2019+ Former Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, & Projects in Chronological Order

Ismail Halim Faruqi

Ismail Halim Faruqi

2024 EER Master’s Thesis: CO2 Storage Potential in the Late Neogene Interval, Federal Offshore, Gulf of Mexico Shelf, USA (download). 
Supervisors: Drs. Alex Bump and Susan Hovorka

Maria Madariaga

Maria Madariaga

2024 EER Master’s Thesis: Assessment of CO2 storage potential of the Wilcox Group in an Onshore Region of Texas (download). 
Supervisors: Drs. Carlos Uroza and Susan Hovorka

Chinemerem Okezie

Chinemerem Okezie

2024 EER Master’s Thesis: Calibrating Performance Predictions for Large-Scale Injection (download). 
Supervisors: Drs. Alex Bump and Susan Hovorka

Chris Deranian

Chris Deranian

2024 EER Master’s Thesis: Evaluating the Financial Implications of Injectivity Risk in Compartmentalized Reservoirs for CCS (download). 
Supervisors: Drs. James Dyer and Sahar Bakhshian

Richard Colt Larson

Richard Colt Larson

2024 EER Master's Thesis: The Effect of Microscale Heterogeneity on the Transport of Carbon Dioxide in Geologic Carbon Sequestration (download).
Supervisor: Sahar Bakhshian

Jose Eduardo Ubillus

Jose Eduardo Ubillus

2024 EER Master's Thesis: Laboratory Experiments and Modeling to Evaluate Critical CO2 Saturation for Geologic Carbon Storage (download).
Supervisors: David DiCarlo and Hailun Ni
 

Shadya Taleb Restrepo

Shadya Taleb Restrepo

2023 EER Master's Thesis: Investigation of CO2 Migration in Saline Aquifers Using Real-Rock Microfluidic Experiments (download).
Supervisor: Seyyed A. Hosseini

Dr. Reza Ershadnia

Dr. Reza Ershadnia

2022 to 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, now at ExxonMobil

Dr. Jianqiao 'Tim' Leng

Dr. Jianqiao 'Tim' Leng

2022 to 2023 Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Flow Modeler (RSA III) at Center for Injection and Seismicity Research at the Bureau of Economic Geology.

Leng, J., Bump, A., Hosseini, S.A., Meckel, T.A., Wang, Z., Wang, H., 2024, A comprehensive review of efficient capacity estimation for large-scale CO2 geological storage: Gas Science and Engineering, v. TBD, 205339, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgsce.2024.205339.

Angela Luciano

Angela Luciano

Former M.S. Student, now Project Manager for the GCCC

2023 EER Master's Thesis: Leveraging Class I Wells as an Analog for Class VI in the Gulf Coast (download). Advisors: Dr. Susan D. Hovorka and Dr. Alexander P. Bump

Edna Rodriguez Calzado

Edna Rodriguez Calzado

Former M.S. Student, now with BEG’s STARR Program

2023 EER Master's Thesis: Estimating CO2 Storage Capacity, Injectivity, and Storage Costs for Large-Scale CCS Deployment & Carbon Dioxide Removal Goals (download). Advisors: Dr. Susan D. Hovorka and Dr. Alexander P. Bump

Yushan Li

Yushan Li

Former M.S. Student, now with the New Mexico Environment Department

2023 EER Master's Thesis: Assessing an Offshore Carbon Storage Opportunity at Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka

Marco Guirola

Marco Guirola

Former M.S. Student, now a CCUS Specialist, BP Inc., Gas & Low Carbon Energy

2022 EER Master’s Thesis: Estimating Across-Fault Migration Rates and Their Financial Implications for CCS with Application to Offshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Alexander P. Bump and Dr. Susan D. Hovorka

Maddie Laidlaw

Maddie Laidlaw

Former M.S. Student, now a Commodity Financing Analyst, Macquarie Group

2022 EER Master’s Thesis: Evaluating, Risking, and Ranking Carbon Sequestration Buoyant Traps with Application to nearshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Alexander P. Bump and Dr. Susan D. Hovorka

taylor barnhart

Taylor Barnhart

Former M.S. Student, now a Hydrologist, NOAA’s National Weather Service

2021 EER Master’s Thesis: Constraining the Data and Investment Needs for Obtaining a Carbon Dioxide Injection Permit in the United States (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka

arnold aluge

Arnold Aluge

Former M.S. Student, now a Market Lead, MISO at Wood Mackenzie

2021 EER Master’s Thesis: Screening and Assessing the CO₂ Storage Potential of CO₂-EOR in Onshore Oil Fields in Louisiana (download). Advised by Susan Hovorka

