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Principal Investigator

Ipsita Gupta, Associate Professor

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   Mr. and Mrs. Boyd H. McMullan Professor

   Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering
   3209S Patrick F. Taylor Hall,   Baton Rouge, LA 70803
 

   Phone: 225-578-8468; Email: igupta@lsu.edu | LinkedIn

   Faculty Page: Ipsita Gupta

 

Post-Doctoral Associates

  • Mohamed Abdelaal, Subsurface Storage in Louisiana – Carbon Dioxide and H2.
  • Manab Dutta (affiliate member), Lithium Characterization in Produced Waters .
  • Puspa Adhikari (affiliate member), Geochemistry of Lighter Hydrocarbons (now at Florida Gulf Coast University)

 

Ph.D. Students

  • Mohammad Zamehrian, Underground Hydrogen Storage
  • Richard Budiman, Fluid and Heat Flow in Low Salinity Formations in the Gulf Coast
  • Chico Sambo, (co-chaired by Dr. Karsten Thompson). Gas Hydrate Formation in the Levant Basin, Offshore Israel 
  • Sulav Dhakal, Numerical Modeling of Gas Hydrate Formation in Subsurface Reservoirs.
  • Temitope Ajayi, Coupled Fluid, Heat and Reactive Transport Modeling for Offshore Wellbore Integrity Assessments (Now at Intel).
  • Andreas Michael, Petroleum Engineering. Fluid-Driven Fracture Initiation from Oil and Gas Wells Considering Lifetime Stresses. (Now at the University of North Dakota)
  • Hope Asala  (In memoriam), Rheology of fluids and rocks in wellbore stability problems (incomplete due to tragic death from car accident; we will always remember you, Hope)

 

MS Students

  • Ruoqin Pei, Cement-Rock-Fluid Interactions for Underground Hydrogen Storage
  • Youssuf Elnoamany, Well Blowout-Capping-Fracturing-Relief Well – A Full-Cycle Workflow (Now at Chevron, Houston)
  • Gerardo Sepulveda, Cement-Rock Interface Characterization for Offshore Wellbore Integrity Using Analytical Techniques.
  • Zahidullah Farid, High Density Cement-Rock Interface Characterization. (Now at Goldman Sachs, Dallas)
  • MaKuachukwu Mbaegbu, Real-time Quantitative Analyses of Lighter Hydrocarbons for Improved Reservoir Fluid Characterization. (Now at Hydrozonix, Midland)
  • German Abzaletdinov, Thermal EOR in the Yarega Field, Russia. (Now at Rosneft, Russia)
  • Florencia Vasquez, Integrated Reservoir-Wellbore Nodal Analysis Workflow For Worst Case Discharge Calculations. (Now at Shell Argentina – Hytech Ingenieria)
  • Sulav Dhakal, Thermogenic Gas Hydrates Formation in Offshore Environments - Results from Numerical Simulations. (Now Ormat Technologies, Nevada)

 

Undergraduate Supervised Research 

  • Jordi A Garzona, Investigating Orphan Wells in Louisiana. 
  • Peter Hussey, Well Log Interpretation for Louisiana Coastal Plan Stratigraphy
  • Cory Lautenschlager, Cement-rock Mechanical Integrity 
  • Paige DiNiro, Log Interpretation for Louisiana Coastal Plan Stratigraphy
  • Nicholas Hart, Well Log Interpretation for Louisiana Coastal Plan Stratigraphy
  • Heath Gorrondona, Well Log Interpretation for Louisiana Coastal Plan Stratigraphy
  • Lindsey Aguzin, Multi-point Cutter Instrumentation. 
  • Hannah Megison, How Much Oil Could We Spill in the Event of a Blow Out? 
  • Robert Petras, Determining Mass Spectrometer Calibration Technique for Advanced Gas Analysis of Live Well Fluids 
  • Esther Yoo, Mechanical Engineering, Automating Well Operability Rates using MATLAB. 
  • Gabriel Pedigo, Coupling mechanical and hydrological processes in subsurface research. 
  • Hannah Megison, Sensitivity Tests for Worst Case Discharge Modeling.

 

Undergraduate Senior Design Projects

  • Alexis Nibert, Maeve Levereault, Corey Berner, Dillon Rousset, Three Dimensional Modeling of the Louisiana Coastal Plains. 
  • Bobby Tezeno, Cameron Ryan, Cory Lautenschlager, Shane Hopkins, Production Optimization Using Gas-lift Injection. 
  • Andrey Fateev, Jacob LeJeune, Nicholas Lasher, Sean McCrea, Well Operability Envelopes for High Flow Rate Wells. 
  • Benjamin Granger, Catherine Bordelon, Christian Burleigh, Mohammad Al Mohish, Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing in Tight Reservoirs. 
  • Brian Womeldurf, Brittany Landingham, Jennifer Ertl, Wade Rotolo, Worst Case Discharge Calculations for GOM Offshore Wells. 
  • Abdullah Alsaleh, Larry Nguyen, Taylor Flynn, Petro Prophet: Oilfield Education. 
  • Altony Hall, Jake Gibson, Laurie Bynum, Jeff Guillory, The Effects of Water Disposal Injection on Producer Decline in the Aurignac Reservoir. 
    Dalton Killie, Daniel Bonadona, Jamie King, Ruslan Bilyalov, A Study of Chapel Reefs using Geostatistics. 
  • Christine Lutz, Maci Constant, Megan Middleton, Rachel Smythe, Correlation between IP30 Rates and Well EUR’s: An engineering and economic study.