Subject: CO2 Fracturing Technology and Application in Tight Oil and Gas and Dry Hot Rock

Date: September 21, 2023 (Thursday) at 10:00 AM

Venue: Yifu Lecture Hall

Speaker: Abbas Firoozabadi, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA

Speaker Bio:

  Abbas Firoozabadi, a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the United States and a distinguished professor at Rice University, obtained his engineering doctoral degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1975. He has taught and conducted research at the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, the University of Tokyo, Imperial College London, and Peking University. His long-term research focuses on improving the recovery rates of conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs and environmental protection. His main areas of research include molecular structure of petroleum interfaces, CO2 and other gas interfaces, and petroleum phases; mechanical properties of solids; fluid adsorption/desorption; flow in confined spaces; fracturing mechanisms of different fluids; methods to enhance fluid interface elasticity; and high-order numerical simulations of underground multi-component multiphase flow. He has published two monographs and over 260 high-level academic papers, with over 20,000 citations. He has received four out of the five major awards from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), including the 2002 Lucas Gold Medal.

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September 19, 2023