Fawzi Banat is a Professor& Chair of Chemical Engineering Department at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Petroleum Institute. Obtained PhD (Chemical Engineering) at McGill University, Canada, in 1995. Area of his research interests include gas and water treatment. He received several research awards, published over 120 papers, and holds a number of international patents.

Membrane Desalination Gas Foaming Water and Wastewater Treatment Multicomponent Mass Transfer

Tatiana Morosuk is professor of Exergy-Based Methods for Refrigeration Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She studied refrigeration engineering in the Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration, Ukraine, and received her Diploma in 1990. She received her Ph.D. in 1994 and Professorship in 2001, all in the Ukraine. Since 2005 she is working in Germany. She is the author or co-author of 7 books and more than 250 publications, and has 10 patents. She has over twenty years of experience and related teaching experience in the fields of refrigeration and over ten years in the field of applied thermodynamics, energy engineering, exergy analysis, exergoeconomics, exergoenvironmental analysis.

Her field of scientific activities is the application of modern exergy-based methods to the analysis and improvement of energy conversion systems: development and applications of exergy-based methods to the improvement of the thermodynamic, economic, environmental performance of different power generation systems, refrigeration/cryogenic systems and chemical plants. Particular attention is given to systems associated with the liquefaction of natural gas and the regasification of LNG, alternative refrigeration processes for sustainable industrial and commercial applications, and smart energy supply and use in industrial parks, including innovative concepts of liquid air energy storage

Azlina Abd.Aziz is Associate Professor and Chair for Bachelor of Economics (Natural Resources) program in the School of Social Development and Economics of University Malaysia Terengganu. She received her Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and Masters in Economics from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, in 1999 and 2002 respectively. She completed her PhD degree from University of Leicester, United Kingdom in 2007.

Energy consumption and economic growth, integrated modelling of energy-economic-environment, economic valuation on renewable energy consumption, sustainable residential energy consumption, internalization of external cost in traffic congestion, the economic valuation of flood fatalities.

Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. He is having his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), He further continued his graduate study in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at University of Alberta and earned my Ph.D. degree in Process Control. Prior to joining Memorial University he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Alberta from 2006 to 2008 and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar from 2008 to 2012. He also served as a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at BUET from 1997 to 2000. Salem Ahmed joined in Memorial University of Newfoundland in February 2012 as an Assistant. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Process Engineering and in Oil and Gas Engineering Program.

His current research focus is on the design of early warning systems for process industries. Supported by an IgniteR&D grant from Research and Development Corporation of Newfoundland and labrador (RDC), the alarm system design project aims at developing a risk-based alarm system. His Ph.D. research focused on system identification; more specifically on identification of continuous-time models from sampled data. He continues to work on this topic. Other research topic of his interest includes model validation and valve distinction, Safety and Risk Engineering, Process Systems, Process Control, Modelling and Simulation, System Identification.

Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor and Director of Nanoprobe Lab for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., and Graduate Res. Faculty Advisor, Dept. of Mater. Sci.and Eng., Affiliated Faculty, Battelle Center for Science & Technology Policy, John College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University

Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.

Dr Abbas Amini is an assistant professor at the Australian College of ACK and Western Sydney University, and the member of graduate supervisory board. After obtaining PhD, he conducted research with other Australian universities, as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash and Deakin Universities, and as a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a recent published book in 2016. Abbas is the editor of ten reputed journals, and the committee member of 20 international conferences.

Bionanotech

Dr. Abolmohsen Shabib-Asl is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Calgary, Canada. He Joined the University of Calgary in March 2018 with over 14 years multi-disciplinary experience in Research and development sector. He has more than 9 years experience in industries as a reservoir and Production engineer. He holds his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering. His Ph.D. project focused on New Hybrid EOR techniques when he awarded secured a fully funded scholarship for his Ph.D. research by PETRONAS University of Technology, Malaysia. So far, he has authored or co-authored more than 20 papers, receiving prestigious recognition from academia and industry through various awards and also a reviewer of several ISI journals.

His areas of expertise are Reservoir modeling & simulation, reservoir performance analysis, optimization, development planning, and reserve estimation. He is currently conducting research topic: Evaluation and Manipulation of the Fundamental Controls on Hydrocarbon Fluid Recovery and GHG Storage using GHG’S at the Injected Fluid.

Dr. Gordon Huang is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Energy and Environment, and Executive Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina. Since the 1990s, he has led over 150 climate and environment-related projects, produced over 800 peer-refereed journal papers with an SCI-based H-index of 50, and supervised over 100 graduate students. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the president of the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences, editor-in-chief for 2 international journals, and editorial board member for over 10 journals.

Water resources and environmental systems engineering, Simulation of hydrological and environmental systems, Planning of energy and environmental management systems, Climate modeling and downscaling.

.Professor Jean-Marie Basset is the Distinguished Professor for Chemical Science in the Physical Science and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology. Prof. Basset, who has authored more than 500 scientific papers 50 patents, pioneered the field of “Surface Organometallic Chemistry", which focuses on possible relationships between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Professor Basset received his PhD in 1969 from the University of Lyon, France. After a postdoctoral position in Toronto he moved to the Institute of Catalysis in Lyon where he became vice-director. In 1987, he founded the Laboratory of Surface Organometallic Chemistry that became later the laboratory of Chemistry, Catalysis, Polymer, Process (C2P2). Professor Basset’s Lyon lab was home to 100 scientists, including Nobel Laureate Yves Chauvin who got his Nobel in 2005. In 2009 he moved to the King Abdulla University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia as director of the KAUST Catalysis Center.

surface organometallic chemistry

Jingsheng Ma received his BSc degree from Lanzhou University, China, in computational mathematics, MSc degree in computing from Beijing Institute of Computer and Simulation Technology in China, and PhD in Geographical Information System from Sheffield University, UK. He joined the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, UK, in 1997.

Modelling of shallow compaction of fine-grained sediments in the deep-water basins. Flow modelling and upscaling in presence of multi-scale heterogeneous sedimentary structures and mechanic deformational features (e.g. faults, fractures, sand injection) for reservoirs and seal characterisation. Developing numerical methods for better simulation of coupled behaviours of fluid flow and mechanical deformation of geo-materials, for applications of well stimulation shale gas. Multi-scale pore-space characterisation of porous materials. Pore-scale lattice Boltzmann and pore network modelling of liquid and gas fluid flow in micro to nano pores for hydrocarbon recovery, including heavy oil and shale gas. Applications of computational intelligence in geosciences, e.g. machine learning for well-log analysis.

Abdelaziz Khlaifatis the Head of Petroleum Engineering Department at Abu Dhabi Polytechnic and AD Poly SPE Students Chapter Advisor. Prior to joining AD Poly, Abdelaziz worked as a Research and Development Manager of Dhahran Research Center at Weatherford International (Geoscience Development). Erstwhile, he worked as a Senior Reservoir Engineer, specialized in an unconventional resources (tight and shale gas) at Weatherford Saudi Arabia. Before joining Saudi Arabia office, he worked as a senior reservoir engineer (modeling and simulation) in the reservoir engineering group of the Weatherford Well Engineering Center of Excellence in Dubai.He obtained his BSc degree in Petroleum Engineering (1990) from Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, Moscow-Russia, Master of Chemical Engineering and PhD in Chemical/Reservoir Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-USA in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Before joining Weatherford, he had held different positions in the academia. In 2009 he was promoted to a full professor of chemical engineering at Mutah University, Jordan.Abdelaziz is actively involved in scientific research and development of novel methodologies and techniques in tight and shale gas reservoirs, shale gas resource development workflow and tight gas staged field experiments. He has authored/coauthored over 80 publications, including journal articles, book chapters and specialized conference proceedings in the areas of flow through porous media, hydrocarbon reservoir engineering, unconventional tight and shale gas, managed pressure drilling, non-aqueous phase Liquid transport, photocatalysis, two phase flow modeling and simulation, and Dead Sea related-research. He is an active member of the SPE, AIChE, JGA, JES, JEA, AHWA and SFERA.

Flow through porous media, hydrocarbon reservoir engineering, unconventional tight and shale gas, managed pressure drilling, non-aqueous phase Liquid transport, photocatalysis, two phase flow modeling and simulation.

Eul-Bum Lee is now working as Professor in Pohang University of Science and Technology (PMC) and Director in Graduate School of Engineering, POSTECH.

EPC EM & PM, Contract & Claims, Financing & Eng. Economics, Cost Engineering.

Dr. Shikha Sharma is Professor of Geology and Director of Biogeochemistry Laboratory at West Virginia University (WVU). Her shale gas research program is funded by research grants from several federal agencies like National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy and US Geological Survey. She has authored/co-authored several publications in high impact international peer review journals. Her current research projects focus on understanding biogeochemical controls on shale gas production, kerogen chemistry and water-rock-microbe interactions in shale reservoirs after injection of hydraulic fracturing fluids in shale reservoirs.

My research bridges the fields of low-temperature stable Isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry, hydrogeochemistry, and unconventional energy. I utilize isotopic, geochemical and biomarker proxies to understand cycling of C/N/O/S/H in modern and ancient environments, and to address a wide range of energy and environment related issues. Results from our recent “Energy-Water- Environment” nexus related research projects demonstrate the applicability of multidisciplinary approaches to advance the development of unconventional energy resources, and address the environmental issues stemming from this development.

Xiangfang Li has completed his PhD from China University of Petroleum at Beijing, China. He is working as Professor in China University of Petroleum, China.

Conventional Gas Reservoir Engineering, Unconventional Gas Reservoirs Development Engineering (Coal-Bed Methane, Tight Gas, Tight Oil, and Shale Gas Reservoirs), Reservoir Engineering, Well Control and Safety Well Testing

Prof. Mohd Omar joined USM in 1989 and is a professional Chemical Engineer active both in engineering research of Supercritical Fluid Technology as well as in the area of industrial wastewater treatment plant design and built, environmental audit and hazardous waste handling. He has a patent in supercritical fluid technology in palm kernel oil extraction and is also an active member of the Japanese Supercritical Research Group of Tohuku University. He is widely recognised in the area of industrial wastewater treatment. He is a consultant to many local and international companies in the same area. He is currently supervising 9 PhD and 8 MSc students while more than 18 Masters and 22 Doctoral students have graduated under his supervision. He has over 150 papers in refereed journals, proceedings, presented at international and local conferences. He is a committee member of the National Air Quality Committee, member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChe), U.S.A. since 1993, member of Specialist Group on Small Wastewater Treatment Plants (IAWQ), United Kingdom and others.

Supercritical Fluid Carbon Dioxide Sterilization of Clinical Solid Waste, Recycling and Reuse of Palm Oil mill Effluent (POME) Treated Wastewater for Boiler Feed and Industrial Services, : Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP), Continuous Extraction of Palm Kernel Oil from Palm Kernels using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (SC CO2) with solvent recycling system, The Influence of Testa, the Integument Surrounding the Kernel on Color of Extracted Palm Kernel Oil.

Prof. Jalalifar is working in mining and petroleum departments, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran as academic staff. He published more than 180 Journal and conference papers and published one rock mechanics’s Persian book and translated an English book in field of tunneling and also has written two English books’s chapters in field of rock bolting and wellbore stability.

His research intrest includes, Rock Mechanics, Hydraulic Fracturing, Wellbore Stability, and Drilling.

More than twenty (20) years of experience in research and consultation work on siliciclastic sedimentology and facies analysis, well log analysis, thin section and SEM microscopic study, and regional geological studies Twenty-two (25) years experience in teaching and training physical geology, petroleum geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy (and sequence stratigraphy), field sedimentary geology, well log analysis and petrographic analysis of clastic sedimentary rocks

Core and Outcrop Facies Analysis, Well Log Analysis & Correlation, Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis, Sediemntary Geology & Sequence Stratigraphy, Facies Modelling input to Reservoir Model (Static)

Dr. Yahui Zhang joined the Department of Process Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland as an assistant professor in 2016. He earned his first Ph.D. degree in Mineral Processing from the Central South University, China, in 1996, and second Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2005. He has published more than 80 papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and filed 13 patent applications, of which eight have been granted.

Mineral Processing; Hydrometallurgy; Chemistry of Materials

Dr Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Catalysis, Reaction, Fuel Engineering, Nanoporous Materials, Wastewater Engineering

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Multiphase flow and reactor development, Hydrodynamics in multiphase flow, Mineral processing, Process intensifications, Micro-nano bubble science and technology and its applications, Food processing, Microchannel-based extraction, Jet driven gas-aided extraction.

Professor Zizi Abdeen is a Egyptian national. She is a researcher in polymer lab. Petrochemicals dep. Prof Zizi Abdeen her PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 2005 from Ain Shams University, (Egypt), where she also completed her M.Sc. Degree in Chemistry and her B.Sc., Degree in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Cairo University, (Egypt). She was appointed Professor in 3/2016 in polymer lab. Petrochemicals dep. Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. She main stream research is at the frontier of materials/polymer science and emerging fields such as nanotechnology/nanocomposites. She has a keen interest in the development of intelligent materials based on bio resources such as chitosan and starch through chemical modification and advanced biotechnology processes. He is author of over 27 articles on polymers, biomaterials, hydrogels and nano composites systems and reviewer of over 15 International journals and a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Polymers and Biomaterials in different International journals. She was sharing as technical committee in international conference.

