CPG

What We Do

Reactive and complex fluids have enormous applications in the oil and gas industry ranging from flow assurance, well-stimulation, water control, drilling fluids to enhanced oil recovery at reservoir scale. The challenging reservoir conditions of high salinity, high temperature, and high pressure combined with reservoir heterogeneity introduce a high-degree of uncertainty in treatment design, reservoir monitoring, and large-scale modeling. Our attempt in the “Reactive and Complex Fluids Lab” at KFUPM is addressing issues of reaction kinetics, diffusion, interfacial phenomena, and phase changes associated with applications of reactive fluids (acids, emulsified acids) and complex fluids (viscoelastic surfactant, gels, foam, emulsion) in real reservoir condition. Our lab is driven by local challenges of hydrocarbon fields in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. The CRF Research Lab has good facilities that include but not limited to: rotating disk reactor (150°C, 10,000 psi), TA high-pressure Rheometer (250°C, 2000 psi), light scattering, microscope, Acidizing System (3 parallel cores 12 in each, 150°C, 10,000 psi) in addition to other accessible facilities at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Center for Integrative Petroleum Research.

ABDULLAH SULTAN, PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sultan is an associate professor in the department of petroleum engineering. He holds BS (2002) and MSc (2005) in Chemical Engineering from KFUPM and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (2009) in Petroleum Engineering. His areas of research interest include complex fluids, reactive fluids, colloids, and interface. His recent work and publications are focused on the development of “smart fluids” to address problems in the oil and gas industry such as Enhanced Recovery, drilling fluids, stimulation, and scale prevention. His research work includes ab initio and molecular dynamics simulation to design new fluids from first-principle and understand their behavior. He has a good record of publications in the fields of polymeric membranes, smart fluids, acid reaction, gels, and emulsions. He has been appointed as director for the center of Petroleum & Minerals in Research Institute at KFUPM 2010-2015. He served as department Chairman (2012-2017).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rheokinetics of Complex Fluids

Colloids & Interfaces

Molecular Simulations

EDUCATION

1997-2002
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering - KFUPM

2002-2004
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering - KFUPM

2005-2009
Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering - Texas A&M University

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

2010-2015
Director - Center for Petroleum & Minerals Research Institute

2012-2017
Chairman - Department of Petroleum Engineering

CRF RESEARCH

Reactive and complex fluids have enormous applications in the oil and gas industry ranging from well stimulation, water control, drilling fluids in near wellbore to enhanced oil recovery at reservoir scale. The challenging reservoir conditions of high salinity, high temperature, and high pressure combined with reservoir heterogeneity introduce a high-degree of uncertainty in treatment design, reservoir monitoring, and large-scale modeling. In the past few years at KFUPM, I carried out a number of experimental and theoretical projects in various areas related to oilfield chemicals and as a result, established my research lab at KFUPM under the title “Reactive and Complex Fluids’ Lab”.Our attempt in the “RCF Research lab is to address issues of reaction kinetics, diffusion, interfacial phenomena, and phase changes associated with applications of reactive fluids (acids, emulsified acids) and complex fluids (viscoelastic surfactant, gels, foam, emulsion) in real reservoir condition. Our lab is driven by local challenges of hydrocarbon fields in Saudi Arabia. The RCF Research Lab has good facilities that include but not limited to: rotating disk reactor (150°C, 10,000 psi), TA high-pressure Rheometer (250°C, 2000 psi), light scattering, microscope, Acidizing System (3 parallel cores 12 in each, 150°C, 10,000 psi) in addition to other accessible facilities at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Center for Petroleum & Minerals. Most of the research outcomes have been published in reputable journals and conference proceedings. A brief summary of my research work with the highlight of active projects is listed below.

POLYMERIC MEMBRANE

Polymers have wide application in membrane manufacturing and separation processes which are of potential use in the upstream oil and gas industry.  My research activities in this area are an extension of what I did in the MS thesis. Recently, I completed a project as PI-substitute funded by NSTIP (10-ENE-1374) where composite membranes were developed using commercially available polymers and synthesized ones in our laboratory. The polymers and their composite membranes were characterized by standard techniques for their proton conductivity and thermal stability. Also, electro-catalyst Pt-Cu, Pt-Co, and/or Pt-Cu-Co, were synthesized and characterized by impregnation into carbon Nano-tubes as the catalyst support for fuel cell applications.

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (CHEMICAL AND GAS)

Chemical EOR processes have great potential to enhance oil recovery and they have been successfully demonstrated in field applications. Still, chemical EOR is not widely used due to the view that the cost of the chemical injected is high. Chemical methods include the use of polymers, surfactants, alkaline enhanced chemicals, and chemical gels in a single or combined form. In this research area, my research is focused on chemicals for high temperature and high salinity carbonate reservoirs. I managed to lead a project funded by Saudi Aramco (CPM2297) with the objective to study the interactions between surfactants and polymers in SP-EOR process. The project covers a number of studies for the bulk solution phase including compatibility, phase behavior, thermal stability, rheology, IFT, and adsorption for different formulations of commercial surfactants and polymers. The team managed to optimized chemical formulations of SP systems suitable for high temperature and high salinity conditions for carbonate reservoirs. This project is the first to highlight the properties of fluorosurfactants as well as thermoviscosifying polymers and their potential in chemical EOR. All project objectives have been accomplished. The project was a successful experience for trilateral collaboration between three parties: KFUPM, Stanford University, and Saudi Aramco. Novel experimental techniques were developed during the course of this project at KFUPM and Stanford. The project resulted in advancing the Chemical EOR at KFUPM with HPHT facilities that exceed SAR 3.5 million as well as developing active chemical EOR synthesis lab and building a pore-scale imaging Lab. The project team managed to publish 11 journal papers and more than 13 conference papers. Also, six master students completed their thesis work based on the project (4 at KFUPM and 2 at Stanford) with one Ph.D. student graduated at KFUPM. The project was multidisciplinary with contributing faculty and students from Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and CIPR.

Sequestering carbon dioxide in a reservoir is a challenging endeavor. At the same time, it is well known that the process entails many useful opportunities and benefits along with the obvious environmental impact. The sequestration process aims at storing CO2 for hundreds of years underground. Moreover, CO2 can be injected into the hydrocarbon reservoirs to enhance the recovery. There has been a growing interest to inject CO2 for EOR applications and few pilots have reported worldwide. The recoverable oil is a result of microscopic displacement and sweep efficiencies. Due to the adverse mobility ratio between CO2 and water/oil, CO2 tends to finger through the reservoir and result in a premature gas breakthrough. Foam-Assisted CO2 can improve the EOR process at microscopic and macroscopic levels and address issues related to conformance and gravity override. The flow of fluid when injected in a reservoir, depending on the formation permeability, physiochemical interaction, and reservoir heterogeneity. The foam-assisted CO2 process needs more understanding of the fluid/fluid and rock/fluids (carbonate, carbon dioxide, water, surfactant, hydrocarbons) interaction. My research lab attempts to address challenges related to recovery mechanism, the complex flow behavior, foam stability, and understand the synergetic effect between gas mobility and low IFT caused by the surfactant. We are thankful to TIC-CCS for funding CO2-EOR project which helps building research facilities for in-situ measurement of contact angle and hopefully IFT in the near future.

COMPLEX FLUIDS (GELS, SELF-ASSEMBLED AND EMULSIONS)

Complex fluids are mixtures that have a coexistence of two phases. Examples of complex fluids in the oil and gas industry include suspensions (solid-liquid), granular (solid-gas), foams (liquid–gas), or emulsions (liquid-liquid). Self-assembled surfactant and functionalized polymers or nanoparticles are materials used for various applications of complex fluids upstream research of oil and gas. Water shut-off, loss circulation, conformance control, and fracturing are known problems that need the right design of fluid. Water, for example, causes serious operational problems like corrosion, scale, loss of productivity and it could also result in larger investments of separation plants to handle the ever-increasing volumes of water. My research interest as (Co-PI) includes the development of a new cost-effective polymer to produce thermally stable gels for use in high-temperature reservoirs (project AT-30-291). These gels will be used to reduce and/or totally shut off the water coming from the reservoir in both oil and gas wells. Recently, we looked at emulsified gel and its stability using nano-additives, and how to control its breaking for conformance control problems. The breaking of emulsion and its separation is another active research topic as an extension of chemicals application in EOR. My research interest in this area also includes the design and evaluation of viscoelastic surfactants as diverting fluids funded by KACST under NSTIP (10-OIL-1378). The objectives were to study the role of different counterions, nanoparticles additives on the viscoelastive behavior. The breaking mechanism of wormlike micelles once interacted with oil is also of research focus in my lab.

REACTIVE FLUIDS (WELL STIMULATION)

Matrix acidizing is a stimulation technique through which the permeability of a formation is altered by injecting an acid which results in the dissolution of rock. In carbonate reservoirs, for example, this process actually creates flow channels for the hydrocarbons in the near-wellbore area known as “wormholes”. The primary focus of my group is to establish a good understanding of the reaction kinetics and rock dissolution of real reactive fluids under high pressure and high-temperature conditions for heterogeneous and tight reservoirs. The effect of the flow rate of acid, acid concentration, rock type, rock properties, temperature and pressure, additives are looked at experimentally and theoretically. Our experimental work is coupled with numerical modeling of wormhole propagation in the core (linear) and near-wellbore (radial). Knowledge of pressure, concentration, porosity, and permeability at each location and time step during the simulation provide a better understanding of what(s), how(s), and why(s) of the stimulation process. In my lab, the simulation team uses acid concentration as an indication of the efficiency of the phenomenon for breakthroughs of acid and wormhole. We also look at the shifting effect of local mass transfer coefficient and molecular diffusivity on the acidization curve, the impact of initial permeability of the core on the pore volume injection to breakthrough, and the joint impact of Péclet and Damköhler number.

I’ve completed one project as PI related to well stimulation funded jointly by KFUPM and Schlumberger Dhahran Carbone Center (CPM-2298) on wormholing, reaction kinetics, and diffusion of HCl. Emulsified acid is another area of interest in my research lab.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Abdulmajeeb Onawole, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Safwat Abdel-Azeim, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohammed A. Saad. (2019). Molecular and Electronic Structure Elucidation of Fe2+/Fe3+ complexed Chelators used in iron sulfides Scale removal in oil and gas wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 9999. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.23463 .
  2. Mohammad H. Alqam, Sidqi A. Abu-Khamsin, Abdullah S. Sultan, Taha M. Okasha, and Hasan O. Yildiz. (2019). Effect of Rock Mineralogy and Oil Composition on Wettability Alteration and Interfacial Tension by Brine and Carbonated Water. Energy Fuels, 2019, 33 (3), pp 1983–1989. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b04143.
  3. Musaab Magzoub, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny and Abdullah Sultan. (2019). Thermochemical Upgrading of Calcium Bentonite for Drilling Fluid Applications. Energy Resour. Technol.141(4), 042902. Paper No: JERT-18-1532. DOI: 10.1115/1.4041843.
  4. Abdullah Sultan*. (2018). Stability of PAM/PEI emulsified gels under HTHS conditions for water shut-off treatment. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production (accepted). DOI: 1007/s13202-018-0597-2.
  5. Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah Sultan, Mohammed A. Saad, Willem Buijs,  Thijs J. H. Vlugt. (2018). Development of efficient formulation for the removal of iron sulphide scale in sour production wells. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol 96(12), pp 2526-2533. DOI:1002/cjce.23241.
  6. Lionel T. Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan* and Muhammad S. Kamal. (2018). Understanding viscosity reduction of a long-tail sulfobetaine viscoelastic surfactant by organic compounds. RSC Advances, Vol 8, pp 4455-4463. DOI: 1039/C7RA12538K.
  7. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Gelation of Emulsified Polyacrylamide/Polyethylenimine under High-Temperature, High-Salinity Conditions: Rheological Investigation. Eng. Chem. Res., 2018, 57(36), pp 12278–12287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b02571.
  8. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Use of organoclay as a stabilizer for water-in-oil emulsions under high-temperature high-salinity conditions. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 160 pp: 302-312. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.10.077.
  9. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein,  Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohammed A.S. Saad. (2018). Oilfield scale formation and chemical removal: A review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 171 pp: 127-139. DOI:1016/j.petrol.2018.07.037.
  10. Farrukh Shehzad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Waqar Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2018). Polymeric Surfactants and Emerging Alternatives used in the Demulsification of Produced Water: A Review. Polymer Reviews, Vol. 58 (1), pp 63-101, DOI: 1080/15583724.2017.1340308.
  11. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal,  M. Shakil Hussain, Lionel Talley Fogang, and Abdullah S. Sultan(2018). Impact of Spacer and Hydrophobic Tail on Interfacial and Rheological Properties of Cationic Amido-Amine Gemini Surfactants for EOR Application. Tenside Surfactants Detergents: Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 491-497. DOI: 10.3139/113.110591.
  12. A. Adewunmi, S. Ismail, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Composite Hydrogels Impregnated with Fly Ash: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Application as Fractures Sealant for High Water Producing Zones in Oil and Gas Wells. Journal of Polymers and Environment, Vol 26(8), pp 3294-3306. DOI: 10.1007/s10924-018-1204-9.
  13. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Reyad Shawabkeh, Abdullah Sultan, and Mohammed J. Al-Marri. (2018). Impact of Surfactant on the Retention of CO2and Methane in Carbonate Reservoirs. Energy Fuels, Vol 32 (4), pp 5355-5363. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00213.
  14. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2018). Hybrid Intelligent Modelling of the Viscoelastic Moduli of Coal Fly Ash Based Polymer Gel System for Water Shutoff Treatment in Oil and Gas Wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (published online). DOI:/10.1002/cjce.23436.
  15. Mazen K. Nazal, Olanrewaju Suleiman Olakunle, Amir Al-Ahmed, Belabbes Merzougui Abdullah Abualkibash, Abdullah Sultan, Ammar BinYousaf, Syed Javaid Zaidi. (2018). Precious metal free Ni/Cu/Mo trimetallic nanocomposite supported on multi-walled carbon nanotubes as highly efficient and durable anode-catalyst for alkaline direct methanol fuel cells. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 823 98–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.05.035.
  16. Jun Li and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2017). Klinkenberg slippage effect in the permeability computations of shale gas by the pore-scale simulations. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Vol 48, pp 197-202. DOI: 1016/j.jngse.2016.07.041.
  17. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2017). Influence of Surfactant Structure on the Stability of Water-in-Oil Emulsions under High-Temperature High-Salinity Conditions. Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 2017, Article ID 5471376, 11 pages. DOI: 1155/2017/5471376.
  18. Musaab Magzoub, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdelbaki Benamor, Sagheer  Onaizi, Abdullah Sultan, M Mahmoud. (2017). Effects of Sodium Carbonate Addition, Heat and Agitation on Swelling and Rheological Behavior of Ca-Bentonite Colloidal Dispersions. Applied Clay Sciences, Vol 147, pp 176 – 183. DOI: 1016/j.clay.2017.07.032.
  19. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Modeling the thermal behavior of coal fly ash based polymer gel system for water reduction in oil and gas wells. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 157, pp 430- 440. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.07.019.
  20. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Mohammed F. Al-Hamad and Umer Mehmood. (2017). Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil recovery, and Wettability Alteration. Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol 2017, Article 2473175. DOI: 1155/2017/2473175.
  21. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Review on Surfactant Flooding: Phase Behavior, Retention, IFT and Field Applications. Energy & Fuels, Vol 31 (8), pp 7701-7720. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00353.
  22. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2017). Amido-Amine-Based Cationic Gemini Surfactants: Thermal, Interfacial Properties and Interactions with Cationic Polyacrylamide. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 47–55, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1896-6.
  23. Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah Saad Sultan, and Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Performance of fly ash based polymer gels for water reduction in enhanced oil recovery: Gelation kinetics and dynamic rheological studies. Korean J. Chem. Eng., Vol. 34(6), 1638-1650. DOI: 1007/s11814-017-0071-8.
  24. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Bassam El Ali and Abdullah S. Sultan (2017). Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Amido-Amine Cationic Gemini Surfactants Containing Flexible and Rigid Spacers". Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 777–788, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-017-1969-1.
  25. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Nazal, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2017). Preparation and Performance Evaluation of SPEEK/Polyaniline Composite Membrane for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, International Polymer Processing, Vol.32, No. 1, pp. 41-49. DOI: 3139/217.3259.
  26. Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Khaled Nazal, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Jimoh K. Adewole, Syed Javaid Zaid. (2017). Proton conducting blend membranes: physical, morphological and electronic properties. Polymer Bulletin. DOI:1007/s00289-016-1756-6.
  27. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2017). Investigation into the viscoelastic response at various gelation performance, thermal stability and swelling kinetics of fly ash reinforced polymer gels for water control in mature oilfields. Asia-Pac. J. Chem. Eng. 2017; 12: 13–24. DOI:1002/apj.2049.
  28. Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef M. Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Simulation and measurements of volumetric and phase behavior of carbon dioxide + higher alkanes at high pressure: CO2+ n-decane at temperatures (313–410) K and pressures up to 76 MPa. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 53, pp 198–206. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.07.045.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, S. M. Shakil and Abdullah Sultan* (2016). Development of Novel Amidosulfobetaine Surfactant–Polymer Systems for EOR Applications. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 19, pp 989–997, DOI: 1007/s11743-016-1848-1.
  30. M. Shakil Hussain, Mustapha Alao Animashaun, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Nisar Ullah, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2016). Synthesis, Characterization and Surface Properties of Amidosulfobetaine Surfactants Bearing Odd-Number Hydrophobic Tail. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol.19, pp 413–420. DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1788-9.
  31. Izhar A. Malik, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, (2016). Rheological and thermal properties of novel surfactant-polymer systems for EOR applications. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Vol. 94(9), pp 1693-1699. ISI/Scopus:1002/cjce.22541.
  32. Muhammad Shahzad Kamalal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan and Nicolas von Solms (2016). Application of various water-soluble polymers in gas hydrate inhibition. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol 60, pp 206-225. DOI: 1016/j.rser.2016.01.092.
  33. Adel O. Al-Amodi, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2016). Novel Fluorinated Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs”. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Vol 94 (3), pp 454-460. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22406.
  34. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Nanocomposite Hydrogels Developed for Various Applications: A Critical Review. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Vol. 26:717–737. DOI: 1007/s10904-016-0379-6.
  35. Abdelhalim I. A Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Khalid S. M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri (2015). DSC investigation of the gelation kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI system. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. Vol 122(3), pp 1117-1123. DOI: 1007/s10973-015-4965-6.
  36. Lateef A. Kareem, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Tajudeen M. Iwalewa. (2015). A Simplified Semi-Analytical Productivity Index for a Horizontal Well with a Non-Linear Trajectory in a Vertical Plane. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, Vol.33(6), pp: 785-808. DOI: 1260/0144-5987.33.6.785.
  37. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Yujun Feng (2015). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymer in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 93 (7), pp 1194-1200. DOI: 1002/cjce.22204.
  38. A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah. S. Sultan. (2015). Laboratory scale study on rheological behavior, morphological and structural properties of crosslinked polyacrylamide composite hydrogels embedded with date seed powder. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(28), pp 42110 DOI: 10.1002/app.42110.
  39. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo, A. S. Sultan (2015), Comparative Studies on the Effects of Casting Solvent on Physico - chemical and Gas Transport Properties of Dense Polysulfone Membrane used for CO2 Removal from CH4. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132, pp 42205. DOI: 10.1002/app.42205.
  40. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Screening of amphoteric and anionic surfactants for cEOR applications using a novel approach. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem Eng. Aspects 476, 17-23. DOI:1002/cjce.22204.
  41. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedhand Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Review on Polymer Flooding: Rheology, Adsorption, Stability and Field Applications of Various Polymer Systems. Polymer Review 55 (3). DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2014.982821.
  42. L. Ahmad, J.K. Adewole, C.P. Leo, S. Ismail, A.S. Sultan, S.O. Olatunji (2015). Prediction of plasticization pressure of polymeric membranes for CO2 removal from natural gas. Journal of Membrane Sciences 480, 39-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.01.039.
  43. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo (2015), Model-Based Analysis of Polymeric Membranes Performance in High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Journal of Polymer Research, Vol 22 (2) pp1 -10. DOI: 10.1007/s10965-015-0658-x.
  44. Khalid S. M. ElKarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdulla S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Performance of PAM/PEI gel system for water shut-off in high-temperature reservoirs: Laboratory study. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(17), pp 41869. DOI: 1002/app.41869.
  45. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Gelation of a Water Shut-off Gel at High Pressure and High Temperature: Rheological Investigation”. SPE Journal, Vol 20 (5) pp 1103 - 1112. DOI:2118/173185-PA.
  46. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Study on strength and gelation time of polyacrylamide/polyethyleneimine composite gels reinforced with coal fly ash for water shut-off treatment. Appl. Polym. Sci., Vol 132(5) pp 41392. DOI: 10.1002/app.41392.
  47. Najmudeen Sibaweihi, Abeeb Awotunde; Abdullah Sultan; Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2015), Sensitivity Studies and Stochastic Optimization of CO2-Foam Flooding. Computational Geosciences, Vol 19(1) pp 31-47. DOI:1007/s10596-014-9446-7.
  48. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System. Journal of Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry (JTAC), Vol 116-3, 1409-1415. DOI: 1007/s10973-014-3754-y.
  49. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh Kayode Adewole, Choe Peng Leo, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Ismail. (2014). Preparation and Gas Transport Properties of Dual-Layer Polysulfone Membranes for High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Appl. Polym. Sci.,131(20), 40924, DOI: 10.1002/app.40924.
  50. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Impact of salts on polyacrylamide hydrolysis and gelation: New insights. Appl. Polym. Sci., 131(23), 41185, DOI:10.1002/app.41185.
  51. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussien, and Martial Pabon. (2014). Evaluation of Rheological and Thermal Properties of a New Fluorocarbon Surfactant–Polymer System for EOR Applications in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Oil Reservoirs. Journal of Surfactant and Detergents, 17(5), 985-993. DOI: 1007/s11743-014-1600-7.
  52. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussien, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ming Han. (2013), Rheological Study on ATBS-AM Copolymer-Surfactant System in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. Journal of Chemistry, 2013, Article ID 801570, 9 pages,. DOI:1155/2013/801570.
  53. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh K. Adewole, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, Leo Choe Peng, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013), Membrane Separation of CO2 from Natural Gas: A State-of-the-Art Review on Material Development. Recent Advances in Mass Transport in Engineering Materials, Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 333, 135-147. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.333.135.

