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Education
Bachelor of Science in General Engineering,
Abadan Institute of Technology,
Iran (1976)
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University (1977)
PhD in Petroleum Engineering,
Stanford University (1981)
Accolades
About Reza Fassihi, Founder
2017 - presented a talk on “Challenges in HC Gas/CO2 Injection in Two Emerging Areas: Deep Offshore and Onshore Unconventional Oil” at the CO2 for EOR as CCUS Conference held at Rice University in Houston
2017 - presented a talk on “Making Deep Offshore EOR possible” at the Gulf Coast Section EOR Forum held at the University of Houston
2018 - Delivered a graduate seminar at Stanford on “Pushing Shale Oil Recovery Technical Limits”
2020 - Delivered a Keynote Speech at the first EAGE conference in Latin America on EOR application in Deep Offshore and Shale Reservoirs
2021, Delivered a Keynote Speech on “Aquifer Utilization for Energy Sustainability” at the Graduates Seminar of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada.
2023, Delivered a seminar on “In-Situ Hydrogen Generation and Oil Upgrading” at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
Editor of the SPE Monograph on “In-Situ Combustion Thermal Recovery: A Tribute to Professor Gordon Moore” published in SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 2023.
Publications
Best Paper Award, 1981 PhD division Student Paper Contest
Best Paper Award, 1988 CIM Meeting
Elected as a SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 2003 & 2004
SPE IOR Pioneer Award, 2018
SPE Distinguished Member Award, 2018 ATCE meeting, Dallas
He has been involved in teaching such topics internally and externally and has been a PhD External Examiner in many universities.
In 2015, Reza was the author of an internal company report titled “A Case Study in CO2 Capture and Storage – Subsurface Issues” in which he discussed the subsurface requirements for a reliable CO2 storage. He analyzed the reservoirs that were the right candidates as future storage sites.
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