1-Minute Petroleum Engineering Ph.D. Student Presentations
Date: Friday, October 22, 2021
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Venue: Room 100, Leonard Hall
The Petroleum Engineering One-Minute Thesis (1MT) celebrates research being done by students in Petroleum Engineering at the University of North Dakota. The competition culminates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills, as each must effectively explain their research in one minute and with only one PowerPoint slide. The competition is organized during the industry Advisory Council meeting (IAC). Each competitor will be assessed by the IAC members and the PE faculty.
| Area | Title | Student | Number |
| EOR | Prediction of Mechanical Properties Alteration in the Bakken Formation Post CO2 Flooding | Ruichong Ni | 1 |
| EOR | Evaluation of Surfactants and CO2-Foam EOR in the Middle Bakken | Tomiwa Oguntade | 2 |
| EOR | Effects of Fractures on CO2 EOR for Bakken Formation | Chenyu Wu | 3 |
| EOR | Evaluation of CO2 EOR in Middle Bakken and Three Forks Formations | Nidhal Badrouchi | 4 |
| EOR | Application of the Carbonated Smart Water Injection as an EOR Method in the Middle Bakken Member | Ilyas Mellal | 5 |
| EOR | Investigate Gas Injection EOR Mechanisms in Red River Reservior | Abes Abdelmalek | 6 |
| EOR | Optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery by Gas Injection in the Bakken Formation | Samual Afari | 7 |
| EOR | The Evaluation of Three Forks Rock Properties Alteration Caused by CO2 EOR | Mohamed Malki | 8 |
| EOR | Effects of Stress Induced Permeability Evolution on Gas EOR in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations | Ailin Assady | 9 |
| EOR | An Integration of Experimental and Petrophysical Analysis for Modeling CO2 Injection EOR in the Three Forks Formation | Billel Sennaoui | 10 |
| EOR | Application of AI and ML in Coupled Fluid Flow – Geomechanics Simulation in Tight Formation during CO2 EOR | Sheida Sheikheh | 11 |
| Gas Storage/Injection | Impacts of CO2 Storage on Geomechanical and Geophysical Properties of the Bakken Formation and Potential for Fault Reactivation | Ogochukwu Ozotta | 12 |
| Gas Storage/Injection | Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Assisted CO2 Storage – An Experimental Study | Claudius Njie | 13 |
| Gas Storage/Injection | Predictive Modeling of Near Wellbore Leakage for Carbon Sequestration | Lotfi Allam | 14 |
| Gas Storage/Injection | Techno Economic Assessment of Gas-injection to Reduce Gas Flaring in the Bakken | Ala Eddine Aoun | 15 |
| Gas Storage/Injection | Underground Gas Storage in the Duperow Formation | Doina Irofti | 16 |
| Gas Storage/Injection | Underground H2 Storage: Reservoir Characterization | Ines Benomar | 17 |
| Drilling | Fishbone Drilling Simulation of Shale Plays Using Underbalanced Coiled Tubing Technology | Habib Ouadi | 18 |
| Drilling | Design of Small Size Downhole Motor for Fishbone Drilling in Shale Plays | Abdelhakim Khouissat | 19 |
| Drilling | Rock Failure Enhancement Using Plasma Shock Waves for Better Simulation of Shale Plays | Aimene Aihar | 20 |
| Drilling | Investigation of Cutting Transportation in Deviated Wellbores | Hamid Reza Rashidi Araghi | 21 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Evaluation of Fluid Leak-Off on Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing Efficiency | Hichem Chellal | 22 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Lattice Simulation of Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Transverse Isotropic Formations | Nourelhouda Benouadah | 23 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Validation of Hydraulic Fractures Modeling Using Microseismity | Mouna Benabid | 24 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Applicability of Schmidt’s Hammer Method for Estimation of Rock’s Elastic Properties | Vasanth Gokapai | 25 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Frac-Hit Simulation for the Bakken Simulation | Oscar Suarez | 26 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Fracture Surface Roughness Effects on Fluid Flow | Ghoulem Ifrene | 27 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Low-Cost Assessment of Individual Fracture Stages through Transient Pressure Analysis | Abdulaziz Ellafi | 28 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Prediction of Stress Shadow in Multistage Hydraulic Fracturing Through Numerical and Analytical Model | Agustinus Zandy | 29 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Proppant Placement Optimization in Multistage Fractured Horizontal Wells for Reservoir Recovery Enhancement | Nadia Mouedden | 30 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Stress Dependent Permeability of Fractured Porous Tight Rocks | Prasad Pothana | 31 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Tip Screen-Out Simulation Using Lattice Formulation | Ahmed Merzoug | 32 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Effects of Oil Production on Stress Change and Refracturing Treatment | Xueling Song | 33 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | Seismic & Machine Learning for 3D Petrophysical & Geomechanical Medel Building Shale Play | Rasaki Salami | 34 |
| HF and Rock Mechanics | A Numerical Investigation into Fracture Hits in Unconventional Reservoirs | Usama Khand | 35 |
| Production | Investigation of Multiphase Flow Performance in Undulating Horizontal Bakken Wells | Youcef Khetib | 36 |
| Production | Modeling of Liquid Loading in Gas Wells | Abderraouf Chemmakh | 37 |
| Production | Optimization of Gas Lift in Unconventional Horizontal Wells | Aimen Laalam | 38 |
| Production | Optimize Scale Treatment in Unconventional Reservoirs | Omar Bakelli | 39 |
| Production | Surface Pipeline Leak Detection Using Real Time Sensor Data Analysis | Francis Idachaba | 40 |
| General | Identifying Sweet Spot for Geothermal Energy in the Williston Basin | Julio Figueroa | 41 |
| General | Optimization for Subsurface System for Economical Energy Production: Unconventional Reservoirs & Geothermal Systems Case Study | Jerjes Porlles Hurtado | 42 |
| General | Applications of Multi-Variate OLS in Oil and Gas: Simple Models for Complicated Processes | Joshua Kroschel | 43 |
| General | Identification and Interpretation of Gas Hydrate Presence and its Implication in the Williston Basin, North Dakota | Mauricio Vasquez | 44 |
| General | Prediction of Total Organiz Content (TOC) In Najmah-Sargelu Reservoirs (Kuwait) Using Machine Learning Techniques | Kim Long Nguyen | 45 |
| General | Methane Infusion in Shale and Tight Formations | Demetrius Maxey | 46 |