Development of Nano-Microgels. Targeted oily water treatment and reused Chitosan and its applications in petroleum field Polymer nanosystems - Metal nanoparticles- Hydrogels

Mileva Radonjic completed her PhD at Bristol University, and postdoc at Princeton. She is currently being evaluated for associate professor in Petroleum Engineering Department at LSU. Dr. Radonjic established Sustainable Energy and Environmental Research (SEER) laboratory, focused on development of materials and technologies for prevention of leaky wellbores, in conventional O&G production, carbon sequestration and hydraulic fracturing. She is currently working as one of the editors on a book titled as the keynote presented here, and published papers with her graduate students in several journals as well as presented at more than 60 conferences in the last 5years.

Carbon storage and capture, global warming mitigation, Oil-well cement durability, effective long term zonal isolation, corrosion issues Wellbore stability, geomechanics, Enhanced oil recovery

Tatiana Morosuk is professor of Exergy-Based Methods for Refrigeration Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She studied refrigeration engineering in the Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration, Ukraine, and received her Diploma in 1990. She received her Ph.D. in 1994 and Professorship in 2001, all in the Ukraine. Since 2005 she is working in Germany. She is the author or co-author of 7 books and more than 250 publications, and has 10 patents. She has over twenty years of experience and related teaching experience in the fields of refrigeration and over ten years in the field of applied thermodynamics, energy engineering, exergy analysis, exergoeconomics, exergoenvironmental analysis.

Her field of scientific activities is the application of modern exergy-based methods to the analysis and improvement of energy conversion systems: development and applications of exergy-based methods to the improvement of the thermodynamic, economic, environmental performance of different power generation systems, refrigeration/cryogenic systems and chemical plants. Particular attention is given to systems associated with the liquefaction of natural gas and the regasification of LNG, alternative refrigeration processes for sustainable industrial and commercial applications, and smart energy supply and use in industrial parks, including innovative concepts of liquid air energy storage

Kashy Aminian, Professor of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at West Virginia University, has 40 years of distinguished service in both industry and academia. He holds MS and PhD degrees both from University of Michigan. He has extensive research and teaching experience in the areas of unconventional natural gas resource development and reservoir engineering.

Natural Gas Production and Storage Reservoir Characterization and Modeling Coalbed Methane Development Improved Oil and Gas Recovery Environmental Applications

Azlina Abd.Aziz is Associate Professor and Chair for Bachelor of Economics (Natural Resources) program in the School of Social Development and Economics of University Malaysia Terengganu. She received her Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and Masters in Economics from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, in 1999 and 2002 respectively. She completed her PhD degree from University of Leicester, United Kingdom in 2007. Her current research and academic duties focus on Economic disciplines. Her fields of interest are environmental and natural resource economics, particularly Energy Economics. Among her current areas of research are energy demand and economic growth, energy and the environment, energy consumer behaviour and low carbon/renewable energy economics. She has published articles in international and local refereed-journals. She also involved in reviewing articles for journal publications (e.g. Energy Policy, Energy Economics, International Journal of Sustainable Energy, Ecological Indicators, International Journal of Economics and Management, Journal of Sustainability Science and Management). Azlina is the member of International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE).

Energy consumption and economic growth, integrated modelling of energy-economic-environment, economic valuation on renewable energy consumption, sustainable residential energy consumption, internalization of external cost in traffic congestion, the economic valuation of flood fatalities.

Dr Taha Elhag is an associate professor in project management at Heriot Watt University. Previously he was an associate professor at UCL, University of London. Before that, he was an assistant professor at Manchester University. His teaching duties comprise undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; and course directorship. Dr. Elhag academic experience also includes the supervision of MSc dissertations and PhD research; and acting as internal and external examiner for different Universities. He is also an expert reviewer for many international journals and EPSRC research projects. His research experience incorporates his role as principal investigator of EPSRC research grants

Knowledge management and organisational learning Innovation process and management Project procurement systems Public Private Partnership (PPP) Cost modelling and tender price estimation Applications of neural networks & fuzzy logic systems Building information modelling (BIM) Infrastructure management systems

Professor Jia is an expert of development of natural gas resource. He received his B.S. degree in Petroleum Geology from the China University of Petroleum and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development (RIPED), Beijing, China. In 2005 he became a Professor of Petroleum Engineering at RIPED, PetroChina. From 1992, he has worked in the areas of oil & gas geology, reservoir modeling and engineering. He is currently director of Ordos Basin Branch Institute of RIPED, PetroChina. As a professor, he has published over 80 papers and 10 books in the oil & gas development fields.

Petroleum Geology, Natural gas, oil & gas geology.

M.E. Hossain is Associate Professor and Statoil Chair in Reservoir Engineering in the Department of Process Engineering (Oil & Gas Program) at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Memorial), Canada. He is also Visiting Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 1995, and an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from a collaboration between University of Alberta and BUET in 2001. Dr. Hossain completed a PhD in Petroleum Engineering in 2008 and a MBA degree in 2009 both at Dalhousie University, Canada. Prior to working at KFUPM, Dr. Hossain hold positions at Ryerson University and Dalhousie University; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, BUET, and Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET) Bangladesh. He also worked with the petroleum industry for over nine years. In over 22 years, Dr. Hossain authored and/or co-authored more than 150 research articles focusing on reservoir modeling, reservoir simulation, reservoir characterization, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), drilling fluid, drilling waste, and environmental sustainability. Dr. Hossain wrote five books on Petroleum Engineering, and a textbook on Fundamentals of Sustainable Drilling Engineering published by Wiley and Scrivener Publishing, USA. Two additional books are in progress: two books will cover drilling issues and solutions, and one book will focus on reservoir simulation. Dr Hossain’s main contribution to the industry is the introduction for the first time of memory concept for a petroleum application. For conducting research activities on EOR, drilling waste management, and development of new sustainable drilling fluid and additives, Dr. Hossain has currently funding totaling over three million Saudi riyal from Saudi Aramco, NSTIP, and the Saudi government. As an Associate Professor at Memorial, he has funding of approximately two million dollars received from Statoil, NSERC, RDC, and Memorial. In the last six years, he completed over five million Saudi riyal projects funded by Saudi Aramco, NSTIP, and KFUPM in diverse area of petroleum engineering. In recognition of his research and teaching excellence, he has received numbers of awards. Dr. Hossain has been teaching a wide spectrum of petroleum engineering courses, such as drilling engineering, reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, petroleum economics, reservoir rock properties, etc. Designed to clients’ needs, he gives short courses, workshops, and seminars in the area of petroleum engineering. His research team include research associates, PhD students, and M.Sc. students. Dr. Hossain is the associate editor of Journal of Nature Science and Sustainable Technology (JNSST), and Journal of Characterization and Development of Novel Materials (JCDNM), Nova Science Publishers, USA. He also acts as a reviewer for several international journals including Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) journals. He has been an active member of a number of international societies, including the SPE. Dr. Hossain is the founder and Chairman of Aziza Trust (www.azizatrust.com) and was on the Board of directors of Aziza group in Bangladesh, Bright Coral in Canada.

petroleum engineering: Process Engineering (Oil & Gas Program), drilling engineering, reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, petroleum economics, reservoir rock properties, etc.

Dr Amarjit Bakshi has a Ph.D and also undergraduate degree both in Chemical Engineering from University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.Over 30 years experience in Engineering/ Consulting Management at senior level in Process Engineering, Technology, Business Development, Licensing, Acquisitions, Alliances and Project Management and Engineering, Operations Management and Process Engineering. Provided proven leadership and vision with broader perspectives and able to manage multiple tasks and personnel on mega projects. For last 7 years I have been consulting in Upstream, midstream, transfer of oil/gas by pumping, petrochemicals with NOC’s, major oil and petrochemical corporations including management consulting organizations like BCG, Bain Consulting group and so many other organizations. I have been providing consulting in operations, training of facilities engineering, technology, Catalysts, acquisitions, alliances, operations and corrosion in most of Oil and gas industry areas.

Petroleum and Chemical Engineering,Process Engineering

Hussain Ahmed has taught and conducted research in petroleum engineering for more than 20 years at British institutions such as Heriot-Watt University, Salford University, Teesside University, Liverpool JM University, Riverside College and Warrington Collegiate. He has provided training and consultancy for major oil companies such as BP, Chevron, Shell, KNPC, ADNOC, ARAMCO, PDO and Qatar Petroleum. His areas of research interest are enhanced oil recovery methods, oil well production optimization and drilling technology.

Enhanced Oil Recovery (Water injection; Gas injection)-- Drilling Engineering - drillling fluid; Uunder Balanced Drilling- CO2 flooding- MEOR Reservoir Engineering formation damage -- production- three phase separators optmisation --- Heavy Oil Recovery ---- Hydrates drilling

Russell R. Chianelli is currently Director of the Materials Research and Technology Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso and Professor of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and Engineering. After receiving his PhD, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in 1974. While at this laboratory he conducted research in both fundamental and applied areas of interest to the energy industry. He is recognized worldwide for his work in Transition Metal Sulfide environmental catalytic materials. This work resulted in over 130 publications and 60 issued United States patents. During this period he was active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), serving as vice president (1989), president (1990), past president (1991) and Counselor (1992-1994). In 1996 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso as Chairman and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. In 2001 he resigned as Chemistry Department Chairman to head the Materials Research and Technology Institute (MRTI) at UTEP. The MRTI is dedicated to research relevant to the US/Mexico border in Materials related to energy, environment and health.

Environmental Science and Engineering

Dr. Agarwal’s public health interests include studying the impact of atmospheric and industrial pollutants (nano- to microscale particles) on human health. Some of his research involves transport of contaminants in air and water in home and work environment. His research has also focused on nanotechnology concepts related to filtration and catalysis, and has included some of the topics such as nanotoxicity, nanotechnology and environment, and nano- and micro-scale filtration. Dr. Agarwal is also interested in finding low-cost solutions and effective medical devices for populations in developing countries. He is also concerned with health education, health needs, health delivery, and health economics.

aging population health delivery, comparative effectiveness research, toxic nanoparticle exposure, dissemination & implementation research, global health, WHO effectiveness, health inequality, cost-effective health delivery, computational modeling

After graduation (BSc in Chemical Engineering from Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran), Bahman Tohidi joined National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in 1984 where he worked as Production Engineer as well as University Lecturer for seven years. He joined Heriot-Watt University in 1991 and graduated with a PhD in Petroleum Engineering in 1995 with his doctoral work on the phase behaviour of water-hydrocarbon systems and gas hydrates. He started his employment at Heriot-Watt University in January 1994 working in both Hydrate and Reservoir Fluids research projects. His research interests include gas hydrates, flow assurance (e.g., wax, asphaltene, salt, emulsion, foam, etc.), PVT, phase behaviour and properties of reservoir fluids and H2S/CO2-rich systems, production technology and EOR. Currently, he leads Hydrate, Flow Assurance and Phase Equilibria Research Group at Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University. He is the Director of International Centre for Gas Hydrate Research and the Centre for Flow Assurance Research (C-FAR) at Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University with several projects on various aspects of gas hydrates and flow assurance, and phase behaviour and properties of reservoir fluids and H2S/CO2-rich systems. His is a consultant to major oil and service companies. Bahman is Managing Director of “HYDRAFACT LIMITED” a Heriot-Watt spin-out Company formed in 2006 with Flow Assurance and PVT as its main area of activity. Hydra fact played a major role in Heriot-Watt University winning the Queen’s Anniversary Awards in 2016. His teaching activities included Petroleum Engineering and Production Technology, as well as offering several short courses to the industry (including; Flow Assurance and Gas Hydrates, PVT and Phase Behaviour of Reservoir Fluids, and Petroleum Engineering for other Disciplines). He taught Production Technology for 10 years to Heriot-Watt MSc students in Edinburgh and various Approved Learning Partners in Russia, China, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and Angola. He has published more than 400 papers and holds 10 patents mainly in gas hydrates and PVT. He was SPE Distinguished Lecturer in 2004-2005 with his talk entitled, “Gas Hydrates: Friend or Foes?”. Bahman is a Professor at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University. Bahman is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He was member of the EPSRC (the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) Peer Review College for 2006-2009 and 2010-2013 and former member of editorial board of Journal of Chemical Engineering Research and Design (2009-12), and former-Deputy Head of Institute of Petroleum

Gas Hydrates Flow Assurance PVT, Phase Behaviour and Properties of Reservoir Fluids and CO2-Rich Systems CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage. Current major research projects: Gas Hydrates and Flow Assurance; Evaluation of Low Dosage Hydrate Inhibitors; Hydrate Safety Margin Monitoring and Early Detection Systems; Phase Behaviour and Properties of Reservoir Fluids; Impact of Common Impurities on Carbon Dioxide Capture, Transport and Storage; Producing Methane from Gas Hydrate Reservoirs; Geomechamical Properties of Hydrate Bearing Sediments; New Class of KHIs

Dr. Yunsheng Wei began his professional career at RIPED in 2006, having abundant experience in unconventional gas development about 10 years. He has made great contributions to improving reservoir engineering, especially in tight gas and shale gas. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of several gas engineering journals.