Proceedings

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan. (2019).  New Artificial Neural Network Model for Predicting the TOC from Well Logs. SPE 194716-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194716-MS.
  2. Murtada Elhaj, Osman Abdullatif,  Abdulazeez Abdulraheem,  Amjed Hassan, and Abdullah Sultan (2019).  Acoustic Properties of Carbonate: An Experimental and Modelling Study. SPE 194753-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194753-MS.
  3. Gallyam Aidagulov, Devon Gwaba,  Rifat Kayumov, Abdullah Sultan, Moustafa Aly, Xiangdong Qiu,  Haidar Almajed,  and Mustapha Abbad. (2019). Effects of Pre-Existing Fractures on Carbonate Matrix Stimulation Studied by Large-Scale Radial Acidizing Experiments. SPE 195153-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/195153-MS.
  4. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, S M Shakil Hussain, and Abdulkareem M. AlSofi. (2018). Screening of Surfactants and Polymers for High-Temperature High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192441-MS presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192441-MS.
  5. S. Al-Kadem, A. S. Al-Mashhad, M. S. Al-Dabbous, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Integrating Peng Robinson EOS With Association Term for Better Minimum Miscibility Pressure Estimation. SPE-192327 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/192327-MS.
  6. Jaber Al-Jabri, Abdullah Sultan,  Eid Al-Mutairi, Sagheer A. Onaizi, Amir Merghani, Islam Hassen. (2018). Screening New Formulations for Asphaltene Aggregation Inhibition. SPE-192450 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192450-MS.
  7. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Ultra-Low Interfacial Tension, Thermal Stability and Static Adsorption of Novel Viscoelastic Surfactant With Heavy Reservoir Oil. SPE-192322 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.   DOI: 2118/192322-MS.
  8. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Investigation of Heavy Oil Recovery Using Sequential Viscoelastic Surfactant and Chelating Agent Solutions as EOR Fluid for HTHS Conditions Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192315 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192315-MS.
  9. Musa Ahmed, Abdullah Sultan, Xiangdong Qiu, Ziad Sidaoui and Al-Amri Ahmad Ali. (2018). A Novel Emulsified Acid for Deep Wells Stimulation: Rheology, Stability, and Coreflood Study. SPE-192312 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192312-MS.
  10. Elmuzafar Ahmed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Abdulkareem AlSofi, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, and Syed R. Hussaini. (2018). Pore-Scale Imaging to Investigate Wettability and Recovery Mechanism for Surfactant/Polymer Flooding. SPE-191578-18RPTC presented at PE Russian Petroleum Technology Conference, 15-17 October, Moscow, Russia. DOI: 10.2118/191578-18RPTC-MS.
  11. Hassaan Ahmed, Abeeb A. Awotunde, Abdullah S. Sultan and Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2017). Stochastic Optimization Approach to Surfactant-Polymer Flooding. SPE 191294 presented at SPE/PAPG Pakistan Section Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 22-23 November, Islamabad, Pakistan. DOI: 2118/191294-MS.
  12. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Mohamed Al-Osail, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Monitoring Imbibition of Water Into Shale Pore System: State of the Art. SPE 186904 presented at SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, 17-19 October, Jakarta, Indonesia. DOI: 2118/186904-MS.
  13. Mohamed Mahrous, Abdullah Sultan and Eric Sonnenthal. (2017). Towards Geochemically Accurate Modeling of Carbonate Acidizing with HCl Acid. SPE 187183 presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 9-11 October, San Antonio, Texas, USA. DOI:10.2118/187183-MS.
  14. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. Sultan, Saifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain, and Shaikh Asrof Ali. (2017). Flowing Gels for Loss Circulation Prevention. SPE 188103 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188103-MS.
  15. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Reyad Shawabkeh, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Abdullah Sultan, Mohamed Abouelresh, Dhafer Al-Shehri. (2017). Effect of Temperature and CO2 Content on the Natural Gas Production from Shale Gas Reservoirs. SPE 188025 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188025-MS.
  16. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Syed Zaidi, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2017). Revised Experimental Approaches To Address Shale Drilling Challenges. SPE 188037 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188037-MS.
  17. Mahmoud M. El-Yamani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Khalid A. Al-Ramadan. (2017). Effect of Carbonate Microfacies on Contact Angle: Study from Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation. SPE 188132 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI:2118/188132-MS.
  18. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Thermosensitive water-soluble polymers: a solution to high temperature and high salinity reservoirs. SPE 188006 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188006-MS.
  19. Jimoh K. Adewole,  Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Yusuf Khan. (2017). Dynamic Analysis of Plasticization Phenomenon: An Experimental Study of High-Pressure CO2 Separation Using Modified Polysulfone Membrane. SPE 188054 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188054-MS.
  20. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Dominic Brady. (2017). Novel Approach to Formulation of Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. SPE 188116 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188116-MS.
  21. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2017). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide. SPE 183665 presented at SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 6-9 March, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. DOI: 2118/183665-MS.
  22. Ziad Sidaoui and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Formulating a Stable Emulsified Acid at High Temperatures: Stability and Rheology Study. IPTC 19012 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 14-16 November, Bangkok, Thailand. DOI:2523/IPTC-19012-MS.
  23. Lionel Talley Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2016). Comparing the effects of Breakers on a Long-Tail Sulfobetaine Viscoelastic Surfactant Solution for Well Stimulation. SPE 182915 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182915-MS.
  24. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2016). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide with Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. SPE 182851 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182851-MS.
  25. Zaid Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Performance Comparison of Novel Surfactant-scCO2 Systems for Oil Recovery in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE 181314 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 26-28 September, Dubai, UAE. DOI: 2118/181314-MS.
  26. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. SultanSaifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain. (2016). Crosslinked Polymeric Gels as Loss Circulation Materials: An Experimental Study. SPE 182740 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182740-MS.
  27. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2016). Viscoelastic Properties of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed and Temperature. SPE 182845 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182845-MS.
  28. Mohamed Hassan, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2016). Measurement of Bubble Point Pressures of n-Decane, CO2and N2 SPE 182786 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182786-MS.
  29. Mohammed Al Hamad, Abdullah Sultan, Safyan Khan, and Wael Abdallah. (2016). Challenges for Extending the Application of Nanoparticles in High Salinity Reservoirs”. SPE 182838 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182838-MS.
  30. Ahmad Mahboob and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. SPE 182839 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182839-MS.
  31. Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin, Gaurav Agrawal, Felix R Oyarzabal and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Wettability Characterization and Comparison of Carbonate Source Rocks Using NMR. SPWLA-2016-FFFF presented at SPWLA 57th Annual Logging Symposium, 25-29 June, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  32. Jun Li and Abdullah Sultan. (2015). Permeability Computations of Shale Gas by the Pore-Scale Monte Carlo Molecular Simulations. IPTC 18263 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 2523/IPTC-18263-MS.
  33. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Abdullah Sultan, Amanullah, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Mitigating Shale Drilling Problems through Comprehensive Understanding of Shale Formations. IPTC 18377 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-18377-MS.
  34. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Abdullah Sultan, and Abdulazeez Abdulraheem. (2015). Understanding Shale-Fluid Interactions Using Molecular Modeling Techniques for Drilling Applications: A Literature Review. SPE 175356 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175356-MS.
  35. S. Bageri, M. A. Mahmoud, A. S. Sultan, S. H. Al-Mutairi, and A. Abdulraheem. (2015). Effect of the Drilled Cuttings on Filter Cake Sealing Properties and Internal Invasion Depth in MRC Wells. SPE 175168 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 10.2118/175168-MS.
  36. Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2015). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Diffusion Rate of Dolomitic Rock with HCl. SPE 175832 presented at SPE North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition, 14-16 September, Cairo, Egypt. DOI: 2118/175832-MS.
  37. Xiangdong Qiu, Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan. (2015). How to Determine True Acid Diffusion Coefficient to Optimize Formation Damage Treatment. SPE-174241 presented at the SPE European Formation Damage Conference and Exhibition, June 3–5 Budapest, Hungary. DOI:2118/174241-MS.
  38. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ali-Al Matar, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A Hussein. (2015). Predicting Interfacial Tension Using Advanced Meso-Scale Modelling Technique. SPE 174625 presented at SPE Asia Pacific Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference, 11-13 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2118/174625-MS.
  39. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Effect of Temperature on Stability of sc-CO2-Foam with New Fluorosurfactant. SPE 178039 presented at SPE Oil & Gas India Conference and Exhibition, 24-26 November, Mumbai, India. DOI: 2118/178039-MS.
  40. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Testing the Stability of Mixed CO2/N2-Foam Using New Fluorosurfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery. SPE 175261 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175261-MS.
  41. Saifur Rahman, Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Measurements of Volumetric Phase Behavior of Mixtures of n-decane and CO2 at High Pressures and High Temperatures. SPE 177987 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 21-23 April, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/177987-MS.
  42. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Abdullah S. Sultan, Enamul Hossain. (2014). Chemical and Mechanical Aspects of Wellbore Stability in Shale Formations: A Literature Review. SPE-171682 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/171682-MS.
  43. Mohammed Khalid Al-Arfaj, Enamul Hossain, Abdullah Sultan, Md Amanullah, Omar Al-Fuwaires, and Turki Al-Subai. (2014). Preliminary Test Results of Inhibitive Water-Based Muds Used to Mitigate Unconventional Shale Drilling Problems. IPTC 17800 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 10-12 December, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2523/IPTC-17800-MS.
  44. Abdulrauf Rasheed Abebayo, Hasan Y. Al-Yousef, Mohammed Mahmoud, and Abdullah S Sultan. (2014). The Prospect of Using Permanent Downhole Sensors for Monitoring Oilfield Scales. SPE 17856 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  45. S. Azad, and A. S. Sultan. (2014). Extending the applicability of chemical EOR in High temperature, High Salinity, and fractured carbonate reservoir through Viscoelastic surfactants. Paper SPE 172188 presented at the 2014 SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 21st – 24th  April, 2014. DOI: 10.2118/172188-MS.
  46. Madhar Sahib Azad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sami A. Nuaim, Mohammed Mohammed, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2014). Could VES be a part of hybrid option to recover Heavy oil in Complex Heavy oil Paper SPE 170191 presented at the 2014 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, 10–12 June, Canada. DOI: 10.2118/170191-MS.
  47. S. Sultan, M. S. Azad, I. A. Hussein, M. A. Mahmoud. (2014). Rheological Assessment of VES as an EOR Fluid in Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169744 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169744-MS.
  48. Z. Jangda, A.S. Sultan, R.N. Gajbhiye, S. A. Abu-khamsin, and A. Arshad. (2014). Evaluation of Fluorosurfactant Performance with Super-Critical CO2 Flooding for High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169725 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169725-MS.
  49. Ali S. Bageri, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohamed E. Kandil. (2014) Evaluation of Novel Surfactant for Nitrogen-Foam-Assisted EOR in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169717: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 2118/169717-MS.
  50. Attia, M. A. Mahmoud, H. S. Al-Hashim, and A. S. Sultan (2014). Shifting to a New EOR Area for Sandstone Reservoirs with High Recovery, No Damage, and Low Cost. Paper SPE 169670: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169670-MS.
  51. Xiangdong Qiu, W. Zhao, S. J. Dyer, A. Al Dossary, S. Khan, and S. Sultan. (2014). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Wormholing Phenomena During Carbonate Acidizing. Paper IPTC-17285 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 19-22 January, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-17285-MS.
  52. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Date Pit Based Surfactant-Polymer Formulation for Enhanced Chemical Flooding. SPE 168088 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 19-22 May, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/168088-MS.
  53. Mohammed Omer and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Effect of Metal Ions on the Rheology and Thermal Properties of Polymeric Lost Circulation Material. Paper SPE 164433 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164433-MS
  54. Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Luai Hadhrami. (2013). From Empirical to Micro-scale Modeling of Multiphase Flow; Bridging the Gap of R&D. Paper SPE 164443 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164443-MS
  55. S. Bageri, A. A. Al-Majed, S. H. Al-Mutairi, A. Ul-Hamid, and A. S. Sultan. (2013). Evaluation of Filter Cake Mineralogy in Extended Reach and Maximum Reservoir Contact Wells in Sandstone Reservoirs. SPE 163519 presented at SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, 5-7 March, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/163519-MS.

