Principal Investigator

Hussein Hoteit

Associate Professor​
Physical Science and Engineering Division
Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering (ERPE)

Research Interests: Numerical analysis, Fluid mechanics

Research Scientists

Muhammad Ali, Ph.D.

Research Scientist - Hoteit Group

Research Interests: Gas Geo-storage (H2 and CO2), Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery, Multi-phase Flow Through Porous Media, Wettability and Interfacial Phenomena, Unconventionals (Gas hydrates, Coal, Shale), Nanomaterials, Drilling Fluid Rheology, Reservoir Characterization

Mouadh Addassi, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: CO2 sequestration, Mineral characterization, Carbon Mineralization, Reactive transport modeling

Postdoctoral Fellows

Manojkumar Gudala

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Mathematical and numerical modeling, Flow through porous and fracture media, Geothermal reservoir modeling (THM modeling), Machine Learning, Deep learning

Narendra Kumar Rawat

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Enhanced oil recovery, CO2 Geo-sequestration, Interfacial phenomenon (Surfactants, Polymers, Nanoparticles), Flow through Porous Media

PhD Students

Hussain Alqahtani

PhD Student

Research Interests: C02 storage reservoirs, Reservoir Characterization, Reservoir modeling, petrophysical data, Digital core analysis, Machine Learning, predictive modeling, subsurface storage assessment, Carbon capture and Storage, computational techniques

Maria Alejandra Ortiz

PhD Student

Research Interests: Energy Transition, CO2 sequestration, Critical Raw Materials

Shiqi Liu

PhD student

Research Interests: Miscible displacement experiment, Microfluidic displacement experiment, Fracture-cavity flow mechanism

Samuel Fontalvo Guzman

PhD Student

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir simulation, Improved/Enhanced Oil Recovery, Waterflooding

Yousef Ameen

PhD Student

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Enhanced oil recovery, CO2 sequestration

Yongchun Zhu

PhD Student

Research Interests: oil-gas field development, gas injection miscible displacement, microfluidic displacement experiment

Yina Liu

PhD Student

Research Interests: Reservoir simulation, multi-physics coupling simulation, Machine Learning

Fawaz Alboghail

PhD Student

Research Interests: ·       Petro-physics, Reservoir Characterization, CO2 sequestration

Marwan Almulhim

PhD Student

Norah Aljeban

PhD Student

Research Interests: Underground Hydrogen Storage, Natural Hydrogen trapping Mechanism

HAMOUD ALQAHTANI

PhD student

Research Interests: Carbon capture and Storage, CCS, Enhanced oil recovery, EOR, Simulation, Experimental design

Mauricio Lozano

PhD Student in Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests: Reservoir modeling, Enhanced oil recovery, Energy Transition, CO2 storage

Simon Zougheib

PhD Student

Research Interests: Reservoir & Simulation modelling, Predicting & Enhancing Production, IOR/EOR

Lingai GUO

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Hydro-mechanical process, numerical modeling, mixed finite element method, non-conforming method, hydraulic fracturing

Martin Hocherl

MS Student

Research Interests: Dilational Interfacial Rheology under elevated pressure, supercritical CO2, material properties under process conditions, in-situ foam stability

Ali Alhubail

PhD Student - ERPE - Hoteit Group

Research Interests: Production Engineering, Production Optimization, Well Completion, High power laser, EM Waves-Rock Interaction, Unconventional Stimulation Techniques

Abdulwahab Alqahtani

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Enhanced oil recovery, AI

Abdullah Al Omier

PhD student – Chemical Engineering (CE) Program

Research Interests: enhanced gas recovery, gas condensate dropout, phase change behavior, molecular diffusion modeling, EOS, Multiphase flow in porous media, microfluidics

Abdirizak Omar

Ph.D. Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: CO2 storage, Reactive transport modeling, CO2 EOR

Miguel Corrales

Ph.D. Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Reservoir simulation, CO2 sequestration

Amer Alanazi

Ph.D. Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: Chemical enhanced oil recovery, CO2 EOR, Micromodels, Core flooding experiments, Reservoir & Simulation modelling

Hussain Aldaif

Ph.D. Student - ERPE Program​​

Research Interests: CO2 injection, Enhanced oil recovery, Tight reservoirs, fractured reservoirs, streamline, CRM

Evgeny Ugolkov

MS Student -ERPE Program

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering

Mutaz Alsubhi

PhD Student - ERPE Program- Hoteit Group

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Enhanced oil recovery

Enoc Basilio

PhD student, ERPE -program

Research Interests: Multiphase flow in porous media, Experimental design, Improved oil recovery, Carbon capture and sequestration, Geothermal energy

Masters Students

Turki Alzarea

Master Student

Research Interests: Drilling Fluid Rheology, Reservoir modeling

Akshith Suresh

Master Student

Research Interests: Reservoir Engineering, Drilling Engineering, Production Engineering & Optimization, Carbon capture and Storage, Geothermal reservoir modeling (THM modeling), Petrology

Zakaria Alghamdi

Master Student

Research Interests: Carbon capture and Storage, Energy efficiency, Sustainable Energy, Flow assurance, Multiphase flow

Rayhan Nugroho

MS student

Research Interests: Geomodelling, Carbon Sequestration, Structural Geology

Ali Alabdrabulrasul

Masters Student

Research Interests: fluid flow in porous media, acid stimulation, Reservoir simulation, CO2 sequestration, physics-informed neutral networks, Artificial intelligence application in subsurface porous media, Mathematical methods in subsurface engineering

Faris Alotaibi

Master Student

Research Interests: C02 sequestration, Carbon capture and Storage, C02 mineralization

Mariia Solodiankina

Master Student

Research Interests: Modeling, Enhanced oil recovery, Reservoir Engineering

Visiting/Intern student

Sitti Nur Asnin

Visiting student

Research Interests: Geochemistry, pressure transient analysis, CO2 storage, Geothermal

Jin Shu

Visiting Student

Research Interests: wellbore - reservoir coupling models, semi-analytical models, data-driven proxy models, optimization algorithm, intelligence control mechanism

Visiting Faculty

Eric Oelkers

Visiting Professor - Professor of Geochemistry

Research Interests: Carbon Storage, Experimental Geochemistry, Mineral Reactivity, Mineral-Fluid Interactions, Reactive Transport Modelling