Unconventional Gas Development, Reservoir Engineering especially in tight gas and shale gas

Rahman's background in multiphase flow experiments and CFD of both academic (fundamental) and industrial (applied) research contributions have been documented in more than 50 refereed journals and conference proceedings. In recognition of his high-quality research endeavors, Rahman has been awarded several multimillion-dollar grants from organizations such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Newfoundland Research & Development Corp. He has been involved in a number of research collaborations with companies, including Intecsea, Husky Energy, Syncrude Canada, GRI simulations, C-Core and Coanda Research & Development Corp. Rahman was a postdoctoral fellow in 2012 in the School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Alberta. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow in 2011 in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2010 and his master's degree from Dalhousie University (Canada) in 2004. Rahman has successfully supervised a number of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, research associates and undergraduate students. He is the recipient of a best teaching award from the University of Alberta in 2009. He is also involved in with a number of professional organizations, including SPE, ASME and CSME. He is a registered Profession Engineer in Alberta, Canada.

Gas/non-Newtonian liquid; shear thinning fluid; Pressure drop; Two-phase flow rates; visualization.

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., and Agip Oil Company. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Prof. Zekri has completed a number of research projects in the area of IOR/EOR to UAE and International Petroleum Industries. Professor Zekri is currently working as Coordinator of Oil and Gas Technologies, Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research and Professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Oil & Gas recovery Environmental aspects of petroleum production Petroleum contracts Enhanced Oil Recovery

Department of Petroleum Eng., Kuwait University

EOR, Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Numerical Simulation, and Artificial Intelligence.

Prior to his current employment, he worked in a variety range of positions including RE, Senior Reservoir Engineer, and Consultant at UK oil and gas upstream sector. In addition, he worked as a Reader (Associate Professor) at London South Bank University, London, UK. In fact, he is the founder of the Petroleum Engineering department at this university. • He holds a First Class Honors BEng in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D in Steam-foam drive process in EOR from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. • He has had around 35 years of academic, industrial and research experiences mainly associated with the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry. • He is currently the EOR Cluster Leader within the Subsurface Team of the Technology Group. The job involves advanced technology screening and implementation for relevant Reservoir subsurface challenges and adopting the most efficient and economic ones to address them. • Major Area of interest: EOR, Reservoir monitoring and simulation, Uncertainty analysis, new technologies and innovation, unconventional reservoirs, and production optimization. • He has published many articles in both conferences and journals in the area of EOR, production optimization, and reservoir simulation. • Link: www.KOCKW.com

Enhanced Oil Recovery, Reservoir Simulation, Unconventional resources

Dr.-Ing. Ralph-Uwe Dietrich leads the research area Alternative Fuels at the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart. He is responsible for the research group on techno economic and ecologic evaluation of alternative fuels for aviation and global transport. He received his PhD in Engineering at the Technical University Clausthal in 2013 as a Scientific coworker at the Clausthaler Umwelttechnik Institute (CUTEC-Institut GmbH). Before that, he got 15 years of project manager experience at different enterprises (SME and Fortune 500) of the process and automation industry.

techno economic and ecologic evaluation of alternative fuels for aviation and global transport

Professor Dr. Ariffin Samsuri is a Senior Professor of the Petroleum & Renewable Energy Engineering Faculty (FPREE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He has vast experience in managing R&D projects for government funded research as well as industry sponsored research projects. He had completed 3.0 years as a Dean of the Petroleum & Renewable Energy Engineering Faculty (FPREE), 3.5 years as a Dean of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering Faculty (FKKKSA), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), of 5 years as a Dean of Research Management Centre (RMC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2.5 years as a Deputy Director 1 of the RMC, 7 years as a Deputy Dean (R&D) of the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering and 4 years as a Head of Petroleum Engineering Department. Professor Dr. Ariffin has published 102 technical papers for conferences/seminars and journals on many aspects of Petroleum Engineering development and management in international and national level, authored 5 books, 3 book chapters, translated 4 books, edited 8 books and 5 research monographs. He was awarded as a best student (science & technique) from Institute of Language & Literature Malaysia (DBP) and Malaysian Translator Association (PPM), several excellent service awards from UTM, Best Editor Award from Yayasan Pembangunan Buku Negara and Johan Setia Mahkota (JSM) from Malaysian Government. He is also a member of Board of Engineer, Malaysia, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Malaysian Translator Association, Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and Society of Engineering Education, Malaysia (SEEM).As a Professor of Petroleum Engineering, he is the head of 18 research projects and member of 14 research projects within his research interests, i.e. petroleum production optimization, rock mechanics application in petroleum engineering, wellbore stability, well stimulation, cement and cementing technology, drilling and drilling fluid technology, and biofuel. He had more than 34 years teaching and supervising experiences in petroleum engineering program for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees offer by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He also had been appointed as a visiting professor of Universiti Teknologi Petronas since 2010-2011, several expert and academic advisory panels, and peer reviewer for several journals.

Petroleum & Renewable Energy

Nour Sh El-Gendy is a Professor of Petroleum and Environmental Biotechnology and head manager of Petroleum Biotechnology Lab in Egyptian Petroleum Reserach Institute. She is the vice coordinatior of the Scientific Reserach Committee in the National Council for Women of Egypt. Authored six books in the fields of biofuels, nano-biotechnology, petroleum refinery and biotechnology and about hundred twenty five research papers in the fields of oil pollution, bioremediation, biosorption, biofuels, microbial-corrosion, green chemistry, wastewater treatment, biodesulfurization, biodenitrogenation and nano-bio-technology and its applications in petroleum industry and biofuels. She in an editor in nineteen international journals and reviewer in fourty five international journals, supervised twenty four MSc and PhD thesis. Participated in thirty international workshops and training courses, and forty four international conferences. A member in many international associations concerned with petroleum, biotechnology and environmental health and sciences.

Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology, biofuels, nano-biotechnology, petroleum refinery, biotechnology, oil pollution, bioremediation, biosorption, microbial-corrosion, green chemistry, wastewater treatment, biodesulfurization, biodenitrogenation.

Dr. Tye Ching Thian is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She received her doctoral degree at The University of British Columbia, Canada in 2006, specializing in catalysis and chemical reaction engineering. Previously, she obtained her MSc. and B.Eng (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering degrees from Universiti Sains Malaysia. She worked on a heavy oil upgrading project during her PhD and since she has been working on projects related to petroleum downstream processing. Over the past decade, Dr. Tye has been involved in investigating the fundamental issues of catalyst such as the effects of its morphology and structure in cracking and treating of different unconventional energy resources like heavy oil, residue, used motor oil and palm oil. Likewise, she is also interested in reaction and reactor modelling and simulations. Dr. Tye is also interested in cross field collaboration, such as investigation of asphalt characteristic enhancement (chemical engineering) in road pavement technology (civil engineering), to create a greater value to the society.

Reaction Engineering, Heavy Oil Processing Catalysis, Modelling & Simulation

Prof. Mayank Tyagi is Chevron #3 designated associate professor at the Craft & Hawkins department of petroleum engineering, Louisiana State University (LSU). He also holds a joint faculty appointment at the Center for Computation & Technology (CCT), LSU since 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from LSU and undergraduate in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. His current research interests span across high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics for interdisciplinary petroleum engineering applications, image-based pore-scale modeling using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), multiscale multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD), geothermal reservoir engineering, and unconventional reservoir simulations. He has also worked on the issues in the quantitative risk assessment (QRA) of offshore petroleum engineering operations and their impacts on regional economy. He has given numerous invited talks at India, China, and several US universities and published over forty (40) peer-reviewed technical publications. He is an active member of university-industry consortium “Enabling Process Innovation through Computation (EPIC)” at LSU.

Heat Transfer, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Numerical Heat Transfer

Dr Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Catalysis, Reaction, Fuel Engineering, Nanoporous Materials, Wastewater Engineering

Syamsul Rizal Abd Shukor obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom and specializes in process control and simulation. He received his B. Eng (Honours) in Chemical Engineering from University of Bradford in 1997 and M.Sc (Chemical Engineering) from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests include process intensification, process modeling and simulation as well as separation technologies. Currently he is extensively working on process intensification technologies related to miniaturization of reaction vessels with its microfluidic properties, CFD analysis complete with its process automation, monitoring and control. He also has served as a Principle Investigator on various research projects funded by national ministries and research agencies. He has authored and published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical publication for national and international journals and conferences. He also has served as review panel for international and national high impact refereed journals and scientific proceedings. He is an active member of Society of Engineering Education Malaysia, Malaysian Automatic Control Engineers Society and Malaysia Process Control Consortium.

Process Intensification, Process Control, Process Modelling and Simulation

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., and Agip Oil Company. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Prof. Zekri has completed a number of research projects in the area of IOR/EOR to UAE and International Petroleum Industries. Professor Zekri is currently working as Coordinator of Oil and Gas Technologies, Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research and Professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Enhanced Oil Recovery Environmental Problems Associated with Oil and Gas Production Fluid Flow in Porous Media

Professor Reza Rezaee of Curtin’s Department of Petroleum Engineering has a PhD degree in Reservoir Characterization. He has over 26 years’ experience in academia being responsible for both teaching and research. During his career he has been engaged in several research projects supported by major oil and gas companies and these commissions, together with his supervisory work at various universities, have involved a wide range of achievements. During his research career he has led several major research projects funded by various oil and gas companies such as WAPET, WMC, MESA, Santos, NIOC, PEDEC, Devon Energy, DMP, Buru, Woodside, Carnarvon, Norwest and Anlec. He has supervised over 70 M.Sc. and PhD students during his university career to date. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and is the author of 4 books on petroleum geology, logging and log interpretation and gas shale reservoirs. His research has been mostly on integrated solutions for reservoir characterization, formation evaluation and petrophysics. Currently, he is focused on unconventional gas including gas shale and tight gas sand studies. As a founder of “Unconventional Gas Research Group” of Australia, he has established a unique and highly sophisticated research lab at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University. This lab was established to conduct research on petrophysical evaluation of tight gas sands and shale gas formations. He is the winner of Australian Gas Innovation Award for his innovation on tight gas sand treatment for gas production enhancement.

Formation evaluation / Petrophysics Geological and Petrophysical Reservoir Characterization and Modelling Application of Expert Systems in Rock Properties Prediction Pore Network Modeling using Image Analysis Technique Unconventional gas (tight gas sand and shale gas) reservoir evaluation

Prof. Abu-Eishah has Chemical Engineering degrees: PhD from Lehigh University (USA, 1982), M.Sc. from Iowa State University (USA, 1979) and B.Sc. from Cairo University (Egypt, 1975). He has 32 years of experience with outstanding records in teaching, research and services. Prof. Abu-Eishah was Chairman of Chemical Engineering Department at Jordan University of Science & Technology, JUST (AY 1986/1987 and Jan 1996-Aug 1997). He used to be responsible for the implementation of the Chemical Engineering Department strategic plan that has moved the BSc and Master Programs at JUST (and later at the University of Bahrain and UAE University) to a real national technical asset with a well-international reputation. He has good experience with the ABET program that he gained during his work at JUST, University of Bahrain, and at UAE University, in particular. Prof. Abu-Eishah has excellent leadership and communication skills, excellent reputation and very good relations with his students, faculty colleagues, administration, etc. He has excellent experience with engineering software packages (Hysys, Aspen, Optimization, Numerical Recipes, etc.) He built his own packages for Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium, Azeotropic Distillation Design, Thermophysical Properties of Materials, Critical Properties of Mixtures, Reaction Kinetics, Filtration Characteristics, Two-Phase Heat Flow, and others. He has over 40 international publications.

Dearomatization of Oil Fractions, Conversion of CO2 to HCs, CO2 recovery using Ionic Liquids, Modeling & Simulation

Praveen Linga is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and co-lead for natural gas research in the centre for energy research and technology (CERT) at NUS. His research interests are in the areas of clathrate (gas) hydrates, storage and transport of fuels, carbon dioxide capture, storage & utilization (CCS & U) and recovery of energy. He is interested in both fundamental and applied aspects of research. His research group at NUS particularly focuses on enhancing the kinetics of hydrate formation for several systems of interest pertaining to carbon dioxide capture, storage and transport of natural gas as hydrates, sea water desalination and the recovery of natural gas from hydrate deposits. Up to date, he has published more than 70 research articles and delivered about 50 keynote/invited talks and seminars. His publications have received four "most cited paper" awards from highly reputed journals in engineering and his research has been cited more than 3350 times with an h index of 31. He has won numerous local and international awards including the 2017 NUS Young Researcher Award, the 2017 NUS Engineering Young Researcher Award, the 2017 Energies Young Investigator Award and the 2017 Donald W. Davidson Young Researcher Award for outstanding contributions to gas hydrate research.

Gas hydrates Carbon Dioxide Capture, Storage and Utilization Energy storage Thermodynamics and Phase equilibrium

Manouchehr Haghighi is Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering. His research and teaching focus is unconventional reservoirs, reservoir simulation, well testing and formation evaluation. He has supervised more than 40 MSc and 10 PhD students. Before joining the University of Adelaide in 2009, Manouchehr was associate professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran. During 2000-2007, he was the head of petroleum engineering program at the University of Tehran. In 2000, Manouchehr established Simtech, a consulting company for the integrated reservoir simulation in which he has been project director of several full field simulation projects for oil and gas reservoirs. From 1995 to 2000 Manouchehr was working with National Iranian Oil Company and was the director of a program for training of NIOC staff at several Universities in US, UK, Canada, France Australia, and Norway. Manouchehr was a visiting professor at the University of Calgary from 2007 to 2008. Manouchehr has published more than 80 articles in peer review journals or presented in international conferences. He has served as a reviewer for different journals such as journal of petroleum science and engineering and active member of society of petroleum engineers (SPE).

