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Dr. Emad Abdulhusain Fakher Al-Khdheeawi

Asst. Prof.

Dr.Emad Al-Khdheeawi is a Lecturer in Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Technology. Emad holds a Ph.D. degree in Petroleum Engineering from Curtin University (Australia), and MSc, and B.Sc. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from University of Baghdad. His research interests are in wettability, CO2 geo-storage, reservoir simulation, rock and fluid properties, EOR, reactive transport simulation and multi-phase flow through porous media

Title

  • lecturer

Education

  • 2021 – Present University of Baghdad, PhD Student Major: Petroleum Engineering.

    2009 – 2012 University of Baghdad, M.Sc. Major: Petroleum Engineering

    2004 – 2008 University of Baghdad, B.Sc. Major: Petroleum Engineering.

Research Interests

  • My research interests are in wettability, CO2 geo-storage, reservoir simulation, rock and fluid properties, EOR, reactive transport simulation and multi-phase flow through porous media.

Teaching

  • -Lectures:

    Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering

    Reservoir Engineering

    Phase Behavior

    Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Drilling Engineering

    Integrated Field Development and Management

    Optimization

    Natural Gas Science and Engineering

    -INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD

    2012-2013 Formation Evaluation (Reservoir Engineering), University of Technology

    Optimization, University of Technology

Most recent publications

  • 1.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2017). Influence of CO2-wettability on CO2 migration and trapping capacity in deep saline aquifers. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 7(2), 328-338. doi:10.1002/ghg.1648
    2.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2017). Impact of reservoir wettability and heterogeneity on CO2-plume migration and trapping capacity. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 58, 142-158. doi: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2017.01.012.
    3.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2017). Influence of injection well configuration and rock wettability on CO2 plume behaviour and CO2 trapping capacity in heterogeneous reservoirs. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 43, 190-206. doi: 10.1016/j.jngse.2017.03.016.
    4.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2017). Effect of brine salinity on CO2 plume migration and trapping capacity in deep saline aquifers. The APPEA Journal, 57(1), 100-109.
    5.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2017). Influence of Rock Wettability on CO2 Migration and Storage Capacity in Deep Saline Aquifers. Energy Procedia, 114, 4357-4365.
    6.Lebedev, Maxim, Yihuai Zhang, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, Ahmed Barifcani, Emad Al-Khdheeawi, and Stefan Iglauer. “Carbon geosequestration in limestone: Pore-scale dissolution and geomechanical weakening.” International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 66 (2017): 106-119.
    7.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Effect of wettability heterogeneity and reservoir temperature on CO2 storage efficiency in deep saline aquifers. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 68, 216-229.
    8.Emad A. Al‐Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, Yihuai Zhang, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Impact of salinity on CO2 containment security in highly heterogeneous reservoirs. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 8(1), 93-105. doi:10.1002/ghg.1723
    9.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Enhancement of CO2 trapping efficiency in heterogeneous reservoirs by Water Alternating Gas injection. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology.
    10.Yu, Hongyan, Yihuai Zhang, Maxim Lebedev, Tongcheng Han, Michael Verrall, Zhenliang Wang, Emad Al-Khdheeawi, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, and Stefan Iglauer. “Nanoscale geomechanical properties of Western Australian coal.” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 162 (2018): 736-746.
    11.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Impact of injected water salinity on CO2 storage efficiency in homogenous reservoirs. The APPEA Journal, 58(1), 44-50.
    12.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. “Effect of the number of water alternating CO2 injection cycles on CO2 trapping capacity.” The APPEA Journal 59, no. 1 (2019): 357-363.
    13.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, and Doaa Saleh Mahdi. “Apparent viscosity prediction of water-based muds using empirical correlation and an artificial neural network.” Energies 12, no. 16 (2019): 3067.
    14.Yuan, Yujie, Reza Rezaee, Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Si-Yu Hu, Michael Verrall, Jie Zou, and Kouqi Liu. “Impact of Composition on Pore Structure Properties in Shale: Implications for Micro-/Mesopore Volume and Surface Area Prediction.” Energy & Fuels 33, no. 10 (2019): 9619-9628.
    15.Fauziah, Cut Aja, Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Ahmed Barifcani, and Stefan Iglauer. “Wettability measurements on two sandstones: an experimental investigation before and after CO2 flooding.” The APPEA Journal 60, no. 1 (2020): 117-123.
    16.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2017). CO2 trapping capacity as a function of CO2 injection scenarios in weakly water-wet reservoirs. Paper presented at the 2017 One Curtin Postgraduate Conference, 10-12 December 2017, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia.
    17.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Impact of Injection Scenario on CO2 Leakage and CO2 Trapping Capacity in Homogeneous Reservoirs. Paper presented at the Offshore Technology Conference Asia, 20-23 March 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    18.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). The effect of WACO2 ratio on CO2 geo-sequestration efficiency in homogeneous reservoirs. Paper presented at the Applied Energy Symposium and Forum, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage, CCUS 2018, 27–29 June 2018, Perth, Australia.
    19.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Implementation of different CO2-rock-water wettability conditions in TOUGH2. Paper presented at TOUGH symposium 2018, 8–10 October 2018, Berkeley, California, USA.
    20.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stephanie Vialle, Ahmed Barifcani, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh, and Stefan Iglauer. (2018). Implementation of Wettability in TOUGH2 for improved estimates of CO2 storage capacity. Paper presented at the Second Biennial Meeting of Australian Chapter of InterPore, 31 October–2 November 2018, Melbourne, Australia.
    21.Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Doaa Saleh Mahdi, and Runhua Feng. “Lithology Determination from Drilling Data Using Artificial Neural Network.” In 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. American Rock Mechanics Association, 2019.
    22.Fauziah, Cut Aja, Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Ahmed Barifcani, and Stefan Iglauer. “Wettability Measurements of Mixed Clay Minerals at Elevated Temperature and Pressure: Implications for CO Geo-Storage.” In SPE Gas & Oil Technology Showcase and Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2019.
    23.Vialle, Stéphanie, Julien Bourdet, Emad Al-Khdheeawi, Julian Strand, Claudio Delle Piane, and Laurent Langhi. “Integration of field, laboratory and modelling studies for assessing CO2 chemical reactivity and containment in the multi-barrier system of the Yalgorup Member, Western Australia.” AGUFM 2019 (2019): MR41C-0067.
    24.Fauziah, Cut Aja, Emad A. Al-Khdheeawi, Stefan Iglauer, and Ahmed Barifcani. “Influence of Total Organic Content on CO2–Water–Sandstone Wettability and CO2 Geo-Storage Capacity.” In SPE Europec featured at 82nd EAGE Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2020.