Unconventional Shale Gas Development

Rouzbeh G. Moghanloo is an associate professor and the graduate liaison for natural gas engineering and management program at the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Moghanloo has authored or coauthored 120 refereed journal and conference papers covering applied topics such as enhanced oil recovery, geological storage of CO2, and asphaltene deposition and basic research articles on modeling of multiphase flow and particulate flow systems. Previously, he was a technical advisor for several companies. Rouzbeh is a member of several associations, including SPE and ACS. Dr. Moghanloo received his PhD in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees both in chemical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology. Dr. Moghanloo holds three patents and serves as an associate editor for Elsevier’s Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

1. Field development and asset management
2. Geological characterization of unconventional shale-gas reservoirs
3. Construction and completion of multifractured horizontal wells
4. Well control challenges in unconventional shale plays
5. Wellbore/borehole stability in shale formation
6. Advances in formation evaluation of shale systems
7. Advances in interpretation of diagnostic fracture injection tests
8. Fracture diagnostic testing
9. Proppant placement
10. Advances in geomechanical modeling
11. Advances in flowback analysis: fracturing water production obeys a simple decline model
12. Application of molecular dynamics simulations for shale gas systems
13. Wettability modifiers for enhanced oil recovery from tight and shale reservoirs
14. Scale considerations during petrophysical characterization of shales
15. Challenges associated with lifting and loading in shale gas wellbore systems
16. Production data analysis for shale gas wells
17. Machine learning applications in unconventional shale gas systems
18. Experimental evaluation of enhanced oil recovery in unconventional resource plays: a new screening protocol
19. Spatial data analytics for optimum data declustering in shale systems