Unconventional Reservoirs Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Well Testing & Pressure Transient Analysis Formation Evaluation, Petrophysics & Rock Propertis

Dr. Retnanto is also a Principal Engineer with Schlumberger and has worked in various assignments and lead positions in Brazil, Indonesia, Libya, Qatar, United Kingdom, and Venezuela. He has more than 18 years combined experience in industry, consulting, mentoring, and academia. He is an active SPE member and received Peer Part Award, 2007. He was a review chairman for SPE Drilling and Completion Journal, 2003-2006. Currently he serves as Cedric K. Ferguson Medal Award Committee and technical editor for SPE D&C Journal.

Production Enhancement and Optimization, Well Testing,Horizontal and Multilateral Well Performance

Russell R. Chianelli is currently Director of the Materials Research and Technology Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso and Professor of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and Engineering. After receiving his PhD, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in 1974. While at this laboratory he conducted research in both fundamental and applied areas of interest to the energy industry. He is recognized worldwide for his work in Transition Metal Sulfide environmental catalytic materials. This work resulted in over 130 publications and 60 issued United States patents. During this period he was active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), serving as vice president (1989), president (1990), past president (1991) and Counselor (1992-1994). In 1996 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso as Chairman and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. In 2001 he resigned as Chemistry Department Chairman to head the Materials Research and Technology Institute (MRTI) at UTEP. The MRTI is dedicated to research relevant to the US/Mexico border in Materials related to energy, environment and health.

Material Science and the management of research and development efforts. His most recent work has focused on the development of new catalysts and pigments primarily directed to the field of layered compounds.

Dr.Joseph Smith has Over 25 years’ experience in the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry. Currently Dr. Smith serves as Director of the Energy Research and Development Center at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formally, Missouri-Rolla). Dr. Smith has published over 40 papers, has given more than 70 conference papers, and holds eight patents. Dr. Smith has contributed two chapters to the John Zink Combustion Handbook and one chapter to the Industrial Burner Handbook.

His current research interests focus on developing Hybrid Energy Systems which combine legacy energy (coal, gas, nuclear) with renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal). He also conducts research on developing commercial scale processes to recover unconventional hydrocarbons including oil sands/oil shale. Dr. Smith was part of the design team to develop the Dow Chemical Coal Gasification technology (now ConocoPhillips E-GAS) and has founded and led two startup companies to provide engineering services to the petrochemical and fossil power industries.

Dr. Dawotola has extensive research experience in the internationally crucial field of the integrity and reliability of nano-scale and macro-scale engineering structures research. Dr. Dawotola is an advanced degree professional in this field by virtue of his Ph.D. degree in Risk and Reliability of Petroleum Pipelines he completed from The Netherland’s prestigious Delft University of Technology. The focus of his research is on risk assessment, pipeline reliability, maintenance optimisation, and statistical analysis of repairable systems. He has presented and published part of his research work in leading conferences in North America and Europe. Dr. Dawotola’s educational background, his professional experience, and his unique set of research skills have enabled him to contribute significantly to this field and will allow him to continue to do so in the future.

Risk assessment and Risk Based Maintenance, Pipeline reliability, Maintenance optimisation, Statistical analysis of repairable systems. Reliability of Nano structures (such as Nanowires - III-V nanowires), Reliability of Macro structures and production sytems (pipelines, FPSO etc), Engineering Management.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Engineering Program and Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 to 200. He was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), renewable energy systems and nanotechnology. He is the author and coauthor of over 300 publications and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of fifteen societies including American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics. Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), and Institute of Physics.

Aging population health delivery, comparative effectiveness research, toxic nanoparticle exposure, dissemination & implementation research, global health, WHO effectiveness, health inequality, cost-effective health delivery, computational modelling.

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honouris Causa from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000 and University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011. He is a registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and is one of the most prolific authors. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h-index – 76+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies, and Member of Editorial Board of PNAS. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 200 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences. For more details of Dr. Bharat Bhushan please see the below link: https://nlbb.engineering.osu.edu/

bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials

Dr. Adango Miadonye, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry in the School of Science & Technology has received global recognition in the field of petroleum engineering and petroleum chemistry. His impressive publication record includes 80 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and a number of presentations at important international conferences. An accomplished and respected student supervisor, Dr. Miadonye is extensively cited and has also formed the basis for a number of industrial collaborations. Well-respected by his colleagues nationally and internationally, Dr. Miadonye has been a leader and contributor to his professional academic community holding offices and serving on committees with numerous academic and professional societies.

His research interest includes how temperature and pressure affect the viscosity of bitumen and crude oil, green chemistry, sustainable solvents and processing, petroleum and petroleum products characterization, polymeric materials characterization and processing.

Prof Angeli received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Athens and a PhD in Multiphase Flows from Imperial College London. She joined UCL in 1996 where she is currently heading the Multiphase Flow group. Her research is internationally acknowledged for unique insights in two-phase flow phenomena, enabled by original and advanced sensing and measurement technologies (PIV, tomography, local probes), that lead to the development of predictive models. She is particularly interested in the flow of liquid-liquid mixtures relevant to oil flow assurance in large pipelines and the flow and mass transfer characteristics of two-phase liquid-liquid and gas-liquid reaction and separation systems in intensified and small scale units. These flows underpin processes in a wide range of industries spanning from energy (oil and nuclear) to speciality chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. Prof Angeli has published over 120 original research publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and participates in national and international research funding review panels.

Multiphase flow,Two-phase microfluidic systems, Separations for nuclear spent fuel reprocessing

Zhangisina Gulnur Davletzhanovna – vice-rector of the Science (from 26 August 2014 y.) - candidate of engineering sciences, doctor of pedagogic sciences, professor, honorary educationalist of the Republic of Kazakhstan, academician of the International Academy of Informatization, winner of the State grant «The best university teacher» (2005) and State scientific scholarship for scientist and specialists, who made a major contribution to the development of science and engineering (2006-2008), the holder of Gold Medal «European Quality(2014 y.)», Honored Worker of Science and Education of Russia, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Academician of the International Academy of Informatization. Zhangissina G.D. -author of 5 monographs, over 20 learning aids and и more 280 scientific publications.

Industry, New Technologies and external expertise of applications for innovation grants and services in technological business incubation.

Bulent ICGEN received his MSc. and PhD. in Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University (METU) of Ankara in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He conducted two-year-post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering Research Unit of University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. In 2008, he became an Associate Professor and took up a faculty position at Kirikkale University (KU) till 2012. Since then, he has been a faculty at METU in the Department of Environmental Engineering. Meanwhile, as a visiting faculty, he visited Princeton University (PU) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His interests lie in the fascinating and often complex array of processes taking place in microbial environment and the behaviour of the microorganisms under different environmental conditions. He particularly enjoys looking at systems from environmental and microbial biotechnology perspective, trying to tease out the key relationships between consortiums. He likes using molecular biological methods to investigate the occurrence and distribution of bacteria in the environment in order to provide direct information on community structure for variety of environmental and industrial applications. His team focuses on microbial biotechnology, with a recent focus on environmental genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

Environmental sustainability through bioremediation of contaminated environments Bacterial degradation & transformation & detoxification of xenobiotic compounds Structural and functional diversity of microbial communities in contaminated environments Molecular genetic tools to assess the effects of microbial treatment on anthropogenic chemicals Biomonitoring of waterborne pathogens & toxic metals & drug resistance genes as contaminants Biomarkers & bioindicators & DNA probes & FISH for in situ microbial activity monitoring Metabolic engineering & catabolic genes & biocatalytic applications for pollutant degradation Biotechnological processes for aerobic & anaerobic waste treatment Environmental genomics & metabolomics & transcriptomics & proteomics

Dr. William Ampomah is a Research Associate at Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech), Socorro New Mexico. He is an Adjunct Faculty to the Petroleum Engineering Department at New Mexico Tech. He received his PhD and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from New Mexico Tech in 2012 and 2016 respectively. He is a co-lead in the simulation working group for the US DOE funded Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration project. Dr. Ampomah is the Program Chairperson for Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Roswell Section. His research interests include developing multi-phase fluid flow numerical simulations, optimization of CO2 storage and oil recovery modeling, conduct geomechanical studies to investigate caprock integrity for CO2 storage and risk and uncertainty quantification.

His research interests include developing multi-phase fluid flow numerical simulations, optimization of CO2 storage and oil recovery modeling, conduct geomechanical studies to investigate caprock integrity for CO2 storage and risk and uncertainty quantification

Mileva Radonjic completed her PhD at Bristol University, and postdoc at Princeton. She is currently being evaluated for associate professor in Petroleum Engineering Department at LSU. Dr. Radonjic established Sustainable Energy and Environmental Research (SEER) laboratory, focused on development of materials and technologies for prevention of leaky wellbores, in conventional O&G production, carbon sequestration and hydraulic fracturing. She is currently working as one of the editors on a book titled as the keynote presented here, and published papers with her graduate students in several journals as well as presented at more than 60 conferences in the last 5years.

Carbon storage and capture, global warming mitigation. Oil-well cement durability, effective long term zonal isolation, corrosion issues. Wellbore stability, geomechanics. Enhanced oil recovery.

Junwang Tang received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2001 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. Between 2002-2005, he had been Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow & NIMS researcher working on solar energy conversion in NIMS, Japan. After that, he moved to the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College as a senior research associate. In 2009, Dr Tang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL as a Lecturer in Energy. He has been recognized by an Outstanding President’s Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001), JSPS Fellowship (2003) and Young Scientist Award by the International Association of Catalysis Societies (2008).He is the Guest Editor-in-Chief of a special issue of International Journal of Photoenergy, 2012 and sits on the editorial board of several international journals. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London and visiting professor in Chinese Academy of Sciences and so on. Up to now, he has published more than 60 papers with a total citation of ~2400.

Nanostructured crystals and films synthesis, in particular by microwave promoted flow chemistry; Solar H2 synthesis; CO2 capture and conversion to a renewable fuel (Artificial Photosynthesis); Inorganic/polymer hybrid solar cell; Photocatalytic contaminant decomposition; Biomaterials; Microwave catalysis.

Dr. Ford is a practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, South America, and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

Chlorinated organics and associated organic chemicals , Petroleum refinery and petrochemical plants, Miscellaneous manufacturing, processing, and remediation facilities

Ridha Gharbi has over 30 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, ranging from research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering. He has published extensively in refereed journals and technical conferences. Ridha Gharbi holds a B.Sc. from the University of Tulsa (1987), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (1989 and 1993, respectively) all of which are in petroleum engineering. He was the Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Kuwait University from 2004 to 2008. Ridha Gharbi served as editor-in-chief, associate editor, a member of the Editorial Board and/or reviewer of several international technical journals and sponsor agencies. He was the founder of the petroleum engineering graduate program at Kuwait University and the co-founder of the joint-graduate program between the department of petroleum engineering and the department of earth and environmental sciences.

Research engineer, academics, research & development, and consultant in various areas including IOR/EOR, reservoir management & production engineering.

Fawzi Banat is a Professor & Cahir of Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI). After obtaining his chemical engineering doctorate at McGill University, Canada, in 1995, he taught at several universities before joining the PI in 2011. He has published over 120 papers in reputed journals and served in many scientific committees.

His main research interest is in the area of Membrane Desalination, Water Treatment, Gas Treatment and Foaming. Much of his research in membrane distillation emphasized the development and evolution of the process. He also conducts general research in the area of thermodynamics, multicomponent mass transfer, and renewable energy.

Renyuan SUN has completed his PhD in 2005 from Tianjin University, China. He is a professor of petroleum engineering in the school of petroleum engineering, China University of Petroleum. His research interests include unconventional oil & gas development, enhanced oil & gas recovery and physical oil production. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals.

His research interests include unconventional oil & gas development, enhanced oil & gas recovery and physical oil production.

Dr Stanislav Boldyryev is the Deputy General Director on Development of bromine plant, Ukraine; Associate Professor of National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine. He accomplished 10 EC research project and has published 75 scientific papers, 37 conference presentations, 5 teaching guides. He has Industrial experience in the fields of : Process Integration, Process Simulation, Pinch Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Heat Exchangers Networks, Heat Recovery, Total Site Integration, Heat Pumps.

Process Integration, Process Simulation, Pinch Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Heat Exchangers Networks, Heat Recovery, Total Site Integration, Heat Pumps

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1992 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1997, He is currently Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at University Roma Tre – Department of Engineering. His main scientific interests are focused mainly on: a) Performance-based design of steel-concrete composite bridges, b) Assessment and reduction of the seismic risk of reinforced concrete buildings and bridges, c) Seismic risk of major-hazard industrial plants and applicability of innovative protection systems (base isolation and energy dissipation), e) Seismic vulnerability of high-voltage electric networks and substations and applicability of innovative seismic protection systems, f) Passive and semi-active control of structures. He gained a long standing experience in the management of research projects about experimental assessment of the seismic response of structures. He is currently PI of many European projects. From 2008 to 2013 He assumed the role of scientific coordinator of the Laboratory of Testing Materials and Structures of the Department of Structures of the University Roma Tre. He received a fellowship provided by CNR (National Research Council) for a research activity of six months at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of California at Berkeley from September 1999 to February 2000 as visiting scholar. He is author of more than 100 publications on International peer-reviewed Journals and conferences.

a) Performance-based design of steel-concrete composite bridges, b) Assessment and reduction of the seismic risk of reinforced concrete buildings and bridges, c) Seismic risk of major-hazard industrial plants and applicability of innovative protection systems (base isolation and energy dissipation), e) Seismic vulnerability of high-voltage electric networks and substations and applicability of innovative seismic protection systems, f) Passive and semi-active control of structures.