Abstract

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Improved Oil Recovery with Viscoelastic Surfactant: Screening and Effectiveness of Formulations. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  2. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Lionel Fogang (2018). Laboratory Investigation of Viscoelastic Surfactant for Chemical EOR in High Salinity and High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  3. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and SM Shakil Hussain. (2018). Mobility Improvement Using Water Soluble Polymers: Role of Chemical Structure and Anionicity. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  4. Abdullah S. Sultan, and Musa Eltayeb Ahmad. (2018). Effect of Crude Oil on the Reaction Kinetics of Diesel Emulsified Acid with Calcite at High-Pressure and High-Temperature HPHT. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  5. I. Magzoub, Ibnelwaleed Hussei, Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mustafa Nasser. (2018). Investigation of Bentonite Swelling Kinetics Using Particle Size Analysis. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  6. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan, Lionel Foganga and Mohamed Mahmoud (2017). Characterization and Processing of Khulays Clay for Drilling Fluid Application. AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 29 – November 3, 2017.
  7. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan (2016) Effect of Date Pit Based Additive on the Thermal Stability of Water-Based Drilling Fluid, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  8. K. Adewole, M. O. Najimu, A. S. Sultan (2016). Transport Behaviour of Alkanes and Aromatic through Polysulfone/Date Pit Mixed-Matrix Membrane–An investigation for Separation Potential, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  9. S. Sultan, Z. Siaoui, S. Al-Mutairi and H. El-Hajj (2016). Development of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  10. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). A Combined Rheology and Stability Study on Emulsified Acid for High-Temperature Applications. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  11. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). Stability and Rheology of Emulsified Acid in Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed, Temperature and Droplet Size. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  12. S. Sultan (2016). Molecular Simulation of Controlling Ions and Their Role in Low Salinity IOR for Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  13. S. Kamal, S. Hussain and A. S. Sultan (2016). Rheological Investigation of High-Performance Polymer-Surfactant Systems for EOR Applications in Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Annual Meeting San Fransisco, CA, USA. November 14 - 17, 2016.
  14. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javid Zaidi. (2015). Multi-objective Optimization of Membrane Materials Selection for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell System Design, AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  15. Abdullah S. Sultan and Danish Hishmat. (2015). Study of Cross-Linked Polymer Gel Systems for Potential Use As Loss Prevention Agents. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  16. Ma, A. S. Sultan, and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Oil-Water Emulsions from EOR Application Using Polyacrylamides. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  17. S. Sultan, H. Ma and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions using Anionic Polyacrylamide and Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  18. S. Sultan and A. Mahboob (2015). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  19. S. Sultan, M. Animashaun and I. A. Hussein (2015). Influence of Nanoadditives on the Thermal and Rheological Properties of Viscoelastic Surfactants Used in Matrix Acidizing. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  20. Abdullah Sultan, Sarmad Khan, Lateef Karrem and Q, Qiu (2015). “ Effect of High Pressure on the Propagation of Wormhole in Carbonate Rocks: Experimental and Modeling Approach’. Paper WI08 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254
  21. Abdullah Sultan, Abdelhalim Mahmoud, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Organoclay as Emulsifier for Water in Oil Polymeric Gel Formulations used in Conformance Control’. Paper WI10 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254.
  22. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). DSC Investigation of the Gelation Kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI System: Influence of different surfactants and retarders. Annual meeting of North America Thermal Analysis Society, New Mexico, USA September 14-17, 2014.
  23. Shahzad Kamal Muhammad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh. (2014). Rheological study of a novel hydrophobically associating polyacrylamide surfactant system for enhanced oil recovery. Paper 16-591 presented at 30th Polymer Processing Conference, Cleaveland, USA, June 9-12, 2014.
  24. K. Adewole, A. S. Sultan, A. Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2014). Polymeric Sulfonic Acid Composites for Fuel Cell Applications: Effects of Casting Solvent and Sonication Time on Membrane Performance, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans - Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  25. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo. (2014). Model-Based Analysis of Plasticization Behaviour of Polymeric Membranes Used for High-Pressure CO2 Separation in Natural Gas Processing, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans – Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  26. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, C. P. Leo and S. Ismail (2014). Correlation of Plasticization Pressure Versus Permeability Parameters at Plasticization for Polymeric Membranes Used for CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 – 20, 2014.
  27. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan & Ibnelwaleed A. (2013). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System: DSC Investigation, 41st NATAS Conference, Kentucky, August, 4-7, 2013.
  28. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed    Hussein. (2013). Effect of Salts On Polyacrylamide Hydrolysis and Cross-Linking With Polyethylenimine at Elevated Temperatures. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2-9 November, 2013.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ming Han. (2013). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymers in High-Temperature High-Salinity Environment. AIChE annual meeting 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 3 – November 8, 2013.
  30. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Rheological Investigation of Interactions between Anionic Surfactant and Polyacrylamide for Chemical Flooding In Saudi Arabian Reservoirs. Fourth student conference, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, April-May 2013.
  31. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S.Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Thermal Stability of fluorocarbon Surfactant and Interactions with polymers used for EOR. Young Professional Technical Symposium, Dahran, April 2013.
  32. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). A Study on Processing and Chemical Composition of Date Pit Powder for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery. International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, DSL2013 – Madrid, Spain, 24-28 June,
  33. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, and Leo C. Peng. (2013). Integration of Membrane Separation into Unconventional Gas Processing. 2nd Middle East Process Engineering Conference and Exhibition, 29th Sept -2nd Oct, 2013.
  34. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ming Han and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2012). Impact of salinity and temperature on the rheology of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide solutions. 28th International conference of the polymer processing society, Pattaya, Thailand, December 2012.
  1. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Khaled Z. Abdelgawad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Hasan S. Al-Hashim. Chelating fluid for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs and method of using the same. US20150000919A1. (January 1, 2015).
  2. Jun Li, Abdullah S. SULTAN.  Method for permeability prediction of shale gas. US20160299117A1 (Granted-December 2018).
  3. Abdulrauf Rasheed ADEBAYO, Hasan Yousef AL-YOUSEF, Mohamed MAHMOUD, Abdullah Saad Sultan. Well-bore and reservoir monitoring process by logging temperature and resistivity. US20170074093A1 (Noember 2018).
  4. Mohamed A Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Khaled Z. Abdelgawad. Method for enhanced oil recovery by in situ carbon dioxide generation. US20140338903A1. (November 20, 2014).
  5. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, Abdullah S. Sultan, Mohammed A. Gadallah. Enhanced oil recovery using seawater and EDTA. US20150000916A1. (January 1, 2015).
  6. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Oil Recovery Processes at High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. US20160289539A1. (October 6, 2016).
  7. Musaab I. Magzoub, Mustafa S. Nasser, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan. Method of producing sodium bentonite. US9676669B1 (June 13, 2017).
  8. Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Ahmed Adewumi, Abdullah Sultan, Khalid M. El-Karsani and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Use of organoclay as emulsifier in polymeric gels for water permeability reduction. US9951593B2. (April 24, 2018).
  9. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Flurosurfactant Extraction process for Carbonate Reservoir. US9920238B2. (March 20, 2018).
  10. Abdullah S. SULTAN and Ziad SIDAOUI. Emulsified acid comprising waste oil for acidizing geological formations. US20180282614A1 (Pending).
  11. Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein, Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Abdullah Saad Sultan, Khalid Saad Elkarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Water shut-off method for porous formations. US20180265764A1 (Pending).
  1. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Enhanced Oil Recovery". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print (ISBN: 9783319959887).
  2. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Polymeric Membranes for Natural Gas Processing: Polymer Synthesis and Membrane Gas Transport Properties". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print ISBN: 9783319959887)
  1. Abdulmajeeb Onawole, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Safwat Abdel-Azeim, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohammed A. Saad. (2019). Molecular and Electronic Structure Elucidation of Fe2+/Fe3+ complexed Chelators used in iron sulfides Scale removal in oil and gas wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 9999. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.23463 .
  2. Mohammad H. Alqam, Sidqi A. Abu-Khamsin, Abdullah S. Sultan, Taha M. Okasha, and Hasan O. Yildiz. (2019). Effect of Rock Mineralogy and Oil Composition on Wettability Alteration and Interfacial Tension by Brine and Carbonated Water. Energy Fuels, 2019, 33 (3), pp 1983–1989. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b04143.
  3. Musaab Magzoub, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny and Abdullah Sultan. (2019). Thermochemical Upgrading of Calcium Bentonite for Drilling Fluid Applications. Energy Resour. Technol.141(4), 042902. Paper No: JERT-18-1532. DOI: 10.1115/1.4041843.
  4. Abdullah Sultan*. (2018). Stability of PAM/PEI emulsified gels under HTHS conditions for water shut-off treatment. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production (accepted). DOI: 1007/s13202-018-0597-2.
  5. Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah Sultan, Mohammed A. Saad, Willem Buijs,  Thijs J. H. Vlugt. (2018). Development of efficient formulation for the removal of iron sulphide scale in sour production wells. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol 96(12), pp 2526-2533. DOI:1002/cjce.23241.
  6. Lionel T. Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan* and Muhammad S. Kamal. (2018). Understanding viscosity reduction of a long-tail sulfobetaine viscoelastic surfactant by organic compounds. RSC Advances, Vol 8, pp 4455-4463. DOI: 1039/C7RA12538K.
  7. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Gelation of Emulsified Polyacrylamide/Polyethylenimine under High-Temperature, High-Salinity Conditions: Rheological Investigation. Eng. Chem. Res., 2018, 57(36), pp 12278–12287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b02571.
  8. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Use of organoclay as a stabilizer for water-in-oil emulsions under high-temperature high-salinity conditions. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 160 pp: 302-312. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.10.077.
  9. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein,  Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohammed A.S. Saad. (2018). Oilfield scale formation and chemical removal: A review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 171 pp: 127-139. DOI:1016/j.petrol.2018.07.037.
  10. Farrukh Shehzad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Waqar Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2018). Polymeric Surfactants and Emerging Alternatives used in the Demulsification of Produced Water: A Review. Polymer Reviews, Vol. 58 (1), pp 63-101, DOI: 1080/15583724.2017.1340308.
  11. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal,  M. Shakil Hussain, Lionel Talley Fogang, and Abdullah S. Sultan(2018). Impact of Spacer and Hydrophobic Tail on Interfacial and Rheological Properties of Cationic Amido-Amine Gemini Surfactants for EOR Application. Tenside Surfactants Detergents: Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 491-497. DOI: 10.3139/113.110591.
  12. A. Adewunmi, S. Ismail, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Composite Hydrogels Impregnated with Fly Ash: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Application as Fractures Sealant for High Water Producing Zones in Oil and Gas Wells. Journal of Polymers and Environment, Vol 26(8), pp 3294-3306. DOI: 10.1007/s10924-018-1204-9.
  13. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Reyad Shawabkeh, Abdullah Sultan, and Mohammed J. Al-Marri. (2018). Impact of Surfactant on the Retention of CO2and Methane in Carbonate Reservoirs. Energy Fuels, Vol 32 (4), pp 5355-5363. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00213.
  14. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2018). Hybrid Intelligent Modelling of the Viscoelastic Moduli of Coal Fly Ash Based Polymer Gel System for Water Shutoff Treatment in Oil and Gas Wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (published online). DOI:/10.1002/cjce.23436.
  15. Mazen K. Nazal, Olanrewaju Suleiman Olakunle, Amir Al-Ahmed, Belabbes Merzougui Abdullah Abualkibash, Abdullah Sultan, Ammar BinYousaf, Syed Javaid Zaidi. (2018). Precious metal free Ni/Cu/Mo trimetallic nanocomposite supported on multi-walled carbon nanotubes as highly efficient and durable anode-catalyst for alkaline direct methanol fuel cells. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 823 98–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.05.035.
  16. Jun Li and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2017). Klinkenberg slippage effect in the permeability computations of shale gas by the pore-scale simulations. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Vol 48, pp 197-202. DOI: 1016/j.jngse.2016.07.041.
  17. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2017). Influence of Surfactant Structure on the Stability of Water-in-Oil Emulsions under High-Temperature High-Salinity Conditions. Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 2017, Article ID 5471376, 11 pages. DOI: 1155/2017/5471376.
  18. Musaab Magzoub, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdelbaki Benamor, Sagheer  Onaizi, Abdullah Sultan, M Mahmoud. (2017). Effects of Sodium Carbonate Addition, Heat and Agitation on Swelling and Rheological Behavior of Ca-Bentonite Colloidal Dispersions. Applied Clay Sciences, Vol 147, pp 176 – 183. DOI: 1016/j.clay.2017.07.032.
  19. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Modeling the thermal behavior of coal fly ash based polymer gel system for water reduction in oil and gas wells. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 157, pp 430- 440. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.07.019.
  20. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Mohammed F. Al-Hamad and Umer Mehmood. (2017). Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil recovery, and Wettability Alteration. Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol 2017, Article 2473175. DOI: 1155/2017/2473175.
  21. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Review on Surfactant Flooding: Phase Behavior, Retention, IFT and Field Applications. Energy & Fuels, Vol 31 (8), pp 7701-7720. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00353.
  22. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2017). Amido-Amine-Based Cationic Gemini Surfactants: Thermal, Interfacial Properties and Interactions with Cationic Polyacrylamide. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 47–55, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1896-6.
  23. Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah Saad Sultan, and Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Performance of fly ash based polymer gels for water reduction in enhanced oil recovery: Gelation kinetics and dynamic rheological studies. Korean J. Chem. Eng., Vol. 34(6), 1638-1650. DOI: 1007/s11814-017-0071-8.
  24. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Bassam El Ali and Abdullah S. Sultan (2017). Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Amido-Amine Cationic Gemini Surfactants Containing Flexible and Rigid Spacers". Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 777–788, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-017-1969-1.
  25. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Nazal, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2017). Preparation and Performance Evaluation of SPEEK/Polyaniline Composite Membrane for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, International Polymer Processing, Vol.32, No. 1, pp. 41-49. DOI: 3139/217.3259.
  26. Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Khaled Nazal, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Jimoh K. Adewole, Syed Javaid Zaid. (2017). Proton conducting blend membranes: physical, morphological and electronic properties. Polymer Bulletin. DOI:1007/s00289-016-1756-6.
  27. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2017). Investigation into the viscoelastic response at various gelation performance, thermal stability and swelling kinetics of fly ash reinforced polymer gels for water control in mature oilfields. Asia-Pac. J. Chem. Eng. 2017; 12: 13–24. DOI:1002/apj.2049.
  28. Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef M. Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Simulation and measurements of volumetric and phase behavior of carbon dioxide + higher alkanes at high pressure: CO2+ n-decane at temperatures (313–410) K and pressures up to 76 MPa. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 53, pp 198–206. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.07.045.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, S. M. Shakil and Abdullah Sultan* (2016). Development of Novel Amidosulfobetaine Surfactant–Polymer Systems for EOR Applications. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 19, pp 989–997, DOI: 1007/s11743-016-1848-1.
  30. M. Shakil Hussain, Mustapha Alao Animashaun, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Nisar Ullah, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2016). Synthesis, Characterization and Surface Properties of Amidosulfobetaine Surfactants Bearing Odd-Number Hydrophobic Tail. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol.19, pp 413–420. DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1788-9.
  31. Izhar A. Malik, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, (2016). Rheological and thermal properties of novel surfactant-polymer systems for EOR applications. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Vol. 94(9), pp 1693-1699. ISI/Scopus:1002/cjce.22541.
  32. Muhammad Shahzad Kamalal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan and Nicolas von Solms (2016). Application of various water-soluble polymers in gas hydrate inhibition. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol 60, pp 206-225. DOI: 1016/j.rser.2016.01.092.
  33. Adel O. Al-Amodi, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2016). Novel Fluorinated Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs”. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Vol 94 (3), pp 454-460. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22406.
  34. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Nanocomposite Hydrogels Developed for Various Applications: A Critical Review. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Vol. 26:717–737. DOI: 1007/s10904-016-0379-6.
  35. Abdelhalim I. A Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Khalid S. M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri (2015). DSC investigation of the gelation kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI system. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. Vol 122(3), pp 1117-1123. DOI: 1007/s10973-015-4965-6.
  36. Lateef A. Kareem, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Tajudeen M. Iwalewa. (2015). A Simplified Semi-Analytical Productivity Index for a Horizontal Well with a Non-Linear Trajectory in a Vertical Plane. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, Vol.33(6), pp: 785-808. DOI: 1260/0144-5987.33.6.785.
  37. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Yujun Feng (2015). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymer in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 93 (7), pp 1194-1200. DOI: 1002/cjce.22204.
  38. A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah. S. Sultan. (2015). Laboratory scale study on rheological behavior, morphological and structural properties of crosslinked polyacrylamide composite hydrogels embedded with date seed powder. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(28), pp 42110 DOI: 10.1002/app.42110.
  39. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo, A. S. Sultan (2015), Comparative Studies on the Effects of Casting Solvent on Physico - chemical and Gas Transport Properties of Dense Polysulfone Membrane used for CO2 Removal from CH4. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132, pp 42205. DOI: 10.1002/app.42205.
  40. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Screening of amphoteric and anionic surfactants for cEOR applications using a novel approach. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem Eng. Aspects 476, 17-23. DOI:1002/cjce.22204.
  41. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedhand Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Review on Polymer Flooding: Rheology, Adsorption, Stability and Field Applications of Various Polymer Systems. Polymer Review 55 (3). DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2014.982821.
  42. L. Ahmad, J.K. Adewole, C.P. Leo, S. Ismail, A.S. Sultan, S.O. Olatunji (2015). Prediction of plasticization pressure of polymeric membranes for CO2 removal from natural gas. Journal of Membrane Sciences 480, 39-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.01.039.
  43. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo (2015), Model-Based Analysis of Polymeric Membranes Performance in High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Journal of Polymer Research, Vol 22 (2) pp1 -10. DOI: 10.1007/s10965-015-0658-x.
  44. Khalid S. M. ElKarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdulla S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Performance of PAM/PEI gel system for water shut-off in high-temperature reservoirs: Laboratory study. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(17), pp 41869. DOI: 1002/app.41869.
  45. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Gelation of a Water Shut-off Gel at High Pressure and High Temperature: Rheological Investigation”. SPE Journal, Vol 20 (5) pp 1103 - 1112. DOI:2118/173185-PA.
  46. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Study on strength and gelation time of polyacrylamide/polyethyleneimine composite gels reinforced with coal fly ash for water shut-off treatment. Appl. Polym. Sci., Vol 132(5) pp 41392. DOI: 10.1002/app.41392.
  47. Najmudeen Sibaweihi, Abeeb Awotunde; Abdullah Sultan; Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2015), Sensitivity Studies and Stochastic Optimization of CO2-Foam Flooding. Computational Geosciences, Vol 19(1) pp 31-47. DOI:1007/s10596-014-9446-7.
  48. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System. Journal of Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry (JTAC), Vol 116-3, 1409-1415. DOI: 1007/s10973-014-3754-y.
  49. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh Kayode Adewole, Choe Peng Leo, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Ismail. (2014). Preparation and Gas Transport Properties of Dual-Layer Polysulfone Membranes for High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Appl. Polym. Sci.,131(20), 40924, DOI: 10.1002/app.40924.
  50. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Impact of salts on polyacrylamide hydrolysis and gelation: New insights. Appl. Polym. Sci., 131(23), 41185, DOI:10.1002/app.41185.
  51. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussien, and Martial Pabon. (2014). Evaluation of Rheological and Thermal Properties of a New Fluorocarbon Surfactant–Polymer System for EOR Applications in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Oil Reservoirs. Journal of Surfactant and Detergents, 17(5), 985-993. DOI: 1007/s11743-014-1600-7.
  52. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussien, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ming Han. (2013), Rheological Study on ATBS-AM Copolymer-Surfactant System in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. Journal of Chemistry, 2013, Article ID 801570, 9 pages,. DOI:1155/2013/801570.
  53. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh K. Adewole, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, Leo Choe Peng, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013), Membrane Separation of CO2 from Natural Gas: A State-of-the-Art Review on Material Development. Recent Advances in Mass Transport in Engineering Materials, Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 333, 135-147. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.333.135.

