Imad A. Adel

College Station, Texas

• Assessment of Rich Gas, Carbon Dioxide, Surfactant, and Foam Applications for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Unconventional Liquid Resources.
• Acid System Selection for Matrix Stimulation of Low-Permeability Carbonates.

College Station, TX

• GPA: 3.75/4.00
• Thesis: A Reliable and Rapid Technique for the Laboratory Determination of the Minimum Miscibility Pressure for CO₂–Light Crude Oil Systems Using the Slim Tube Technique

College Station, TX

• Magna Cum Laude
• Major GPA: 3.92/4.00 · Cumulative GPA: 3.752/4.00

Abu Dhabi, UAE

ADNOC-funded program on chemical EOR in Abu Dhabi high-temperature, high-salinity carbonate reservoirs.

• Measured capillary desaturation curves and critical trapping numbers in mixed-to-oil-wet carbonate cores at 100 °C and 243,028 ppm TDS, applying the Forbes local-saturation correction to centrifuge data, and scaled the laboratory results to field injection rates.
• Established retention-controlled screening criteria linking dynamic surfactant retention to incremental recovery and to the breakeven oil price, converting laboratory measurements into field screening thresholds.
• Built a discounted-cash-flow screening model calibrated to twelve screened corefloods that resolves retention into NPV, rate of return, unit technical cost, and breakeven retention, with uncertainty carried on retention and oil price.
• Screened and ranked more than 10 surfactant classes at reservoir temperature and salinity, measuring phase behaviour, interfacial tension, wettability alteration, and static and dynamic retention to identify formulations that combine ultra-low interfacial tension with low retention.
• Determined polymer molecular-weight and mechanical pre-shear requirements for injectivity into low- and moderate-permeability carbonates, bounding the accessible velocity window against fracture parting pressure for mobility-control design.
• Assembled a criteria-screened synthesis of 49 viscoelastic-polymer coreflood contrasts, deriving carbonate injectivity bounds and a two-core experimental design from the screened evidence.
• Quality-checked and reviewed routine core analysis, SCAL and PVT datasets from contract laboratories before they entered the screening models.
• Designed and built interactive engineering tools that recompute each published result from the measured data, and paired each project manuscript with one; published the research in conference proceedings and scientific journals.

College Station, TX

Gas, surfactant, and foam EOR in unconventional liquid reservoirs; acid systems in low-permeability carbonates.

• Evaluated CO₂, rich gas, surfactant, and foam as EOR agents in ultra-low-permeability reservoirs using coreflooding, numerical simulation, and X-ray computed tomography.
• Quantified hybrid multi-cycle recovery combining gas injection with surfactant-assisted spontaneous imbibition, and developed scaling groups that reproduce capillary pressure profiles at the field scale.
• Measured the effect of ethane, propane, and CO₂ content on minimum miscibility pressure in rich gas–oil systems by the slim tube technique, and improved the precision of the CO₂–light crude MMP determination for miscible gas-injection design.
• Developed core- and field-scale black-oil and compositional simulation models for CO₂ and rich-gas huff-n-puff and for surfactant injection, matched the core-scale models to coreflood results, and upscaled them with discrete fracture network models and scaling-group analysis to forecast recovery factor and quantify surfactant effects on wettability and interfacial tension.
• Compared acid mixtures for stimulation of low-permeability carbonates.

College Station, TX

• PETE 401 and PETE 402 — reservoir simulation and senior field-development design (Spring 2016 – Fall 2018): supervised student teams building simulation models and development plans.
• FREN 102 and FREN 201 — intermediate French (Fall 2013 – Spring 2015)

College Station, TX

• Analysed production and completion data from 2,760 producing Barnett Shale wells operated by Chesapeake; the resulting completion recommendations reduced completion cost by 20 percent.

• Directed five committees covering recruitment, outreach, external affairs, and fundraising; organised the annual networking events with SPE Young Professionals and the SPE Gulf Coast Section; presented in the SPE Student Paper Contests of 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2019.