Professor Zizi Abdeen is a Egyptian national. She is a researcher in polymer lab. Petrochemicals dep. Prof Zizi Abdeen her PhD in Polymer Chemistry in 2005 from Ain Shams University, (Egypt), where she also completed her M.Sc. Degree in Chemistry and her B.Sc., Degree in Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Cairo University, (Egypt). She was appointed Professor in 3/2016 in polymer lab. Petrochemicals dep. Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. She main stream research is at the frontier of materials/polymer science and emerging fields such as nanotechnology/nanocomposites. She has a keen interest in the development of intelligent materials based on bio resources such as chitosan and starch through chemical modification and advanced biotechnology processes. He is author of over 27 articles on polymers, biomaterials, hydrogels and nano composites systems and reviewer of over 15 International journals and a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Polymers and Biomaterials in different International journals. She was sharing as technical committee in international conference.

Development of Nano-Microgels. Targeted oily water treatment and reused Chitosan and its applications in petroleum field Polymer nanosystems - Metal nanoparticles- Hydrogels

Katarzyna Jarmołowicz-Szulc (Assoc. Prof.) has been a scientific worker in Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute in Warsaw, Poland, Europe. In her carreer she was the head of the Petrological, Mineral Deposits Departments, the Group of Rocks and Mineral Collections, the Centre of Excellence. She co-ordinated many projects. She is an author of over 120 papers, a reviewer and an editor. She has an experience in fields of isotope studies, fluid inclusions and hydrocarbon migration in the Carpathians, in the marine deposits from the Baltic Sea, other hydrocarbon-bearing regions as well. At present she has been the head of the National Geological Archives in PGI-NRI, Poland.

Geochronology Petrography Sedimentology Isotope Geochemistry Fluid Inclusion Analysis

Dr. Mahmoud Meribout has completed his PhD at the age of 22 years from University of Technology of Compiegne in January 1995. Between 1995 and 2000 He has been working with NTT and NEC Corporation where he has been involved in several research R&D projects related to embedded systems. In 1998, he won the Best R&D company award. Dr. Meribout is now working in the Petroleum Institute (Abu Dhabi, UAE) where he has been engaged in several oil and gas related research projects in the areas of Instrumentation and Control (e.g. Multiphase Flow Metering, Water-cut device, Emulsion Layer measurement device, and actuated process control). Dr. Meribout has several US patents, in addition to more than 100 referred journal and conference papers. Dr. Mahmoud is a Senior IEEE member and an SPE member.

Instrumentation and Control (e.g. Multiphase Flow Metering, Water-cut device, Emulsion Layer measurement device, and actuated process control),embedded systems.

Vladimir Abramov has completed his PhD at the age of 26 years at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. He is a professor in technical sciences since 2007 and the head of the laboratory of ultrasonic technique and technology in his institute. He has published more than 150 papers and patents, is a member of the European society of sonochemistry and the World Assotiation for Ultrasound Applications. In 2008 he received the Russian Government Prize for achievements in the field of science and technology. He and his team has over 30 years of experience in the field of EOR.

Sonochemistry, Ultrasound Applications,Enhanced Oil Recovery

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honouris Causa from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000 and University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011. He is a registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also serving as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and is one of the most prolific authors. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h-index – 74+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 19 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies, and Member of Editorial Board of PNAS. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 200 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences. Dr. Bhushan is an accomplished organizer. He organized the Ist Symposium on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems in 1984 and the Ist Int. Symposium on Advances in Information Storage Systems in 1990, both of which are now held annually. He organized two international NATO institutes in Europe. He is the founder of an ASME Information Storage and Processing Systems Division founded in 1993 and served as the founding chair during 1993-1998. His biography has been listed in over two dozen Who's Who books including Who's Who in the World and has received more than two dozen awards for his contributions to science and technology from professional societies, industry, and U.S. government agencies. He is also the recipient of various international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, and Tribology Life Achievement Award. He is a foreign member of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia), Byelorussian Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Academy of Triboengineering of Ukraine, an honorary member of the Society of Tribologists of Belarus and STLE, a fellow of ASME, IEEE, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. Dr. Bhushan has previously worked for Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY; SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA; IBM, Tucson, AZ; and IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Technical University Vienna, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne. He is currently a visiting professor at Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. Close OCM Member Kalachand Sain Senior Principal Scientist, Head and Professor the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research of CSIR India Biography Research Interest OCM Member Khalil Sarkarinejad Professor Shiraz University, Shiraz Iran Biography Research Interest OCM Member Hamid A. Al-Megren Professor and Assistant Director Materiales Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Saudi Arabia Biography Research Interest OCM Member Younes Noorollahi Assistant Professor, Head of Renewable Energies

His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics.

Dr. Ford is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock. He is practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, South America, and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

Petroleum Engineering, petroleum refineries, chemical engineering, petrochemicals.

He Is a General Director of the Institute of Combustion Problems of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He is Editor-in-Chief of Combustion and Plasmochemistry and Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journals indexed at Scopus.

Chemical Kinetics

Prof Angeli received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Athens and a PhD in Multiphase Flows from Imperial College London. She joined UCL in 1996 where she is currently heading the Multiphase Flow group. Her research is internationally acknowledged for unique insights in two-phase flow phenomena, enabled by original and advanced sensing and measurement technologies (PIV, tomography, local probes), that lead to the development of predictive models. She is particularly interested in the flow of liquid-liquid mixtures relevant to oil flow assurance in large pipelines and the flow and mass transfer characteristics of two-phase liquid-liquid and gas-liquid reaction and separation systems in intensified and small scale units. These flows underpin processes in a wide range of industries spanning from energy (oil and nuclear) to speciality chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer goods. Prof Angeli has published over 120 original research publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and participates in national and international research funding review panels.

Multiphase flow,Two-phase microfluidic systems, Separations for nuclear spent fuel reprocessing

Ronald Sweatman is a Head of Engineering at Independent Energy Standards Corp. His Background includes a wide range of oil and gas service company experience in well construction and production/injection applications including assignments in laboratory services, field/office engineering, operations/sales/engineering management, and regional/corporate technical support groups and region/corporate management. My experience includes work on wells in gas storage and geothermal energy projects. He has Well site experience started in 1974 as BJ’s District Engineer in Venice, Louisiana and has continued ever since.

Oil and Gas Industry

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honouris Causa from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000 and University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011. He is a registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and is one of the most prolific authors. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h-index – 76+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies, and Member of Editorial Board of PNAS. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 200 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences.

bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials

Russell R. Chianelli is currently Director of the Materials Research and Technology Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso and Professor of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and Engineering. After receiving his PhD, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in 1974. While at this laboratory he conducted research in both fundamental and applied areas of interest to the energy industry. He is recognized worldwide for his work in Transition Metal Sulfide environmental catalytic materials. This work resulted in over 130 publications and 60 issued United States patents. During this period he was active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), serving as vice president (1989), president (1990), past president (1991) and Counselor (1992-1994). In 1996 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso as Chairman and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. In 2001 he resigned as Chemistry Department Chairman to head the Materials Research and Technology Institute (MRTI) at UTEP. The MRTI is dedicated to research relevant to the US/Mexico border in Materials related to energy, environment and health.

Material Science and the management of research and development efforts. His most recent work has focused on the development of new catalysts and pigments primarily directed to the field of layered compounds.

Chandrashekhar Joshi is a professor of plant molecular genetics in School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science SFRES at Michigan Technological University in Houghton Michigan USA He has recently joined World Class university program at Chonnam National University in Korea as a Distinguished Visiting Professor His current research focuses on cell wall development in trees with particular emphasis on improved bioenergy production Dr Joshi has recently served as the Director of the Biotechnology Research Center at Michigan Tech and also as the Director of graduate programs at SFRES He is involved in substantial extramural research funded by national and international agencies He has coauthored 90 presentations published 65 papers in peerreviewed journals/books and served on 45 graduate student committees He is also a recipient of NSF’s CAREER award and inductee of Academic of Teaching Excellence at Michigan Tech He has served on five NSF USDA and DOE review panels reviewed over 50 papers for 20 international journals and evaluated over 100 grant proposals during last five years Dr Joshi owns three approved patents related cellulose synthesis for improved cellulose and reduced lignin production in bioenergy trees and is currently coediting two books on poplar genomics and other bioenergy crops

Molecular genetics and genomics of cellulose and lignin biosynthesis, Genetic improvements of ligno-cellulosic products for bio-energy industries and Development of fast growing bio-energy trees for efficient cell wall deconstruction to bio-fuels.

Enamul Hossain is Associate Professor and Statoil Chair in Reservoir Engineering in the Department of Process Engineering (Oil & Gas Program) at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Memorial), Canada.Hossain is an innovative leader in petroleum engineering education and research.Dr. Hossain received several awards including distinguished A+ faculty. He is the associate editor of Journal of Nature Science and Sustainable Technology (JNSST), and Journal of Characterization and Development of Novel Materials (JCDNM), Nova Science Publishers, USA.

Reservoir Engineering; Reservoir Simulation; Enhanced Oil Recovery; Reservoir Characterization; Sustainable Drilling Engineering; Drilling Fluid.

Miller Associate Professor, 2014-present, University of Kansas Assistant Professor, 2010-2014, University of Notre Dame Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2010, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab PhD, 2002-2006, Princeton University National Science Foundation Career Award, 2014-2019 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013 Paul Holloway Award, American Vacuum Society, 2012 Gerhard Ertl (Nobel Laureate 2007) Young Investigator Award (Finalist Prize), 2010 Eugene P. Wigner (Nobel Laureate 1963) Fellowship, ORNL, 2010 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (Dissertation), 2008

Synthesis of nanostructured catalytic materials with controllable composition and structure,, measurement of catalytic activity, selectivity, and durability, in-situ/operando characterization of catalytic materials under reaction conditions and during catalysis, fundamental understanding of catalytic reactions at a molecular level.

Randy Hazlett is currently working as a Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, College of Engineering & Natural Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Stephenson Hall 2270. He completed his Ph.D from University of Texas-Austin, M.S from University of Texas-Austin and B.S. from University of Texas-Austin. His Research Interests are Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Reservoir Engineering, Discrete Well Modelling, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Flow in Fractures, Lattice Boltzmann methods for Petroleum Engineering, Multi phase Flow in Porous Media, Pressure and Rate Transient Analysis, Production from Complex Fracture Systems, Productivity Modelling of Complex Wells, Unconventional Reservoirsm, His Teaching Interests are Enhanced Oil Recovery, Production Engineering, Reservoir Engineering, Rock and Fluid Properties.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications in Reservoir Engineering

Colin Campbell was born in 1931 and took a degree in geology at Oxford University before going on to do a D.Phil. based on mapping areas in Ireland and Borneo. In 1957 he joined the oil industry as a field geologist in Trinidad, being later transferred to Colombia, Australia and Papua. Before leaving Colombia he wrote a report on the country's diverse oil provinces recognising some as prospective, especially the remote Llanos Basin, whereas others lacked the necessary geological conditions to deliver. It gave him the first insight into the finite nature of the resource. In 1967, he was appointed Regional Geologist for Latin America basin in New York. He made another study which revealed that the pattern seen in Colombia was reflected in varying degrees in all countries. He became aware of the issue of depletion. His career unfolded over ensuing years ending as an Executive Vice-President in Norway. In retirement (in that is the word) he pursued the subject, giving talks at many conferences, writing papers and books, as well as giving media interviews. His last book is Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion, which reviews the situation by country also examining social, political and historical factors. He has also helped start a Quarterly Journal The Oil Age - Understanding the Past, Exploring the Future. He is now more than retired, living in a village in the West of Ireland.

Oil industry

Paul F. Luckham is a Professor in Particle Technology, Chemical Engineering Department in Imperial College London. He is also a reader in Particle Technology of Chemical Engineering Department in Imperial College London. His principle area of research is to try to control the bulk properties of suspensions by controlling the interactions between the particles in a suspension. To achieve this we need to measure particle interactions and this is achieved using a modified form of atomic force microscopy, where a small, 10 micron, particle is attached to a small cantilever, about 100 micron in length.

Particle Technology

Dr Darrell Alec Patterson is the Director of Research in Chemical Engineering. Darrell leads the Bath Process Intensification Laboratory and the University of Bath Membrane Science and Engineering Research Cluster, Membranes@Bath. He is also a member of the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies.Darrell completed his Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours (UK first class MEng equivalent) in Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. He received his PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Imperial College London, in 2001. He completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Auckland in 2009.He worked as a Technology Development Consultant for Atkins Water between 2001 until 2003. He then went on to Imperial College as a postdoctoral research associate developing novel methods of enhancing solvent based pharmaceutical reactions through integration with solvent resistant membranes.

