN POROUS MEDIA,
ADVANCED SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING,
MICROPALESNTOLOGY,
ADVANCED PETROLEUM ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY,
ADVANCED PETROPHYSICS,
SEISMIC DATA INTERPRETATION,
SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING,
ADVANCED GEOSTATISTICS, ADVANCED WELL LOGGING,
COMPUTER APPLICATION IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION,
ADVANCED FORMATION EVALUATION,

17. Research Centers and Institutes
Oil , Gas & Petrochemistery research center

18. Areas of Research
1- Production engineering, artificial lift methods design and optimization
2- Artificial Intelligence application in petroleum Engineering
3- PVT & phase behavior of petroleum reservoir fluids
4- Reservoir rocks & fluids properties
5- Surface facilities design
6- modeling of non-Newton fluid flow (Rheology)
7- Seismic noise attenuation
8- Reservoir characterization
9- Seismic imaging
10- Petroleum exploration
11- Petroleum geochemistry Studies
12- Reservoir geochemistry

19. Areas of Research 13- Environmental geochemistry
14- Drilling operation (offshore & onshore)
15- Drilling optimization
16- Petroleum project management
17- Economic engineering & feasibility study in petroleum Industry
18- Risk management in petroleum industry
19- Geomechanical modeling of rock (chemo-thermo-poro elastic)
20- Hydraulic fracturing modeling & design (2D-3D)
21- Wellbore stability
22- Drilling fluid design of shale formation
23- Modeling, simulation and optimal control of oil production under gas coning condition
24- 3-phase separator design

20. Laboratories: 1- Organic Geochemistry Lab Equipment:
1- ROCK EVAL 6 ANALYSER
2- PYRO GC ANALYSER
3- KEROGENATRON
4- VARIAN GC/MS/MS
5- BRUKER TENSOR 27 FT-IR
6- VAIRO ELEMENTAL ANALYZER
7- EXTRACTION SYSTEM B-811
8- HEATED VACUUM DESSICATOR
9- ROTAVAPOR R-210/215

21. Services: a. Source rock evaluation b. Geochemical study of oil
c. Reservoir geochemistry studies
d. Production geochemistry studies
e. Elementary analysis of oil and organic materials

22. 1- ROCK EVAL 6 ANALYSER
2- PYRO GC ANALYSER
3- KEROGENATRON
4- VARIAN GC/MS/MS

23. 5- BRUKER TENSOR 27 FT-IR 6- VAIRO ELEMENTAL ANALYZER 7- EXTRACTION SYSTEM B HEATED VACUUM DESSICATOR 9- ROTAVAPOR R-210/215

24. 2- EOR Lab Equipment: Services: 1- Slim Tube 2- GC
Evaluation of the minimum miscibility pressure (MMP)
The minimum miscibility composition (MMC)
The optimization of injection parameters and composition of lean and enriched gas
The determination of oil in place recovery,
The assessment of sensitivity of experimental conditions on
recovery
Separating and analyzing gases of the reservoir

25. 1- Slim Tube
2- GC

26. 3- Core Analysis Lab Equipment:
Core Cutting Saw
Plugging Machine
Parallel Plug Dressing Machine (Trim Saw)
Precision End Face Grinding Machine
Warm Solvent Extractor Soxhlets
Warm Solvent Extractor Dean-Stark
Gas Permeameter and Porosimeter System (KEYPHI)
Core Flooding System

27. 1- Core Flooding System
2- Gas Permeameter and Porosimeter System (KEYPHI)

28. Services: Core Cutting Core Cleaning Fluid Saturation Determination
Porosity Measurement
Permeability Measurement
Compressibility Measurement
Relative Permeability

29. 4- Drilling Lab Equipment:
Drilling simulator
Coring setup
Viscometer (Fan)
High speed Mixer
PH Meter
Mush Funnel
Sj test setup
S20 Test setup
Services:
Drillability tests
Coring from different rocks
Mud characterization
Core Slabbing

30. 1- Drilling simulator 2- Viscometer (Fan) 3- High speed Mixer 4- PH Meter

31. 5- Mush Funnel 6- Sj test setup 7- S20 Test setup

32. 5-Geomechanic Lab Equipment:
Autonomous triaxial cell
Membrane Efficiency Measurement Equipment
Mud Cake Characterization setup
Services:
Conducting compressive uniaxial and triaxial, deformability, creep, Brazilian,
point load, shear, and the durability tests.
Performing physical and numerical model tests for various geomechanical projects.
Rock mechanic properties
Shale behavior
Mud Cake Characterization 
Embedment resistance and embedment modulus 
Adhesion-cohesion bond strength and adhesion-cohesion modulus
Torsional resistance
Mud cake sticking coefficient

33. 1- Autonomous triaxial cell
2- Mud Cake Characterization setup
3- Membrane Efficiency Measurement Equipment

34. 6- Formation Damage Lab Equipment: Services:
Formation Damage system (FDS350) and accessories
Services:
Liquid permeability measurement
Static filtration test
Mud invasion evaluation
Stimulation test

35. 7- Rock Mechanics Lab Equipment:
The device measures the amount of compressive force
Services:
Measure the compressive strength
Measuring the indirect tensile strength (Brazilian test)
Measurement of bending moment
Indirect tensile test (Brazilian test)
Bending tests
Schmidt Hammer Test
Point load test

36. 8- PVT Lab Equipment: Services: PVT cell Gasometer GC Viscometer
Viscosity
GOR
Bubble point Bo

37. 9- Petrology Lab Equipment: Services: 3 sets of giologiclal Microscope
For educational purposes

38. 10- Petroleum Equipments Lab
Under construction
Services:
For educational purposes

39. Areas of Cooperation:
Joint Supervision of M.Sc. and Ph.D. Research Work.
Joint Establishment of Research Labs.
Joint Research on Projects and Issues of Mutual Interest.
Conduct of Short Courses/Programs.
Field Studies and Visits, with the Purpose of Transfer of Science and Technology.
Providing Field and/or Laboratory Training to Foster the Hands-on Experience for Researchers and Students.
Exchange of Faculty Members for Sabbatical Leave, Research and Educational Collaborations.

40. Areas of Cooperation (continued) :
Holding Scientific Conferences on Topics of Mutual Interest
Providing Ph.D. Scholarship by both Sides for
Teaching Staff & Students
Educational Workshops on Topics of Mutual Interest
Convening Educational Camps on Topics of Mutual Interest

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