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Dr. Ahmad Sami A S Abushaikha
Associate Professor
Dr. Ahmad Sami A S Abushaikha
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Petroleum Engineering
MS in Reservoir geosciences and engineering
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Sustainable Development
Biography
Dr. Ahmad Sami Abushaikha is a founding faculty member. He received his BS in Petroleum Engineering and his BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. In 2006, he received his MS in Reservoir Geosciences and Engineering from "Institut Français du Pétrole". From 2007 to 2009, he worked at TOTAL Research Centre at Pau, France and at Qatar Petroleum. In 2013, he received his PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University specializing in discretization schemes for fluid flow in porous media.
PhD in Petroleum Engineering
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
2014
MS in Reservoir geosciences and engineering
École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs, Rueil-Malmaison, France
2006
BA in Economics
University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
2004
BS in Petroleum Engineering
University of Texas at Austin, Texas, United States
2004
- Computational physics
- Reservoir simulation
- Petroleum engineering
- Sustainability
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States
2015 – 2017
QRLP- Science Track Felllow
Qatar Foundation - Research and Development, Doha, Qatar
2009 – 2015
Reservoir Engineer
North Field, Qatar Petroleum, Doha, Qatar
2004 – 2009
Ahmad S. Abushaikha, Denis V. Voskov, Hamdi A. Tchelepi, SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference; 2017, DOI:10.2118/182697-MS
A.S. Abushaikha, D.V. Voskov, H.A. Tchelepi, ECMOR XV - 15th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery; 2016, DOI:10.3997/2214-4609.201601785
Ahmad S. Abushaikha, Martin J. Blunt, Olivier R. Gosselin, Christopher C. Pain, Matthew D. Jackson, Journal of Computational Physics; 2015; 298., DOI:10.1016/j.jcp.2015.05.024
Ahmad S. Abushaikha, Olivier R. Gosselin, Europec/EAGE Conference and Exhibition; 2008, DOI:10.2118/113890-MS