Engineer Chemical Engineering

Hossein Jahediesfanjani, U.S. Citizen, Married with two children

***** ********* **. ***: 240-***-****

Clarksburg, MD, 20871

Email: **********@*****.***,

Work Experiences

Dec -2010 to Date: Senior Reservoir Engineer, Cherokee Nation Business, LynexNet, Contractor assigned to USGS, Reston-VA.

Supervisor: Peter Warwick, ********@****.***

-- Assigned to the USGS CO2 Team as a senior reservoir engineer. The main accomplishments include:

1. Support the CO2 team with any task related to advanced reservoir/petroleum engineering including but not limited to performing material balance, optimizing well spacing, location and rates, CO2 sweep improvement and reservoir fluid mobility control.

2. Detailed analysis, simulation and literature investigation of waterflood and CO2 EOR operations in over 70 currently under CO2-EOR oil reservoirs in the U.S. basins including Permian. This includes Decline Curve Analysis (DCA) and Prophet simulation to estimate additional oil recoveries and CO2 storage capacity due to CO2 EOR.

3. Assessing oil reservoirs including Residual Oil Zones (ROZs) for their potential additional oil recovery and CO2 injection and storage capacity due to CO2 EOR operation.

4. Developing methodology to investigate miscible and immiscible CO2 EOR operations considering their MMP and other properties.

5. Support the CO2 team regarding building oil/gas, CO2 and He data bases.

6. Leading Reservoir simulation of CO2 injection/brine extraction processes in saline formations activities using Tough2 simulation software packages.

7. Team work in interpreting different types of well logs, well test, PVT and relative permeability data as required by investigated projects and project supervisors.

8. Help in performing economic analysis in CCS projects

9. Research, simulation and study the additional recovery factors due to CO2 EOR in Oil reservoirs.

10. Analyze and investigate the economic aspects of the CCS operation.

11. Preparing summaries, presentations and reports on various reservoir engineering research aspects. (over 120 presentations and 35 reports and papers on various relevant research subjects).

Oct-2007 to Apr-2010: Reservoir Engineer, Schlumberger, Milan-Italy.

Supervisor: Schlumberger Italy Ltd.

-- Assigned to the Eni-Algerian reservoir study group in Eni site. Responsible for supporting the Eni operations and activities on the Algerian oil/gas fields such as El-Merk, Rom, Rod, EME, Zia, and other fields. The main achievements also included to:

1. Support the primary oil/gas reservoir simulation (Eclipse 100 and 300 and Petrel). This included constructing the reservoir models, geological modifications, and evaluating primary wells behavior in the model. PVT, Scal, and reservoir rock analysis.

2. Reservoir history matching. This included reservoir modifications to fit the well-test and RCI results for each well.

3. Evaluating various forecast scenarios

4. Investigating potential CO2 EOR method to enhance oil production in El-Merk field.

5. Production analysis (using OFM), reserve estimation and economy investigation of the studied fields.

May-2006 to Oct-2007: Reservoir Engineer, Schlumberger, Port Harcourt-Nigeria.

Supervisor: Schlumberger Nigeria Ltd.

-- Assigned to the Shell and Chevron field development studies in their Nigerian fields. The main themes of this assignment include:

1. Single well performance evaluations and analysis.

2. Conduct research in applications of the stochastic techniques in the reservoir studies.

3. Simulation model construction including geological modeling, up-scaling, PVT analysis, and further forecast scenarios.

ay-2005 to Sep-2005: Reservoir Engineer, Schlumberger, College Station, TX, USA.

Supervisor: Li Fan, Schlumberger USA

-- Assigned to the Devon Cotton Valley tight gas study in southern Texas. Achievements:

1. Reservoir simulation model construction.

2. Single well analysis and performance evaluation utilizing various logs.

2. Performing a comprehensive history matching.

Sep-2003 to May-2006: Research and Teaching Assistant, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Supervisor: Faruk Civan, Email: ******@**.***, maybe contacted

-- Research: Conducting research on Coalbed methane, shale gas, and carbonate oil reservoirs. This included theoretical and mathematical modeling, conducting experiments on CO2/N2 sequestration on coal and shale samples, and finally developing appropriate reservoir simulators to include simulate these steps in the reservoir scale.

