News

Paper SPE 169272, Well Placement Optimization Constrained to Minimum Well Spacing , will be presented at the LAPEC 2014 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on May 21 2014.


Congratulations to Zaeem Khan, Ali Nemer and Saad Mehmood on the ocassion of their MS Thesis defense. We wish them the best in their future careers (December 2013).

Principal Investigator

Dr. Abeeb Awotunde

Associate Prof.: Sep 2016 - Now

Assistant Prof.: Sep 2010 - Sep 2016

KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

Email: awotunde@kfupm.edu.sa

 

 

 

 

 

Education

Ph.D Petroleum Engineering, Stanford U. 2010

MS Petroleum Engineering, King Fahd U. 2006

BSc. Petroleum Engineering, Univ. of Ibadan 2002

 

Office Location

Building 76, Room 2125

Office Line: (966) 13 860 7560

 

Research Interests

Reservoir Simulation

Inverse Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis

Well Placement Optimization

Integrated Field Development Studies

Well Test Analysis

Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport

 

Professional Services

Associate Editor, Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering

Session Chair, Session 12: Numerical Modeling for Fractured Reservoirs, Middle East Oil and Gas Show (MEOS), Bahrain, 2017

Member Steering Committee, SPE Workshop on Characterisation and Management of Naturally-Fractured Reservoirs (CMNFR),  Bahrain, 2016

Session Co-Chair, Session 4: Fractured Reservoir Simulation, SPE Workshop on CMNFR, Bahrain, 2016

Session Co-Chair, Session 5: Fractured Reservoir Management, SPE Workshop on CMNFR, Bahrain, 2016

Co-organizer of the Technical Sympossium titled Model Based Reliable Forecasting: Issues, Challenges and Solution Approaches, at the SIAM Conference on the Mathematical Issues in Geosciences, California 2015

Member Techincal Committee, SPE-SAS Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Saudi Arabia, 2014