Imad A. Adel

College Station, TX

• GPA: 3.75/4.00
• Assessment of Rich Gas, Carbon Dioxide, Surfactant and Foam Applications for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Unconventional Liquid Resources
• Evaluation of Different Acid Mixtures in 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 externally funded program on chemical EOR in Abu Dhabi high-temperature, high-salinity carbonate reservoirs.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 scaling the laboratory results to field injection rates.
• 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.
• 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.
• Published the research in conference proceedings and scientific journals, and paired each of the four project manuscripts with an interactive project that recomputes the results from the measured data — for example the interactive Chemical EOR · Capillary desaturation · HTHS carbonates report.

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 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.
• Developed core- and field-scale simulation models for gas and surfactant huff-n-puff, and quantified surfactant effects on wettability, interfacial tension, and recovery factor.
• Compared acid mixtures for stimulation of low-permeability carbonates.

College Station, TX

• PETE 401 and PETE 402 — reservoir simulation and senior design (Spring 2016 – Fall 2018)
• 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 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.