Mohammad Delshad, PhD, PE
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Saint John Woods, Houston, Texas 77077
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Career Summary Experience Education Publications Honors
& Affiliations
Career Summary
More than fifteen years of experience in enhanced oil recovery research:
Design, execution, and analysis of
research projects.
Reservoir simulation, improved
recovery mechanisms.
Advanced petrophysical analysis.
Technical staff training & management.
Coordination of research consortiums.
More than ten years of diverse operational and production experience:
International and US operations
including the Texas Gulf Coast.
Reservoir studies for prospect
development and exploratory drilling programs.
Evaluation of workover candidates and
upside potentials.
Reserve and economical evaluation of
acquisition packages.
Member of Society of Core Analysts, Society of
Petroleum Engineers
Registered Professional Engineer
Permitted to operate oil and gas assets in the State
of Texas.
Experience
President Oct. 2000 – Present
Zenergy Resources, Ltd., Houston, Texas
· Provide engineering support to investor groups and small to medium independent oil and gas operators.
· Reserve studies and economical evaluation of numerous acquisition packages up to 3 million dollars in producing properties.
· Reservoir studies for prospect developmental plans and exploratory drilling programs.
· Evaluation of workover candidates and upside potential.
· Investigation of enhanced recovery applications for improved reservoir performance.
· Field data collection and evaluation for reservoir management.
· Permitted to operate oil and gas properties in the state of Texas (Permit # 950616).
Senior Reservoir Engineer Aug. '97 – Sept. 2000
Sabco Oil & Gas Corporation, Houston, Texas
· Reservoir study of 15 producing fields for evaluating company’s annual reserves.
· Reservoir studies for identifying and planning developmental and exploratory candidates.
· Plan and implement drilling and workover projects for more than 150 operated producing oil and gas wells.
· Successful design and completion of two developmental wells in the Corpus Christi Bay costing about $8 million dollars and resulting in production of more than 10 million cubic feet of gas per day.
· Reservoir simulation studies (using Gemini’s Merlin simulator) to investigate improved recovery applications.
· Study and approve drilling/workover projects proposed by other operators on 450 non-operated wells.
· Collection and evaluation of field data for improving operational practices and/or proposing stimulation plans.
· Responsible for hiring and managing engineers and technicians.
· Reserve and economic evaluation of numerous acquisition packages from $50 to $250 million dollars in producing properties.
Advanced Research Scientist Sept. '94 – Aug. ‘97
Texaco Exploration & Production Technology Department, Houston, Texas
· Provide short- and long-term engineering support to field engineers on Texaco’s worldwide operations.
· Designed and implemented a research program to improve the understanding and quantifying the role of various recovery mechanisms (i.e. gravity drainage) in production of oil (heavy oil) from a mature steamflood project.
· Developed a comprehensive research plan to investigate the effect of reservoir and operational parameters such as injection rate, temperature, and initial saturation on endpoint saturations and relative permeability curves.
· Responsible for developing, improving, and automating in-house advanced petrophysical measurement techniques and equipments such as use of data acquisitions and simulation of high temperature displacements with the aid of CT scanning.
· Responsible for monitoring reservoir recovery research pursued at different universities and research consortiums (i.e. Univ. of Texas, Stanford Univ., Canadian AACI Research, Waterloo Univ.).
· Responsible for teaching thermal recovery methods in the Reservoir Management Training program and the Thermal Recovery Course.
· Continuous review of the petrophysical procedures and capabilities of commercial laboratories for possible outsourcing of the customer requested work.
Project Scientist Oct. '90 - Sept. '94
Texaco Exploration & Production Technology Department, Houston, Texas
· Provide short- and long-term engineering support to field engineers on Texaco’s worldwide operations.
· Responsible for design, performance, and analysis, as well as analytical and numerical simulation of enhanced oil recovery projects.
· Numerical simulation of Steamflooding a hydraulically fractured Diatomite field in California, using a commercial thermal simulator by Scientific Software-Intercomp Inc. (SSI-THERM).
· Simulation of laboratory waterfloods for the North Sea Captain field using a simulator developed by Petroleum Recovery Institute (PRISIM).
· Developed a standard procedure and templates for measuring and calculating capillary pressures and wettability indices.
· Responsible for developing and improving in-house measurement techniques of high temperature relative permeabilities.
Graduate Research Assistant Jan. '85 - Sept. '90
Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin
Conducted core flood experiments in the area of chemical flooding to investigate transport properties such as residual saturations, relative permeability, dispersivity, and capacitance parameters of micellar fluids under several conditions. Simulation of the tracer data was done using a finite difference formulation of the capacitance-dispersion model. Dissertation Title: “Trapping of Micellar Fluids in Berea Sandstone.”
Instructor May '84 - Aug. '90
Mathematics Department, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
Taught upper division college courses in mathematics and statistics.
Graduate Research Assistant June '81 - Dec. '84
Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin
Studied
phase behavior of micellar/polymer fluids and designed experiments and
performed number of core floods. Residual saturations, relative permeabilities, and dispersion
parameters were calculated by history
matching the effluent tracer data using a capacitance-dispersion model.
Thesis Title: “Relative
Permeability and Dispersion Measurements for a Three-Phase Micellar/Polymer
Mixture.”
Teacher Assistant June '80 - May '82
University of Texas at Austin
Assisted professors in the mathematics, Civil Engineering, and Petroleum Engineering Departments in upper division courses.
Education
Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering Aug. '90
University of Texas at Austin.
Dissertation Title: Trapping of Micellar Fluids in Berea Sandstone.
M.S. in Petroleum Engineering Dec. '84
University of Texas at Austin.