Proceedings

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan. (2019).  New Artificial Neural Network Model for Predicting the TOC from Well Logs. SPE 194716-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194716-MS.
  2. Murtada Elhaj, Osman Abdullatif,  Abdulazeez Abdulraheem,  Amjed Hassan, and Abdullah Sultan (2019).  Acoustic Properties of Carbonate: An Experimental and Modelling Study. SPE 194753-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194753-MS.
  3. Gallyam Aidagulov, Devon Gwaba,  Rifat Kayumov, Abdullah Sultan, Moustafa Aly, Xiangdong Qiu,  Haidar Almajed,  and Mustapha Abbad. (2019). Effects of Pre-Existing Fractures on Carbonate Matrix Stimulation Studied by Large-Scale Radial Acidizing Experiments. SPE 195153-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/195153-MS.
  4. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, S M Shakil Hussain, and Abdulkareem M. AlSofi. (2018). Screening of Surfactants and Polymers for High-Temperature High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192441-MS presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192441-MS.
  5. S. Al-Kadem, A. S. Al-Mashhad, M. S. Al-Dabbous, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Integrating Peng Robinson EOS With Association Term for Better Minimum Miscibility Pressure Estimation. SPE-192327 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/192327-MS.
  6. Jaber Al-Jabri, Abdullah Sultan,  Eid Al-Mutairi, Sagheer A. Onaizi, Amir Merghani, Islam Hassen. (2018). Screening New Formulations for Asphaltene Aggregation Inhibition. SPE-192450 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192450-MS.
  7. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Ultra-Low Interfacial Tension, Thermal Stability and Static Adsorption of Novel Viscoelastic Surfactant With Heavy Reservoir Oil. SPE-192322 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.   DOI: 2118/192322-MS.
  8. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Investigation of Heavy Oil Recovery Using Sequential Viscoelastic Surfactant and Chelating Agent Solutions as EOR Fluid for HTHS Conditions Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192315 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192315-MS.
  9. Musa Ahmed, Abdullah Sultan, Xiangdong Qiu, Ziad Sidaoui and Al-Amri Ahmad Ali. (2018). A Novel Emulsified Acid for Deep Wells Stimulation: Rheology, Stability, and Coreflood Study. SPE-192312 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192312-MS.
  10. Elmuzafar Ahmed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Abdulkareem AlSofi, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, and Syed R. Hussaini. (2018). Pore-Scale Imaging to Investigate Wettability and Recovery Mechanism for Surfactant/Polymer Flooding. SPE-191578-18RPTC presented at PE Russian Petroleum Technology Conference, 15-17 October, Moscow, Russia. DOI: 10.2118/191578-18RPTC-MS.
  11. Hassaan Ahmed, Abeeb A. Awotunde, Abdullah S. Sultan and Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2017). Stochastic Optimization Approach to Surfactant-Polymer Flooding. SPE 191294 presented at SPE/PAPG Pakistan Section Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 22-23 November, Islamabad, Pakistan. DOI: 2118/191294-MS.
  12. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Mohamed Al-Osail, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Monitoring Imbibition of Water Into Shale Pore System: State of the Art. SPE 186904 presented at SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, 17-19 October, Jakarta, Indonesia. DOI: 2118/186904-MS.
  13. Mohamed Mahrous, Abdullah Sultan and Eric Sonnenthal. (2017). Towards Geochemically Accurate Modeling of Carbonate Acidizing with HCl Acid. SPE 187183 presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 9-11 October, San Antonio, Texas, USA. DOI:10.2118/187183-MS.
  14. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. Sultan, Saifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain, and Shaikh Asrof Ali. (2017). Flowing Gels for Loss Circulation Prevention. SPE 188103 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188103-MS.
  15. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Reyad Shawabkeh, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Abdullah Sultan, Mohamed Abouelresh, Dhafer Al-Shehri. (2017). Effect of Temperature and CO2 Content on the Natural Gas Production from Shale Gas Reservoirs. SPE 188025 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188025-MS.
  16. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Syed Zaidi, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2017). Revised Experimental Approaches To Address Shale Drilling Challenges. SPE 188037 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188037-MS.
  17. Mahmoud M. El-Yamani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Khalid A. Al-Ramadan. (2017). Effect of Carbonate Microfacies on Contact Angle: Study from Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation. SPE 188132 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI:2118/188132-MS.
  18. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Thermosensitive water-soluble polymers: a solution to high temperature and high salinity reservoirs. SPE 188006 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188006-MS.
  19. Jimoh K. Adewole,  Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Yusuf Khan. (2017). Dynamic Analysis of Plasticization Phenomenon: An Experimental Study of High-Pressure CO2 Separation Using Modified Polysulfone Membrane. SPE 188054 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188054-MS.
  20. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Dominic Brady. (2017). Novel Approach to Formulation of Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. SPE 188116 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188116-MS.
  21. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2017). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide. SPE 183665 presented at SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 6-9 March, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. DOI: 2118/183665-MS.
  22. Ziad Sidaoui and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Formulating a Stable Emulsified Acid at High Temperatures: Stability and Rheology Study. IPTC 19012 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 14-16 November, Bangkok, Thailand. DOI:2523/IPTC-19012-MS.
  23. Lionel Talley Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2016). Comparing the effects of Breakers on a Long-Tail Sulfobetaine Viscoelastic Surfactant Solution for Well Stimulation. SPE 182915 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182915-MS.
  24. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2016). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide with Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. SPE 182851 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182851-MS.
  25. Zaid Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Performance Comparison of Novel Surfactant-scCO2 Systems for Oil Recovery in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE 181314 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 26-28 September, Dubai, UAE. DOI: 2118/181314-MS.
  26. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. SultanSaifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain. (2016). Crosslinked Polymeric Gels as Loss Circulation Materials: An Experimental Study. SPE 182740 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182740-MS.
  27. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2016). Viscoelastic Properties of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed and Temperature. SPE 182845 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182845-MS.
  28. Mohamed Hassan, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2016). Measurement of Bubble Point Pressures of n-Decane, CO2and N2 SPE 182786 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182786-MS.
  29. Mohammed Al Hamad, Abdullah Sultan, Safyan Khan, and Wael Abdallah. (2016). Challenges for Extending the Application of Nanoparticles in High Salinity Reservoirs”. SPE 182838 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182838-MS.
  30. Ahmad Mahboob and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. SPE 182839 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182839-MS.
  31. Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin, Gaurav Agrawal, Felix R Oyarzabal and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Wettability Characterization and Comparison of Carbonate Source Rocks Using NMR. SPWLA-2016-FFFF presented at SPWLA 57th Annual Logging Symposium, 25-29 June, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  32. Jun Li and Abdullah Sultan. (2015). Permeability Computations of Shale Gas by the Pore-Scale Monte Carlo Molecular Simulations. IPTC 18263 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 2523/IPTC-18263-MS.
  33. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Abdullah Sultan, Amanullah, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Mitigating Shale Drilling Problems through Comprehensive Understanding of Shale Formations. IPTC 18377 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-18377-MS.
  34. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Abdullah Sultan, and Abdulazeez Abdulraheem. (2015). Understanding Shale-Fluid Interactions Using Molecular Modeling Techniques for Drilling Applications: A Literature Review. SPE 175356 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175356-MS.
  35. S. Bageri, M. A. Mahmoud, A. S. Sultan, S. H. Al-Mutairi, and A. Abdulraheem. (2015). Effect of the Drilled Cuttings on Filter Cake Sealing Properties and Internal Invasion Depth in MRC Wells. SPE 175168 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 10.2118/175168-MS.
  36. Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2015). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Diffusion Rate of Dolomitic Rock with HCl. SPE 175832 presented at SPE North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition, 14-16 September, Cairo, Egypt. DOI: 2118/175832-MS.
  37. Xiangdong Qiu, Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan. (2015). How to Determine True Acid Diffusion Coefficient to Optimize Formation Damage Treatment. SPE-174241 presented at the SPE European Formation Damage Conference and Exhibition, June 3–5 Budapest, Hungary. DOI:2118/174241-MS.
  38. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ali-Al Matar, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A Hussein. (2015). Predicting Interfacial Tension Using Advanced Meso-Scale Modelling Technique. SPE 174625 presented at SPE Asia Pacific Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference, 11-13 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2118/174625-MS.
  39. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Effect of Temperature on Stability of sc-CO2-Foam with New Fluorosurfactant. SPE 178039 presented at SPE Oil & Gas India Conference and Exhibition, 24-26 November, Mumbai, India. DOI: 2118/178039-MS.
  40. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Testing the Stability of Mixed CO2/N2-Foam Using New Fluorosurfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery. SPE 175261 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175261-MS.
  41. Saifur Rahman, Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Measurements of Volumetric Phase Behavior of Mixtures of n-decane and CO2 at High Pressures and High Temperatures. SPE 177987 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 21-23 April, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/177987-MS.
  42. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Abdullah S. Sultan, Enamul Hossain. (2014). Chemical and Mechanical Aspects of Wellbore Stability in Shale Formations: A Literature Review. SPE-171682 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/171682-MS.
  43. Mohammed Khalid Al-Arfaj, Enamul Hossain, Abdullah Sultan, Md Amanullah, Omar Al-Fuwaires, and Turki Al-Subai. (2014). Preliminary Test Results of Inhibitive Water-Based Muds Used to Mitigate Unconventional Shale Drilling Problems. IPTC 17800 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 10-12 December, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2523/IPTC-17800-MS.
  44. Abdulrauf Rasheed Abebayo, Hasan Y. Al-Yousef, Mohammed Mahmoud, and Abdullah S Sultan. (2014). The Prospect of Using Permanent Downhole Sensors for Monitoring Oilfield Scales. SPE 17856 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  45. S. Azad, and A. S. Sultan. (2014). Extending the applicability of chemical EOR in High temperature, High Salinity, and fractured carbonate reservoir through Viscoelastic surfactants. Paper SPE 172188 presented at the 2014 SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 21st – 24th  April, 2014. DOI: 10.2118/172188-MS.
  46. Madhar Sahib Azad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sami A. Nuaim, Mohammed Mohammed, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2014). Could VES be a part of hybrid option to recover Heavy oil in Complex Heavy oil Paper SPE 170191 presented at the 2014 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, 10–12 June, Canada. DOI: 10.2118/170191-MS.
  47. S. Sultan, M. S. Azad, I. A. Hussein, M. A. Mahmoud. (2014). Rheological Assessment of VES as an EOR Fluid in Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169744 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169744-MS.
  48. Z. Jangda, A.S. Sultan, R.N. Gajbhiye, S. A. Abu-khamsin, and A. Arshad. (2014). Evaluation of Fluorosurfactant Performance with Super-Critical CO2 Flooding for High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169725 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169725-MS.
  49. Ali S. Bageri, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohamed E. Kandil. (2014) Evaluation of Novel Surfactant for Nitrogen-Foam-Assisted EOR in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169717: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 2118/169717-MS.
  50. Attia, M. A. Mahmoud, H. S. Al-Hashim, and A. S. Sultan (2014). Shifting to a New EOR Area for Sandstone Reservoirs with High Recovery, No Damage, and Low Cost. Paper SPE 169670: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169670-MS.
  51. Xiangdong Qiu, W. Zhao, S. J. Dyer, A. Al Dossary, S. Khan, and S. Sultan. (2014). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Wormholing Phenomena During Carbonate Acidizing. Paper IPTC-17285 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 19-22 January, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-17285-MS.
  52. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Date Pit Based Surfactant-Polymer Formulation for Enhanced Chemical Flooding. SPE 168088 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 19-22 May, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/168088-MS.
  53. Mohammed Omer and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Effect of Metal Ions on the Rheology and Thermal Properties of Polymeric Lost Circulation Material. Paper SPE 164433 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164433-MS
  54. Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Luai Hadhrami. (2013). From Empirical to Micro-scale Modeling of Multiphase Flow; Bridging the Gap of R&D. Paper SPE 164443 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164443-MS
  55. S. Bageri, A. A. Al-Majed, S. H. Al-Mutairi, A. Ul-Hamid, and A. S. Sultan. (2013). Evaluation of Filter Cake Mineralogy in Extended Reach and Maximum Reservoir Contact Wells in Sandstone Reservoirs. SPE 163519 presented at SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, 5-7 March, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/163519-MS.

Abstract

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Improved Oil Recovery with Viscoelastic Surfactant: Screening and Effectiveness of Formulations. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  2. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Lionel Fogang (2018). Laboratory Investigation of Viscoelastic Surfactant for Chemical EOR in High Salinity and High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  3. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and SM Shakil Hussain. (2018). Mobility Improvement Using Water Soluble Polymers: Role of Chemical Structure and Anionicity. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  4. Abdullah S. Sultan, and Musa Eltayeb Ahmad. (2018). Effect of Crude Oil on the Reaction Kinetics of Diesel Emulsified Acid with Calcite at High-Pressure and High-Temperature HPHT. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  5. I. Magzoub, Ibnelwaleed Hussei, Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mustafa Nasser. (2018). Investigation of Bentonite Swelling Kinetics Using Particle Size Analysis. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  6. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan, Lionel Foganga and Mohamed Mahmoud (2017). Characterization and Processing of Khulays Clay for Drilling Fluid Application. AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 29 – November 3, 2017.
  7. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan (2016) Effect of Date Pit Based Additive on the Thermal Stability of Water-Based Drilling Fluid, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  8. K. Adewole, M. O. Najimu, A. S. Sultan (2016). Transport Behaviour of Alkanes and Aromatic through Polysulfone/Date Pit Mixed-Matrix Membrane–An investigation for Separation Potential, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  9. S. Sultan, Z. Siaoui, S. Al-Mutairi and H. El-Hajj (2016). Development of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  10. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). A Combined Rheology and Stability Study on Emulsified Acid for High-Temperature Applications. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  11. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). Stability and Rheology of Emulsified Acid in Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed, Temperature and Droplet Size. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  12. S. Sultan (2016). Molecular Simulation of Controlling Ions and Their Role in Low Salinity IOR for Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  13. S. Kamal, S. Hussain and A. S. Sultan (2016). Rheological Investigation of High-Performance Polymer-Surfactant Systems for EOR Applications in Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Annual Meeting San Fransisco, CA, USA. November 14 - 17, 2016.
  14. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javid Zaidi. (2015). Multi-objective Optimization of Membrane Materials Selection for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell System Design, AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  15. Abdullah S. Sultan and Danish Hishmat. (2015). Study of Cross-Linked Polymer Gel Systems for Potential Use As Loss Prevention Agents. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  16. Ma, A. S. Sultan, and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Oil-Water Emulsions from EOR Application Using Polyacrylamides. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  17. S. Sultan, H. Ma and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions using Anionic Polyacrylamide and Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  18. S. Sultan and A. Mahboob (2015). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  19. S. Sultan, M. Animashaun and I. A. Hussein (2015). Influence of Nanoadditives on the Thermal and Rheological Properties of Viscoelastic Surfactants Used in Matrix Acidizing. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  20. Abdullah Sultan, Sarmad Khan, Lateef Karrem and Q, Qiu (2015). “ Effect of High Pressure on the Propagation of Wormhole in Carbonate Rocks: Experimental and Modeling Approach’. Paper WI08 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254
  21. Abdullah Sultan, Abdelhalim Mahmoud, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Organoclay as Emulsifier for Water in Oil Polymeric Gel Formulations used in Conformance Control’. Paper WI10 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254.
  22. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). DSC Investigation of the Gelation Kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI System: Influence of different surfactants and retarders. Annual meeting of North America Thermal Analysis Society, New Mexico, USA September 14-17, 2014.
  23. Shahzad Kamal Muhammad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh. (2014). Rheological study of a novel hydrophobically associating polyacrylamide surfactant system for enhanced oil recovery. Paper 16-591 presented at 30th Polymer Processing Conference, Cleaveland, USA, June 9-12, 2014.
  24. K. Adewole, A. S. Sultan, A. Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2014). Polymeric Sulfonic Acid Composites for Fuel Cell Applications: Effects of Casting Solvent and Sonication Time on Membrane Performance, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans - Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  25. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo. (2014). Model-Based Analysis of Plasticization Behaviour of Polymeric Membranes Used for High-Pressure CO2 Separation in Natural Gas Processing, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans – Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  26. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, C. P. Leo and S. Ismail (2014). Correlation of Plasticization Pressure Versus Permeability Parameters at Plasticization for Polymeric Membranes Used for CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 – 20, 2014.
  27. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan & Ibnelwaleed A. (2013). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System: DSC Investigation, 41st NATAS Conference, Kentucky, August, 4-7, 2013.
  28. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed    Hussein. (2013). Effect of Salts On Polyacrylamide Hydrolysis and Cross-Linking With Polyethylenimine at Elevated Temperatures. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2-9 November, 2013.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ming Han. (2013). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymers in High-Temperature High-Salinity Environment. AIChE annual meeting 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 3 – November 8, 2013.
  30. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Rheological Investigation of Interactions between Anionic Surfactant and Polyacrylamide for Chemical Flooding In Saudi Arabian Reservoirs. Fourth student conference, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, April-May 2013.
  31. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S.Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Thermal Stability of fluorocarbon Surfactant and Interactions with polymers used for EOR. Young Professional Technical Symposium, Dahran, April 2013.
  32. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). A Study on Processing and Chemical Composition of Date Pit Powder for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery. International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, DSL2013 – Madrid, Spain, 24-28 June,
  33. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, and Leo C. Peng. (2013). Integration of Membrane Separation into Unconventional Gas Processing. 2nd Middle East Process Engineering Conference and Exhibition, 29th Sept -2nd Oct, 2013.
  34. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ming Han and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2012). Impact of salinity and temperature on the rheology of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide solutions. 28th International conference of the polymer processing society, Pattaya, Thailand, December 2012.
  1. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Khaled Z. Abdelgawad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Hasan S. Al-Hashim. Chelating fluid for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs and method of using the same. US20150000919A1. (January 1, 2015).
  2. Jun Li, Abdullah S. SULTAN.  Method for permeability prediction of shale gas. US20160299117A1 (Granted-December 2018).
  3. Abdulrauf Rasheed ADEBAYO, Hasan Yousef AL-YOUSEF, Mohamed MAHMOUD, Abdullah Saad Sultan. Well-bore and reservoir monitoring process by logging temperature and resistivity. US20170074093A1 (Noember 2018).
  4. Mohamed A Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Khaled Z. Abdelgawad. Method for enhanced oil recovery by in situ carbon dioxide generation. US20140338903A1. (November 20, 2014).
  5. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, Abdullah S. Sultan, Mohammed A. Gadallah. Enhanced oil recovery using seawater and EDTA. US20150000916A1. (January 1, 2015).
  6. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Oil Recovery Processes at High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. US20160289539A1. (October 6, 2016).
  7. Musaab I. Magzoub, Mustafa S. Nasser, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan. Method of producing sodium bentonite. US9676669B1 (June 13, 2017).
  8. Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Ahmed Adewumi, Abdullah Sultan, Khalid M. El-Karsani and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Use of organoclay as emulsifier in polymeric gels for water permeability reduction. US9951593B2. (April 24, 2018).
  9. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Flurosurfactant Extraction process for Carbonate Reservoir. US9920238B2. (March 20, 2018).
  10. Abdullah S. SULTAN and Ziad SIDAOUI. Emulsified acid comprising waste oil for acidizing geological formations. US20180282614A1 (Pending).
  11. Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein, Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Abdullah Saad Sultan, Khalid Saad Elkarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Water shut-off method for porous formations. US20180265764A1 (Pending).
  1. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Enhanced Oil Recovery". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print (ISBN: 9783319959887).
  2. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Polymeric Membranes for Natural Gas Processing: Polymer Synthesis and Membrane Gas Transport Properties". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print ISBN: 9783319959887)

TEACHING

COURSES TAUGHT AT KFUPM

List of courses taught at KFUPM with course catalog, syllabus, a sample of materials including Exams and homework are shared on this site. All copyrights belong to KFUPM.

MEMBERS

 

Current Members:

Dr. Tinku Saikia
Post-Doc (Hydrate Inhibition, Gels) [Research Profile]

Mohamed Elmuzafar Ahmed
Ph.D. Student working on Chemical EOR

Nur Iman Khamidy
Ph.D. Student working on Gels

Moustafa Aly
M.Sc. Student working on Well Stimulation

Abdulmalik Shamsan
M.Sc. Student working on Water Shut-Off

Former Members:

Jaber Al-Jaberi
MS thesis was on Modeling Electrolyte using MSA.

Mohamed Elmuzafar Ahmed
MS thesis was on Optimization of Core-Flooding Design for Surfactant-Polymer EOR. [Thesis]

Mohamed Mahrous
MS thesis was on Geochemical Modeling of Carbonates Acidizing with HCI using TOUGHREACT. [Thesis]

Musa Eltayeb
MS thesis was on Reaction Kinetics of Novel Emulsified Acid System with Limestone. [Thesis]

Aneeq Janjua
MS thesis was on Optimum Selection of VES Systems as EOR Fluid for Wafra Ratawi Field. [Thesis]

Ziad Sidaoui
MS thesis was on A Novel Approach to Formulation of Emulsified Acid using Waste Oil. [Thesis]

Ahmad Mahboob
MS thesis was on Interfacial Tension and Contact Angle Measurements of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. [Thesis]

Mohamed AlHamad
MS thesis was on Evaluation of Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery in High-Salinity and High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. [Thesis]

Mohamed AlArfaj
Ph.D. dissertation was on Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Shale-Fluid Interactions for Drilling Applications. [Dissertation]

Lionel Fogang
MS thesis was on Toward Understanding the Breaking Mechanism of Viscoelastic Surfactant In Well Stimulation. [Thesis]

Ma He
MS thesis was on Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions From EOR Application using Dissolved Air Flotation Technique [Thesis]

Muhammad Danish
MS thesis was on the Study of Cross-linked Polymer Gel Systems for potential use as Loss Prevention Agents [Thesis]

Abdelhalim Mohamed
MS thesis was on Development of Emulsified Gels for Water Control in Oil and Gas Wells [Thesis]

Madhar Sahib
MS thesis was on Evaluation of Novel Viscoelastic System as a Potential Chemical EOR method in Carbonate Reservoirs [Thesis]

Muhammed Khalid
MS thesis was on Reaction Kinetics of Fresh & Spent Acid in Dolomite Rock at High-Pressures [Thesis]

Zaid Z. Jangda
MS thesis was on Performance of Fluoro-Surfactant with Supercritical CO2 Flooding in High-Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs [Thesis]

Mustapha Animashaun
MS thesis was Influence of Nanoadditives on the Rheology and Thermal Properties of Viscoelastic Surfactant used in Matrix Acidizing [Thesis]

Sarmad Khan
MS thesis was on Investigation of Wormhole Penetration in Carbonate Rocks under High-Pressure [Thesis]

Lateef Kareem
MS thesis was on Improved Numerical Simulation of Wormhole Propagation in Carbonate Core during Acid Stimulation [Thesis]

Ali Bageri
MS thesis was on Experimental Study of The Alkaline-Surfactant-Gas (ASG) Flooding in A Carbonate Reservoir [Thesis]

Mohamed Omar
MS thesis was on Evaluation of Polymeric Materials as Loss Circulation Agents in Shallow Zone [Thesis]

LAB SPONSORS

 

Provides chemicals for the lab use

AkzoNobel

Provides chemicals for the lab use

Internal funding and support by the Deanship of Research

KFUPM

Internal funding and support by the Deanship of Research

The lab benefited from Saudi Aramco funding under the strategic partnership with KFUPM

Saudi Aramco

The lab benefited from Saudi Aramco funding under the strategic partnership with KFUPM

Funding under KACST Annual Program

KACST

Funding under KACST Annual Program

Funding under the collaborative research agreement between KFUPM and Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Center

Schlumberger

Funding under the collaborative research agreement between KFUPM and Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Center

MN-Chem

What We Do

Reactive and complex fluids have enormous applications in the oil and gas industry ranging from flow assurance, well-stimulation, water control, drilling fluids to enhanced oil recovery at reservoir scale. The challenging reservoir conditions of high salinity, high temperature, and high pressure combined with reservoir heterogeneity introduce a high-degree of uncertainty in treatment design, reservoir monitoring, and large-scale modeling. Our attempt in the “Reactive and Complex Fluids Lab” at KFUPM is addressing issues of reaction kinetics, diffusion, interfacial phenomena, and phase changes associated with applications of reactive fluids (acids, emulsified acids) and complex fluids (viscoelastic surfactant, gels, foam, emulsion) in real reservoir condition. Our lab is driven by local challenges of hydrocarbon fields in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region. The CRF Research Lab has good facilities that include but not limited to: rotating disk reactor (150°C, 10,000 psi), TA high-pressure Rheometer (250°C, 2000 psi), light scattering, microscope, Acidizing System (3 parallel cores 12 in each, 150°C, 10,000 psi) in addition to other accessible facilities at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Center for Integrative Petroleum Research.

ABDULLAH SULTAN, PH.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences | King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sultan is an associate professor in the department of petroleum engineering. He holds BS (2002) and MSc (2005) in Chemical Engineering from KFUPM and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (2009) in Petroleum Engineering. His areas of research interest include complex fluids, reactive fluids, colloids, and interface. His recent work and publications are focused on the development of “smart fluids” to address problems in the oil and gas industry such as Enhanced Recovery, drilling fluids, stimulation, and scale prevention. His research work includes ab initio and molecular dynamics simulation to design new fluids from first-principle and understand their behavior. He has a good record of publications in the fields of polymeric membranes, smart fluids, acid reaction, gels, and emulsions. He has been appointed as director for the center of Petroleum & Minerals in Research Institute at KFUPM 2010-2015. He served as department Chairman (2012-2017).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rheokinetics of Complex Fluids

Colloids & Interfaces

Molecular Simulations

EDUCATION

1997-2002
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering - KFUPM

2002-2004
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering - KFUPM

2005-2009
Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering - Texas A&M University

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS

2010-2015
Director - Center for Petroleum & Minerals Research Institute

2012-2017
Chairman - Department of Petroleum Engineering

CRF RESEARCH

Reactive and complex fluids have enormous applications in the oil and gas industry ranging from well stimulation, water control, drilling fluids in near wellbore to enhanced oil recovery at reservoir scale. The challenging reservoir conditions of high salinity, high temperature, and high pressure combined with reservoir heterogeneity introduce a high-degree of uncertainty in treatment design, reservoir monitoring, and large-scale modeling. In the past few years at KFUPM, I carried out a number of experimental and theoretical projects in various areas related to oilfield chemicals and as a result, established my research lab at KFUPM under the title “Reactive and Complex Fluids’ Lab”.Our attempt in the “RCF Research lab is to address issues of reaction kinetics, diffusion, interfacial phenomena, and phase changes associated with applications of reactive fluids (acids, emulsified acids) and complex fluids (viscoelastic surfactant, gels, foam, emulsion) in real reservoir condition. Our lab is driven by local challenges of hydrocarbon fields in Saudi Arabia. The RCF Research Lab has good facilities that include but not limited to: rotating disk reactor (150°C, 10,000 psi), TA high-pressure Rheometer (250°C, 2000 psi), light scattering, microscope, Acidizing System (3 parallel cores 12 in each, 150°C, 10,000 psi) in addition to other accessible facilities at the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Center for Petroleum & Minerals. Most of the research outcomes have been published in reputable journals and conference proceedings. A brief summary of my research work with the highlight of active projects is listed below.