Sustainable Chemical Technologies

Dr Kong Fah Tee, BEng(Hons) PhD PGCert(HE) MBA DIC FHEA, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich. His research effort has been focused on structural system identification and health monitoring, structural reliability and failure analysis, experimental stress analysis, fatigue, fracture mechanics and structural dynamics. He has published over 75 refereed international journal and conference papers. His research has been funded by the British Council, Institution of Structural Engineers, EPSRC, etc. He is currently serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forensic Engineering (Inderscience Publishers) and editorial board members of several international journals. He was awarded an International Research Collaboration Award from the University of Sydney and invited as a foreign expert to the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a regular reviewer of international journal and conference papers, books, research proposals as well as an external examiner of research degrees. He has given a short course and over 25 seminars and conference presentations.

research effort has been focused on structural system identification and health monitoring, structural reliability and failure analysis, experimental stress analysis, fatigue, fracture mechanics and structural dynamics.

Heikki jutila isan experienced petroleum/Reservoir Engineer with over 26 years international experience in the Middle East, North Africa, UKCS, FSU and North America. Hekki Jutila pursuing opportunities where I can apply my Oil & Gas background for low enthalpy geothermal heat mining.My expertise includes reservoir simulation using Assisted History Matching tools (EnABLE) and most commercial simulators (Eclipse, VIP, CMG products, TempestMORE &c). I'm also fluent in classical reservoir engineering.

Reservoir simulation,uncertainty analysis

Junwang Tang received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2001 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. Between 2002-2005, he had been Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow & NIMS researcher working on solar energy conversion in NIMS, Japan. After that, he moved to the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College as a senior research associate. In 2009, Dr Tang joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL as a Lecturer in Energy. He has been recognized by an Outstanding President’s Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001), JSPS Fellowship (2003) and Young Scientist Award by the International Association of Catalysis Societies (2008).He is the Guest Editor-in-Chief of a special issue of International Journal of Photoenergy, 2012 and sits on the editorial board of several international journals. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Chemistry at Imperial College London and visiting professor in Chinese Academy of Sciences and so on. Up to now, he has published more than 60 papers with a total citation of ~2400.

Nanostructured crystals and films synthesis, in particular by microwave promoted flow chemistry; Solar H2 synthesis; CO2 capture and conversion to a renewable fuel (Artificial Photosynthesis); Inorganic/polymer hybrid solar cell; Photocatalytic contaminant decomposition;Biomaterials; Microwave catalysis.

Dr Ahmed is highly qualified and well experienced Petroleum Engineer in Production and Reservoir engineering currently working at a technical British university: Dr Ahmed is a visiting Lecturer in few British and M. East universities teaching for Petroleum Engineering programmes … Dr Ahmed was a senior lecturer and director for Petroleum Technology Programmes at University of Teesside- Middlesbrough- UK. Dr Ahmed is a visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University – Dubai Campus. Currently; Dr Ahmed - associate professor of petroleum engineering at the American University-Sharjah; Advisor for SPE-AUS chapter ; and Chair the petroleum minor committee.

Dr H Ahmed has more than 34 years of experiences; in Oil & Gas industry in Europe and MENA, he also has experience in teaching, training and research . Hussain has authorized several technical papers and scientific articles.

Fawzi Banat obtained his BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Jordan in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In 1995, he obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering working in the area of membrane distillation applied to desalination and removal volatile organic compounds from water. He then moved on to teaching and research at different universities. In 2003 he was promoted to Professor at the Jordan University and Science and Technology (JUST). Currently, he works as a professor of chemical engineering at The Petroleum Institute. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications in refereed journals, among them 3 book chapters. In addition, he has served as the Dean of research at JUST University in Jordan and as the Dean of graduate studies and acting Dean of Natural Resources Engineering at the German-Jordanian University. Prof. Banat’s research contributions have been recognized by a number of prestigious awards for young investigators, namely, Shoman’sAward for Young Arab Researchers, Hijjawi’s Awards for Applied research, and the award of exceptional researcher from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Jordan. In recognition of his international research reputation, Prof. Banat was listed among the leading scientists in the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC).

Fundamentals of multi-component mass transfer, membrane separations applied to desalination and waste water treatment, renewable energy and gas treatment.

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., Agip Oil Company, and the Petroleum Research Centre of Libya. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and petroleum contracts. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Professor Zekri is currently working as a professor of petroleum engineering and Coordinator of Oil and Gas Technologies, The Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research at the United Arab Emirates University.

Petroleum Industry

Russell R. Chianelli is currently Director of the Materials Research and Technology Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso and Professor of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and Engineering. After receiving his PhD, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in 1974. While at this laboratory he conducted research in both fundamental and applied areas of interest to the energy industry. He is recognized worldwide for his work in Transition Metal Sulfide environmental catalytic materials. This work resulted in over 130 publications and 60 issued United States patents. During this period he was active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), serving as vice president (1989), president (1990), past president (1991) and Counselor (1992-1994). In 1996 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso as Chairman and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. In 2001 he resigned as Chemistry Department Chairman to head the Materials Research and Technology Institute (MRTI) at UTEP. The MRTI is dedicated to research relevant to the US/Mexico border in Materials related to energy, environment and health.

Material Science and the management of research and development efforts. His most recent work has focused on the development of new catalysts and pigments primarily directed to the field of layered compounds.

Z A Mansurov is a General Director of the Institute of Combustion Problems, Kazakhstan. His scientific activity includes study and investigations of kinetics and mechanisms of hydrocarbon combustion and structure of cool soothing flames: catalytic carbon formation and its applied aspects. In 2002, he received Diploma for discovery of “Phenomenon of low-temperature cool-flame soot formation”. His professional career includes longstanding activity in INTAS Council of Scientists (Representative from Kazakhstan); participation in various international conferences including NATO-Workshops, author of more than 600 scientific papers; Editor-in-Chief of “Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal” indexed at Scopus and “Combustion and Plasmochemistry Journal”.

Chemical kinetics

Hums studied in Berlin, Germany both chemical engineering and chemistry. He has completed his PhD at the University in Bayreuth, Germany. He was consulting technical innovations, support to R&D, patent/ license strategy and pioneering the development of the so-called plate-type catalyst for NOx abatement at the Siemens company. He was lecturing at the University Halle-Wittenberg/Germany. Thereafter he started consulting with companies and universities and serving as an editorial board member of Applied Catalysis B Environmental. He has been instrumental in assisting to achieve industrial collaboration in the emerging science area in South Africa on the fly ash side for UWC/ESKOM. He has published numerous patents, papers and articles.

Applied Catalysis, Catalysis, Fuels, Chemical Process and Chemical Technologies

Tereza Neuma Castro Dantas holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Ceará (1975), Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry for the same UFC (1979), Doctorate Third Cycle (1981) and PhD in Chemistry (1983), both by the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. Member of European Academy of Sciences Arts and Literature. She is currently a teacher volunteer of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, working in teaching and research. Fellow in Research Productivity 1 B of CNPq. She is a professor of UNIRN and Executive Coordinator of the Primary Processing of Waste water - NUPPRAR/ UFRN/PETROBRAS. Holds the position of President of the Regional Council of Chemistry-XV Region. She is a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Petroleum and Gas-BJPG. Has experience in the areas of Chemical Technology and Chemistry of Natural Products, working in the areas of Oil, Gas and Environment, involving applications with surfactant and microemulsions and nanoemulsions systems.

Chemical Engineering

Antanas Juostas is a Doctor Service Development Manager in Baltics, at Konekesko Lietuva Company in Lithuania. He completed Doctor of Science in 2012 under Dr. Lector at Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Safety, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (ASU). His dissertation was prepared at Institute of Power and Transport Machinery Engineering, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (ASU). His publications include 25 scientific publications and research interests include tractors parameters from dynamic, ecological and economical point of view.

Tractors parameters from dynamic, ecological and economical point of view.

Abdallah Sofiane Berrouk was awarded a PhD degree from The University of Manchester (UK) in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modeling with particular emphasis on Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent multiphase flows. He holds several master degrees: Master of Engineering in Energetics, Master of Research in Solid Mechanics and Master of Science in Oil and Gas Management. He has eight years of university lecturing experience; six of them are postdoctoral. He taught different courses in different departments both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has supervised four Masters students and two Post-Doctoral Fellows. His domain of expertise covered: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Large Eddy Simulation, stochastic Modeling for Particle-laden Turbulent Flows, and Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering. He recently developed expertise towards sour gas sweetening, heavy oil processing and waste plastic gasification technologies. He is the leader of three industrial projects and co-principal investigator of other three industrial projects. During his academic career, He has published two books, three book chapters and more than 70 papers on his ongoing research work in peer-reviewed international journals, industrial magazines, and conference proceedings. He is recipient of many awards: Algerian Government Award (2001), Worldwide University Network Award (2005), Manchester Science Enterprise (2006), ADNOC R&D Bright Finding & Integration Research Pen Award for outstanding deliverables researchers (2013), and ADNOC R&D General Management Committee Award for outstanding technical support (2013). Dr Berrouk is a reviewer for different scientific journals and editorial board member for the American Journal of Fluid Dynamics.

Computational fluid dynamics, Turbulence modeling, Multiphase flows, Process simulation, optimization and modelling, Chemical reaction engineering.

Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari holds a Research Scientist position at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). In 2006, She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of Science and Technology of Montpellier (FRANCE). After a postdoc position at Caltech (Pasadena,USA) and Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France), she integrated a scientist position at CNRS (Centre de Recherche Scientifique, France). Since 2011, she is extending her valuable services as a Research Scientist at KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) in the Designs and Characterizations of Heterogeneous Catalysts applied to the C-H/C-C cleavage and activation (alkanes/olefins metathesis...) and dinitrogen activation at moderate temperature. She has been a recipient of many award and grants. Her research experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries (South Africa, Poland, USA...) for diverse fields of study (materials chemistry, physico-chemistry of surfactant, heterogeneous catalysis...). Her research interests reflect in her wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

Mesoporous materials, Zeolite and Surface organometallic chemistry

Meniai Abdeslam Hassen is a holder of BSc and MSc in Chemical Engineering from Aston University in Birmingham, Great Britain and PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Manchester of Sciences and Technology, Great Britain. He is full Professor in Chemical Engineering since 1998. He has been an elected member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) as well as the Fluid Separation Group. He has authored more than 130 papers in this field, mainly concerning Molecular simulation, Separation Processes, Thermodynamics of phase equilibria, Optimization of chemical processes, Supercritical Fluid Processes. He has supervised to completion many PhD and a great number of Magister theses. He has been a member of a great number of international and national chemical engineering research projects. One of his main research achievements is the development of an original method for the three dimensional simulation of liquid mixtures coupling molecular modeling and the Monte Carlo simulation. He is one of the pioneers of the use of Molecular Graphics Systems (MGS) to develop a criteria fully based on fundamental calculations of molecular interaction energies for the molecular design and selection of solvents for liquid-liquid extraction.

Chemical Engineering, Chemical Process, Petroleum Products, Petrochemicals

Dandina N. Rao is Emmett-Wells-Distinguished-Professor in the Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. He has been involved in enhanced oil recovery research and field project implementations for over 3 decades. In addition to developing the Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) Process for enhanced oil recovery, Dr. Rao has invented the HydroFlame process for steam and flue gas generation for heavy oil and bitumen recovery, the dual-drop dual-crystal technique for confident reservoir wettability characterization, and the vanishing interface technique (VIT) for quick and cost-effective gas-oil miscibility determination. He considers the implementation of some of these ideas by producing companies in the oil fields as the most gratifying accomplishment, next only to the successful professional careers of many of his graduate students. Dr. Rao holds a B.Tech with Distinction from India, a M.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary (Canada). Dr. Rao was recently recognized by the Louisiana State University with the Rainmaker Award given to faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized for innovative research and creative scholarship.

Petroleum Engineering

Dr.Archana Saily Painuly ,alumni of Western Sydney University, Australia and IIT, Roorkee ,India, has more than eighteen years of research and teaching experience in various capacities both National and International levels. She has written books and published many research papers and articles in reputed journals. Dr. Painuly has Three Patents to her credit on development of processes for the recovery of hi-tech and strategic metals from low grade ores, spent catalysts and industrial wastes. She has been Executive Editor of Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology since 2012. She currently serves as associate editor, guest editor and editorial board members and reviewers for a number of International and National journals.

Her research covers broad spectrum of hydrometallurgical and bio-hydrometallurgical methods with interest from basic mechanism to industrial applications. She has developed cost effective green methodology for recovery of heavy and hi-tech metals. Other area of her keen interest is environment pollution and management which includes fate and effects of pollutants in water, sediment & soil, bioavailability of heavy metals in water and sediments to predict toxicity apart from development of background levels of metals & nutrients in sediments and waste water management. Her current research passion is bioremediation especially phytoremediation of metal contaminated soil and water.

Seema Narayan completed her PhD at the age of 32 years from the Monash University. She is Associate Professor of Economics at the RMIT University. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and is ranked in the top 10 per cent of female economists in the world by RePEC.

Applied Macroeconomics,Financial Economics, Development Economics,Time series and Panel Econometric Analysis.

Dr Stanislav Boldyryev is the Deputy General Director on Development of bromine plant, Ukraine; Associate Professor of National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine. He accomplished 10 EC research project and has published 75 scientific papers, 37 conference presentations, 5 teaching guides. He has Industrial experience in the fields of : Process Integration, Process Simulation, Pinch Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Heat Exchangers Networks, Heat Recovery, Total Site Integration, Heat Pumps.

