Department of Petroleum Engineering
![Obadare Awoleke](/cem/people/staff-pictures/oawoleke.jpg)
Obadare Awoleke
Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 407
Research Interests:
- experimental and theoretical investigation into propped fracture conductivity in low and high permeability environments
- heavy oil reservoirs (production, completion and stimulation related challenges)
- data analysis using statistical and virtual intelligence techniques
- the incorporation of uncertainty into the models used by petroleum engineers to predict oil and gas well productivity using time series analysis methods.
- application of Monte Carlo techniques and stochastic differential equations to modeling uncertainty in petroleum production or reservoir engineering
![Abhijit Dandekar](/cem/people/staff-pictures/adandekar.jpg)
Abhijit Dandekar
Department Chair | Professor
Petroleum Engineering
Duck 419
Research Interests:
- gas-to-liquids
- gas hydrates
- CO2 sequestration
- effect of wettability on oil recovery
Nicole Dufour
Office Manager
Department of Mechanical Engineering | Department of Petroleum Engineering
Duck 337
Ronald Nguele
Postdoc
Petroleum Engineering
Brent Sheets
Acting PDL Director
Petroleum Development Laboratory
Research Interests:
- unconventional reservoirs development
- reservoir simulation and optimization
- enhanced oil recovery
- application of nanotechnology in petroleum engineering
![Yin Zhang](/cem/people/staff-pictures/yzhang.jpg)
Emeriti
![Santanu Khataniar](/cem/people/staff-pictures/skhataniar.jpg)
![Shirish Patil](/cem/people/staff-pictures/spatil.jpg)