POLYMERIC MEMBRANE

Polymers have wide application in membrane manufacturing and separation processes which are of potential use in the upstream oil and gas industry.  My research activities in this area are an extension of what I did in the MS thesis. Recently, I completed a project as PI-substitute funded by NSTIP (10-ENE-1374) where composite membranes were developed using commercially available polymers and synthesized ones in our laboratory. The polymers and their composite membranes were characterized by standard techniques for their proton conductivity and thermal stability. Also, electro-catalyst Pt-Cu, Pt-Co, and/or Pt-Cu-Co, were synthesized and characterized by impregnation into carbon Nano-tubes as the catalyst support for fuel cell applications.

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (CHEMICAL AND GAS)

Chemical EOR processes have great potential to enhance oil recovery and they have been successfully demonstrated in field applications. Still, chemical EOR is not widely used due to the view that the cost of the chemical injected is high. Chemical methods include the use of polymers, surfactants, alkaline enhanced chemicals, and chemical gels in a single or combined form. In this research area, my research is focused on chemicals for high temperature and high salinity carbonate reservoirs. I managed to lead a project funded by Saudi Aramco (CPM2297) with the objective to study the interactions between surfactants and polymers in SP-EOR process. The project covers a number of studies for the bulk solution phase including compatibility, phase behavior, thermal stability, rheology, IFT, and adsorption for different formulations of commercial surfactants and polymers. The team managed to optimized chemical formulations of SP systems suitable for high temperature and high salinity conditions for carbonate reservoirs. This project is the first to highlight the properties of fluorosurfactants as well as thermoviscosifying polymers and their potential in chemical EOR. All project objectives have been accomplished. The project was a successful experience for trilateral collaboration between three parties: KFUPM, Stanford University, and Saudi Aramco. Novel experimental techniques were developed during the course of this project at KFUPM and Stanford. The project resulted in advancing the Chemical EOR at KFUPM with HPHT facilities that exceed SAR 3.5 million as well as developing active chemical EOR synthesis lab and building a pore-scale imaging Lab. The project team managed to publish 11 journal papers and more than 13 conference papers. Also, six master students completed their thesis work based on the project (4 at KFUPM and 2 at Stanford) with one Ph.D. student graduated at KFUPM. The project was multidisciplinary with contributing faculty and students from Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and CIPR.

Sequestering carbon dioxide in a reservoir is a challenging endeavor. At the same time, it is well known that the process entails many useful opportunities and benefits along with the obvious environmental impact. The sequestration process aims at storing CO2 for hundreds of years underground. Moreover, CO2 can be injected into the hydrocarbon reservoirs to enhance the recovery. There has been a growing interest to inject CO2 for EOR applications and few pilots have reported worldwide. The recoverable oil is a result of microscopic displacement and sweep efficiencies. Due to the adverse mobility ratio between CO2 and water/oil, CO2 tends to finger through the reservoir and result in a premature gas breakthrough. Foam-Assisted CO2 can improve the EOR process at microscopic and macroscopic levels and address issues related to conformance and gravity override. The flow of fluid when injected in a reservoir, depending on the formation permeability, physiochemical interaction, and reservoir heterogeneity. The foam-assisted CO2 process needs more understanding of the fluid/fluid and rock/fluids (carbonate, carbon dioxide, water, surfactant, hydrocarbons) interaction. My research lab attempts to address challenges related to recovery mechanism, the complex flow behavior, foam stability, and understand the synergetic effect between gas mobility and low IFT caused by the surfactant. We are thankful to TIC-CCS for funding CO2-EOR project which helps building research facilities for in-situ measurement of contact angle and hopefully IFT in the near future.

COMPLEX FLUIDS (GELS, SELF-ASSEMBLED AND EMULSIONS)

Complex fluids are mixtures that have a coexistence of two phases. Examples of complex fluids in the oil and gas industry include suspensions (solid-liquid), granular (solid-gas), foams (liquid–gas), or emulsions (liquid-liquid). Self-assembled surfactant and functionalized polymers or nanoparticles are materials used for various applications of complex fluids upstream research of oil and gas. Water shut-off, loss circulation, conformance control, and fracturing are known problems that need the right design of fluid. Water, for example, causes serious operational problems like corrosion, scale, loss of productivity and it could also result in larger investments of separation plants to handle the ever-increasing volumes of water. My research interest as (Co-PI) includes the development of a new cost-effective polymer to produce thermally stable gels for use in high-temperature reservoirs (project AT-30-291). These gels will be used to reduce and/or totally shut off the water coming from the reservoir in both oil and gas wells. Recently, we looked at emulsified gel and its stability using nano-additives, and how to control its breaking for conformance control problems. The breaking of emulsion and its separation is another active research topic as an extension of chemicals application in EOR. My research interest in this area also includes the design and evaluation of viscoelastic surfactants as diverting fluids funded by KACST under NSTIP (10-OIL-1378). The objectives were to study the role of different counterions, nanoparticles additives on the viscoelastive behavior. The breaking mechanism of wormlike micelles once interacted with oil is also of research focus in my lab.

REACTIVE FLUIDS (WELL STIMULATION)

Matrix acidizing is a stimulation technique through which the permeability of a formation is altered by injecting an acid which results in the dissolution of rock. In carbonate reservoirs, for example, this process actually creates flow channels for the hydrocarbons in the near-wellbore area known as “wormholes”. The primary focus of my group is to establish a good understanding of the reaction kinetics and rock dissolution of real reactive fluids under high pressure and high-temperature conditions for heterogeneous and tight reservoirs. The effect of the flow rate of acid, acid concentration, rock type, rock properties, temperature and pressure, additives are looked at experimentally and theoretically. Our experimental work is coupled with numerical modeling of wormhole propagation in the core (linear) and near-wellbore (radial). Knowledge of pressure, concentration, porosity, and permeability at each location and time step during the simulation provide a better understanding of what(s), how(s), and why(s) of the stimulation process. In my lab, the simulation team uses acid concentration as an indication of the efficiency of the phenomenon for breakthroughs of acid and wormhole. We also look at the shifting effect of local mass transfer coefficient and molecular diffusivity on the acidization curve, the impact of initial permeability of the core on the pore volume injection to breakthrough, and the joint impact of Péclet and Damköhler number.

I’ve completed one project as PI related to well stimulation funded jointly by KFUPM and Schlumberger Dhahran Carbone Center (CPM-2298) on wormholing, reaction kinetics, and diffusion of HCl. Emulsified acid is another area of interest in my research lab.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Abdulmajeeb Onawole, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Safwat Abdel-Azeim, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohammed A. Saad. (2019). Molecular and Electronic Structure Elucidation of Fe2+/Fe3+ complexed Chelators used in iron sulfides Scale removal in oil and gas wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 9999. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.23463 .
  2. Mohammad H. Alqam, Sidqi A. Abu-Khamsin, Abdullah S. Sultan, Taha M. Okasha, and Hasan O. Yildiz. (2019). Effect of Rock Mineralogy and Oil Composition on Wettability Alteration and Interfacial Tension by Brine and Carbonated Water. Energy Fuels, 2019, 33 (3), pp 1983–1989. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b04143.
  3. Musaab Magzoub, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny and Abdullah Sultan. (2019). Thermochemical Upgrading of Calcium Bentonite for Drilling Fluid Applications. Energy Resour. Technol.141(4), 042902. Paper No: JERT-18-1532. DOI: 10.1115/1.4041843.
  4. Abdullah Sultan*. (2018). Stability of PAM/PEI emulsified gels under HTHS conditions for water shut-off treatment. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production (accepted). DOI: 1007/s13202-018-0597-2.
  5. Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah Sultan, Mohammed A. Saad, Willem Buijs,  Thijs J. H. Vlugt. (2018). Development of efficient formulation for the removal of iron sulphide scale in sour production wells. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol 96(12), pp 2526-2533. DOI:1002/cjce.23241.
  6. Lionel T. Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan* and Muhammad S. Kamal. (2018). Understanding viscosity reduction of a long-tail sulfobetaine viscoelastic surfactant by organic compounds. RSC Advances, Vol 8, pp 4455-4463. DOI: 1039/C7RA12538K.
  7. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Gelation of Emulsified Polyacrylamide/Polyethylenimine under High-Temperature, High-Salinity Conditions: Rheological Investigation. Eng. Chem. Res., 2018, 57(36), pp 12278–12287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b02571.
  8. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Use of organoclay as a stabilizer for water-in-oil emulsions under high-temperature high-salinity conditions. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 160 pp: 302-312. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.10.077.
  9. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein,  Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohammed A.S. Saad. (2018). Oilfield scale formation and chemical removal: A review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 171 pp: 127-139. DOI:1016/j.petrol.2018.07.037.
  10. Farrukh Shehzad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Waqar Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2018). Polymeric Surfactants and Emerging Alternatives used in the Demulsification of Produced Water: A Review. Polymer Reviews, Vol. 58 (1), pp 63-101, DOI: 1080/15583724.2017.1340308.
  11. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal,  M. Shakil Hussain, Lionel Talley Fogang, and Abdullah S. Sultan(2018). Impact of Spacer and Hydrophobic Tail on Interfacial and Rheological Properties of Cationic Amido-Amine Gemini Surfactants for EOR Application. Tenside Surfactants Detergents: Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 491-497. DOI: 10.3139/113.110591.
  12. A. Adewunmi, S. Ismail, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Composite Hydrogels Impregnated with Fly Ash: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Application as Fractures Sealant for High Water Producing Zones in Oil and Gas Wells. Journal of Polymers and Environment, Vol 26(8), pp 3294-3306. DOI: 10.1007/s10924-018-1204-9.
  13. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Reyad Shawabkeh, Abdullah Sultan, and Mohammed J. Al-Marri. (2018). Impact of Surfactant on the Retention of CO2and Methane in Carbonate Reservoirs. Energy Fuels, Vol 32 (4), pp 5355-5363. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00213.
  14. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2018). Hybrid Intelligent Modelling of the Viscoelastic Moduli of Coal Fly Ash Based Polymer Gel System for Water Shutoff Treatment in Oil and Gas Wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (published online). DOI:/10.1002/cjce.23436.
  15. Mazen K. Nazal, Olanrewaju Suleiman Olakunle, Amir Al-Ahmed, Belabbes Merzougui Abdullah Abualkibash, Abdullah Sultan, Ammar BinYousaf, Syed Javaid Zaidi. (2018). Precious metal free Ni/Cu/Mo trimetallic nanocomposite supported on multi-walled carbon nanotubes as highly efficient and durable anode-catalyst for alkaline direct methanol fuel cells. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 823 98–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.05.035.
  16. Jun Li and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2017). Klinkenberg slippage effect in the permeability computations of shale gas by the pore-scale simulations. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Vol 48, pp 197-202. DOI: 1016/j.jngse.2016.07.041.
  17. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2017). Influence of Surfactant Structure on the Stability of Water-in-Oil Emulsions under High-Temperature High-Salinity Conditions. Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 2017, Article ID 5471376, 11 pages. DOI: 1155/2017/5471376.
  18. Musaab Magzoub, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdelbaki Benamor, Sagheer  Onaizi, Abdullah Sultan, M Mahmoud. (2017). Effects of Sodium Carbonate Addition, Heat and Agitation on Swelling and Rheological Behavior of Ca-Bentonite Colloidal Dispersions. Applied Clay Sciences, Vol 147, pp 176 – 183. DOI: 1016/j.clay.2017.07.032.
  19. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Modeling the thermal behavior of coal fly ash based polymer gel system for water reduction in oil and gas wells. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 157, pp 430- 440. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.07.019.
  20. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Mohammed F. Al-Hamad and Umer Mehmood. (2017). Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil recovery, and Wettability Alteration. Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol 2017, Article 2473175. DOI: 1155/2017/2473175.
  21. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Review on Surfactant Flooding: Phase Behavior, Retention, IFT and Field Applications. Energy & Fuels, Vol 31 (8), pp 7701-7720. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00353.
  22. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2017). Amido-Amine-Based Cationic Gemini Surfactants: Thermal, Interfacial Properties and Interactions with Cationic Polyacrylamide. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 47–55, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1896-6.
  23. Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah Saad Sultan, and Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Performance of fly ash based polymer gels for water reduction in enhanced oil recovery: Gelation kinetics and dynamic rheological studies. Korean J. Chem. Eng., Vol. 34(6), 1638-1650. DOI: 1007/s11814-017-0071-8.
  24. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Bassam El Ali and Abdullah S. Sultan (2017). Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Amido-Amine Cationic Gemini Surfactants Containing Flexible and Rigid Spacers". Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 777–788, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-017-1969-1.
  25. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Nazal, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2017). Preparation and Performance Evaluation of SPEEK/Polyaniline Composite Membrane for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, International Polymer Processing, Vol.32, No. 1, pp. 41-49. DOI: 3139/217.3259.
  26. Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Khaled Nazal, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Jimoh K. Adewole, Syed Javaid Zaid. (2017). Proton conducting blend membranes: physical, morphological and electronic properties. Polymer Bulletin. DOI:1007/s00289-016-1756-6.
  27. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2017). Investigation into the viscoelastic response at various gelation performance, thermal stability and swelling kinetics of fly ash reinforced polymer gels for water control in mature oilfields. Asia-Pac. J. Chem. Eng. 2017; 12: 13–24. DOI:1002/apj.2049.
  28. Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef M. Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Simulation and measurements of volumetric and phase behavior of carbon dioxide + higher alkanes at high pressure: CO2+ n-decane at temperatures (313–410) K and pressures up to 76 MPa. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 53, pp 198–206. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.07.045.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, S. M. Shakil and Abdullah Sultan* (2016). Development of Novel Amidosulfobetaine Surfactant–Polymer Systems for EOR Applications. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 19, pp 989–997, DOI: 1007/s11743-016-1848-1.
  30. M. Shakil Hussain, Mustapha Alao Animashaun, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Nisar Ullah, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2016). Synthesis, Characterization and Surface Properties of Amidosulfobetaine Surfactants Bearing Odd-Number Hydrophobic Tail. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol.19, pp 413–420. DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1788-9.
  31. Izhar A. Malik, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, (2016). Rheological and thermal properties of novel surfactant-polymer systems for EOR applications. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Vol. 94(9), pp 1693-1699. ISI/Scopus:1002/cjce.22541.
  32. Muhammad Shahzad Kamalal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan and Nicolas von Solms (2016). Application of various water-soluble polymers in gas hydrate inhibition. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol 60, pp 206-225. DOI: 1016/j.rser.2016.01.092.
  33. Adel O. Al-Amodi, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2016). Novel Fluorinated Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs”. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Vol 94 (3), pp 454-460. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22406.
  34. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Nanocomposite Hydrogels Developed for Various Applications: A Critical Review. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Vol. 26:717–737. DOI: 1007/s10904-016-0379-6.
  35. Abdelhalim I. A Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Khalid S. M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri (2015). DSC investigation of the gelation kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI system. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. Vol 122(3), pp 1117-1123. DOI: 1007/s10973-015-4965-6.
  36. Lateef A. Kareem, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Tajudeen M. Iwalewa. (2015). A Simplified Semi-Analytical Productivity Index for a Horizontal Well with a Non-Linear Trajectory in a Vertical Plane. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, Vol.33(6), pp: 785-808. DOI: 1260/0144-5987.33.6.785.
  37. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Yujun Feng (2015). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymer in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 93 (7), pp 1194-1200. DOI: 1002/cjce.22204.
  38. A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah. S. Sultan. (2015). Laboratory scale study on rheological behavior, morphological and structural properties of crosslinked polyacrylamide composite hydrogels embedded with date seed powder. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(28), pp 42110 DOI: 10.1002/app.42110.
  39. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo, A. S. Sultan (2015), Comparative Studies on the Effects of Casting Solvent on Physico - chemical and Gas Transport Properties of Dense Polysulfone Membrane used for CO2 Removal from CH4. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132, pp 42205. DOI: 10.1002/app.42205.
  40. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Screening of amphoteric and anionic surfactants for cEOR applications using a novel approach. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem Eng. Aspects 476, 17-23. DOI:1002/cjce.22204.
  41. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedhand Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Review on Polymer Flooding: Rheology, Adsorption, Stability and Field Applications of Various Polymer Systems. Polymer Review 55 (3). DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2014.982821.
  42. L. Ahmad, J.K. Adewole, C.P. Leo, S. Ismail, A.S. Sultan, S.O. Olatunji (2015). Prediction of plasticization pressure of polymeric membranes for CO2 removal from natural gas. Journal of Membrane Sciences 480, 39-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.01.039.
  43. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo (2015), Model-Based Analysis of Polymeric Membranes Performance in High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Journal of Polymer Research, Vol 22 (2) pp1 -10. DOI: 10.1007/s10965-015-0658-x.
  44. Khalid S. M. ElKarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdulla S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Performance of PAM/PEI gel system for water shut-off in high-temperature reservoirs: Laboratory study. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(17), pp 41869. DOI: 1002/app.41869.
  45. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Gelation of a Water Shut-off Gel at High Pressure and High Temperature: Rheological Investigation”. SPE Journal, Vol 20 (5) pp 1103 - 1112. DOI:2118/173185-PA.
  46. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Study on strength and gelation time of polyacrylamide/polyethyleneimine composite gels reinforced with coal fly ash for water shut-off treatment. Appl. Polym. Sci., Vol 132(5) pp 41392. DOI: 10.1002/app.41392.
  47. Najmudeen Sibaweihi, Abeeb Awotunde; Abdullah Sultan; Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2015), Sensitivity Studies and Stochastic Optimization of CO2-Foam Flooding. Computational Geosciences, Vol 19(1) pp 31-47. DOI:1007/s10596-014-9446-7.
  48. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System. Journal of Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry (JTAC), Vol 116-3, 1409-1415. DOI: 1007/s10973-014-3754-y.
  49. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh Kayode Adewole, Choe Peng Leo, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Ismail. (2014). Preparation and Gas Transport Properties of Dual-Layer Polysulfone Membranes for High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Appl. Polym. Sci.,131(20), 40924, DOI: 10.1002/app.40924.
  50. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Impact of salts on polyacrylamide hydrolysis and gelation: New insights. Appl. Polym. Sci., 131(23), 41185, DOI:10.1002/app.41185.
  51. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussien, and Martial Pabon. (2014). Evaluation of Rheological and Thermal Properties of a New Fluorocarbon Surfactant–Polymer System for EOR Applications in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Oil Reservoirs. Journal of Surfactant and Detergents, 17(5), 985-993. DOI: 1007/s11743-014-1600-7.
  52. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussien, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ming Han. (2013), Rheological Study on ATBS-AM Copolymer-Surfactant System in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. Journal of Chemistry, 2013, Article ID 801570, 9 pages,. DOI:1155/2013/801570.
  53. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh K. Adewole, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, Leo Choe Peng, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013), Membrane Separation of CO2 from Natural Gas: A State-of-the-Art Review on Material Development. Recent Advances in Mass Transport in Engineering Materials, Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 333, 135-147. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.333.135.