Process Integration, Process Simulation, Pinch Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Heat Exchangers Networks, Heat Recovery, Total Site Integration, Heat Pumps

Professor Stow is a leading sedimentologist, geologist and oceanographer of international standing with an extensive record of scientific publications, including over 250 scientific papers and reports, numerous books and edited volumes. He specialises in the deep sea and on deep-sea deposits now thrown up onto land. In pursuing this scientific quest he has sailed on all the world’s major oceans, and lectured extensively throughout the world. He has had a long and close involvement with scientific ocean drilling, and has worked in and with the oil industry. He also maintains strong interest in the field of geoscience and development, especially hazard mitigation, geoscience education and marine management. His is enthusiastic to popularise ocean and earth sciences through lectures, writing and broadcast. He is currently Director of IPE and Professor of Petroleum Geoscience within the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure & Society.

Deepwater sedimentary systems: pioneer in the field with major research programme coordination and international cooperation; land-based, marine-based and subsurface interests; furthering knowledge of deep-water processes, facies and architecture. Petroleum geoscience: incorporating sedimentary genetic units, reservoir characterisation, seismic interpretation, petrophysical and geotechnical rock properties. Contourites and paleocirculation: including how these are linked with climate and past environmental change; currently Co-Chief Scientist for IODP Expedition 339 on Mediterranean Outflow. Muds and shales: including modern, ancient and subsurface fine-grained sedimentary systems, from micro-scale to basin-scale; and black shale deposition.

Professor (Munir) A F M Maniruzzaman, LLB (Honours), LLM., M.Int’L.Law (ANU), PhD (Cambridge), MCIArb, FRSA. He is Chair in International Law and International Business Law, University of Portsmouth, U.K. (since 2004) and a member of its Centre for European and International Studies Research, an interdisciplinary centre of international excellence. He is a Professorial Honorary Fellow at the Centre of Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee (since 2005) and Visiting Professor of International Law (2012 -), Faculty of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario, Canada (2007-8) and has also held honorary visiting academic positions at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Kent, and London. He is a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, Paris; Academic Council Member of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (ITA), USA; member of ILA International Committee on International Commercial Arbitration, London; International Arbitration Institute, Paris and International Council for Commercial Arbitration, The Hague. He is a founding Member of THE IDR GROUP® (international dispute resolution specialists) based at the Lamb Chambers, London and a member of the Legal Advisory Task Force of the Energy Charter Treaty, EC Secretariat, Brussels (2014 -). He has been sometime a member of the European Court of Arbitration, Strasbourg; the Swiss Arbitration Association; and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN), Houston, USA. He is also a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and its Specialist Groups: Energy Law & Climate Change, Water & Wetlands, Environmental Laws and Human Rights and member of the Academic Council of the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies (UMSAILS), Dhaka. He has acted as an international arbitration law expert / consultant in some high-profile ICSID and ICC cases and also as an International Legal Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat (HQ), governments, state-owned enterprises, multinational corporations and multinational law firms. He has extensively published in the areas of International Business Law, International Energy, Oil and Gas Law, International Investment Law and International Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. He has been a member of the editorial boards of various internationally reputable journals such as Oil, Gas and Energy Law, Transnational Dispute Management, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, US-China Law Review and British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. He is listed in the WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD 2012 (29th edition) (Marquis Who’s Who, U.S.A.), the Dictionary of International Biography 2012 (37th Edition, Cambridge) and Who’s Who in Public International Law 2012.

Professor A F M Maniruzzaman’s research and consultancy interests lie in the areas of international law of energy, oil and gas; international petroleum contracts - negotiating and drafting; international energy dispute resolution and arbitration; international energy governance and diplomacy; geopolitics of international energy, international energy trade; sustainable development of oil and gas; international energy investment law and policy; international energy security and co-operation.

Dr. Berrin Tansel is Professor of Environmental Engineering and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at FIU. She has been with FIU since 1990. Dr. Tansel teaches a number of undergraduate and graduate courses and is heavily involved in research. Her primary areas of interest are water treatment; hazardous and industrial waste management; landfill processes and release mechanisms; and sustainable sludge treatment and recovery. She has authored over 200 professional reports and papers on sludge management, sanitary landfill design and operation, solid waste management, and her original research results. Dr. Tansel is affiliated with the Water Environment Federation, the American Society of Civil Engineers, Tau Beta Phi and Chi Epsilon and has served on a multitude of committees for those and other organizations. She has been honored with two summer faculty research fellowships and received recognition for ‘Technology Development and Application that Benefit the NASA-KSC and Nation through the Vision of Space’ from the NASA Kennedy Space Center, among other awards and honors. She formerly directed the Drinking Water Research Center at FIU. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Tansel served as a Project Manager for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and as Senior Project Engineer for PEER Consultants, P.C. Dr. Tansel also has extensive consulting experience, and has worked with the South Florida Water Management District, City of Pompano Beach, Florida, Soap and Detergent Association, Metcalf & Eddy and other entities in various consulting roles. Dr. Tansel received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a Minor in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she earned an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979 and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey in 1978.

Water treatment; hazardous and industrial waste management; landfill processes and release mechanisms; and sustainable sludge treatment and recovery

Zhangxing (John) Chen has over 30 years of oil and gas research and university appointments, from around the globe. He graduated with a PhD from Purdue University with a degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He was recruited to the University of Calgary with the intention to advance the understanding of the Canadian oil and gas reservoirs and expand the potential for improved recovery through computer modelling, simulation and visualization. He currently holds three prestigious chairs: NSERC/AI-EES/Foundation CMG Chair in Reservoir Simulation Albert Innovates Energy Environment Solutions Chair in Underground Coal Gasification Alberta Innovates Technology Futures iCore Chair in Reservoir Simulation Dr. Chen holds professorships and guest professorships at over a dozen universities worldwide, and has organized and chaired 22 international conferences and congresses. Each year Dr. Chen travels to promote his research and engage with others in the field, giving lectures in a variety of countries annually. Demonstrating extraordinary leadership in the field of energy and environmental modeling, Dr. Chen’s work provides laboratory data, oil and gas production technologies, and reservoir simulation software. Working closely with his 15 industry partners, and his team of 70 works to support the goals of these research programs. He is regularly consulted for projects involving oil and gas recovery with global oil producing companies such as Shell Canada, Nexen, Brion Energy, ConocoPhillips, StatoilHydro, Laricina, in Canada, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), KEURIgroup (KR) in China, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in Iran, Korean Oil and Gas (KOGAS) in Korea, Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in Mexico, ExxonMobil andConocoPhillips in the USA, and Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) in Venezuela. Dr. Chen has travelled extensively to many countries with the intent to develop and promote international education and research programs in the field of energy development and environmental protection. In particular, he has done significant work in China, Iran, Mexico, USA, and Venezuela. Over time, Dr. Chen’s work has significantly contributed to the diversification and growth of these countries’ economy and quality of life through the technologies and jobs created. Dr. Chen has been the recipient of numerous awards since joining the UofC in 2007, including: Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology, Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Foundation, 2012. The Graduate Educator Award of Excellence, University of Calgary, 2012. IBM Faculty Award, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, 2012. Overall Research Excellence Award, SSE, University of Calgary, 2009. The 2009 SSE’s Department Research Award, University of Calgary, 2009. Zi Qiang Professorship Award by Shanghai University, China 2009

His interest includes reservoir simulation for conventional and non-conventional oils and mathematical modeling.

Prof. Jiunn-Der Liao obtained Bachelor’s degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU, 1984 Bachelor of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering) in Taiwan, Masters’ degrees from K. U. Leuven (1990 Master of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and 1991 Master of Biomedical Engineering) in Belgium and PhD degree from Ecole des Mines (1994 Doctor of Materials Science and Engineering) in France. He had also worked at University of Heidelberg (1995~1996), Germany as a group leader for nearly two years, at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan as an Associate Professor from 1996~2002, and at NCKU, Taiwan as an Associate Professor and Professor from 2002. Prof. Liao is currently the (1) Distinguished Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NCKU; (2) Distinguished Researcher of University-level Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, NCKU; (3) Research Excellence Award 2011~, College of Engineering, NCKU. He was the (1) Chairman of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NCKU (2009/8~2012/7); (2) Director of Institute of Nanotechnology and Micro-system Engineering (2011/5~2012/7); (3) Associate Director of Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology (2006/1~2012/7); (4) Coordinator of Taiwan Thematic Contact Point on Nanotechnologies, Materials, and new Production Techniques (NCP_NMP), National Science Council (NSC); (5) Coordinator of Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (Director: Distinguished Chair Professor M. Yoshimura), NCKU; (6) Coordinator of Distinguished Chair Professor A. Gedanken, NCKU; (7) Associate Fellow of Applied Physico-Chemistry Institute, University of Heidelberg, FR Germany (1995/4~1996/7).

His research interests include: (1) Nanofabricated surfaces, e.g., with the effect of surface enhanced Raman scattering for biomedical applications; (2) Mechanics of Biomaterials, e.g., engineering materials for tissue scaffolds, cell-surface interactions, mechanical transduction of cells; (3) Plasma Medicine, e.g., use of low-temperature, atmospheric micro-plasma system for medical applications.

Katarzyna Jarmołowicz-Szulc (Assoc. Prof.) has been a scientific worker in Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute in Warsaw, Poland, Europe. In her carreer she was the head of the Petrological, Mineral Deposits Departments, the Group of Rocks and Mineral Collections, the Centre of Excellence. She co-ordinated many projects. She is an author of over 120 papers, a reviewer and an editor. She has an experience in fields of isotope studies, fluid inclusions and hydrocarbon migration in the Carpathians, in the marine deposits from the Baltic Sea, other hydrocarbon-bearing regions as well. At present she has been the head of the National Geological Archives in PGI-NRI, Poland.

Geochronology Petrography Sedimentology Isotope Geochemistry Fluid Inclusion Analysis

Dr Hai GUO completed his Ph.D. study in Air Quality at Murdoch University, Australia. He did his postdoctoral research at New York University, University of California at Irvine (Nobel laureate group), Queensland University of Technology, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Wuhan University, China. Dr. GUO has supervised 4 postdoctoral fellows, 6 PhD students and a number of Master students. Dr. GUO’s major research interests include atmospheric chemistry, regional and urban air pollution, source apportionment, photochemistry, acidic ultrafine particles, new particle formation and indoor and outdoor air pollution. Dr. GUO is an investigator of more than 30 highly competitive external research projects with grants over 30 million Hong Kong dollars. He has published over 159 papers in high-quality international journals and conference proceedings with over 1951 SCI citations to date. His current h-index is 24. Two of his papers are awarded as the best papers in the 'Selection of Atmospheric Environment’s Best Papers' in the 'Virtual Special Issue on Air Quality in China'. He is an editorial Board member for four international journals and Director member of Integrated Land Ecosystem- Atmosphere Processes Study（iLEAPS）of China Branch. He is also an active reviewer for more than 35 journals. Dr. GUO has given keynote and invited speech in a number of international conferences and been a member of Scientific Advisor Committee in various conferences. Dr. GUO obtained the prestigious Gary COMER Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship in 2004-2005. He is also the winner of the Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding in 2010 and in 2014, and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Category I: High Quality Publications) in 2013.

Atmospheric Chemistry, Regional and Urban Air Pollution, Source Apportionment, Photochemistry, Acidic Ultrafine Particles and New Particle Formation.

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., and Agip Oil Company. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Prof. Zekri has completed a number of research projects in the area of IOR/EOR to UAE and International Petroleum Industries. Professor Zekri is currently working as Coordinator of Oil and Gas Technologies, Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research and Professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Oil recovery
Environmental aspects of petroleum production
Petroleum contracts
Enhanced Oil Recovery

Professor Dongsheng Wen is the Chair in Petroleum Engineering in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Leeds. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford, and is the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Energy Institute (FEI), and Institute of Nanotechnology (FION), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Chartered Scientist (CSci). He has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, which is well received in the community (i.e. total citation >3000, and current H-index-23). His research covers a wide spectrum of nanotechnology and engineering science, centered around engineered nanomaterials for energy and medical applications. Currently he is leading a research group in Nanotechnology for oil and gas, i.e., developing multifunctional nanomaterials with tailored properties for reservoir diagnosis, characterization, enhanced oil recovery, and contaminated oil remediation. Example research topics include multifunctional nanomaterials design and transport in porous media, interfacial and rheological properties of nano-dispersions under reservoir conditions; controlled delivery of surfactants for enhanced oil recovery; functional nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery, and nanoparticle sensors (pressure, temperature, oil saturation, stress etc) for reservoir characterisation and diagnosis.

Nanotechnology for oil and gas Nanofluids technology Nanofuel technology Nanowave technology Cryogenic Energy Technology Multiscale modelling Phase change technology

Dr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, an M.S. in mechanics and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1973 and 1976, respectively, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, NY in 1980, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim, Norway in 1990, a Doctor of Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw, Poland in 1996, and Doctor Honouris Causa from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel, Belarus in 2000 and University of Kragujevac, Serbia in 2011. He is a registered professional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also serving as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He is an internationally recognized expert of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microscopy, and is one of the most prolific authors. He is considered by some a pioneer of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h-index – 74+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ technical reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 19 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Technologies, and Member of Editorial Board of PNAS. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continents and more than 200 keynote/plenary addresses at major international conferences. Dr. Bhushan is an accomplished organizer. He organized the Ist Symposium on Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Systems in 1984 and the Ist Int. Symposium on Advances in Information Storage Systems in 1990, both of which are now held annually. He organized two international NATO institutes in Europe. He is the founder of an ASME Information Storage and Processing Systems Division founded in 1993 and served as the founding chair during 1993-1998. His biography has been listed in over two dozen Who's Who books including Who's Who in the World and has received more than two dozen awards for his contributions to science and technology from professional societies, industry, and U.S. government agencies. He is also the recipient of various international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, and Tribology Life Achievement Award. He is a foreign member of the International Academy of Engineering (Russia), Byelorussian Academy of Engineering and Technology and the Academy of Triboengineering of Ukraine, an honorary member of the Society of Tribologists of Belarus and STLE, a fellow of ASME, IEEE, and the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of ASEE, Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. Dr. Bhushan has previously worked for Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY; SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA; IBM, Tucson, AZ; and IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Technical University Vienna, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne. He is currently a visiting professor at Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics.

