Amirkabir University of Technology Department of Petroleum Engineering دانشکده مهندسی نفت Amirkabir University of Technology Department of Petroleum Engineering www.aut.ac.ir http://petroleum.aut.ac.ir

Dr. Farzad Mahboubi Head of Department

History Founded in 2004 More than 400 graduates since 2006

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

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

Activities: Academic Research Student Extra Curriculum

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

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%

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

Department Graduates Total Male Female Degree 183 153 30 B.S. 111 99 12 M.S. - PhD 294 252 42

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

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,

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,

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,

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,

Research Centers and Institutes Oil , Gas & Petrochemistery research center

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

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

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

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

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

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

1- Slim Tube 2- GC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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