Proceedings

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan. (2019).  New Artificial Neural Network Model for Predicting the TOC from Well Logs. SPE 194716-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194716-MS.
  2. Murtada Elhaj, Osman Abdullatif,  Abdulazeez Abdulraheem,  Amjed Hassan, and Abdullah Sultan (2019).  Acoustic Properties of Carbonate: An Experimental and Modelling Study. SPE 194753-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194753-MS.
  3. Gallyam Aidagulov, Devon Gwaba,  Rifat Kayumov, Abdullah Sultan, Moustafa Aly, Xiangdong Qiu,  Haidar Almajed,  and Mustapha Abbad. (2019). Effects of Pre-Existing Fractures on Carbonate Matrix Stimulation Studied by Large-Scale Radial Acidizing Experiments. SPE 195153-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/195153-MS.
  4. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, S M Shakil Hussain, and Abdulkareem M. AlSofi. (2018). Screening of Surfactants and Polymers for High-Temperature High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192441-MS presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192441-MS.
  5. S. Al-Kadem, A. S. Al-Mashhad, M. S. Al-Dabbous, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Integrating Peng Robinson EOS With Association Term for Better Minimum Miscibility Pressure Estimation. SPE-192327 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/192327-MS.
  6. Jaber Al-Jabri, Abdullah Sultan,  Eid Al-Mutairi, Sagheer A. Onaizi, Amir Merghani, Islam Hassen. (2018). Screening New Formulations for Asphaltene Aggregation Inhibition. SPE-192450 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192450-MS.
  7. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Ultra-Low Interfacial Tension, Thermal Stability and Static Adsorption of Novel Viscoelastic Surfactant With Heavy Reservoir Oil. SPE-192322 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.   DOI: 2118/192322-MS.
  8. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Investigation of Heavy Oil Recovery Using Sequential Viscoelastic Surfactant and Chelating Agent Solutions as EOR Fluid for HTHS Conditions Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192315 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192315-MS.
  9. Musa Ahmed, Abdullah Sultan, Xiangdong Qiu, Ziad Sidaoui and Al-Amri Ahmad Ali. (2018). A Novel Emulsified Acid for Deep Wells Stimulation: Rheology, Stability, and Coreflood Study. SPE-192312 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192312-MS.
  10. Elmuzafar Ahmed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Abdulkareem AlSofi, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, and Syed R. Hussaini. (2018). Pore-Scale Imaging to Investigate Wettability and Recovery Mechanism for Surfactant/Polymer Flooding. SPE-191578-18RPTC presented at PE Russian Petroleum Technology Conference, 15-17 October, Moscow, Russia. DOI: 10.2118/191578-18RPTC-MS.
  11. Hassaan Ahmed, Abeeb A. Awotunde, Abdullah S. Sultan and Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2017). Stochastic Optimization Approach to Surfactant-Polymer Flooding. SPE 191294 presented at SPE/PAPG Pakistan Section Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 22-23 November, Islamabad, Pakistan. DOI: 2118/191294-MS.
  12. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Mohamed Al-Osail, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Monitoring Imbibition of Water Into Shale Pore System: State of the Art. SPE 186904 presented at SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, 17-19 October, Jakarta, Indonesia. DOI: 2118/186904-MS.
  13. Mohamed Mahrous, Abdullah Sultan and Eric Sonnenthal. (2017). Towards Geochemically Accurate Modeling of Carbonate Acidizing with HCl Acid. SPE 187183 presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 9-11 October, San Antonio, Texas, USA. DOI:10.2118/187183-MS.
  14. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. Sultan, Saifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain, and Shaikh Asrof Ali. (2017). Flowing Gels for Loss Circulation Prevention. SPE 188103 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188103-MS.
  15. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Reyad Shawabkeh, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Abdullah Sultan, Mohamed Abouelresh, Dhafer Al-Shehri. (2017). Effect of Temperature and CO2 Content on the Natural Gas Production from Shale Gas Reservoirs. SPE 188025 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188025-MS.
  16. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Syed Zaidi, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2017). Revised Experimental Approaches To Address Shale Drilling Challenges. SPE 188037 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188037-MS.
  17. Mahmoud M. El-Yamani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Khalid A. Al-Ramadan. (2017). Effect of Carbonate Microfacies on Contact Angle: Study from Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation. SPE 188132 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI:2118/188132-MS.
  18. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Thermosensitive water-soluble polymers: a solution to high temperature and high salinity reservoirs. SPE 188006 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188006-MS.
  19. Jimoh K. Adewole,  Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Yusuf Khan. (2017). Dynamic Analysis of Plasticization Phenomenon: An Experimental Study of High-Pressure CO2 Separation Using Modified Polysulfone Membrane. SPE 188054 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188054-MS.
  20. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Dominic Brady. (2017). Novel Approach to Formulation of Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. SPE 188116 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188116-MS.
  21. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2017). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide. SPE 183665 presented at SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 6-9 March, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. DOI: 2118/183665-MS.
  22. Ziad Sidaoui and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Formulating a Stable Emulsified Acid at High Temperatures: Stability and Rheology Study. IPTC 19012 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 14-16 November, Bangkok, Thailand. DOI:2523/IPTC-19012-MS.
  23. Lionel Talley Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2016). Comparing the effects of Breakers on a Long-Tail Sulfobetaine Viscoelastic Surfactant Solution for Well Stimulation. SPE 182915 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182915-MS.
  24. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2016). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide with Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. SPE 182851 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182851-MS.
  25. Zaid Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Performance Comparison of Novel Surfactant-scCO2 Systems for Oil Recovery in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE 181314 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 26-28 September, Dubai, UAE. DOI: 2118/181314-MS.
  26. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. SultanSaifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain. (2016). Crosslinked Polymeric Gels as Loss Circulation Materials: An Experimental Study. SPE 182740 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182740-MS.
  27. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2016). Viscoelastic Properties of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed and Temperature. SPE 182845 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182845-MS.
  28. Mohamed Hassan, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2016). Measurement of Bubble Point Pressures of n-Decane, CO2and N2 SPE 182786 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182786-MS.
  29. Mohammed Al Hamad, Abdullah Sultan, Safyan Khan, and Wael Abdallah. (2016). Challenges for Extending the Application of Nanoparticles in High Salinity Reservoirs”. SPE 182838 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182838-MS.
  30. Ahmad Mahboob and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. SPE 182839 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182839-MS.
  31. Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin, Gaurav Agrawal, Felix R Oyarzabal and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Wettability Characterization and Comparison of Carbonate Source Rocks Using NMR. SPWLA-2016-FFFF presented at SPWLA 57th Annual Logging Symposium, 25-29 June, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  32. Jun Li and Abdullah Sultan. (2015). Permeability Computations of Shale Gas by the Pore-Scale Monte Carlo Molecular Simulations. IPTC 18263 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 2523/IPTC-18263-MS.
  33. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Abdullah Sultan, Amanullah, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Mitigating Shale Drilling Problems through Comprehensive Understanding of Shale Formations. IPTC 18377 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-18377-MS.
  34. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Abdullah Sultan, and Abdulazeez Abdulraheem. (2015). Understanding Shale-Fluid Interactions Using Molecular Modeling Techniques for Drilling Applications: A Literature Review. SPE 175356 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175356-MS.
  35. S. Bageri, M. A. Mahmoud, A. S. Sultan, S. H. Al-Mutairi, and A. Abdulraheem. (2015). Effect of the Drilled Cuttings on Filter Cake Sealing Properties and Internal Invasion Depth in MRC Wells. SPE 175168 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 10.2118/175168-MS.
  36. Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2015). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Diffusion Rate of Dolomitic Rock with HCl. SPE 175832 presented at SPE North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition, 14-16 September, Cairo, Egypt. DOI: 2118/175832-MS.
  37. Xiangdong Qiu, Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan. (2015). How to Determine True Acid Diffusion Coefficient to Optimize Formation Damage Treatment. SPE-174241 presented at the SPE European Formation Damage Conference and Exhibition, June 3–5 Budapest, Hungary. DOI:2118/174241-MS.
  38. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ali-Al Matar, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A Hussein. (2015). Predicting Interfacial Tension Using Advanced Meso-Scale Modelling Technique. SPE 174625 presented at SPE Asia Pacific Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference, 11-13 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2118/174625-MS.
  39. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Effect of Temperature on Stability of sc-CO2-Foam with New Fluorosurfactant. SPE 178039 presented at SPE Oil & Gas India Conference and Exhibition, 24-26 November, Mumbai, India. DOI: 2118/178039-MS.
  40. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Testing the Stability of Mixed CO2/N2-Foam Using New Fluorosurfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery. SPE 175261 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175261-MS.
  41. Saifur Rahman, Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Measurements of Volumetric Phase Behavior of Mixtures of n-decane and CO2 at High Pressures and High Temperatures. SPE 177987 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 21-23 April, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/177987-MS.
  42. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Abdullah S. Sultan, Enamul Hossain. (2014). Chemical and Mechanical Aspects of Wellbore Stability in Shale Formations: A Literature Review. SPE-171682 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/171682-MS.
  43. Mohammed Khalid Al-Arfaj, Enamul Hossain, Abdullah Sultan, Md Amanullah, Omar Al-Fuwaires, and Turki Al-Subai. (2014). Preliminary Test Results of Inhibitive Water-Based Muds Used to Mitigate Unconventional Shale Drilling Problems. IPTC 17800 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 10-12 December, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2523/IPTC-17800-MS.
  44. Abdulrauf Rasheed Abebayo, Hasan Y. Al-Yousef, Mohammed Mahmoud, and Abdullah S Sultan. (2014). The Prospect of Using Permanent Downhole Sensors for Monitoring Oilfield Scales. SPE 17856 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  45. S. Azad, and A. S. Sultan. (2014). Extending the applicability of chemical EOR in High temperature, High Salinity, and fractured carbonate reservoir through Viscoelastic surfactants. Paper SPE 172188 presented at the 2014 SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 21st – 24th  April, 2014. DOI: 10.2118/172188-MS.
  46. Madhar Sahib Azad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sami A. Nuaim, Mohammed Mohammed, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2014). Could VES be a part of hybrid option to recover Heavy oil in Complex Heavy oil Paper SPE 170191 presented at the 2014 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, 10–12 June, Canada. DOI: 10.2118/170191-MS.
  47. S. Sultan, M. S. Azad, I. A. Hussein, M. A. Mahmoud. (2014). Rheological Assessment of VES as an EOR Fluid in Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169744 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169744-MS.
  48. Z. Jangda, A.S. Sultan, R.N. Gajbhiye, S. A. Abu-khamsin, and A. Arshad. (2014). Evaluation of Fluorosurfactant Performance with Super-Critical CO2 Flooding for High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169725 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169725-MS.
  49. Ali S. Bageri, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohamed E. Kandil. (2014) Evaluation of Novel Surfactant for Nitrogen-Foam-Assisted EOR in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169717: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 2118/169717-MS.
  50. Attia, M. A. Mahmoud, H. S. Al-Hashim, and A. S. Sultan (2014). Shifting to a New EOR Area for Sandstone Reservoirs with High Recovery, No Damage, and Low Cost. Paper SPE 169670: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169670-MS.
  51. Xiangdong Qiu, W. Zhao, S. J. Dyer, A. Al Dossary, S. Khan, and S. Sultan. (2014). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Wormholing Phenomena During Carbonate Acidizing. Paper IPTC-17285 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 19-22 January, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-17285-MS.
  52. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Date Pit Based Surfactant-Polymer Formulation for Enhanced Chemical Flooding. SPE 168088 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 19-22 May, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/168088-MS.
  53. Mohammed Omer and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Effect of Metal Ions on the Rheology and Thermal Properties of Polymeric Lost Circulation Material. Paper SPE 164433 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164433-MS
  54. Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Luai Hadhrami. (2013). From Empirical to Micro-scale Modeling of Multiphase Flow; Bridging the Gap of R&D. Paper SPE 164443 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164443-MS
  55. S. Bageri, A. A. Al-Majed, S. H. Al-Mutairi, A. Ul-Hamid, and A. S. Sultan. (2013). Evaluation of Filter Cake Mineralogy in Extended Reach and Maximum Reservoir Contact Wells in Sandstone Reservoirs. SPE 163519 presented at SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, 5-7 March, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/163519-MS.