-- Teaching: Teaching reservoir engineering undergraduate courses; assist in designing class projects utilizing Computer Modeling Group (CMG) reservoir simulation software.

Jan-2002 to Sep-2003: Research Assistant, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Supervisor: A. Hayatdavoudi, ULL University

--Conducting research in well-bore stability in shale formation using water based drilling fluids. This included theoretical and mathematical modeling of effect of various drilling and shale formation components on well-bore stability, conducting series of experimental designs to evaluate the effect of drilling fluid additives on shale stability, and developing computer programs to conduct the calculations and modeling.

Sep-1998 to May-2000: Teaching Assistant, Persian Gulf University at Bushehr, Iran.

--Assist in teaching, exam grading and student class project design and grading for series of undergraduate chemical engineering courses.

Education

PhD in Petroleum Engineering University of Oklahoma (OU) May 2006.

--GPA: 3.8

--Thesis: Effect of Resident Water and Non-Equilibrium Adsorption on Enhanced Coal Gas Recovery by Simultaneous CO2-N2 Injection.

Master of Science in Engineering Management and Petroleum Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL), August 2003.

--GPA: 3.93

--Thesis: Well-Bore Stability Management.

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran, May 2000.

--GPA: 3.38

-- Thesis: Overview of Cryogenic and LNG Systems.

Computer and Software Skills

--Professional in computer programming in MATLAB, VB, and familiar with C++, Fortran, and Paskal,

--Professional in reservoir simulation software packages such as Eclipse, Petrel, Single well modeling software, and familiar with CMG, Embal, Gap, Pipesim, Production engineering software, ArcGIS, Tough2, MRST and EASiTool.

--Familiar with reservoir production and reserve analysis tools (both single well and reservoir levels) such as OFM.

--Professional in Microsoft office, and similar software packages,

Language Skills

--Fluent in English, Farsi, Azeri, and Turkish, and familiar with Italian, and Arabic

Certificates and Trainings

--The statistical analysis of compositional data- application of CoDa Pack and R software packages, USGS, Reston, VA, September 2017.

--Well logging and petrophysical evaluations short course, USGS, Reston, VA, May 2017.

--Tough2 Short Course, Lawrence National Lab, Berkeley, CA, Oct-Nov 2016.

--Reservoir Engineering (RESIM), Schlumberger, Houston, TX, March-April 2007.

--People Management and Project Management, Schlumberger, Houston, TX, May 2007.

--Well-Control, Randy Smith, Lafayette, LA, Jun-Jul 2002.

Publications

- Jahediesfanjani, H., Warwick, P. D. and Anderson, S. T. (2018), Estimating the pressure-limited CO2 injection and storage capacity of the United States saline formations: Effect of the presence of hydrocarbon reservoirs, Journal of Greenhouse Gases Control, 79, 14-24.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., Warwick, P. D. and Anderson, S. T. (2018), A Pressure-Limited Model to Estimate CO2 Injection and Storage Capacity of Saline Formations: Investigating the Effects of Formation Properties, Model Variables and Presence of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Presented at the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas &D Programme Modelling and Risk Management Network Meeting Grand Forks, ND 2018.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., Warwick, P. D. and Anderson, S. T. (2017), 3D Pressure-limited approach to model and estimate CO2 injection and storage capacity: saline Mount Simon Formation. Greenhouse Gases: Sci Technol 7(6): 1080–1096 (2017).

- Jahediesfanjani, Hossein, 2017, Application of decline curve analysis to estimate recovery factors for carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery, chap. C of Verma, M.K., ed., Three approaches for estimating recovery factors in carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2017–5062, p. C1–C20, https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20175062C.

