Academic Rank : Assistant

            Major :Petroleum Processing

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• Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2008-2013
• M.Sc. in Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2006-2008
• B.Sc. in Petroleum reservoir engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz, Iran, 2001-2005

• Ph.D. visiting studentship, Montan University of Leoben, Austria
• Compositional reservoir simulation, Heinemann Oil GmbH
• Fluid flow simulation in fractured reservoir, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry
• Advanced practical reservoir simulation, Sharif University of Technology
• PVT laboratory systems training, Sharif University of Technology

• Compositional reservoir simulation, black oil, fractured reservoir simulation
• Fluid phase behavior, modeling, and experiments (PVT cell and Slim tube), thermodynamics of hydrocarbon
• Practical implementation of control-volume finite element and control volume finite difference discretization in the problem involving flow through porous media.
• Reservoir simulator software development (developed different options in commercial and non-commercial reservoir simulators (including diffusion, multiphase equilibrium, miscibility options, black oil PVT handling, well management) (programming language FORTRAN, C#, MATLAB)
• lectures accompanied with programing of scientific codes regarding numerical simulation of two phases, three phase, black oil, and compositional models.

• for asphaltene precipitation and deposition from the reservoir fluid
• Team management and software development for detailed screening and optimization of EOR processes
• Team management and software development for scale precipitation from formation water
• Team management and software development for wax precipitation from the reservoir fluid

• First rank professor in educational excellence, School of Chemical Engineering, Petroleum and Natural gas, Iran University of Science and Technology
• Scholarship: National Elite Foundation, 2014-2015
• First rank: Ph.D. entrance examination
• First rank: high school, National Organization for Talented Students

• Reviewer (Distinguished reviewer): Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology. Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran.
• Reviewer: Petroleum Research, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran.
• Reviewer: Engineering Education Journal, National Academy of Science. Tehran, Iran.
• Reviewer: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
• Reviewer: Ingeniería y Ciencia
• Reviewer (Distinguished reviewer): Fluid Phase Equilibria
• Reviewer: Computational Geoscience
• Reviewer: Natural Resources Research
• Reviewer: Industrial Engineering Chemistry
• Reviewer: Fuel and Energy
• Reviewer: SPE Journal
• Reviewer: SPE Reservoir Evaluation

• Assistant professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2013 onward
• Hydrocarbon thermodynamics and compositional simulation consultant, Heinemann Oil GmbH, Austria, 2011-2012
• Reservoir engineer, Heinemann Oil GmbH, 2011, Leoben Austria
• Reservoir engineer, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, 2009-2011
• Reservoir fluid phase behavior, teaching assistant 2007-2012 (each year two semesters)

• Reservoir fluid phase behavior, graduate level
• Fractured reservoir engineering, graduate level
• Advanced reservoir simulation, graduate level
• Fluid flow through porous media, graduate level
• Reservoir fluid phase behavior, undergraduate level
• Reservoir simulation training courses for petroleum industry
• Enhanced oil recovery, graduate level
• Fundamental of reservoir engineering, undergraduate level
• Thermodynamic II, undergraduate level
• Thermodynamic I, undergraduate level
• Advanced thermodynamic, graduate level
• Thermodynamic modeling of special systems, graduate level

• Ph.D. Thesis: Development of an object-oriented framework for compositional reservoir simulation with dynamic component retrieval: Mehdi Assareh under supervision of Cyrus Ghotbi and Mahmoodreza Pishvaie, Zoltan Heinemann (consultant) Sharif University, Tehran Iran. (2013)
• M.Sc. Thesis: Fluid phase behavior modeling for Iranian South-west petroleum reservoir using SAFT equation of state and comparison with cubic equations of state: Mehdi Assareh under supervision of Cyrus Ghotbi and Mohsen Masihi, Sharif university of technology, Tehran, Iran. (2007)
• B.Sc. Thesis: Thermodynamic analysis of gas condensate reservoir: Mehdi Assareh under supervision of Mohammad Jamialahmad, Petroleum university of technology, Ahwaz, Iran. (2003)

• Thermodynamic modeling of wax precipitation using PC-SAFT+UNIQUAC
• Investigation of Diffusion Mechanism during Miscible Gas Injection in Fractured Reservoir
• Determination of optimized oil production and water injection in a matured fractured oil field
• Ph.D. thesis: Comprehensive screening tool of Enhanced oil recovery technique,
• Asphaltene precipitation modeling using statistical EOS with multi-component analysis of asphaltene phase in a multi-solid framework using PC-SAFT
• Asphaltene precipitation modeling using statistical EOS with multi-component analysis of asphaltene phase in a solid solution framework
• A new method for the Calculation of Minimum miscibility enrichment
• Static and dynamic upscaling of gas injection in oil reservoirs
• development of a new dynamic upscaling technique using data driven models
• Improved phase behavior modeling of petroleum reservoir using statistical EOS.
• Modeling of surfactant aided gravity drainage and reinfiltration in water invaded zone of carbonate reservoir.
• Molecular phase and cross phase diffusion in naturally fractured reservoir
• Development of an Optimized Design for a Down-hole Water Loop in an Oil Production Well
• Optimized Design for Down-hole Water Sink: An Efficient Solution to Control Water in an Oil Production Well
• Scheduling of Gas Recycling in Gas Condensate Reservoirs with Stochastic Optimization
• Placement Optimization of Production and Injection Wells Using Parallel Genetic Algorithm in a Case Study
• Modeling of scale deposition because of mixing see water and formation water using Pitzer model and e-PC-SAFT.
• Development of an optimized schedule for cyclic water injection
• Modeling of CO2 and gas plant exhaust gas solubility in formation brine using ePC-SAFT.
• Evaluation of carbon water injection in fractured reservoir for EOR and sequestration using single matrix block models.
• Development of a new modeling technique for wax precipitation modeling using PC-SAFT.
• Development of a new modeling technique for asphaltene precipitation modeling using PC-SAFT in gas injection process.
• Modeling of elemental sulfur precipitation from high pressure natural gas

• Cooperation in Iranian Reservoir simulator development project
  • Compositional equation system optimization
  • Diffusion implementation
  • Equilibrium calculation routines
  • Compositional initialization
  • Compositional well management in simulation
  • Non-equilibrium reservoir initialization
• Cooperation in preparation of the equation of state fluid model data bank for Iranian offshore oil company
• Serajeh, underground gas storage
• Balal fractured oil field simulation
• South pars oil layer simulation study
• South pars gas condensate compositional simulation
• Sabah fractured field production scheduling
• Intisar - A fluid characterization
• Intisar- E fluid characterization
• Waha - fluid characterization
• Harash - fluid characterization
• Fidda - fluid characterization