Abstract

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Improved Oil Recovery with Viscoelastic Surfactant: Screening and Effectiveness of Formulations. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  2. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Lionel Fogang (2018). Laboratory Investigation of Viscoelastic Surfactant for Chemical EOR in High Salinity and High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  3. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and SM Shakil Hussain. (2018). Mobility Improvement Using Water Soluble Polymers: Role of Chemical Structure and Anionicity. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  4. Abdullah S. Sultan, and Musa Eltayeb Ahmad. (2018). Effect of Crude Oil on the Reaction Kinetics of Diesel Emulsified Acid with Calcite at High-Pressure and High-Temperature HPHT. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  5. I. Magzoub, Ibnelwaleed Hussei, Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mustafa Nasser. (2018). Investigation of Bentonite Swelling Kinetics Using Particle Size Analysis. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  6. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan, Lionel Foganga and Mohamed Mahmoud (2017). Characterization and Processing of Khulays Clay for Drilling Fluid Application. AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 29 – November 3, 2017.
  7. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan (2016) Effect of Date Pit Based Additive on the Thermal Stability of Water-Based Drilling Fluid, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  8. K. Adewole, M. O. Najimu, A. S. Sultan (2016). Transport Behaviour of Alkanes and Aromatic through Polysulfone/Date Pit Mixed-Matrix Membrane–An investigation for Separation Potential, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  9. S. Sultan, Z. Siaoui, S. Al-Mutairi and H. El-Hajj (2016). Development of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  10. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). A Combined Rheology and Stability Study on Emulsified Acid for High-Temperature Applications. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  11. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). Stability and Rheology of Emulsified Acid in Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed, Temperature and Droplet Size. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  12. S. Sultan (2016). Molecular Simulation of Controlling Ions and Their Role in Low Salinity IOR for Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  13. S. Kamal, S. Hussain and A. S. Sultan (2016). Rheological Investigation of High-Performance Polymer-Surfactant Systems for EOR Applications in Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Annual Meeting San Fransisco, CA, USA. November 14 - 17, 2016.
  14. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javid Zaidi. (2015). Multi-objective Optimization of Membrane Materials Selection for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell System Design, AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  15. Abdullah S. Sultan and Danish Hishmat. (2015). Study of Cross-Linked Polymer Gel Systems for Potential Use As Loss Prevention Agents. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  16. Ma, A. S. Sultan, and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Oil-Water Emulsions from EOR Application Using Polyacrylamides. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  17. S. Sultan, H. Ma and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions using Anionic Polyacrylamide and Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  18. S. Sultan and A. Mahboob (2015). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  19. S. Sultan, M. Animashaun and I. A. Hussein (2015). Influence of Nanoadditives on the Thermal and Rheological Properties of Viscoelastic Surfactants Used in Matrix Acidizing. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  20. Abdullah Sultan, Sarmad Khan, Lateef Karrem and Q, Qiu (2015). “ Effect of High Pressure on the Propagation of Wormhole in Carbonate Rocks: Experimental and Modeling Approach’. Paper WI08 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254
  21. Abdullah Sultan, Abdelhalim Mahmoud, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Organoclay as Emulsifier for Water in Oil Polymeric Gel Formulations used in Conformance Control’. Paper WI10 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254.
  22. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). DSC Investigation of the Gelation Kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI System: Influence of different surfactants and retarders. Annual meeting of North America Thermal Analysis Society, New Mexico, USA September 14-17, 2014.
  23. Shahzad Kamal Muhammad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh. (2014). Rheological study of a novel hydrophobically associating polyacrylamide surfactant system for enhanced oil recovery. Paper 16-591 presented at 30th Polymer Processing Conference, Cleaveland, USA, June 9-12, 2014.
  24. K. Adewole, A. S. Sultan, A. Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2014). Polymeric Sulfonic Acid Composites for Fuel Cell Applications: Effects of Casting Solvent and Sonication Time on Membrane Performance, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans - Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  25. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo. (2014). Model-Based Analysis of Plasticization Behaviour of Polymeric Membranes Used for High-Pressure CO2 Separation in Natural Gas Processing, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans – Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  26. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, C. P. Leo and S. Ismail (2014). Correlation of Plasticization Pressure Versus Permeability Parameters at Plasticization for Polymeric Membranes Used for CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 – 20, 2014.
  27. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan & Ibnelwaleed A. (2013). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System: DSC Investigation, 41st NATAS Conference, Kentucky, August, 4-7, 2013.
  28. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed    Hussein. (2013). Effect of Salts On Polyacrylamide Hydrolysis and Cross-Linking With Polyethylenimine at Elevated Temperatures. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2-9 November, 2013.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ming Han. (2013). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymers in High-Temperature High-Salinity Environment. AIChE annual meeting 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 3 – November 8, 2013.
  30. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Rheological Investigation of Interactions between Anionic Surfactant and Polyacrylamide for Chemical Flooding In Saudi Arabian Reservoirs. Fourth student conference, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, April-May 2013.
  31. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S.Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Thermal Stability of fluorocarbon Surfactant and Interactions with polymers used for EOR. Young Professional Technical Symposium, Dahran, April 2013.
  32. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). A Study on Processing and Chemical Composition of Date Pit Powder for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery. International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, DSL2013 – Madrid, Spain, 24-28 June,
  33. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, and Leo C. Peng. (2013). Integration of Membrane Separation into Unconventional Gas Processing. 2nd Middle East Process Engineering Conference and Exhibition, 29th Sept -2nd Oct, 2013.
  34. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ming Han and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2012). Impact of salinity and temperature on the rheology of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide solutions. 28th International conference of the polymer processing society, Pattaya, Thailand, December 2012.
  1. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Khaled Z. Abdelgawad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Hasan S. Al-Hashim. Chelating fluid for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs and method of using the same. US20150000919A1. (January 1, 2015).
  2. Jun Li, Abdullah S. SULTAN.  Method for permeability prediction of shale gas. US20160299117A1 (Granted-December 2018).
  3. Abdulrauf Rasheed ADEBAYO, Hasan Yousef AL-YOUSEF, Mohamed MAHMOUD, Abdullah Saad Sultan. Well-bore and reservoir monitoring process by logging temperature and resistivity. US20170074093A1 (Noember 2018).
  4. Mohamed A Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Khaled Z. Abdelgawad. Method for enhanced oil recovery by in situ carbon dioxide generation. US20140338903A1. (November 20, 2014).
  5. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, Abdullah S. Sultan, Mohammed A. Gadallah. Enhanced oil recovery using seawater and EDTA. US20150000916A1. (January 1, 2015).
  6. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Oil Recovery Processes at High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. US20160289539A1. (October 6, 2016).
  7. Musaab I. Magzoub, Mustafa S. Nasser, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan. Method of producing sodium bentonite. US9676669B1 (June 13, 2017).
  8. Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Ahmed Adewumi, Abdullah Sultan, Khalid M. El-Karsani and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Use of organoclay as emulsifier in polymeric gels for water permeability reduction. US9951593B2. (April 24, 2018).
  9. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Flurosurfactant Extraction process for Carbonate Reservoir. US9920238B2. (March 20, 2018).
  10. Abdullah S. SULTAN and Ziad SIDAOUI. Emulsified acid comprising waste oil for acidizing geological formations. US20180282614A1 (Pending).
  11. Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein, Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Abdullah Saad Sultan, Khalid Saad Elkarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Water shut-off method for porous formations. US20180265764A1 (Pending).
  1. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Enhanced Oil Recovery". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print (ISBN: 9783319959887).
  2. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Polymeric Membranes for Natural Gas Processing: Polymer Synthesis and Membrane Gas Transport Properties". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print ISBN: 9783319959887)
  1. Abdulmajeeb Onawole, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Safwat Abdel-Azeim, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohammed A. Saad. (2019). Molecular and Electronic Structure Elucidation of Fe2+/Fe3+ complexed Chelators used in iron sulfides Scale removal in oil and gas wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 9999. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.23463 .
  2. Mohammad H. Alqam, Sidqi A. Abu-Khamsin, Abdullah S. Sultan, Taha M. Okasha, and Hasan O. Yildiz. (2019). Effect of Rock Mineralogy and Oil Composition on Wettability Alteration and Interfacial Tension by Brine and Carbonated Water. Energy Fuels, 2019, 33 (3), pp 1983–1989. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b04143.
  3. Musaab Magzoub, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny and Abdullah Sultan. (2019). Thermochemical Upgrading of Calcium Bentonite for Drilling Fluid Applications. Energy Resour. Technol.141(4), 042902. Paper No: JERT-18-1532. DOI: 10.1115/1.4041843.
  4. Abdullah Sultan*. (2018). Stability of PAM/PEI emulsified gels under HTHS conditions for water shut-off treatment. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production (accepted). DOI: 1007/s13202-018-0597-2.
  5. Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah Sultan, Mohammed A. Saad, Willem Buijs,  Thijs J. H. Vlugt. (2018). Development of efficient formulation for the removal of iron sulphide scale in sour production wells. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol 96(12), pp 2526-2533. DOI:1002/cjce.23241.
  6. Lionel T. Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan* and Muhammad S. Kamal. (2018). Understanding viscosity reduction of a long-tail sulfobetaine viscoelastic surfactant by organic compounds. RSC Advances, Vol 8, pp 4455-4463. DOI: 1039/C7RA12538K.
  7. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Gelation of Emulsified Polyacrylamide/Polyethylenimine under High-Temperature, High-Salinity Conditions: Rheological Investigation. Eng. Chem. Res., 2018, 57(36), pp 12278–12287. DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b02571.
  8. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2018). Use of organoclay as a stabilizer for water-in-oil emulsions under high-temperature high-salinity conditions. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 160 pp: 302-312. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.10.077.
  9. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein,  Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohammed A.S. Saad. (2018). Oilfield scale formation and chemical removal: A review. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol: 171 pp: 127-139. DOI:1016/j.petrol.2018.07.037.
  10. Farrukh Shehzad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Waqar Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2018). Polymeric Surfactants and Emerging Alternatives used in the Demulsification of Produced Water: A Review. Polymer Reviews, Vol. 58 (1), pp 63-101, DOI: 1080/15583724.2017.1340308.
  11. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal,  M. Shakil Hussain, Lionel Talley Fogang, and Abdullah S. Sultan(2018). Impact of Spacer and Hydrophobic Tail on Interfacial and Rheological Properties of Cationic Amido-Amine Gemini Surfactants for EOR Application. Tenside Surfactants Detergents: Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 491-497. DOI: 10.3139/113.110591.
  12. A. Adewunmi, S. Ismail, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Composite Hydrogels Impregnated with Fly Ash: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Application as Fractures Sealant for High Water Producing Zones in Oil and Gas Wells. Journal of Polymers and Environment, Vol 26(8), pp 3294-3306. DOI: 10.1007/s10924-018-1204-9.
  13. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Reyad Shawabkeh, Abdullah Sultan, and Mohammed J. Al-Marri. (2018). Impact of Surfactant on the Retention of CO2and Methane in Carbonate Reservoirs. Energy Fuels, Vol 32 (4), pp 5355-5363. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.8b00213.
  14. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2018). Hybrid Intelligent Modelling of the Viscoelastic Moduli of Coal Fly Ash Based Polymer Gel System for Water Shutoff Treatment in Oil and Gas Wells. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (published online). DOI:/10.1002/cjce.23436.
  15. Mazen K. Nazal, Olanrewaju Suleiman Olakunle, Amir Al-Ahmed, Belabbes Merzougui Abdullah Abualkibash, Abdullah Sultan, Ammar BinYousaf, Syed Javaid Zaidi. (2018). Precious metal free Ni/Cu/Mo trimetallic nanocomposite supported on multi-walled carbon nanotubes as highly efficient and durable anode-catalyst for alkaline direct methanol fuel cells. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 823 98–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.05.035.
  16. Jun Li and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2017). Klinkenberg slippage effect in the permeability computations of shale gas by the pore-scale simulations. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Vol 48, pp 197-202. DOI: 1016/j.jngse.2016.07.041.
  17. Abdelhalim I. A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. (2017). Influence of Surfactant Structure on the Stability of Water-in-Oil Emulsions under High-Temperature High-Salinity Conditions. Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 2017, Article ID 5471376, 11 pages. DOI: 1155/2017/5471376.
  18. Musaab Magzoub, Mustafa Nasser, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, Abdelbaki Benamor, Sagheer  Onaizi, Abdullah Sultan, M Mahmoud. (2017). Effects of Sodium Carbonate Addition, Heat and Agitation on Swelling and Rheological Behavior of Ca-Bentonite Colloidal Dispersions. Applied Clay Sciences, Vol 147, pp 176 – 183. DOI: 1016/j.clay.2017.07.032.
  19. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Taoreed O. Owolabi, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sunday O. Olatunji, Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Modeling the thermal behavior of coal fly ash based polymer gel system for water reduction in oil and gas wells. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol 157, pp 430- 440. DOI: 1016/j.petrol.2017.07.019.
  20. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Mohammed F. Al-Hamad and Umer Mehmood. (2017). Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil recovery, and Wettability Alteration. Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol 2017, Article 2473175. DOI: 1155/2017/2473175.
  21. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Hussein and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Review on Surfactant Flooding: Phase Behavior, Retention, IFT and Field Applications. Energy & Fuels, Vol 31 (8), pp 7701-7720. DOI: 1021/acs.energyfuels.7b00353.
  22. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2017). Amido-Amine-Based Cationic Gemini Surfactants: Thermal, Interfacial Properties and Interactions with Cationic Polyacrylamide. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 47–55, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1896-6.
  23. Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah Saad Sultan, and Zulkifli Ahmad. (2017). Performance of fly ash based polymer gels for water reduction in enhanced oil recovery: Gelation kinetics and dynamic rheological studies. Korean J. Chem. Eng., Vol. 34(6), 1638-1650. DOI: 1007/s11814-017-0071-8.
  24. M. Shakil Hussain, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Bassam El Ali and Abdullah S. Sultan (2017). Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Amido-Amine Cationic Gemini Surfactants Containing Flexible and Rigid Spacers". Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 20, pp 777–788, DOI: 10.1007/s11743-017-1969-1.
  25. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Nazal, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2017). Preparation and Performance Evaluation of SPEEK/Polyaniline Composite Membrane for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, International Polymer Processing, Vol.32, No. 1, pp. 41-49. DOI: 3139/217.3259.
  26. Amir Al-Ahmed, Mazen Khaled Nazal, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Jimoh K. Adewole, Syed Javaid Zaid. (2017). Proton conducting blend membranes: physical, morphological and electronic properties. Polymer Bulletin. DOI:1007/s00289-016-1756-6.
  27. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2017). Investigation into the viscoelastic response at various gelation performance, thermal stability and swelling kinetics of fly ash reinforced polymer gels for water control in mature oilfields. Asia-Pac. J. Chem. Eng. 2017; 12: 13–24. DOI:1002/apj.2049.
  28. Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef M. Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Simulation and measurements of volumetric and phase behavior of carbon dioxide + higher alkanes at high pressure: CO2+ n-decane at temperatures (313–410) K and pressures up to 76 MPa. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 53, pp 198–206. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.07.045.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, S. M. Shakil and Abdullah Sultan* (2016). Development of Novel Amidosulfobetaine Surfactant–Polymer Systems for EOR Applications. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol. 19, pp 989–997, DOI: 1007/s11743-016-1848-1.
  30. M. Shakil Hussain, Mustapha Alao Animashaun, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Nisar Ullah, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein and Abdullah S. Sultan* (2016). Synthesis, Characterization and Surface Properties of Amidosulfobetaine Surfactants Bearing Odd-Number Hydrophobic Tail. Journal of Surfactants and Detergents. Vol.19, pp 413–420. DOI: 10.1007/s11743-016-1788-9.
  31. Izhar A. Malik, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, (2016). Rheological and thermal properties of novel surfactant-polymer systems for EOR applications. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. Vol. 94(9), pp 1693-1699. ISI/Scopus:1002/cjce.22541.
  32. Muhammad Shahzad Kamalal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan and Nicolas von Solms (2016). Application of various water-soluble polymers in gas hydrate inhibition. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol 60, pp 206-225. DOI: 1016/j.rser.2016.01.092.
  33. Adel O. Al-Amodi, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2016). Novel Fluorinated Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Carbonate Reservoirs”. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Vol 94 (3), pp 454-460. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22406.
  34. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2016). Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Nanocomposite Hydrogels Developed for Various Applications: A Critical Review. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, Vol. 26:717–737. DOI: 1007/s10904-016-0379-6.
  35. Abdelhalim I. A Mohamed, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Khalid S. M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri (2015). DSC investigation of the gelation kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI system. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. Vol 122(3), pp 1117-1123. DOI: 1007/s10973-015-4965-6.
  36. Lateef A. Kareem, Abdullah S. Sultan*, Tajudeen M. Iwalewa. (2015). A Simplified Semi-Analytical Productivity Index for a Horizontal Well with a Non-Linear Trajectory in a Vertical Plane. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, Vol.33(6), pp: 785-808. DOI: 1260/0144-5987.33.6.785.
  37. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Yujun Feng (2015). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymer in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol 93 (7), pp 1194-1200. DOI: 1002/cjce.22204.
  38. A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail, Abdullah. S. Sultan. (2015). Laboratory scale study on rheological behavior, morphological and structural properties of crosslinked polyacrylamide composite hydrogels embedded with date seed powder. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(28), pp 42110 DOI: 10.1002/app.42110.
  39. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo, A. S. Sultan (2015), Comparative Studies on the Effects of Casting Solvent on Physico - chemical and Gas Transport Properties of Dense Polysulfone Membrane used for CO2 Removal from CH4. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132, pp 42205. DOI: 10.1002/app.42205.
  40. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Screening of amphoteric and anionic surfactants for cEOR applications using a novel approach. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem Eng. Aspects 476, 17-23. DOI:1002/cjce.22204.
  41. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedhand Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein (2015). Review on Polymer Flooding: Rheology, Adsorption, Stability and Field Applications of Various Polymer Systems. Polymer Review 55 (3). DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2014.982821.
  42. L. Ahmad, J.K. Adewole, C.P. Leo, S. Ismail, A.S. Sultan, S.O. Olatunji (2015). Prediction of plasticization pressure of polymeric membranes for CO2 removal from natural gas. Journal of Membrane Sciences 480, 39-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2015.01.039.
  43. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo (2015), Model-Based Analysis of Polymeric Membranes Performance in High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Journal of Polymer Research, Vol 22 (2) pp1 -10. DOI: 10.1007/s10965-015-0658-x.
  44. Khalid S. M. ElKarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdulla S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Performance of PAM/PEI gel system for water shut-off in high-temperature reservoirs: Laboratory study. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol 132(17), pp 41869. DOI: 1002/app.41869.
  45. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2015). Gelation of a Water Shut-off Gel at High Pressure and High Temperature: Rheological Investigation”. SPE Journal, Vol 20 (5) pp 1103 - 1112. DOI:2118/173185-PA.
  46. Ahmad A. Adewunmi, Suzylawati Ismail and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Study on strength and gelation time of polyacrylamide/polyethyleneimine composite gels reinforced with coal fly ash for water shut-off treatment. Appl. Polym. Sci., Vol 132(5) pp 41392. DOI: 10.1002/app.41392.
  47. Najmudeen Sibaweihi, Abeeb Awotunde; Abdullah Sultan; Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2015), Sensitivity Studies and Stochastic Optimization of CO2-Foam Flooding. Computational Geosciences, Vol 19(1) pp 31-47. DOI:1007/s10596-014-9446-7.
  48. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System. Journal of Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry (JTAC), Vol 116-3, 1409-1415. DOI: 1007/s10973-014-3754-y.
  49. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh Kayode Adewole, Choe Peng Leo, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Ismail. (2014). Preparation and Gas Transport Properties of Dual-Layer Polysulfone Membranes for High-Pressure CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. Appl. Polym. Sci.,131(20), 40924, DOI: 10.1002/app.40924.
  50. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). Impact of salts on polyacrylamide hydrolysis and gelation: New insights. Appl. Polym. Sci., 131(23), 41185, DOI:10.1002/app.41185.
  51. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussien, and Martial Pabon. (2014). Evaluation of Rheological and Thermal Properties of a New Fluorocarbon Surfactant–Polymer System for EOR Applications in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Oil Reservoirs. Journal of Surfactant and Detergents, 17(5), 985-993. DOI: 1007/s11743-014-1600-7.
  52. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussien, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Ming Han. (2013), Rheological Study on ATBS-AM Copolymer-Surfactant System in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Environment. Journal of Chemistry, 2013, Article ID 801570, 9 pages,. DOI:1155/2013/801570.
  53. Abdul Latif Ahmad, Jimoh K. Adewole, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, Leo Choe Peng, and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013), Membrane Separation of CO2 from Natural Gas: A State-of-the-Art Review on Material Development. Recent Advances in Mass Transport in Engineering Materials, Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 333, 135-147. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.333.135.

Proceedings

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan. (2019).  New Artificial Neural Network Model for Predicting the TOC from Well Logs. SPE 194716-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194716-MS.
  2. Murtada Elhaj, Osman Abdullatif,  Abdulazeez Abdulraheem,  Amjed Hassan, and Abdullah Sultan (2019).  Acoustic Properties of Carbonate: An Experimental and Modelling Study. SPE 194753-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/194753-MS.
  3. Gallyam Aidagulov, Devon Gwaba,  Rifat Kayumov, Abdullah Sultan, Moustafa Aly, Xiangdong Qiu,  Haidar Almajed,  and Mustapha Abbad. (2019). Effects of Pre-Existing Fractures on Carbonate Matrix Stimulation Studied by Large-Scale Radial Acidizing Experiments. SPE 195153-MS presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, held in Manama, Bahrain, 18-21 March. DOI: 10.2118/195153-MS.
  4. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Hussein, S M Shakil Hussain, and Abdulkareem M. AlSofi. (2018). Screening of Surfactants and Polymers for High-Temperature High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192441-MS presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192441-MS.
  5. S. Al-Kadem, A. S. Al-Mashhad, M. S. Al-Dabbous, and A. S. Sultan. (2018). Integrating Peng Robinson EOS With Association Term for Better Minimum Miscibility Pressure Estimation. SPE-192327 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/192327-MS.
  6. Jaber Al-Jabri, Abdullah Sultan,  Eid Al-Mutairi, Sagheer A. Onaizi, Amir Merghani, Islam Hassen. (2018). Screening New Formulations for Asphaltene Aggregation Inhibition. SPE-192450 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192450-MS.
  7. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Ultra-Low Interfacial Tension, Thermal Stability and Static Adsorption of Novel Viscoelastic Surfactant With Heavy Reservoir Oil. SPE-192322 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.   DOI: 2118/192322-MS.
  8. Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Abdullah S. Sultan and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Investigation of Heavy Oil Recovery Using Sequential Viscoelastic Surfactant and Chelating Agent Solutions as EOR Fluid for HTHS Conditions Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE-192315 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192315-MS.
  9. Musa Ahmed, Abdullah Sultan, Xiangdong Qiu, Ziad Sidaoui and Al-Amri Ahmad Ali. (2018). A Novel Emulsified Acid for Deep Wells Stimulation: Rheology, Stability, and Coreflood Study. SPE-192312 presented at SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 23-26 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/192312-MS.
  10. Elmuzafar Ahmed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Abdulkareem AlSofi, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, and Syed R. Hussaini. (2018). Pore-Scale Imaging to Investigate Wettability and Recovery Mechanism for Surfactant/Polymer Flooding. SPE-191578-18RPTC presented at PE Russian Petroleum Technology Conference, 15-17 October, Moscow, Russia. DOI: 10.2118/191578-18RPTC-MS.
  11. Hassaan Ahmed, Abeeb A. Awotunde, Abdullah S. Sultan and Hasan Y. Al-Yousef. (2017). Stochastic Optimization Approach to Surfactant-Polymer Flooding. SPE 191294 presented at SPE/PAPG Pakistan Section Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 22-23 November, Islamabad, Pakistan. DOI: 2118/191294-MS.
  12. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Mohamed Al-Osail, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Monitoring Imbibition of Water Into Shale Pore System: State of the Art. SPE 186904 presented at SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, 17-19 October, Jakarta, Indonesia. DOI: 2118/186904-MS.
  13. Mohamed Mahrous, Abdullah Sultan and Eric Sonnenthal. (2017). Towards Geochemically Accurate Modeling of Carbonate Acidizing with HCl Acid. SPE 187183 presented at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 9-11 October, San Antonio, Texas, USA. DOI:10.2118/187183-MS.
  14. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. Sultan, Saifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain, and Shaikh Asrof Ali. (2017). Flowing Gels for Loss Circulation Prevention. SPE 188103 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188103-MS.
  15. Mohammed Eliebid, Mohamed Mahmoud, Reyad Shawabkeh, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Abdullah Sultan, Mohamed Abouelresh, Dhafer Al-Shehri. (2017). Effect of Temperature and CO2 Content on the Natural Gas Production from Shale Gas Reservoirs. SPE 188025 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188025-MS.
  16. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Syed Zaidi, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2017). Revised Experimental Approaches To Address Shale Drilling Challenges. SPE 188037 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188037-MS.
  17. Mahmoud M. El-Yamani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Khalid A. Al-Ramadan. (2017). Effect of Carbonate Microfacies on Contact Angle: Study from Middle Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain Formation. SPE 188132 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI:2118/188132-MS.
  18. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Abdullah Sultan. (2017). Thermosensitive water-soluble polymers: a solution to high temperature and high salinity reservoirs. SPE 188006 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188006-MS.
  19. Jimoh K. Adewole,  Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Yusuf Khan. (2017). Dynamic Analysis of Plasticization Phenomenon: An Experimental Study of High-Pressure CO2 Separation Using Modified Polysulfone Membrane. SPE 188054 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 10.2118/188054-MS.
  20. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Dominic Brady. (2017). Novel Approach to Formulation of Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. SPE 188116 presented at the SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition held in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, 24–27 April. DOI: 2118/188116-MS.
  21. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2017). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide. SPE 183665 presented at SPE Middle East Oil & Gas Show and Conference, 6-9 March, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. DOI: 2118/183665-MS.
  22. Ziad Sidaoui and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Formulating a Stable Emulsified Acid at High Temperatures: Stability and Rheology Study. IPTC 19012 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 14-16 November, Bangkok, Thailand. DOI:2523/IPTC-19012-MS.
  23. Lionel Talley Fogang, Abdullah S. Sultan, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2016). Comparing the effects of Breakers on a Long-Tail Sulfobetaine Viscoelastic Surfactant Solution for Well Stimulation. SPE 182915 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182915-MS.
  24. He Ma, Abdullah S. Sultan, Reyad Shawabkeh and Mustafa S. Nasser. (2016). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions Using Anionic Polyacrylamide with Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. SPE 182851 presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, 7-10 November, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/182851-MS.
  25. Zaid Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Performance Comparison of Novel Surfactant-scCO2 Systems for Oil Recovery in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. SPE 181314 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 26-28 September, Dubai, UAE. DOI: 2118/181314-MS.
  26. D. Hashmat, Abdullah S. SultanSaifur Rahman, S. M. Shakil Hussain. (2016). Crosslinked Polymeric Gels as Loss Circulation Materials: An Experimental Study. SPE 182740 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182740-MS.
  27. Ziad Sidaoui, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2016). Viscoelastic Properties of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed and Temperature. SPE 182845 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182845-MS.
  28. Mohamed Hassan, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2016). Measurement of Bubble Point Pressures of n-Decane, CO2and N2 SPE 182786 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 10.2118/182786-MS.
  29. Mohammed Al Hamad, Abdullah Sultan, Safyan Khan, and Wael Abdallah. (2016). Challenges for Extending the Application of Nanoparticles in High Salinity Reservoirs”. SPE 182838 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182838-MS.
  30. Ahmad Mahboob and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. SPE 182839 presented at SPE KSA Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 25-28 April, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/182839-MS.
  31. Hasan Kesserwan, Guodong Jin, Gaurav Agrawal, Felix R Oyarzabal and Abdullah Sultan. (2016). Wettability Characterization and Comparison of Carbonate Source Rocks Using NMR. SPWLA-2016-FFFF presented at SPWLA 57th Annual Logging Symposium, 25-29 June, Reykjavik, Iceland.
  32. Jun Li and Abdullah Sultan. (2015). Permeability Computations of Shale Gas by the Pore-Scale Monte Carlo Molecular Simulations. IPTC 18263 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 2523/IPTC-18263-MS.
  33. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Abdulazeez Abdulraheem, Abdullah Sultan, Amanullah, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Mitigating Shale Drilling Problems through Comprehensive Understanding of Shale Formations. IPTC 18377 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 6-9 December, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-18377-MS.
  34. Mohammed Al-Arfaj, Abdullah Sultan, and Abdulazeez Abdulraheem. (2015). Understanding Shale-Fluid Interactions Using Molecular Modeling Techniques for Drilling Applications: A Literature Review. SPE 175356 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175356-MS.
  35. S. Bageri, M. A. Mahmoud, A. S. Sultan, S. H. Al-Mutairi, and A. Abdulraheem. (2015). Effect of the Drilled Cuttings on Filter Cake Sealing Properties and Internal Invasion Depth in MRC Wells. SPE 175168 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 10.2118/175168-MS.
  36. Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan, and Xiangdong Qiu. (2015). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Diffusion Rate of Dolomitic Rock with HCl. SPE 175832 presented at SPE North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition, 14-16 September, Cairo, Egypt. DOI: 2118/175832-MS.
  37. Xiangdong Qiu, Muhammad Ali Khalid, Abdullah Sultan. (2015). How to Determine True Acid Diffusion Coefficient to Optimize Formation Damage Treatment. SPE-174241 presented at the SPE European Formation Damage Conference and Exhibition, June 3–5 Budapest, Hungary. DOI:2118/174241-MS.
  38. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Ali-Al Matar, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A Hussein. (2015). Predicting Interfacial Tension Using Advanced Meso-Scale Modelling Technique. SPE 174625 presented at SPE Asia Pacific Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference, 11-13 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2118/174625-MS.
  39. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Effect of Temperature on Stability of sc-CO2-Foam with New Fluorosurfactant. SPE 178039 presented at SPE Oil & Gas India Conference and Exhibition, 24-26 November, Mumbai, India. DOI: 2118/178039-MS.
  40. Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, Rahul N. Gajbhiye, Abdullah S. Sultan and Sidqi Abu-Khamsin. (2015). Testing the Stability of Mixed CO2/N2-Foam Using New Fluorosurfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery. SPE 175261 presented at SPE Kuwait Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 11-14 October, Mishref, Kuwait. DOI: 2118/175261-MS.
  41. Saifur Rahman, Mohamed E. Kandil, Nayef Al-Saifi, Abdullah S. Sultan. (2015). Measurements of Volumetric Phase Behavior of Mixtures of n-decane and CO2 at High Pressures and High Temperatures. SPE 177987 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 21-23 April, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: 2118/177987-MS.
  42. Mohammed K. Al-Arfaj, Md Amanullah, Abdullah S. Sultan, Enamul Hossain. (2014). Chemical and Mechanical Aspects of Wellbore Stability in Shale Formations: A Literature Review. SPE-171682 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE. DOI: 2118/171682-MS.
  43. Mohammed Khalid Al-Arfaj, Enamul Hossain, Abdullah Sultan, Md Amanullah, Omar Al-Fuwaires, and Turki Al-Subai. (2014). Preliminary Test Results of Inhibitive Water-Based Muds Used to Mitigate Unconventional Shale Drilling Problems. IPTC 17800 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 10-12 December, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 2523/IPTC-17800-MS.
  44. Abdulrauf Rasheed Abebayo, Hasan Y. Al-Yousef, Mohammed Mahmoud, and Abdullah S Sultan. (2014). The Prospect of Using Permanent Downhole Sensors for Monitoring Oilfield Scales. SPE 17856 presented at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, November 10–13,­ 2014, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  45. S. Azad, and A. S. Sultan. (2014). Extending the applicability of chemical EOR in High temperature, High Salinity, and fractured carbonate reservoir through Viscoelastic surfactants. Paper SPE 172188 presented at the 2014 SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, 21st – 24th  April, 2014. DOI: 10.2118/172188-MS.
  46. Madhar Sahib Azad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Sami A. Nuaim, Mohammed Mohammed, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2014). Could VES be a part of hybrid option to recover Heavy oil in Complex Heavy oil Paper SPE 170191 presented at the 2014 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, 10–12 June, Canada. DOI: 10.2118/170191-MS.
  47. S. Sultan, M. S. Azad, I. A. Hussein, M. A. Mahmoud. (2014). Rheological Assessment of VES as an EOR Fluid in Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169744 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169744-MS.
  48. Z. Jangda, A.S. Sultan, R.N. Gajbhiye, S. A. Abu-khamsin, and A. Arshad. (2014). Evaluation of Fluorosurfactant Performance with Super-Critical CO2 Flooding for High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169725 presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169725-MS.
  49. Ali S. Bageri, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mohamed E. Kandil. (2014) Evaluation of Novel Surfactant for Nitrogen-Foam-Assisted EOR in High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. Paper SPE 169717: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 2118/169717-MS.
  50. Attia, M. A. Mahmoud, H. S. Al-Hashim, and A. S. Sultan (2014). Shifting to a New EOR Area for Sandstone Reservoirs with High Recovery, No Damage, and Low Cost. Paper SPE 169670: presented at SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, 31 March-2 April, Muscat, Oman. DOI: 10.2118/169670-MS.
  51. Xiangdong Qiu, W. Zhao, S. J. Dyer, A. Al Dossary, S. Khan, and S. Sultan. (2014). Revisiting Reaction Kinetics and Wormholing Phenomena During Carbonate Acidizing. Paper IPTC-17285 presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference, 19-22 January, Doha, Qatar. DOI: 10.2523/IPTC-17285-MS.
  52. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Date Pit Based Surfactant-Polymer Formulation for Enhanced Chemical Flooding. SPE 168088 presented at SPE Saudi Arabia Section Technical Symposium and Exhibition, 19-22 May, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/168088-MS.
  53. Mohammed Omer and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). Effect of Metal Ions on the Rheology and Thermal Properties of Polymeric Lost Circulation Material. Paper SPE 164433 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164433-MS
  54. Abdullah Al-Qahtani, Abdullah S. Sultan and Luai Hadhrami. (2013). From Empirical to Micro-scale Modeling of Multiphase Flow; Bridging the Gap of R&D. Paper SPE 164443 presented at SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, 10-13 March, Manama, Bahrain. DOI: 2118/164443-MS
  55. S. Bageri, A. A. Al-Majed, S. H. Al-Mutairi, A. Ul-Hamid, and A. S. Sultan. (2013). Evaluation of Filter Cake Mineralogy in Extended Reach and Maximum Reservoir Contact Wells in Sandstone Reservoirs. SPE 163519 presented at SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, 5-7 March, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2118/163519-MS.

