Faculty Profile

Arifur Rahman

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801717265093
  • Email:

Education

  • M.Engg. in Oil and Gas Engineering, MUN, Canada
  • B.Sc. in Petroleum and Mining Engineering, SUST

Research Interests

  • Petroleum Production Optimization
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery (CSS, CSI, SAGD, VAPEX, Chemical, Polymer, Nanofluid, Surfactant etc.)
  • Scaling Criteria for Petroleum Reservoirs
  • Well Testing
  • Petroleum Reservoir Simulation
  • Modelling Geothermal Reservoir
  • CO2-EOR and Storage
  • Unconventional Reservoirs (Tight Oil, Shale Gas, etc.)
  • Diffusion/Dispersion and Convection Mechanism
  • Mathematical Modelling Studies of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
  • Heavy Oil Recovery

Active Research Project

  • 1. Development of New Scaling Criteria of Fluid Flow through Porous Media
  • 2. Micro-Optical Analysis of Heavy Oil Recovery
  • 3. The Application of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning Approach for Oil and Gas Recovery

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Reservoir Parameter Estimation Using Pressure Transient Test
  • 2. Scaling Criteria For Steam Flooding Process for Enhanced Oil Recovery

External Affiliations

  • Member: SPE
  • Member : SEG
  • Member : CES
  • Member : AAPG

Journal Publications

  • 1. Surfactant and Nanoparticle Synergy: Towards Improved Foam Stability
  • 2. A critical review on nanoparticle-assisted enhanced oil recovery: Introducing scaling approach
  • 3. Development of scaling criteria for steam flooding EOR process.
  • 4. A critical review of engineering approach in the context of memory concept for fluid flow through porous media.
  • 5. Quantifying Expected Recovery and Production Forecasting of Kailashtila Gas Field (Well-5) Using Rate Transient Analysis.
  • 6. Development of Scaling Criteria for Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Review.
  • 7. Pressure Data Analysis Using Derivative Type Curve for Multilayered Gas Reservoir.
  • 8. Pressure Data Analysis and Multilayer Modeling of a Gas-Condansate Reservoir.
  • 9. Analyzing and Modeling Pressure Buildup Data of Kailastilla Gas Field.
  • 10. Pressure Transient Test of Kailastila Gas Field.
  • 11. Pressure Data Analysis and Reservoir Parameter Estimation of Kailastilla Gas Field Well No. KTL-01 and KTL-02.

Conference

  • 1. An Investigation of Pressure and Production Data Using Decline and Type Curve Analysis.

Teaching

  • Reservoir Engineering
  • Petroleum Production Engineering
  • Rocks and Fluids properties
  • Geo-Statistics
  • Well Test Analysis
  • Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy
  • Remote Sensing & GIS

Awards & Recognition

  • Dhaka Board Scholarship
  • Junior Scholarship
  • Supervisor Grant, Canada
  • Graduate Fellowship, Canada
  • Statoil Research Grant, Canada
  • Master's Award, Canada
  • UR Graduate Scholarship, Canada
  • Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship, Canada
  • Ph.D. Award, Canada
  • John Spencer Middleton and Jack Spencer Gordon Middleton Scholarship, Canada
  • Mitacs Accelerate Ph.D. Intern, Canada

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. I have supervised several students in their undergraduate research.