Hamid Reza Jahangiri

Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Viterbi School of Engineering

University of Southern California

Personal Information

Address:

925 Bloom Walk, HED 306

Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211

Email: hjahangi@usc.edu

Tel : (213) 740- 7982

      Cell: (714) 398- 1598

Education

PhD in Petroleum Engineering, (2007-2012)

University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA

Dissertation Title: "Optimization of Coupled CO₂ Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery"

Graduate Certificate in Smart Oil Field, (2007-2009)

University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA

MSc in Petroleum Engineering, (2005-2007)

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Dissertation Title: " Optimization of Production with Differential Evolution Algorithm using Smart Well Technology "

BSc in Petroleum Engineering, (2003-2005)

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

BSc in Electrical Engineering, (2000-2005)

Sharif University of Technology , Tehran, Iran

Research Interests

Geological Carbon Sequestration

Reservoir Characterization and Simulation

Inverse modeling and Data Assimilation 

Unconventional Reservoir

Enhanced Oil Recovery

Smart Wells and Intelligent Fields

Work Experiences

·         Internship at Occidental Petroleum Cooperation, Bakersfield, CA, (2011)

·         Internship at Chevron Corporation, ETC, San Ramon, CA, (2009)

·         Internship at Occidental Petroleum Cooperation, THUMS, Long Beach, CA, (2008)

·         Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Tehran, Iran, (2005-2007)

·         Petropars Ltd. Company, Tehran, Iran, (2006-2007) 

Teaching Experiences

Publication

·         Teaching Assistant of "Drilling Engineer", University of Southern California, Fall 2011.

·         Teaching Assistant of "Testing of Wells and Aquifers ", University of Southern California, Spring 2011.

·         Teaching Assistant of "Well Completion, Stimulation, and Damage Control", University of Southern California, Summer 2010.

·         Teaching Assistant of "Advanced Oilfield Operations with Remote Immersive Visualization and Control", University of Southern California, Spring 2010.

·         Teaching Assistant of "Reservoir Engineering", University of Southern California, Spring 2008.

·         Teaching Assistant of "Transport Processes in Porous Media", University of Southern California, Fall 2007.

·         H. R. Jahangiri, D. Zhang. 2012 "Ensemble based co-optimization of carbon dioxide sequestration and enhanced oil recovery ". International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. Vol 8, pp 22–33.

·         H. R. Jahangiri, D. Zhang. "Optimization of the Net Present Value of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery", presented at Offshore Technology Conference 2011, Houston, Texas, May 2-5.

·         H. R. Jahangiri, D. Zhang. 2011 "Effect of spatial heterogeneity on plume distribution and dilution during CO₂ sequestration". International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. Vol 5, pp 281–293.

·         H. R. Jahangiri, D.Zhang. "Optimization of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Oil Reservoir", presented at SPE Western Regional Meeting 2010, Anaheim, California, May 26-30.

·         M. Masihi, S. Sadeghnejad, S. Bazrafkan, F. Forouzanfar, H. R. Jahangiri, P.R. King. "Facies Connectivity and Conductivity Modeling”, presented at the Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR XVII) conference 2008,San Francisco, California, July 8-11.

·         Hajizadeh, M. Masihi, H. R. Jahangiri. "Modeling of Connectivity in 3D Continuum Systems using Percolation Approach”, presented at the Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR XVII) conference 2008, San Francisco, California, July 8-11.

·         H. R. Jahangiri, M. Haghshenas. "Stream Line algorithm for simulation of two phase of heterogeneous reservoir", presented in 5^th Petroleum Engineering Conference, August 2006, Isfahan, Iran.

·         M. Haghshenas, H. R. Jahangiri. "Smart Well Increases the recovery ", prsented in 5^th Petroleum Engineering Conference, August 2006, Isfahan, Iran.

 Honors and Award

·         LA  Basin SPE Scholarship (2008,2009,2010,2011)

·         San Joaquin SPE Scholarship (2008)

·         NiCo Van Wingen SPE Fellowship (2008)

·         Mork Family Fellowship of University of Southern California (2007)

·         Ranked 1^st among all M.S. students of Petroleum Engineering in Sharif University of Technology (2007)

·         Ranked among 1% in nationwide university entrance exam for graduate studies (2005)

·         Ranked 36th in the Nationwide ‘Universities Entrance Exam’, which is more than 350,000 participants (2000)

·         Silver medal of  nationwide competition to select national Mathematical Olympiad team and won silver medal (1998)