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Biography

Mr. Ameer Hameed is currently a PhD student at the university of Aberdeen. His PhD research is focused on impact of grain roughness on porous media flow.  His employment as a researcher& a PVT lab tester has begun since 2018 in PRDC, Ministry of Oil, Iraq. He has a BSc & an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from University of Technology in 2014 and 2017, respectively.

An Arabic mother tongue and a good speaker in English language.

Experienced in the following research with the related modern softwares: Phase behavior, Well Logging, Geological & Reservoir Modeling, Geostatistics, Spatial Data Analysis, Asphaltene, Acidizing, Hydrofracturing, polymer flooding & Financial Feasibility Study. Aspire to conduct machine learning (like using Python) in reservoir engineering.

Research Overview

 Research Interest Keywords

Grain roughness, multiphase flow, porous media, Geostatistics& data analysis, petrophysical properties modeling, reservoir modeling, Asphaltene modeling, CPI, PVT analysis, hydrofracturing, polymer flooding, and economic feasibility.

Current Research

PhD Research:

Impact of grain roughness on gas-water-oil flow in hydrophilic porous media.

Supervised by:

Dr. Yukie Tanino, Dr. Yingfang Zhou, Dr. Mehmet Kartal, Prof. Dubravka Pokrajac.

Past Research

• Study of water control in high-water cut reservoirs by using polymer treatment in Iraqi Oil Fields (with D. AL-Jawad et.al). 
• Improving Productivity of Zubair Formation Using Matrix Acidizing (with I. Sami, H. Al-Khafaji, Q. Khlati).
• Defining Permeability Heterogeneity and Anisotropy Correlations for Carbonate and Clastic Iraqi Oil Formations (with D. AL-Jawad).
• Study the possibility of applying hydraulic fracturing in tight reservoirs (with Almanar Falih Abdulla et.al).
• Asphaltene Precipitation Problems and Treatments for Missan Oil Fields (with Redha Khudair et al).
• Identifying hydrocarbon and shaly zones of Mishrif Formation in Nasiriya Oil Field by using Well Logs (with Dr. A. Aldabaj, Dr. A. Ramadhan).
• An economic model for investing an oil field (3rd author).
• Spatial Data Analysis for Geostatistics Modeling of Petrophysical properties for Mishrif Formation, Nasiriya Oil Field (with Dr.  A. Aldabaj, Dr. A. Ramadhan).
• Geostatistical Study of Petrophysical Properties of Mishrif Formation in Nasiriya Oil Field. MSc research under the supervision; Dr. A.Aldabaj, Dr. A. Ramadhan.

Funding and Grants

-PhD student bursary from Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society (2025)

-PhD scholarship from The High Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED), Prime Minister Office (2024).