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Education
Bachelor of Science in General Engineering,
Abadan Institute of Technology,
Iran (1976)
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Master of Science in Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University (1977)
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PhD in Petroleum Engineering,
Stanford University (1981)
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Accolades
About Reza Fassihi, Founder
2017 - presented a talk on “Challenges in HC Gas/CO2 Injection in Two Emerging Areas: Deep Offshore and Onshore Unconventional Oil” at the CO2 for EOR as CCUS Conference held at Rice University in Houston
2017 - presented a talk on “Making Deep Offshore EOR possible” at the Gulf Coast Section EOR Forum held at the University of Houston
2018 - Delivered a graduate seminar at Stanford on “Pushing Shale Oil Recovery Technical Limits”
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2020 - Delivered a Keynote Speech at the first EAGE conference in Latin America on EOR application in Deep Offshore and Shale Reservoirs
2021, Delivered a Keynote Speech on “Aquifer Utilization for Energy Sustainability” at the Graduates Seminar of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada.
2023, Delivered a seminar on “In-Situ Hydrogen Generation and Oil Upgrading” at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
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Editor of the SPE Monograph on “In-Situ Combustion Thermal Recovery: A Tribute to Professor Gordon Moore” published in SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 2023.
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Publications
Best Paper Award, 1981 PhD division Student Paper Contest
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Best Paper Award, 1988 CIM Meeting
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Elected as a SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 2003 & 2004
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SPE IOR Pioneer Award, 2018
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SPE Distinguished Member Award, 2018 ATCE meeting, Dallas
He has been involved in teaching such topics internally and externally and has been a PhD External Examiner in many universities.
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In 2015, Reza was the author of an internal company report titled “A Case Study in CO2 Capture and Storage – Subsurface Issues” in which he discussed the subsurface requirements for a reliable CO2 storage. He analyzed the reservoirs that were the right candidates as future storage sites.
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