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Harry Hull

Former M.S. Student, now a Geologist, EOG Resources

2021 JSG Master’s Thesis: Characterizing Reservoir Quality for Geologic Storage of CO₂—A Case Study from the Lower Miocene Shore Zone at Matagorda Bay, Texas (download). Advised by Tip Meckel 
 

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John Franey

Former M.S. Student, now Staff Professional, Antea Group

2021 JSG Master’s Thesis: High Order Stratigraphic Framework of Intraslope Growth Faulted Subbasins Near Offshore Matagorda Bay, Texas (download). Advised by Tip Meckel  

melianna ulfah

Melianna Ulfah

Former M.S. Student, now a Geologic CO2 Storage Project Scientist, Tetra Tech

2021 EER Master’s Thesis: Plume Migration and Pressure Evolution Analyses for Recommendations in Offshore CO₂ Storage Acreage Leasing Policy (download). Advised by Susan Hovorka

Prasanna Krishnamurthy

Prasanna Krishnamurthy

Former Ph.D. Student, now with ExxonMobil

2020 Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Dissertation: Geologic Heterogeneity Controls on CO2 Migration and Trapping (download). Advised by David A. DiCarlo, Supervisor and Timothy A. Meckel, Co-Supervisor.

Dr. Reza Ganjdanesh

Dr. Reza Ganjdanesh

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Senior Data Scientist, Cognizant

Ganjdanesh, Reza, and S. A. Hosseini, 2018, Development of an analytical simulation tool for storage capacity estimation of saline aquifers, GCCC Publication Series #2018-02, originally published in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 74, p. 142–154, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.04.017. See Texas Scholar Works abstract here
 

Dr. Ali Goudarzi

Dr. Ali Goudarzi

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Technology Licensing Specialist at UT Austin 

Goudarzi, A., T. A. Meckel, S. A. Hosseini, and R. H. Trevino, 2019, Statistical analysis of historic hydrocarbon production data from Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and application to dynamic capacity assessment in CO2 storage: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 80, p. 96–102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.11.014. See abstract here.
 

Sarah Prentice

Sarah Prentice

Former M.S. Student, now a J.D. Candidate at Texas Law

2019 EER Master’s Thesis: The Effect of Methane and Fluid Geometry on CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka

Izaak Ruiz

Izaak Ruiz

Former M.S. Student, now with Repsol’s Geological Low Carbon Americas Group

2019 JSG Master’s Thesis: Characterization of the High Island Field 24L Field for Modeling and Estimating CO2 Storage Capacity in the Offshore Texas State Waters, Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Timothy A. Meckel
 

Omar Rodriguez Garcia

Omar Ramirez Garcia

Former M.S. Student, now an Analyst at Kroll

2019 EER Master’s Thesis: Geologic Characterization and Modeling for Quantifying CO2 Storage Capacity of the High Island 10-L Field in Texas State Waters, Offshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Tip A. Meckel
 

Dr. Baole Wen

Dr. Baole Wen

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mathematics at New York Institute of Technology

Shi, Z., Wen, B., Hesse, M., Tsotsis, T., Jessen, K., 2018, Measurement and Modeling of CO2 mass transfer in brine at reservoir conditions: Advances in Water Resources, v. 113, p. 100–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.002

Dr. Ye Feng

Dr. Ye Feng

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Upstream Exploration Geophysicist at BP

Meckel, T., Feng, Y. E., Treviño, R. H., and Sava, D., 2019, High-resolution 3D marine seismic acquisition in the overburden at the Tomakomai CO2 storage project, offshore Hokkaido, Japan: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 88, p. 124–133, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.034

Dr. Reynaldy Fifariz

Dr. Reynaldy Fifariz

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Lecturer at Institut Teknologi Bandung

DeAngelo, M. V., Fifariz, R., Meckel, T. A., Treviño, R. H., 2019, A Seismic-Based CO2-Sequestration Regional Assessment of the Miocene Section, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Louisiana: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 81, p. 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.12.009.  Full text document here

Pooneh Hosseininoosheri

Pooneh Hosseininoosheri

Former Ph.D. Student, now a Reservoir Engineer, Marathon Oil Corporation

2019 Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Dissertation: CO2 Trapping Mechanisms Assessment Using Numerical and Analytical Methods (download). Advised by Dr. Seyyed A. Hosseini


Last updated: September 4, 2024

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