Dr. Ahmed Fatah
Post-Doc Researcher, CIPR
Dr. Ahmed Fatah joined the Center for Integrative Petroleum Research (CIPR) in June 2023 as a Postdoctoral Researcher, the College of Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. His research interest focuses on carbon dioxide & hydrogen geological storage, and chemical EOR, in which he authored multiple technical and review papers. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Curtin University, a MSc and BSc degrees from University Technology PETRONAS, all in Petroleum Engineering. During his doctoral research, Dr. Fatah investigated the possibility of CO2 storage in shale formations, and he gained wide expertise in geo-energy storage applications, in terms of rock/gas interactions, contact angle evaluation, and geochemical modelling. Currently, he is involved in many collaborative research studies with Curtin University (Australia & Malaysia) and Saudi Aramco.
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ytner1wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Research Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Fatah
Educational Qualification
- Ph.D., Energy, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University, Australia, 2022.
- M.S., Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia, 2015.
- B.S., Petroleum Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia, 2013
Research Interests
- Geo-Energy Underground Gas storage (H2 and CO2).
- Chemical Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery.
- Wettability and Contact Angle Measurements.
- X-ray micro-computed tomography.
Selected Publications
- Fatah, A.; Bennour, Z.; Ben Mahmud, H.; Gholami, R.; Hossain, M.M. A Review on the Influence of CO2/Shale Interaction on Shale Properties: Implications of CCS in Shales. Energies 2020, 13, 3200.
- Fatah, A.; Ben Mahmud, H.; Bennour, Z.; Gholami, R.; Hossain, M.M. Effect of Supercritical CO2 Treatment on Physical Properties and Functional Groups of Shales. FUEL 2021, 303, 121310
- Al-Yaseri, A.; Amao, A.; Fatah, A. Experimental investigation of shale/hydrogen geochemical interactions. FUEL 2023, 346, 128272.
- Fatah, A.; Bennour, Z.; Ben Mahmud, H.; Gholami, R.; Hossain, M.M. Surface Wettability Alteration of Shales Exposed to CO2: Implication for Long-term Integrity of Geological Storage Sites. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 2021, 110, 103426. IF: 4.400.
- Fatah, A.; Ben Mahmud, H.; Bennour, Z.; Gholami, R.; Hossain, M.M. Geochemical modelling of CO2 interactions with shale: Kinetics of mineral dissolution and precipitation on geological time scales. Chemical Geology 2022, 592, 120742
Awards & Honors
- PETRONAS full scholarship award fro B.S. and M.S. studies 2009 to 2015.
- Curtin High Degree Research (HDR) scholarship for Ph.D. 2019 to 2022.
Dr. AbdAllah AbdRabElNaby Youssef ElSaieed
Post-Doc Researcher, CIPR
Currently, I’m part of the petrophysics group in CIPR. Before joining CIPR, I obtained my PhD from The University of Melbourne, Australia. My work was part of GeoCQuest project, involving a close collaboration between the three leading universities: Stanford, Cambridge and Melbourne. My research targeted generating upscaled rate-dependent anisotropic saturation functions for meso-scale heterogeneity through analyzing multi-phase flow in fluvio-deltaic Parraatte formation at the CO2CRC’s Otway International Test Centre, Australia. In 2018, I obtained my master degree in Petroleum Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
Educational Qualification
- Ph.D., in Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in December 2023
- M.S., in Petroleum Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in January 2018
- Bachlors in Petroleum Engineering from Suez University, Egypt, in May 2013
Research Interests
- Modeling of multi-scale nested geo-heterogeneity
- Anisotropic rate-dependent saturation functions upscaling
- Numerical simulation of CO2 geo-sequestration
- Relative permeability hysteresis upscaling
Selected Publications