Kalachand Sain received his M.Sc.(Tech) in Applied Geophysics from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1988 and Ph.D. in Controlled Source Seismology from the Osmania University (CSIR-NGRI), Hyderabad. He visited Cambridge University (UK) and Rice University (USA) as a post-doctoral fellow. At present, he is the Senior Principal Scientist & Head of Gas-Hydrate Group at CSIR-NGRI, and is working on seismic attenuation, attributes, travel-time tomography, AVO modeling, full-waveform inversion, impedance inversion, rock physics modeling, prestack depth migration. His main interests include the delineation and assessment of gas-hydrates, imaging sub-volcanic sediments, and understanding the geotectonics from surface geophysical data. He has published 89 research papers in peer-review scientific journals, 62 non-SCI articles/reports, and guided for 58 dissertations as part of curriculum for M.Sc. Tech in App. Geophysics of several Indian Institutes/Universities. He has been recognized by a number of awards/fellowships; notable among them are (i) Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India; AP Academy of Sciences, (ii) AP Scientist Award; Young Scientist Award of CSIR; National Mineral Award; Best Paper Award by Int. Ass. of Gondwana Research; Best Poster Award by Int. Con. on Oil & Gas by PETROTECH; and Swarnajayanti Project Award of DST, (iii) Bureau Member of International Lithosphere Program, (iv) Raman Fellowship; BOYSCAST Fellowship, (v) Krishnan Medal and Anni Talwani Memorial Prize of IGU, (vi) Prem Bahadur Memorial Lecture of IGC etc. He is a member of numerous National Committees, and Editorial Boards of Int. Journals such as the 'Episodes', 'Jour. of Geological Soc. of India', 'Int. Jour. of Earth Sci. & Engg.', 'Geohorizons'. He served as a Guest Editor in 'Marine & Petroleum Geology' by Elsevier and as a member of Editorial Board for the second edition of 'Encyclopedia for Solid Earth Geophysics' by Springer

Current Area of Research: (i) Exploration of marine gas hydrates; (ii) Imaging sub-volcanic sediments & (iii) Understanding geo-tectonics of several provinces in offshore & on land of India, and built expertise in seismic data modeling, inversion, processing and interpretation; attenuation; attributes; traveltime tomography; AVO modeling; full-waveform inversion; Impedance inversion; pre-stack depth migration; rock physics modeling etc.

Professor Khalil Sarkarinejad is micro-structural and structural geologist graduated at Cardiff University in Wales, head of Structural Geology Group at the Department of Earth Sciences, Shiraz University with extensive publications and reseach in the hinterland, foreland of the Zagros orogenic belt, controlling factors in the inclined curved transpression deformations.

His main interest is study of the geometry and kinematics of the salt diapiric flow at the surface including finite strain, kinematic vorticity flow analyses micro-structural foliation and lineation trajectories mapping in order to detecting complexities and explore complexities of the sub-surface 2D and 3D seismic images and micro-seismic salt flow images in complex onshore and offshore oil and gas traps.

Prof. Hamid A. Almegren received his D.Phil. degree in Chemistry from University of Oxford, United Kingdom in 2002. Presently he is Professor and Assistant Director of Materiales Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). He is also Guest Professor at China University of Petroleum since 2011, and Beijing University for Chemical Technology since 2013. He is Editor-in-Chief for “Applied Petrochemical Research” Journal since 2012. He has vast experience in field of Heterogeneous Catalysis, and he is Principal Investigator for several joint research projects at KACST in cooperation with various international universities and research centers. He edited book titled “Advances in Natural Gas Technology” in 2012 and recently he editing a book titled "Petrochemical Materials, Processes, and Emerging Technologies" will be release in late 2015. He has published more than fifty research papers in various scientific journals and proceedings of international conferences. He has organized and participated in various national and international scientific conferences and chaired technical sessions and committees.

His research interest in heterogeneous catalysts meanly in hydrotreatment catalysts, mesopause materials, Zeolite, Carbide, Nitride, and Sulfide catalysts.

Dr. Younes Noorollahi has completed his PhD at the age of 36 years from Kyushu University-Japan and postdoctoral studies also from Kyushu University School of Earth Resources Engineering. He is the Head of Renewable Energies Engineering Department in University of Tehran. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and more than 100 papers in national and international conferences and has been serving as an editorial board member of more than 10 international journals.

Research Interest: Earth Resources Engineering Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Application of GIS for resources exploration Energy and Environmental Impacts Geothermal Energy Engineering Renewable Energies

Dr. Eng. Mohammed Darsi Abdulrahman Nedham from Aden - Yemen. 23 Years Experience in the Petroleum Field Industry, 2012, 2013 and 2014 World Oil Awards Finalists as Innovative Thinker. Multilingual (Arabic, English, Russian, Chinese and have a basic course in German Languages). Have Two Registered Patents (In Yemen and China), Subsurface Geology Doctor (Ph.D.- Mineralogy, Petrology and Stratigraphy) from Earth Science College of Jilin University; Institute of Geoenergy (Chang Chun; China). Doctoral Thesis Title is: A New Look to the Yemeni Geology based on New Solutions to the Most Chaotic Yemeni Geological Problems, now is an OMV- Block 2 & Block 29 Advisory Committee Member of PEPA. Owner, Founder and Manager of the Yemeni Stratigraphy and Geology Network (The YSGN) and the Global's Earth Scientist Network (The GESN) of Linkedin. Member of Arab Scientist Organization. An Editorial board Member of Journal of Environmental Studies [JES]; Sohag University (Egypt). Founding Member of the Yemen Geological Society. M.Sc. (Including B Sc) in Geology. Specialist in Geology and Exploration of Mineral Deposits (Oil and Gas Fields); Petroleum Engineer, Geologist from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University decorated with the order of Friendship among Peoples (The Russian University, Now), Moscow, Russia, Have 24 Certificate from different Institutes, Training Centers, Clubs, …and from the Yemeni Embassy in Russia. Published more than 20 scientific paper and articles locally and internationally. Memberships (AAPG, AIPG, GAC, PEXGB, SEPM, SPE, TGL, GSA, GPF, GSP, ASO, IBC, … and the YGS) Last time received a Certificate of Appreciation from OMV Yemen for outstanding performance and lasting contributions to OMV (Yemen Block S2) Exploration GmbH achieving Habban Field 15 mn bbl production Specialties: Ph.D. in Subsurface Geology (Mineralogy, Petrology and Stratigraphy) – (Jilin University; China) Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering and Geology (Russian University; Russia)

Mineralogy, Petrology and Stratigraphy

Russell R. Chianelli is currently Director of the Materials Research and Technology Institute at the University of Texas at El Paso and Professor of Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science and Engineering. After receiving his PhD, he joined the Corporate Research Laboratories of Exxon Research and Engineering Co in 1974. While at this laboratory he conducted research in both fundamental and applied areas of interest to the energy industry. He is recognized worldwide for his work in Transition Metal Sulfide environmental catalytic materials. This work resulted in over 130 publications and 60 issued United States patents. During this period he was active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), serving as vice president (1989), president (1990), past president (1991) and Counselor (1992-1994). In 1996 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Texas at El Paso as Chairman and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. In 2001 he resigned as Chemistry Department Chairman to head the Materials Research and Technology Institute (MRTI) at UTEP. The MRTI is dedicated to research relevant to the US/Mexico border in Materials related to energy, environment and health.

Material Science and the management of research and development efforts. His most recent work has focused on the development of new catalysts and pigments primarily directed to the field of layered compounds.

Clifford Lipscomb is the Director of Economic Research at Greenfield Advisors, a Chartered Valuation Surveyor, and has more than 18 years of experience in economic analysis, statistical analysis, consulting, and teaching. He holds baccalaureate degrees in Economics and Sociology from Berry College as well as a PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Real Estate Literature. Dr. Lipscomb won the 2014 International Association of Assessing Officers’ Bernard L. Barnard Outstanding Technical Essay Award. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Economic analysis, statistical analysis, consulting, and teaching

Mileva Radonjic completed her PhD at Bristol University, and postdoc at Princeton. She is currently being evaluated for associate professor in Petroleum Engineering Department at LSU. Dr. Radonjic established Sustainable Energy and Environmental Research (SEER) laboratory, focused on development of materials and technologies for prevention of leaky wellbores, in conventional O&G production, carbon sequestration and hydraulic fracturing. She is currently working as one of the editors on a book titled as the keynote presented here, and published papers with her graduate students in several journals as well as presented at more than 60 conferences in the last 5years.

Carbon storage and capture, global warming mitigation.
Oil-well cement durability, effective long term zonal isolation, corrosion issues.
Wellbore stability, geomechanics.
Enhanced oil recovery.

Hums studied in Berlin, Germany both chemical engineering and chemistry. He has completed his PhD at the University in Bayreuth, Germany. He was consulting technical innovations, support to R&D, patent/ license strategy and pioneering the development of the so-called plate-type catalyst for NOx abatement at the Siemens company. He was lecturing at the University Halle-Wittenberg/Germany. Thereafter he started consulting with companies and universities and serving as an editorial board member of Applied Catalysis B Environmental. He has been instrumental in assisting to achieve industrial collaboration in the emerging science area in South Africa on the fly ash side for UWC/ESKOM. He has published numerous patents, papers and articles.

Applied Catalysis

Bushra Al Duri won a Research Grant Award of £750k from the EPSRC in Supercritical Coal Fired Power Plants, in collaboration with Electrical Engineering at Warwick University, Tsinghua University and NCEPU in China. Industrial partners are E-On UK Ltd., Emerson UK Ltd. and Scottish Powers. She is the lead Investigator in Chemical Engineering at Birmingham. She has recently returned from an EPSRC-supported UK-China Energy Conference in Beijing, where she represented the Project. Bushra completed 16 PhD [programmes and has over 90 publications in Wastewater Treatment, Reactions & Biocatalysis, and Supercritical Fluids. She also has on-going collaborations with international institutions, including University of Tokyo. Her future plans include expanding of the research in Energy and Environment; focusing on combining existing processes with supercritical water technology as the next generation of processes for waste minimisation and energy production, which complies with the increasing concerns over carbon emission and hence global warming. Bushra was appointed as MEGS Deputy Director at the beginning of April 2011.

Hydrothermal Processing Research in Supercritical Water for Environmental and Waste Minimisation studies. The aim is to use the knowledge of supercritical water chemistry and engineering background to conduct investigations that address commercial scale problems and existing challenges
Improvement of reaction kinetics using supercritical fluid reaction media to eliminate undesired side reactions (such as coking)
Isolation and purification of high value minority lipids from plants and edible oil refinery streams using supercritical CO2
Immobilised Enzyme biocatalyses for oleochemical reactions (modification of oils and triglycerides)
Adsorption studies for various solid/liquid contact applications namely wastewater treatment, CO2 sequestration, and immobilisation studies

LiZhaomin, was born in May 1965. He is the current vice president of China University of Petroleum ( East China), part-time director of the Research Center of foam fluid China University of Petroleum, China Oilfield Services Limited - China University of Petroleum ( East China ) "COSL-CUP foam fluid Joint Lab" director.

Technology research : production engineering theory and technology ; foam fluid to improve the efficiency of oil and gas ; thermo-chemical fluid to improve heavy oil recovery ; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and its application.

Tereza Neuma Castro Dantas holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Ceará (1975), Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry for the same UFC (1979), Doctorate Third Cycle (1981) and PhD in Chemistry (1983), both by the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. Member of European Academy of Sciences Arts and Literature. She is currently a teacher volunteer of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, working in teaching and research. Fellow in Research Productivity 1 B of CNPq. She is a professor of UNIRN and Executive Coordinator of the Primary Processing of Waste water - NUPPRAR/ UFRN/PETROBRAS. Holds the position of President of the Regional Council of Chemistry-XV Region. She is a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Petroleum and Gas-BJPG. Has experience in the areas of Chemical Technology and Chemistry of Natural Products, working in the areas of Oil, Gas and Environment, involving applications with surfactant and microemulsions and nanoemulsions systems.

Chemical Engineering

Z A Mansurov is a General Director of the Institute of Combustion Problems, Kazakhstan. His scientific activity includes study and investigations of kinetics and mechanisms of hydrocarbon combustion and structure of cool soothing flames: catalytic carbon formation and its applied aspects. In 2002, he received Diploma for discovery of “Phenomenon of low-temperature cool-flame soot formation”. His professional career includes longstanding activity in INTAS Council of Scientists (Representative from Kazakhstan); participation in various international conferences including NATO-Workshops, author of more than 600 scientific papers; Editor-in-Chief of “Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal” indexed at Scopus and “Combustion and Plasmochemistry Journal”.

Chemical kinetics