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Amirkabir University of TechnologyDepartment of Petroleum Engineering

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www.aut.ac.irhttp://petroleum.aut.ac.ir

دانشکده مهندسی نفت

Dr. Farzad MahboubiHead of Department

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History

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Founded in 2004

More than 400 graduates since 2006

Currently has 2 Academic GroupsAlumni play prominent roles in leading

industries and government in Iran

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Department Overview

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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

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Academic

Research

Student Extra Curriculum

Activities:

Virtual Education:

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Field: Petroleum EngineeringTrend: Hydrocarbon Reservoir

EngineeringStudent Admission:Sep 2011Sep 2012Jan 2013Number of active students: 74

Distribution of Students

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percent Male percent 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 M.S.Daily

%96.56 56 %3.44 2 58 M.S.Second part

%89.19 66 %10.81 8 74 M.S.Electronic

%90.70 39 %9.30 4 43 Ph D

57.77% 227 Graduate 42.23% 166 B.S.

Graduate & Under Graduate

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Graduate B.S.% Student % Student

57.77% 227 42.23% 166

Department Graduates

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Total Male Female Degree183 153 30 B.S.111 99 12 M.S.

- - - PhD294 252 42 Total

Academic Staff

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

Graduate Courses

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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,

RESERVOIR GEOSTATISCS, 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,

Graduate Courses

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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,

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

Graduate Courses

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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,

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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,

GEOLOGY MODELING, 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,

Graduate Courses

Research Centers and Institutes

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•Oil , Gas & Petrochemistery research center

Areas of Research

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1- Production engineering, artificial lift methods design and optimization

2- Artificial Intelligence application in petroleum Engineering3- PVT & phase behavior of petroleum reservoir fluids4- Reservoir rocks & fluids properties5- Surface facilities design6- modeling of non-Newton fluid flow (Rheology)7- Seismic noise attenuation8- Reservoir characterization9- Seismic imaging10- Petroleum exploration11- Petroleum geochemistry Studies 12- Reservoir geochemistry

Areas of Research

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13- Environmental geochemistry 14- Drilling operation (offshore & onshore)15- Drilling optimization16- Petroleum project management17- Economic engineering & feasibility study in

petroleum Industry18- Risk management in petroleum industry 19- Geomechanical modeling of rock (chemo-thermo-

poro elastic)20- Hydraulic fracturing modeling & design (2D-3D)21- Wellbore stability22- Drilling fluid design of shale formation23- Modeling, simulation and optimal control of oil

production under gas coning condition24- 3-phase separator design

Laboratories:

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1- Organic Geochemistry Lab Equipment:

1- ROCK EVAL 6 ANALYSER2- PYRO GC ANALYSER 3- KEROGENATRON4- VARIAN GC/MS/MS5- BRUKER TENSOR 27 FT-IR 6- VAIRO ELEMENTAL ANALYZER 7- EXTRACTION SYSTEM B-811 8- HEATED VACUUM DESSICATOR 9- ROTAVAPOR R-210/215

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Services:

a. Source rock evaluationb. Geochemical study of oilc. Reservoir geochemistry studiesd. Production geochemistry studiese. Elementary analysis of oil and organic materials

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1- ROCK EVAL 6 ANALYSER

2- PYRO GC ANALYSER

3- KEROGENATRON

4- VARIAN GC/MS/MS

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5- BRUKER TENSOR 27 FT-IR

6- VAIRO ELEMENTAL ANALYZER 7- EXTRACTION SYSTEM B-811 8- HEATED VACUUM DESSICATOR

9- ROTAVAPOR R-210/215

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2- EOR Lab Equipment:1- Slim Tube 2- GC Services: 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 onrecovery Separating and analyzing gases of the reservoir

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1- Slim Tube

2- GC

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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

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1- Core Flooding System

2- Gas Permeameter and Porosimeter System (KEYPHI)

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Services:

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

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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

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1- Drilling simulator

2- Viscometer (Fan)

3- High speed Mixer

4- PH Meter

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5- Mush Funnel

6- Sj test setup

7- S20 Test setup

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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

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1- Autonomous triaxial cell

2- Mud Cake Characterization setup

3- Membrane Efficiency Measurement Equipment

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6- Formation Damage Lab

Equipment: Formation Damage system (FDS350) and accessories

Services: Liquid permeability measurement Static filtration test Mud invasion evaluation Stimulation test

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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

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8- PVT Lab Equipment: PVT cell Gasometer GC Viscometer

Services: Viscosity GOR Bubble point Bo

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9- Petrology Lab

Equipment: 3 sets of giologiclal Microscope

Services: For educational purposes

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10- Petroleum Equipments Lab

Equipment: 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.

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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

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