Engineer/Geochemist

Jiun-Chi Chao Ph.D.

Engineer/Geochemist

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Summary

• Detail-oriented environmental engineer/geochemist with extensive experience in research and business aspects of oil and gas production issues (conventional & unconventional such as shale gas, tight gas and coal bed methane).

• Integrate HC fingerprinting data with other types of subsurface information to assess reservoir connectivity, allocate commingled oil or gas production, and solve well engineering problems in producing fields

• Improving pay allocation on production wells with mud gas system & water characteristics evaluation. (Interpreting molecular and isotopic data obtained on crude oil, condensate, natural gas and water samples)

• Integrate fluid inclusion technology with traditional geochemistry (such as source rock evaluation) to have better understanding on petroleum system, hydrocarbon migration, and prospect evaluation (and have worked on oversea projects such as Libya, Egypt, North Sea, Colombia, Caspian, UAE,..etc).

• Develop the application for statistic modeling (HCA, PCA) with integration of petroleum and chemical engineering disciplines to define petroleum reservoir connectivity and monitor the oil quality.

• Develop flow assurance and environmental remediation technologies and primary objective is to mitigate and remediate organic deposits in well bores and pipelines.

• Designing crude oil, natural gas, and water sampling and analytical programs; applying reservoir geochemistry techniques (such as HC fingerprinting and time-lapse geochemistry; expert in GC, GC HPLC, GCMS, FTIR, atomic absorption,bench wet chemistry, and other ASTM, EPA methods ).

• Maintain the integrity of all geological (geophysical and geochemical data) and engineering database (work with softwares such as Petra, ArcView, and Geographix.)

• System design project to improve produced water quality from a coalbed methane facility using modified / advanced Reverse Osmosis technology.

• Provide the state-of-art technology in chemical, biological, and environmental engineering to solve practical environmental problems.

Education

2001 Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

1996 M.S., Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

1993 B.S., Textile Engineering, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Professional Experience

2002-2008 Engineer, Petroleum Systems International, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah

2001-2002 Post doctoral researcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Patent pending

Hong, P. K. A., D. A. Wavrek, Jiun-Chi Chao, and Yu Zeng, Ozone degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, International PCT status (applications include well bore/pipeline flow assurance, drilling waste disposal, and oil spill remediation)

Publications

P.K. Hong. And J.C. Chao, A polar-nonpolar, acetic acid/heptane, solvent medium for degradation of pyrene by ozone: Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2004, 43 7710-7715

Chao, J.C., P.K.A. Hong, and D.A. Wavrek, An ozonated bipolar solvent system for degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Environmental Chemistry 221st American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, April 1-6, 2001, San Diego.

Chao, J.C., P.K.A. Hong, and D.A. Wavrek, Degradation of pyrene by ozone in a homogeneous solvent system: 93rd Annual Conference and Exhibition at Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2000 by Air & Waste Management Association; Paper Number 00-646

Chao, J.C., P.K.A. Hong, and R.W. Okey, Selection of chelating agents for remediation of radionuclide-contaminated soil: Proceeding of the 1998 Conference on Hazardous Waste Research

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