- Youssef, A.A. and Matthäi, S.K., 2022. Upscaled Dynamic Relative Permeability for Unstable CO2 Flow in Stratified Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media, 143(3), pp.657-680
- Youssef, A.A., Shao, Q. and Matthäi, S.K., 2023, March. Two-Step Upscaling of Sub-Seismic Geo-Heterogeneity with Flow-Rate-And Direction Dependent Saturation Functions. In SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference. OnePetro
- Youssef, A.A., Tran, L.K. and Matthäi, S.K., 2021. Impact of the vertical resolution of corner-point grids on CO2 plume migration predictions for layered aquifers. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 106, p.103249
- Youssef, A.A., 2019. Inflow performance relationship of vertical wells in fractured vuggy media during semi-steady state flow regime. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 176, pp.970-981
- Youssef, A.A., Alassar, R.S., Mahmoud, M., Elsayed, M. and Al-Dweik, A.Y., 2021. A novel approach for measuring plane anisotropic permeability through steady-state flow between two concentric cylinders. Advances in Water Resources, 151, p.103884
- Shao, Q., Boon, M., Youssef, A., Kurtev, K., Benson, S.M. and Matthai, S.K., 2022. Modelling CO2 plume spreading in highly heterogeneous rocks with anisotropic, rate-dependent saturation functions: A field-data based numeric simulation study of Otway. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 119, p.103699
Awards & Honors
- Second place in regional SPE paper contest in ATS&E 2018
- Third place in regional SPE paper contest in MEOS 2017
Dr. Muhammad Israr
Post-Doc Researcher, CIPR
Educational Qualification
- Postdoc, Organocatalysis, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, 2021-2023.
- PhD, Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2016-2020.
- M-Phil, Organic Chemistry, Hazara University, Pakistan, 2015
Research Interests
- Organic Synthesis
- Organocatalysis
- Radical Chemistry
- Surfactant Synthesis
- Ionic Liquids
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
Selected Publications
- Muhammad Israr, Woo Hee Kim, Dong Hyeon Kim, Han Yong Bae. “Trityl tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate:
- sustainable precursor for multifunctional silylium Lewis acid organocatalysis”. Chem Catalysis. 2024, 4, 100866.
- Muhammad Israr, Han Yong Bae. “Sustainable Organocatalytic Cyanosilylation of Ketones by PPM-Level
- Loading Triphenylcarbenium Trityl tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate”. Green Chem. 2023, 25, 2387-2393.
- Byeong Jun Koo, Sun Bu Lee, Woo Hee Kim, Muhammad Israr, Han Yong Bae. “Recent Advances in the Catalytic
- Transformations to Access Alkylsulfonyl Fluorides as SuFEx Click Hubs”. Aldrichimica Acta. 2023, 56, 35.
- Woo Hee Kim, Jin Hyun Park, Sun Bu Lee, Muhammad Israr, Byeong Jun Koo, Soo Bok Kim, Soyeon Kim, Han Yong Bae.
- “Sustainable Organocatalytic Processes to Access Alkyl SuFEx Click Hubs and Tetrasubstituted Carbon Centers: Potential
- Libraries for Multidisciplinary Applications”. Synlett. 2023.
- Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Israr. “Asymmetric Functionalization of Benzenes via an Organocatalytic Hetero–Diels– Reaction”.
- Chem. Comm. 2022, 58, 9851-9854.
- Muhammad Israr, Haigen Xiong, Yajun Li, Hongli Bao. “Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Cyano(fluoro)alkylation of
- Alkenes”. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2020, 362, 2211-2215.
- Munira Taj Muhammad, Yihang Jiao, Changqing Ye, Mong-Feng Chiou, Muhammad Israr, Xiaotao Zhu, Yajun Li, Zhenhai
- Wen, Armido Studer,Hongli Bao. “Synthesis of Difluoromethylated Allenes through Trifunctionalization of 1,3-Enynes”.
- Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 1-8.
- Muhammad Israr, Haigen Xiong, Yajun Li, Hongli Bao. “Copper(I)-Catalyzed Cyanoperfluoroalkylation of Alkynes”.
- Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7078-7083.
Awards & Honors
- Awardee of CAS-TWAS President’s PhD Fellowship Programme China
- Awardee of BK21 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme South Korea