Members
Principal Investigator
Ipsita Gupta, Associate Professor
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
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.