Hamid Reza Jahangiri, Ph.D.

BP America

Field of the Future Flagship

Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Viterbi School of Engineering

University of Southern California

Personal Information

Address:

501 Westlake Park Blvd, WL1, Room 11.122A

Houston, TX 77079

BP Email: hamid.jahangiri@usc.edu

USC Email: hjahangi@usc.edu

Tel : (713) 323- 3133

      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

·         Smart Wells and Intelligent Fields

·         Geological Carbon Sequestration

·         Reservoir Characterization and Simulation

·         Inverse modeling and Data Assimilation 

·         Unconventional Reservoir

·         Enhanced Oil Recovery

Work Experiences

·         Reservoir Engineer, BP America, Houston, TX ( 2012- Present)

·         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 "Advanced Oilfield Operations with Remote Immersive Visualization and Control", University of Southern California, Spring 2012 and 2010.

·         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 "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

·         Best Ph.D. dissertation award, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California (2012)

·         APSIH Award of Excellence in Petroleum & Chemical Engineering Education (2012)

·         LA  Basin SPE Scholarship (2008,2009,2010,2011, 2012)

·         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 44th in the Nationwide ‘Universities Entrance Exam’, which is more than 350,000 participants (2000)