- Warwick, P.D., Verma, M.K., Attanasi, E.D., Olea, R.A., Blondes, M.S., Freeman, P.A., Brennan, S.T., Merrill, M.D., Jahediesfanjani, H., Roueche, J., and Lohr, C.D (2016), A Database and Probabilistic Assessment Methodology for Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery and Associated Carbon Dioxide Retention in the United States, 13th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-13, 14-18 November 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland.

-Anderson, S.T. and Jahediesfanjani, H. (2017), Case Study- Dynamic Pressure-Limited Capacity and Costs of CO2 Storage in the Mount Simon Sandstone, 35th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference, "Riding the Energy Cycles." November 12-15, 2017, Hotel, Houston, Texas.

-Warwick, P.D., Blondes, M.S., Brennan, S.T., Buursink, M.L., Cahan, S.M., Coleman, J.L., Cook, T.A., Corum, M.D., Covault, J.A., Craddock, W.H., DeVera, C.A., Doolan, C.,II, R. M.D., Drew, L.J., East, J.A., Freeman, P.A., Garrity, C.P., Gooley, K.J., Gosai, M.A., Jahediesfanjani, H., Lohr, C.D., Mars, J.C., Merrill, M.D., Olea, R.A., Roberst-Ashby, T.L., Rouse, W.A., Schruben, P.G., Schuenemeyer, J.H., Slucher, E.R., Varela, B.A., Verma, M.K.,;1; 2013. National Assessment of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Resources – Results. Circular 1386 U.S. Geological Survey.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Hayatdavoudi, A.: "A Model Study of Filtrate Diffusion into Shale Membrane", paper 492, presented at 6th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium (NARMS-GulfRocks04), Houston, Texas, May 2004.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Civan, F.: "Damage Tolerance of Well-Completion and Stimulation Techniques in Coalbed Methane Reservoirs", Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 2005, Vol. 127, 248-256.

- Jahediesfanjani, H. and Civan, F.: "Rapid Determination of Equilibrium Gas Isotherms in Wet Coalbeds from Non-equilibrium State Measurements", paper 520, the 2005 International Coalbed Methane Symposium presented in Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA, May 10-12, 2005.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Civan, F.: "Productivity of Fractured and Non-Fractured Horizontal Wells in Coalbed methane reservoirs", paper 521, the 2005 International Coalbed Methane Symposium presented in Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA, May 10-12, 2005.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Civan, F.: "Assessment of Stimulation and Completion Techniques in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs", paper the V INGEPET 2005 International Seminar, held in Lima, Peru, Nov.8-11 2005.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Civan, F.: "Effects of Resident Water in Coal Gas Recovery by Simultaneous CO2/N2 Injection" SPE-102634, presented in the 2006 SPE Annual Conference and Exhibition2006 Meeting held in San Antonio Texas, 24-27 Sep 2006.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Civan, F.: "Improving Performance of the Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs by Means of the Various Stimulation and Completion Techniques", Paper SPE 103986, presented in the 2006 International Oil Conference and Exhibition in Mexico held 31-AUG-06 to 02-SEP-06 in Cancun, Mexico.

- Jahediesfanjani, H. and Civan, F.: "Determination of Multi-Component Gas and Water Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Sorption Isotherms in Carbonaceous Solids from Early-Time Measurements", Fuel, Vol. 86, Issues 10-11, July/August 2007, 1601-1613.

- Jahediesfanjani, H., and Civan, F.: "Formation Damage Mechanisms in Coalbed Methane and shale Gas Reservoirs", Third Production Congress Mendoza, ARGENTINA September 2006.

- T. Graf and G.R. Bowen, and H. Jahediesfanjani: "The End of Days for Conventional History Matching", presented in EAGE 2007 Conference Papers.

- Jahediesfanjani, H.: "Assessment of Stimulation and Completion Techniques in Oil and Gas Reservoir", Technical presentation, NAPE, Nov 2006, Abuja, Nigeria.

Recognized as technical assistant in series of USGS reports.

Reference to my publications:

-My publications have been cited by over 100 separate publications, technical journal and proceeding papers and patents.

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