Thesis Title: Relative Permeability and Dispersion Measurements for a Three-Phase Micellar/Polymer Mixture.
B.S. in Civil Engineering Dec. '80
University of Texas at Austin.
Other Formal Training
Thermal Recovery Processes Depositional Geology
UNIX Operating System Advanced Reservoir Simulation
Texaco’s Fractured Simulator (TEXFRA) H2S Training
Steamflooding Technology Western Atlas’ Desktop PVT
SPE Special Core Analysis Forum Reservoir Characterization
IHS Advanced Acquisition Strategies Field Tracer Workshop
Molli Computer Services, Inc.’s Economic Forecast (MICA)
Scientific Software-Intercomp Inc.’s (SSI) Thermal Simulation (THERM)
Publications & Presentations
· Delshad, M. and Nedrud, M. C.: "Residual Oil Saturation in a Pure Gravity Drainage Regime," SPE International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil Symposium Held in Bakersfield, Ca, Feb. 10-12, 1997. (SPE paper 37556).
· Delshad, M., Nedrud, M. C., Deemer, A. R.: "Residual Oil Saturation in a Pure Gravity Drainage Regime," Presented at Texaco Thermal Recovery Conference Held in Bakersfield, Ca, March 13-15, 1995 and at Texaco Technology Conference Held in Houston, Texas, July 15-17, 1996.
· Delshad, M., Cardenas, R. L.: "Relative Permeability and Capillary pressure Effects on Simulated Oil Production," Presented at Texaco Thermal Recovery Conference Held in Bakersfield, Ca, Oct. 21-23, 1992.
· Delshad, M., Delshad, M., Bhuyan, D., Pope, G.A., Lake, L.W.: "Effect of Capillary Number on the Residual Saturations of a Three-Phase Micellar Solution," SPE/DOE Fifth Symposium on Enhanced Oil Recovery Held in Tulsa, OK, April 20-23, 1986. (SPE/DOE paper 14911).
· Delshad, M., Delshad, M., Pope, G.A., Lake, L.W.: "Two-and Three-Phase Relative Permeabilities of Micellar Fluids," SPE Formation Evaluation Journal, Sept. 1987. (SPE paper 13581).
Internal Reports at Texaco
· Delshad, M., Cardenas, R. L.: "Assessment of Reservoir Parameters," 7/97, TR 97-.
· Delshad, M.: "Simulation of High Temperature Displacements With the Aid of CT Scanning," 7/97, TR 97-.
· Delshad, M., Nedrud, M. C.: "High Temperature Gravity Drainage of Heavy Oil," 1/97, TR 97-008.
· Delshad, M., Degenhart, J. J.: "Accuracy of the Dean/Stark Extraction Process for Saturation Measurements," 12/96, TR 96-.
· Delshad, M., Cardenas, R. L., Nedrud, M. C., Tipsword, F. E.: "Is Absolute Permeability Absolute?," 12/96, TR 96-243.
· Delshad, M., Nedrud, M. C., Deemer, A. R.: "Residual Oil Saturation in a Pure Gravity Drainage Regime," 7/95, TR 95-123.
· Delshad, M., Nedrud, M. C.: "DURI Steamflood Reservoir Diagenesis Study: Pre- and Post-Steamflood Capillary Pressure," 7/94, TR 94-133.
· Delshad, M., Nedrud, M. C.: "Centrifuge Capillary Pressure and Wettability Measurement and Calculations," 7/94, TR 94-125.
· Delshad, M., Nedrud, M. C.: "CAPTAIN Prospect: Capillary Pressure and Wettability Restoration," 11/93, TR 93-191.
· Hampton, L. E., Delshad, M.: "Diatomite Simulation: Single Fracture," 11/91, TR 91-184.
· Cardenas, R. L., Delshad, M.: "MINAS Field EOR Study: MINAS Conventional Core Analysis, Gas/Oil Relative Permeability, and Capillary Pressure," 7/91, TR 91-113.
Honors & Affiliations
Dean’s Honor List
Member of Pi Epsilon Tau Honor Society
Member of the Society of Core Analysts (SCA)
Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Member of the SPE Editorial Review Committee
Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer in the State of Texas
President of the Society of Iranian Professionals of Texas (since 1993)
Texaco’s Outstanding Service to Professional Society Award (1993)
Society of Iranian Professionals of Texas’ Distinguished Service Award (1995)
Operating permit in the State of Texas
Other Skills
Enthusiastic leader with proven technical skills
Excellent in staff and project management
Excellent instructor evaluations
Trained and supervised number of engineers and technicians
Creative problem solving ability
Team player and excellent presentation skills
Fluent in English and Farsi
Strong computer programming skills in Fortran, Basic, Visual Basic, C++, and macro languages
Highly knowledgeable in Microsoft’s applications, computer networking, workstations
Experienced in many commercial graphic/mapping and analytical software packages:
Merlin Reservoir Simulator, Aries Economic Forecast, MICA Economic Forecast, Landmark/GeoGraphix GES Geological/Reservoir Mapping, SURFER Mapping, GeoGraphix Prizm Log Analysis, Scientific Software-Intercomp. Thermal Simulator, Petroleum Recovery Institue’s PRISIM Simulator, Texaco’s TEXFRA Fractured Simulator, Western Atlas’ Desktop PVT, University of Texas’ finite difference Capacitance-Dispersion Simulator.
Community Services
Society of Iranian Professional of Texas, a non-profit educational organization
(‘91: Dir. of Public Relation, ‘92: Vice-President and Dir. of Membership and Archives, ‘93-present: President)
Judge at Science Engineering Fair
SPE Oil Recovery (Magic Suitcase) demonstration at schools
Science Enrichment Program at schools
National Chemistry Week demonstrations
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