Abstract

  1. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua and Muhammad Shahzad Kamal. (2018). Improved Oil Recovery with Viscoelastic Surfactant: Screening and Effectiveness of Formulations. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  2. Abdullah S. Sultan, Aneeq Nasir Janjua, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, and Lionel Fogang (2018). Laboratory Investigation of Viscoelastic Surfactant for Chemical EOR in High Salinity and High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  3. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, and SM Shakil Hussain. (2018). Mobility Improvement Using Water Soluble Polymers: Role of Chemical Structure and Anionicity. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  4. Abdullah S. Sultan, and Musa Eltayeb Ahmad. (2018). Effect of Crude Oil on the Reaction Kinetics of Diesel Emulsified Acid with Calcite at High-Pressure and High-Temperature HPHT. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  5. I. Magzoub, Ibnelwaleed Hussei, Mohamed Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Mustafa Nasser. (2018). Investigation of Bentonite Swelling Kinetics Using Particle Size Analysis. AIChE Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA, April 22 – 26, 2018.
  6. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan, Lionel Foganga and Mohamed Mahmoud (2017). Characterization and Processing of Khulays Clay for Drilling Fluid Application. AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, October 29 – November 3, 2017.
  7. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdullah S. Sultan (2016) Effect of Date Pit Based Additive on the Thermal Stability of Water-Based Drilling Fluid, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  8. K. Adewole, M. O. Najimu, A. S. Sultan (2016). Transport Behaviour of Alkanes and Aromatic through Polysulfone/Date Pit Mixed-Matrix Membrane–An investigation for Separation Potential, 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 13-18, 2016.
  9. S. Sultan, Z. Siaoui, S. Al-Mutairi and H. El-Hajj (2016). Development of Novel Emulsified Acid Using Waste Oil. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  10. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). A Combined Rheology and Stability Study on Emulsified Acid for High-Temperature Applications. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  11. S. Sultan and Z. Sidaoui (2016). Stability and Rheology of Emulsified Acid in Waste Oil: Effect of Emulsifier Concentration, Mixing Speed, Temperature and Droplet Size. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  12. S. Sultan (2016). Molecular Simulation of Controlling Ions and Their Role in Low Salinity IOR for Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Huston, TX, USA. April 11 – 14, 2016.
  13. S. Kamal, S. Hussain and A. S. Sultan (2016). Rheological Investigation of High-Performance Polymer-Surfactant Systems for EOR Applications in Carbonate Reservoirs. AIChE Annual Meeting San Fransisco, CA, USA. November 14 - 17, 2016.
  14. Abdullah S. Sultan, Jimoh K. Adewole, Amir Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javid Zaidi. (2015). Multi-objective Optimization of Membrane Materials Selection for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell System Design, AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  15. Abdullah S. Sultan and Danish Hishmat. (2015). Study of Cross-Linked Polymer Gel Systems for Potential Use As Loss Prevention Agents. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  16. Ma, A. S. Sultan, and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Oil-Water Emulsions from EOR Application Using Polyacrylamides. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  17. S. Sultan, H. Ma and M. Nasser (2015). Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions using Anionic Polyacrylamide and Electrolyte of Aluminum Sulphate and Ferrous Sulphate. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  18. S. Sultan and A. Mahboob (2015). An Experimental Study of Interfacial Tension and Contact Angles of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  19. S. Sultan, M. Animashaun and I. A. Hussein (2015). Influence of Nanoadditives on the Thermal and Rheological Properties of Viscoelastic Surfactants Used in Matrix Acidizing. AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Nov 7 – 13, 2015.
  20. Abdullah Sultan, Sarmad Khan, Lateef Karrem and Q, Qiu (2015). “ Effect of High Pressure on the Propagation of Wormhole in Carbonate Rocks: Experimental and Modeling Approach’. Paper WI08 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254
  21. Abdullah Sultan, Abdelhalim Mahmoud, and Ibnelwaleed Hussein. (2015). Organoclay as Emulsifier for Water in Oil Polymeric Gel Formulations used in Conformance Control’. Paper WI10 presented at the EAGE 1st Workshop on Well Injectivity and Productivity in Carbonate held in Doha, Qatar, March 30 – April 1, 2015. https://www.eage.org/event/?eventid=1254.
  22. Abdelhalim I.A. Mohamed, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2014). DSC Investigation of the Gelation Kinetics of emulsified PAM/PEI System: Influence of different surfactants and retarders. Annual meeting of North America Thermal Analysis Society, New Mexico, USA September 14-17, 2014.
  23. Shahzad Kamal Muhammad, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh. (2014). Rheological study of a novel hydrophobically associating polyacrylamide surfactant system for enhanced oil recovery. Paper 16-591 presented at 30th Polymer Processing Conference, Cleaveland, USA, June 9-12, 2014.
  24. K. Adewole, A. S. Sultan, A. Al-Ahmed, S. M. Javaid Zaidi. (2014). Polymeric Sulfonic Acid Composites for Fuel Cell Applications: Effects of Casting Solvent and Sonication Time on Membrane Performance, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans - Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  25. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, S. Ismail, C. P. Leo. (2014). Model-Based Analysis of Plasticization Behaviour of Polymeric Membranes Used for High-Pressure CO2 Separation in Natural Gas Processing, 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety, New Orleans – Riverside, USA. March 30 - April 3, 2014.
  26. K. Adewole, A. L. Ahmad, A. S. Sultan, C. P. Leo and S. Ismail (2014). Correlation of Plasticization Pressure Versus Permeability Parameters at Plasticization for Polymeric Membranes Used for CO2 Removal from Natural Gas. AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 – 20, 2014.
  27. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan & Ibnelwaleed A. (2013). Gelation Kinetics of PAM/PEI System: DSC Investigation, 41st NATAS Conference, Kentucky, August, 4-7, 2013.
  28. Khalid S.M. El-Karsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, Abdullah, S. Sultan, and Ibnelwaleed    Hussein. (2013). Effect of Salts On Polyacrylamide Hydrolysis and Cross-Linking With Polyethylenimine at Elevated Temperatures. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2-9 November, 2013.
  29. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, and Ming Han. (2013). Rheological Properties of Thermoviscosifying Polymers in High-Temperature High-Salinity Environment. AIChE annual meeting 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 3 – November 8, 2013.
  30. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Rheological Investigation of Interactions between Anionic Surfactant and Polyacrylamide for Chemical Flooding In Saudi Arabian Reservoirs. Fourth student conference, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, April-May 2013.
  31. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S.Sultan, Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein. (2013). Thermal Stability of fluorocarbon Surfactant and Interactions with polymers used for EOR. Young Professional Technical Symposium, Dahran, April 2013.
  32. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan. (2013). A Study on Processing and Chemical Composition of Date Pit Powder for Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery. International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, DSL2013 – Madrid, Spain, 24-28 June,
  33. Jimoh K. Adewole, Abdul Latif Ahmad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Suzylawati Binti Ismail, and Leo C. Peng. (2013). Integration of Membrane Separation into Unconventional Gas Processing. 2nd Middle East Process Engineering Conference and Exhibition, 29th Sept -2nd Oct, 2013.
  34. Shahzad Kamal, Abdullah S. Sultan, Usamah A. Al-Mubaiyedh, Ming Han and Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein. (2012). Impact of salinity and temperature on the rheology of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide solutions. 28th International conference of the polymer processing society, Pattaya, Thailand, December 2012.
  1. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Khaled Z. Abdelgawad, Abdullah S. Sultan, Hasan S. Al-Hashim. Chelating fluid for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs and method of using the same. US20150000919A1. (January 1, 2015).
  2. Jun Li, Abdullah S. SULTAN.  Method for permeability prediction of shale gas. US20160299117A1 (Granted-December 2018).
  3. Abdulrauf Rasheed ADEBAYO, Hasan Yousef AL-YOUSEF, Mohamed MAHMOUD, Abdullah Saad Sultan. Well-bore and reservoir monitoring process by logging temperature and resistivity. US20170074093A1 (Noember 2018).
  4. Mohamed A Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan, and Khaled Z. Abdelgawad. Method for enhanced oil recovery by in situ carbon dioxide generation. US20140338903A1. (November 20, 2014).
  5. Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Hasan S. Al-Hashim, Abdullah S. Sultan, Mohammed A. Gadallah. Enhanced oil recovery using seawater and EDTA. US20150000916A1. (January 1, 2015).
  6. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Oil Recovery Processes at High Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs. US20160289539A1. (October 6, 2016).
  7. Musaab I. Magzoub, Mustafa S. Nasser, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Abdullah S. Sultan. Method of producing sodium bentonite. US9676669B1 (June 13, 2017).
  8. Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, Ahmed Adewumi, Abdullah Sultan, Khalid M. El-Karsani and Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Use of organoclay as emulsifier in polymeric gels for water permeability reduction. US9951593B2. (April 24, 2018).
  9. Zaid Z. Jangda and Abdullah Sultan. Flurosurfactant Extraction process for Carbonate Reservoir. US9920238B2. (March 20, 2018).
  10. Abdullah S. SULTAN and Ziad SIDAOUI. Emulsified acid comprising waste oil for acidizing geological formations. US20180282614A1 (Pending).
  11. Ibnelwaleed Ali Hussein, Ahmad Akanbi Adewunmi, Abdullah Saad Sultan, Khalid Saad Elkarsani, Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri. Water shut-off method for porous formations. US20180265764A1 (Pending).
  1. Muhammad Shahzad Kamal and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Enhanced Oil Recovery". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print (ISBN: 9783319959887).
  2. Jimoh K. Adewole and Abdullah S. Sultan*. (2019). "Polymeric Membranes for Natural Gas Processing: Polymer Synthesis and Membrane Gas Transport Properties". Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Functional Polymers. Springer, Print ISBN: 9783319959887)

TEACHING

COURSES TAUGHT AT KFUPM

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MEMBERS

 

Current Members:

Dr. Tinku Saikia
Post-Doc (Hydrate Inhibition, Gels) [Research Profile]

Mohamed Elmuzafar Ahmed
Ph.D. Student working on Chemical EOR

Nur Iman Khamidy
Ph.D. Student working on Gels

Moustafa Aly
M.Sc. Student working on Well Stimulation

Abdulmalik Shamsan
M.Sc. Student working on Water Shut-Off

Former Members:

Jaber Al-Jaberi
MS thesis was on Modeling Electrolyte using MSA.

Mohamed Elmuzafar Ahmed
MS thesis was on Optimization of Core-Flooding Design for Surfactant-Polymer EOR. [Thesis]

Mohamed Mahrous
MS thesis was on Geochemical Modeling of Carbonates Acidizing with HCI using TOUGHREACT. [Thesis]

Musa Eltayeb
MS thesis was on Reaction Kinetics of Novel Emulsified Acid System with Limestone. [Thesis]

Aneeq Janjua
MS thesis was on Optimum Selection of VES Systems as EOR Fluid for Wafra Ratawi Field. [Thesis]

Ziad Sidaoui
MS thesis was on A Novel Approach to Formulation of Emulsified Acid using Waste Oil. [Thesis]

Ahmad Mahboob
MS thesis was on Interfacial Tension and Contact Angle Measurements of CO2/Brines/Surfactants/Oil Systems with Dolomite Rock. [Thesis]

Mohamed AlHamad
MS thesis was on Evaluation of Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery in High-Salinity and High-Temperature Carbonate Reservoirs. [Thesis]

Mohamed AlArfaj
Ph.D. dissertation was on Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Shale-Fluid Interactions for Drilling Applications. [Dissertation]

Lionel Fogang
MS thesis was on Toward Understanding the Breaking Mechanism of Viscoelastic Surfactant In Well Stimulation. [Thesis]

Ma He
MS thesis was on Destabilization and Treatment of Produced Water-Oil Emulsions From EOR Application using Dissolved Air Flotation Technique [Thesis]

Muhammad Danish
MS thesis was on the Study of Cross-linked Polymer Gel Systems for potential use as Loss Prevention Agents [Thesis]

Abdelhalim Mohamed
MS thesis was on Development of Emulsified Gels for Water Control in Oil and Gas Wells [Thesis]

Madhar Sahib
MS thesis was on Evaluation of Novel Viscoelastic System as a Potential Chemical EOR method in Carbonate Reservoirs [Thesis]

Muhammed Khalid
MS thesis was on Reaction Kinetics of Fresh & Spent Acid in Dolomite Rock at High-Pressures [Thesis]

Zaid Z. Jangda
MS thesis was on Performance of Fluoro-Surfactant with Supercritical CO2 Flooding in High-Salinity Carbonate Reservoirs [Thesis]

Mustapha Animashaun
MS thesis was Influence of Nanoadditives on the Rheology and Thermal Properties of Viscoelastic Surfactant used in Matrix Acidizing [Thesis]

Sarmad Khan
MS thesis was on Investigation of Wormhole Penetration in Carbonate Rocks under High-Pressure [Thesis]

Lateef Kareem
MS thesis was on Improved Numerical Simulation of Wormhole Propagation in Carbonate Core during Acid Stimulation [Thesis]

Ali Bageri
MS thesis was on Experimental Study of The Alkaline-Surfactant-Gas (ASG) Flooding in A Carbonate Reservoir [Thesis]

Mohamed Omar
MS thesis was on Evaluation of Polymeric Materials as Loss Circulation Agents in Shallow Zone [Thesis]

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KFUPM

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The lab benefited from Saudi Aramco funding under the strategic partnership with KFUPM

Saudi Aramco

The lab benefited from Saudi Aramco funding under the strategic partnership with KFUPM

Funding under KACST Annual Program

KACST

Funding under KACST Annual Program

Funding under the collaborative research agreement between KFUPM and Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Center

Schlumberger

Funding under the collaborative research agreement between KFUPM and Schlumberger Dhahran Carbonate Center

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